Grrl Power #409 – Elevator predicate
Standard elevator rules Sydney. Stare forward, no talking, respect twice the normal personal space. Same as when you’re at the urinal. Not that… Sydney has ever used one.
I guess Vale could take comfort in knowing Sydney is slightly intimidated by her, or else she wouldn’t be blabbering. As much.
I know the definition of all those “word play” terms Sydney’s throwing around are written down out there for anyone to look up. People with English degrees need something to do after all, but even after reading about puns, malapropisms, eggcorns, spoonerisms, entendres, double and otherwise, etc, they all seem pretty pun adjacent, so it’s no wonder Sydney is confused. Confused but mostly just needing to fill the silence, since a comic is a sub-optimal place to do a joke about Deus piping speed metal into the elevators instead of muzak.
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Hey! HEY, PEOPLE! FOCUS! *jingling keys, jingling keys, jingling keys*
Now! Back to the topic; which is, ADHD thought patterns….
*sigh*
Nevermind. As you were. Carry on.
Hey, come on, I’m sure we can all focus well enouSQUIRREL!!!
Jangling keys? Those are one of the most distracting things ever!
And/or disabling, for those of us also blessed* with hyper-sensitive ears.
Don’t worry, hyper-sensitive ears do eventually get better. In my 50s, with help from a job that exposed me to damaging levels of noise, I can finally enjoy all the little things, like concerts, that were torture growing up. My range of enjoyable music has massively expanded since I lost appr 70% of my hearing…
Finally, someone like me! I’m just now into my 40’s and I cant hear lightbulbs or ungrounded wiring anymore! It’s wonderful!
But very attention getting…
Especially when used in conjunction with a bullhorn.
Did you say something? I was busy thinking about keys for some reason.
A Silent Sydney is a creature to be feared: you never know what she is planning and slash or thinking (and, usually, neither does she :P)
Or thinking slash…..
o_O
Thinking Slash what? Is a hairy guitarist? O_o
The word Slash doesn’t just mean Saul Hudson. It can also denote a type of fan fiction or artwork that places a couple of characters of the same gender into a romantic situation. Mind you, it’s also British slang for urination . . .
In this case, was meaning ‘/’
was meaning /, but got asdfghjkl;
God bless ADHD people
in fact…all deities bless ADHD people
seemed like a god way to be politically correct.
which is a term I never really got, because it seems so contradictory
political correctness.
got distracted while typing forgot what I was going to say, so im just going to submit comment
Wait, don’t flipped cars typically slide on their roof? o_O
sometimes i have heard the term “HOOD” meant to be the same thing as:
1) the part of the outer shell of the car covering the engine compartment…
AND i’ve also heard it describing:
2) the part of the cars outer shell that is covering the passengers compartment above their heads…
HOWEVER: I’ve never heard of the reverse being true… a “ROOF” is always the part over the heads of the people and never describing the part over the engine…
And to me, what they call the ‘hood’ is the ‘bonnet’, and the ‘trunk’ is the ‘boot’ (or is it the other way around?)
But definitely know, that “Fawcett” was an “Angel” :D
You got the mapping right :)
Oh. I was under the impression that Fawcett was a drip.
Technically – yes.
However given this is NASCAR we’re talking about, it’s possible Sydney is referring to the situation where a car is flipped and is still sliding forward with the nose grinding into the ground on the hood/bonnet (I’m Aussie, so I flip between the two depending on whom I’m talking to) in addition to sliding on the actual roof (with the rollcage and whatnot).
Being from one of the many NASCAR epic enters of the world, Indianapolis,I know that the only thing going through a drivers mind when a drivers car flips over is “AWWW YAAAAA, GONA BE ON THE NEWS TONIGHT, BOOYA!” – of course I never watch nascar so I have no idea, at all, period… EXIT STAGE LEFT!
Front-engine cars also tend to be extremely front-heavy, particularly when they’re stripped down for racing like in Nascar, so it’s not uncommon for the part to be most in contact with the ground to be the hood.
I recon Sydney’s rambling on deliberately, since Pinky here tried shutting her sown, death glare style. Revenge served up fresh anyone?
Reckon. Unless you are spying on us, and that was a slip of the tongue, so to speak…..
……..
Forums and texting make idioms weird.
Most of those are not deliberate. A malapropism is when the person thinks that the incorrect word is the correct one. Typically because they’ve misheard the original, and gotten it confused with the correct one (substituting illiterate in place of obliterate).
If they do basically the same thing, but they are substituting the misunderstood word with one that makes sense, that’s an eggcorn.
Spoonerisms are when the person unintentionally flips letter while saying the correct words.
Only (deliberate) double entendres and puns are intentional.
What about the first time you’ve encountered the word orgasm, and you think it’s a handy contraction for organism. Science class got a little weird.
have me met?
“Oh btw HI, my name is Sydney…”
sydney seems to have discovered a new power, the ability to create and ignore superhuman levels of awkwardness.
That is one of her innate abilities.
Awww how adorable. Not even five minutes and Sydney has already broken Vale.
Speed metal stinger joke: “…Is that-… holt shit, is that *’Dragonforce’*???”
No, Dragonforce would be too obvious. The fact that most peoples’ first thought when speed metal is mentioned is Dragonforce means that folk like Deus (or Sydney, or most of us here…..) would be loathe to use them.
Admittedly, my tastes in metal lie elsewhere, so they’re the only group I know that I’d confidently label as “speed metal”.
MANOWAR “Flight or the Bumblebee.”
I’d rather go with Manowar – “Black Wind, Fire And Steel”, “Kill With Power” or “The Gods Made Heavy Metal” (not quite as fast as the other ones but I enjoy it more).
One of the main, non-para, characters in “Zombie Roomie” did the repeated button push to make the elevator lift faster, except, in his case, it was so they could get to their apartment quicker so they can get down to ‘frisky business’, really hoping that that is not why Vale is pressing the button :P
Why not????
In the lab? o_O
Great chemistry?
Dear sir, is that a PUN I smell? By Jove!
Smells more like a double entendre to me.
if that panicked tapping of the elevator button I hear?
Vale, you do know that it does not matter how often you push the button (so long as it is at least once), you will still get to your destination in the same time. Right?
It has been my experience that each time you press the button the elevator moves twice as fast. Does your experience differ?
Would like to see, later that evening, Vale having a drink with Maxi* in a bar (they just happen to be at the same bar, not on a date, together), Vale throws back a shot or maybe a stein, and we see a row of them in front of her, she turns to Maxi and asks: “How? How do you deal with her without wanting to blow up the city?”
*substitute Maxi for anyone else in Archon to suit, except Harem as she’s still under age
Answer: “Do you know how much paperwork that creates? We spent weeks on that that one time I… I mean sports. Lots and lots of sports. Anyway what do you think about that new movie…”
That is one slow elevator. Particularly since the floor numbers are still in the single digits.
‘Single digits’? They go up to 20
You do realize they’re going *down* from the top floor, right?
Looking here(bottom panel), you’ll see the top right button glowing. Meaning they’re on the top floor. The 20th judging by the buttons in this page. And on the same page (current one as of typing) the button for the 11th floor is glowing (last panel, behind the bottom “press” sfx).
Actually, Vale is rapi-pressing floor 5, no idea why floor 11 is glowing (and it’s glowing blue, not yellow)
I am aware she is rapid-pressing floor 5. That would be because that’s their destination. Floor 20 was glowing blue when the elevator was stopped there and floor 11 is glowing blue now. This – to me at least – implies that the blue glow is an indicator for what floor the elevator is currently on. Probably should have mentioned that in my previous post.
The yellow glow is likely either a) a visual indicator that the button press is registered or b) a marker for the elevator’s destination. Possibly both.
@DaveB:
I’ll agree that most of those when summarized come down to “a joke about two things that sound the same”, but they’re all slightly different because the things which are sounding the same are different, and the sources of meaning are different. It’s like the difference between comparing two colors of apple to make a joke or looking at a single apple which simultaneously looks like an orange. You could call them both “fruit jokes”, but they’re obviously different when you look closely. The short answer is that technically speaking a “pun” isn’t a blanket category, but I can believe people who don’t know better use it that way.
For a specific example, a double entendre is most clearly NOT a pun; a pun involves two phrases of which only one is spoken, but the other one SOUNDS like the one you spoke. A double entendre is a single phrase which has two meanings, the second humorous meaning usually being dirty (if that meaning isn’t humorous, we just call it a normal case of ambiguity).
So, how much do make in the G.P.D. I mean the academy for the grammar police is brutal so the pay must be good.
I’ve done this. Awkward silence is for the unimaginative. Besides, I’ve turned around extremely shy people by simply talking to them until they get used to it enough to chime in, and then completely shifting the conversation to their input. You don’t even have to agree with them, but just be nice and respective.
Reminds me of a story from my high school days.
English teacher was a guy who loved to talk. He was a swim meet (as one of the coaches), and kept trying to tell a story. People kept finding excuses to leave. And then he finds himself in an elevator full of some of the competitors. Captive audience.
As he put it: You’ve never seen an elevator empty that fast in your life.
sidny was told to be on good behavior, dont think intimidation has much to do with it. not like pinkey can touch her if she dont want to be touched. Dux is a duche is my read. you can put a shine on shit given enough wax.
I wonder if Sydney was thinking of the Will Farrel movie “The Ballad of Ricky Bobby”. Hey back in the forties, DC comics once did a Superman story where the police standing outside an elevator thought that holding the button would slow or stop the elevator so they could catch Superman (this was when he could only jump). Just goes to show how myths get started.
This situation is exactly the kind you’d want that sava lava cutie spell for. Hm, you know if one of Sydney’s orbs let her channel magic like that, it’d be pretty useful. Unless anyone can channel magic. Have we had any kind of explanation on the magic Dabbler uses? I think if a race-car driver’s skidding upside down then their more pressing instinctual response is probably browning their pants, followed closely by being unconscious.
Have you seen what happens when you ‘fill your drawers’ while upside down? It ain’t pretty
i wonder if she is a succubus and if the yellow orb was grabbed there would be issues
also did max and deus just go of to make out
Is that what they wanted to do? No.
Is that what will wind up happening?
IF WE’RE LUCKY
Props to Dave for the way he’s captured Vale’s expressions. Panel #3 looks like “Oh well, it was worth a shot”. Last panel looks like she’d chew a leg off to escape, if she could. Cracks me up every time I see it.
That’s what I was thinking. She’s not talking but her expressions are saying volumes. “Hey, Vale, I really like your look. The clothing says ‘hot dominatrix’ but the hair screams ‘Manic Pixie Dream Girl’. It’s a risky combo but you pull it off. You go, girl!”
Vale deserves everything she gets: Sydney was being polite, and Vale tried to shut her down with an inferior Glare
I get the vibe that Sydney could probably take on Vale without much difficulty. If anything, Vale should be the one intimidated with what she knows probably already knows of Sydney already. Vale may *look* intimidating, but if she actually thought…
Don’t show the predator your fear.
Okay, maybe Vale IS intimidated, and is trying to not show weakness.
Carry on.
Vale Thought Bubbles
Panel 2: Stop.
Panel 5: Why didn’t she stop?
Panel 6: Seriously, stop.
Panel 7: Bout time she-
Panel 8: Oh God that wasn’t a stop that was a breather
Panel 9: She isn’t stopping she’s not going to stop somebody stop her
I miss the old days when sound words rarely described actions or at least only did when the soundword in question sounded right. There were no soundwords like ‘press’ or ‘drag’ or ‘stare’. What happened to the good old ‘click’?
Soundwords are only appropriate if they also work without the meaning. Press would be an OK soundwrod for something ripping or a canister decompressing.
Except, you don’t ‘click’ those buttons, you ‘press’ them (or maybe ‘push’, would ‘push’ have been acceptable?)
Again, soundwords are never meant to be an explaining element in comics or at least they shouldn’t. Soundwords are there to mimick the sound the action would make and nothing more. Hence SOUNDword. Have you ever encountered a button that sounded like ‘push’ when you pressed it? Many buttons make a clicking sound, so ‘click’ is possible regardless what the action is called.
A double entendre is a play on meanings, as in “she asked the barman for a double entendre, so he gave her one” (does that work for our colonial cousins? I don’t know)…. A Pune, or play on words (with acknowledgements to Pterry) juxtaposes homophones (which us also a double entendre, but there you go)
Sounds about white :P
If you haven’t already read it, I highly recommend Get Thee To A Punnery by Richard Lederer. And then read Anguished English because, you know, just because. And then the rest of his catalogue. Because those two books are Full Of Awesome, so I bet the rest are too.
I love how her eyes get wider and bigger from the stress, then narrow again when the talking stops then BOOM all the way wider than before when Sydney starts back up again
Sometimes not even turning on the radio helps with the ADD nervous chatter.
Well, I say “turning on the radio”, but I mean with my MP3 player plugged into the aux port so I can actually listen to music I like (plus the bonus of no terrible radio commercials).
Whenever I pun deliberately, depending on context I either apologise for it beforehand to ham up the delivery… or go the other way and deliver it dry and subtle as fuck.
THEN there are the times I accidentally pun… which usually results in me editing an addendum in to remark that it really was an accident.
Sydney: 1 Vale:0
Oh my God Sydney, I love you so much. :’D
‘Night, Vale!
The silent one. She must flee, or her soul may be overtaken by the curse of….
SOCIALIZATION!
*thunder* MUahahahahahahahaha!
RUN from the Verbiose ones! RUN silent piglet!
…
No wait… I like Piglet. Winnie the Pooh just wouldn’t be the same without him.
Awwww.♥
Knowing more about Vale nowadays. Her reaction makes Sydney’s more awesome / impressive.
Kinda puts it into perspective, doesn’t it