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by Paul Taylor on March 10, 2010 at 12:00 am
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  1. stjen
    March 10, 2010, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    So, she *does* understand what the fish is saying…

    • Paul Taylor
      March 10, 2010, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      Maybe she’s nuts and is talking to herself?

      • Zespara
        March 10, 2010, 12:55 am | #

        “Who needs a therapist when you can talk to yourself?

        Someone who talks to their self, that’s who.” — Spider-Man

      • Paula
        March 10, 2010, 1:20 am | #

        my theory is everyone on the planet is nuts to a certain extent 🙂 we have to be to live here and deal with stuff that happens on a daily basis which would blow your mind if you were sane 😀

      • Bell Pepper
        March 10, 2010, 6:08 am | #

        You are never alone when you have yourself to talk to.

      • Buggi
        August 8, 2011, 12:26 pm | #

        What? One of your characters being crazy? Oh, p-shaw my good man. P-shaw indeed.

      • Valkeiper
        April 20, 2020, 4:24 am | #

        talking to yourself is normal…
        getting an answer is not.

        I get arguments… 3-way arguments… and lose.

      • Kittoradra
        July 12, 2020, 10:30 pm | #

        There’s nothing wrong with talking to yourself! You can even get answers! … Just don’t ask your self to repeat what you just said because you couldn’t hear it

  2. ziggy78eog
    March 10, 2010, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Is it sad that Katherine is losing an argument to a fish?

    • Bruinthor
      December 20, 2016, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

      No more so than Calvin losing to Hobbes.

      • BMonk
        December 15, 2024, 6:29 pm | #

        Or being pushed back out the front door by an enthusiastic Hobbes greeting.

  3. dealated
    March 10, 2010, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    I love her armpit stubble in the first frame.

    • Atomic
      March 10, 2010, 1:41 am | # | Reply

      She is a natural woman after all…

      • SoWhyMe
        March 10, 2010, 3:33 am | #

        No, if she were a natural women she would have hair there. Stubble indicates she at least tries to get rid of it.

      • Althestane
        March 10, 2010, 5:17 am | #

        Let’s hope that it’s because she’s continued to frequent the beach!

    • CyberSkull
      March 10, 2010, 4:36 am | # | Reply

      It makes her seem more real. I mean who has the time & energy to shave every day?

      • Fnord
        March 10, 2010, 9:09 am | #

        Men.

      • Nitfol
        March 10, 2010, 2:02 pm | #

        Far from all men bother to shave every day (though I do).

      • Fnord
        March 10, 2010, 2:22 pm | #

        Ah, but some of those men that cultivate on their faces that which grows wild under their arms actually look distinguished…

      • Marchbanks
        March 10, 2010, 6:11 pm | #

        Indeed. I haven’t bothered to shave since . . . lemme see . . . oh, 1982 or thereabout

      • Fairportfan
        March 11, 2010, 12:21 am | #

        1975

      • GreyWolf
        February 18, 2012, 6:47 am | #

        Only men who are vain or are concerned about appearances for work reasons – such as in the military where being clean shaven wasn’t just good form, it could mean the difference between life and death. (think I’m kidding? ask anyone who is fire-team trained about what even a day’s stubble can do to the seal of your breathing apparatus and how quickly that smoke will KILL you)

        As for me, since I got out of the Navy I *never* shave on days off unless I am going out somewhere, and even then only if the wife is with me (I like to snuggle, sue me :P). Even on work days I’ll only shave 2 or 3 out of 5, but my stubble also grows slow enough that a day’s growth doesn’t show much on me unless you are standing close.

        I actually have my own theories about how we came to this insanity of women shaving all body hair and why we should fight the insanity, return to what’s practical … but this post is long enough already, maybe another time.

    • Hinoron
      January 8, 2024, 2:49 pm | # | Reply

      How about we all just settle on “the armpit stubble was an interesting level of detail for Paul to go to”, and leave it at that?

  4. Cyclophile
    March 10, 2010, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    Weeeellll … I talk to my dogs.. so why not talk to a fish?

    • Zespara
      March 10, 2010, 12:59 am | # | Reply

      As long as they don’t talk back to you, you’re good to go. 🙂

      Z

      • Versatek6
        March 10, 2010, 8:57 am | #

        My wife talks to the dogs. And the television. And the microwave.

      • Cyclophile
        March 12, 2010, 11:01 pm | #

        well… it helps if you speak dog.. they’re physically incapable of speaking english, after all.

  5. Stelios
    March 10, 2010, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    Some would say she’s a few screws loose, but who HASN’T talked to themselves or an animal at one time or another in the privacy of home?

    I know I have once or twice…;)

    • Jim
      March 10, 2010, 4:21 am | # | Reply

      Word .

  6. Paula
    March 10, 2010, 1:16 am | # | Reply

    Oscar seems to know Katherine more than she knows herself.
    Besides… its always less scarey to be told something (albeit thru spits and ppbbthths) than it is to say it yourself 🙂

    Btw if the spitting is a beta ways of flirting does that mean Oscar IS katherines bf?

    • DinkyInky
      March 10, 2010, 2:32 am | # | Reply

      Betta are Harem fish…need several females to breed, then are antisocial again.

  7. Jim
    March 10, 2010, 4:20 am | # | Reply

    Pit stubble ! Heheheh . Awesome ! I think I have now seen it all in comics . : )

  8. Kaibyo
    March 10, 2010, 6:02 am | # | Reply

    I talk to my cats all of the time! So does my husband. Sometimes I beleive that they have more sense and better manners than most of the humans I know. They don’t have to speak to be able to talk back to you. A cat’s physical makeup is very eloquent when it comes to body language. You CAN lose an argument to an animal,too! Just try saying “NO!!!!” to a headstrong cat.

    I think Kath is feeling just a little lonely and left out AND (you should pardon the expression) I think that there is more to her than meets the eye!

  9. fatuncle
    March 10, 2010, 7:43 am | # | Reply

    Are we assembling the cast of the next adventure? Phix is out in the world for the first time since roughly forever; Kat is feeling sidelined, and doesn’t like it; Tina is showing other, unexpected talents; Musclebutt is showing signs of maturity, and there is a small, angry ghost that is haunting a golem – or perhaps that last is the adventure…

    • The Old Wolf
      March 10, 2010, 8:03 am | # | Reply

      I think you’re on the right track. Definitely setting the stage for great fun to come.

  10. Matthew
    March 10, 2010, 9:01 am | # | Reply

    Is she naked there on the couch?

    • Analyst
      March 10, 2010, 10:35 am | # | Reply

      We have seen that she likes to be naked in her apartment prior to today (Insert link here). Always tastefully displayed, of course. More’s the pity.

      • Fairportfan
        July 7, 2019, 11:33 pm | #

        There will be more insight into why she prefers nudity when it’s practical

  11. kingklash
    March 10, 2010, 11:17 am | # | Reply

    Maybe Katherine will get a chance to use her wealth of knowledge to help Monica through the next crisis. Or Oscar will. He is a Siamese Fighting Fish after all, he may just have to get his fins dirty defending his girl.

    • SoWhyMe
      March 10, 2010, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

      That would be cute. Monica poits Oscar to the scene of the final showdown, which is happenning underwater. Oscar sums up the situation, sees Katherine is in bad trouble and makes a bee-line for the bad guy/girl/demon, poking him/her/it in the eye at just the critical moment, thereby saving the day.

      • Leeskra
        March 10, 2010, 7:35 pm | #

        Great, ya gone and guessed the next storyline! >D
        Kidding.

  12. JaxxReeve
    March 10, 2010, 11:29 am | # | Reply

    I talk to my puppets sometimes, and they talk back. That doesn’t make me crazy, does it?
    BTW, need more nude

    • Paula
      March 10, 2010, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

      depends what they tell you to do 😉

      • bmonk
        July 7, 2011, 4:01 pm | #

        And whether you do it.

        OTOH, I don’t find it too unrealistic that puppets could talk back. It’s one sign of a properly developed character, as authors will freely tell you.

  13. Paul R
    March 10, 2010, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

    Ooh! A big hint that Katherine is going to be much more involved in the next adventure! (If I’m right, I’m psyched.)

  14. Gunnr
    March 10, 2010, 2:46 pm | # | Reply

    Oh, well said, Oscar. Well said.

  15. gus3
    March 10, 2010, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

    For those of you who think you can’t converse with a fish:

    The voices in my head are pointing at you and laughing.

    • fatuncle
      March 10, 2010, 6:12 pm | # | Reply

      The voices in my head haven’t reached a consensus on that yet. About half think it’s none of our business, six or so want to join in the conversation, two think talking to a fish is … strange …. and then there is the one sulking in the corner who thinks the rest of us is nuts.

  16. Marchbanks
    March 10, 2010, 7:35 pm | # | Reply

    Curious . . . two-three weeks ago, Mon said Shelley and Doubt were right, and she’s not a field-researcher type. Now Kath’s saying she’s not the field-researcher type. Odds on the two of them getting stuck into a sitch where they have to *go* into the field together, like it or not?

    • jwhouk
      March 10, 2010, 11:49 pm | # | Reply

      Practically certain.

      • Fairportfan
        March 11, 2010, 12:22 am | #

        yup

  17. Fairportfan
    March 11, 2010, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Where’s the new strip?

    Pibgorn‘s late, too…

  18. NOTDilbert
    March 11, 2010, 2:29 am | # | Reply

    Hey, my avatar and comment ID went away…..Hadda re-do it. Probably wind up with a different NOTDilbert face. Oh, well.

    Hrum, back to it…. Isn’t there a really BIG spider out on the Nazca plains? And a cat? And a snake? Maybe even…. Hmpf. No goat. And definitely no sphinx. Darn.

  19. NOTDilbert
    March 11, 2010, 2:32 am | # | Reply

    Nope, still the same quizical Monica face I’ve grown accustomed to.

    Also, no giant demon baristas out there, either.

  20. Chris Mayer
    March 16, 2010, 11:44 am | # | Reply

    If one can converse with fish, one would probably be a mermaid; I just think Kathy’s being self-fish, that’s all!

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