Comic for Monday, Oct 28, 2024

[Darth Fluffy 364]

Comic for Monday, Oct 28, 2024

Hope went right to dumping the frijoles. She is more confident than she was minutes ago, this makes sense how? Still, it works, and it is keeping a nice pace going.

Jill is confused. I'd be confused, but she has the advantage of already knowing about magic, and Hope just mentioned, "I'm an magic bean" (frijole). We all know the hazards of magic beans, they make big plants that climb up to the clouds overnight and let huge giants climb down. So don't plant Hope.

Susan figured it out right away, authenticated Hope, and is hopping down the bunny trail.

I like that they stepped up the game quickly.

[Darth Fluffy 364]

BTW, introducing your girl to the family, smooth move, Susan; that float your ship, Mlooney?

[mlooney 3,733]

1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:

BTW, introducing your girl to the family, smooth move, Susan; that float your ship, Mlooney?

Of course it helps float my ship.

As to where Hope suddenly got the spoons to start talking to what amount to strangers, I posit that Sarah acted as Hope's cutlery drawer.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,646]

 

It is fortunate Pandora wasn't present when Susan met Jeremy.  If Jay was confused by koala vampire, "KITTY!" would have triggered a brain reset.

 

[mlooney 3,733]

Hope is moving from woobie to waifu.  If she gains just a little more self confidence she may de-woobify.

 

Fun fact: most google hits for  "wobbie" are for a type of military blanket/poncho liner.  That's even the 4th def on Wiktionary.

[Darth Fluffy 364]

4 hours ago, mlooney said:

Fun fact: most google hits for  "wobbie" are for a type of military blanket/poncho liner.  That's even the 4th def on Wiktionary.

Sounds more useful, too.

[mlooney 3,733]

Wobbies may be the most loved piece of field gear.

[ijuin 603]

18 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Jill if confused. I'd be confused, but she has the advantage of already knowing about magic, and Hope just mentioned, "I'm an magic bean" (frijole). We all know the hazards of magic beans, they make big plants that climb up to the clouds overnight and let huge giants climb down. So don't plant Hope.

Fortunately, Jill is also known as Jack…

[mlooney 3,733]

1 hour ago, ijuin said:

Fortunately, Jill is also known as Jack…

Keep Jake away from Greg.  Don't need that giant killed.

[Darth Fluffy 364]

5 hours ago, ijuin said:

Fortunately, Jill is also known as Jack…

So, if she fetches a pail of water by herself . . .

[mlooney 3,733]

57 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

So, if she fetches a pail of water by herself . . .

That might be tricky, but a minimum she comes tumbling down the hill.

Which does bring up the point, who puts a well at the top of a hill?  The water table would be closer at the base of the hill and require less digging.

[Darth Fluffy 364]

5 minutes ago, mlooney said:

That might be tricky, but a minimum she comes tumbling down the hill.

Which does bring up the point, who puts a well at the top of a hill?  The water table would be closer at the base of the hill and require less digging.

Good point.

[mlooney 3,733]

34 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Good point.

No one ever said that Mother Goose was a Vulcan.

[Darth Fluffy 364]

1 hour ago, mlooney said:

No one ever said that Mother Goose was a Vulcan.

She hid the pointy ears well.

[mlooney 3,733]

12 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

She hid the pointy ears well.

Well, ears in general. Bird aren't know for visible ears, module some owls, and those are feathers, not skin and cartilage.

[Darth Fluffy 364]

2 hours ago, mlooney said:

Well, ears in general. Bird aren't know for visible ears, module some owls, and those are feathers, not skin and cartilage.

I don't think she was an actual goose. How would she have held the pen?

[mlooney 3,733]

1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:

I don't think she was an actual goose. How would she have held the pen?

Stenographers exist.  Could have dictated them.

 

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,646]

 

Have you forgotten the Secretary Bird 

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Sagittarius serpentarius 

 

[Don Edwards 572]

6 hours ago, mlooney said:

Which does bring up the point, who puts a well at the top of a hill?  The water table would be closer at the base of the hill and require less digging.

We make a lot of northwestern-Europe-based assumptions. If the well in question is in the Middle East, it's entirely possible that it was there first and the hill grew around it. This sort of structure is called a "tel" and is why a great many villages in that area are called "Tel something-or-other." (In Hebrew or Arabic, of course.)

(But not the city of Tel Aviv. That city was founded in 1909 as a suburb of an existing large city - the two have since merged.)

The process runs something like this. A well gets dug. As sources of water are less than commonplace, a village grows up around it. The main building material is clay bricks, because they have a lot more dirt than any other building material. Shit happens, as it tends to when local rulers think killing their neighbors is a good tactic (a regretfully common view pretty much everywhere), and the village is destroyed - the remains adding some small amount to the height of the soil around the well. But the well is still there, and sources of water are still less than commonplace, a village grows up around it. Shit happens... rinse and repeat a few dozen times...

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,646]

 

Regarding Dan's Commentary 

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Commentary

 

That moment when you realize you might not be the strangest person in the room.

I have yet to experience that moment 

 

[mlooney 3,733]

5 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

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That moment when you realize you might not be the strangest person in the room.

I have yet to experience that moment 

I have.  It was a weird night.

[Darth Fluffy 364]

10 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Have you forgotten the Secretary Bird 

The velociraptor of our era? How could we forget them?

[ChronosCat 158]

On 10/29/2024 at 10:52 AM, mlooney said:

Which does bring up the point, who puts a well at the top of a hill?  The water table would be closer at the base of the hill and require less digging.

Depends on the hill, I think. I live on the side of a hill, and further up the road not too far from the top of the hill there's a natural spring.

23 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

I have yet to experience that moment

I experience it all the time. After all, while I might occasionally try to "reclaim" the "weird" insult, as far as I'm concerned I'm the normal one - it's everybody else that's weird.

[Darth Fluffy 364]

11 hours ago, ChronosCat said:

Depends on the hill, I think. I live on the side of a hill, and further up the road not too far from the top of the hill there's a natural spring.

In general, no, the water comes out at the lowest point it can. In your case, that's a weird hill. It is gravity fed, which means the water comes from someplace even higher. Nearby mountains?

[mlooney 3,733]

Some water tables are under pressure, which could explain a hit top spring. Or an anticline is pushing the water bearing strata up, which might also explain the hill itself.