♪♫♪ You’ve got to know when to poit ♫♪
know when to not poit
know when to getcher mail, and
know when to run ♪♪♪
You nev-er stand there gloating
while Mo-ther Nature’s watching
there’ll be time enough for gloating
when you’re mission’s done. ♪♫♪
I heard the girls saying something
The captains tell they pay you well
And they say they need glyph readers to
Show the way, down the walk today
Was it you that said ‘How long, how long?’
They say the sky turns do dark and
You see the flag, (a running gag)
They say the point is Golem guarded
To retrieve the box, we’ll send the fox
Was it you that said ‘How long, how long,
How long to the poit of know return’
Your barista, she says she needs you
Your librarian, she says she loves you
Your sisters echo your words
‘How long to the poit of know return?’ (oh, oh, how long, how long)
Today I found a mound of snow that
Had two feet, from underneath
And they say that you can’t hear it
The snowball that has your name
Was it you that said ‘How long, how long, how long,
To the poit of know return?’
Wait a minnit!
Jin backwards is Nij, which is all too close to Nudge…have we seen the two of them in the same room?
I know they had a conversation, which led to the Jazz Hands strip, but did we see Nudge or the collective?
If it was from Acme, it must have been the fusion powered snow repulser she ordered. Apparently someone put the silly thing in reverse before shipment.
If it was vacuum tubes, here’s hoping they were well packed.
Come to think of it, if it was the tubes, and given her on again-off again poiting reentry skills, going to fetch it by hand may have been the bettter alternative.
She got her vacuum tubes! I think she is having a poiting snow fight with someone. I mean, that burst of snow came in on a trajectory from somewhere. Next time maybe she’ll fasten the chinstrap on her helmet. Perhaps it’s Nudge in payback for the 13,000 feet caper she pulled.
The advice as to whether to fasten or not fasten the chin strap on the helmet has changed back and forth; as i recall, when i was in Viet Nam, the advice was to not fasten it, because (A) a glancing hit on the helmet that failed to penetrate could wrench your neck, and (B) with the strap fastened and holding the helmet more nearly motionless, hits that otherwise might glance off might penetrate…
I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure being hit by snow clumps was not in the training for SE Asian combat zones. Thatnotwithstanding, I would go with buckled in this instance, given the magnitude and nature of the ordinance and the angle of the strike. All in all, however, I would have gone with a football helmet instead. She must be one of the few with an old style military helmet lying about. Perhaps from G’Pa. I guess ya go with whatcha got.
Not if you’re used to the cold. My father worked on the DEW line as a young man and tells tales of his Native Indian neighbors outside in shorts and tee shirts at 35 degrees.
I live in RI which isn’t the coldest of the NE states but still gets pretty brisk. I live near URI and work not far from RISD. The uniform of the day for most of the students I see (male and female) are shorts, tank tops and flipflops. With the occaisional Elmer Fudd hat to top it off. Nice to be young and impervious.
When I was kid, only reason to stop wearing flipflops in winter was because they had no traction. Plus, Monica’s geared up (or stripped down) for quick in/out extraction. Unfortunately, General Winter was ready for her.
Reference my earlier post about what a pain in the backside it is to dress for the weather and why us northerners look like nut jobs in the pre-spring.
“After that, the weather starts warming up again, and we get a little crazy, since we just survived another midwinter. We’re ready for water, mud, and even colors other than black and white (even cars and houses get dingy because of road salt and too much snow). So as it warms up, we ditch the gear as fast as possible. Around 27 degrees the hats and gloves become optional. ”
Man, the 40′s is warm right now! I pray for the 40′s! That doesn’t even protect us. It was in the 40′s yesterday and it STILL SNOWED. I wish the jokes about snow on this comic were hilariously exaggerated…
Totally believable–in the Twin Cities, since it’s March. As someone noted, in October, though…
You do really acclimatize a lot over winter. All those near-zero (or below) days gotta be good for something. Besides keeping the mosquitoes down, I mean.
I will have to admit that this has probably been the mildest winter I’ve ever experienced. We haven’t gotten below 35 or 36 all season. The winters in San Antonio aren’t this mild. (please, no hate mail)
I would soooo kill to have Monica as a replacement character for my Soldier in TF2. I think it would just be bloody hilarious. A barely 5′ tall squirt carrying around a rocket launcher as big as herself. Heck, the rocket jump animations would be a hoot. She just fires it downwards and holds on for dear life, lol.
I see Tina as more of a Sniper than Alan, who I think would be the engineer. Shelly could be Demolition. Though Dietzel would be good as any of those three.
There is a wonderful young woman is currently working on creating an entire set of replacement characters for TF2, but befitting the art style that is currently in place. Currently, she has done the Medic, Heavy, and the Spy. As seen in these links. http://www.gamebanana.com/skins/90532
I personally can’t wait for her takes on the soldier and sniper. I would just laugh myself to death (probably literally, with my death rate in the game) every time the female soldier yelled out “Maggots!”
Who bloody cares about the specifics, soldier. Whatever the coordinates ,they are in our general direction. ……FWIUUUUUUU..DOONK!..KER-BLAFFF!!!!! Say..what’s that smell..that ain’t cordite..ehh soldier??? Nooo Don’t tell me you just…
At first I thought is was smoke, like the package exploded? On the California coast we are not as familiar with snow. Sound could make it a little easier to recognize for those not as haunted by this strange substance.
Could you please send a little bit of the snow over to central europe? We had a very poor winter and last week spring comes with might. We have about 50° Fahrenheit right now.
Hah! Yeah, something similar happened here in Winnipeg on Friday afternoon. After 2-3 days of lovely mild weather, we get a blizzard. A highway-closing, sidewalk-erasing blizzard. A meteorological kick to our collective crotch.
I find it odd she didn’t just teleport whatever it is from the box to her.
Or at least attempt doing so.
Too slow, Private! *sniff* I love the smell of fresh powder in the morning!
Damn that snow-missile… it’ll get you every time.
But yeah… why didn’t she poit?
There is a very important reason why she didn’t Poit.
It wouldn’t be funny.
you need to know it to poit.. and the sudden dissapearance of her mail box would cause questions, to say nothing about putting it back again!!
♪♫♪ You’ve got to know when to poit ♫♪
know when to not poit
know when to getcher mail, and
know when to run ♪♪♪
You nev-er stand there gloating
while Mo-ther Nature’s watching
there’ll be time enough for gloating
when you’re mission’s done. ♪♫♪
umm, “your mission” dooky!!
Aims snowball assault at “WAY worse then Pun” Song… still LOL
ROFLMAO!!!
Duuude….
I heard the girls saying something
The captains tell they pay you well
And they say they need glyph readers to
Show the way, down the walk today
Was it you that said ‘How long, how long?’
They say the sky turns do dark and
You see the flag, (a running gag)
They say the point is Golem guarded
To retrieve the box, we’ll send the fox
Was it you that said ‘How long, how long,
How long to the poit of know return’
Your barista, she says she needs you
Your librarian, she says she loves you
Your sisters echo your words
‘How long to the poit of know return?’
(oh, oh, how long, how long)
Today I found a mound of snow that
Had two feet, from underneath
And they say that you can’t hear it
The snowball that has your name
Was it you that said ‘How long, how long, how long,
To the poit of know return?’
*mout hanging open* EPIC!
Does everyone on this forum compose killer filk songs in their spare time?
I am not worthy….
OMG! I’m almost falling out of my chair! You two are too two funny punny!
Mother Nature gets her payback from earlier…
I was thinking the same THING!! XD
I would still LOVE for Mother Nature to get an appearance in this comic… >>
Mother Nature has a sniper rifle.
Mother Nature has a sniper cannon.
Mother Nature has a Tactical Tomahawk missile!!
Mother Nature has Wea… No correction, IS a Weapon of Mass Destruction !!!
“It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature!”
*splutt*
You think Gaia exists in Wapsi? Or could that have been one of Jin’s aliases?
Could be. After all, Gia is Jin spelled backwards and inside out.
Wait a minnit!
Jin backwards is Nij, which is all too close to Nudge…have we seen the two of them in the same room?
I know they had a conversation, which led to the Jazz Hands strip, but did we see Nudge or the collective?
Explosion-of-the-month club?
Apparently Monica got a package from ACME Corp.
wascally wabbit
cept jin is with alan :p
actually acme is roadrunner isnt it *sigh*
that realisation killed my lame joke…
Close enough.
Wiley had some run ins with Bugs once or thrice. It could happen.
actually the ACME mail order company of WallaWalla Washington was used at least once by every character except for Beaky Buzzard and Taz (I think)
If it was from Acme, it must have been the fusion powered snow repulser she ordered. Apparently someone put the silly thing in reverse before shipment.
If it was vacuum tubes, here’s hoping they were well packed.
Come to think of it, if it was the tubes, and given her on again-off again poiting reentry skills, going to fetch it by hand may have been the bettter alternative.
Exactly! They might have ended in very “inconvenient” bodily places…
By the by ,Mother nature has Predator Drones with “snowfire”missiles…
Well packed… like Monica in that shirt???
She got her vacuum tubes! I think she is having a poiting snow fight with someone. I mean, that burst of snow came in on a trajectory from somewhere. Next time maybe she’ll fasten the chinstrap on her helmet. Perhaps it’s Nudge in payback for the 13,000 feet caper she pulled.
The advice as to whether to fasten or not fasten the chin strap on the helmet has changed back and forth; as i recall, when i was in Viet Nam, the advice was to not fasten it, because (A) a glancing hit on the helmet that failed to penetrate could wrench your neck, and (B) with the strap fastened and holding the helmet more nearly motionless, hits that otherwise might glance off might penetrate…
I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure being hit by snow clumps was not in the training for SE Asian combat zones. Thatnotwithstanding, I would go with buckled in this instance, given the magnitude and nature of the ordinance and the angle of the strike. All in all, however, I would have gone with a football helmet instead. She must be one of the few with an old style military helmet lying about. Perhaps from G’Pa. I guess ya go with whatcha got.
Perhaps Dietzl was lying in wait with a snow bazooka?
In Wapsi land that’s a good an explanation as any.
Go Dietzel! Go Dietzel!
Just a late season snow flurry….
At a 45 degree angle on a windless day?
Yep.
It’s Minnesota, after all. ^_^
???
Difficult to run when you’re top heavy!
WAY cool gravatar….
Totally unbelievable. It’s in the 40s, and she’s wearing tanktop and shorts?
Not if you’re used to the cold. My father worked on the DEW line as a young man and tells tales of his Native Indian neighbors outside in shorts and tee shirts at 35 degrees.
Native American Indian neighbors…
I live in RI which isn’t the coldest of the NE states but still gets pretty brisk. I live near URI and work not far from RISD. The uniform of the day for most of the students I see (male and female) are shorts, tank tops and flipflops. With the occaisional Elmer Fudd hat to top it off. Nice to be young and impervious.
When I was kid, only reason to stop wearing flipflops in winter was because they had no traction. Plus, Monica’s geared up (or stripped down) for quick in/out extraction. Unfortunately, General Winter was ready for her.
Reference my earlier post about what a pain in the backside it is to dress for the weather and why us northerners look like nut jobs in the pre-spring.
“After that, the weather starts warming up again, and we get a little crazy, since we just survived another midwinter. We’re ready for water, mud, and even colors other than black and white (even cars and houses get dingy because of road salt and too much snow). So as it warms up, we ditch the gear as fast as possible. Around 27 degrees the hats and gloves become optional. ”
Here in Minnesota, it’s called the “40 Degree Rule.”
When it gets up to 40, people start wearing shorts.
When it gets down to 40, people start wearing parkas.
Man, the 40′s is warm right now! I pray for the 40′s! That doesn’t even protect us. It was in the 40′s yesterday and it STILL SNOWED. I wish the jokes about snow on this comic were hilariously exaggerated…
40′s is almost warm enough to think about going to the lake for the first time!
There’s at least one postal worker in Alaska who makes his rounds while topless.
Shoot when I lived in South Dakota 40 degrees was sun bathing time! Just not for too long! 3 days of 40+ mean it is shorts and open jacket time!
Totally believable–in the Twin Cities, since it’s March. As someone noted, in October, though…
You do really acclimatize a lot over winter. All those near-zero (or below) days gotta be good for something. Besides keeping the mosquitoes down, I mean.
I will have to admit that this has probably been the mildest winter I’ve ever experienced. We haven’t gotten below 35 or 36 all season. The winters in San Antonio aren’t this mild.
(please, no hate mail)
I would soooo kill to have Monica as a replacement character for my Soldier in TF2. I think it would just be bloody hilarious. A barely 5′ tall squirt carrying around a rocket launcher as big as herself. Heck, the rocket jump animations would be a hoot. She just fires it downwards and holds on for dear life, lol.
Bloody being the operative word.
I second that patch!
Monica – Soldier
Jin – Spy
Dietzel – Engineer
Lakshimi – Heavy
Bud – Pyro
Georgette – Scout
Brandi – Medic
Still need Sniper and Demoman…
Alan and Kevin?
I see Tina as more of a Sniper than Alan, who I think would be the engineer. Shelly could be Demolition. Though Dietzel would be good as any of those three.
There is a wonderful young woman is currently working on creating an entire set of replacement characters for TF2, but befitting the art style that is currently in place. Currently, she has done the Medic, Heavy, and the Spy. As seen in these links. http://www.gamebanana.com/skins/90532
http://www.gamebanana.com/skins/90529
http://www.gamebanana.com/skins/107782
I personally can’t wait for her takes on the soldier and sniper. I would just laugh myself to death (probably literally, with my death rate in the game) every time the female soldier yelled out “Maggots!”
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/fastrack/aboutMain.htm
Ahh
See thats the downfall to playing snowball fights with the golem girls
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2011/02/27/
“I got it! I got it!!!” {WHAM!} Oh yeah, she got it…
(Looks like someone else here grew up on the output of “Termite Terrace” on the Warner Brothers Lot.)
Or Pogo – from one of the “Whirled Series” strips…
Albert goes deep on a long fly:
“I got it! I got it! I go*uucccckkk!”
Bloody awful earthquake just happened 2 1/2 hours ago in Japan. 8.9 with aftershocks, tsunamis.
I heard about that on the radio on my way in to work this morning. I’ll have to dig around for news now that I’m at a computer…
Today’s Funky is a strange bit of accidental synchronicity.
Villarreal, you fool! The flag is left up to tell the postman that there is something to pick up. When s/he delivers, s/he puts it down.
Obviously, since the flag was up, the Snow Sniper was using it for a distance/sight line marker. And you fell for it!
Aaaand..thr running-gag is baaack…
This really made my day….
A not-running-fast-enough joke…
That and standing there and gloating. Never gloat while you’re in the line of fire.
Still, one has to cut her some slack since her stride is shortened for a couple of obvious reasons:
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/delayedreaction/
And I thought you were making short jokes…
http://betweenfailures.com/archive/660-get-over-here/
HA! that was a good one, those two have a good dynamic as twins. My only problem is i can never tell how to read that last line….
Newton’s Laws of Motion and female anatomy?
Coordinates 45-17-250, 72-21-310. Range 300m. Fire for effect.
Damnit, soldier! that’s MY house!!
Snow drop from orbit – it’s the only way to be sure…
…of a good rainfall.
This has to be my all time favorite weather related strip in this comic!
Coordinates 45-17-250, 72-21-310. Range 300m. Fire for effect.
–Wouldn’t that be more 37-24-30? Anyway,
INCOMING
Who bloody cares about the specifics, soldier. Whatever the coordinates ,they are in our general direction. ……FWIUUUUUUU..DOONK!..KER-BLAFFF!!!!! Say..what’s that smell..that ain’t cordite..ehh soldier??? Nooo Don’t tell me you just…
Heheheh.
CaptXpendable: My Compliments on your Avatar.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ha! Nailed her!…………………medic!
Orbital Snow Strike!
What?!?! No sound effects?!?! (Remember the infamous “deedle-deedle-deedle”?)
At first I thought is was smoke, like the package exploded? On the California coast we are not as familiar with snow. Sound could make it a little easier to recognize for those not as haunted by this strange substance.
He’s describing Utah weather there…
Thats true. A good “KER-GLOMPH!” right then would have been appropriate.
Did it again. That should have gone with kaibyo’s comment above.
INCOMING!
No Monica. Savor your victory when you’re inside. Took her eye off the ball and got hit by the bat, to mangle a metaphor.
Paul, Panel 4 is unbearably sexy, with Monica’s breast lightly touching the mailbox lid and the corner of bra showing out of the tanktop. Good job.
A good hormone rush is worth at least three cups of coffee, which is especially nice for me because I don’t drink coffee.
New reason for Coffee Celibacy. Start here for the story.
http://www.pvponline.com/2011/02/22/trouble-brewing-2/
There’s still some nice, wet snow on the ground. Toss it back at the sky. Let nature know that we’ve had enough!
Mother Nature uses “Law Of Gravity.”
Ker-PLOOSH!!
It’s super effective!
As my boss is fond to telling us “Move out, draw fire.”
When did the Twin Cities get moved to southern middle/central Minnesota?
No, no–that’s the OTHER twin cities.
And I’ve got the Fraternal Twin cities a little north of me. (Neenah/Menasha, yay.)
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/05122005/
Yup! She got it. I see the Weather War continues!
Could you please send a little bit of the snow over to central europe? We had a very poor winter and last week spring comes with might. We have about 50° Fahrenheit right now.
Medic!
For those who might be interested, ComicMix is conducting a “March Madness” poll for webcomics.
At the moment, both Girl Genius and Pibgorn are behind.
You can see the bracket and the voting (and vote, hint hint) at ComicMix…
(I’m not sure when voting ends, but i just cast a couple of ballots…)
Yup, she got it…
Serpentine, Von Ryan!
Cool, WWII boots. I have a pair.
Hah! Yeah, something similar happened here in Winnipeg on Friday afternoon. After 2-3 days of lovely mild weather, we get a blizzard. A highway-closing, sidewalk-erasing blizzard. A meteorological kick to our collective crotch.