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Tom Sewell
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And your feelings may be right, but not being Obi-wan Kenobi or Yoda I can't say whether you should trust your feeling. I think what Dan may have had in mind by the end of So a Date at the Mall or even the end of Squirrel Prophet is that the various members of the main 8 scattered over Moperville tonight (except Ellen and Elliot) will all have vampire encounters tonight more or less simultaneously. It fits in with Sirleck's plan to keep them occupied and perhaps to keep them from reinforcing Adrian. That plan doesn't seem to be working perfectly since Susan is at the mall reasonably near Adrian, but perhaps Sirleck doesn't know Susan is a Slayer. In fact, as far as we know, Susan is the only activated Slayer in Moperville. Edward, Cranium, and Wolf might be slayers but they've never killed anything we know about. I've already said I'm pretty sure Noah could kill an Aberration, but, again, hasn't killed anything in canon yet.
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I've seen three car fires so far and was in two of the cars that were on fire. I put out the last two. Fortunately I was a fair distance from the one that exploded. Can you tell me where Dan said that? He set up that not-date for this Friday night back in Squirrel Prophet and had Sarah talk about it in Sister III already. I guess that means he doesn't have to show the not-date itself in Sister III, any more than Dan had to bring Ashley in to provide a witness for Magus.
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Or at least that's what you told your insurance company.
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Also not counting the switch to Sarah and Sam on their not-date. I wonder if it's a not-date at the mall; I don't know if Sarah knows that Susan is meeting Diane at the mall.
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Anyone care to bet whether or not this ride reaches its destination before December arrives in our universe?
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I'm guessing everyone else is assuming that that they are driving to the same place the Dewitchery Diamond was kept before, and that the laughable level of security still hasn't changed. Well, maybe; EGS is mostly a comedy. But what if one or both assumptions are wrong? One thing we do know about the old facility is that it had at least one guard armed with at least one flashlight, which he used to conk out Elliot (or maybe she--all we see is the flashlight). Another thing is that it had at least one holding cell. And it's reasonable to assume that even if Ashley, Elliot, and Ellen are left asleep in the car, they'll wake up in either that holding cell, or another cell, or in some other place in some kind of custody or with someone with the authority to take them into custody if they don't give satisfactory answers.
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When my aunt found out how much her insurance rates would increase with two teenage male drivers in the household (whether they were actually allowed to drive the car or not!), she informed her sons that they would not even be allowed to get licenses until they could pay for the insurance increase themselves. From what I recall from Drivers' Ed about insurance rates, I can't say I blame her! And when I was in high school, it was before California passed a law making it illegal to drive without liability insurance. I think it was called something like the "Financial Responsibility Act" but it should have been "An Act to Ensure the Continued Prosperity of Insurance Companies and Tort Lawyers." All the more reason to encourage overconfidence, which so often leads to carelessness. Yes, status. Girls are generally impressed by how nice a boy's car is (perhaps also by how expensive it is) while boys care about how jealous it will make other boys. We still had at least one boy at my Catholic all-male high school who drove a truly badass street machine. That said, even the most pathetic excuse for a car, even borrowing your mom's car (provided your mom doesn't come with it) raises your chances of getting a date significantly above zero.
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Not quite nothing. Ashley is a senior. This doesn't mean she's even 16 yet; my old college friend with the raccoon obsession entered college at 16, but since Ashley couldn't even stay awake for high school Spanish, I think she's 17 or 18 like the average high school senior. No, it's all those darned toll booths. I have done some driving in Florida.
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Could be, but there is only one being in canon we absolutely know can see Sirleck when he doesn't want to be seen. Yes, I've speculated that Elliot's new "ocular" ability and Tedd's identification as a Seer could nullify Sirleck's stealth mode, and Sirleck's fear of Pandora sort of proves that Sirleck at least is afraid she might be able to get to him--but has Pandora every mentioned Sirleck even once? It's been 48 years since I was in High School so I may have a wrong impression, but I think driving is a bigger priority for teenage boys than for girls. Elliot owning a car is kind of a mystery; how can he or his parents afford it? Susan has a car because, well, she's rich, even though she doesn't act rich, and it looks like an old Ford Aerostar minivan, something a friend of mine informed me after he rented one thirty years ago was "designed to hurt you." I'm assuming that Sarah, Nanase, and Diane all have been driving their parents' cars. It is a peculiar fact of my life that when I began high school, I already had a driver's license. I'd been living in Idaho for years where in 1965 you could still get a license at 14. But when I moved in with my mother and her second husband in California, there was no way he was going to let me borrow his car or pay to put me on his insurance, and no way I could afford either one on my own. So I was carless in California, even though I did take Driver's Ed with the idea of getting a California license eventually. So all of you're thinking, no dates in high school for me? Well, you'd be right, for the wrong reason. I got to go to an all-boy Catholic high school.
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How many of you buy that Sirleck really is as scared as he says he is of the power of the Dunkel family and their friends? I believe the only being Sirleck has really shown fear of before is Pandora. Sirleck had no interest in co-operating with Magus after he learned Pandora was no longer connected with Magus. But he suddenly showed great interest in getting Magus his new body. Here's another premise about Sirleck's "fear": He's playing up to Magus until the opportunity comes to get the new body he wants, whomsoever its rightful owner(s) might be. Not that Sirleck cares a whit about the welfare of any of anyone else except where it might present danger or inconvenience to himself. That "much more powerful" remark makes me think that Magus is recovering the old overconfidence that had to have helped land him in the predicament he is in now. Sirleck should be quite happy to let that overconfidence continue to grow and flourish. And now for yet another unanswered question: Can Ashley drive? It occurs to me the end of this drive could end up with no one else able to take the wheel. Or maybe they stop for gas and leave Ashley alone in the car.
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Dan had fun with his "Ellen Demonstrates" NP series, teasing us by telling us that all of the beams themselves were canon even if the actions shown weren't. So we have a complete list, more or less, of the spells Ellen can do now. Right? Well, maybe not. That NP series isn't attached to any particular time, and there's a giant clue at the beginning of it that Ellen is just about as bad at keeping up with her spellbook as her brother. So even if Sirleck does know about all the spells that Ellen knows she has now, Ellen could still have newer spells she doesn't know about. Dan can pull any new beam out of his hat for Ellen he wants to and justify it using the precedent he's already set up.
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Cats were threatened by extinction from decades of Heathcliff and Garfield comics. It was internet videos that saved our lovable feline parasites.
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That may be the biggest secret of raccoon survival: They're so darned cute. Messy, destructive, but cute. You know. Just like your kids.
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Whether or not Sirleck would take any damage from wounds to the host he is possessing in a fight is a question I don't think anyone has asked yet. It now occurs to me the reason that Sirleck waited until the butler came was that Sirleck had taken so much damage from the dying body of the old man Sirleck could not survive himself without taking a new host immediately.
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Before I go on, welcome to the forum. That said, I admitted I mixed up Ellen's family with Ashley's. Senior moment. I've corrected my original post. Can we move on from that? But speaking of Ellen's family, is it so ordinary? Ma and Pa Dunkel seem to have escaped from a 1950s sitcom. Mrs. Dunkel even wears housedresses. It's canon that they really couldn't afford to take care of Ellen without rigging a lottery, and yet Elliot already had his own car. Granted the Toyota Echo is near the low end of the car coolness spectrum and was probably the lowest-price car Toyota sold in the United States during its 1999-2005 lifetime, it would have cost at least the better part of $10,000 to buy a used 1999 Echo in 2002 (when EGS started) and insure a teenage male driver. I don't think never been a word about Mr. Dunkel going to work, coming home for work, or what he does at work, or has ever worked in his life. But none of that is optional in teenage romantic comedy. However, EGS does take magic more seriously, and now we know that strong magic comes from good ancestry. So how do Generic 1950s Sitcom Dad and Generic 1950s Sitcom Mom produce offspring with ridiculous levels of magical talent?
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Sirleck's final line, "I know how cars work" may bespeak of experience going back to the very first automobiles and before. He's probably had a very long time to absorb the everyman knowledge of automobiles even if he's never driven one before. Perhaps long enough that he might have possessed the Moperverse photographer who took the picture on this page. I have a hunch hkmaly may recognize the names.
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I'm sure they only do it because they are hungry and the lawns are much greener than what they are used to. If they did that where I grew up in Idaho, we would have eaten venison all year round. Just the one legal deer each autumn was enough for many meals.
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Oberst. Also known as a "bird" or "chicken" colonel because the insignia of rank is a silver eagle. Besides being lies, all those phrases imply that Sirleck has more than Ellen's muscle memories. It's reasonable Sirleck could know about Charlotte's forum We've seen him surfing the internet looking for more information on Adrian Raven after Voltaire's pay phone call. But how could he be sure that Ellen would read that forum and that Nanase would take that as a natural explanation? "gonna drop me off" combines two idioms of informal spoken American English in just four words. It's very different from the more formal speech Sirleck has used before. "see you there" is an ideomatic ellipsis for "I shall meet you when you and I are at that destination." Again, colloquial and idiomatic.
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So am I, now. There hasn't been hunting around here in so long the coast deer have largely lost their fear of humans. They come down from the hills at night and graze on lawns and shrubs and sometimes linger into the day. They make life harder for the groundskeepers at Pebble Beach.
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BTW, commenting on Dan's commentary, of course Dan is talking nonsense about tiny horses making cars go. It's little engine trolls. Oh My Goddess revealed over a decade ago that it takes five of them just to make a 50cc motorbike engine work.
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The real menaces are deer. I hit one nearly thirty years ago; it was night, and it jumped from brush right beside the road just as I was about to pass it. If I'd been driving a car instead of a van which put me further from the ground, it's body would have come up over the nose of the car into my windscreen and maybe through it. People are killed every year by exactly this. And this wasn't out in the country, this was just a few miles north of San Francisco. But getting back to this comic, why is Sirleck saying Ashley's family is powerful? Is Sirleck mistaken? Has Dan put the wrong words in his mouth (well, Ellen's mouth to get technical)? Or is there something about Ashley's family we don't know about yet? Could it have something to do with that place they told Ashley they didn't know the family came from? Something about the true nature of the family, perhaps? Or maybe I read it wrong? Please don't correct me any more; I got the message.
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Cars run over raccoons all the time. For those of you who don't live in North America, raccoons mass up to about 20 kilograms and are about 30 cm high on all fours or 60 cm standing. They have adapted easily to city life and will scavenge pretty much any food waste we leave outside. Few garbage cans defeat them. They actually have thumbs and use them to undo simple latches. We have special dog breeds to hunt them, but they continue to thrive. They rarely attack humans, but they can carry rabies, and provide hosts for a wide variety of mites, fleas, and ticks which can carry other diseases. I had a memorable experience with a dead raccoon in 1970. I was riding in a car with a couple of other friends, and one of them spotted a dead raccoon and somehow convinced the driver to get off the freeway, go back the other way, get on again, and stop to pick up the raccoon. It was perfect timing. Rigor Mortis was ending, and it released the final contents of it's bowels and its bladder before we finished the drive back to San Francisco maybe twenty miles further (the freeway was part of Highway 101 which runs through an unbroken line of suburbs between San Jose and San Francisco, California.) The guy who convinced the other two of us retired from our Air Force a few years ago as a full colonel.
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Story, Wednesday November 15, 2017
Tom Sewell replied to Pharaoh RutinTutin's topic in Comic Discussion
For cars or snowmobiles? -
Story, Wednesday November 15, 2017
Tom Sewell replied to Pharaoh RutinTutin's topic in Comic Discussion
Two, four, six, eight! Who do we eradicate! VAMPIRES! VAMPIRES! DESTROY ALL VAMPIRES! -
Story, Wednesday November 15, 2017
Tom Sewell replied to Pharaoh RutinTutin's topic in Comic Discussion
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