Grrl Power #1312 – Epiphonym
“…that was about the hardest thing I’ve ever done and I’ve ________________”
• sat in a meeting with the joint chiefs without rolling my eyes.
• resisted the urge to punch out a sexist MTI* during basic.
• had to learn how to put on a bra in my adolescence with wildly fluctuating super strength. Come to think of it, just pulling up my jeans was often a real potential disaster until I learned how to control my strength and speed. I can tell you I learned very quickly to keep a few changes of outfits in my locker at school.
• didn’t break one guy’s hand who grabbed my boob during drills. Oh, wait, I absolutely crushed his hand. No, Sydney! Not with my boob! How would that even… Hmm. Maybe if I squeezed his hand between my boobs then maxed out my armor…
*Military Training Instructor, basically a Drill Sergeant.
I don’t know how often first names are used in the military. I assume when there aren’t any officers around and you’re lounging in the barracks or out digging a ditch somewhere, people revert to first names for the squadmates they know. In a military hospital? I can see a doctor referring to a patient by rank, just cause it’s easier than learning a bunch of last names, or maybe it’s more formal, especially if the doctor is an officer. But I also figure there’s an even chance that when you’re convalescing in a hospital bed, someone might roll up with a gregarious bedside manner too. And probably a nurse or orderly might not be so formal, but then Peggy might not have wanted to correct a parade of hospital staff as they came through to check on her. I’m just saying, it might have been like a week or two between when she lost her leg and the first time she actually said “Peggy” outloud to anyone.
I think I’ve already done all the “Eileen/Irene/Peggy” jokes, so I’ll leave that be for now. And I know I’ve said it before, but I myself didn’t even realize naming my one-legged female character Peggy was a pre-existing joke. I think I named her Peggy because I had just learned that Peggy was shorty for Margaret, the same way Dick is short for Richard and Bud is short for Aloysius. Okay, obviously Bud is not short for Aloysius, but apparently people can just make up whatever shit they want when it comes to “X is short for Y.” Dick isn’t short for Richard, it’s a shorter and completely different name. Same thing for Peg/Margaret. Hell, I could say Riboflavin is short for Dave, even though it’s longer, because there are no rules and nothing matters.
Anyway, I thought the Margaret/Peggy thing was interesting, and I had to call her something, so here we are.
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Peggy’s missing from the who’s who sidebar.
The list changes a little bit with every reload.
Style and expressions, too…
Oh; sorry – my bad.
I see what you mean.
I’m pretty sure avalanches are only edible if you’ve got pica.
For some reason, I’m just not getting this gag. The only thing I can think of is “‘ave a lunch,” but that doesn’t seem right.
Wait, I got it: There’s a drink by that name.
So mountains in the winter are potential giant snow cones?
Where are you gonna get that much syrup?
Also insert scene from Better Off Dead. “Look at all this snow…”
Why, from any local maple trees of corse.
The maple sap only flows in the spring, and only in the trees that are still standing.
lmao that sudden realization XD
I have to say I did not see Peggy being the one to first make the Peg leg joke with her name
lol that face in panel three. Clearly Max had to channel most of her points into defense just to be able to hold back her laughter.
I think if Peggy were far enough along in recovery that she’s able to use a prosthetic, she’s probably way past needing to cover up the cuts on her face. Just saying, if they’re still bleeding, so’s the stump.
Yeah, a stump has to be pretty well healed before it will bear weight like that, I can’t see facial cuts not already being healed at that point, too. Unless maybe they’d done some plastic surgery to reduce scarring?
Someone is going to have to explain that “Avalanches are edible…., and vegan” joke, cause I’m just not getting it.
You can eat snow
Usually not recommended because it will lower your body temperature. Eat enough and you are increasing your risk for hypothermia.
Peggy is a nickname for Margaret? WTF?
Rhyming slang.
Margaret becomes Meg, and Meg gets the first letter changed so it’s Peg but Peg doesn’t sound so great so you make it Peggy.
Same with Dick. Richard becomes Rick, Rick gets a letter swap and becomes Dick.
People who make up nicknames have WAY too miuch time on their hands if you ask me.
She has to be glad she doesn’t have any Australian friends,because they *would* have given her the additional nickname of ‘Stumpy’. I’d apologise,but black humour to the level of darkest space is kind of what’s done in Australia. We had a Prime Minister drown on his holidays and we named a swimming pool after him.
It’s also possible that the healthcare workers are just too jaded to react to the Peggy joke. They’ve probably heard every amputation joke there is, especially with them being military members/military adjacent (Are military hospitals staffed only with doctors and nurses who are members of the military?).
“Peggy” at least makes a bit of sense as it’s a rhyming-slang version of “Meggy”. “Margaret” getting shortened to “Daisy” is the real head-banger.
Because Marguerite is also the French name for the oxeye daisy. So Margaret -> Marguerite -> Daisy
The Daisy link is backwards. The English name Margaret is derived from the French word for a daisy, marguerite.
The progression from Margaret to Peggy is admittedly an odd one. Margaret became Maggie, Maggie became Moggy, Moggy became pogy then Poggy became Peggy.
I thought it was Margaret -> Marge -> Margie -> Meggie -> Peggy
as a career sailor of near two decades, I can assure you first names are often used, though formally last names or titles only. my last name was odd so I was generaly refered to as MS2 which was my rank. one other ms2 on myt ship during dessert storm was called delbert, which had nothing to do with his name.
Huh. When I was in the Air Force everyone only called me by my last name. Even off duty and off base. One guy I knew didn’t know my first name till I was being discharged.
Most of the puzzling short-for names can be traced back to an old fad for rhyming nicknames. For example, “Richard” typically abbreviates to “Rick”, and from there you get “Dick”; “William” becomes “Will” and thence “Bill”; “Robert” to “Rob” and then “Bob”. I don’t know offhand, but I would bet that “Margaret” shortens to “Meg” and that’s where “Peg[gy]” came from.
what about floods? are those not edible and one of the most memorable disasters of the bible?
At least maritime floods are too salty to be eaten.
In Sweden we have “Bosse” which is a short for “Bo”.