The Old Hack

I know the problem. I just caught my wife procrastinating. I managed to convince her to make it wait.

I've for a long time now enjoyed the ongoing evolution and growth of Dan's artwork. Today I did something on the spur of the moment: compared today's strip with the very first one. It is happy chance that they both even feature the same characters. When compared in this way, the changes are... shall we say, noticeable.

It's mlooney. He used to go under the posting name of J. Michael Looney on the old forums before they crashed. He also has a mysterious Italian twin named Signor Mlunatico.

http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2314 Bless you, Elliot. Just bless you.

Look, I told you, we are phasing back to midjinks already. By now it is safer to go to lowjinks and then stop at least briefly before advancing jinks level again. Otherwise we risk systemic failure due to excessive jinks oscillation. And repairing that is really expensive.

http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2312 Bless you, Elliot. I knew we could rely on you.

Big talk from the Pharaoh who has been dead for around three millenniae and who still is posting here.

Don't be too mad at the spam companies. They get easily confused. Seriously, how many Jesu Michaelangelo Lunaticos do you think there are in the Oklahoma phone book?

Give the man a break. He has been ill. o.O

Do not mention him to me. He is dead to me. He sold out to Norwegian Hydro. He is a Norwegian, not a Dane.

Those were Normans. Me, I invade England. Admittedly not for the weather.

No. I am talking about the Tiffany Aching books. They are well worth reading.

Just forget it, all of you. None of you live in the country with the strongest still existing roots to Viking mentality.

And here I thought I had found a fellow pedant.

No. The Fey. The Fair Folk. The Lords and Ladies. The Sidhe. In Pratchett's interpretation, they are not very nice people. To be fair, nor were they really in the old tales. The more modern view of them as nice and cutesy stems from a Victorian dislike of tales with unhappy endings.

Well, then you haven't read the books. Horace the Cheese has been known to get into fights with not only rodents and small predators but even Fey and actually win.

I really like Rhoda. She is smart, sensitive and conscientious. This is not a bad combination. Actually we are gearing down now so this is back to midjinks. We may reach lowjinks fairly soon, too.

Something like this?

*wince* Not good. My wife sends her sympathies. Sciatic pain is nothing to joke about. On a slightly different note, she used a salve to treat it with that her cat absolutely adored the smell of. The furball spent the next hour rubbing against Mommy, which did not help with the pain but did provide her and me with considerable amusement. "I loooooooooooooove Mommy's salve!"

The Moderator: Small correction to the above. Obama suspended the Visa Waiver Program for these countries. He did not include anyone already in the US and certainly not Green Card holders or people with visas. If you wish a very short version of what this program is, it allows a visit of up to 90 days length in the US without a visa or residential permit. It is only offered to certain countries and is done so as a courtesy to them. This list of countries includes Denmark and I personally have visited the US a large number of times using exactly this program. Without once performing a single act of terrorism, I might add.

Clearly, the DGB has a strong Libertarian tradition. Possibly dating all the way back to the Revolutionary war. >.>

Are you mad? Don't you know that it has an at least 40% bigger chance of setting off a fissile reaction in the bollocking thing? O.O

*snicker* The EGS Off Topic Forums, Venting and Bitching Post of the Internet.

Kind of a similar problem in Denmark. For almost a thousand years now every single ruling King we have had has been named either Christian or Frederik. And ALL our ruling queens have been named Margrethe. Both of them.

Er... *scraps plans for nuclear bananarang and goes back to drawing board, muttering and grumbling*