Here’s another glimpse into the office of Satan, the university’s president.
This is by far the funniest of all these Satan gags. It’s the little things that make it good: the evil pose of satisfaction, the Cheez Wams, the scurvy. Scurvy just strikes me as a really funny affliction. Perhaps it’s the connection to pirates, or the fact that it’s pretty much been eliminated the world over. Something about scurvy just makes me laugh. Even the name is funny. Now that said, I’m sure someone with scurvy will see this, and then I suppose I’ll be a horrible person.
Cheez Wams, by the way, make a few repeat appearances in this comic strip. They first appeared way back in strip #1.
I’m not even sure where I got that line from. I think I nicked it from an older friend of mine who always talked like a used car salesman. He’d say that kind of thing, and it seemed like something that Satan would say.
You’ll think “scurvy is funny” when all the college kids’ teeth start falling out and they overwhelm the university clinic dental office. I have heard that computer nerds exist on Skittles alone, but I don’t know any.
It’s actually nearly impossible to get scurvy on land, in modern times. You could eat a fruit salad once a month, and you’d be fine. Vitamin C is in quite a lot of common foods.
Colonial era sailors, far from ports and in too deep waters to do any fishing would eat nothing but hard-tack biscuits for months on end.
The hard-tack wouldn’t rot, but barely provided carbs for energy, not really nutrition. Scurvy came from their severe malnutrition, specifically the lack of vitamin C, but they didn’t understand why because this predated nutritional theory, and they were, technically, still eating.
“I strike an evil pose in satisfaction!” Made me lol.
And then I almost mistook the pentacles on his necktie for daisies.
I think that Satan could rock daisies on his tie if he really wanted to.
every time Satan says “Solid, baby,” I laugh.
I’m not even sure where I got that line from. I think I nicked it from an older friend of mine who always talked like a used car salesman. He’d say that kind of thing, and it seemed like something that Satan would say.
“Why do you keep saying ‘heavy’? Is there something wrong with gravity in the future?”
Solid, baby. Nothing wrong with density here.
Dated diction is the best kind of diction.
You’ll think “scurvy is funny” when all the college kids’ teeth start falling out and they overwhelm the university clinic dental office. I have heard that computer nerds exist on Skittles alone, but I don’t know any.
Skittles are great. Every different color contains a different vitamin. Just for the computer nerds.
I think I had the early stages of scurvy once. I made sure to get lots of C ever after.
Scurvy is fun. It’s the pirate element that makes it so enjoyable.
It’s actually nearly impossible to get scurvy on land, in modern times. You could eat a fruit salad once a month, and you’d be fine. Vitamin C is in quite a lot of common foods.
Colonial era sailors, far from ports and in too deep waters to do any fishing would eat nothing but hard-tack biscuits for months on end.
The hard-tack wouldn’t rot, but barely provided carbs for energy, not really nutrition. Scurvy came from their severe malnutrition, specifically the lack of vitamin C, but they didn’t understand why because this predated nutritional theory, and they were, technically, still eating.