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I'm sure someone in the comments will chime in with a report on how much money a few of those Good Delivery gold bars is worth. It's a lot - even though it's tumbled quite precipitously in value over the past few months, it's still a lot.
Not a bad payday, all in all.
Well, one thing is for certain, Daphne has some extra money for a personal private vacation for herself. Either that or financial aid for the college of her choice.
As for this new Job of hers it makes me wonder what Daphne will do to help Satan beef up his security?
Or Daphne has money to waste on gambling and Ponzi schemes. All possible.
First, Know Thyself. That may take a few years or a few hundred.
A few thousand? Takes time.
He did? Well, they did have a prior relationship involving his Papa Schnorf merchandise collection…
Good memory.
Good memory, crawling through the archives, same thing.
I feel like Daphne convinced Puck to stay still so she could get shot down. Knowing her target helped, obv.
Daphne knows her target well.
I mean, last time Daphne had money, Puck lost it all by turning Daphne in for underage gambling.
Its safer with Daphne.
Precisely.
i agree completely with previous comments – the money is WAY safer with daph than with puck! she could start paying a bit of rent/her share of household expenses though 😉
as for what daph will do with her dosh….vacation and/or college? please, i can rather see her invest in her future, shady business. i mean, she clearly has criminal talent and satan/the mayor on her side already – tony better watch out!
I am sure that this is seed money for the next crazy scheme to conquer the universe.
at least Daphne has some cash on standby, for any kinda emergency.
Or for causing emergencies. Either or.
I wouldn’t usually bother, but the the Gecko is counting on us. Those looked like full size 400 Troy ounce bars to me which translates to 12.441 kg each. Gold is currently around 193,000 CAD / kg or 134,000 USD which converts to about 2.4M CAD or 1.67M USD per bar.
Daphne doesn’t strike me as college bound, but she’ll pay cash if she decides to go.
Thank you, good sir. You are an officer and a gentleman.
Isn’t this donation of gold bars just a smart investment in the future by Satan?
He’s already had Daphne working for him at least twice now and she is by nature a terrible horrible garbage person
Now I think about Satan wins here. Sigmund is even more loyal now, Tracee is meaner and Daphne is even more of a terrible horrible garbage person plus she’s practically in his pocket now
He’s even managed to get his daughter away from Puck
Not bad for someone who’s biggest contribution was sitting back and gloating
He is incredibly efficient in his gloating.
I don’t know if he’s a manifistation of *smart* evil. But rather goofy evil. I would not bet on any investments he makes on working out unless it’s by accident.
A few gold bars is a great investment for the future — for a mortal. But given the longevity of a woodland fairy and a changing, the actuarial table on that investment is a bit wonky.
Well, Satan needs long-term lackeys. This makes sense.
So who is more susceptible to the temptations of the dappled shade?
Daphne finds herself at a crossroads now that she’s managed to eject Satan from the Puck/Phoebe household. She understood that the cabal represented a smarter evil holding the reins of mayoral power and decided it was far better to make evil stupid again.
Did she do it for Phoebe? Yes. I think she was motivated by a need to get the idiots out of the house. But in the process of doing so, Daphne, being true to her Daphne-ness, has managed to feather her own nest rather nicely.
Will this upwardly mobile social status endear her to Tyler’s mom?
Will Hannah’s good girl/wild girl personality continue to have a benevolent influence on Daph?
And most importantly, when it comes to living arrangements, who ends up living in the basement now?
Pertinent to the Hannah observation, Daphne definitely does not look comfortable walking in Hannah’s shoes.
It’s a matter of style, I suppose.
So many questions. But I would submit that some people actively choose to be basement dwellers. So money may alter nothing.
“Did you do it for love? Did you do it for money? Did you do it for spite? Did you think you had to, honey?”
Thanks for the Eagles ear-worm
Yes well, you do still have the van, you do know where Tracee keeps her gold, you have placed Tracee back where she wants to be, you do have Colin and Tyler’s strong backs and weak resistances to your will, yours and Puck’s!
Valid. Options.
Puck and Daphne are very compatible despite their frequent arguments.
One is served hot, the other served cool. But essentially the same dish.
Puuuuck! Come onnnnnn! Now’s not the time for acurate introspection.
On the other hand, it’s not to know that Hot Dog Guy’s having a positive effect.
Nice to know, rather
Not sure anyone ever has a positive effect on her.
Well, her ebb has certainly risen. Not that it could have got much lower.
Random thought; if a school theatre were to put on Midsummer’s Night Dream, could Puck sue for defamation of character.
You can sue anyone for anything. That doesn’t make it not a stupid thing to do. In this case, one of the most consistantly popular authors in the English language ever? I bet on having to pay your lawyer, the other guy’s lawyer, the jury, the judge and throw a party for the listeners because of how dumb a case it was.
Nah. Past the statute of limitations.
Puck clears her throat. “Ahem… currently I am relatively young and healthy, able to work, but someday sooner than you might like, I shall be old, decerped, incontinent, and riddled with dementia. Option one is the full responsibility for my care and support falls on you. Option two is I have a had a very health and diversified retirement fund and trained nurses can get paid to deal with my shit (literal and figurative) instead of you. Thoughts?”
Daphne: “One, you are already 600+ years old. I expect my grandchildren to be dust in graves before you get your first grey hair. Two, yes, you are healthy and able to work today, but you are nonetheless unemployed, not earning or saving a penny for next week’s groceries, much less your “retirement” (from what, exactly?).”
Puck (looks away awkwardly): “….and Colin?”
Daphne blushes lightly and also looks away. “Half a bar is going into a reputable mutual fund inside an RRSP under his name and SIN. Going to see if he can scrape together $50 a month to help it grow faster whenever I can work up the will to tell him about it.”
Puck: “Such a good girl!”
Daphne: “AM NOT! YOU TAKE THAT BACK, WITCH!”
Valid. All valid.
I can’t make a guess about how long any children Daphne might have would live. Don’t even know if there’s anyone she’d want to breed with. (Or if she could with Taylor aka Tyler.)
If I had to guess I’d say that Daphnes kids will have an average lifespan (the real question will how much of their mother you’ll see in them). Now, the question you should be asking is how long is Phoebe and her descendants going to live for.
PS I’m not really sure how effective that “save details” button is.
Daphne (whatever she is) appears to have aged at near-exactly a normal human pace. Barring the introduction of any new information, it’s reasonable to assume that would continue.
If she were a dog, she’s have reached her full physical adulthood in one year. That didn’t happen, She aged in pace with Tyler, and aside from her appearance, she’s nothing like a dog in any meaningful way that has been shown to us.
…Very possibly she goes through more shampoo that most of us, and may have two different brands for her head-hair and body fur…. but that’s never really been relevant to the plot.
The new craze for ‘body wash’ (which is just shampoo, but marketed as soap for the whole body) would solve her issues, I’m sure.
I’m not a witch, I’m your mother!
Nice.
Decided to mention…you know that thing where us archive trawlers tap on the comic to go to the next comic? It stops at #868. Something to put on your “to do” “fix this” list, but not of any great urgency.
Weird. I’m guessing there is some option button I’m not checking to enable it. Because 868 is around the point my site was switched over.
I did figure it had something to do with that. Like I said, no hurry.
Thank you for coming home
Sorry that the chairs are all worn
I left them here I could have sworn
These are my salad days
Slowly being eaten away
Just another play for today
Oh, but I’m proud of you, but I’m proud of you
Nothing left to make me feel small
Luck has left me standing so tall
Gold (gold)
Price check! Math is fun when you’re counting money! ^_^
Currently one ounce of 24 karot gold (99.9% purity, the highest grade) is worth $6,651. A 1 standard kilogram bar (probably what those were, by the size) would therefor go for about $213,700. (And by the gram, just move the decimal 3 places left. Metric is wonderful!)
That being said, maximum purity gold bars are pretty rare. It’s much more common to make large quantities of gold into “coin bars”, of the same purity used in gold coins, (22 karots, or about 75% purity) because 99.9% pure gold is softer than most metals, and tends to get damaged, dented or scratched easily.
A 1kg , 22 karot, gold bar is currently worth about $176,300. If Daphne walked away with 3 of them, that would be worth $528,900. That’s our lower, but reasonable, estimate.
I believe Daphne would have looked up the current gold prices, possibly on her phone while waiting around in that chair.
I’m less confident the Devil bothered to think about how much the bars are worth in today’s dollars. He probably thinks of them in terms of what they were worth when he acquired them… which given that he might measure his age in millennia, could easily pre-date any globalized trade markets for precious metals.
20 years ago, these 3 bars would have bought a house. Today, she’d need 6 more bars. Still she’s off to a great head start for someone who hasn’t yet graduated high school?
Those ain’t 1 kg bars. The 1 kg bars are small. The gold bars Tracee stole were closer to the 12.4 kg standard size. Each clocks in at well over one million. I think.
That is a lot of public tax money- student tuition money that Satan had converted into gold. He’d have done better in stock market speculation, but he’s old school relying on the gold standard.
He’s been in the stocks too. Diversified evil.
Suffice it to say, it’s a lot.
The bent ear in Panels 3+4 – so expressive!
Live would be easier if we all had that capability.
I’m not sure I want expressive ears. My face is already a liability that way.