Nah – perspective. If she gave it the kind of “ooomph!” she gave the squashed calendar machine, it mde it out of atmosphere before much more than the skin was burnt away.
That’s a trail of plasma from stripped air molecules it hit on te way out.
… wonders about the neighbors …. more, about the nuclear strike detectors.. :O
or is the house registered by the FBI as a ‘geographic anomaly’, therefore ignored?? :p
i think there’s been only one Thooom! here, and that would be the first/lowest flash on the track upwards, the second one higher up looks to me more like the reflection of it off of low hanging cloud cover than another explosion.
though i AM curious as to what the “smoke trail” going from the second letter “O” in thooom towards the center of the first flash of light is?
of course the traditional “fore!” yelled by golfers is to give somebody in front of you a heads up of your ball about to be whizzing by shortly and hopefully not get hit by it, but there would have been zero reaction time available with Buds fast-ball special, so yelling it was kinda moot, huh?
Let’s be happy that she decided to manage her anger by throwing some golfballs into space.
She could as well start to crush somthing important… like a country… or a civilization… you know…
And the US Airforce and the NSA and the MIB and Coast to Coast. One object can be pawned off as a meteorite, but a whole basket of them? All eminating from the same point? That’s gotta draw a lot of unwanted attention.
that did just occur to me (since i have been watching ‘lost girl’ also since it began)
chances are someone must be covering for the golem girls in some way. there is no chance in anything that they would be able to fit in without being ‘themselves’ in some small way.
such as getting annoyed and going tequilla-golfing (which i might try the next time i go crazy golf! sounds like fun!)
sure the cops might make the report but i suspect that the paper work would get ‘lost’ later on down the line
There is. Both Jin and Tepoz have spoken of the ‘shadow’ political figures that are in Jin’s back pocket. They know Tepoz is minding the GGG, so as long as Tepoz keeps them informed ‘where’ the GGG are, they’ll prevent any serious investigations into their activity beyond the local police, so long as they don’t cause ‘too’ much ruckus.
Otherwise, Tepoz would really serve no role whatsoever in the comic since the GGG arrival, and would have no reason to continue to endure the brunt of Monica’s rage bouts.
Illiad:
followed by: (Kay) All right, Beatrice, there was no alien. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
The same two cops are gonna show up – and they’re gonna react the same way to seeing Bud that Officer Buns did when he realised that the explosion he was investigating was Shally again…
Well, thanks to FairportFan’s information (what a wealth of obscure goodies he is!) I’d suggest going right to Elephant Parts and see what Mr. Nesmith would suggest! He apparently worked it out, decades before the idea occurred to me (and I never did actually complete my own version, as my cohorts-in-radio thought it would be more confusing than otherwise, alas).
I think it’s a sign of how my parents raised me right that A) I’ve never seen a bottle of tequila that actually had a worm in it, and B) I can’t stomach the stuff that costs less than $50 per bottle. They’re tequila snobs, and now so am I.
um, well aren’t the ‘Golem girls’ basically Mayan/ Aztec? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan
I have known many Mexican, Spanish and Portuguese people, and find they share many things, including language and love of strong alcohol! my Portuguese friend showed me an ‘agua dente’ that was stronger than ‘mere’ tequila… :)
@illiad, Bud is from Greece or points east of there, as she has a definite Mediterranean accent. Alan noticed it immediately when he first met her during Jin’s first in-comic meltdown.
Opus the Poet: thanks for the info I couldn’t find anything much , ‘wapsi/about’ mentions aztecs, and most of the art etc is mayan…didn’t there used to be more details in the ‘cast’ section??
what came before the mayans?? the art and structures are similar…
It was probably the jugo de limon. Tequila ain’t that acidic (or caustic, for that matter), although Mexican martinis do make me thankful that God made Prilosec.
@Jabberwonky, it means your old enough to have watched The Addams Family. I watched it first run, then again in syndication repeats… also the Munsters (loved the Munsters’ Coach and Granpa’s Coffin
I find it hard to believe it would have even left her hand before disintegrating, let alone make it up that high and then exploding. It’s not like it was a CM crushed down into a little cube. Perhaps it was going so fast there was appreciable time dialation involved, so it existed long after it should have. Some solar particles are like that. They are going at such a large percentage of the speed of light, they make it to earth before decaying, even though their half-life says they should not be able to.
yeah, but the energy required for a relativistic golf ball would make hiroshima sound like a cap gun.
all she did was ionize the air and vaporize the ball. (boundary layer effects could have protected it that long…) and prolly blow all the windows in her building.
hm, some kind of ‘magic physics’ at work… that amount of force has to push against something, it has to be canceled out, otherwise you would end up buried in the ground!!
Well, yes – apparently the GGGs have some sort of levitation capability so that they can do things like lifting up that anchor that would weigh tons while standing on a sand bar without sinking….
Maybe the tequila is to give Bud flatulance so that she can provide a counter-thrust…
Wasn’t that a theme when Garion was learning magic in the Belgariad? To move the boulder, he also had to push equally at everything else–or all that force would (did) drive him into the ground…
Interesting you should mention that, Fairportfan! Something rather like this was actually tried, almost intentionally (and is the sort of thing your brother would write about). There was an interesting adventure during the Operation Plumbbob nuclear tests, when the Orion drive concept got field tested by accident. My own rap about this is here. The best guess of the guys on the ground was that the projectile would indeed be destroyed by the atmosphere.
SoWhyMe- I’ve seen a shadowgraph of a tack at mock 5.2 at low air desity, the tac is coming apart but it still chewed it way through 4 inches of duralin armor.
The only way I can rationalize the disintegration pattern is:
1)Bud magically protects the ball during acceleration so it doesn’t vaporize in her hand.
2)The pressure buildup ahead of the ball blows off the outer cover (first explosion) and ablatively protects what’s left.
3)The new pressure buildup blows the guts of the ball apart (second explosion) and ablatively protects the core.
4)The solid core flies on, vaporizing all the way.
All in all the furthest the last remnants of the ball goes is about 50 meters or so.
AH!, you mean Possibly gift wrapping them for delivery to those people that Tepoz and others created the “Olmec Witness Protection Program” for to hide the GGG’s from in the first place?
Ahh..Brandy, happily oblivious to the drama that just unfolded.
Great way to resolve some anger-issues..although, come to think of it my Mom used to collect old plates, so she could smash them when she felt the need. I dunno if launching them in orbit ever crossed her mind..knowing my Mom, she probably did seriously ponder the thought. She prolly could too.
She was what’s often called “a stout woman”
YUP! And my sis’ is a lot like her.
She used to “anger-Manage” via a giant ACME-type hammer (the wooden kind Tex Avery was so fond of) and some poles for the sheep-den.
Went a bit like this:
Sounds like my Bohemian grandmother. (First-generation US-born)
She came up to like my shoulder, and my dad was four inches taller than i am (and six inches taller than me his last year or two at home) … and all three of her kids, all her grandchildren and her husband walked light when she was upset.
Some German beer gardens (used to, at least) buy up factory second plates and other crockery for guests who are so stressed out that they have to break something…
A family friend (a psychotherapist) used to pick up batches of pottery “seconds” from a local ceramicist, for her clients to use for just this purpose.
Surely a man of your literary bent would be aware of Callahan’s Cross-time Saloon…? And the tradition there when making a toast… If not, surely get the to the punnery!
Jay-Em- Some of my friends used those old round ball like practice grenades. Anyone who missed had to by the next case of beer. after a while the cases added up.
did it ever?
sure it worked on Bud but she was 100% ‘made correctly’
Jin stated she would never knowing lie to monica but she didn’t tell the whole truth either
Kind of a major plot point that glyph control of the Chimera was always pretty flawed. Shutdown was possible, and always the safest action, because it/they Do Not Like garbage input.
Bud is lashing out partially because that is What She Does. Her choice in how to express it shows a truly burgeoning humanity, however.
Ah yes, the hypersonic golf ball throw.
Waitaminit, First? How did that happen?
Hypersonic? Looks more like they’ve gone into warp drive. I just hope there aren’t any important satellites in their way.
if there was there wont be.
NASA’s new plan for removing some of that excess space junk from orbit? GGGGolf it into plasma?
The third green is on the International Space Station.
Shepard, Apollo 14
…actually it looks like it burnt to nothing before reaching the top of the house. That’s just a little fast…
Nah – perspective. If she gave it the kind of “ooomph!” she gave the squashed calendar machine, it mde it out of atmosphere before much more than the skin was burnt away.
That’s a trail of plasma from stripped air molecules it hit on te way out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpgxry542M
“Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going ‘TIL IT HITS SOMETHING.”
… wonders about the neighbors …. more, about the nuclear strike detectors.. :O
or is the house registered by the FBI as a ‘geographic anomaly’, therefore ignored?? :p
Wonders about the neighbors? Look at that house. I’m sure Gomez and Morticia love those neighbors…
Bud got one SERIOUS mad on going. To whack a golf ball to break the sound barrior has got to be one heck of a swing.
You think she needed a club to do that?
This is Bud we’re talking about here… Calender Machine… Middle of the sun… ring any bells?
International Space Station is about a par 3 I’d reckon. Jupiter, par 2. The extra gravity helps.
This cannot be a good sign.
i dunno
depends on how you look at it.
and she has improved her game.
two booms for the swing of one
i think there’s been only one Thooom! here, and that would be the first/lowest flash on the track upwards, the second one higher up looks to me more like the reflection of it off of low hanging cloud cover than another explosion.
though i AM curious as to what the “smoke trail” going from the second letter “O” in thooom towards the center of the first flash of light is?
of course the traditional “fore!” yelled by golfers is to give somebody in front of you a heads up of your ball about to be whizzing by shortly and hopefully not get hit by it, but there would have been zero reaction time available with Buds fast-ball special, so yelling it was kinda moot, huh?
No, the first flash is when the outer cover flashes to vapor, the second is when the rubber interior flashes…
It’s a bit of smoke coming out of the flash that just happened to hit the “THOOM!”
Bud needs to learn that there are methods of anger management that don’t involve launching random objects into space.
She needs to work off the frustration somehow…
And it’s a pretty spectacular and mostly harmless way to do so!
some peeps try boxing.
i don’t think she could box mount everest and loose.
Yes, don’t we need some tunnels dug somewhere? The Panama Canal company could use her help in their new efforts to create wider lanes.
Earthworm Bud?
Your went there…
At least it wasn’t Jin…
Let’s be happy that she decided to manage her anger by throwing some golfballs into space.
She could as well start to crush somthing important… like a country… or a civilization… you know…
Get the herp-de-derp act ready, bud! Here come the cops!
And the US Airforce and the NSA and the MIB and Coast to Coast. One object can be pawned off as a meteorite, but a whole basket of them? All eminating from the same point? That’s gotta draw a lot of unwanted attention.
Knowing her luck, it’ll be Justin that shows up…. Or maybe, ‘knowing his luck’….
I can just hear his start off:
Justin: Excuse me, we got a call about sound booms comming from… oh shit its you. Why is it always Shelly’s friends??
that did just occur to me (since i have been watching ‘lost girl’ also since it began)
chances are someone must be covering for the golem girls in some way. there is no chance in anything that they would be able to fit in without being ‘themselves’ in some small way.
such as getting annoyed and going tequilla-golfing (which i might try the next time i go crazy golf! sounds like fun!)
sure the cops might make the report but i suspect that the paper work would get ‘lost’ later on down the line
There is. Both Jin and Tepoz have spoken of the ‘shadow’ political figures that are in Jin’s back pocket. They know Tepoz is minding the GGG, so as long as Tepoz keeps them informed ‘where’ the GGG are, they’ll prevent any serious investigations into their activity beyond the local police, so long as they don’t cause ‘too’ much ruckus.
Otherwise, Tepoz would really serve no role whatsoever in the comic since the GGG arrival, and would have no reason to continue to endure the brunt of Monica’s rage bouts.
yep, as above.. ‘shadow’ political figures gets a call from police/FBI..
“boss, it’s happenin again!”
”
“calm down, it’s *them* …
“geez, I’ll get the ‘cover up crew’ out… :p”
Jin and May are one of the main Power Lines of the Illuminati residing on earth! I KNEW IT @.@
[foil hat]
Illiad:
followed by: (Kay) All right, Beatrice, there was no alien. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
it will be the cops that show up, looking for illegal fireworks.
The same two cops are gonna show up – and they’re gonna react the same way to seeing Bud that Officer Buns did when he realised that the explosion he was investigating was Shally again…
Well Bud can no longer hit her main object of flustration. It’s now very squishy and tender at the moment.
i don’t think so.
talking with monica calmed her down somewhat. why would she still be frustraited at jin for killing herself.
i think she has other issues.
the immortality thing maybe? jin dying in the future.
she is almost a tapestry of angst!
She could still deck May for making it happen.
Well, this ain’t good.
Arr. That be a fine swing the wench have. Arr.
It’s talk like a pirate day already? I completely forgot.
happy tlap day
(one of the side effects tlap day has on me is i forget any and all pirate speech i may know….)
Some time ago, I played around with the idea of a version of the International Phonetic Alphabet for radio transmissions, but based on pirate speech.
A = Aye, or Arr
B = Bay
C = Cay
D = Day
E = Eye
F = Far
G = Gar
and so forth. I’m sure it would have caused great and amusing confusion, if Captains Blackbeard and Morgan had spent much time communicating by radio.
An idea ahead of its time, by gar!
continue please
i want to know how to spell-pronounce my name in pirate
Parrrla? Paularr?
Well, thanks to FairportFan’s information (what a wealth of obscure goodies he is!) I’d suggest going right to
Elephant Parts and see what Mr. Nesmith would suggest! He apparently worked it out, decades before the idea occurred to me (and I never did actually complete my own version, as my cohorts-in-radio thought it would be more confusing than otherwise, alas).
Actually, Mike Nesmith did that in Elephant Parts, back in 1981:
“Let’s all learn the pirate alphabet!”
Aye me harties! Swash me buckles! Haul some keel! Raise t’ giblets an lower t’ skirts! Arrr …
This site can help also:
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html
they can poit.
they should live in the countryside me thinks
hm I think she is far to wound up to think about anything else…
Product placement?
is it a real brand?
does it have the worm?
Real brand, no worm. Good mezcal usually doesn’t.
Some friends were discussing what happens if you eat the worm.
“Do you get a divine revelation?”
Another said “I ate the worm once, and I got a divine revelation – ‘Don’t eat the worm, dummy!’”
At that point it’s just pickled protein.
I think it’s a sign of how my parents raised me right that A) I’ve never seen a bottle of tequila that actually had a worm in it, and B) I can’t stomach the stuff that costs less than $50 per bottle.
They’re tequila snobs, and now so am I.
Yer tequila is safe.
You don’t put a gusano in a tequila bottle. You put it in a mezcal bottle.
A taste for Tequila may show just how Tepoz was keeping the GGG inebriated all those centuries.
er, no, a taste for tequila is what proves you are Mexican!! – they seem to drink it like water, to little or no effect!!
Often less effect than drinking the water.
(trot trot trot)
… except for the fact that Bud “isn’t” Mexican… which was sort of my point… (>^_^)>
um, well aren’t the ‘Golem girls’ basically Mayan/ Aztec?
my Portuguese friend showed me an ‘agua dente’ that was stronger than ‘mere’ tequila… 
:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan
I have known many Mexican, Spanish and Portuguese people, and find they share many things, including language and love of strong alcohol!
@illiad, Bud is from Greece or points east of there, as she has a definite Mediterranean accent. Alan noticed it immediately when he first met her during Jin’s first in-comic meltdown.
Besides, the Golem Girls predate the Mayans and Aztecs.
Illiad. Ever have Mama Juana?
Opus the Poet: thanks for the info
I couldn’t find anything much , ‘wapsi/about’ mentions aztecs, and most of the art etc is mayan…didn’t there used to be more details in the ‘cast’ section??
what came before the mayans?? the art and structures are similar…
Mama Juana? hmm sounds a good brew!
All I can tell you is that good Tequila will eat linoleum tiles if you leave it for an hour. (LOOONG Story involving “Mexican Martinis”)
It was probably the jugo de limon. Tequila ain’t that acidic (or caustic, for that matter), although Mexican martinis do make me thankful that God made Prilosec.
Huh. So when golf balls break the sound barrier, they explode. Twice.
Good to know.
I think it’s one boom when the shock wave passes you, then the second when the golf ball explodes. Less danger to aircraft and orbital installations.
….And, I didn’t realize they lived in a cool old Victorian house.
reminds me of the house in ‘charmed’
What does it say about me that it reminds me of the house from ‘The Addams Family’?
@Jabberwonky, it means your old enough to have watched The Addams Family. I watched it first run, then again in syndication repeats… also the Munsters (loved the Munsters’ Coach and Granpa’s Coffin
George Barris! King of the Kustomizers!
http://www.barris.com/
I find it hard to believe it would have even left her hand before disintegrating, let alone make it up that high and then exploding. It’s not like it was a CM crushed down into a little cube. Perhaps it was going so fast there was appreciable time dialation involved, so it existed long after it should have. Some solar particles are like that. They are going at such a large percentage of the speed of light, they make it to earth before decaying, even though their half-life says they should not be able to.
yeah, but the energy required for a relativistic golf ball would make hiroshima sound like a cap gun.
all she did was ionize the air and vaporize the ball. (boundary layer effects could have protected it that long…) and prolly blow all the windows in her building.
Yep, thought of that, too after noticing the nice house, the picturing all the window blown IN…
“then picturing”
$^&**^ gremlins
If it’s going fast enough it wouldn’t have time to burn up before leaving atmosphere. The glowing trail would be mostly stripped air atoms.
OTOH, no matter about that – if it’s going fast enough to make a sonic boom, her arm ought to make one, too.
hm, some kind of ‘magic physics’ at work… that amount of force has to push against something, it has to be canceled out, otherwise you would end up buried in the ground!!
Well, yes – apparently the GGGs have some sort of levitation capability so that they can do things like lifting up that anchor that would weigh tons while standing on a sand bar without sinking….
Maybe the tequila is to give Bud flatulance so that she can provide a counter-thrust…
(Yes, i’m a Bad Man. No need to tell me so.)
Wasn’t that a theme when Garion was learning magic in the Belgariad? To move the boulder, he also had to push equally at everything else–or all that force would (did) drive him into the ground…
Interesting you should mention that, Fairportfan! Something rather like this was actually tried, almost intentionally (and is the sort of thing your brother would write about). There was an interesting adventure during the Operation Plumbbob nuclear tests, when the Orion drive concept got field tested by accident. My own rap about this is here. The best guess of the guys on the ground was that the projectile would indeed be destroyed by the atmosphere.
SoWhyMe- I’ve seen a shadowgraph of a tack at mock 5.2 at low air desity, the tac is coming apart but it still chewed it way through 4 inches of duralin armor.
The only way I can rationalize the disintegration pattern is:
1)Bud magically protects the ball during acceleration so it doesn’t vaporize in her hand.
2)The pressure buildup ahead of the ball blows off the outer cover (first explosion) and ablatively protects what’s left.
3)The new pressure buildup blows the guts of the ball apart (second explosion) and ablatively protects the core.
4)The solid core flies on, vaporizing all the way.
All in all the furthest the last remnants of the ball goes is about 50 meters or so.
BTW it’s nowhere near relativistic speeds.
Probably less than 30kkph.
Heh-llo, are all you Guardians gonna start raving about the dangers of anger and alcohol now? I really want to hear this…
Nope. Not on my to-rave list for this month. Perhaps I could pencil it in for, say … November. Try to get it in before the holiday raving rush.
guardians?
we have guardians?
cool
But… We’re not a GAMING Comic!! Surely they won’t show up here?
I love Bud.
I wish I could do that when I’m pissed. XD
The NSA will probably recruit her as a new secret weapon … a golf ball rail gun super launcher fueled by tequila and rage!
AH!, you mean Possibly gift wrapping them for delivery to those people that Tepoz and others created the “Olmec Witness Protection Program” for to hide the GGG’s from in the first place?
… and a pert butt and racehorse legs.
Don’t forget those.
I just lost the game
Oh, I’m sorry. Was that your golf ball she just threw?
i actually thought she hit it!
i added a golf club to the strip in my head!!!
how did i do that?
If she did hit it with a golf club, considering the force we just saw applied, I doubt there’s a golf club left for ball #2.
losethegame.com
Leave. Before I send Shelly after you. I will not tolerate the game on Wapsi. >:{
it reminded me of Don’t Shoot the Puppy!”
Ahh..Brandy, happily oblivious to the drama that just unfolded.
Great way to resolve some anger-issues..although, come to think of it my Mom used to collect old plates, so she could smash them when she felt the need. I dunno if launching them in orbit ever crossed her mind..knowing my Mom, she probably did seriously ponder the thought. She prolly could too.
She was what’s often called “a stout woman”
Good Viking bloodline no doubt.
YUP! And my sis’ is a lot like her.
She used to “anger-Manage” via a giant ACME-type hammer (the wooden kind Tex Avery was so fond of) and some poles for the sheep-den.
Went a bit like this:
%$#@@$% *KBANG!!* … *&^%^&GRDRNT!! *KBANG!!* …. ^%$@##$$%% GRDRNIT .. *KBANG*
Lol
Sounds like my Bohemian grandmother. (First-generation US-born)
She came up to like my shoulder, and my dad was four inches taller than i am (and six inches taller than me his last year or two at home) … and all three of her kids, all her grandchildren and her husband walked light when she was upset.
If your mom had a good throwing arm, that might explain all those “flying saucer” myths going around.
Some German beer gardens (used to, at least) buy up factory second plates and other crockery for guests who are so stressed out that they have to break something…
Do you think that they got the idea from the Greeks??
A family friend (a psychotherapist) used to pick up batches of pottery “seconds” from a local ceramicist, for her clients to use for just this purpose.
Surely a man of your literary bent would be aware of Callahan’s Cross-time Saloon…? And the tradition there when making a toast… If not, surely get the to the punnery!
Reminds me of the time me and my buddies played grenade golf in the desert. LOL
With- or without pins?
(inquisitive mind would like to know)
Jay-Em- Some of my friends used those old round ball like practice grenades. Anyone who missed had to by the next case of beer. after a while the cases added up.
Monte Alban tequila? Ricardo would be honored…
That ain’t a bottle of Tiquila she’s has. Tis mezcal. A rougher cousin. And the sonic boom isn’t going to help the hangover.
OK back to jin…. Will Mon’s power of command still work on her?
Possibly not, but it doesn’t matter so much now.
did it ever?
sure it worked on Bud but she was 100% ‘made correctly’
Jin stated she would never knowing lie to monica but she didn’t tell the whole truth either
Kind of a major plot point that glyph control of the Chimera was always pretty flawed. Shutdown was possible, and always the safest action, because it/they Do Not Like garbage input.
Bud is lashing out partially because that is What She Does. Her choice in how to express it shows a truly burgeoning humanity, however.
Hah!
The cops’re gonna be back to talk to the crazy lady again, aren’t they?
I like the bokeh in the inset panel, BTW.
(The spellchecker suggested “bikini” for “bokeh”, BTW – i’d prolly have liked that, too, but it would have to be a bigger panel.)
More Brandi please!!!!
I rather like that angry, messy hair look for Bud. Gives her this pleasing animalistic look.
I wonder how Brandi is going to react to the news of Jin, given her general attitude of softness, will she be upset? Will she be happy for Jin?
Adjust her stance, and put a little more “Oomph!” into the follow-through.