Grrl Power #335 – Last meal. Sort of.
We’ve all done this, right? Got caught doing something weird cause you were daydreaming? I mean post-childhood. Obviously you do this when you’re a kid, that’s what kids do. Some of us take longer to grow out of it, and even have… relapses. Clearly it’s a daily event for Sydney. I do this all the time when I draw. I tend to make faces when I’m trying to get an expression right, even when I’m not looking into a mirror. I guess it helps me visualize. I admit it’s been a while since I sat around totally in a daze making sound effects. About the worst I do is randomly start laughing cause I’m thinking of some joke for the comic.
I was going to do a mini comic about Sydney eating alfredo made using ghost pepper jack cheese but I ran out of time, so… just imagine that. That would probably make Sydney cough a lot more. Chewing and swallowing spicy food is one thing, but if you choke on it and get it up into your nose or down slightly in your trachea, then all bets are off as far as your tolerance goes.
I updated the vote incentive, just with a first pass of color. I was hoping to have more done on it but the last page I finished had so many layers. :/
I tried to get the site switched over to the new hosting last night, but ran into some problems getting it ported over since the number of posts and all the comments made for a larger import than what the new system could handle by default, but I have top men on it and there should be one more brief downtime Wednesday afternoon and everything should be copacetic. There should be less down time on that attempt.
Here’s the link to the new comments highlighter for chrome, and the GitHub link which you can use to install on FireFox via Greasemonkey.
note: grrlpowercomic.com is officially moved over to the new hosting. Next will be a minor downtime for updating the backend software. but will do it when there’s no updates and slow traffic.
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Love that Peggy got where she was going straight off.
Interesting avatar. Slightly spoilt by the white box at the top, as cutting off the ears/top of the head is a bit unfortunate. But it works well enough at normal viewing resolution.
I think Peggy is a perfect ‘straight man’ for Sydney. Well read enough to get it. Droll enough sense of humour to play along with it, straight faced. But not coming across as being nerdy herself.
And I love the contrasting expressions, that go along with that. Sydney’s being as expressive as ever. But Peggy’s being more conventional. Both captured beautifully.
Of course, as she has known Maxima for years, who is a lapsed nerd, she will be used to some nerd talk.
Thats actually part of teh computer case that the cat is in, cutting off the ears and head.
Cat? Thought it was a Hamster o_O
I shudder to think of a hamster that would take up that much room in a computer case.
Yeah, there wouldn’t be enough room for any of the other inner workings, what with the spinning cage included for the hamster to generate some power.
Yup: Tech support
Also: High security erase :P
*sigh*
Tech support
“I think Peggy is a perfect ‘straight man’ for Sydney.”
Well, compared to what Peggy witnessed during yesterday’s lunch with Sydney, today is nothing as extreme…
…. Yet.
Good to have the site back up, and looking forward to seeing Halo realize that training is far tougher then musical montages have made them out to be. Soho ugh I am sure “make a man out of you” will be chorused at some point.
I will shamalessly plug this here, just because it is awesome and everyone should know about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRLreV7uVy0
“Google translate sings” videos are all pretty hilarious, I highly recommend.
Thanks for that link, seriously had tears rolling down my face from laughter.
…there’s always something that gets lost in translations…
:P
Yeah, I see Humans don’t have Universal Translation tech. Or the ability to learn languages by downloading them. Sucks a little to be Human huh? Still, least we get to see funny stuff like that cause of it… XD
My personal favorite is “Let It Go.” Some lines come through perfectly, but the titular lyric becomes “Give up”, which is a subversion so sublime it almost seems planned.
Or that line from Animal House, “You’re all worthless and weak. Now drop and give me 20!” Oh, and all the great lines from Full Metal Jacket, etc…
Most of the lines from FMJ are unfit for a PG-13 comic. Just sayin’…
Yeah, they stack the $#|+ pretty high in that movie…
I don’t know, they are in America. And don’t forget, even Rocky had a montage…
Have there always been lighting effects on Sydney’s hair from the orbs? I just noticed it.
Yup, pick a page at random, and any orb that is close enough will do that. Likewise on other people or objects.
Even a cloud once. Clearly it was a ninja pretending to be a cloud, as it could not have been up in the sky, for that to happen.
Yes, but it was very subtle. It’s more vividly coloured in this comic.
maybe the mroe Syd uses the orbs the more attuned she gets to them so the brighter they glow?
*headconnon*
I think she was just lighting up their imaginations.
Plus they are mentally controlled. Possibly Sydney was, inadvertently, activating one of the mystery orbs with her story. Somewhere in the galaxy…
… something happened.
I would laugh if one of the unknown orbs is just “lights up when user has idea to save the day”.
i feel like sydney would totally be down for that too
Headcannon?
Like this?: https://lifehacker.com/5327434/build-a-head-mounted-water-cannon
About your rehosting…
I guess it worked for The Tonight Show.
Good luck!
Maybe you only notice it in subdued lighting?
So much for Halo keeping a low profile on night missions!
She could totally get balaclavas for her orbies!
Bullets, mittens and orby balaclavas. Halo’s special vulnerabilities!
Naaa, that’s what Tubey is for. Just have them hid inside, then pull out the 1 that’s needed. True, she’ll need something she can shift them around inside without removing them to get to the bottom 1, but till then…
Maybe a redesigned Tubey, shaped like one of those cat-toys with the circular tube and a toy stuck inside? Like this: https://www.thedumbdog.com/pic/cat/catit-paycircuit-round.jpg
It could have a flip-top at one point, so she can send the orbs spinning around and summon out the ones she wants, like a lottery ball machine.
Yeah, that’ll work. Probably take some training to pull the right 1 out without looking (gotta block glow after all) & hide it quickly, but could work…
Sydney can summon a ball by mental command, so it would mostly be a case of telling it to come out the hole that was provided instead of making a new one.
It didn’t work for me! I stopped watching that show when they replaced Johnny Carson with Jay Leno.
…I never did like him at all…
Woof!
Arroo?
Oh goodie! Two puppies (just don’t sniff each others’ butts in public… or anyone elses!)
In other doggy news: Pluto has finally got his first close-up, many decades after he first appeared on film. It seems he’s put on some weight.
I do wish they would make their minds up. First it is a planet, then it is a dwarf planet. Now it is kind of a ‘big dwarf.’
Is it bigger than Gimli, or shorter? Are we talking two hobbit height? Or a hobbit on a dog height?
*shakes head*
Interesting stuff though. I am watching it keenly. And would absolutely love it if the dark side shots showed the glow of city lights. :-D
Life will get boring once we have mapped everywhere. Then all we have is microbes, buried ruins and underground dinosaurs. So still some hope yet. :)
I find it to be hypocritical in the first place that they’ve been (& continue to) specifically & officially calling Pluto a Dwarf Planet, yet insisting that it’s not a planet.
Since the “Dwarf” part of the title is a word of denotation (a label to specify something), then it means that Pluto is a specific type of planet. So if a Dwarf Planet is not a planet, then does that also mean they don’t consider a Dwarf Human to be a specific type of human, or a Dwarf Star is not a specific type of star?
I see the insidious influence of Political Correctness at work here…The use of contradiction that serves only to make true communication ambiguous & lacking in context. The only room in science for ambiguity or uncertainly is at the stage of Formulating A Theory, not when you’re addressing the public as if you’re stating facts.
Get it together guys! If scientists can’t communicate clearly & distinctly, with concise use of the language, then they lose credibility…Scientists with no credibility are not a scientists at all.
I don’t get that. Why would ‘PC’ be responsible for Pluto’s demotion? Are you saying there’s a movement to confuse language deliberately?
Wouldn’t surprise me.
Yep. It’s addressed specifically as a means of mass brainwashing, right out of the Communist Manifesto…If you care to look it up. Control how you make people USE the language & you start to make them THINK in the direction you want them to go.
It’s the basis of NewSpeak in “1984”. To the point where the entirety of the Declaration of Independence would be simply “thoughtcrime”.
I can understand that in areas such as social policy, and areas of science that have controversial implications (not naming any here, for obvious reasons). But I fail to see the evil motivations behind a decision to change the status of a very distant ball of rock & ice. People will still want to study it regardless of which category it fits into.
Perhaps “dwarf planet” wasn’t the best choice of term, and there’s an argument for leaving Pluto alone for historical reasons. But there are much better areas to look for nefarious plotting, if that’s your thing.
As far as I’m concerned about it, if they changed Pluto’s “label” to something that doesn’t include the world “planet,” or change their “Rule #3” (it’s not a planet unless it’s cleared its own orbital path of other space-debris) to allow for Pluto as a (specific type of) planet, then I’d have no complaints.
It’s their continuing insistence on maintaining the self-contradiction is what makes them lose credibility.
There’s even a term for it: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
In earlier days, they called it “propaganda”…
;)
The *real* reason they changed its designation is because its eccentric orbit carries it very close to the Kuiper Belt, which has about 7,000 rocks that are about the same size as Pluto.
So the choice comes down to:
(1) Redesignate Pluto as a Dwarf Planet so they don’t have to name every single rock in the Kuiper Belt
(2) Alternately, do NOT redesignate Pluto, and force school kids to memorize 7,009 planets.
‘About the same size’ is misleading. ‘Smaller than Pluto’ is actually more appropriate. Given that it is the largest one.
3) Revert to the historical definition. All objects of Pluto’s size and larger are planets.
If going by diameter, Eris would fail to qualify as a planet. Do not memorise 7,008 names.
Note every single rock in the Kuiper Belt is being named, albeit most of them with just a provisional designation. But once I stick a flag on a bit of rock, I have the right to give it a name rather than a number!
And if you want to argue my right to name it, I also reserve the right to poke you in the eye with my flagpole! My bit of named rock. Keep off!
Yes, but at the time when they were taking the vote to redesignate Pluto, they did not know that Pluto would turn out to be bigger than they thought.
Now that they know, they’ll probably return Pluto to planetary status. Maybe.
You’ve got an asteroid named after you already! Don’t be greedy. 8-)
Wow! And more than that I have an effect named after me! Wheee!
Clearly it must be an undiscovered superpower of mine!
By small they mean 50 km or less! Beware provoking the wrath of Yorp. For, if I can expel those from the solar system, then much smaller bipedal ones will be no problem!
Wait you have a problem with that? :P
You also have to keep in mind that the term ‘planet’ was originally a loosey-goosey bit of jargon, anyway. It started as “those lights in the sky that don’t move like the other lights in the sky”, then became “the big rocks that go around the sun that we can see through a telescope”, then got locked in as the base nine, then they tried to come up with a solid definition that actually counted as an objective standard, and at the time it seemed like Pluto didn’t fit anything that didn’t include the other Kuiper Belt objects.
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAINS
TRANSFORM!!
Sydney… Never change ^.^ We love you just as you are!
Incidentally, I *love* the design of Sydney’s imaginary alien! Reminds me of a rabbit crossed with some kind of twi’lek :)
I particularly like the fact she imagined the alien is using a hi-tech, super-advanced… adjustable spanner 8-)
Isn’t that a laser spanner? Maybe not.
Or maybe she has… https://www.starpowercomic.com/ in her web browser?
Looks like a cross between an Asari and a catfish.
Mmm.
Peggy may be in for a bit of a surprise. Hyper-actives tend towards being fitter than average. And if the fitness regime is typical military, then Sydney may be consuming more food, preferably with higher protein and fat content. I don’t see Sydney putting on a lot of muscle mass, but I do see her getting buff. More like a gymnast crossed with a distance runner. Definitely should work on her endurance, though.
“Fitter than average” < < "Military fit", though. Sydney almost certainly has a fair bit of getting fit to do.
Maybe not. We are not certain of her personal fitness routine. Yesterday and today were unusual, as it was Comic Book Day at work, and she is starting a whole new life, but she may be a lass who likes to work out for an hour and run five miles before breakfast. Being a nerd does not preclude being a fitness buff.
For myself, when I went to Army Basic Training at 17, I found it to be a physical vacation from being a farm boy, mostly because it wasn’t boring farm work. The only reason it was rough on me, was that I had gone from a balmy 68 degree F/60% humidity Minnesota early June, to a tropic 95 degree F/95% humidity South Carolina. It took two weeks for my body to acclimate to the heat/humidity change. Luckily, there was a two week delay before we started Basic Training for reals.
There’s not many personal firness routines which are better than basic training. For years I worked out religiously (as an atheist that phrase sounds odd, but you know what it means in context) at least 3 days a week of fairly intense weight lifting plus stretching and cardio, plus I jogged and played a few pick-up sports (tennis, b-ball, soccer). I was about as jock-like as you can be while still being a computer geek…
And still basic training buffed me up quite a bit. It didn’t do squat for my running, I never got a good run in basic because we all had to stay in a group, but it put a good bit of muscle on me and melted away the tiny amount of fat I had going in.
I found that basic primarily focused on upper body strength, though my 2 mile was cut significantly.
Between the pushups, the weapons pt (that was fun), the ruck marches, and carrying a weapon and a camelback all day, my upper arms and torso were sore by the end of the day. Someone who grew up working their upper torso and arms(throwing hay, carrying feed,ect) would have a much easier time.
The more protein part might be interesting for vegetarian Sydney. Mind you, when I was on Canadian military bases on a regular basis (some 30 years ago), vegetarian was not the big deal it is today. Maybe they have different ways to get enough vegetable protein in the diet without resorting to processed and cooked (but tasty) mammals and birds. I have had a couple of tasty tofu meals, but that was long after I left military service.
Lots of good and tasty sources of vegetable protein, legumes and nuts are the first things that come to mind for me. Followed by seitan, which is made from a protein extracted from wheat and commonly used in mock meats.
Red lentils are a great way to thicken up a soup and add protein at the same time.
HAHAHAHA! Sydney’s dialogue in the last panel is SO her!
Also the sequence of faces in this page is masterful. Great job as always!
If it makes you feel better, I have been told that I make lots of sound effects while doing ordinary things, like cooking . . . . . and I don’t even know that I’m doing it. ;__; (Endless entertainment for family and friends though!)
I….. had to google antipasto…. :( … I …don’t eat fancy….
I only know it as antipasti, which is aperently the plural
Like Paparazzo/Paparazzi
I don’t eat those. They are hard to stomach, as well as being healthy. I look forward to the day when they get banned.
That’s no surprise. Reptile meat is an acquired taste.
Please don’t insult reptiles like that.
Technically, they’re insects.
Antipasto? What about Unclepasto? Why does everybody forget about him?
I suppose that’s better than Matter & Antimatter. The only way to safely eat that would be to include Doesn’t Matter; it’s a kind of particle that doesn’t react to either Matter or Antimatter & should sufficiently stabilize the meal enough to prevent digestion problems.
Been reading “A slip of the keyboard” by Terry Pratchett, Here’s what he has to say about Anti-pasta
Antipasta (inspired by seeing it on an Italian menu)
“Possibly the greatest, and certainly the most expensive, food in the world. You need a massive particle accelerator and enough electricity to power Greater London just to make one plate full of antipasta because, like all antimatter, it travels back in time. Normal pasta is made several hours before you eat it: antipasta is made several hours after you’ve eaten it. If correctly timed, both can be made to arrive on your fork at the same moment, resulting in the inevitable taste explosion. In fact, most of the expense involved in the creation of antipasta is due to the cost of cleaning all the tomato sauce of the walls afterwards.”
You win a Cookie!
Sounds good. You do indeed win a cookie…
I just finished, “A blink of the screen” .. also a good read, always nice to catch another fan.
Had an “debate” with a Brit friend of mine years ago that Terry Pratchett was better than Shakespeare. She was so upset with me we didn’t talk for years. Got back in contact a few years back. She was cured of that small madness an has now happily joined the ranks of all Pratchett fans.
Don’t cross the spaghetti.
Why?
It would be bad.
I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, “bad”?
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
That’s bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks.
When someone asks you if you’re a sauce you say YES!
Mayor “Is that true?”
“Yes your honor, this man has no meatballs”
“We came. We saw. We SERVED HIS A$$…”
Well, there’s something you don’t see every day.
I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never, ever possibly destroy us. Mama Miracoli…
Nice thinking, Ray.
The explosion of marinara would be both messy and tasty.
Talk about getting (tomato) pasted…
Based on this morning’s sample, it would be a loaf of garlic bread… thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.
That’s a big breadstick.
Thatza spicy meat-ah-ball!
All foretold within the prophesy.
Thus the Flying Spaghetti Monster shall dwell within our mortal plane once again!.
Pastafarians Prepare!
This was me when I couldn’t access the grrlpower site: https://www.ultimatetop10s.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/homless_dog_funny_6.jpg
I’m happy it’s back
We’re going to try to move the site again on wednesday ;/ (foreshadowing)
Dum dum dum duuuuuuuummmmmmm
I shall have a squeaky toy ready in case of panic
*ears twitch*
*looks around eagerly*
I’m gonna get one of these https://www.officeplayground.com/Eye-Popping-Martian-Toy-P27.aspx to avoid the added stress of searching at the time…In case something bad happens.
“This site has been blocked by Web Safe because it’s listed as having malicious content. It could put your personal and financial information at risk or cause damage to your files.”
So I’m going to have to take your word for it
Psst, Sydney, tell Peggy that it’s “FettuCCinE Alfredo”
Is Duke Nukem back there eating with Harem?
Yea. Plus one other Archon member in the new uniform, on their table. And another behind Peggy.
Burgers, hot dogs and Italian nosh. The latter of which is spiced enough to satisfy Sydney. I think I would enjoy eating there.
Are they back in the food court, or is that the mess?
I’d love to see Duke pull one of his one-liners on Harem…or even better on Max.
Give me some sugar, baby. *pours it into his coffee with cream*
Probably the mess. When I was in the U.S. Army (gotta specify around this international bunch) we had two food lines. The “Fast Food” line (which wasn’t) with burgers, dogs, nuggets, etc and the “Hot Food” line with more meal like food with veggy sides, desert and all that. Fettuccine was a staple, as was any pasta dish since they could be easily cooked in large quantities. Sydney better watch out though, that FA probably has chicken in it, or something they accused of being chicken anyways…
Just wondering who decided to sit next to Sydney (there is also one beside Peggy)
His name is Goose
Goose is dead. Tom Cruise killed him.
Wonder if GOG.com has the Duke Nukem series for sale?
They had 3d for sale last time I was there, because I bought it. :)
Actually, someone told me the meaning of antipasto in Italy is “anything which isn’t pasta”, which usually translates to “appetizer”.
So Sidney’s day dream wasn’t far off mark.
Shachar
It just means ‘before the meal’, so is the same as saying ‘starters’. Well, if not for the fact that there are specific things associated with it, such as cold meats. Not normally including pasta. But that is Sydney’s dish there. So she may well have ordered antipasto with spaghetti.
Hard to say at this resolution, but the pasta on her fork seems rather flat to me so I’m inclined to think that they are fettuccine from her main dish.
Stretching it a bit, the fork in her left hand seems to be thinner and smaller than the other so it could be the entrée (*) fork.
My take is that she is playing with what left of her antipasto and her fettuccine.
Thinking about it, they seems to be in a canteen or something, maybe she brought all the dishes together.
BTW, since Sydney is vegetarian, I think that her antipasto is the fish or not meat at all variant, not the most usual but it exist.
* I know it means “main dish” in USA, I’m using the “rest of the world” meaning, ie “starter” :)
Nope, is a compound word: “anti” that means “prior to”, and “pasto” that means “meal”.
Technically, it should be “antepasto”, which gives a hint as to the real meaning – “ante” means “before” while “anti” means “against”. So “antepasto” means “before meal”. Unfortunately, the incorrect “antipasto” has become the more common spelling in English which makes it “correct” by popular usage.
Technically you might be right, but they already call it antipasto in Italy.
Or the menu I read was made for tourists.
Most likely it was made for tourists. Even as an American, I still spell it antepasto since I have a lot of Italian blood in me.
“I have a lot of Italian blood in me.” I think I’ve heard of this story. “The Rise and Fall of the Roman Vampire”. I believe his final demise came after snacking on an Italian who had just eaten an exceptionally large amount of garlic.
Vampire to his minion: “Vhat had he been drinking? My mouth tastes like the Volga River at low tide.”
I really want to see a book about an Italian vampire that’s just him complaining about how every vampiric weakness is super inconvenient if you’re from Italy. “What do you MEAN I can’t eat garlic!?” “Can’t cross running water!? I live in Venice!” “IT’S SO FUCKING SUNNY IN ITALY WHAT DO YOU MEAN– WE’RE IN THE GODDAMN MEDITERRANEAN OF COURSE I’LL BURN UP IN THE SUN”
At least if this vampire had a girlfriend named Bella it would fit the location.
Or you could set it in the American south and have an anti-Bella (antebellum, whichever).
“This summer, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll get hungry at this hilarious romp about a lovable vampire in Venice who just can’t seem to catch a break.
Happy Madison Productions presents Adam Sandler as…
Un Vampiro a Venezia”
And it’s just an hour and a half of him being Opera Man with the correct thematic.
*singing in opera* I am so hungry but I cannot get food, I ask for no garlic and they think that I am rude
At night, I stalk the ladies for their blood it is so sweet, but then they just cross the rivers underneath our feet
And then…the sun comes and sends away the dark…so I’m forced to sleep in the bathroom of a park
The lonely afterlife I lead, it is not great…but it is my punishing fate.
Typically outside of cooks, most people don’t know the difference between the various types of noodle pasta out there. Try talking to people about the difference between spaghetti and linguine…
Also, it’s maccheroni (despite my spell-check) not macaroni… English does bastardize the spelling of many words from native languages.
I think most people know spaghetti vs. linguine, but they might not know e.g. linguine vs. fettuccine. I may be the exception since I love noodles in all forms. (Not just Italian but all the various Asian ones as well.) I’ve impressed people in the restaurant business with my knowledge of obscure pasta shapes…
I can name loads of them…
A, B, C…
Alphagetti does not count!
Sure it can.
I actually had a discussion with someone once who thought linguine was the flat noodles with ripples in it (I.E. they thought if you cut lasagna so it wasn’t so wide it was linguine, which at best would be rigenette). They thought penne and rigatoni were the same thing, and also didn’t know that certain types of noodles suit better sauces. Essentially, they thought that spaghetti was the dish itself (as in the noodles and the sauce, not just the noodles themselves), and that those kinds of noodles could be used for everything from marinara to alfredo to bolognese.
That day, I opened them up to a whole new world of Italian cuisine.
Actually it’s indeed “antipasto”.
You are right about the prefix. The Italian prefix “ante-” comes from Latin and means “prior to”. The Italian prefix “anti-” comes from Greek and means “opposite to”.
But in modern Italian, many compound words inherited from Latin changed along time from “ante…” to “anti…”. So nowadays the prefix “anti-” is considered to have also the “prior to” meaning, depending on the word.
Everybody should start spelling it “ante” instead of “anti” to separate the two again and make it less ambiguous… It’ll change back if we all agree on it.
Am I allowed to dissent out of spite? :V
Yes. Spite is a valid reason. I, myself, have done many ultimately pointless things for the sake of spite.
So if there is a tendency for words to change from ante to anti, then someday we will take our kids to the zoo to see the antilope and the antiater?
They might cry, if they see them eaten by the antlion.
Visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antelope and mouse over the languages in the left bar — and it’s either a variant of “antilop” with “i”, or a completely different word, or (for 2 languages) “antalop”, or (for 3 languages) “antelope”, those languages being English, Scots and Bahasa Melayu.
And uniformity justifies deformity, you know, so nothing wrong with spelling it “antilope”.
Aww, I love those.
Or as I know them, raw biltong.
Nope, it’s wrong no matter how many people misuse it. Antepasto is the dish before the pasta dish, as was explained to me by our Italian exchange student. ‘Ante’ is used in antebellum, antedeluvian, and by itself as the money you have to put in the pot BEFORE you can get dealt a poker hand.
On a side note, I almost fell down laughing when he told me that a single strand of spaghetti is a spaghetto. I love it. So, you have a single macarono or fettucino. Just… after so long not knowing what to callo a single spaghetti noodle and learning there was a word… it struck my funny bone. Likewise, one Italian sandwich is a panino. “Panini” is plural. I’ve been to a paninoteca (“sandwich place”) in Milano. Super yum.
About the vote incentive. Is it wrong of me to want her to exceed the stress limits of those clothes? I feel like the shorts at least are about to have a total systems failure. Their held together by very little and one flex from those thighs would totally destroy them.
I have been strongly trying to do not think about that :)
Have you managed to keep it up?
Ahhh basic… “Hurry up and eat Privates! Don’t bother tasting your food now, you’ll be puking it up later!”
Brings back memories
*curls up in a corner sobbing*
Although, going through Basic the second time wasn’t as bad…
“Hurry up and eat Privates!”
vs.
“Hurry up and eat, Privates!”
Use proper punctuation & save lives…
Eats Shoots and Leaves – the punctuation pedant’s Bible.
I’ve never been in basic (didn’t get in because of reasons) but spent 3 years in a Military Academy. We had to run a mile in gym but never had the puking problem. In fact never been much of a puker. During at least 2 of those years I never weighed more than 80 pounds despite eating like I had a tapeworm. Today I eat normal and I gain weight. Getting old sucks. I have managed to lose some lately by going hungry and regular exercise but I LOVE food so it’s hard and I backslide a little now and again. I hope to break 200 by the end of the summer.
Sydney has her eating hair on!
Well spotted. And well remembered, to both you and DaveB.
I am also known to keep the pasta, antepesto and pesto separate in the fridge. I mean nothing is going to happen. But as with ninjas it’s better safe than sorry.
Actually something might happen, if you were not to. You might die.
Given that one does contain uncooked meats, and the other may contain cooked meat. Basic food hygiene requires that you keep the two well separated, to avoid the risk of cross contamination. Potentially resulting in food poisoning. So you are following sound principles in doing that, even if you were saying it mainly tongue in cheek.
Needless to say, if it is a cooked tongue, you should finish eating it, rather than storing it in your cheek.
Unless you are some kind of squirrel?
*examines PlanetNiles extremely suspiciously*
Gasp!
Some kind of ninja squirrel?
I’m more worried that antepesto and pesto will cancel each other out and cause a huge explosion.
More likely an implosion!
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‘Nuff said…Or seen…Or whatever.
But pasta with pesto is delicious!
Very good. Love the faces and the banter. Thanks, Dave.
Oh hey, it’s duke nukem, what’s his power, being overly sexist?
It’s Goose. One of his super powers is the (unfortunate) similarity in looks to a well known game icon.
No, really, she should savor that fettuccine. It’s a good idea to carb-load before a workout.
And I think we’ve all choked on our own spit at times.
Did you hear about the guy ate a diet of nothing but pasta and antipasto. He starved to death.
Unless he did not eat all of the antipasto, I find that hard to credit.
Clearly there is no chance of them simply negating each other, to result in starvation. Physics would prohibit that. The energy would have to go somewhere. A nuclear-like explosion would have hit the headlines.
He didn’t actually starve to death…He pigged out at an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet & his stomach collapsed into a black hole, dragging the rest of him into it.
Hm. A man does wonder. Am I forgetting someone, or is that really Duke Nukem in the background of panel 6?
His handle is “Goose”, but I am pretty sure that his colleagues would call him “Duke”, as a nick-name, due to his likeness. Although that is probably discouraged.
DukeGoose himself might not like it. I am sure that Arianna will want to distance him, from the rival brand. She will not want the kids looking for Duke Nukem action figures, they need to collect “Goose”, to complete the set!Unrestrained violence is not good for a police image either. And I think Maxima would agree with her on that score. Plus, if he tends to have misogynistic language (going by other comments), Maxima would not be too keen on promoting the connection for that reason.
Odd, I’m drawing a blank. I don’t remember him being introduced.
So far he has been a background character, but he has appeared often enough that Dave has mentioned him in comments. He is one of the space marines, so was one of the first non-covert members of the team that Sydney got to see, other than Maxima. But Maxima flew Sydney directly to Archon, rather than them going by helicopter, with the marines.
Plus he was at the restaurant and Sydney was providing him cover, with her shield. So they sort-of met, but have never been formally introduced.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1476
Check the Who’s Who and comments.
Thanks for the link. I missed it the first time, but that page also settles the question as to how Sydney’s shield works. Space Magic!
It’s not too late…
…to whip it…
…whip it good!
Mmmm, Devo…
But only Al could “Dare to be Stupid”!
Ah. The joy of military life.
Or as I call it: “The only reason I’m here is because I don’t want to go to jail”.
(When I did my military service there was a mandatory draft here, so…)
DaveB, as someone who likes food as spicy hot as Sydney does (my friends who read the comic sometimes compare me to her in that regard), ghost pepper jack cheese (which I’ve made at home, cuz it’s not found in stores that I can see) is not exactly hot… All the fat in the cheese cuts the heat down considerably. Bare in mind, this is coming from someone who will put 3 diced ghost peppers in a bowl of home made chili.
The most ghost pepper jack would do is provide for her (or it does for me) about the same amount of heat as regular pepper jack does for normal people.
Y’ll are missing/ignoring the most important part of this comic. Sydney is being drawn nearer to life-like than ever before! Her eyes (while not down to normal human size, like Peggy) are smaller than ever before. Her neck is still a little long and thin, but almost looks like it could support her head here. Her jawline has actual round curves as opposed to being a quick set of line segments used to quickly frame whatever exaggerated mouth expression she’s making. Her face is looking a lot less like home plate in baseball. And her mouth is actually integrated into her face, with occasional lip-like structures. (It also helps that her reality-breaking hair is pinned back so we can not see it flouting the rules of physics and geometry.)
Mind you she’s still obviously the only anime character in a world full of realistic humans, but she’s much more tightly integrated into the art sensibility of the strip in general here. I’m excited to see it, as it feels like DaveB’s art is leveling-up. It seems to indicate that he’s less likely to introduce stylisms as a shortcut for the sake of expediency, and more likely to use them strictly for artistic effect. Great job, DaveB!
Hmmm, yes. Both Sydney and Peggy have shifted well away from the styles they were drawn in at the restaurant yesterday.
Have done that. (both caught at daydreaming in general and this specific way, and was questioned about it not being close enough as well. I have also, though not at the same event, said gulp with a mouth full of food and choked on it. sigh)
Hell i am over 40 and i day dream when i boored
Ignoring the Pasta – Antipasta annihilation, I just want to know one thing:
Is that CHOCOLATE MILK that Sydney is drinking along with her Italian meal? My taste palette can’t handle the stress.
Milk is one of the better things to quench a fiery mouth, if your meal is spicier than you expected. Sydney probably orders milkshake, out of habit, if it is on the menu. Personally chocolate milkshake is my least favourite flavour though. Often it has a gritty after-taste, plus it is usually inferior to the real stuff.
My favourite ones tend to be green, be it melon or lime. But they are always a rare find.
No love for the mint shake?
Actually I make an alcoholic hot one, it is my signature cocktail.
As a real world firey food affecionado on the same level as Sydney, Yorp is correct. Milk is a great way to cut the spiciness of something if it turned out to be too hot… In addition, so is sugar, and chocolate milk is both.
Basically, capsaicin, the chemical that makes spicy food spicy, is lipophilic. This means that it readily and eagerly bonds with lipids, which are fats, oils, waxes, etc. So the fat in milk (whole milk works best, skim milk doesn’t work at all) will cool down the heat a lot.
I’m not sure why sugar helps, but it definitely does, especially when combined with milk.
Funnily enough, I can definitely confrim that last. Just tonight, my wife was making Green Curry for the first time, and the instructions specifically state that adding sugar reduces the hotness of the mix. When she told me about sugar, I was most surprised.
(She didn’t de-hot the curry enough to suit herself or our daughter, but it was fine for me ;) )
Chocolate milk… In basic it was the most popular drink in the dining facilities. Other options were white milk, juice, or Gatorade.
As the saying goes: growing older is mandatory, growing up is optional! :D
Duke Nukem in the background? heh
I just noticed everyone is wearing a choker. Why is that?
Those chokers incorporate some electronics & transmitter/receiver circuits for person-to-person/team communications, when normal talking won’t work (say, during battle conditions when people are spread out over large areas).
I’m sure Arianna has thought of adding a shock feature to Sydney’s collar in case she gets into a swearing binge someplace where the media might be recording, or for doing something like interrupting the president.
She already had something like that for Dabbler…We saw it at yesterday’s press conference: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1004
DaveB: “…but I have top men on it…”
Who, exactly?
“Top. Men.”
Oh, ok…
….Sydney’s bukkake face….the alfredo on her glasses just make it worse….
I think that’s just a reflection on the glass.
Surprised that Sydney didn’t spit up on Peggy…uh that WOULD be something???
“…the alfredo on her glasses…”
You mean the tears from her right eye?
“There should be less down time on that attempt.” Translation: We should be back up some tims next year. :D
No no NOOOOOO!
You do your backup before your upgrade. In addition to your regular back-up schedule.
The only other time you back-up is if you miss a paparazzi, on your first pass.