Grrl Power #397 – We’re here to get your blood flowing in the mornings!
Dabbler may eventually get a talking to about leaving her sexual jetsam all over the place, but definitely not till after that gag has run its course. :) Sexual Jetsam is of course the new name of my non-existent band.
I’ve tried working out in the mornings, but I’m just not wired for it. I mean, I’m sure I could do it if I really really had to but it’s about 73rd down the list of things I’d rather do in the morning.
You know I think that Cupps place would be pretty popular. Sexdecuple means 16 when counting by uples, to save you guys some googling. A Nuple is 0. I almost went with unvigenuple cause it sounds really weird, but 21 pumps of caramel sounded overboard.
Don’t forget to check out the Valentines Day Sex Drive post, all of them are NSFW obviously, so hunch over your monitor if you’re at work.
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I’m liking those Cupps… :-)
It’s like Hooters if it were a coffee joint. Why is this not an actual thing?
DaveB should let the comic take the backseat for 2 years while setting up his Cupps(™ pending) Franchising host company so he sell it off and leisurely publish the comic to his heart’s content.
Well technically the second he made the sign and name in his comics it became copyright, as per copyright laws. Since that goes into effect the second he writes it down, and has verifiable proof that it was part of his intellectual property. Which he has a comic, so covered.
As for Trademark Laws, it’s acquired automatically when a business uses a name or logo in commerce. He has a Paetron for his comic Which means that he’s made money, where the name Cupps and it’s logo was used.
So TM isn’t pending XD ^_^. Although going to USPTO to get it registered, rather than common law protection might be a thing.
Copyright doesn’t work that way – the comic as a whole is copyright, but the name on its own is not copyright, and the logo probably isn’t – it’s a relatively minor element of the webcomic.
As for the trademark, Dave has established his usage of the name and logo for a fictional coffee-shop, so can continue to use it even if an actual coffee shop starts using the same name and similar logo. To prevent others from using it, he’d have to register it as a trademark and actively defend it against infringement – undefended trademarks lapse automatically, as do trademarks that are not renewed.
In many ways, trademarks and copyrights are opposite – copyright exists automatically on any published work and lasts for a fixed (pending further lobbying by Disney etc) term without any action required. Trademarks have to be registered and defended, but can be renewed indefinitely.
No trade marks happen automatically as due trademarks.
Both have a common law, and a federal version [which offers stronger protection than Common Law]. Copyright protects Intellectual Property (which this comic is. And the stores, while only a setting / place holder for various things to happen. Are technically intellectual property. In a way).
But doesn’t cover businesses.
Trademarks, cover a business, or logo used in Commerce [which since this comic is being paid for by Paetron, and he is making money off the comic itself. The stores could technically, be seen as part of the trademark that is Grrlpowercomic.].
Though you are correct that Copyright and Trademarks are different. In that in US Law:
Copyright:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102
and
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/103
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/301
[Common Law]
Trademark:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/trademark
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Technically the use of Cupps was in a Visual Medium, and part of a comic book universe. Thus copyrighted [since it is an extension / derivative of the copyrighted work].
But on a more technical level. Since people pay Dave B to fund Grrlpower Comic, it could be considered commerce. And Cupps is a word, has a symbol, and a logo in which people identify as part of his comic, Thus trademark. At least under Common Law.
>undefended trademarks lapse automatically
This is a catastrophic mistake in our law. This is why we don’t have a massive doujinshi industry – no one can do a Batman comic without a bigfoot letter from DC – in JAPAN they don’t do this – hence a comix biz beyond our comprehension.
It is. There’s a bikini barista coffee shop in Fairfield, CA, called Cupps.
I’ve also read a few news articles about coffee shops which went to a bikini or other revealing clothing marketing format.
I live in Seattle and there are quite a few of them. At least one I know of got shut down for offering services other than caffeine based beverages around back.
Dude you throw a rock and you hit a coffee shop. In Tacoma they keep the bikini ones out on the boarder. Yes there are several that have been busted for offering services other then coffee mostly up in Lynnwood and Edmond’s for some strange reason. Something in the water up there.
nah, it’s that things out on the “borders” are usually in “unincorporated” portions of the counties/cities so the really strict rules don’t cover them, but blatant stuff like prostitution does get slammed.
as for the bikini barista places, they’ve got a few in the Kent/Des Moines road by I-5 area as well.
I’m just waiting for the crack-down that’ll happen once one of the marijuana places gets caught selling to under-agers…
I’m not surprised there have been multiple closings for that. I just know of one for sure. As for the pot dispenseries, I kid you not, in the two mile five to work down highway 99, I passed at least 5 or six of them. They’re popping up like weeds. (See what I did there)
wasn’t that the one up in the Everett/Marysville area? i thought i heard about one up there that got shut down, but I’m not a follower of the news media and only heard bits-n-blurbs in the references i did catch.
It was a chain all owned by the same person so all of the ones they owned in Snohomish. As far as pot goes the states doing a decent job of locking it down in the shops. There is still a gray market which they need to deal with but it is manageable as compared to what it was before.
Oh Dave if you come up here it is pronounced Snow home ish and the one everyone messes up in Peirce country is pronounced Pew Al up for Puyallup. There is also Skykomish which is easy Sky ko mish. All of which have city and rivers named for them and one is a county as well.
Looked it up on Yelp. It’s closed.
There needs to be a Hooters version of everything. Donut shops, ice cream parlors, full service gas stations, car washes…
‘Cupps’ reminds me of stories like this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2BGxsOggAQ
Soooo much “moral” outrage. Bottom line: Is their attire violating any laws? If yes, they must correct it to comply with those laws. If no, then shut the f*** up and stop trying to make trouble for local businesses. In other words, if it’s legal on the beach, and there are no laws restricting beach attire to only beaches, then it’s legal all over the state, even if you aren’t used to seeing it in some places.
What’s next? Arresting some poor girl for trying on a bikini at JC Penny because she’s in a mall and not at the beach? Think of the children that might walk by and see her modeling it in the mirror!!! The horror!
Cool, in NY State, requiring women to be top covered at the beach was ruled unconstitutional in 1992. Women boobs and Man boobs have equal protection under the law.
Best. Ruling. EVER!
With as much trouble as Sydney is having now, she’d better get the Double-D size…With a lid & straw “to go.” Well, she has less than 15 minutes to get on the track, ya’ know.
On the bright side, if she spills it on her shirt, she can say that she wore a DD-cup this morning…
This is me like every morning, except that I don’t get coffee. I pound at least one, sometimes 2 energy drinks.
That doesn’t really tell us much about your consumption, since different energy drinks vary widely in caffeine dose. (From the equivalent of a single expresso shot to the equivalent of six, so far as I’m aware, although some may be even stronger)
Usually it’s Rockstar Recovery Orange, though when unavailable I have been known to partake in anything from AMP to Monster. One time though I pounded 2 5-hours at once expecting at least 7 hours of energy. Instead, I got 3 hours of hyper-active anxiety followed by a 6 hour crash.
Ah, OK. One can of Rockstar Recovery Orange has 160mg caffeine in it, roughly the same as a double espresso. https://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-content/rockstar-recovery-energy-hydration
To do a Sydney, you’d need to pound four.
I feel you sister.
[With my monster milked coffe]
I did that once. Felt like I swallowed the PPO.
kind of felt that way after eating a whole ghost pepper before asking what it was and alekay five extra shot, extra caramel, white chocolate caramel latte venti with vanilla flavor is a nice first cup of the day.
I was wondering what she was doing there. I find it off-putting in a comic-book-presentation-sense that her presence at Archon has to be explained by DaveB rather than shown.
She was last seen in the nightclub with Dabbler, who we know had someone to keep her company last night. Personally, I prefer that the connection was left for the reader to infer at this point. It might be clarified in a couple of pages if someone else comments on it (Max asking Dabs to make sure they get home instead , of cluttering HQ, Math asking if he can join next time, etc)
She was last seen serving Halo, she’s Jeannie (greenie) the waitress. The only connection to Dabbler is Halo talked to Dabbler about her.
The fact that she’s laying on the same couch as the last guy Dabbler ‘ate’ should be clue enough to figure out why she’s there.
Part of me says Math wouldn’t be allowed to join in, since Dabbler isn’t allowed to “wear out” her team mates & leave them useless, but another part is remembering Math was ordered to stare at pics of boobs till he no longer gets distracted by them, so maybe Dabbler having her way with him will help there…
…Or leave him comatose with a serious Joker smile, 1 or the other…
Actually that order to ‘look at porn’ needs to be amended. It won’t work as intended. Porn works on endless variety – Math will take a very, very long time to get jaded because there will new and different boobies just a click away.
A more effective order would be to require him to attend (and PASS) a nude figure drawing class. Staring at a naked woman while doing a complex task requiring higher-order brain function (realistic figure drawing) will eliminate his distract-ability in about two or three classes.
Wouldn’t work for me. It’s been more than 40 years and I’m still not able to draw a recognizable stick figure. If I’m lucky they get the correct number of legs…
“Mr Mathius, this is the 3rd time you’ve taken this course – under orders to do so & PASS – and yet all we get from you are really bad drawings stained with drool marks & nose-bleed blood. Now, this time, can you please take this seriously…”
If you fail a required training course multiple times, you may be reassigned to a position that does not require that skill set. I am sure Math would love becoming a hand-to-hand combat teacher, but with no possibility of field work. He is even more distractable than Sydney in specific situations.
If everything has to be explained in-comic for those who can’t figure some things out themselves, nothing will ever happen
It probably would be a little easier if we were reading it all in one go, as in a book, rather than seeing only two pages a week. I don’t know about anyone else, but with the Deus interview and everything, I had totally forgotten about Sydney discovering that Dabbler was having a snack.
That was the problem I also had. All those weeks with the Deus interview made me forgetful of those little details, yet in terms of the comic it’s a mere few pages. Wouldn’t be much of an issue if this was read in one or two sittings. So, yeah, I have little to no problem with Dave making a small blurb in his description or, if he has the will to go through all those pages, link to a previous page for reference, as opposed to spelling it out in the page itself.
Hee hee! “The Crumb Shelf”.
The left sign has their serving sizes going from (unshown) to ‘D’ and ‘DD’.
Which although sexist is far more understandable than the pretentious Starbucks system.
That’s when you connect Cupps to a hot dog shop with scantily clad men serving them up called “Schlong’s” I’m not being sarcastic there. I don’t seriously mind the women getting some eye candy to enjoy. What’s fair is fair.
Banana hammock = Hot dog holder perhaps?
It would have to be an ice cream bar with a name like Banana Hammock, and the specialty would be the Banana Split.
Well ice cream and pastries are right up there for pretty much everyone but the dedicated carnivore.
According to some vegans eating dairy is equivalent to eating meat so not much of a difference. Actually they do have vegetarian hot dogs and sausages so you don’t HAVE to be a carnivore. I really like a good sausage or hot dog (emphasis on GOOD) and ice cream is a great desert especially if you ate a really spicy one.
Vegetarian hot dogs and sausages scare me. I look at the ingredient list and wonder if it’s even edible. I know, hot dogs are called mystery meat for good reason, but most actually do use quality cuts so they can charge more. When the ingredients list is longer than War and Peace I get concerned. I just want my meat damn it!
Often the meat that goes into hot dogs is small pieces that can’t be used for steaks or roasts, etc., such as cheeks, neck muscles, lower leg muscles, etc.
Is that Blondini peeking over the shoulder of Mister Mysterious in panel six?
Wait, so, Dabbles just dumps her leftovers on the breakroom couch when she’s finished with them? That is sooo not cool!!!
With Dabbler, the only way you’re getting any rest is to get OUT of her room.
Dabbler might need to get assigned TWO rooms. One for her – and one for her partners to get some actual sleeping done.
My first guess would be Vance. You know, he who might be full of spiders? My second guess would be that he or she is just an innocent civilian bystander. Notice the wide-eyes, the peeking around Mister Mysterious, and the phone out to capture a snapshot. All of that implies it’s someone reacting to the sight of a celebrity, not one of Sydney’s teammates.
I know, it was the lady that was walking Yorp Tuesday morning!
Things I prefer to do in the morning:
1. Play computer games
2. Watch Anime
3. Read Webcomics
4. Sleep till noon
Mornings technically start at midnight right?
No, mornings start at 6am. 12 is noon, 6pm is evening, 12 is night
Actually evening is night, and not 6 PM, rather whenever sun fully sets. 12 am is Midnight. And the start of the new day. Although morning isn’t until sunrise. Since part of the year has steadily longer days till the summer equinox, then steadily longer nights till winter equinox.
But yes, 12 PM is noon / mid-day.
Nah, “morning” is anytime between midnight-to-noon. Otherwise, no one would be correct if they referred to “1 in the morning,” or even “4 in the morning.” These times are typically before sunrise-morning.
Morning is when you get up.
Night is when you sleep.
Screw what the clock says!
It ain’t the next day until I have woken up after sleeping. I don’t care if the clock says 4am
LOL if morning is when you get up & night is when you sleep, then how does that work for Daniel the Human? He does a “night shift” job, so he wakes up about 5pm & gets to be about 7-9am. People have even called him Vampire…
The terms day & night are artificial constructs just like you screwy.
For me, Danny and others like us our “day” occurs when it is dark outside.
And our “night” happens when that evil ball of fire is high in the sky.
Wait, so if you & Daniel the Human have your day during the night, & your night during the day, that would mean you have breakfast at dinner time, & dinner at breakfast, yeah but then…
but how…
I’m not an artificial construct, I’m a real Cybertronian…
Who was your mommy and daddy/
Or did you come straight from the show room floor.
I was a spark that ended up in a protoform, a small one apparently, that’s all I know. Seems there’s a few ways new Cybertronians are created…
Thinking that Sydney’s prescription would jumpstart a comatose T-Rex,
Heck, comes to that, it’d probably put a DEAD T-Rex into gear.
Especially if she gets the Triple-H cup. You know, the size of cup Triple H wears in the wrestling ring…
O.o
Some how MD I always knew you went in that direction.
With as little as those guys wear, you can’t escape noticing at the very least, regardless of your own personal preferences…
That, and when he tells people to ‘suck it’ every once in a while. :p
Ouch… this hits a little to close to home for me. I’ve had Starbucks cut me off after 12 shots of espresso and I had to switch to sugar free. >.>
That’s nothing here in theuk we do a weard volentery extra two years of highschool where you do collage work. A lot of them also have a brake room for these students aprpching my exams the fist year I took in a coffee maker in one day of rivishion I brank 8 pots of coffee. Only stopped when a trend took my coffee maker and locked it in her locker to stop me
Just going by your post, you in the UK would seem to really need those additional two years of high school before going on to college. Because there you might have to write an actual paper for your English class.
Either that, or your hands are shaking so much from your caffeine buzz that you just can’t work a keyboard/cell phone.
No I just happen to be dyslexic you abalist git
That’s no excuse at all, you limey cocksucker. I have dyslexia myself, and I am still capable of using a spell checker and correcting my frequent typing errors. So really, what was your lame excuse again?
People, and I use that term loosely, please be civil.
As for the Dyslexia as an excuse, please don’t, that makes the rest of use who put a lot of effort into coping look bad.
Either admit that you can’t be bothered or that have issues getting the spell check to work properly on whatever system you are using.
Yeah whenever people do that it irritates me too. My sister managed to get into college before she found out she had a form of dyslexia. The entrance exam showed the problem and she went from a B student to getting academic scholarships to become a teacher all while raising a newborn. she recently went back after her child entered college and got her masters. While she is my baby sister and she had some issues growing up (she was an unwed mother) I am VERY proud of her.
I am not only impressed by your sister’s achievements, but by the fact that the entrance exam managed to identify her challenge so that she could overcome it with such elan.
“Limey cocksucker”? He doesn’t look like Lon Chaney…
condolences last time they tried to cut me off I smiled wwwiiiiiddddddeeee and asked “please don’t” getting a free extra shot in my next peppermint mocha
Interesting. What is greenie doing here? I love how Sydney is to tired to even notice that something is wrong there
Speculation:
She’s somehow part of Archon?
Dabbler took her home as snack?
Dabbler took her home for other reasons?
I think she’s what DaveB’s “sexual jetsam” comment was about. That the waitress who is really an alien spent a night with Dabbler.
A, I missed that connection
Dabbler took her home as a “snack”. Read DaveB’s blog post accompanying this update. As such, she’s the one with Dabbler in https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1952.
After eating human for so long, Dabbler was in the mood for something exotic.
Naw, Dabbler would never get tired of eating human. She is an humanitarian!
That barista has the distinctive physique of a super.
Did she wash out of training?
Have a power with no tactical value?
I’m sure there are some super fit non-supers still around.
The company probably only hires “people” with a certain body type.
Maybe cups is a grunt for arc dark if they work at the building anyway no one is going to foment on them being there
Nah.
Cupps and Luftwaffles are “space marines” in disguise.
Fusion is bio/chem warfare team.
LOL Um, I didn’t know you could get so many 7 to 9 feet tall waiters around here…
She’s certainly got a very super physique.
The most useless superpower I can think of is chromatic hair.
(Instant hair color change.)
I think the most embarrassing power would be that any and all items of clothing you put on automatically become invisible while you yourself are always visible.
triggering a food to spill and stain clothing but only on yourself has it beat
Or the “SPLEEN” with lingering odor.
her power is that she makes really awesome coffee. Kind of like this girl.
https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070618#.VsJbWvkrK01
keep going forward for the next few pages to see just how awesome the coffee really is.
Another couple of awesome baristas are Tina at Mucho Mocha and Hannelore at Coffee of Doom.
I really like Hannalore. And I’d love to ease her into normal sexual interaction. Might have to become a firefighter to do it though.
Yeah, Hanners is the kind of person that would have to take time getting used to seeing big hoses getting lugged around all day…
False advertising!
No way those cups are C!
Actually, my wife wore ‘C’ cup bras…And that server is pretty close to the same proportion as my wife.
Apparently the lettering can swing wildly by brand. https://wapsisquare.com/comic/cups-and-bands/
This one made me laugh out loud! I even love the menu! It’s not quite what I thought was going to happen though.
When we first see Sydney here, I wondered if she was still so drowsy that she might have forgotten to put her pants on. It looks like she’s still wearing the T shirt she went to bed in, after all. I kinda thought the last panel was going to be Peggy pointing this out and Sydney having to make a mad dash back to her room.
Yet again, I am proven wrong. Is it any wonder I never win the lottery . . .
Archon isn’t so new that the Cupps shop hasn’t already given them a discount…AND have probably seen more than a few Archon members show up in a state of nearly-semi-dressed on some mornings.
Oh gods do i feel ya Sydney! I am happy we back to Sydney, though I love all the characters you have created here DaveB. *looks up at my post* … yeah I need some of that coffee now myself lol.
Jeannie the greenie looks adorable. Even the little line of drool is kind of cute. Poor thing. Plumb tuckered out, looks like. And kudos to Syd for winning five bucks for her mysterious supporter.
Thanks, DaveB.
For all we know that cute drool could have mild mind altering affects on humans that even Jeanie the greenie is unaware of and the supporter is probably max
Yeah, I’m not willing to experiment. Just noticing. And I agree about Max. Nerd solidarity. ; )
I’m curious why she would not have simply fallen asleep in Dabbler’s room. Does Dabbler hate to actually sleep with someone else? I would not have guessed that would be a succubus trait, given how erotic it can be simply waking up next to someone you’re banging.
It’s possible that Jeannie and Dabbler wasn’t the only ones in that bed, and that once she was exhausted she found her bed mates, who was still going at it like rabbits on crack, a bit annoying. If the sounds doesn’t keep you awake the shaking of the bed will. That sofa probably looked quite inviting to Jeannie as she managed to flee from the succubus bedroom…
I like that whatever ‘chameleon/masking’ tech Jeannie is using is sophisticated enough to translate ‘morning after alien’ into ‘morning after human’
I’m more impressed that after a long and no doubt exhausting romp with Dabbler that she still managed to get completely redressed before falling asleep on that couch. I’d expect more like a bare leg poking out under a blanket or something.
xurial dressed her before moving her to that couch before calling in course two of her five course banquet last night like she put pants back on the stylist before dropping him in the lounge before.
I’ve heard the Air Force gives pilots amphetamines… only she’s already on amphetamines…
Also, alien or not, what the hell is Jeannie doing on Archon’s couch?
Same thing the Barberian did yesterday
More like sexual flotsam, ’cause they be wrecked, am I right?
Huh? Huh? Anybody? No?
…
I’ll just take my definition-based nautical wordplay and go to the corner of shame, now.
*pat-pat*
*that one guy in the back of the audice stands up* I get it
The term is flotsam AND jetsam, so you’re BOTH right. I do feel flotsam sounds more appropriate.
Actually flotsam can be pretty much anything that floats; tree branches broken off & washed downstream into the ocean, bloated fish carcasses & whatnot. More specifically, it’s “naturally-occurring” objects that wind up floating.
Jetsam are the floating objects that were intentionally thrown away…ie: “jettisoned overboard.”
Dammit! Beaten to the punch! Flotsam is definitely more appropriate, as I’m sure the wreckage left in the wake of Hurricane Dabbler lacks the energy to string two thoughts together, much less act intentionally.
Well, it could be said that Jeannie is another example of Dabbler’s jetsam…
Okay, the “keruig” got me stumped so I had to google the term – and it looks like you’ve got a typo here (Keurig)…
Maybe in Sydney’s universe that is the name of the company that sells them there. Kind of like the time in the show ‘Sliders’ where they thought that they had finally returned to their home universe. Everything was exactly the same except they saw a picture of San Francisco and the golden gate bridge was bright blue.
Fixed!
All right. As someone who is absolutely not a morning person, but who did spend a month in a field camp with, admittedly, pretty relaxed approach to PT, in order to get his officer patent, I can safely assure you that waking up at 06:00, running about 2 km, doing about 20 min of gymnastics, and then having a somewhat large breakfast at 07:00 is not that hard or difficult. Only for the first several days. But that’s what the your commanders are there for, to keep you going.
And in fact, I gained a couple of kilos after this rather interesting experience (Normally, I am underweight), so I’d have to say it was actually more healthy than my normal routine.
Fun part about gaining weight is that that was probably not fat, but muscle
Its not so hard after a few days and trust me its Easter to eat after exercise than before I used to go swimming first thing in the mornings and I am defiantly not a morning persion and swim about 1 to 1 1/2 kilometers before breakfast
You’re right, it’s not hard at all. If you’re used to it. I went into basic with several years of weight lifting and running behind me already, and I never got a good run while there, because you all run at the same speed except for the fairly short qualifier.
But if you’re not used to it, it can be a crusher. I remember the first day some poor guy puking his guts out after the first run. And he didn’t appear to be out of shape. He certainly wasn’t fat, but probably not used to anything cardio.
But even for me, basic really amped up my metabolism. Every meal consisted of me stuffing myself to the brim, tamping it in up to my esophagus, and then being ravenous at the next meal and doing it again. I put on about 10 lbs, and none of it was fat. I lost most of what little fat I had going in.
I was absolutely not used to it, and yet, thanks for being more or less healthy, I took it quite well. Then again, the PT was, as I said, rather relaxed: after that month we all would had been moved to the reserve (hopefully, forever), so it was more to keep us mildly tired — just like pretty much any other activity there :) — rather than to train us and put into fighting shape.
My point was, all this “I can’t imagine how I would go through basic training” is a bit overdramatizing. If you have no chronical illnesses, recent traumas, and is not *absolutely* out of shape (rough test: if carrying a 15 pound bag of groceries for a mile and a half won’t kill you, you’re not absolutely out of shape), well, then you’ll make it through. It may not leave the best memories and impressions, but you’ll get used to it and pretty quickly, in fact.
Imagine Sydney on the track, hanging on to her flight orb.
Peggy:”Scoville you goldbrick! I said no flight orb! One more time and I’ll have you peeling spuds until Idaho officially declares you their state bird!”
ROFL. THIS WAS A RIDE. THANK YOU!
A definite possibility…
Why did Sydney cost Peggy five bucks? Was there some major league bet going on???
Peggy was expecting Sydney to still be in bed counting Zs, having 40 winks, etc. So much so she bet $5 on it. However since Sydney was actually up & about (even if she wasn’t fully awake), Peggy lost her bet…
Anyone else notice a lot of betting going on? All centered around Sydney? Guess $5 doesn’t matter when you got paychecks as big as theirs…
Well, there’s also the betting pool in the “Make Maxima Say” Bingo game.
Tiny little shorts, belly baring top with plunging neckline . . .
Not that it isn’t a cute and kinda sexy look, but I’ll be the employees of Cupps get cold in that air conditioned building. Excuse me while I go check for goosebumps.
In that shirt you’d tell if she was cold, and I don’t mean goosebumps.
Just don’t get your eyes too close…
Would that classify as “too close for comfort?”
I have a feeling that this is going to be Sydney’s usual drink there, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they in the future got it ready before she arrived.
Just like Fusion will do.
…Which means that the Fusion will have to start ordering the Unmaker in industrial-sized barrels.
I can see her getting a special named after her. The Scoville, a octuple espresso with sexdecuple caramel, a table spoon of Carolina Reaper paste and a sprinkle of Bhut jolokia flakes on top.
That should get her going until breakfast…
Ohhh that’s a good potential there :)
Sooner or later every restaurant in Arcmall will have a “Scoville” on their menu.
And proper papers people need to sign in order to consume it, naturally. I’m sure Arianna will make sure they are properly covered.
And, of course, Arianna will make them pay royalties for the use of Sydney’s name…
I can see the dollar signs in her eyes already.
Yeay for learning. This comic taught me that sexdecuple is a word
Apparently, it’s 16
It’s from Latin, of course. Sex is Six, and Decem is 10. It amuses me that people complain about Polyamory mixing Latin and Greek roots, but not Hexadecimal. (Although Deka and Decem are pretty close, so it may just fly under the radar.)
You misspelled the name of the one-cup coffee maker. It’s KEURIG, not KERUIG.
Maybe they have an off brand? :/
I thought you were trying to avoid someone else’s trademark.
Hey! It’s spelled that way in Dave’s Universe! :p
To be fair, questioning someone with super powers on their need for coffee might not be all that healthy as well…
Hopefully she doesn’t do that with the others in ArcSWAT. Sydney is new, so first time mistake not to be repeated.
Don’t know, some would argue coffee and its variations is a kind of super power, enough to affect even a super?
I guess Sydney is so tired still that she is slurring “Caramel” in panel 6.
So it is Kessler who is on Wakey-Wakey duty this morning, not Anvil as I predicted. Mind you, it might be Anvil who is $5 richer during breakfast.
so basically she wants a cup of crack.
No no no, that would be silly.
She wants a venti cup of crack. With a side of caramel.
As for me, I’d…
https://www.memes.com/img/168056
Oh look, they seem to have a coffeebender running the café. I’m surprised that this isn’t another Patron cameo.
Peggy looks a little tired herself, though not nearly as much as Sydney.
Anyone else notice that jeanie the Greenie wears the same sock’s as Sydney?
Not being a morning person, I can totally relate to Syd and her lust for caffeine. My biological clock is set on ‘nocturnal’, so I must have been an owl in a past life. I’ve had triple shot of espresso in a Bigbucks venti before, but Syd’s concoction would set me vibrating like a tuning fork.
For me, drinking coffee of any kind is an alien experience. Even if I did it wouldn’t affect me. Some people have a high tolerance for caffeine. I gather Sydney isn’t like that.
Considering how Sydney is already ADHD, I can imagine the Espresso sending her on a high much more than a normal person. Though I’m not sure if it works that way with her.
As a person with ADHD, i can tell you that that much caffeine is necessary to overcome the sleepy effect it usually has on us. a normal dose of caffeine will usually put us to sleep while a major overdose will wake us up for the next 6 hours minimum.
It has been shown that ‘night owls’ and ‘morning persons’ are genetically different groups. Night owls have better night vision, but suffer from minor glare. Morning people have less problem from glare, but are prone to night blindness.
It’s been proposed that this is so morning people could do most of the day work, while night owls watched for night predators.
I can verify the truth of the night owl part.
Daniel here. As a definite Night Owl, I can confirm I also have really good night vision, but was awe-struck when I first walked outside wearing polarized sunnies. My eyes were actually open, & not so close to closed a knife blade couldn’t fit in the gap. I have had actual pain in my eyes from “normal” glare, & where I live I gotta deal with a LOT of glare at certain times of the day…
I can see the night-lookout thing fitting too, I’d be pretty good at that…
Oh, & Doc, I think Screwball still might not like you. He gets a bit sulky when he has to agree with you…
Tell that misbeggoten offspring of an erector set and a TRS (trash) 80, if I want it to like me I will program it to with a sledge hammer.
No offense to you Dan.
Naaa, none taken. Heck, I prefer a metal baseball bat, less inertia to overcome and still hits hard. Problem is little runt can take it. Magnets are fun tho, he reacts like someone’s poking him hard where it connects and it’s harder for him to get it off than when you get a sticker or sticky tape stuck to you…
Huh, well, we know she’s still awake in that last panel. The orbs seem to shut off whenever she does after all.
It takes a few moments for them to shut down.
I’ve learned that if you want to wake up alert, get an alarm clock that snaps you awake. I use one of those clanging bell alarm clocks, and my college roommate admitted during its second week of use that it was the best morning starter he ever used, including caffeine. Rather than a gradual wake-up like with ringtones or beeps, you’re jolted awake with a bit of adrenaline, at least enough to get you into the shower.
Another trick is to keep the alarm clock out of reach from the bed…You have to actually get up to shut the damm-thing OFF!
That only works if you can actually get out of bed to reach it without a production that will wake you up anyway. Trust me, putting on a prosthesis and a brace isn’t something I can do merely on muscle memory.
I have one of those too. I usually sleep through it. It wakes every one else up with a start literally making them leap out of bed in fear of their lives… but I sleep through it with it right next to my head. One time I had a bunch of people over overnight and locked my door. It took 30 minutes of the alarm ringing non-stop and people taking turns banging on my bedroom door to wake me up.
The running joke is I could sleep through WWIII. Only no one is sure if it’s actually a joke.
everyone else in the house*
Yeah – my brother and I do the same with loud, repetitive alarms. Try a quiet, musical alarm. The one on your cell phone set at minimum volume works nicely. (but put the cell phone on the other side of the room)
A company came up with an alarm clock for those driven by economics. It has a paper shredder that will start up a set period after the alarm goes off. It is up to the user to prime it with paper currency of a denomination of their choice. If they do not get up in time to turn it off it munches their money.
I think other enterprising entrepreneurs have set up web apps that will post an embarrassing selfie or send an embarrassing tweet if you do not get up to cancel it.
Daniel here. I got 2 of those clanging bell alarm clocks, yet I’ve been known to sleep through both AND my mobile’s specific-alarm-clock-tone (different from calendar organizer tone, goes for an hour). That shredder alarm? 1- Australia uses plastic for it’s cash & 2- I’d still sleep through it. I’ve even had a not-even-8-year-old & a medium sized puppy jump all over me to get me up, all I’ve done it roll over, grab them like they’re a teddy bear or something, roll back how I was & keep sleeping. I ended up waking a few times to a scared puppy whining & “Daddy, make him let gooooo…”
The only thing CERTAIN to wake me is water to the face. Cup, water pistol (a safer choice), doesn’t matter how it gets to me, it’s just gotta hit the face or I just wake up soggy much later…
Search for Screaming Meanie. It is a 2 tone oscillating alarm that has three settings. 60, 90 and 120 decibels. The greatest thing, is it requires 2 handed coordination to turn off. You have to press three buttons on the device simultaneously. There is only sorta a snooze feature where you get 5 minutes if you screw up the combination. If that happens, you can’t shut it off until you get it right.
The other thing that is nice is the alarm will shut off only for three cases, Button press, battery removal, battery death. I had one fortunately set on low. fall into a wall cavity. It rang for better part of 4 months. it would have been so much work to knock a hole in the wall to get it out and then patch the hole. The wall was antique plaster & lath.
Daniel Again. I don’t know if 120 decibels will work to wake me, maybe just send me deaf. Considering I like my music, I don’t think I want to loose my hearing…
*Watches video about Screaming Meanie*
Fair enough, won’t work on my tho. Our cordless home phone once did that, so they threw it on my bed to get me to wake up & fix it. All I did apparently was wake up just enough to identify it, remove the battery & drop it off my bed as I went back to sleep…
Hey Dave if you feel like drawing it I should like to see panel 1 with Greene in her natarul form
Holy inappropriate clothing for a place where you serve hot liquids Batman! Did I miss this on the first pass through the cafeteria?
Naaa, this is the coffee joint on ground level, “Cupps”. Mind you, they are somewhat vulnerable to scoldings…
There are some coffee places that wear only pasties and a g-string
Ohhh… That’s kinky, though I think it would look better if the girls working there wore the pasties and g-strings, though it would be fine if they just wore a smile! ;)
That would wake me up faster than any kind of coffee could.
I think you meant “She’ll be awake until her heart explodes”
Pretty sure that much coffee will put her back to sleep … until the sugar kicks in at least …
that’s why there’s more sugar than caffeine.
Mind you caffiene is a decent sedative for people with ADHD XD
I usually don’t drink the stuff. When I do, it usually because I am driving to my parents’ place (4-5 hours away) at night and need a little stimulation. Unfortunately, the last Tim Horton’s or McDonald’s (before the actual town they live in) is over an hour away. That much caffeine will usually keep me going until 4 AM. Then Mom complains that I don’t wake up before noon, for some reason.
Could be why I used to doze off at traffic lights delivering auto parts despite super big gulps of diet coke. I was undiagnosed at the time. In the summer with no AC the sun would zombify me at red lights so I started to avoid them.
I am one of these people. It straightens my mind out so I can take in stimulus without acting in chaos and think straight. My mind drinks its coffee and relaxes. So I drink it to help fall asleep, or figure things out. Also so I don’t start screaming the word MONKEYS at people in WalMart during the busy time.
Ok, so I think I am the first to ask this but who did Peggy loose 5 bucks to? I can think of no one who would think Sydney could wake up that early for PT on her own.
Max. Almost willing to bet on it.
…would you be willing to put $5 on that wager?
;)
Either Maxima or Leon, I’m thinking.
Maxima and Leon are the 2 biggest nerds of everyone there so they are probably the only ones willing to take on the bet.
Maxima. Max also made the bet in favour of Sydney when she challenged Math
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/824 (minicomic. Not cannon, but still…)
O and in actual cannon: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/852
Again betting on Sydney’s reaction being normal
Max pointed out that it wasn’t Anvil’s height that Sydney mentioned, only her own relative shortness. In truth, nothing about Sydney’s reactions have been “normal.”
;)
Sure, but Max bet that Sydney wouldn’t mention it.