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by Paul Taylor on February 22, 2011 at 12:00 am
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  1. txmystic
    February 22, 2011, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    uh-oh…time to summon the creepy girl for a walk down those dark stairs in the back of the boiler room…

    • NOTDilbert
      February 22, 2011, 12:44 am | # | Reply

      Yep. I bet there’s more than jars of preserves down there….

      • Paula
        February 22, 2011, 1:44 am | #

        preserved angst..
        not good 🙁

      • Jay-Em
        February 22, 2011, 2:03 am | #

        If it’s anything like Monica’s demons ,we’re in for a treat *cowers under magic protective blanket*

      • Julie
        February 22, 2011, 8:57 am | #

        Actually it’s quite tasty served on buttered bread. 🙂

      • Paula
        February 23, 2011, 1:41 am | #

        haha i like 😀

  2. Cheesy1
    February 22, 2011, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Lay down on the couch and tell Dr. Bud all about it!

    • Jim
      February 22, 2011, 6:48 am | # | Reply

      What you said.

    • bmonk
      February 22, 2011, 3:10 pm | # | Reply

      I’d rather lie down on the couch than find my corner before the bell dings to start the next round.

  3. ProleBoi
    February 22, 2011, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Would this be a job for Conscience? I’m really wondering where this is going… diggin’ where things have been taking us the last few weeks.

    • SoWhyMe
      February 22, 2011, 12:56 am | # | Reply

      Me too.

      I’m not sure GC knows much more than Shelly. It’s more a job for an outside observer.

      • SoWhyMe
        February 22, 2011, 12:58 am | #

        CG

  4. Amishrakefight
    February 22, 2011, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Hmmm….
    My earliest memory? As a three year tell my mom I “bought” a roll of rolaids. And the resulting butt thrashing I got when I got home. I’m past fifty so back then it wasn’t child abuse.

    • TlalocW
      February 22, 2011, 12:38 am | # | Reply

      Mine is lying in my crib, so I was between 1 and 2, playing with a Mego Superman doll. It was morning because the sun was streaming through the east window. I was pulling off the S sticker on the costume and playing with it.

    • SoWhyMe
      February 22, 2011, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      The earliest memory I can actually share here was trying to pull something down from a shelf and having it land on top of me. I have no idea how old I was though.

    • Jay-Em
      February 22, 2011, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      Earliest? My lightblue baby bath and ehm ahem..what I “produced”while sitting in it. Let’s just say that breaking wind sometimes has unforeseen yucky results.

    • Fairportfan
      February 22, 2011, 1:24 am | # | Reply

      The earliest memory i can date was holding the jar of paint for my Dad while he touched up the license plate the year Ohio didn’t issue new plates because of steel shortages during the Korean War…

      (Plates in those days were only made to last one year, and tended to begin rusting by the end of the year.)

    • quasarmogul
      February 22, 2011, 1:42 am | # | Reply

      My earliest memory was falling up the stairs as a three year old.

      • SoWhyMe
        February 22, 2011, 2:13 pm | #

        Wait … falling up the stairs?

      • Julie
        February 22, 2011, 5:16 pm | #

        I do that all the time. 🙂 In fact, I’m more likely to fall up the stairs than down them. *shrugs* I’m special.

    • kramegame
      February 22, 2011, 3:37 am | # | Reply

      my earliest memory is being taught how to play Super Mario 64 by my father. I don’t remember him specifically, but i remember feeling his presence as he watched me play. I was 4 when he bought it. He was the one who got me hooked on video games, and every time I play anything Nintendo, I feel him watching over me… I swear to this day he is the only reason I can pick up anything Mario related and be amazing my first time playing. XD For example, Mario golf, on the hardest par 3, it was raining, wind was at max, there was a bet on who could get closest to the pin. My cousin who had months of play time over me, got it within 2 feet of the pin, and got up to celebrate his victory. I calmly aimed my shot off the tee, and watched as it dropped directly into the hole…my cousin refused to talk to me for the three days i was in his home, but it was utterly worth it. =P

    • txmystic
      February 22, 2011, 7:17 am | # | Reply

      Pulling myself up in a crib to admire a nightlight…

    • Akamar
      February 22, 2011, 7:48 am | # | Reply

      Crawling around in some ugly ass shag carpeting and looking up at one of my folks. I can’t recall who, as my vision was kind of blurry, but I suspect mom or dad..

    • Julie
      February 22, 2011, 9:03 am | # | Reply

      I’m not sure what my earliest memory is because I have a jumble of memories from the house I lived in from age 18 mos through 4 1/2 years. I do have a vivid memory of being at a neighbor’s house (they had a trampoline) and going to the restroom. While there, I dropped the toilet paper roll, and instead of rolling it back up, I tore off all the tp that had come unrolled and tossed it in the toilet. When the flood began, I ran from their home without telling anyone that I was leaving or what I’d done.

    • choronzonseyes
      February 22, 2011, 11:17 am | # | Reply

      See now these are good old fashioned first memories! And mostly that is all there is too it. I get really wary when folks scribe more to them then what just was. Still I am just being wary. My first btw was seeing my baby sitter and her boyfriend necking in our living room. About 8 months I guess as I was laing flat and looking back at them. And yes you can have memories as early as 4 months as this is when beinning memory is established, by 8 months you should be on your way. The only reason we dont remember things ths young is that they are rarely worth remembering… those two wrestling must have counted LOL.

    • bmonk
      February 22, 2011, 3:11 pm | # | Reply

      I think my earliest first memory is having chicken pox when I was about two. I have more definite memories from when I was 4-6.

    • Opus the Poet
      February 22, 2011, 4:54 pm | # | Reply

      My earliest memory I was 3 in Argentia digging like a dog in the neighbor’s flower bed, because I liked to dig in the dirt and she had the only real “dirt” in town. I also remember watching “Bugs Bunny” right before “Hockey Night in Canada”, and how much I disliked Reader’s Digest condensed books because I couldn’t relate to the stories.

    • ProleBoi
      February 22, 2011, 8:57 pm | # | Reply

      Y’know, now that I come to think about it, my first memory’s kind of funny, since it’s a definite memory of something that didn’t happen. I was probably a year (or so) old, lying on my back in the middle of my parents’ bed, when a horrible sensation made me look at the ceiling light fixture, which started to descend towards me. I rolled off the bed, and realized there was something in the closet…breathing. Then I woke up. My first memory is having a nighmare; go figure. But I still remember it clearly enough, even today. Funny, huh?

    • Danzier
      February 22, 2011, 11:42 pm | # | Reply

      I distinctly recall running screaming into the house, telling my mom that the boy next door had “killed” Raggedy Andy by burying him in the sandbox…in the background the Tractor Man (farmer) next door was asking the boy what he’d done that for. Mom resurrected Andy, but I never played with him again because he was dead. I was almost two.

  5. NOTDilbert
    February 22, 2011, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    For ome reason, it looks like Bud is making the Scary Face as she asks about her earliest memory in the last panel – maybe it’s the wide open eyes…

    • NOTDilbert
      February 22, 2011, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      “some reason”

    • Jabberwonky
      February 22, 2011, 12:58 am | # | Reply

      Best scary face, ever.

      • NOTDilbert
        February 22, 2011, 1:35 am | #

        Yeah, but kinda defused by the giggle fit afterwords.

      • Jay-Em
        February 22, 2011, 2:06 am | #

        Indeed. Now THAT is a scary face…

  6. DJ
    February 22, 2011, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Can creepy girl come out to play now?

  7. Little Sister
    February 22, 2011, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    I think that it is good to get these issues out and dealt with.

    • SoWhyMe
      February 22, 2011, 1:03 am | # | Reply

      True, but it must be someone you trust very much. Otherwise the universe WILL use what you say against you.

      • Fairportfan
        February 22, 2011, 6:12 am | #

        The universe will always use what you say against you.

      • Danzier
        February 22, 2011, 11:45 pm | #

        You have the privilege (sp) to remain silent. Anything that comes out your mouth will be used against you, and you only hope it’ll only be in a court of law. The Universe does not recognize attourneys and you therefore don’t get one, regardless of cost. All judgements by the Universe are final until revoked by 300 or more years of historical misrepresentation.
        😀

  8. SoWhyMe
    February 22, 2011, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    On top of everything else her family made sure she carried the weight of having to maintain the heritage of her people. They made sure she kept a chip on her shoulder over past treatment of her ancestors. Basically living in that past and transferring it onto her to make that chip even heavier. It’s all very nice to know where you came from, but to pile it on your children from birth is not right. Better to let them have as free a childhood as possible and introduce them to all that when they are more mature. To me, letting your race or ancestory define you is the biggest life mistake you can make. Well, that and ever trying jalapeño raspberry sherbert.

    • NOTDilbert
      February 22, 2011, 12:46 am | # | Reply

      Chipotle bannana ripple.

      • Jay-Em
        February 22, 2011, 1:12 am | #

        Ayayayay..they both sound like tonsils hissing while they quickly burn away.

        Got another one: Ajam Sambal..chicken filet in a suspicious red sauce, only sniffing it makes You already tear-up. It’ll first grow hair on Your chest, and in the same breath it will singe them to ashes..

      • SoWhyMe
        February 22, 2011, 1:18 am | #

        Lucky for the ladies.

      • Jay-Em
        February 22, 2011, 1:25 am | #

        😆 unless they go for hairy… Thén Ajam Sambal is a bit of a bummer..

      • Danzier
        February 22, 2011, 11:47 pm | #

        Unless you ARE one…

      • Julie
        February 22, 2011, 11:40 am | #

        Actually, I’d say that jalepeno raspberry sherbet sounds good…and chipotle banana ripple has potential too. 🙂 But then I like spicy sweet combinations.

      • sq_rigger
        February 22, 2011, 5:12 pm | #

        I was given some habanero peanut brittle once. It was in my mouth for about two seconds and my tongue was on fire for two days.

    • Jay-Em
      February 22, 2011, 1:22 am | # | Reply

      Very good observation about that “piling-up”on Your kids.
      I always wondered what the use was of burdening Your kids with Your hatred for things done to ancestors by someone else’s ancestors in the past.

      Stuff like that leads often to blood feuds. Not a good thing.

      It is much more useful to use that negative energy to fight current misdeeds towards one’s people.

      If my parents had pulled that schtick, I would be totally hateful towards Germans and The French.

      My family got thinned-out at the battle of the Grebbeberg in WWII, and my earlier ancestors had to flee France in the 17th century when Hugenots were persecuted.

      • NOTDilbert
        February 22, 2011, 1:39 am | #

        I like George Carlan’s observation: Why bother to hate certain people as a group when there’s so many perfectly good reasons to hate people on an INDIVIDUAL basis?

      • Julie
        February 22, 2011, 11:50 am | #

        *like*

      • SoWhyMe
        February 22, 2011, 2:02 am | #

        Yep, EVERYBODY’S ancestors were slaughtered/abused/maligned/enslaved at some point in history. What counts is now. The rest was another generation in another world. Nice to know, but not nice to endlessly obsess over. The past gnerations had their turn at bat. The world belongs to the new generations now. Tomorrow belongs to the young. It always has.

      • Jay-Em
        February 22, 2011, 2:13 am | #

        Exactly. Somewhere i read a saying: It is dangerous to walk forwards with one’s head srewed on backwards, because You will be unable to see the stone in front of You that you are about to stumble over

      • ProleBoi
        February 22, 2011, 9:01 pm | #

        Actually, my ancestors were always treated kindly by everyone. It was a horrible burden, and one we’re sworn to avenge.

    • Fairportfan
      February 22, 2011, 1:36 am | # | Reply

      I don’t see that – i think that she decided that she was going to recapture that past. I often regret that my great-grandparents and grandparents were so bent on assimilating that the only Bohemian my Dad knew was cuss words and i don’t even know that much.

      • SoWhyMe
        February 22, 2011, 1:52 am | #

        Good for them. One of the great things about coming to America was the ability to start fresh, if you wanted to. The ability to drop all that baggage from the old country and make life what you wanted it to be. To be American and not burdened by where you came from. Some never did, as evidenced by the “little” places like Little China (China Town) and Little Italy, Little Havana. Today we have Little Mexicos springing up everywhere. What’s the point if you are going to become a perpetual tourist in your newly adopted country?

      • Fairportfan
        February 22, 2011, 3:36 am | #

        I don’t say that people shouldn’t fit in – but among the biggest problems this country has its insistence that (A) it’s the greatest country in the world just because it is and (B) that other cultures (and their languages) are not worth knowing anything else about because [see (A)].

        I would really like to know something (more than i do, which is more than most USAians usually do) about the places and the cultures my ancestors came from.

      • Akamar
        February 22, 2011, 7:54 am | #

        I don’t think they’re driving at abandoning culture… the point they seem to be indicating is don’t shuffle your racial baggage onto your kids. Cultural heritage can be fun and an interesting addition to self. But inherited racism doesn’t help anyone.

      • Atomic
        February 22, 2011, 9:30 am | #

        Yes! The “Melting Pot” isn’t the right analogy — it’s more of a Stew. We all keep our selves and out identities, but adopt and blend with those around us as well. It’s exactly like in the story 100% American.

        I’m able to choose from the best of the world’s products and the world’s cultures for my own and go with what works, no matter the source. And when somebody challenges me on that, I can honestly reply: “I”m an American — I’m from Everywhere!”

      • bmonk
        February 22, 2011, 3:14 pm | #

        Of course, some of the people living in the “Little Chinas” or “Little Italy” didn’t have a lot of choice about living there, or facing prejudice when they went outside the neighborhood to work or do just about anything. Such experiences didn’t exactly encourage them to adapt faster to their new country either.

      • Fairportfan
        February 22, 2011, 4:00 pm | #

        Leslie Charteris (creator of the Saint) had to get a special Act of Congress to allow him and his daughter to emigrate to the US and take citizenship.

        His full birth name was Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin; his father was Chinese, his mother English. That made him ineligible to become a legal resident (much less a citizen) of the US under the Chinese Exclusion Acts…

        This despite the fact that he was more British than anything else, that he was a well-paid Hollywood and radio writer, yatata yatata …

        But his father was Chinese.

        So he was unfit to be a US resident.

      • SoWhyMe
        February 22, 2011, 4:30 pm | #

        Different time, different world. So what’s their excuse now?

    • txmystic
      February 22, 2011, 7:25 am | # | Reply

      There are some who believe that ancestral wounds are written in genetic memory, so to undo that one must really focus…

    • kingklash
      February 24, 2011, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

      Y’know, a lot of cultural problems can be easily cured by a big bowl of stew, and a fresh piece of frybread. the rest require a second helping. Then pie.

  9. Jay-Em
    February 22, 2011, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    Wow! Shelly suddenly has a mental growth-spurt.
    “Aknowledging You have a problem, is the first and most important step”

    It’s very boring and over-used, but it doesn’t change the truth of it.

  10. StJason
    February 22, 2011, 1:29 am | # | Reply

    Creepy Girl? No. I have a hunch that this is more about Bud then about Shelly.

  11. Fairportfan
    February 22, 2011, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    Reminds me of the “Desktop Pythoniser” – a bit of Monty Python silliness that made a clickable link of every four-pixel (or whatever was the minimum size) area on your desktop.

    • Fairportfan
      February 22, 2011, 1:32 am | # | Reply

      That was supposed to be a reply to the post with the clickable period.

      • Fairportfan
        February 22, 2011, 1:34 am | #

        Did i imagine that post – or did it vanish as i was typing?

      • NOTDilbert
        February 22, 2011, 1:40 am | #

        Haunted Computer Syndrome.

      • Jay-Em
        February 22, 2011, 1:55 am | #

        Nah, it has transmogrified into “ever.”

        My answer also dissipated into thin air..weird…(theremin sound in the background)

      • SoWhyMe
        February 22, 2011, 2:09 am | #

        Happened to me as well. The screen spontaneously refreshed in the middle of typing a reply and it was gone.

      • Jabberwonky
        February 22, 2011, 3:44 am | #

        I typed it, so I know it was there. Maybe the keyboard gremilins help ya out once in while….

    • Jabberwonky
      February 22, 2011, 3:52 am | # | Reply

      I loved the Pyhoniser! I’d leave the keyboard sounds on to tell if the other goons in my dept. were logging in to do thier surfing. If the random fart noises didn’t alert you the cries of “Steve! How do you turn this GD thing off!” would…

      • Jabberwonky
        February 22, 2011, 3:53 am | #

        Their…the gremlins are back…

      • Jabberwonky
        February 22, 2011, 11:01 am | #

        Pythoniser…

  12. jordinyc
    February 22, 2011, 2:44 am | # | Reply

    The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show. .. god no wonder I’m so screwed up. XD

    • Jabberwonky
      February 22, 2011, 4:13 am | # | Reply

      I’m afraid that it’s “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show” at an early age that warped my sense of humor.
      “Hey Rocky, watch me pull Tochtli out of a hat!”

      • txmystic
        February 22, 2011, 7:29 am | #

        Again?
        Nothing up muh sleeve…PRESTO!
        RRR!!!
        OOO! Don’t know my own strength…
        And now, here’s something we hope you’ll really like…

      • Atomic
        February 22, 2011, 9:32 am | #

        Sherman, set the WABAC machine….

      • Jabberwonky
        February 22, 2011, 10:56 am | #

        That’s what the calendar machine was! It’s a WABAC gone horribly awry!

      • bmonk
        February 22, 2011, 3:32 pm | #

        Do you fellows really want to have to deal with a Scrooched Moose? or a Hardrock Rockie??

      • Danzier
        February 22, 2011, 11:52 pm | #

        Moose und sqvirrel! MOOSE UND SQVIRREL!

      • Fairportfan
        February 23, 2011, 12:12 am | #

        One of the “Babylon 5” gags that JMS didn’t let Peter David do involved Garibaldi (a pop-culture nut – Daffy Duck poster over his bed and all) and Londo:

        Londo: Really, Meester Garibaldi, I do not understand why you want me to do thees thing.

        Garibaldi: I can’t explain. Just do it, okay?

        L: (sighs) Oh, very well – “moose und sqvirrel”. There – are you happy?

        (As PAD said – if you don’t get it immediately, you will never find it funny…)

      • Jabberwonky
        February 23, 2011, 8:45 am | #

        Ha Haa!
        I recently had the pleasure of working with a wonderful woman from Macedonia. She had Natasha’s exact accent. I was never tactless enought to do it, but I would have paid good money for her to say, one time, “Borrris dahling!”

  13. Fairportfan
    February 22, 2011, 3:37 am | # | Reply

    Bud either better never get a boyfriend or be sure he’s taller than she is.

    With the case of Madonna Syndrome she seems to be developing, it could be a case of “…all fun until someone loses an eye…”

    • Jabberwonky
      February 22, 2011, 4:04 am | # | Reply

      He’ll be easy to spot.
      Just look for the short guy with an eyepatch and a huge smile…

    • Fatuncle
      February 22, 2011, 5:06 am | # | Reply

      “Madonna Syndrome?”

      • Fairportfan
        February 22, 2011, 6:15 am | #

        Madonna Syndrome.

      • SoWhyMe
        February 22, 2011, 6:30 am | #

        I got the point.

      • txmystic
        February 22, 2011, 7:32 am | #

        I consign you heck, where you shall vogue for a full hour!

      • SoWhyMe
        February 22, 2011, 8:07 am | #

        Oh darn, and in Heck time goes by so slowly … so slowly … so slowly …

      • bmonk
        February 22, 2011, 3:36 pm | #

        Didn’t we see something like this in a recent Glee episode?

      • Fairportfan
        February 22, 2011, 4:01 pm | #

        Well, there was certainly a link that Google Images came up with to a Glee episode … but i didn’t look.

      • Julie
        February 22, 2011, 5:19 pm | #

        Recent-ish, but yes. 🙂

  14. Jabberwonky
    February 22, 2011, 4:11 am | # | Reply

    I’m okay with the restaraunt/bar with the distressed wallpaper and wainscotting. I’ve been to several houses converted to such establishments. But that looks like chains and loose high voltage electrical cables behind Shelly.

    • Fairportfan
      February 22, 2011, 6:16 am | # | Reply

      Behind Bud, surely.

      • Fairportfan
        February 22, 2011, 6:17 am | #

        Duh. Panel 2. Oopsie.

  15. Cherishbloom
    February 22, 2011, 4:56 am | # | Reply

    pickled angst might top that.

    • Paula
      February 23, 2011, 1:45 am | # | Reply

      they have that already. its the pickled onion.
      angst in its circular form with a tart taste 🙂

  16. Goran
    February 22, 2011, 5:02 am | # | Reply

    Uh, oh. Propagender time already?

  17. Lee
    February 22, 2011, 5:05 am | # | Reply

    Ahem. Typo alert. “Solve everthing with violence”?

    • Fatuncle
      February 22, 2011, 5:07 am | # | Reply

      Someone is going to hit you for pointing that out.

  18. The Old Wolf
    February 22, 2011, 5:47 am | # | Reply

    The fact that Shelly is ready to pull the biggest, hairiest rock out of her backpack and burn some energy off it says a lot for her growth. It’s going to hurt, and she’ll need a trusted guide with her… but every time she does so she will be knocking another brick out of the walls she’s built for herself. This should be most interesting.

  19. Eileen
    February 22, 2011, 8:52 am | # | Reply

    unrelated note, there is a red pit bull in the Sutter County Animal shelter named ‘Diesel.’ I wonder – does he belong to someone here???

  20. Julie
    February 22, 2011, 8:56 am | # | Reply

    Woooo!! Yeah!! Grow Shelly, grow!

  21. choronzonseyes
    February 22, 2011, 11:07 am | # | Reply

    Groan… BS psychobabble alert… As a Psych I tend to be jaded about this crap but its Paul so who knows?

    • Jay-Em
      February 22, 2011, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

      Jaded? Then Your life is quite a bit more exiting than mine.
      I cannot say that I have ever witnessed counseling of an angst-frought strong girl by a creature with the power of crushing a continent and toss it in an orbit beyond Pluto, that actually has destroyed a civilization….

      It’s a COMIC, it’s not “Self-help in 20 easy steps”

      • Jay-Em
        February 22, 2011, 12:27 pm | #

        Just to make sure… *takes out well-used DSM-IV manual to determine if “world-devouring” has a GAF-score*

      • SoWhyMe
        February 22, 2011, 3:34 pm | #

        Of course, you’re correct, it’s just a comic. I’m sure many reading these comments often yell that at their monitor, with “you dolt!” (or something more colorful) appended. Just as “of course” is the fact that we, as nerds, will cheerfully ignore that and take things waaaayy too seriously, picking everything apart with our voluminous storehouse of otherwise useless triva. Poor Paul.

      • Jay-Em
        February 22, 2011, 4:28 pm | #

        Nah, it’s not so much the nit-picking (guilty as charged) as it is the “Passive Aggressiveness” of the way some express their nit-picking OCD, while sneakily, in an off-handed way booing the one that takes the time to write and draw the cornucopia of non-scientifically-explainable jolly crazieness that is “Wapsi-Square” (at no extra cost to the reader to boot)

  22. SoWhyMe
    February 22, 2011, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

    What’m I so afraid of?
    I’m afraid that I’m not sure of
    a love there is no cure for.

    AUUGGGGGHH!! Stop me before I trivia again!!

    • Ratcatcher
      February 25, 2011, 6:02 am | # | Reply

      BANG!!! Well it was a mercy killing.
      Partner looks down, “You know we HAVE a Neuralizer for things like this, don’t you?”
      “But this is more fun! Look he’s starting to wiggle, Oh No it’s growing back! Run Away!?
      And so the men in Black were defeated yet again by the power of WAPSI Square.
      You can continue this if you want to.

  23. Arcey
    February 22, 2011, 6:57 pm | # | Reply

    What’s wrong with solving problems with violence? A little strategically applied precision mayhem can be a beautiful thing.

    • Danzier
      February 22, 2011, 11:57 pm | # | Reply

      Yes…yes it can.

      http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p43

      • Fairportfan
        February 23, 2011, 12:15 am | #

        Two things:

        A (quasi) quote from Earnest Bramah’s wonderful Kai Lung:

        There are few situations in life that cannot be quickly resolved by honourable suicide, a bag of gold, or the thrusting of a despised adversary over a precipice on a dark night.

        and my own current e-mail .sig file (derived from something i ran across somewhere, but my own wording):

        The quantity of explosives required varies directly with the square of the size of the social problem to be resolved.

      • SoWhyMe
        February 23, 2011, 1:09 am | #

        I do wish you people would put warnings in links you post if they are going to involve mass slaughter.

      • Paula
        February 23, 2011, 1:48 am | #

        *blinks*
        the fact you have to request that is quite worrying 😉

        other ‘forums’ have links to cheese, webcomics, lolcats.
        we have cheese, webcomics, mass slaughter, lolcats.

        🙂

      • Danzier
        February 24, 2011, 5:56 pm | #

        Sorry. I thought the agreement preface would be a good enough tip-off.

    • Jay-Em
      February 23, 2011, 12:13 am | # | Reply

      Unless one’s name is “Nudge” in that case one might be less enamoured with violence, being the subject of forementioned violence…

  24. Eiríkr Útlendi
    February 25, 2011, 3:30 am | # | Reply

    Late to the party here (spent a few days sick and offline), but I did want to pipe up and say that Paul, you’ve got that body language *nailed*. It’s fun to see such expressiveness in your characters.

  25. GaijinGuy
    May 30, 2012, 2:17 pm | # | Reply

    The quote was already used a while back, but I bring it back because it’s perfectly apropos.
    “Anger is always fear in drag.” –Spider Robinson.

    • Ed Rhodes
      July 6, 2012, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

      Sorry, didn’t see your quote before posting mine!

  26. Ed Rhodes
    July 6, 2012, 1:10 pm | # | Reply

    Spider Robinson says; “Anger is ALWAYS Fear in drag!”

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