Even more fun: once Monica lands from that jump she will have another reason to sqeal, though it won’t be joy.
Because i do not see how her little top would be up to supporting her “hills” with such a sudden stop. Saw that happen to a girlfriend of mine. Like kicking a guy in the babyfactory…
you are forgetting that there is a lot of hardcore engineering in M’s bras and bikinis.. they are not simple ‘bazaar’ purchases… she knows a *very special* bra shop… :p
Also if you have had the chance to listen to some theorists debating the triangles they also use the term vortices to describe the effects of areas like the triangles.
She might as well go nude. Which is apparantly what sensible people in the parts of the world that aren’t obsessed with secretly craving nudity while outwardly demonizing it do.
Swimsuits should be reasonably practical garments. Many types of mens swim trunks, for example, have pockets. They also cover your arse so you can sit on sand or wooden boardwalks or concrete or whatever and not hurt your trump. They also cover your nethers, typically with an interior netting, so as to keep sand and debris out of tender spots.
Really, all Jin’s suit does is that last one. It could use a few practical upgrades.
hey, *those* are not for ‘practical’ use !!!!
they are purely to make sure young men have problems, for entertainment, while being ‘not nude’ rofl !! 😀 😀
jin’s is quite normal, I have seen some that ARE Just string!! 🙂
Nah…not all women would take them to task for ogling. As Ari stated, for some thing like this are intended to get male attention and produce the brain-fuzzing reactions.
As for the women who wonder “will he stare at her“…well, not all of them realize that they will be agonizing over that thought when they initiate the girl-on-girl action. Some of them don’t think that far ahead, and it ends up turning them into obsessive, crazy SOs.
I’m with Ari and Julie on this one SWM (anyone else notice those are also the initials for Single White Male? hmmmmm). You either hang out with all the wrong women, or just met a few (and had bad luck) and your perspective has been tainted ever since.
A woman goes by that meets my “criteria” (for lack of a better term) and I DONT look? My wife will check my pulse with one hand while dialing 911 with the other, because she knows something’s not right. She has no issues with window shopping, as long as I do all my ordering at home.
Hell, she sees a redhead (my favorite) she will POINT THEM OUT TO ME. :O
Man, did I get lucky with her. Not that I found her, that she decided to put up with me. 😀
Meh, I told her long ago I figured that one out … she married me so she would never EVER have to call tech support again, she just calls me.
You’ve correctly describe the functional design failure of women’s swimsuits compared with male swimsuits. Now please take a large studded mace to women’s “high heel” shoes and boots, one of the other examples of functional disaster in the women’s department. We thank you…
Could still be problematic. Monica’s demo of a really good tube amplifier has educated Dietzel to the wonders of firebottle-amplified sound. He may be listening to catchy tunes through Monica’s room-warming glassfet amplifier…
… and tubes are notorious for acting like microphones if you aren’t careful with them.
Dietzel might just have gotten a greatly-amplified SQUEEE!! through his headphones… in which case, not just his ears but his whole skull may be bleeding 🙁
Actually it wasn’t so much the TUBE that she was demo’ing. but the CD itself… that particular company has been taking ultra-high definition recordings and putting them thru the burn-to-cd process WITHOUT AUDIO COMPRESSION… and it’s that compression that wipes out the very high frequency as well as the very low frequency tones that some people CAN hear and some people CAN’T hear, all in order to shrink the file sizes in order to fit more songs on the disk, thus if you hear it live, or on one of those CD’s it just sounds “better”… because nothing was removed. now, that’s not to say that she didn’t play it on one of her new tubes too, but if she played a regular CD there wouldn’t have been much difference, some, but not much, also it was mostly due to the new tube in her system vs. old tube or even the transistor amplifiers used in Dietzel’s player vs Monica’s system with the tube amps that he was howling over later.
Well, I’m afraid I have to differ a bit… and agree a bit…
What Monica was demoing to Deitzel, was a true old-style audio system… the recording was an LP record (not a CD) played through her recently-retubed amplifier (vintage Sovtek tubes if I remember correctly)
LPs are where Mobile Fidelity got its start… half-speed-mastered using custom-tweaked electronics, lovingly metal-plated, long pressing cycles on extremely good vinyl. I’ve still got a bunch of these in my collection… can’t bear to get rid of them. MFSL did move on to doing very high quality digital transfers as well… usually far superior to the major-label versions of the day.
Anything that is feasibly possible, even at minutae levels, then taken to ridiculous lengths of exaggeration.
Like putting a finger into the barrel of a rifle. It does have a affect, however slight. So in the cartoon world, that effect is exaggerated while eliminating the obvious harm to individual inserting his/her finger.
By the way.. what was the highest one can fly before they are visible on radar?
Depends on the radar. As a general rule, less than 1000 feet will keep you from being noticed by most current ground based millitary units. I’m not sure about civil air traffic control radar, but I’d guess it’d be higher than that.
On the other hand, radar from search planes in flight has a “look down” capability and can track objects right down to the surface… on water it can track individual boats.
Cherish Bloom, Being spotted also depends on the cross section of whatever the radar is reflecting off of, example: a missile will have a small return, while a 747’s reflection is gonna be huge. So while a return off a finch is there, the information is hidden in the clutter of all the other returns, unless it’s a large flock of finches then there would be enough to spot them. Tons more info but that’s the basics 😛
there are three basic types of radar…
pulse, doppler, and the hybrid pulse-doppler.
Of the three, only pulse gets ‘ground clutter’ and so has a ‘minimum radar window’ you can fly under (if you don’t hit the ‘columo-granite’ cloud, this it).
Doppler radar picks up ONLY movement toward or away from the radar unit. Usually, a doppler radar will have a minimum velocity it will register (like 15 miles per hour); thus, land, rocks and even the sea will not be indicated on a ‘true’ doppler screen… only movement.
you can NOT fly under doppler. In the navy (I got out in 1981); I once tracked something with a doppler radar that baffled even the ‘referees’ for the exercise we were under. Even destroyers and aircraft flying/sailing in the area couldn’t see what I was tracking; but I had a solid track.
Turned out to be a sub’s periscope.
Now a pulse-doppler radar mixes the two techs. Basically, it sends out a continuous beam and detects any difference in the return’s frequency (like a doppler); but also sends raid ‘pulses’ of other frequencies to get good range readings on tracked targets.
the only way to NOT be tracked by a ‘dopp’ or a ‘P-D’ is to ensure no signal returns to the tracking unit.
So, flying ‘under the radar’ is not a viable tactic if the tracking station is using doppler or pulse-doppler radar.
Unfortunately for most law enforcement agencies, doppler and (especially) pulse-doppler unit tend to be more expensive.
The biggest factor would be the wavelength. Low frequency would only see bigger targets. Millimeter wave would show very small things. The density of the target would affect the strength of the return signal, ie the rebar in Monica’s bustenhalter would reflect more than her bones would.
I’m assuming you can get low enough to hide in the background, otherwise the Airforce wouldn’t have spent all that money on terrain following systems for their various bombers so they could fly down in the weeds in relative safety?
When Lucasfilm released the Original Trilogy on DVD, they came with a second disc that was “the original theatrical release” from each film. They are copies of the old lazerdisc issues. I was able to prove to my sceptical nephew that back in the day Star Wars was just Star Wars.
That’s my guess. Fairportfan may be looking for the complete title somewhere. Maybe a license plate in Anerican Graffitti? Doubt anyone besides Lucas would reference THX-1138 before Star Wars.
It does not a swimsuit make…but a bathing suit it does. The smaller the better for sun-bathers. 🙂 If she actually wanted to get in the water and goof around, D. Walker is right. She’d need something much more practical. 😛
I’m sure someone already made a Wonder Twins joke about Monica and Jin, but the re-creation of the squee with pose makes that seem even more like it’s now a joined-superpower. 😛
Meh. They could do it in an even more dramatic fashion if they wish. Lose the bikinis, paint on a set of temporary modesty tattoos using blue dye, and declare it to be the Ultimate Epic Paranormal Vortex Woad Trip.
Can we NOT have this arc be a reason to have bouncing books in mini tops? I really like this comic, but then it’s just all “OH AND BTW I HAVE BOOBS IN YOUR FACE” which is a little over the top.
Hm, Jin seems to share her taste in swimwear with Tina. http://wapsisquare.com/comic/not-going/ WARNING! That comic contains a picture of Tina wearing a skimpy bikini. By clicking the link, you agree that you want to see Tina wearing a skimpy bikini.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you! 😉
I’m reminded of the old joke, in which a woman complained bitterly about being charged such a high price for a designer bikini… one of the ones consisting of two cobwebs, three ribbons, and a worried look.
“There’s really nothing there,” she said to the salesman, “they hardly used any fabric at all to make it!”
I think that with this particular bikini Jin has on (much like the one Tina was wearing in the comic mentioned above by MerchManDan) would only ever be seen on them when going to one of the remote island spots. If they wore these to the lakeshore, there would prolly be pandaemonium…
Sheer misdirection. They’ll be noticed, of course… but nobody will think they’re doing what they actually are doing.
It’s like Heinlein’s idea in Double Star. To disguise somebody big and prominent, put him in a police uniform (people see “cop” and don’t remember him as an individual) or use makeup to give him an an enlarged red acne-inflamed nose (people notice that, and don’t see anything else about him).
yes, the point is they WILL notice them, but not anything else they do, and not even their faces!!!
I am sure you have seen a picture of a famous old bridge, taking up 90% of the picture… 10% is taken up by a REAL big beautiful girl of similar build to Monica, and you will find that 90% of guys will not even see any bridge!!
So, there are a dozen vortices? Interesting number… in geometry there is a well-known way to tile the surface of a sphere, using 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. I wonder whether the interdimensional-travel barrier system uses either 12, 20, or 32 vimana cells, and the “vortices” are the pentagon-shaped discontinuities in a uniform field? (After all, a Triangle approaches becoming a pentagon, for sufficiently large values of the number 3)
Be that as it may… it sounds as if Monica and Jin are now planning to go sticking their noses (and other pointy bits) into a dozen of Earth’s primary zones of anomaly in rapid succession. Why does this seem to me to be a bit like performing planetary acupuncture with a lightning rod, with the 1812 Overture as the soundtrack and a bowl of Yucatan Death Peppers on the table for a nice snack?
I’m half expecting that the Fenris Wolf will show up, sticking its cold nose under the warm bedcovers and whining eagerly for its breakfast…
The vertices of an icosahedron, or the faces of a dodecahedron? (The two are the same, to a mathematician.) If the twelve aren’t arranged evenly, there’s no telling.
The Fenris and Dietzel can listen to Pagliachi together.
Hey why not? So far all of the mythical mosnters have turned out to be over blown BS from the prospective story tellers after all.
I prefer “Snoopy Dance, Part II” ’cause it’s too darn adorkable. I can imagine Bud and Brandi trying to talk them out of it, and all they hear is, “wah wah wahwah waaah!”
Yes, there’s a definite similarity in the presentation of these two scenes. Different secondary character (Shelly then, Jin now), different garments and situations (bra-shopping then, spa-and-bathing-suits now).
Surely Monica deserves some social time with a world-saving girlfriend at least once every eight years 🙂
Because it is much more fun to plan vacations than react to danger. A good warrior knows to take time to play (even squeeling girlfriend, pillow fight, find a beach and do nothing play) and Jin, being a good warrior, knows this. Monica, being a new warrior, feels the rightness of it. Besides, its girl logic (yes there is such a thing), just watch and enjoy them having fun.
“Stealth”, huh?
INCREDIBLY stealthy. And NO ONE would notice them in those bathing suits.
If stealth fails there’s always weaponized Squeeeee!
It has been known to liquify the human brain, particularly that of human males.
Knowing what we know so far I wouldn’t count on that.
do you know candi?? they have been infected!!!!
http://www.candicomics.com/d/20120216.html
May gave her humanity and mortality… not fragility.
Just because Jin can now look forward to ‘an end’ doesn’t mean she’s lost any power.
well if they rob a bank naked, NO ONE will remember what they looked like!! 🙂 🙂
What scares me is that someone somewhere has most likely tried a similar social experiment.
The humans present wouldn’t; but the cameras would… and those who study the film.
Nonsense. Justin Bieber will never know what hit him.
Assuming Monica doesn’t fall face/arse first into something again.
Agent 47 she is not.
Monica only falls forwards. Balance issues, you know.
Of course they are. Can you see Jin’s bikini bottom?
That’s almost a “no”, isn’t it?
And once again they yell loud enough to make me visibly cringe despite it being a comic.
Even more fun: once Monica lands from that jump she will have another reason to sqeal, though it won’t be joy.
Because i do not see how her little top would be up to supporting her “hills” with such a sudden stop. Saw that happen to a girlfriend of mine. Like kicking a guy in the babyfactory…
that bikini looks safe enough, unlike Jin’s… 🙂
you are forgetting that there is a lot of hardcore engineering in M’s bras and bikinis.. they are not simple ‘bazaar’ purchases… she knows a *very special* bra shop… :p
You are right. Jin is definitely gonna “bottom out”.
well there are twelve vortices (?????) I guess that may be some kind of transport? best to be prepared, in case only sea??
I guess it’s the ten ‘triangles’ I described in the forums for the last strip and the earth’s magnetic poles.
I reason the magnetic poles because Brandi’s ‘barrier web’ supposably interacted with the earth’s magnasphere.
Also if you have had the chance to listen to some theorists debating the triangles they also use the term vortices to describe the effects of areas like the triangles.
Squeeee?
Squeeee.
…
SQUEEEE!!!1!elf
Ah, I’m loving fluff week, not gonna lie.
Looks like a perfectly good suit to me.
She might as well go nude. Which is apparantly what sensible people in the parts of the world that aren’t obsessed with secretly craving nudity while outwardly demonizing it do.
Swimsuits should be reasonably practical garments. Many types of mens swim trunks, for example, have pockets. They also cover your arse so you can sit on sand or wooden boardwalks or concrete or whatever and not hurt your trump. They also cover your nethers, typically with an interior netting, so as to keep sand and debris out of tender spots.
Really, all Jin’s suit does is that last one. It could use a few practical upgrades.
😛
hey, *those* are not for ‘practical’ use !!!!
they are purely to make sure young men have problems, for entertainment, while being ‘not nude’ rofl !! 😀 😀
jin’s is quite normal, I have seen some that ARE Just string!! 🙂
Hmmmm….
I… don’t… know….
Switch swimsuits.
Monica has a little belly pooch, that makes me so happy!
A-MEN! I’ve been in love with Monica’s wee little pot belly since Paul first drew it XD <3
If only Alan and Kevin knew what they were missing…..wowsers!
Doubt they’ve seen Jin and M smooshing up and in such, ahem, intimate poses as we’ve seen the last few days. I’m with Stigmartyr; if only they knew.
Haha, honestly…I think you deal with women who are waaaaay too complicated. It’s just about the attention. lol
Nah…not all women would take them to task for ogling. As Ari stated, for some thing like this are intended to get male attention and produce the brain-fuzzing reactions.
As for the women who wonder “will he stare at her“…well, not all of them realize that they will be agonizing over that thought when they initiate the girl-on-girl action. Some of them don’t think that far ahead, and it ends up turning them into obsessive, crazy SOs.
Yeah, what Julie said.
I’m with Ari and Julie on this one SWM (anyone else notice those are also the initials for Single White Male? hmmmmm). You either hang out with all the wrong women, or just met a few (and had bad luck) and your perspective has been tainted ever since.
A woman goes by that meets my “criteria” (for lack of a better term) and I DONT look? My wife will check my pulse with one hand while dialing 911 with the other, because she knows something’s not right. She has no issues with window shopping, as long as I do all my ordering at home.
Hell, she sees a redhead (my favorite) she will POINT THEM OUT TO ME. :O
Man, did I get lucky with her. Not that I found her, that she decided to put up with me. 😀
Meh, I told her long ago I figured that one out … she married me so she would never EVER have to call tech support again, she just calls me.
You’ve correctly describe the functional design failure of women’s swimsuits compared with male swimsuits. Now please take a large studded mace to women’s “high heel” shoes and boots, one of the other examples of functional disaster in the women’s department. We thank you…
Monica, of course, can’t get away with that.
I’VE GONE DEAF!!!
WHAT?!?
I CAN’T HEAR YOU!
Is there blood coming out of my ears?
Welcome to Wapsquee Square, the comic that requires hearing protection for safe reading.
Wapsi Squee?
Every dog within six blocks is howling in misery…
Not Deitzel (Monica’s uber-smart ‘pet’).
More than likely, he’s sitting in a corner listening to ‘good tunes’ through headphones.
Could still be problematic. Monica’s demo of a really good tube amplifier has educated Dietzel to the wonders of firebottle-amplified sound. He may be listening to catchy tunes through Monica’s room-warming glassfet amplifier…
… and tubes are notorious for acting like microphones if you aren’t careful with them.
Dietzel might just have gotten a greatly-amplified SQUEEE!! through his headphones… in which case, not just his ears but his whole skull may be bleeding 🙁
Actually it wasn’t so much the TUBE that she was demo’ing. but the CD itself… that particular company has been taking ultra-high definition recordings and putting them thru the burn-to-cd process WITHOUT AUDIO COMPRESSION… and it’s that compression that wipes out the very high frequency as well as the very low frequency tones that some people CAN hear and some people CAN’T hear, all in order to shrink the file sizes in order to fit more songs on the disk, thus if you hear it live, or on one of those CD’s it just sounds “better”… because nothing was removed. now, that’s not to say that she didn’t play it on one of her new tubes too, but if she played a regular CD there wouldn’t have been much difference, some, but not much, also it was mostly due to the new tube in her system vs. old tube or even the transistor amplifiers used in Dietzel’s player vs Monica’s system with the tube amps that he was howling over later.
Well, I’m afraid I have to differ a bit… and agree a bit…
What Monica was demoing to Deitzel, was a true old-style audio system… the recording was an LP record (not a CD) played through her recently-retubed amplifier (vintage Sovtek tubes if I remember correctly)
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/from-the-source/
LPs are where Mobile Fidelity got its start… half-speed-mastered using custom-tweaked electronics, lovingly metal-plated, long pressing cycles on extremely good vinyl. I’ve still got a bunch of these in my collection… can’t bear to get rid of them. MFSL did move on to doing very high quality digital transfers as well… usually far superior to the major-label versions of the day.
Uhhh. What was the subject? What? HUH? I CAN’T HEAR YOU. SPEAK UP!! I SEE YOUR LIPS MOVING BUT I CAN”T HEAR…
I… I need to sit down…
I find myself haveing trouble sitting down.
Funny. I expect that those guys who are sitting are having difficulty standing up. . . .
I’m going to wait a bit before I stand up…
“My ankles feel funny”
-Jane, Coupling, BBC
At least no one has said “Waht could go wrong?”
…I expect an EVENT… or at least an encounter with Stinky
well hopefully stinky has learned not to play with subs…
Sometimes I wonder… did I start all of this Squeeeeing lately?
illiad…
The Laws of Cartoon Physics are as thus:
Anything that is feasibly possible, even at minutae levels, then taken to ridiculous lengths of exaggeration.
Like putting a finger into the barrel of a rifle. It does have a affect, however slight. So in the cartoon world, that effect is exaggerated while eliminating the obvious harm to individual inserting his/her finger.
By the way.. what was the highest one can fly before they are visible on radar?
Depends on the radar. As a general rule, less than 1000 feet will keep you from being noticed by most current ground based millitary units. I’m not sure about civil air traffic control radar, but I’d guess it’d be higher than that.
On the other hand, radar from search planes in flight has a “look down” capability and can track objects right down to the surface… on water it can track individual boats.
Cherish Bloom, Being spotted also depends on the cross section of whatever the radar is reflecting off of, example: a missile will have a small return, while a 747’s reflection is gonna be huge. So while a return off a finch is there, the information is hidden in the clutter of all the other returns, unless it’s a large flock of finches then there would be enough to spot them. Tons more info but that’s the basics 😛
Cherish: hey *I* know that… but seems some others get lost in the minutiae of RL physics, not realizing it does not apply… 🙂
now, if someone were to find one of those cells, and other evidence……
“Just look at me, sir….” Bzzzzzzzzzz….{flash}
there are three basic types of radar…
pulse, doppler, and the hybrid pulse-doppler.
Of the three, only pulse gets ‘ground clutter’ and so has a ‘minimum radar window’ you can fly under (if you don’t hit the ‘columo-granite’ cloud, this it).
Doppler radar picks up ONLY movement toward or away from the radar unit. Usually, a doppler radar will have a minimum velocity it will register (like 15 miles per hour); thus, land, rocks and even the sea will not be indicated on a ‘true’ doppler screen… only movement.
you can NOT fly under doppler. In the navy (I got out in 1981); I once tracked something with a doppler radar that baffled even the ‘referees’ for the exercise we were under. Even destroyers and aircraft flying/sailing in the area couldn’t see what I was tracking; but I had a solid track.
Turned out to be a sub’s periscope.
Now a pulse-doppler radar mixes the two techs. Basically, it sends out a continuous beam and detects any difference in the return’s frequency (like a doppler); but also sends raid ‘pulses’ of other frequencies to get good range readings on tracked targets.
the only way to NOT be tracked by a ‘dopp’ or a ‘P-D’ is to ensure no signal returns to the tracking unit.
So, flying ‘under the radar’ is not a viable tactic if the tracking station is using doppler or pulse-doppler radar.
Unfortunately for most law enforcement agencies, doppler and (especially) pulse-doppler unit tend to be more expensive.
The biggest factor would be the wavelength. Low frequency would only see bigger targets. Millimeter wave would show very small things. The density of the target would affect the strength of the return signal, ie the rebar in Monica’s bustenhalter would reflect more than her bones would.
I’m assuming you can get low enough to hide in the background, otherwise the Airforce wouldn’t have spent all that money on terrain following systems for their various bombers so they could fly down in the weeds in relative safety?
Can you make a print of the last panel? The one with the Squee?
Rrivia questions posted yesterday but apparently not noticed:
In what did Brian Blessed, Charlotte Rampling and Donald Sutherland appear together?
What film (first) featured “THX-1138″ as an in-joke reference?
Good. And the other?
Question 2: Star Wars (before it had a subtitle)
Bless you. I’m not playing the game but I also remember the original Star Wars before it had “Episode IV: A New Hope” in the text crawl.
Some people don’t believe me when I tell them.
When Lucasfilm released the Original Trilogy on DVD, they came with a second disc that was “the original theatrical release” from each film. They are copies of the old lazerdisc issues. I was able to prove to my sceptical nephew that back in the day Star Wars was just Star Wars.
Prisoner transfer from cell block 1138?
That’s my guess. Fairportfan may be looking for the complete title somewhere. Maybe a license plate in Anerican Graffitti? Doubt anyone besides Lucas would reference THX-1138 before Star Wars.
Ding-ding-ding! Harrison Ford’s 1932 Ford 5-window coupe had the license plate THX-1138
Mr. Ford drove a ’55 Chevy in that movie. Paul Le Mat drove the ’32 Ford.
And the plate on the ’32 was THX 138… Dang my brain damaged memory…
YOUR damaged brain memory!? I didn’t even know that remembered that!
that *I* remembered that
Though I can blame my iPad for that typo.
It does not a swimsuit make…but a bathing suit it does. The smaller the better for sun-bathers. 🙂 If she actually wanted to get in the water and goof around, D. Walker is right. She’d need something much more practical. 😛
nah girls dont swim!!!! 😮 they just dip in the water so they can come out, looking even more shock-tastic!!!! 😛 😛 😛
Girls don’t swim, but WOMEN surf 😉
I’m sure someone already made a Wonder Twins joke about Monica and Jin, but the re-creation of the squee with pose makes that seem even more like it’s now a joined-superpower. 😛
According to Sally from Third Rock from the Sun, they do have more power when they are pushed closer together.
Searching the Vile Vortices?
This’ll be one heck of a road trip.
Meh. They could do it in an even more dramatic fashion if they wish. Lose the bikinis, paint on a set of temporary modesty tattoos using blue dye, and declare it to be the Ultimate Epic Paranormal Vortex Woad Trip.
but then that would be R-rated…
You say that like it’s a bad thing…
On the Woad again…..
“When you’re blue, you know you’ve picted your friends”
— Captain Sam (http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff200/fv00132.htm)
Can we NOT have this arc be a reason to have bouncing books in mini tops? I really like this comic, but then it’s just all “OH AND BTW I HAVE BOOBS IN YOUR FACE” which is a little over the top.
It’s just fluff to get us away from the tension brought on by the Justin/Shelly arc. And they have boobs, we all know, so it’s not a big deal.
Hm, Jin seems to share her taste in swimwear with Tina.
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/not-going/
WARNING! That comic contains a picture of Tina wearing a skimpy bikini. By clicking the link, you agree that you want to see Tina wearing a skimpy bikini.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you! 😉
Yes, and they both look incredible in them.
yes, and if ya cannea handle it, go read some more boring comic!!!
I’m reminded of the old joke, in which a woman complained bitterly about being charged such a high price for a designer bikini… one of the ones consisting of two cobwebs, three ribbons, and a worried look.
“There’s really nothing there,” she said to the salesman, “they hardly used any fabric at all to make it!”
“Ma’am, you’re paying for the restraint.”
I think that with this particular bikini Jin has on (much like the one Tina was wearing in the comic mentioned above by MerchManDan) would only ever be seen on them when going to one of the remote island spots. If they wore these to the lakeshore, there would prolly be pandaemonium…
Wait… they’d be doing what with pandas?
pandemonium?? surely , that is the main aim!!! 🙂
txmystic: never been to Miami Beach / South Beach??? I think those would be the more restrained ones..
.. the bikinis, I mean… 😉
Miami Beach…
http://youtu.be/kCXBTpwgVCY
Yes, and it sounds like pandaemonium in the background…
🙂
Experts in stealth, of course. No one will notice two hot ladies in extremely sexy bikinis. Nope.
Sheer misdirection. They’ll be noticed, of course… but nobody will think they’re doing what they actually are doing.
It’s like Heinlein’s idea in Double Star. To disguise somebody big and prominent, put him in a police uniform (people see “cop” and don’t remember him as an individual) or use makeup to give him an an enlarged red acne-inflamed nose (people notice that, and don’t see anything else about him).
yes, the point is they WILL notice them, but not anything else they do, and not even their faces!!!
I am sure you have seen a picture of a famous old bridge, taking up 90% of the picture… 10% is taken up by a REAL big beautiful girl of similar build to Monica, and you will find that 90% of guys will not even see any bridge!!
So, there are a dozen vortices? Interesting number… in geometry there is a well-known way to tile the surface of a sphere, using 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. I wonder whether the interdimensional-travel barrier system uses either 12, 20, or 32 vimana cells, and the “vortices” are the pentagon-shaped discontinuities in a uniform field? (After all, a Triangle approaches becoming a pentagon, for sufficiently large values of the number 3)
Be that as it may… it sounds as if Monica and Jin are now planning to go sticking their noses (and other pointy bits) into a dozen of Earth’s primary zones of anomaly in rapid succession. Why does this seem to me to be a bit like performing planetary acupuncture with a lightning rod, with the 1812 Overture as the soundtrack and a bowl of Yucatan Death Peppers on the table for a nice snack?
I’m half expecting that the Fenris Wolf will show up, sticking its cold nose under the warm bedcovers and whining eagerly for its breakfast…
The vertices of an icosahedron, or the faces of a dodecahedron? (The two are the same, to a mathematician.) If the twelve aren’t arranged evenly, there’s no telling.
The Fenris and Dietzel can listen to Pagliachi together.
Hey why not? So far all of the mythical mosnters have turned out to be over blown BS from the prospective story tellers after all.
Plus one as the point of origin.
The Vile Vortices, as mapped by Ivan T. Sanderson. The Bermuda Triangle is one of them.
See:
http://www.paranormal-encyclopedia.com/v/vile-vortices/
very nice.
It shows almost exactly what I described in the forums to the last strip (plus the earth’s poles).
I said two of the ‘triangles’ touched land they didn’t surround (your map shows three).
yes, great info.. 🙂
and even a few ‘seamounts’ about, possible sandbar… 😀
Now I feel proud of myself; I found #43 all on my own just by hypothesizing that it should be there. 😀
Oh man, I misread “vortices” as “vertices” and so imagined Earth enclosed inside a d20.
You are not alone in that hilarious vision… 😉
*whew* That’s a relief! 🙂 At the time it made sense, considering these relics are shielding Earth from external supernatural forces.
Why don’t we sub-name this strip as ” Beatitude of Beauteous Bosoms ” . I’ll wait for a while for O.T.B. to make his entrance – stage right ..
I prefer “Snoopy Dance, Part II” ’cause it’s too darn adorkable. I can imagine Bud and Brandi trying to talk them out of it, and all they hear is, “wah wah wahwah waaah!”
presently, he’s more involved in understanding exactly what he’s gotten himself into.
not sure if he’d want to get involved in this mess after his past few days.
Hmm. I appear to be having deja vu. I could have sworn I’ve seen this scene before… http://wapsisquare.com/comic/07302004/
Yes, there’s a definite similarity in the presentation of these two scenes. Different secondary character (Shelly then, Jin now), different garments and situations (bra-shopping then, spa-and-bathing-suits now).
Surely Monica deserves some social time with a world-saving girlfriend at least once every eight years 🙂
I don’t really understand what they’re so excited about.
Because it is much more fun to plan vacations than react to danger. A good warrior knows to take time to play (even squeeling girlfriend, pillow fight, find a beach and do nothing play) and Jin, being a good warrior, knows this. Monica, being a new warrior, feels the rightness of it. Besides, its girl logic (yes there is such a thing), just watch and enjoy them having fun.
You wouldn’t get excited about a scouting trip to find your own tax-free private island??
TiKi huts rule!
Need more trivia?
Okay. What was the title of the Wapsi Square image that I commisioned Paul to do? What date was it shown on these pages?
I believe that was “A game of chess”, August 15 of last year?
It has been much on my mind recently. A truly wonderful image – thank you for commissioning it!
Excellent!
You can still buy posters of this commision! Paul told me that he has sold 5 so far.
With that, I must say: “Good Night!”
To give Paul credit, he has quite adeptly translated a SQUEEEEE you can hear with your teeth into a purely visual medium.