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  1. Posted

    Darnitol

    Now I've gone and made myself obsess over something

    EIther I'll waste too much time looking into this, or get very upset with myself for not investigating.

    But I am now wondering exactly how many EGS comics have specifically dealt with the interaction of hair and magic.

    This seems to be a subject to which Dan returns frequently.

    Is it at least once per year in "real" time? More often?

    When was this subject first mentioned in the comic?  What was the longest gap between mentions?

  3. Posted

    Years ago, in the waiting room of my childhood dentist, there was a painting of an old-timey dentist tickling a small child to make the kid relax and let the dentist do his job.

    I can not recall ever seeing another scientific professional use tickling as an investigative tool.

  5. Posted

    Darn It...

    I was working up a scenario where Nanase was Ashley's mysterious internet girlfriend from some time ago and only now did Ashley just barely recognize her.

    I know that having a Secret Internet Girlfriend would be something completely unlikely for Nanase as well as almost impossible for her to have managed based on what we officially know of her past...

     

    BUT IT WAS MY CRAZY IDEA!!!

     

    And Nanase, you will never get your mother to accidentally reveal anything about magic.  One of these days you will need to ask her directly.

    I wonder what Nanase's father knows about magic...?

  6. Posted

    Actually, Air Force One is a designation for a US Air Force plane carrying the President,

    The Helicopter that frequently shuttles back and forth from the White House is Marine One when carrying the President

    GW Bush once took Navy One out to meet a returning Aircraft Carrier

    And a private plane carrying the president would be designated Executive One.  Nelson Rockefeller, VP to Gerald Ford, frequently flew in Executive Two.  He preferred his own plane.

    So if the President was on a flying horse, and the horse was not the property of the US Military, it would likely be Equestrian One.

    And if the horse was military?  Horse Artillery seems to be the most likely way the military could make a horse fly.

  7. Posted

    5 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Well, there is a talking winged horse, but I think he is too busy being engaged in horse activism to sing.

    Take it from someone who has spent far too much time in choirs as a strained tenor because they don't need another baritone...

    You can't sing if you're horse.

    Also, if I remember correctly, She-Ra and The Great Rebellion operated out of the WHISPERING Woods on Etheria.  The Warbling Woods were probably left behind on Eternia.

  10. Posted

    44 minutes ago, detrius said:

    Imagine a TV show where people get turned into lizards and one week later, they're back to their human selves and sipping coffee as if nothing happened - now that's just bad writing!

    Not necessarily.

    If everyone in Boston was turned into a Lizard, Cliff and Norm would still be at the end of the bar drinking beer.

  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, Alwaysnewguy said:

    I didn't know science was on the curriculum in ancient Egypt.

    The courses were not as compartmentalized.  And everything was wrapped up in what you might dismiss as Mysticism or Art.  But there was a solid base of astronomy, botany, chemistry, geometry, hydrology, medicine, physics, and zoology which not only supported the pyramids, but provided foundation stones for later empires in Africa,  Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome.

  14. Posted

    18 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    I wonder if it's too late to get into a woodworking course for the final semester of school?

    If the shop teacher is younger (under 35 or still has at least 9 fingers) there is a good chance that he knows nothing of wood beyond what is available at the local big-box home improvement store.

  18. Posted

    Why use pure Oxygen and not ordinary air?

    $10,000 per pound.

    In the era of the Space Shuttle, the cost of launching payload into orbit was approximately $10,000 per pound.  The price, proportionally, would possibly be higher back in the Apollo era.  So why load up pressurized tanks full of inert gasses the astronauts did not need to breathe?

    There is a long tradition in almost every human endeavour of ignoring possible problems, if the preventive solution would be difficult or expensive, until after an actual disaster demonstrates the need to implement that solution.

  19. Posted

    https://egscomics.com/comic/party-051

    So one day Edward Verres brought home a kitten with hedgehog spines (the spiky hairs) and Tedd never bothered to ask from where it originated.

    If this was in Tedd's "Mute" phase, it probably was just one of many questions that simply didn't rise to the threshold of vocalization.

    And, as always for cats, if you actually want to be near the cat, the cat wants nothing to do with you.

    The Old Hack reacted to this

  22. Posted

    Oy!  Why did I not see this from the beginning?

    Ashley was prepared to expect and accept significant strangeness from the PEOPLE at the party.

    No one said anything about the monster pet.

    Ashley, Just be grateful you weren't here for "KITTY"!

    No, I am not providing the link.  That would be almost as cruel as TV Tropes.

  23. Posted

    Are you forgetting...

    Kryptonite-X that gave animals super powers and created the Legion of Super Pets?
    Jewel Kryptonite that let Phantom Zone villains telekinetically ignite or detonate anything flammable on Earth?
    Pink Kryptonite that would turn Kryptonians Gay? (Yes, DC really published that story)

    Yes there were more...

    As for how Kryptonite Radiation affected Kryptonians so much more that other life forms, in my mind it seemed similar to how Carbon Monoxide is so much deadlier than Carbon Dioxide to humans.

    Human hemoglobin can transport Oxygen, but would chemically rather hold on to Carbon Dioxide.  It is one of the most difficult things our lungs do is to coax the CO2 out to be replaced with O2.  But CO binds with hemoglobin much more strongly than O2 or CO2. If CO gets into the Red Blood Cells, they won't give it up to the cells or the lungs.

    Kryptonians use Solar radiation to charge their cells.  But Kryptonite radiation, although deadly, is absorbed by Kryptonian cells far more readily than Solar radiation.

    Of course, that analogy is strictly my own head cannon based on a single semester of introductory biology in the 1980s.

  24. Posted

    Whilst browsing the Ewe Toob, I came across an early Muppet appearance on Ed Sullivan.  Back when Cookie Monster was constructed with Teeth.

    Henson, Oz, et al reused a LOT of material in the first few seasons of the Muppet Show that they had previously performed on Ed Sullivan, Jimmy Dean, The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, Sesame Street, and a whole lot of variety shows, talk shows, and specials.  Yet some how it seemed "Fresh" then and is still entertaining.

    Meanwhile, most of what is on television today is tiresome before I even see it.

  25. Posted

    Elliot has seen the Uryuom suits plenty of times.

    Ellen, Nanase, and Grace were wearing them when they came to rescue Elliot from the Nest.

    Grace was wearing the suit at the attack on the Dojo and when they responded to the New Year's Eve distress call.