NP Comic for Saturday, Jan 3, 2026

[Darth Fluffy 377]

NP Comic for Saturday, Jan 3, 2026

OK, so the changes can be permanent; one of Tedd or Elliot will change gender, they will live happily ever after. Sure, why not? Probably Tedd, 'For the sake of the kingdom' or whatever, but not necessarily so.

I'm sure no one will give them a hard time about this plan . . .

Side note, Tedd is old enough to marry, but does not know about sex yet? Or is he, like myself, confused about "a tiny bit" in what should be an all or nothing binary state? I would interpret that as "It's only an early embryo, just starting, and you don't know about it for a couple of months (and it might not have implanted on the uterine wall yet).

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,667]

 

REASONS! 

If you knew all the details, it would make sense to you. 

But you have no knowledge of the background system that imposes this condition, so to you it seems like a rule set to make your life more difficult. 

Sigh 

Just trust me when I say you can't play Vivaldi on bagpipes at the SAT exam. 

 

[mlooney 3,824]

39 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Vivaldi on bagpipes

It appears that Vivaldi was imitating Italian pipes.

 

[mlooney 3,824]

<more YouTube searching>

And some one is doing Vivaldi on pipes

 

[Don Edwards 581]

GAH!

Bagpipes were in common use at one time or another in a roughly rectangular area with its corners in Ireland, Morocco, Moscow, and Syria.

There were, unsurprisingly, dozens of varieties.

WHY do we only ever hear the variety the English (correctly) labeled as weaponry?

[Amiable Dorsai 74]

1 hour ago, Don Edwards said:

WHY do we only ever hear the variety the English (correctly) labeled as weaponry

Because after the Battle of Culloden, one of the pipers, while being tried for treason, claimed that he had no weapon, just the bagpipes, and so was noncombatant. The commission trying him decided that since Highland regiments never went into battle without a piper, bagpipes were a weapon of war. The piper swung.

[Don Edwards 581]

No, that's why they labeled those monstrosities as weapons. What I'm asking is why we so rarely even hear of the existence of any other variety of bagpipe.

[mlooney 3,824]

48 minutes ago, Don Edwards said:

No, that's why they labeled those monstrosities as weapons. What I'm asking is why we so rarely even hear of the existence of any other variety of bagpipe.

At one point in my life, I was heavy into Celtic music.  Heard plenty of Irish pipes.

[Darth Fluffy 377]

21 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Just trust me when I say you can't play Vivaldi on bagpipes at the SAT exam. 

I doubt it would help your score. It is a timed test, and the concentration needed to play Vivaldi on bagpipes would be a distraction from the task at hand. 

[Darth Fluffy 377]

19 hours ago, Amiable Dorsai said:

Because after the Battle of Culloden, one of the pipers, while being tried for treason, claimed that he had no weapon, just the bagpipes, and so was noncombatant. The commission trying him decided that since Highland regiments never went into battle without a piper, bagpipes were a weapon of war. The piper swung.

Sounds like this court involved large Australian hopping herbivores.

[Amiable Dorsai 74]

50 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Sounds like this court involved large Australian hopping herbivores.

Indeed. They wanted to make an example of the whole lot of them.  Culloden was the final battle in the 1743 Highlander uprising, the failed attempt to put Bonnie Prince Charlie on the throne of, at least, Scotland. There's a fictionalized account in, I think, Voyager, the third of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series of books. 

[ijuin 611]

TIL that kangaroos are considered herbivores rather than omnivores.

[Darth Fluffy 377]

1 hour ago, ijuin said:

TIL that kangaroos are considered herbivores rather than omnivores.

Would be good for Aussies if Kangaroos ate Cane Toads. Not gonna happen.

[Darth Fluffy 377]

1 hour ago, ijuin said:

TIL that kangaroos are considered herbivores rather than omnivores.

You raise an interesting thought, though. Australia has emus, they famously declared war on them and could not eliminate them. Birds tend toward omnivorous, I don't know if that applies to emus, but but given the alternatives, it seems the most likely for a large active bird that size.