OK, so again we have another one-off character who is not named in the character list. They mentioned a Mr. Shaw, who I’m assuming is the teacher from Friday, but the new guy in this strip appears to be someone different and also appears to be a different teacher (rather than being another student).
I had a full beard before I completed Junior High. On my first day of High School, an older student came up to me at lunch and asked me to sign a permission slip, because he thought I was 30 and a teacher…
This is the kind of language play that I have loved since childing a be. As someone saidly famous, “verbing weirds language,” and I am one of the world’s few people who can conjugate a noun.
A deliberately deceptive name the “Smoke Launcher” was a transportable launcher with 1 to as many as 6 tubes [10 to 32 cm in diameter,] that could fire Smoke or Poison Gas Rockets, or High Explosive . It was used by the Wehrmacht Nebeltruppen [“Smoke Troopers”] It was deployed in whhat was likely a violation of the Treaty of Vesailles. Although it’s name suggests otherwise, it’s low muzzle velocity meant a thinner shelled projectile, an a heavier explosive payload delivered on target then conventional artillery. [Or so says Wikipedia – usually reliable on topic that are not even peripherally political. ] Google Translate is even LESS helpful and renders Nebelwerfer as “Fog Lights.” https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/10cmNbW40.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/1898/43462228085_b184c4e45f_b.jpg
Sure. It’s what we called ’em in our armored combat type games, too. Just curious how the term entered the German class – unless they cover warfare, I guess? /shrug
BTW thanks for the further info. 🙂
Now I’m wondering if they’ll graduate with their class.
If it was anybody but Cass, I’d be wondering if she’ll _survive_ the class.
I had more in mind them being so disruptive that they’ll get expelled. How could you discipline either of them?
Dont you mean class with their graduate?
Nah, they’ll style with fail . . .
“Floor the vacuum.” Hmm…. *ding ding* AND IN THIS CORNER WE HAVE…
I didn’t know that either Catela or Daylla was a cat . . .
OK, so again we have another one-off character who is not named in the character list. They mentioned a Mr. Shaw, who I’m assuming is the teacher from Friday, but the new guy in this strip appears to be someone different and also appears to be a different teacher (rather than being another student).
Might be a dig at some pedant?
He’s Apollo’s great grandson. If he takes off those glasses, he transforms into an annoying nerd with the body of Michelangelo’s David.
Yes, sometimes, a story will have a character who is only in one scene, and never seen again, kinda like in Real Life
No, the pens in the pocket protector indicate a nerdy student.
The little goatee is probably because he’s a satyr or something similar…
It’s high school, facial hair happens. My sideburns met my moustache in my sophomore year!
I had a full beard before I completed Junior High. On my first day of High School, an older student came up to me at lunch and asked me to sign a permission slip, because he thought I was 30 and a teacher…
The vowels are not what they seem.
Eh? Oh! Uh… Ah! Ooh.
The rules of speech and spelling are CONSONANT-ly being changed…
This is the kind of language play that I have loved since childing a be. As someone saidly famous, “verbing weirds language,” and I am one of the world’s few people who can conjugate a noun.
Striply love! <3
Not that I’m the grammar police or anything, but “Werfer” is actually a noun. It means “thrower”. The verb is “werfen” (to throw).
Beschlagen Sie der Werfer! (“Fog the thrower!” but my German is VERY rusty, and the grammar may be wrong.)
Reminds me of Digby’s quote: “I have my Flammenwerfer, with which I can werf flammen”
https://youtu.be/8ID4JBkjXMk?t=74
Introduce this guy to Barb and Mindy. They’ll out-nerd him in a heartbeat.
You scruffy-looking herdnerfer!
That’s it, ladies; just freely Yoda-talk and mess with the poor bastard… Give him a complex, you will
Hey there is a word typo on the last… eh nevermind.
Admittedly, I’d be the bearded dude. I can be an even worse pendant sometimes.
Did Paul just do a little self-insert? Hmmmmm.
Despite her sister’s “Nuke from Orbit” comment, I think ‘Stella is the one most likely to be able to “Smoke the Launcher”
Smoke projector, as in combat, right?
How’d that come up?
A deliberately deceptive name the “Smoke Launcher” was a transportable launcher with 1 to as many as 6 tubes [10 to 32 cm in diameter,] that could fire Smoke or Poison Gas Rockets, or High Explosive . It was used by the Wehrmacht Nebeltruppen [“Smoke Troopers”] It was deployed in whhat was likely a violation of the Treaty of Vesailles. Although it’s name suggests otherwise, it’s low muzzle velocity meant a thinner shelled projectile, an a heavier explosive payload delivered on target then conventional artillery. [Or so says Wikipedia – usually reliable on topic that are not even peripherally political. ] Google Translate is even LESS helpful and renders Nebelwerfer as “Fog Lights.”
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/10cmNbW40.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/1898/43462228085_b184c4e45f_b.jpg
Sure. It’s what we called ’em in our armored combat type games, too. Just curious how the term entered the German class – unless they cover warfare, I guess? /shrug
BTW thanks for the further info. 🙂
Pfft, I missed the cartoon before. /doh 😀
It would definitely be an interesting class if some of the others join into the discussion.