But Paul – it spelled “start” correctly! LOL!
Welcome to the really frustrating thing about spell check – it’s got nary a brain, and won’t do a blinking thing about the wrong word in the wrong context.
One of my favourite technology truisms is: people think of computers as clever, but they’re not. They’re very stupid, but they’re stupid /really really quickly/.
Eye halve a spelling check her,
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye kin knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it’s weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.
A check her is a bless sing;
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen,
Eye trussed too bee a joule;
The checker pours o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore wee rote with checkers
Hour spelling was inn deck line,
Butt now when wee dew have a laps,
Wee are knot maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
There are know faults with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier;
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud;
And we mussed dew the best wee can
Sew flaws are knot aloud.
That’s why eye brake in two averse
Cuz eye dew want too please.
Sow glad eye yam that aye did bye
This soft wear four pea seas.
Of course, this was from the pre-grammar check days.
OTOH, grammar checks are even worse at finding all the grammar errors. Mine often find all eight of the two errors in a passage. And miss one of those two.
Definition: Start struck – 1. to be struck by a vehicle starter; 2. the symbolic feeling of being struck by a vehicle starter which comes from the start of a relationship with a Star.
That Chronic Catnip ad is … disturbing, to say the least! Scrolling down from M’s beauty and seeing that was like browsing a box of chocolates and finding a tarantula. I do not even want to know what they’re selling, as their ad is just to effing creepy!!!
What are these neurotic tendencies she speaks of? All I’ve seen of Georgette was that she’s skinny because of a crazy metabolism and she doesn’t want to surround herself with fake people…
I read it that Monica doesn’t like how their neuroses tend to match up – as she said, “seeing the bad parts of yourself in someone else” does not make for good times.
Iunno… Tina cut her hair? X_X
I’m still getting used to how your drawing M now… the face in the first frame and the body in the 2nd (but the face was straight on!) looked different, but different isn’t bad right?! =D
I still love your comic and look forward to it like coffee. ^.^
I’m off so don’t mind me much. Just noting since when I saw Tina I was trying to remember her role in all this and how come she’s not bad and etc… then saw this http://wapsisquare.com/comic/underjinsnose/ and it reminded me!
I seem to understand this a little better now.
“Start struck”?
Crap. So much for spell check. =)
But Paul – it spelled “start” correctly! LOL!
Welcome to the really frustrating thing about spell check – it’s got nary a brain, and won’t do a blinking thing about the wrong word in the wrong context.
Indeed! ^_^
One of my favourite technology truisms is: people think of computers as clever, but they’re not. They’re very stupid, but they’re stupid /really really quickly/.
All spellcheck does is compare each word to its list(s) of valid words . . . if it gets a match, it moves on to the next word.
Spellcheck does not check if you used the right word.
ODE TO A SPELL CHECKER
by Jerrold H Zar
Eye halve a spelling check her,
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye kin knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it’s weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.
A check her is a bless sing;
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen,
Eye trussed too bee a joule;
The checker pours o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore wee rote with checkers
Hour spelling was inn deck line,
Butt now when wee dew have a laps,
Wee are knot maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
There are know faults with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier;
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud;
And we mussed dew the best wee can
Sew flaws are knot aloud.
That’s why eye brake in two averse
Cuz eye dew want too please.
Sow glad eye yam that aye did bye
This soft wear four pea seas.
Of course, this was from the pre-grammar check days.
OTOH, grammar checks are even worse at finding all the grammar errors. Mine often find all eight of the two errors in a passage. And miss one of those two.
Definition: Start struck – 1. to be struck by a vehicle starter; 2. the symbolic feeling of being struck by a vehicle starter which comes from the start of a relationship with a Star.
Darn. Beat me to it.
Looks like someone’s analysis on the last strip was pretty much spot on.
Nice little snarky line from Tina.
Or maybe she just has the demon equivalent of Asperger’s Syndrome.
And i like Monica’s high-necked Little Black Dress.
Love M’s new hairdo.
I think Quats and Throopw pretty well called it.
Do not be too hasty, Monica. Maybe Georgette just wants a real friend, and not just some poser wanting to be part of her entourage.
Does everyone else have the Chronic Catnip ad on this page?
That cat can have anything it wants from me.
Catnip Acapulco Gold! “No stems, no seeds that you don’t need – “
That Chronic Catnip ad is … disturbing, to say the least! Scrolling down from M’s beauty and seeing that was like browsing a box of chocolates and finding a tarantula. I do not even want to know what they’re selling, as their ad is just to effing creepy!!!
What are these neurotic tendencies she speaks of? All I’ve seen of Georgette was that she’s skinny because of a crazy metabolism and she doesn’t want to surround herself with fake people…
What’s so wrong with that?
Yeah, I’m a bit perplexed about this reaction too. I don’t remember any bad feelings between them before. Did I miss something?
I read it that Monica doesn’t like how their neuroses tend to match up – as she said, “seeing the bad parts of yourself in someone else” does not make for good times.
I don’t recall Monica having that much of an hourglass shape. Not that I mind much, though.
Why is there a comma after “else” in the second to last panel?
Because there’s a pause in her speech.
Iunno… Tina cut her hair? X_X
I’m still getting used to how your drawing M now… the face in the first frame and the body in the 2nd (but the face was straight on!) looked different, but different isn’t bad right?! =D
I still love your comic and look forward to it like coffee. ^.^
Wait! I’m dingy, Tina cut her hair before they left I think! >D
Or after or somethin. Gettin’ used to it. =)
I’m off so don’t mind me much. Just noting since when I saw Tina I was trying to remember her role in all this and how come she’s not bad and etc… then saw this http://wapsisquare.com/comic/underjinsnose/ and it reminded me!
I seem to understand this a little better now.
Ahhh. I get it now. M sees herself in Georgette. And Tina picked right up on it.
It is always awful when I see my reflection too!
Georgette’s whole problem is that she doesn’t have fangs. Most everybody else Monica hangs with has fangs. Or demons.
hrm…Tina’s face looks different…also the body…hrm…
I miss when WS updated at 11PM, Eastern.
Ah, no wonder. And it seems like it’s been a while since seeing Monica be reflective, rather than just reactive. Interesting.