NP Comic Thursday January 27, 2022

[Darth Fluffy 338]

NP Comic Thursday January 27, 2022

I agree. If you bounce it off their face, it might come back over the net. Better to bounce it off the top of their head, and sail it back, or hit their front and send it down.

[mlooney 3,594]

Why is spiky haired girl blushing in the last panel?

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,619]

Grace, if you have been playing to avoid hurting other players or damaging gym equipment, you have been holding back

[mlooney 3,594]

Depends on the sport.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,619]

1 hour ago, mlooney said:

Depends on the sport.

Brockian Ultra-Cricket, of course

[mlooney 3,594]

Not sure an American high school is going to have cricket team, much less a girl's cricket team, and really not what ever "Ultra-Cricket" is.

[Darth Fluffy 338]

Brockian Ultra-Cricket

[mlooney 3,594]

3 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Brockian Ultra-Cricket

I need to reread The Hitchhikers guide books again.  It's been at least 40 years.

[Darth Fluffy 338]

2 hours ago, mlooney said:

I need to reread The Hitchhikers guide books again.  It's been at least 40 years.

You should wait two years, no?

[ijuin 594]

42 also happens to be my age as of a week ago…

[Darth Fluffy 338]

6 hours ago, ijuin said:

42 also happens to be my age as of a week ago…

Happy Birthday! You kids get off my lawn!

[mlooney 3,594]

11 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

You should wait two years, no?

Well, like I said, at least 40.  Could be over 42 already.  My memory is shot and I don't really know how long it's been.

[ijuin 594]

The first novel in the series was released in 1979, so for you to have read it 42 years ago already, you would have to have read it in the first year after it came out.

[ChronosCat 158]

On 1/27/2022 at 8:54 AM, mlooney said:

Why is spiky haired girl blushing in the last panel?

Presumably she's embarrassed that the fact that Grace knows she want to see Grace spiking the ball hard. As to why that's embarrassing, it might just be because she hadn't been upfront about it and now her deception is revealed. Alternately, she really has a thing for balls being spiked.

[mlooney 3,594]

Wanting to see balls spiked very hard is a rather specific kink.  Not kink shaming, just pointing out that, as kinks go, it's fairly rare.

[Darth Fluffy 338]

7 hours ago, ijuin said:

The first novel in the series was released in 1979, so for you to have read it 42 years ago already, you would have to have read it in the first year after it came out.

I believe I saw the TV series and heard the radio play in 1983 or 1984. I read the first book in the 1980, finished the Infocom game in 1993 or 1994. Saw the cinema movie pretty soon after it was released. The fjords were nice. 

[mlooney 3,594]

15 hours ago, ijuin said:

The first novel in the series was released in 1979, so for you to have read it 42 years ago already, you would have to have read it in the first year after it came out.

I know I read it when it first came out.  That was back when I was buying a lot of SF books, something I have gotten out of.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,619]

20 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

The fjords were nice. 

The fjiords were nice.  The fjiords were nice.

Throw a few fjords on a coastline & win lots of awards.

Well you do not need vertical rock walls, moss munching moose, and a looming glacier to make an impressive intersection of river & sea

I don't have time to sing all their praises here.  But please keep a kind thought for bays, estuaries, bayous, wharfs, and my favorite, the Delta.

[Darth Fluffy 338]

47 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

The fjiords were nice.  The fjiords were nice.

Throw a few fjords on a coastline & win lots of awards.

Well you do not need vertical rock walls, moss munching moose, and a looming glacier to make an impressive intersection of river & sea

I don't have time to sing all their praises here.  But please keep a kind thought for bays, estuaries, bayous, wharfs, and my favorite, the Delta.

It's OK by me, if it's OK bayou.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,619]

That is not a pun

That is summoning the wrath of the gods

That is playing golf, in a t-storm, in July, in Tampa

You are asking for it

[Darth Fluffy 338]

3 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

That is not a pun

That is summoning the wrath of the gods

That is playing golf, in a t-storm, in July, in Tampa

You are asking for it

It's actually a quote from a commercial that aired in San Antonio decades ago. It is the only part of the commercial I remember. Not very effective, really.

Hmm. It must have been for a Cajun restaurant. That would make sense.

Now I'm hungry for some jambalaya. OK, I guess it is effective.

[mlooney 3,594]

18 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

It's OK by me, if it's OK bayou.

 

18 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

That is not a pun

/me notes that, yes, it is a pun.  Adds drawing of a alligator to Darth Fluffy's page.