Grrl Power #347 – You could buy that, of course, of course
If Sydney considers this well handled, it’s possible she’s had some sort of significant episode in the past. Really the only thing I could imagine giving her a worse fit would be something like getting stuck in an elevator with some significant sci-fi/fantasy/superhero icon like Shatner, Nimoy, really any of the main cast of some of the Star Treks or Wars, Stan Lee, Gary Gygax, Pratchett, you know the type. I’m not sure if it would cause some sort of fangasm, or catatonia followed by delayed onset fangasm. It’s safe to assume there’s at least one nerd luminary with a restraining order out against her. Maybe she just considers it a success simply because no one was harmed and she didn’t accidentally light the check on fire.
Lots of funny and amazing names shared on the prior page. It seems the easiest way to avoid some terrible name for your kid is to give Richard a rest for a few decades. Really, just sound out whatever name you’re planning a few times, consider all the nicknames, and if you have a cool last name, give the kid a cool first name, but then maybe something normal for a middle name so they have that to fall back on and they don’t resent you.
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Oh boy Sydney. Massive failure.
I’m just waiting till she realizes “Ok the comic book store is defiantly not going out of business’
What is it defying? But, putting aside that this is her money ans not the comic-store’s, the huge crowd she gathered ought to confirm that -especially if they release an Archon themed comic
It is defying its commercial failure. That actually works as a sentence, typo or not.
What is it defying? But, putting aside that this is her money ans not the comic-store’s, the huge crowd she gathered ought to confirm that -especially if they release an Archon themed comic
Well, if you go back to the first few pages, then compare to later pages, the comic book store is going to get a second story–or more–added. I bet the entire second story is ARC-SWAT action figures…with a special section for ones that have been signed, of course. I look forward to seeing Sydney start wheedling mass signing from her team mates once Arianna comes out with the action figures. So, yeah…the comic book store is going to put all competitors out of business and become The One Comic Book Store. Or something.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Sydney and Arianna worked out an exclusivity deal for autographed action figures only being available “THROUGH” Sydney’s shop. And remember, the comic shop is in a strip mall. So they probably didn’t build, they either moved or had a a new store built.
“…and become The One Comic Book Store.”
Well,that phrase reminds me of a scenario outline that was included in GURPS: Illuminati University (aka: IOU–what’s the U stand for? You’re not cleared for that). The title they have for the scenario is “One Card to Rule the Mall,” basically about a credit card that comes with making some kind of deal with Infernal Powers.
There’s a phrase hidden on the card itself that is difficult to reveal, but when the proper procedure is invoked, the phrase reads:
One card to rule them all. One card to bribe them.
One card to bring to malls, with all it takes to buy them.
Don’t leave home without it!
As long as Sydney doesn’t accept any cards like this at the store, she’ll be good.
“The One Comic Book Store”
One Store to rule the mall, One Store to find them,
One Store to draw Syd’s fans, and in their dork-ness bind them.
Doubt it. She’s not a corporal yet, and the comic started with her as a corporal role-playing in the shop.
That was only three months from now. So building another floor and such? Probably will be started in the next week or two. Chances are good she got the new rank fresh out of ARC-BOOT in recognition of her abilities and experience or whatever.
Depends on what the landlord says. I can almost guarantee you that the comic book store does not own the building that they’re in.
Yet.
Yeah, no matter what kind of a rank someone can get & no matter how quickly they can qualify for it, she’s still a recruit & nothing more until she finishes her boot camp (ie: Basic Training). This also includes whatever education level the recruit possess & can earn a higher “push button” rank right out of boot camp, but as long as someone is still IN Basic Training, they’re just a recruit.
Regular military has it run for 8 weeks, but Archon may be different…Additional schooling/training can be had right out of Basic, which can raise rank even faster.
Tried going through the comic from the start looking for the shop. In #4 you see stairs between the desk & windows, then once we start the flashback #23 shows just wall in the same spot. Thinking they most likely do not own the building, I recon they move to a new place with at least 1 more level. While there is somewhat room for stairs to be installed there, I doubt the owner of the complex will allow such extreme remodeling…
Did I Human-logic well?
If Joel & Sydney were leasing the space, they could have legally paid for all of the renovation & deducted the costs from their rental…With written permission from the owner, of course.
Yes, it IS legal to spend money to improve a rented space as long as the owner agrees & there’s a mutual benefit. The property value goes up for the owner & the expense of the renovation offsets the cost of renting for the tenants.
Just don’t try doing renovations (especially expensive ones, like the addition of stairs & a new level) on the property without getting some terms of agreement from the owner & on paper first…
There is a difference between adding a wall or two to make an extra room (or the opposite) and adding an entire second level on top
Hey, if Sydney can afford it & the owner agrees, it’s still legal.
;)
Given the small size of ARC everything, it might be in there best interest to either take over the existing lease (insert obligatory joke about how the Air Force secures a building, I know the Army and Marine service men will anyway). And or arrange for a new office location to be custom built so that the intel branches can keep en eye on anyone who shows up.
What is it with Shawn and salt?
I know, right? He should have to fill in the proper requisition forms to get some from the Saltqueen just like everyone else does. I think he has some kind of obsession, the way he keeps trying to get it informally like that. Should have someone talk to him about the problem.
In a way, Shawn IS a member of the Royal Court…They’re both on the same team, after all.
The man likes celery, and you can’t have good celery without salt
That’s actually a hoagie (before Jared shoved his giant subway down the worlds’ gullet) he is holding
I thought it was a hero holding a hero.
That’s spelled “gyro”. It’s Greek (not Geek). :D
This was told to me by an actual Greek person of Olympian descent. :P
Gyros and heros are different things. And Gyro is pronounced more like “euro”.
I loooooove gyros. :D
Gyro is pronounced.. it’s sort of a silent G. An eeroh I guess would be relatively phonetic? Or at least, that gyro. The other is jyro as expected. But, no, a hero sandwich is an actual thing.
Besides, they don’t sell gyros where I live. We have the significantly better donair, which is pretty much unavailable anywheres else in the world. Different spice mix, and beef instead of lamb, but the vital difference is the sauce, which is indescribable if you’ve never had it.
I have had gyros made with goat. Best darn gyros I ever had.
Well, the thing is, they tried to sell them here in the Maritimes. It didn’t work out too well, nobody really cared much for the taste. Someone clever got to tinkering with the recipe though, with some largely superficial differences in the actual meat – a few spice changes and beef – but it’s what’s locally termed ‘donair sauce’ that sells it. It’s got a sort of.. sweet, sharp tang, with garlic. It’s basically made from sweetened condensed milk, or evaporated milk depending on the recipe, with a few shots of vinegar to alter the consistency and a whole lot of powdered garlic. With just the right ratio of ingredients, you get a sticky paste that balances all the flavours perfectly. Throw it in a warm flatbread with diced tomato and onion, and really any type of kebab meat, and it’s rather wondrous.
It’s rare to see or hear of it outside of Atlantic Canada, though. Parts of the rest of the country have them as I understand it, but it’s practically impossible in the states. Like garlic fingers, beavertails, and poutine. A pity.
I’ve always suspected that “hero sandwich” is etymologically and culinarily descended from gyro.
They sell donairs all over Stuttgart, and presumably the rest of Germany and large parts of Europe.
Up here, it’s a “grinder”.
You’re all talking about zeps, right?
no, i think they’re talking about a Sub Sandwich… :D
Salt?!… Nah, ya’ can’t have celery without PEANUT BUTTER… THAT’S a proper Celery Stick i tell ya’.
…peanut butter is salty. Except for the medicinal salt-free peanut butter, of course.
…Medicinal? *bewildered look* Is it used as medicine or just a hospital meal ingredient?
you just made my day.
I believe it’s applied topically.
Which also means that it’s not for insertion to eyes, ears, nose or open wounds. Into the mouth is okay as long as it’s in small amounts that won’t clog up passage of air.
Don’t you mean ‘suppository’? o_O
Neither. Cream cheese. Gotta fill that half-tube with gobs of cream cheese.
And bacon. Cream cheese and Bacon on that health stick.
https://www.badideatshirts.com/Thats-Too-Much-Bacon-Said-No-One-Ever-T-Shirt-P2725.aspx
‘Nuff said…
I’m actually not a huge fan of bacon. It’s ok once in awhile, but I never got what the big deal is…
I’ll grant you that one, cream cheese IS pretty good on celery as well, though I’m biased towards PB as my fav…
ANTS-ONNA-LOG! ANTS-ONNA-LOG!!!
That’s THRAKKORZOG!
Two yaks and a dog?
Sapsucker frog?
So just to be clear about her thought process, she went from very large salary to Queen of salt because of connections between the two words? I just want to know I’m hte right level here.
Do not attempt to decipher the thought processes of The Sydney, for that way lies madness and the awakening of elder gods. :)
I know several examples of such logic. Daniel the Human admits to being 1 such example. In his words, “There’s method to my madness, & madness to my methods…”
Yeah, don’t try to figure it out. After all, those commenters that found the historical link between salt & salary have been certified as being quite mad, you know…
:P
Yes.
But mostly because she’s set up a shrine to worship the cheque, and is wearing the salt shaker like crown.
I thought that was her Unicorn horn…
i assume the reference was lost on most people, but a dictionary or Wikipedia will clear it up. The fact that Sydney even knows the origin of the word ‘salary’ is so much win on her part that I must now pledge allegiance to her as my once and future nerd overlord. Salute!
I totally agree, and for those too lazy to look it up, the origin of the word salary is the Latin word for the money given to Roman soldiers to buy salt. I’m just not clear why they were buying salt. IIRC, the Romans supplied their own food instead of pillaging, but why not send the salt with the rations? I do know that salt was expensive and as important for a land army as citrus was for a navy.
If memory serves right, salt back then was useful as an antiseptic/something to kill germs and keep wounds clean. It was also used as flavouring, though only the rich did it.
It was also a medium of exchange. People knew the value and it was very valuable. It was hard to get back then. You had to mine it or evaporate sea water both labor intensive processes. One of the ways the British controlled India was a monopoly on the salt trade. One of the ways Gandhi fought them was by making his own salt.
So much this. People always ask what you would stock up on if you knew an apocalypse was coming. While I would get basic food stuffs, I’d hit my local Costco and clean out their bulk spice selections. Pepper was worth its weight in gold at one time, and it won’t be long before people are craving seasoning. And the 50 pound bags of salt have a variety of uses.
Salt was also used by the poor as well as the rich…It’s an effective preservative for foods & well as enhancing flavor. Seasonings (& salt in particular) were pretty valuable for a looonng time because of its versatility.
It was also the basis about it being bad luck to spill salt since the salt ration that a roman soldier got was ALL he’d get for a month.
Money to buy salt? I thought it was from their literal salt ration as part of their pay.
i admit i didn’t recognize it but suspected salt and salary had something strongly to do with one another
had salary looked up in another window but hadn’t read it yet and saw this comment and went oh…ohhhhhh
Here’s what I found on the internet:
Yes, Roman soldiers were partly paid in salt. It is said to be from this that we get the word soldier – ‘sal dare’, meaning to give salt. From the same source we get the word salary, which in turn is derived from the Latin word, ‘salarium’. The salt amount would depend on rank, and what they did with it was to preserve their food, mealts in partiuclar.
The power to control a population’s salt supply was power over life and death due to the preservative qualities of salt. To sit above or below the salt identified precedence in the seating arrangements at a feast, according to one’s rank. Not to be worth one’s salt was a great insult. The Bible compliments some men as being ‘the salt of the earth’.
Salt monopoly whether once controlled by benevolent democratic regimes, autocratic fascist regimes or even socialist regimes was the scourge – the triumph – and finally the corroding corruption of all these regimes.
One of the few substances known to the ancients that could preserve foodstuffs and dead bodies was salt.
The Roman rite of contarreatio (patrician marriage) had the bride and groom share a cake of flour and salt, which stood for flesh and blood respectively, and magically transformed them – like those who in older times shared real flesh and blood – into blood kin, unable to harm one another.
the “salt of the earth” phrase makes much more sense now.
i had always been confused by the fact that salted earth is generally a bad thing.
Yeah, it’s more of a reference to a “good person” (the salt) living on this planet (of the Earth). But it’s hard to grow crops in soil with a high salt content…Conquering rulers would salt the farm fields to degrade food production in the enemy’s lands.
Only a poor conqueror would do that: because it also effectively screws them as well: what’s the point of conquering land if you make it worthless? o_O
To prove how much you have destroyed them. See what the Romans allegedly did to Carthago.
(in my opinion, it was mostly a symbolic gesture: throwing a few handfuls of salt over the earth to “damage” it… salt was worth too much to use in quantities large enough to effectively poison huge tracts of lands with it – I seem to recall having read somewhere that Carthago’s salting had been done by filling a shallow trench cutting through the city with salt)
I wasn’t there, but since Carthage was a Mediterranean port it would have been a simple (and cheap) matter to salt it with sea water. Especially with all those new slaves (the former citizens of Carthage).
There have been Egyptian Pharoahs who have threatened other nations that way; “I shall salt your fields, burn down your house & cut down your trees!”
Rape the cattle, steal the houses, and burn the women!
…wait, no, that’s not right…
There is a difference between ‘conquering’ and ‘destroying’
Way back when, conquering meant capturing slaves & talking all livestock.
“Get the sheep! Get the sheep!”
Zack Tilly: you want to leave enough so they can ‘rebuild’ so you can go back and take it again, and again, but not enough they can fight back or hire some pesky heroes to do it for them
I don’t know about Sydney, but my thought process would go something like this:
That’s a lot of money. That’s my money. I have a lot of money. I can buy anything. It doesn’t mater what it is; I can buy it. I can buy anything I see. I see salt. Well, anyone can buy salt, but I can buy all the salt. If I want it, it can be mine. I can rule all the salt. I am King of Salt.
There’s is no better investment than a single racing horse.
The costs are extravagant, but one day “Snail the Sloth Slug” will win for the sake of all hybrid-kin horses!
Or something like that.
At least the horse/slug/snail/sloth will make a nice promotional T-shirt.
Actualy horse breeding is kind of lossy as an investment currently. At least in the U. S.
comic sense activate!
Also is she the queen of salt because everyone else will be salty about her salary?
I doubt it. their all on the same salary afterall.
If I had lots of money, I would buy every game system out there and put one in each game room and play games all day. And buy lots of comics and manga! Artbooks! Display figures! Cosplay costumes! *hyperventilates*
Sydney’s going to need a bigger boat…er, I mean a bigger Cosplay Makeup Box than the one she’s got already.
Build 1 of those ultimate entertainment systems, with a massive TV & EVERY games console ever hooked up to it….
Bit of trivia the “&” comes from the latin word et and an old version of the alphabet song that ended “and per se and” and can be used for the abbreviation &c, as in et cetera.
So that’s where the name ‘ampersand’ came from, good to know
I was not prepared for the middle panel.
I scarcely managed to stay on my chair.
Bravo, sir.
The only reason I survived was that I initially thought that is what she would have done if it, not that it was what she ended up doing.
I probable would have gone into shock as well…. queen of salt.. hee.
Silly Sidney. you don’t buy a horse… You buy a horse make out of diamonds. That’s what _REALLY_ rich people do.
And then, you call it ButtStalion.
Alright, but if she starts planning on cleansing a world of bandits, someone needs to give her a time out.
Also, I wonder if you could hire Vault Hunters to bring someone in alive.
You might have to spend an inordinate amount of time explaining what “alive” means in that context. I somehow doubt they’d understand you the first time around.
I honestly think she was taking the paycheck ‘with a grain of salt’ or expecting the other foot to fall.
I do not remember exactly how much money a recruit in the Canadian Armed Forces got paid back when I was getting paid by our military, but it was definitely not a pay-cheque that I could pay off all my debts with and have lots left over, and I definitely did not get an advance. Mind you, I did not have 7 really powerful ball floating around my head either.
You didn’t live in a comic either.
Back in the 80s, as a reservist with the Canadian Armed Forces. They used to pay us in cash during summer training…I think it was maybe only around $500-600 biweekly, but as an 17 year old it was a lot of cash. While not the “king is salt”… It kind of felt that way.
I’m assuming the Junior Ranks Mess and the CANEX did well out of that system.
Keep in mind as a member of the canadian armed forces you were not roughly equivalent in power to an entire battalion of heavily armed troops or had the destructive power of an entire flight of heavy bombers fully loaded. Sydney gets paid big bucks because she IS equal or greater than all of that, same as most of the other hero types.
laughed so much I cried and almsot fell out of my chair. Glad I have office to myswelf at the moment, although I think this one will go down very well here.
I’m assuming the salt : salary link was deliberate, (if not), DaveB you have (accidentally) made one early medievalist with a nodding hint to the payment of roman legions very happy. Truly, a page that is worth its weight in salt!
Worth the weight of a printout of the page, or worth the weight of the monitor displaying the page, or worth the weight of the whole computer involved in displaying the page? Very different levels of worth there *grin*
If I could have dinner with any person I want, alive or dead, I’d definitely go with a live one.
(I think it was an XKCD, but I’m not sure).
I think a normal person’s reaction to getting stuck in an elevator with Terry Pratchett would be “OMG!!! There is a dead man here!!!”
Shachar
OMG! How could I have missed it.
I’d like to amend my previous exclamation to “OMG!!! There’s a dead Knight in here!!!”
Shachar
Just as long as it’s not a Death Knight
Look on the bright side. If the Sir Terry is dead, then somebody stole his body. You can then legitimately go kick that person’s a*s. No jury will convict you.
If the Sir Terry is Undead, he’s probably a Pratchett Undead, which is perfectly safe and he’s obviously just taking care of some unfinished business. Did you have anything better to do today than be Sir Terry Pratchett’s sidekick in one last adventure to seek redress from beyond the grave?
GNU Terry Pratchett
GNU Sir pterry
Same goes with Leonard Nimoy…He died just a few months ago.
BUT…This story is taking place way back in 2011 (https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/60 — Note the date on Sydney’s parking sticker), so Leonard should still be alive at that time in the story.
I think we’re on comicbook time though, the sliding timescale thing.
This may not have much to do with this comic in any particular way, but I think Leonard Nimoy actually enjoyed doing this music video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dULOjT9GYdQ
It stands as a testament that he was one of the lucky few who’ve earned the right to do pretty much what he wanted in the field that he worked.
Crappy song, but great video :D
It’s “Pearls Before Swine”:
https://stephanpastis.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/living-or-dead.jpg
Ok, so I’m not the only one to notice that out of all the named celebrities only Shatner and Stan Lee are still living. And although I’d wish them both many more years they are both getting up there in age.
If I got the choice to have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, I’d choose to have dinner alive. Being dead kinda makes it hard to have dinner, unless you got 1 of those necromancer things around… :P
I notice nobody is approaching Sydney while she is in her madgirl state. I wonder if she snapped out of it or Shawn finally took away her salt crown.
Yeah, notice Blondini looking at Anvil in the doorway, and Anvil saying “Are you nuts! That’s the Salt Queen in her impenetrable Vault of Saltiness!! You go get her!!!”
“Someone send for Achilles! We’ll send the immortal guy in there to try to snap her out of it. He may be the only one who can do it without suffering a permanent injury!”
“Or, at the least, we can test just how ‘immortal’ his arse really is! So, win-win all around!!” :D
Sounds good… XD
“Tentacle-org Go!” *dangles Achilles in the air*
With Sydney’s lighthook holding Achilles upside down by one ankle, our heroine clearly planning to lash him into a wall or the floor, Peggy arrives.
“So, you wanna do some more running, do you, Sydney?”
There are worse things than death.
Being tlighthook-violated isn’t automatically one of them, but the endless humor at Achilles’ expense would be.
BAH! You know that they finally sent in Peggy to deflate the situation.
I’m not really sure why, but every time I look at it I seem to black out and wake up on the floor with severe trauma to my ribcage. Can we have that panel as a wallpaper?
Agree with wallpaper. Me want it very much!
I’ll add a 3rd vote for wallpaper…
Most interesting person I have shared an elevator with was Ed Nixon. ex-President Nixon’s youngest brother. Quiet, friendly and Richard’s twin, I swear. A friend still jokes about my startled expression as I shook hands with him. Ed took it in stride. I guess I was not the first to have that stunned bunny look.
Considering we are talking about the Salt(y) Queen, she did handle that extraordinarily well (just think for a minute or three about how things could have gone… )
*meep*
Zack Tilly :D
I feel this may the only appropriate reaction to such events…
What you do is you buy a champion racehorse.
And then you eat it.
I will say shawn is taking sydney’s sudden mental breakdown rather well… its almost like events like that is a daily occurrence around him everyone else is just peaking in like “nope, too much crazy there”
Considering he is one of the ‘normals’ in a new division full of Supers, he probably just wants to salt his hoagie
Sporks!
The question is what are they made of? Titanium?
Probably just plastic.
If you’re going to lose dinnerware when your troops are startled mid-bite, you probably ought to start with the cheap stuff and save money.
Dude, is that you?
Probably not. At least your name doesn’t ring any bells, (outside of the obvious Diskworld reference, that is.)
Nah, checked with the guy. Apart from a shockingy similar name, you are not him. Oh well.
At least Sydney’s not using these:
https://cheezburger.com/8441775360/superheroes-joker-dc-scars-came-from-weird-eating-tool
She could hurt herself…
This page is awesome. That is all.
“no wild spending sprees”
all very true and correct, but i imagine that one should be allowed a smidgen of self indulgence with that kind of money. it’s only fair
Can recognize five faces the peeking around the doorway: Sandy & Wart, Blondini, Anvil, and Drenal (one of Sydney’s fellow new recruits)
Any one want to guess on the other one?
I was ready for Sydney to be ranting about all of the things she could now buy, maybe even turning into a baby Trump until someone slapped some sense into her, but this . . .
I was certainly not ready for this.
Outstanding job!
I’m just going to assume that Shawn is in there like that because that was his table she swiped to build her shrine with. It looks like he’s got a sandwich or something in his hands and so, if I’m right, he at least managed to rescue his meal from her though. Obviously, Sydney isn’t giving up her headpiece, but I wonder how the Salt Queen might react if he tried to get a different shaker from one of the other tables.
I wonder how she would react if just held his poboy in front of her and slapped the back of her head a few times…
*grabs Shawn by the ankles with the Molestorb, lowers his trousers (leaving his shorts in place)* You call that a slapping?!?!?!?!!?
POO, but if was in Sydney’s position (minus the extreme mental condition, current level is enough) would tell Mr Gold Dust to take 3/4’s of each paycheck and invest it, don’t care in what, but if the quarterly report does not show at least as much profit as would get back from a bank savings account he is fired (and better have a better lawyer than Ari), ad if it goes into the red even once at the End of Quarter he had better relocate to another galaxy
1/4 of a former years’ salary every fortnight would be more than enough for even The Salt(y) Queen to indulge her nerdage out on
Trying to hire someone to work for you and then threatening them with harm for doing an unsatisfactory job is a great way to get then to say ‘Good day. Best of luck finding someone else.”
You need to make their performance incentive based. Sydney could say she will let him keep a percentage (10%?) of any profit the portfolio makes. But his pay is based ONLY on profits, no payments otherwise. This makes him want to do a good job for both their benefits.
And this is the person carrying around equivilent of a rapid fire nuclear warhead.
I can see why they are a bit concerned. >_>
I think – until Sydney settles down – some precautions are in order.
I’m thinking of a little chain-mail jacket for the PPO with a solid titanium padlock.
Who said the mittens have to be on Sydney?
;-)
Or maybe surround it in barbed wire with a battery pack. Working like a little electric fence. :D
I am unsure she will ever truly settle down though. Mental stuff like hers don’t really go away, they just get managed better.
And she hasn’t really gone past the line so far, just walked along it and leaned a little to peek out of curiosity.
Still, even if she only uses flight, shield, molestorb and truesight she is invaluable to the team. The big gun is just gravy imo.
Can you imagine the damage she could do with a high speed electric spike ball? o_O
because she can take mental control of the orbs and cause then to smash together repeatedly until the straight jacket you put them in is nothing but shredded, smashed up bits of metal on the floor… but she still can’t do anything OTHER than that if mittens are on her hands… if she can’t GRAB a ball then she can’t use it’s powers. and we’ve not seen yet if she can cause the Molestorb to extrude the tentacle when she does NOT have it in her hand… therefore we SHOULD be able to rule out her using that orb to get rid of the mittens without having to actually GRAB the orb to do it…
I would freak out if I were in an elevator with Gygax, Nimoy and Pratchett.
…is the elevator going up or down?
The only Pratchett I can think of is the dead one…
I would love to hear the story behind that one. In a lift with a famous dead guy who didn’t die recently.
And then the elevator stops to let on Iwata…
Because they’re geekfamous or because they’re dead?
D’awwwww…. Syd is so cute in this one. XD
Wait… is that a power cord she has wrapped around her head? O_o
And what is written on the cover of the book she’s holding? “You are the 1%?”
“So you’re a 1%er now” though you can only see the “So you’re a 1%” cause her hands are covering the rest.
How about “Being a 1%er for Idiots”. Cause I’m thinking that book gets the heck read out of it.
Ahh, thought it was exactly that! XD
Looks like you may know, but if you didn’t: “Salary” actually does refer to salt, as that’s how Roman soldiers were paid at some points, so a bonus there.
Sydney should just buy a pony. A bright white pony.
No! She needs to buy a salt unicorn!
You wrote times twice in the description.
Whoops.
A portmanteau of “Oops” and “whoopy”?
Or is that a WH question, as in “Whoops do you think you’re doing?”
More like Whoops dere it is!
That would be “whoop there it is”, no s in that line.
Nope. Like “whoops”.
https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/whoops
The salt industry may be a good choice…
Maybe she can save enough to have a Pony made of Diamond!
I’m rather impressed how she tied that salt shaker to her forehead.
I admit I had to think about how Sydney would react with any of those actors or creators if she met one. The only reaction that would be greater was if she met them all at once in the elevator. The world would never be the same.
Gygax and Iwata are gaming together in heaven.
Where do you think Pratchett went? o_O
Wherever he wanted, after crossing The Dark Desert.
No, Pratchett is still alive… and waiting…
Wow. This comic never fails to crack me up.
Okay, so according to my peers in the comics, the word “salary” comes from the word “salt.” Huh, interesting.
Also, The Mighty Halo has transformed into a salt unicorn. All hail the salt unicorn!!
also, ‘worth his salt’, as a while back, people were actually paid in…you guessed it… salt.
Horses are expensive to keep and easily broken.
Yes, but they’re not really usable until they have been broken.
Also, when breaking a horse, there’s good odds that, instead, the horse will break you.
If you ‘break’ a horse, then you are a lousy trainer: you don’t need to ‘break’ a horse to train it
Watch a documentary on Buck Brannaman, the real Horse Whisperer
It’s an expression which has nothing to do with actually ‘breaking’ the animal. To break a horse for the saddle simply means to train them to allow people to ride them. A similar expression is ‘backing,’ which similarly has nothing to do with the horse backing up, it instead refers to the horse being trained to allow a rider on its back.
Actually concerning broken I meant they get sick and die easily. You have to watch what they eat, what they drink, how long they are ridden, even how fast you let them run. Basically they’re easier to kill than a hamster..
Easier to ride than a hamster as well, unless it’s a ROUS.
Yeah, but you will find many who don’t realise that it is just an expression, but an instruction
oh sydney you so random XD
Ok, she absolutely needs to have a public warning stamped on anything she wears…
No, she needs someone to proceed her warning everyone they meet that “Sydney is coming! Run for your lives!!” kinda like how some of the early motorcars had someone in front letting people know that a dangerous vehicle was coming
Instead of another superhero shirt, tomorrow she may have to wear one that says:
VOLATILE! HANDLE WITH CARE!
Sydney on a flying horse with two miniguns on the sides of the saddle would be cool
I’ll take 1 of those too… 8)
Sydney? Or her ride?
I originally meant the flying horse with miniguns, But I guess if Sydney came with the deal I wouldn’t mind. She’s already proven herself accepting of Aliens, and you know I like the ladies…