Grrl Power #431 – Manual censorship
This sort of hyper-vigilance may be the best way to mitigate Sydney for a while. She’s obviously not ever intentionally trying to be hurtful, but her track record of absent mindedly saying the first thing that comes to her mind speaks for itself. Ok, sometimes she is trying to be hurtful, but someone has to actively incur her wrath for that to happen.
Lucas appeared one time before, (and actually I should go back and put Specs sitting next to him) Really as I introduce new Archon regulars characters I should retroactive them into that page. Arc-LIGHT obviously consists of more than a half dozen people, and Arc-SPARQ is more than just Digit and Omar.
Lucas is tooling around on the cruiser equivalent of a Segway. (The little wheel in the back is connected to steps that swivel out.) Something he’s designed and added to over time. I always thought if I was stuck in a wheelchair, I’d want some mobility solution that put me at eye level with everyone else. It doesn’t seem like it’d be too hard to make – basically a wheel high chair. Tipping would be an issue as the center of gravity went up, but I think you could design around it, and also make it so it would fold back down in to regular chair height. A little person doesn’t have the sudden loss of height to adjust to, but being able to converse at eye level is probably something that crosses their minds on occasion, and Lucas’s solution was to pimp out his ride. There’s a iPad on the dash, probably a horn, headlights, drink holder, miscellaneous storage, and a sound system, cause why not?
Now that I look at this page I think I actually made him too short. He’s slightly taller than Sydney here, at least while on his chariot, but really he’d probably shoot for 5′ 8″ – 6′. Also he’s supposed to be about 4′ 4″ but he looks closer to 3′ 6″ or something. Oh well, blame it on perspective and move on I guess.
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Me neither….
My immediate thought would be some associations to the Christopher Pike wheelchair.
I was going to go either for that or thinking she was going to call him Davros.
Well, either you call him one that dies or the other that basically became the known ultimate evil.
Both of which can be taken as compliment and/or an insult.
Well, his name is Lucas, he looks a little like George Lucas, and arc light is close to industrial light and magic (because, light!) so i was expecting her to start railing about the prequels.
maybe Professor Xavier?
My first impression was Captain Pike. But he couldn’t use his arms so Davros is a closer impression.
Ahahaha.
Good job Peggy!
Very and I am very much afraid that move has just become part of Peggy’s job description.
They call her… the silencer.
To be fair, considering her skillset, that would be a perfect “Superhero name” for her.
+1 to each of you.
Except that silencers ruin a good long shot.
Except, she is the one who silences the opposition
SILENCE!
She kill you.
Lucas must have known to expect some things before he started looking for Sydney, explaining his smirk in that last panel. I wonder if he was prepared enough though
Is anyone?
No one expects Sydney Scoville.
Everyone needs support from time to time. Maybe they could get a Harem to follow halo around, despite that being a terrible idea.
Also, yes we really need an updated cast page, I think it has doubled since the last update.
I agree with your conclusion that it would be a terrible idea. Harem is the most ethically-challenged known member of the organisation! Plus don’t forget that she had to resit the public relations 101 course, due to her “lack of a gag reflex comment”. Daphne would just encourage Sydney to behave even more outrageously!
If you want to pick someone with a suitable super power, be sure to match their ethics and nouse (common sense wits) too. Ren would seem a very good choice. His super-adrenaline power would allow him indefinite thinking time, to decide if intervention is needed, and, if it is, to pick an optimum method.
Although Peggy did a superb job. She is eminently qualified for the role.
… And it takes the heat off Max, who seems to have been destined for that role herself.
My vote is for Anvil.
And laugh.
Harem, I mean. She’d laugh. A LOT.
ARC-Save for the win!
What is the meaning of Peggy’s comment in the 8th panel? (“Little Miss Bindi-gate”) I don’t get what it might be a reference to :)
It seems that ARCHON is beginning to learn how to deal with Sydney’s idiosyncratic behavior… :)P
Basically a reference to this incident: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2110
Bindi-gate
A Bindi is the name of that red dot on the forehead.
I also just figured that out after googling bindi today
Remember a few strips back when she tried to tackle the doc?
Thanks a lot! :D
I think it’s because of the bindi? Incident with the Doctor and adding the association with watergate scandal. Often you add something where you screwed up to the gate segment and bam the Bindi-gate scandal
But why the gate?
Because Western press lacks imagination and attaches the “gate” suffix to any key word, to associate it as being a scandal. Dave is just playing off of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_with_%22-gate%22_suffix
American political affectation – https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_with_%22-gate%22_suffix
Was a reference to Sydney shouting “Sniper!” to Doc Chevy:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2110
Midget pun crisis averted but what is a bindi-gate? I know what a bindi is in a very basic manor but I have never heard this term.
Peggy obviously what heard about what happened with the Doc.
I figured that much but it doesn’t explain what the definition of the term used is.
Hindi/Jain forehead dot decoration scandal
Remember this?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2110
That is why she said it not what it means.
Its association to the watergate By adding -gate to it
Sydney’s recent interaction with the doc (“SNIPER!”).
In American (and probably elsewhere due to media drift) vernacular, -gate is shorthand for various governmental scandal stuff, referring to Nixon’s Watergate incident. It often feels a bit forced, but the media loves it.
Relevant Mitchell and Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w
Ah ok that makes sense now.
You are correct to assume that it is in use around the English speaking-world, and even in some places just influenced by it.
Mitchell and Webb are actually right. It has effectively become a suffix, in the English lexicon.
I do forget that some of the idiosyncrasies of the culture I grew up in aren’t universal, especially when I have an international audience. I’ve decided that a coming I’m finishing up right now may require a description of fajitas. I don’t even know what Tex-Mex is called outside of Texas. Just… Mexican food? There’s a pretty big difference between Americanized Mexican food and straight up Mexican food though.
I recently had to make chili rojas for a cooking teacher here in Hawaii that didn’t understand why two of us made the comment “real chili don’t have beans”. She thought it was a joke from the mainland that she never got the punchline to, she honestly didn’t know it was a real thing.
There’s also a pretty substantial difference between Mexican food (from this part of Mexico) and Mexican food (from that part of Mexico). Tex-Mex is – to my taste – the worst form of Mexican food I’ve encountered, and I’ve had it from good restaurants that use fresh high-quality ingredients (it was still bad). Yucatán and Michoacán cooking is pretty good.
Tex-Mex is Tex-Mex everywhere. It is, at this point, a distinct genre of food :P
That is to say, Tex-Mex elsewhere is a localised version of American Tex-Mex, rather than of Mexican food. A watered down version of a watered down version.
I used to go for Salsa lessons in London’s West End. Up until I decided that I had four left feet, anyhow. But that had a Mexican restaurant next to it, so was a great place for salsa.
The dishes there seemed to be totally authentic and had a world of difference to the ‘Mexican inspired’ restaurants you might typically find in a high-street setting. The food in those were clearly toned-down versions of what I found in the London restaurant. Very much pandering to English tastes, rather than aiming for authenticity.
I imagine in Europe they call it Spanish food.
Though the ingredients are probably pretty different, based on the climates. Actually I have no idea what Spanish food is like. It could be all fruit and pastry for all I know.
There is quite a lot of similarity, but the differences are enough that the two remain distinct. Mexican food was heavily influenced by Spain, but also drew from native sources. So the two diverged, over time. Albeit that there was feedback involved, to bring Mexican elements to Spanish dishes.
I saw more restaurants specifically promoted as Mexican restaurants, than Spanish, in fact. Albeit that there are probably more which are heavily derived from Spanish cooking styles, or otherwise Spanish themed, but just do not put up a big sign saying that.
Yep, it’s the same way that language usage changes over time & distance from the source: For example, According to the British, Americans don’t speak English – They speak American, even though it’s based on English. In the same way that Mexicans speak Mexican, not the Spanish of Spain.
I would imagine, however, that the food in mid- and southern Spain is somewhat spicy, for the same reason that Mexican food is traditionally spicy: Before refrigeration, the spice was used to cover the taste of rotting meat.
In regards to languages, the Spanish Constitution of 1978 specifies that Spain’s official language is castellano (Castelian Spanish), as opposed to “las demás lenguas españolas” (literally “the other Spanish languages”). Mexicans speak “Mexican Spanish”.
Most Spanish speakers can recognize other Spanish forms even in places where they are not commonly used, but there are often significant differences. For example, in Puerto Rico, a bobby pin is called a pinche; but in Nicaragua it simply means “stingy”, and in Spain, it refers to a chef’s helper.
Another good example is the eponymous taco. In Chile, it means “traffic jam”; in Peru, Chile, and Colombia it means “shoe”; in Spain it means “swearword”. Most of the rest of the world recognizes it as Mexican food.
* I deliberately gave examples where none of the meanings were vulgar. If you really want to know which words are slang for “penis” or “vagina”, look it up yourself.
There is no such thing as “Spanish cuisine”, since there is about 19 unique regional cuisines within that country, based on locally available ingredients. That is, Catalonia, Valencia, Basque Country, Melilla, Galicia, etc. have different cuisines. In a similar way, Mexico has 7 unique regional cuisines.
The same thing exists in Italy, with 20 unique regional cuisines. The “Italian-American food” is usually based on Campanian cuisine.
China has 8 main cuisines and a several variations. The “American Chinese food” is based on Cantonese cuisine, and the very spicy Chinese food (which is hot enough for Sidney) is from Sichuan cuisine.
Nope, it’s universally ‘Mexican’ (don’t think I’ve ever seen it called Tex-Mex). The main exported Spanish cuisine in the UK tends to be tapas, supplanting paella, which was about the first Spanish dish to become popular over here. But most Brits have been to Spain, so know what to expect from Spanish cuisine (well, at least in the tourist regions).
No, we just call it Mexican.
I’m from Montana, we know the difference between authentic Mexican and Tex-Mex.
Except , of course, that the Montana versions of both are completely without spice, as Montanans can’t handle hot foods. :)
As an elderly Texas woman of my acquaintance invariably exclaimed after chili feeds or Mexi-nights in our rural Montana town:
“That was the blandest [food] that ever I did taste!“
No, please don’t feel you have to edit things because of the international audience: if someone doesn’t get something, they can either ask in the comments or search online for the explanation slash answer
The internet is like that fable about the old man, his ass and his grandson: you will never be able to please (or appease) everyone
I think it’s still called Tex-Mex, when you can get it.
As an example…?
“Dalek…. Er…Delighted to meet you.”
Is Lucas’ character design based on George Lucas, just with dwarfism?
That was my thought lol… I called him Dwarf Lucas in my head as soon as he said his name is Lucas… I think i need to take a sensitivity class with Recruit Scoville here
My approval of this fills me with shame.
+1
I approve of this.
And I have no shame.
“Walks off wearing only a speedo.”
Not MiniLucas (as in MiniMe)
Weatherheight, I expected so much more of you.
*shoulders slump, and head droops, sadly*
Why be ashamed of yourself because you approve of Meibolite being willing to volunteer to take a sensitivity course? Meibolite recognizes that he (or she) could use a little brushing up on social interactions & says so…If anything, you should be ashamed of yourself if you were to disapprove of someone trying to better themselves.
O.o
:D
I was (mis)quoting Roy Greenhilt from Order of the Stick, speaking to Belkar Bitterleaf:
“Your approval fills me with shame.”
I have the t-shirt and wore it to work often, along with…
“We’re trained professionals. (Well, we’re semi-trained quasi-professionals, at any rate.)”
I was a lead trainer and wore that on day two for every training session we did. Never once caught flak for it, either.
Which reminds me –
DaveB! T-shirts! With Snarky And Quotable Quotes! Fandom Demands It!
Sydney’s most famous mantra is available in both t-shirt and mug form. But, as with many things on this site, it is hidden away. Only normally being accessible via a single link on the page the quote appears on. Very appropriately hidden, given the nature of the quote.
If you know your quotes, you will remember what to expect. But, as you have expressed suitable remorse, I will give you a clue.
Okay…I’ll say it…
Lucas Arc-Light and Magic!
Randall Curtis – creator of the Cosmic Wars franchise! [/Simpsons]
You really are very determined to have at least one member of arc be shorter than Sydney aren’t you. Although on that awesome scooter he is actually taller than her.
What? Steve Irwin’s daughter said something she shouldn’t have?
LOL
Was thinking that as well, forgot about the traditional term for ‘Bindi’
And actually, apparently she did say or do something that got her into trouble while on the Oz DWTS
I will save Sydney the trouble. Lucas doesn’t look at all like a smaller clone of George Lucas.
But the beard… The hair colour… The hair-do. There’s at least a tiny bit there.
Quiet you, I said he doesn’t.
Aw, c’mon. There’s no need to belittle King Kenya that way…
;)
It’s ok, George. Just take it as a compliment and get over it.
Shh! We should not expose patrons, who have clearly asked for their cameo to be anonymous. We should just leave quickly and discreetly.
No, no, walk out backwards. You must not turn your back on him. And bow much deeper than that!
Phew, now lets just hope that nobody noticed.
Whee! I am never washing my paws again. They have walked on the same virtual ground as George Lucas!
Is Lucas smiling or not in the last panel, asks the guy who’s too poor for Patreon?
The lips aren’t actually curling upward but he does have a bemused look to his eyes.
Those with “situations” tend towards the extremes of bitterness (uncommon) and having a sense of humor about it (very common).
Friend of mine broke her back at around 21 or so, got married in her wheelchair (“the good one, with the fiber composite and the racing stripes”), had a sign on the back and cans tied to it during the reception (like americans often do to the car the hapy couple drives away in). Did the whole reception that way. She’s sort of hilarious.
Close inspection shows indications that he is indeed smiling in amusement.
The bemused look is standard for anyone meeting Sydney for the first time.
…Either that, or “somewhat annoyed.”
TopWebComics seem to have changed their website, so your link no longer goes to the vote page.
Here is a clean link to the GrrlPower voting page:
https://topwebcomics.com/vote/11940
DaveB, if you have a means of altering the voting gadget, to direct to the above, it would be wise. The less steps that voters have to take, the more likely they are to make the effort, on a routine basis.
Perhaps TopWeb Comics are providing cleaned up gadgets? If not, it would be an idea to request such. Given that your comic is routinely their most popular one, your voice should count very highly!
Ug, it’s so slow now. Hopefully that’s temporary. I’ll get the link updated.
Maybe Lucas is able to adjust the height of his platform. He’d want to be able to look Maxima or Anvil in the eye if necessary.
That would take an upgrade something like this.
If I had the same hours of sleep as Sydney, I would have said something like: “Nice set of wheels”, which could interpreted as offensive….
Yes, I know, I’m not a good person…
I must be a really really bad person. I’m not seeing the issue with “nice set of wheels” or I’m extremely clueless on taste
Depends on the person, who well you know them, and how recently they’ve been dealing with @$$***** defining them *solely* as “that guy in the wheelchair.”
He’s not in a wheelchair though, he’s a little person riding on a platform segway…
except even if he didn’t have dwarfism and it didn’t compensate for his height it’d still be a nice set of wheels
Exactly its a awesome ride. Not pointing out anything with that statement its just something cool that you notice. Anything can be made cruel snarky or just wrong by the attitude and way you say something but if your saying it that way well then your just a dick.
If It rolled around on a Giant metal ball, or hovered it would be futuristic granted metal ball might not have good traction and hovering might be noisy.
First panel have a S.T. original… Capt. Pike feel to it? LOL!
Yes, yes it does.
Completely forgot about pike and star trek until you mentioned it one way for a actor to quit the season
What do you mean “one way for an actor to quit the season”? He was in an unaired pilot that nearly didn’t get the show greenlit because it was too high-brow, they had to shoot a second pilot to get the show made. Then when budget problems came up they re-cut the episode to make the 2 part “The Cage” episode. All of the scenes with Pike walking were from the pilot, all the scenes with Kirk, or with Pike in the chair were filmed later. That/ those (depending on how you count it) episode(s) were the only 1/2 (or 3 counting the un-aired one) that he was in.
I thought the actor had passed away before the episode was filmed, which is why they had to go with the heavy makeup on the wheelchair actor.
Jeffrey Hunter was only unavailable to reprise the role of Pike for “The Menagerie”, he didn’t die until 3 years later.
I think you’ve got him about right in the last panel, but I would agree the 5th has perspective issues.
I know sidney’s short, but Lucas looks about right compared to Peggey…..
You should put a hand redmark over Sydney’s mouth from where Peggy slapped her hand over it.
Also for the Top Web comic thing remove the “default.aspx” from the end of the link and it will start working fine again.
I don’t think Peggy would have placed her hand so hard as to raise a welt. Not to mention that it would hurt Sydney, which was not the aim.
Plus, even if desired, the only panel where you would see it, is the final one. Which is a long-shot, so it would barely show up. Especially with most of Sydney’s face being that lovely big grin!
Sydney’s comments in panel two… completely on the money.
At first, I thought Peggy stopped Sydney from commenting about how the upgraded Segway made him like professor Xavier that looks like George Lucas.
And after few minutes analyzing the dialogue as to why Peggy covered Sydney’s mouth, I suddenly see why?
I think Lucas should be in charge of ARCLight or is Dabbler the leader?
Dabbler said she’s a civilian contractor. She’s basically here on vacation, keeping busy.
I doubt she’s in charge of anything at Arc
Zephan Zoeng was the one sitting in the heads of department meeting, and we know him to be Arc-Light, so I take it that he is their boss. It certainly isn’t Dabbler, given that Arc-Light have X assigned as her permanent handler. Watching over her, to ensure she does not misbehave (sounds familiar). She is an alien who has yet to earn their complete trust, even as just a contractor, as RobK rightly says.
Ummm correct me if I am wrong but I believe that X is part of Arc-Dark.
You are correct, that was a typo on my behalf. I am sure I had Arc-Dark in there (where the second mention of Arc-Light now appears), but it must have overwritten, when I edited the paragraph.
Dabbler is a contractor. Given she’s an adventurist and succi you have to remember that she’s getting three benefits from this.
She’s getting to do what she wanted anyway. . . .
She’s getting payed to do so. . .
At what to her is a very tempting all you can eat buffet. . . .
The guy who created the Segway already did something like this, it actually was designed so it could do stairs and led to the Segway.
https://www.autoblog.com/2016/05/22/toyota-dean-kamen-ibot-balancing-wheelchair/
There’s also some standing wheelchairs already on the market, e.g. from Karman. I do especially like the custom Mad Max variant :)
https://www.themarysue.com/oh-what-a-lovely-cosplay-this-wheelchair-bound-mad-max-fury-road-fan-made/
I’ve seen it in person (Used to be involved with FIRST robotics, so met Dean Kamen a bunch of times)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT
Actually, this is a cool video of it, of a guy shooting a shotgun with it in the “Balance” mode, while it rocks up on two wheels
Helps if i put the link in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39JWZUcDbL0
That is impressive stabilisation!
Now I have a mental image of an armoured car, with a ball-turret on the front, tilting back, to allow the gun to fire over a wall.
Weird concept? One of the earliest concept variants on a tank did something similar, way back in WW1. It never got through testing.
The Praying Mantis, actually WWII, based on Universal Carrier running gear. There’s one at the Bovington Tank Museum. There were also a couple of Cold War projects using elevating sensor/missile launching gantries on a turretless tank, one on the Leopard chassis and ISTR a Russian project too.
Pretty sure that is not the one I stumbled across. But early prototypes, that never made it to production are not so easy to find, unless you have more to go on. And my memory for names and model numbers is pretty much non-existent.
The one I recall was laughably weird in the way it was implemented. Whereas the Preying Mantis had a solid concept, but just did not pan out in trials.
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing! I was next to one in a big crowd back in 2003 or so. It’s really neat how they balance.
Toyota makes one too: https://www.gizmag.com/go/4730/ and https://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/entryimages/Toyota_iswing.jpg. But one of their earlier rejected designs is even more transformable going from a 4-wheel mode that looked like a mini car to a 2-wheel version intended for indoor use.
I personally thought that using the brand name ‘Segway’ for the vehicle was a marketing error. Naming something as basically ‘hold on, the next version after this will be better’ lost a lot of buyers. The same can be said of the logic behind the name for the Ford Aspire. “Sure, you want a nice car someday. But this will have to do for now”
P.S. A word to Mr. Lucas.
Be careful, those all-terrain Segways have seen their own problems:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315518/Segway-tycoon-Jimi-Heselden-dies-cliff-plunge-scooters.html
The link takes me to the newspaper site, but no article comes up, even allowing time for a long refresh. Maybe it is only visible to subscribers, or some such?
It comes up here in the US. Similar stories are at:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-14167868
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8640400/Multimillionaire-died-after-reversing-Segway-off-cliff.html
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/sep/27/segway-boss-jimi-heselden-dies-cliff-fall
Perhaps they write too many anti-Bulgarian articles, and decided to block viewing from Bulgaria? It would probably cut down on the amount of hate-mail and death-threats.
Ironic indeed, albeit sad. Particularly so with death resulting from an act of courtesy.
“Aren’t you a little short for a … “
“…Dalek?”
“… movie producer?”
“… Lannister?”
Ahem, careful with the dwarf jokes. I do have a hammer, a mace, a battle mug (Sip), and a barshing shield…
I have orbital cannons, so you watch it you misbeggoten offspring of an oompaloompa and a dust bunny .
I’m holding the joke above my head
Old Dwarvish saying (from the late Sir Terry Pratchett):
“If his hands are higher than your head, his groin is level with your teeth.”
And I am wearing a Scoville armored jock strap.
In Hero System, one of the worst places to get hit is “the vitals” (which is a euphemism for the oh-so-tender parts). After several harrowing encounters with the dreaded “Groin Wolves” (who always seemed to bite the party on the dangly bits), the entire party went out and got the sturdiest armor for that location we could find.
Thus was born the Company of the Cast Iron Codpiece!
Which a cunning DM would counter with the Cast Iron Codpiece Kickers.
Aha, I see we got his name right the first time we saw him! Congratulations to the eagle-eyed-commentators.
I have a sneaking suspicion Dave named him that BECAUSE what kept calling him that. Like the Barberian.
How about an air-bag type collar that team members can deploy to pop up in front of Sydney’s mouth when she’s getting prepared to stick a foot in it…?
At least make one, and maybe show it to her Sydneyness. Just a thought ; )
A little too close to the infamous Scold’s bridle for my tastes..
I think Peggy is rapidly heading towards best-friend territory.* Especially for how she diplomatically avoided calling Sydney Ms Foot-in-mouth. Although it was the even more appropriate incident to reference, it may have ended with Sydney cringing under the table, in embarrassment, at having nearly repeated history!
* If only she had time to spare from physical exercise, marksmanship practice, clocking up her flying-hours and the odd kegger-party with Maxima. Unless Peggy manages to join the roleplaying gaming group, she will have to settle for ‘best-colleague friend’.
Am I the only one unobservant enough to have miss that he was a little person? When he first appeared, I though Lucas was a human head and torso mounted atop some kind of robot! Sort of like Davros, I guess. Boy, do I feel dumb. :-D
Nope – in the first panels I thought we were seeing an autonomous robot. I figured it was something like a security droid, teleconferencing rig, or some ARC-Spark work in progress. In panel three I saw Lucas as a human of similar size to Sydney standing next to the robot (behind it from our perspective).
I was seriously confused as to why Peggy felt it necessary to stop Sydney from saying anything. Had to re-read it a third time before I realized Lucas was actually standing on a mobility-rig.
Yeah, I thought something like that until I saw his legs at the back.
I too also thought he was a cyborg/Dalek/The Great and Powerful Turtle at first. Liking very much his true self (assuming that’s what we’re seeing… Duh duh DUHN!).
That motorized, what do we cal it, High-Wheeler Lucas is riding on it neat. Not going to call it a chair since he is standing, not sitting. It does look half-finished, though. Looks like it could use a back-half that is as high tech as the front half. One that goes all the way around, then the top segment could detach and fall back to become steps to make it easier for Lucus to get in and out.
Segway
High-tech futuristic Segway.
Maybe it’s still a prototype.
In ARC, it is very easy to imagine that anyone needing such a device would either be tinkering with it himself/herself, or else have various tralented people working on it for them.
Actually, considering this is ARC, I fully expect that any ‘finished’ product would probably be armor-plated, capable of hitting 60 mph on the level, and have as much electronics capability as NORAD.
But there would be a second version, with limited capabilities and some useless blinking-lights- and soundeffect-gimmicks. You know, the one they sell as a toy to grown-up collectors.
Maybe they would even make a “normal” version for charity (i.e. marketing).
Not to mention the countless toy robot variants.
Less filling, tastes great?
Were you on the set of Endor?
Does Voltron know you stole his big toe?
There was an episode of CSI where a murder took place at a convention for little people. One guy had a chair with a hydraulic lift that allowed him to look one of the CSI guys right in the eye while telling him off.
Wasn’t that chair also used to commit the crime? They couldn’t figure out how they got the body up where it was found until someone made a passing comment about that special chair
I saw an article recently about a wheelchair that can raise and lower the seat. This is so the person in it can raise up to be at eye level with people or reach things on higher shelves and yet lower down to comfortably work at regular tables or desks. I would think something like this would be even more practical to have in a place like ARCSWAT.
I thought she was going to comment on how he looks exactly like a George Lucas Bobblehead.
“Retroactive” is a verb now?
It is an adverb. (Adverb: a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb, expressing manner, place, time, or degree (e.g. gently, here, now, very ). Some adverbs, for example sentence adverbs, can also be used to modify whole sentences.)
In this case, it would be a time modifier on the verb ‘to place’.Premature edit: I have just noticed that it does appear to be a verb, seeing as there is no actual verb for it to be an adverb for…
Adverve (Verb. To bring excitement and enthusiasm. Etymology: A portmanteau contraction of “add” and “verve”. Coined on 13th June 2016 by Yorp. Not to be confused with the name of the advertising agency, with the same linguistic roots.)
you better be careful, you may get hit with a lawsuit saying that your form of useage is too similar to Lolly’s Inc. usage…
Haha – I misread Sydney’s first line. ‘Scoot, she called me Scoville…’.
And of course, the role of Lucas in the Grrl Power movie will be played by Peter Dinklage.
https://img2-1.timeinc.net/people/i/2014/news/140407/peter-dinklage-600.jpg
Don’t forget about the other small guy in holywood: Warwick Davis
https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/e/e2/ProfFlitwick.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100410145419
There’s also Rick Howland from Lost Girl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Howland) and Mike Anderson from Twin Peaks and Carnivale who was also a NASA engineer. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Anderson)
The most refreshing casting I have seen was for Peter Dinklage in a Marvel movie, as a (slightly mad) scientist. No stereotypical casting of short actors only as fantasy dwarves, hobbits, Ewoks or the like. It was a straight acting role, and they cast a talented actor, who did the job well.
Problem is, he is now at risk of being stereotyped as being a psychopathic baddie :P
I don’t know much of Peter Dinklage, but what I’ve seen is enough to know that he’s real talented.
You know that character you liked so much? His name is Bolivar Trask and you saw him in one of the X-Men movies. I’m saying this because he hasn’t been created for the movies. He existed in past comics ever since the early eighties (or even earlier), and he had average height!
So yeah. Marvel decided to modify a villain just so they could cast Peter Dinklage for that role. And the comic reader community (always extremely zealous about the source material, mind you) NEVER complained about it. That’s how good PD is.
Good save.
This page may seriously be one of my favorite ones ever. :D
I didn’t even realize this guy was supposed to be short until I looked back, I just kind of thought he was wheeling round a trash can, and that he was the janitor until they said otherwise. Which might had led into her whole “early to rise” thing but I have no idea what shifts janitors actually have.
Not that it matters as he’s not a janitor and is apparently a midget on a ride, not rolling around trash can.
I just saw George Lucas look-alike on a fancy Segway. Completely missed out on the height differential, on my first read-through. So wondered why Peggy would want to stop Sydney from asking for a part in the next Indiana Jones movie?
Got it on the second glance mind, when looking for what I was missing.