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by Paul Taylor on June 14, 2010 at 12:00 am
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  1. Fairportfan
    June 14, 2010, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Boing!

    Phix is enjoying herself entirely too much.

    • Jim
      June 14, 2010, 12:03 am | # | Reply

      Love the look Phix gives , telling Monica .

    • Fnord
      June 14, 2010, 9:05 am | # | Reply

      Apparently, “Gregory” enjoyed Ms. Phix a little too much, also. I’ll be his voice has dropped an octave or to, as well. Lucky buzzard…

      Monica’s expression in that last panel … priceless!

      • Siarles
        April 1, 2012, 5:57 pm | #

        Might we say he got his “phix”?

      • SteamPoweredSunglasses
        May 31, 2012, 12:47 am | #

        Ooooooh! The jar, sir….

  2. Cheesy1
    June 14, 2010, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    That’s right Monica, let it sink in. Greg got himself some freaky sphinx booty! :p

    • Hotduelist
      June 13, 2011, 4:54 pm | # | Reply

      Her mind looks blown. Like Tina’s was lol

  3. BW
    June 14, 2010, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    I adore that look of realization on the last panel. It captures the moment when your brain puts two and two together, and your shock when you realize the implications.

    • jwhouk
      June 14, 2010, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      “And oh by the way, I’m going to be your new boss starting next Tuesday, is that all right?”

      • jwhouk
        June 16, 2010, 9:38 pm | #

        “…and by that I mean you’ll be working AT the research library, okay?” 😉

    • Fairportfan
      June 14, 2010, 12:34 am | # | Reply

      Just spent twenty (enjoyable) minutes going through the archives, lookinf or this Punch an’ Pie strip.

      I loved the way that Chris illustrated that exact effect in the final panels.

      Always a good punchline.

      • CaptXpendable
        June 14, 2010, 1:20 am | #

        Click,click,click,click,click,click,DING!!!

        Heh, I was thinking the exact same thing and would have linked it myself if you hadn’t beat me to it.

    • toraush Naull
      June 14, 2010, 6:31 pm | # | Reply

      yep BW that look is priceless :)))

  4. BrianX
    June 14, 2010, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Happy sphinx is happy.

  5. Rennod
    June 14, 2010, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Dun dun DUNNNHH!!

  6. Atomic
    June 14, 2010, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Reminds me of M and her remark to Kevin about navigating a dimly lit bedroom!

    Awww Phix — and on the First Date too! My, my…

    I’m sure there’s a perfectly polite explanation! Somewhere…

    • eschmenk
      June 14, 2010, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      Why do you say first date? Of course, from the beginning, Phix did know what she wanted. However, Monica wasn’t that thrilled at the time. I wonder what she thinks now.

      • Fairportfan
        June 14, 2010, 12:35 am | #

        Love M’s eyeroll in that one.

      • eschmenk
        June 14, 2010, 10:30 pm | #

        The “Hmm . . .interesting!” look Phix gives in the first panel of the other page really hit me this time. It’s neat the way Paul gave us a Dr. Fields-eye view of that scene.

        It also jumped out at me that Phix called him, “Gregory” today. That fits so well.

  7. eschmenk
    June 14, 2010, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Heh, Tina isn’t the only one surprised. But Monica did say that Phix was still a mankiller.

    I noticed that Phix didn’t want for Monica to fumble the introductions this time. So when will Tina be composed enough to be introduced?

    • Fatuncle
      June 14, 2010, 4:45 am | # | Reply

      I think Tina is still catching flies.

  8. redbeard
    June 14, 2010, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    You can just hear that bell go DING! in the last panel. I’m glad, and a bit surprised, that Greg somehow survived – I guess sometimes a man’s just gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Lucky bastard.

  9. Zogh
    June 14, 2010, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    A happy Phix, is a safe Phix. But a maneater in any implication is still a maneater.

    • Dr. Jeff
      June 14, 2010, 1:26 am | # | Reply

      Then it’s time to cue up some Hall & Oates:

      Oh here she comes.
      Watch out boys, she’ll chew you up.
      Oh here she comes.
      She’s a maneater.

      (Nelly who?) 🙂

      • Quasarmogul
        June 14, 2010, 8:50 am | #

        Thank you for being the one to post that. I couldn’t stop repeating that in my head when Phix shows up!

  10. NOTDilbert
    June 14, 2010, 12:55 am | # | Reply

    That’s right, collect your coffee, pick your brains up off the floor, and hurry off to work.

    And another rackin’ frackin’ 24 hour delayto see Tina and Phix interact for the first time! I swear, introducing my new cat to the older one wasn’t this stressful.

    • Fatuncle
      June 14, 2010, 4:57 am | # | Reply

      You know, I hate to give Paul any ideas, because I would like to see it myself, but it would be even funnier if we never do see Phix in TinaVision™. Just have Tina become very quiet, very respectful, and very circumspect whenever she encounters Phix. And very closemouthed when Monica asks questions about what she sees.

      • eschmenk
        June 14, 2010, 10:48 pm | #

        I agree, except that I don’t think I particularly want to see the TinaVision™. Let it remain a mystery.

        In a strange way, Friday’s comic was actually a let-down because I had already anticipated it on Thursday. I didn’t get excited Friday until I started imagining Bud’s potential reaction to Tina’s reaction, thanks to Fairportfan’s comment. Of course, it’s Paul who got me so interested in the characters in the first place. 🙂

  11. LW18(LADYWOLF)
    June 14, 2010, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    Gregory tends to what?……….

    • jwhouk
      June 14, 2010, 3:14 am | # | Reply

      …tends to straggle in to work in the morning.

      (Especially if he had a hot date the night before – DING DING!)

      • Atomic
        June 14, 2010, 8:11 am | #

        No — NO!! It was just breakfast.. a polite little breakfast — at some quiet, out of the way place where they could gaze into each others eyes…

        There! I told you there had to be some perfectly civil reason for them to met early in the morning before work.

        That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

      • SoWhyMe
        June 14, 2010, 2:06 pm | #

        Right. Tends to come in late when he has been banging mythological creatures all night. The ones that might kill you tend to take more time and finese.

    • eschmenk
      June 14, 2010, 10:59 pm | # | Reply

      Monica started out trying to reassure Phix that Dr. Fields hadn’t been sitting in his office waiting for Monica for very long.

  12. Bucc-i
    June 14, 2010, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    BARRY GOT SOME BOOTY!
    BARRY GOT SOME BOOTY!

  13. ziggy78eog
    June 14, 2010, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    Oh, it is “Gregory” now, is it? I guess someone had a really good weekend, yes?

  14. Dr. Jeff
    June 14, 2010, 1:30 am | # | Reply

    I guess this makes Phix the ultimate cougar… 😀

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships#Slang_terms

    • NikkTemplar
      June 14, 2010, 12:29 pm | # | Reply

      ^THIS^

      Brilliant. Just brilliant.

      And when are we going to see Tina’s exploding head?

  15. Paula
    June 14, 2010, 1:49 am | # | Reply

    and monica has just cicked!

    Thats kinda like being told your parents still ‘do’ it ^^

    • NOTDilbert
      June 15, 2010, 12:07 am | # | Reply

      Wait – you had to be told?

      • Paula
        June 15, 2010, 1:52 am | #

        i prefer to believe i was part of the immaculate conception and my parents do not do such things.

        It keeps me sane 🙂

  16. hewolf
    June 14, 2010, 2:40 am | # | Reply

    Too funny.

  17. MerchManDan
    June 14, 2010, 3:15 am | # | Reply

    Well!! Almost everyone’s getting their share of surprises this morning!
    I was half-expecting to see a Tina-shaped hole in the wall behind the counter. Maybe tomorrow.

  18. Fairportfan
    June 14, 2010, 4:02 am | # | Reply

    Ummm – considering that they’re shaking hands, and thus we’re looking at Amanda’s right arm, isn’t there … something … missing in that second panel?

    • jwhouk
      June 14, 2010, 4:55 am | # | Reply

      Good catch. Oh, Pablo? I think you forgot something.

    • Fatuncle
      June 14, 2010, 5:01 am | # | Reply

      No, no, no, that’s jist one of the odd side effects of coming into contact with Phix’s magical field. Tattoos disappear.

    • Fairportfan
      June 14, 2010, 5:29 am | # | Reply

      I had to look three time before i noticed.

      Must be a side-effect of the boobosity.

      • Fatuncle
        June 14, 2010, 6:10 am | #

        I think Paul’s gone to bed.

      • Fatuncle
        June 14, 2010, 6:11 am | #

        He’s also made a second small error in the very last panel Do you see it?

      • Fairportfan
        June 14, 2010, 6:33 am | #

        Monica’s three inches taller?

      • jayessell
        June 14, 2010, 6:53 am | #

        She’s still 4’10 1/2.

        That’s the “Sheriff Brody Zoom-In”
        as seen in the motion picture ‘Jaws’.

      • Fatuncle
        June 14, 2010, 7:10 am | #

        The fall of hair behind her right arm has not been colored to match the rest.

      • SoWhyMe
        June 14, 2010, 2:00 pm | #

        That can be explained by her slouching and then standing bolt upright as the realization hits.

      • Fairportfan
        June 14, 2010, 8:34 am | #

        That effect is known as the “Vertigo shot”, from its use in the belltower scene in Vertigo; also used to good effect in Truffautt’s version of Fahrenheit 451 for the endless-corridor nightmare.

        It’s dollying forward while zooming back (Vertigo and F451) so that the walls pass, but the far end apparently never gets closer, or pulling back while zooming in, so the the central object stays the same but the field of view narrows drastically.

        (Also the depth of focus alters, so that even if the viewer doesn’t notice the shot consciously, it can be subconsciously disorienting.)

      • jayessell
        June 14, 2010, 10:11 am | #

        Thanks Fairportfan.

        Also known as Dolly Zoom.

        PS:
        Congrats on the cool randomly assigned avatar.

      • Fairportfan
        June 14, 2010, 11:11 am | #

        That is not randomly assigned that is my current Gravatar, that turns up on a lot of sites when i post comments. You upload anything you like, and it’s tied to your e-mail.

        It also lets you post comments at a lot of sites without signing up for each one.

      • Fairportfan
        June 14, 2010, 11:13 am | #

        Oh – when i said Monica’s three inches taller, i meant relative to the background, which a vertigo shot (at least one that relatively small) probably wouldn’t change.

      • txmystic
        June 14, 2010, 1:47 pm | #

        Thanks for fulfilling my request!

      • Julie
        June 14, 2010, 8:08 am | #

        Huh…that’s funny. I always assumed that that ‘tattoo’ was an arm bracelet. I know someone who wears one just like it.

    • Jim
      June 14, 2010, 6:56 am | # | Reply

      Ist mox nix . Happens to the best of them . Good eye , though , I hadn’t really noticed .

  19. CraigR
    June 14, 2010, 6:01 am | # | Reply

    Once again, I’m giving my guess as to what will happen tomorrow. (I used to do this on the forums all the time. So far I’m batting zero.)

    Phix watches M and Amanda leave, turns back to Tina and says, “Hello, Nudge.”
    And Tina replies, “Hello, Mistress.”

    I’m pretty sure this won’t happen, but HOLY COW if it did!

    • Fatuncle
      June 14, 2010, 10:01 am | # | Reply

      THAT never crossed my mind! So far you and seem to be tied for the same ranking – any points I have been awarded are for style and persistence.

  20. Llewellian
    June 14, 2010, 7:58 am | # | Reply

    Question: Do i calculate correctly from Monicas height 148 cm that Phix is 205 cm tall?

    • Fairportfan
      June 14, 2010, 10:01 am | # | Reply

      Pablo said she’s about 6′ 6″, as i recall.

    • jwhouk
      June 14, 2010, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

      Actually, 6’9″ might be close to right. Amanda looks like she’s about 60/40 between Monica and Phix, so I’d bet she’s about 6 foot even.

      • Fairportfan
        June 15, 2010, 5:08 am | #

        Well, that’s six-six without heels…

  21. Eee
    June 14, 2010, 9:27 am | # | Reply

    Yay, Gregory! “Climb every mountain…” And judging from Phix’s expression, he was apparently quite satisfactory, too. Young horses know how to run fast, old horses know how to run…

  22. txmystic
    June 14, 2010, 10:27 am | # | Reply

    Regardless of the implications, Monica can at least be assures thet Gregory will be in a very good mood this morning…

    Pan over to Tina!

  23. The Old Wolf
    June 14, 2010, 10:53 am | # | Reply

    Oh, ho, ho! Lucky Greg… Man, that romp in the hay would have been the stuff of mythology! 😀 Nice *ding* look on Monica’s face. Beautiful way to start the week, Pablo!

  24. Dawn
    June 14, 2010, 10:57 am | # | Reply

    *hee hee hee hee* I love Phix!

  25. Stephen Kissel
    June 14, 2010, 11:07 am | # | Reply

    GREGORY???
    … and how long did they spend together???

    Again … Monica’s expression in last pannel …
    Hee Hee Heeeeeee.

  26. RKSAustin
    June 14, 2010, 9:34 pm | # | Reply

    I concur with the other opinion expressed here.

    Gregory is one LUCKY guy!\ 🙂 🙂

  27. Opus the Poet
    June 14, 2010, 9:39 pm | # | Reply

    I’m surprized nobody has mentioned the relative sizes of Phix’ and Amanda’s hands. Phix’ hand just swallows Amanda’s.

  28. DeadlyDad
    June 15, 2010, 1:47 am | # | Reply

    Ah, Paul. You’ve got that ‘the light dawns/sudden realization’ look down *wonderfully* pat. Bravo.

  29. kingklash
    June 15, 2010, 11:17 am | # | Reply

    What does it sound like when Phix purrs?

  30. Rycr
    August 1, 2011, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

    And Monica continues her trend of silent, shocked realization. I realized during this read-through that she does this a lot. Like, at least once an arc. Sometimes more.

  31. rich
    June 24, 2012, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

    still got that bottle of mental bleach handy?

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