IT'S HALLOWEEN! THAT MEANS IT'S TIME FOR UNUSUAL SEXY COSTUMES!
You know what we're talking about: those sexy costumes for the ladies based on concepts that have no right to be sexy. We're doing a whole series on that for the month of October!
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As for this comic...
I have little to say. I would say that Puck's excessive negativity is making her a serious buzzkill, but honestly I'm just holding the mirror up to my own joyless soul. When people have 'fun' ideas, particularly ones that involve dressing up or going somewhere that is not my house, I tend to be the first to roll my eyes. I'd like to think of myself as a Colin or a Phoebe. But deep down, I know I'm a Puck.
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IT'S HALLOWEEN! THAT MEANS IT'S TIME FOR UNUSUAL SEXY COSTUMES!
You know what we're talking about: those sexy costumes for the ladies based on concepts that have no right to be sexy. We're doing a whole series on that for the month of October!
VOTE TO ASK YOURSELF, "WHYYYYYY?"
As for this comic...
I have little to say. I would say that Puck's excessive negativity is making her a serious buzzkill, but honestly I'm just holding the mirror up to my own joyless soul. When people have 'fun' ideas, particularly ones that involve dressing up or going somewhere that is not my house, I tend to be the first to roll my eyes. I'd like to think of myself as a Colin or a Phoebe. But deep down, I know I'm a Puck.
That is ok gekco, every party needs a pooper… usually it is me!
I mean, if you don’t have a party pooper, what good is a party that remains unpooped?
Damn fat fingers! Sorry ’bout the misspelling….
“never actually order a capuchin monkey through the mail” Spoken like a man who has seen things.
I have read things. The ordering of capuchin monkeys through the mail actually predates my birth, but the stories are legendary. I just love the concept so much. It’s so horrifying.
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Darling pet monkey. That’s hilarious.
I have said Pheobe’s second to last line in Robin’s most likelyenthusiastic. trying to be supportive doesn’t always mean enthusastic… particularly with precedent involved.
*most likely voice.
The ability to be supportive without being too enthusiastic is a pro move that only expert partners learn. Phoebe is not there yet. At all.
Puck: remind Colin that he has to shave the beard. Then see if he’s still enthusiastic. If that doesn’t work, let him know that photos will get into the hands of his students and fellow teachers.
the beard might be a maybe but the second half sounds like he might consider it a plus for being “the cool teacher” at least in his head.
The threat of pictures getting into the hands of students only works if you have shame. Colin has none. He’d probably openly display pictures of his cosplay experience on his desk for all students to see.
on his desk, on his wall, on the windows… actually, he’s not smart enough to have any limit.
You can get a Capuchin monkey through the mail?
At one point it was legal to send children in the US Mail. O.O
And I would not be surprised if Amazon sells them. Though they might ship them FedEx.
I don’t think you can anymore. In the ‘good ole days’, though, you could. And kids did. And it was a nightmare.
Waaaait, how fast was the mail back then?
Good question. Faster than now, I assume? The monkeys never arrived in a happy condition, so I’m assuming it was long enough to make them very upset.
Back when US railroads had mail transport contracts with the US Post Office (before Reaganistas partially devolved the service into a public-private corporation and reduced the governmental funding to below starvation levels, oh my…) mail could travel coast-to-coast in some four days. Mail trains (those which picked up, sorted in transit, and dropped off mail) carried rider cars for passengers and dead-head railroad workers. Kids would travel that way in the care of train crew. Several times during the latter days of that service I’d hop Southern Pacific #22 (eastward train numbers are even, San Francisco is west of everything) around midnight and get off in Sparks NV (a suburb of Reno) in the morning, do breakfast (casino prices were surprising easy on the budget), and return later on #23.
That’s hot. Trains are cool. We’re cool. Why did trains become only for slow-moving freight and losers? In America, anyway. And Canada. They’re still cool in Europe and Japan.
Rewind to 2010.
The USPS offered shipment by SEA to many countries, including the UK and Australia.
My human pet, Baldie, purchased books and such from those locales, via eBay, often with shipment costing $5 or less.
Shipment by Sea was eliminated (why?), and prices increased tenfold.
He has not purchased anything from those countries since.
I remember getting some stuff by sea up here in Canada from China, Singapore and the like. Long wait but cheap shipping!
Thought it might be a Canadian thing. All I ever saw going through the (US) mail were baby chicks and crickets.
Nope. Good ole America. Canadians always have MORE regulations on such things, not fewer.
You can be the one who handles the Styrofoam parcel labeled “LIVE HUMAN EYES,” then.
I have to agree with Phoebe moreso than Puck, i.e. this idea is way better – not slightly better. Maybe not amazing, maybe just good. Maybe not even good, but that cannot be foretold, methinks. We shall have to wait and see.
Things are all relative. On Colin idea terms, this is amazing. But only in comparison to his other ideas.
If you don’t encourage him when he goes in the right direction even slowly, he might go in the wrong direction quickly.
This sounds like the wisdom of someone who has trained animals (or other beings of lower intelligence like Colin) before.
Or neural nets. Well … technically, only difference between animal and neural net is that animal’s brain is bigger and partially already hardwired.
Did you mispronounce “neural ganglia in molluscs”?
Especially not now the way the American mail is working. No reason why, it just is. <..>
Phoebe ALMOST sounded excited! 🙂 It will be fun for us. You know, they could mix it up. Miranda would make an adorable Fred, Draph could really bring Shaggy out, Phoebe would love Velma (and miss the point, I’m sure). Collen would no doubt do well as a male Daphne (Dolph???). And that would leave Puck miserable as Scoobie.
The common thread of everyone’s plans seems to be making Puck miserable. Not questioning this. Just noting.
You’ve trained us well.
Were she someone I knew, I wouldn’t get so much entertainment out of it. 🙂
I would.
Ok, three strips now, and no-one else has had the lack of class to say it, so it falls on me!
Normally I love Phoebe’s tops, but this one makes her look like a package of gum!
Sorry, it had to be said, and I’ll go back to my room now
You say that like it’s a bad thing!
The question is what kind of gum Phoebe may be under that wrapper. Certainly not spearmint, and doublemint would require nonexistent twin, leading us to conclude that Phoebe is the good kind of devilmint.
I would say she tastes like Juicy Fruit…
If Phoebe were a gum, she would unquestionably be Juicy Fruit. Very sweet. Maybe too sweet.
That reminds me of this: https://mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/Ode_on_Estelle
Oh, boo to you! Boo, good sir! I like this top. But I also like gum packaging. So there.
“This is legitimately the best idea he’s had in a long time” is technically a supportive statement, I guess ha!
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We sang the Party Pooper song in supper camp in the 60s; here’s a more recent version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_LHyx2odc
I was unaware there was a song. Now I know. I am educated.
The rest can go without Puck. Then she’ll become curious, and go to see what it’s like.
So, everyone will go, but Puck not costumed?
That would be a shame. Costumes for everyone. Promise.
She’ll go. Disapproving of things isn’t much fun unless you have an audience.
“… if your Phonics Monkey arrived dead in the box, please call..”
Sad. But probably a frequent occurrence.
You’ll pay for express shipping- or else. Though if you’re shipping larger animals like dogs and horses and stuff, there are services that do that. They get routed through a facility so the animals can be washed and walked around and stuff.
^intended to be a reply.. something goofed. My bad.
I am going to bet That facility is not prepared for capuchin monkeys.
I miss the days of the ubiquitous horse car in passenger trains.
“On Thursday, we’re into October and things get … spooky? Well, not really. But costumes are involved.”
Be still my beating heart! Urk… maybe not that still …
This month is a special month. Some of my patrons already know what’s coming…
No matter who dresses as what, I’m imagining Miranda will be wearing a Scrappy doo onesie.
A good bet.
If Phoebe approves, then it’s a good idea. Fun doesn’t always need to be overanalyzed.
Fun is fun. Unless it’s not fun. In which case, it’s been improperly labeled.
Phoebe reminds everyone it’s seriously important to have fun. It’s a paradox. 🙂
Serious Fun. That’s surely an album title somewhere.
Well obviously Colin is shaggy and Phoebe Daphine . As for rest tricky , guess Puck as Velma , and Daphne is Fred . Leaving Miranda as Scooby doo. I cannot see anything short of serious blackmail where Daphne would be Scooby even if she has the ears for it .
Mmm, nobody serves up better cheesecake than Phoebe! 🙂
What about the Cheesecake Factory? I mean, they got a whole factory!
Chris said “better”, not “more”
believe it or not, there is a difference.
Phoebe provides very small doses of extremely high quality cheesecake. Which honestly is my preferred way to consume cheesecake. Like, who wants to eat a huge slice of mediocre cheesecake, anyway? Makes me gag.
Personally I say Good Cheesecake is GREAT…
but bad cheesecake is still pretty good
Then you should know they sell cheesecake filling. By the tub. I eat it by the bowl. Amusingly, with crushed up graham cracker crumbs, sometimes chocolate. Kinda a “deconstruction” angle. A nice dollop on a brownie is a good way to do something very bad (and delicious) to yourself. I don’t live well.
A nice dollop of cheesecake is honestly all you need.
Can PARAKEETS be Mail-Ordered?
I’m looking for some really BIG ONES
Well, I am a cat, and prefer a decent-sized meal.
You’re always thinking with your … stomach.
@SalemCat, well bigger is better, right? (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, guffaw, guffaw.) 😉
@ChrisH
When my human pet, “Baldie”, saw that vintage postcard on eBay he simply could not resist.
I kinda want to cosplay as one of the Scooby gang, but which one? In my younger years, I felt perfectly suited to a Shaggy, though I had to trim my otherwise robust goatee to be more scraggly.
Now though, it’s hard to decide between Fred and Shaggy. I’m definitely blonde, but maybe not quite buff enough to be Freddy, but also definitely not skinny enough to be Shaggy.
Meh, I’ll be Scrappy. =Þ
Good call. You seem like a scrappy individual.