Grrl Power #446 – Confidence shattered
People think wolves howl at the moon, but a quick googling should be enough to dissuade them from the idea. From there it’s a small leap to disassociate werewolves from the moon as well. I’m surely not the first person to consider that… even typing out that sentence sounds like a douchey humblebrag, but I can’t think of anything I’ve seen where werewolves weren’t affected by the moon. There’s probably some prime example everyone is rushing to comment on, but it just struck me one day so I went and googled it. I mean wolves howling at the moon, not non-lunar werewolves. I suppose I could have googled that as well. :P
Of course that begs the question,* what triggers lycanthrope changes? Obviously Gregor can control his, as can any lycan that’s been doing it for a while. There are a host of reasons someone wouldn’t be able to control it though. When someone is first “brought into the were-fold” (not a double entendre in this case) they can change seemingly at random. It’s like adolescent boys and erections**. Well, it probably doesn’t happen nearly that often, but lycanthropy does introduce a whole raft of new hormonal imperatives to a body. Some people aren’t the most stable to begin with. Suddenly turning into a furry whatsit can pile on a degree of stress to one’s life. Some weres can have specific triggers though. The were-cats working at the pet store who just ripped a big bag of catnip all over himself is in for a surprise. Really his co-workers are in for the surprise.
Gregor’s exactly right though, it’s an example of snowballed confirmation bias. I don’t expect this myth to go away very quickly though. Lycanthropy is such a obvious allegory for adolescence it’s good material for fables and stuff like Teen Wolf and Gingersnaps. Myths I would like to see go away are the “you only use 10% of your brain” one. Limitless is a good show so I’ll give it a pass, but I would have enjoyed Lucy more if it didn’t start with Morgan Freeman authoritatively telling me something that’s patently false. It’d be like starting off a movie by telling the audience that the moon is made of cheese or that women have fewer teeth. That’s a real thing people used to believe that I just found googling stupid old misconceptions. Aristotle thought that. I mean… just count their teeth? Maybe he thought a woman opening her mouth wide enough for a man to count her teeth would make her uterus spray poison or something.
*It doesn’t actually beg the question. Begging the question is a logical fallacy involving circular reasoning. I’m just using it as a colloquial phrase to slightly shift topics, which I probably shouldn’t do, especially because too many people doing it too often changes the meaning of phrases and words. For example, “theory” now means both “A scientifically accepted general principle supported by a substantial body of evidence offered to provide an explanation of observed facts and as a basis for future discussion or investigation” and also “a big fat guess” and we’ve all seen how much trouble that has caused. Edit: It’s been pointed out that my original definition of theory wasn’t accurate so I’ve updated it. Laws generally state what and how, but not why. Theories deal with the why. Ranking them first and second in terms of scientific certainty leads people to believe that theories are sitting around waiting for a few more pieces of evidence before they’re promoted to laws.
**I just learned that the female equivalent of ‘morning wood’ is called ‘morning dew,’ which sounds like the Mountain Dew guys trying to obliviously market a breakfast drink.
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A scientist would have counted their teeth – a hacker would have counted their teeth without their knowing it…
Bonus nerd points to DaveB for having the wolf howl on top of the Vasquez Rocks (used in certain Trek episodes). What this proves is not that wolves howl at the moon, but that they howl at Gorns.
https://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Vasquez_Rocks
“Here today gorn tomorrow”
“Gorn with the wind”
two of the bad gorn puns I’ve seen on star trek online
How ’bout “Gorn to be wild”.
(I haven’t played STO, I just thought of that off the top of my head. My apologies for temporarily exposing that hazardous level of pun-generation. It’s rather pungent.)
During a supers RPG, a new player had created a lizardy looking player character from lousiana. After finishing his introduction, another player smirked and said,
“So, you’re a Gorn from the bayou.”
We contemplated defenestrating him, but we decided the paperwork would be too much work.
Let’s not forget that exciting car chase movie “Gorn in Sixty Seconds”…
Well for a true story of a minority immigrant you can’t beat “Gorn in the USA”!
Tarnsman of Gorn?
Yes, wolves/coyotes howl all the time. All nocturnal predators and some diurnal predators are more active during the full moon due to the increased light. My cat, The Fluffy Hunter, loved the full moon as the prey increased due to more light
Sound words != narrative
No. Sound words = onomatopoeia
Numerous examples of that are evident in many illustrated comics both in print & on the internet, including several different pages of this webcomic as well.
;)
ka-PANTS!
You get the idea. I just hope you didn’t have to embiggen, enfuzzen & enwolfen to get it.
;)
The genius comes in the result. The panel, in question, is understandable at a glance. Likewise with other such uses in the comic. Dave is a pioneer in a new way of adding movement (and other attributes) to an otherwise static image.
Because it is so successful, I have no doubt that, in due course, it will become more widely adopted.
I love what Dave is doing with SFX.
I’ll take the bait. Angela Knight’s Mageverse series has Werewolves that aren’t connected to the moon in any way. I would say Sherilyn Kenyon’s Were-Hunter’s fall into this too, but there is a connection between the full moon and their time travel powers.
Nice Weird Al ref!
Black is white, up is down, and short is long!
And little is bigger than big! (Thank you, Gallagher.)
(Little = 6 letters long. Big = 3 letters long. Little is twice as big as big.)
Minuscule is bigger than little…
Everything I think I know is wrong!
And a dime is worth 10X the value of a penny, even though it’s smaller…
Another myth that has been around forever is that men and women have a different number of ribs because of the rib reference in the biblical creation story. This is another ‘just count’ scenario. I find people’s inability to correctly identify their own bones to be humerus.
They probably just count their own and assume the other gnder has more/less.
Or they are american and can’t count their ribs.
That’s an especially stupid one, because even if we assume the Genesis story to be literally true, Lamarckian evolution has been disproved. And even if it weren’t, the Bible doesn’t say that Eve had as many ribs as Adam used to have.
Actually the new field of epigenetics indicates that events which affect one generation, can alter the next. Through altering the way the genes are expressed, rather than changing the genes themselves.
This is sufficiently close to the original proposal that Epigenetic Lamarckism is now being investigated in its own right.
In some stories, a few people might have an ability known as “ancestral memory” or “racial memory” which allows them to recall events or experiences from distant ancestors. Epigenetics may also be the source for an old homily that implies that “talent skips a generation.”
It is why cats are so arrogant. They can recall when cats were treated like royalty and even divine creatures. Thus they know that humans exist just to serve them.
Err not that I am suggesting that the rib thing has anything to do with epigenetics. I was just responding to Lamarckian evolution being brought up.
Is genetic diversity increasing or decreasing? If genetic diversity is decreasing, as indicated by mass extinctions, then if you were to reverse the trend by traveling backwards through time (intellectually), you would come to a point where maximum genetic diversity exists (using the same logic used to justify the Big Bang). If maximum genetic diversity existed for a long enough duration, then that duration would be heralded as a period without death. Therefore the transition from a death-free world to one with death could be viewed as “the Fall of Man” after his “Creation.”
Now I am not advocating Creationism with this post, I am advocating a philosophical thought that would be the basis for the belief amongst those that have neither time nor inclination to contemplate. Without conscious awareness of Why one believes, one is less likely to abandon said belief. If the reason one believes in creation is because the evidence suggests (subconsciously) the above scenario, what evidence does evolution offer to counteract this?
Personally, I accept that every generation is different from the one before it and that this generation’s genetic makeup is both dependent upon one that preceded it as well as altered by changes that has happened to it, but the idea that it is genetically possible to create a series of evolutionary changes so that life evolved from death (animate from inanimate) instead of death evolved from life is evidentiary lacking.
Entropy does provide the arrow of time.
Or the arrow of time provides entropy.
Time does not exist. The arrow is nothing more than an abstract concept, which allows you to determine which ‘direction’ you are facing. As constrained by your severely limited dimensional sensory and comprehension apparatus.
We are, all of us, already time travelers. It’s just that, relative to the speed of motion our planet take on its journey through space, we can measure that time. We are all traveling towards the future at the speed of 60 seconds per minute. We’ve developed a measurement system that can be more accurate (using smaller increments of time – down to the Planck Second interval) or more broad & general (larger increments of time – century, millenium, etc).
However, that could backfire also, because some men, and women, don’t have the standard number of ribs, some have more, some have less. So it very well might be that someone counted the ribs on a female skeleton, and sure enough, one less rib.
That tickled my funny bone.
(insert pun about the humerous here)
A better explanation of the bible story is that it refers to the baculum, and explains why human males don’t have them.
I had a golden retriever that barked at the moon once… it never happened again to my knowledge.
Morning dew sounds so casual it just begs for double entandres.
Sometimes dew collects on wood that’s left exposed, in the morning.
I believe that’s what the fruit punch and orange juice Kickstarts are called by them.
As a hopeless pedant who, for some reason, has an irrational sensitivity about it: a blessing on your house for knowing the proper use of “begs the question”. (Honestly, I’m not pedantic about most things, but for some reason “begs the question” is like nails on a chalkboard to me, like bad kerning or people who use “biweekly” to mean “twice a week”.)
As a non-native speaker I am always thankful for such clarifications. It’s so easy to get these things wrong if it isn’t even used right by native speakers. For the same reason I get really annoyed by people who misuse “their”/”there”/”they’re”, “its”/”it’s”, “effect”/”affect” etc, even though these are so much easier to not mis-learn.
(Although I do love it when a business partner wants me to “sing a non-disclosure agreement”)
You don’t happen to know of a resource where I can relearn some other such mis-learned phrases? I only know of such a resource for German.
Personally I just google any term I am dubious about. If it is correct, you will usually get some hits on it. Or you could try:
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/
It sounds like you are advanced enough that you would need specific tuition in order to improve. General online resources are likely to be too basic. Although such advanced English aids probably are out there, they tend to get drowned out, in search results, by the numerous types of courses on offer by different institutions.
Aha, I know just the club for you!
By the way, I think you can get an ointment for your bad kerning. It is double strength though, so just apply it biweakly.
Ah, but just because you can figure out how often the club holds meetings doesn’t mean that you know which precise days those meetings are held; you have to know at least one specific day before you can figure out any other specific days.
Each day that a meeting is held is consistently relative to every other meeting day, but to define any specific day, you must compare it with a known factual constant. Not even Einstein could describe the relationship between matter & energy unless he also compared either one of those factors with a known constant (the speed of light).
Well, obviously we would give a clue that the previous meeting was on a nonmeasurable day, ending with a “y”.
Clover isn’t lackadaisical, she’s just tired. Las night was a full moon, and she made sure that people saw her howling at it. It’s a long range scheme to piss off/distract her father. Teens!
A lot of the issues with vampires can be attributed back to people suffering from Hydrophobia (Rabies!).
not really. nearly everything “everybody knows” about vampires was introduced in the last century or so. Some of the oldest legends had them as daytime stranglers, for instance.
If you were to think about it you’d find confirmation bias at work in a lot of things.
I confirm that. Although I might be biased.
On the subject of counting teeth:
“In the year of our Lord 1432, there arose a grievous quarrel among the brethren over the number of teeth in the mouth of a horse. For thirteen days the disputation raged without ceasing. All the ancient books and chronicles were fetched out, and wonderful and ponderous erudition such as was never before heard of in this region was made manifest. At the beginning of the fourteenth day, a youthful friar of goodly bearing asked his learned superiors for permission to add a word, and straightway, to the wonderment of the disputants, whose deep wisdom he sore vexed, he beseeched them to unbend in a manner coarse and unheard-of and to look in the open mouth of a horse and find answer to their questionings. At this, their dignity being grievously hurt, they waxed exceeding wroth; and, joining in a mighty uproar, they flew upon him and smote him, hip and thigh, and cast him out forthwith.”
— Sir Francis Bacon (I’ve read that documentation attributing this story to Francis Bacon is lacking, but whoever told it first, it’s a great story.)
… and they were right to do so.
You can’t determine truth by looking at a single example. You can look at hundreds of examples and merely develop a theory. (There’s that word again.) But different people looking at different sets of examples from different perspectives will come up with different theories that might or might not result in the same conclusion. Someone might create a theory how teeth count depends on age; another person might create a theory how teeth count depends on living conditions or nutrition. A third theory might connect teeth counts of horses and dogs. (Could they even be related, somehow? Mind-blowing!) And on the search for truth, some day, some people will have to look at the different theories and search for correlations and disagreements to develop an overarching, better theory, which is where the story starts – but it’s not where the process starts.
Of course at this point the incredibly intelligent scientists get annoyed if some noob comes up with a “brilliant” idea like that. They’re decades into a project already, why would they spend time to explain all the little steps to the newcomer who didn’t even take the time to think of the second step of his “genius” plan?
It’s the same feeling that creates that particular sour/annoyed/amused half-smile you might get when you talk to a real expert about their area of expertise from an outsider’s perspective.
Except that, outside of truly esoteric fields, science also starts with observation of a baseline of facts. So, you check a few horses, get a rough count. See if there’s any variance in the ones you picked. At this point, the working hypothesis would then be that horses have X teeth, where X was an average of the number counted. If all the horses sampled had the same number, or an obvious gap where they had less, then you would proceed on the belief that this would continue. Yes, you’d continue to test that hypothesis, but it would be folly to start out without using an easily made observation as a baseline. (Now, if the monastery were on a remote mountain where horses were scarce, then you might have to start with the pontificating and then move on.)
I don’t totally disagree. Yes, you need something as a starting point for theories. And you could start by looking at horses. But you don’t necessarily have to – and in fact the really interesting science (and depending on the definition the only real science) starts when you don’t. Because now you can create a working hypothesis from other related fields and test it by looking at horses later. That eliminates the bias you would get if you would start with the horses and it tells you much more about the interrelationships and thus the bigger picture. After all, the question how many teeth a horse has isn’t just some random question floating around in the air, it’s related to other things and these relationships are what makes the question worth asking.
Admittedly, some scientists will take this point of view even farther and start arguing about what “real” question they should be asking instead. Others will start creating theories what a particular count might mean before they even start looking for a way to get the number. Some will go down even more pointless-looking alleys. But after all, this distance from the “boring” part and focus on reflections and connections is what makes science science instead of engineering.
Could you have some movie stars (good and bad actors) be monsters? Like having Morgan Freeman be some kind of elf because he has that voice that no one can resist.
James Earl Jones would need to do the voice for Sydney’s dad mind.
“I am your father Sydney.”
Also applicable to the line “I am your father, Sydney.” And the more convoluted “I am your father, Sydney, Sydney.”… fast forward a bit….
“I am your grandfather, Sydney Scoville, Sydney Scoville the third.”
I’ve kind of wondered how Sydney’s naming conventions would work out when she starts having kids & grandkids. She is Sydney Scoville Jr. so she could name her first child either Sydney Scoville II (after her dad, being Sydney Scoville), or she could name the kid Sydney Scoville Jr.II (after herself), or …
…
…Argh! My brain just broke!
Since she is “Jr.”, after her father, the next step would be Sydney Scoville III, per the standard rules of descent, regardless of the gender of the child. She could ALSO name a boy, specifically, Sydney Scoville II, saying he was named after the boy’s grandfather, using the more traditional convention. I assume that in the future, she’ll have fraternal twins and this is how she names them, and then just calls out “2” or “3” as needed.
She’ll need to buy those Dr. Seuss shirts…Like those we’ve seen one of the Harems wearing. Thing 1, thing 2, etc…
I’ve been calling my daughters Thing 1 and Thing 2 for years. Perhaps I should look into top hats and a fur suit. My wife did suggest “Javahead Jr” for #1, too.
Sydney specifically wants to call her child Sydney Scoville the 3rd. And there is nothing stopping her doing that. If she wants it to follow traditional naming patterns better, Sydney has the option of renaming herself as Sydney Scoville the 2nd.
I have no idea how it may work in whatever State Sydney is in, but in England it is no more complex than declaring that your name has changed.
If it does turn out to be bureaucratic for her, then Sydney should bear that in mind. It will presumably be even harder for her husband, to change his name, to match hers, given how unconventional that is. So to maximise her chances of her plans going smoothly Sydney should be sure to marry an Englishman, who will have no such difficulty!
I meant monsters disguising as humans.
Elsewhere somone made the suggestion of Sean Connery for Gregor, which I totally endorse. Kylie Minogue could nail the fairy role, given her experience as the Absinth fairy, in Moulin Rouge.
That Wallace and Grommit movie started with the Moon is made of cheese thing. I still enjoyed that :p
That was a short, really: “A Grand Day Out.”
Shame it turns out to be made of Wensleydale mind. I much prefer Red Leicester. But we can see the colour is wrong for that.
My mother insists a cheese scone isn’t right if it’s not topped with Red Leicester
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE5sEYwF36A
‘Nuff said.
DAVE! It seems you have some interest about werewolves. In that case I recommend you anime Wolf Children. In it ordinary woman marries werewolf and they have 2 children. It is spelled out that moon has nothing to do with the transformation. Children transform back and forth as they please or without control over it (isn’t said which is the case), but gain control over the time as they grow and learn to understand the need for secrecy. Good anime movie that. And it’d be funny for Gregor or someone (like Max) to make reference for it on the next page ;)
Hmmm, Daniel the Human tells me that’s an Anime he would love to watch, might work well here too. Wonder if Mr DaveB will see this & agree…
Heard that that was a very tragic and sad anime
Lillith Saintcrows Jill Kismet series is an excellent example of weres with no lunar trigger, also lots of other kinds of weres too, sidekick/llove interest is a werecougar
Im partial to the Kate Daniels books for how things like vamps and werewolves exist.
Roosters crowing at dawn is another myth. They crow all the freakin’ time, even in the middle of the night. We used to keep chickens. You get used to it though, and it usually didn’t wake me up.
Also, Everything You Know is Wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThlYHfIVa8
Oddly I find the roosters here tend to crow at dawn. Maybe you suffered from light-pollution? If not, perhaps different breeds, or ways of keeping them, can result in different behaviours?
What I can confirm though, regarding night-time crowing, is that, if my dog, Buffy, asks to be let out, at night, the instant the security light goes on, I risk setting off the neighbour’s roosters. Typically they are more likely to react, the closer to dawn it is. But I have triggegred the odd midnight crowing session.
Maybe the midnight crowing is in response to those flying cows.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2172
If you just get enough to drink at the crow bar first, you can sleep like a baby through it. People tend to sleep quite soundly after using a crowbar…
Just have a monkey wrench it out of their hands.
*Flails arms wildly* Dang it Dave! I was writing a story about a were-cat and now I can’t get the idea of him working at a pet shop out of my head! Why you do this? Seriously though, the idea is awesome and in fitting with the story hitting cat cliches. In case I ever use it, thank you for the brilliant idea.
DaveB, just a reminder that you have not yet sorted out Sydney’s lack of orbs in panel 2, of the previous comic page.
Likewise you may have missed a couple of folks pointing out, that there is a discrepancy in the spelling of “Katrina” vs “Katarina”, when comparing her Who’s Who entry to her original introduction, by Maxima.
Artic Wolves (I don’t know about others) howl when the sun sets to announce territory (I’m here, you stay over there) because there’s limited prey. They drop to their haunches (sit) to expand their lungs and make more noise. They raise their heads to a) straighten their throat to increase volume and b) aim the sound so it carries further.
This is just simply explained survival behavior.
Actually they are praying to the sun, in the hope that it will return, in several months.
The ones further South just think that their prayers are really effective, and bring it back fast!
For a realistic accidental trigger for a shapeshifter change would be the ‘fight or flight’ reaction. You already have many other things triggered biochemically speaking at that time.
Next you are going to destroy some myth about vampires? Like the pre Hollywood vampires were not necessarily associated with night? Or Blood? They took away “life” which was breath even more often than blood. But movies can do more effects with blood than with breath.
And I suppose they don’t say: “blah, blah, blah” either?
I thought they said “One blah, two blah, three blah”?
You’re thinking of this vampire, Yorp.
I have a dog that backs and howls at contrails. :D
Maybe he is trying to warn you about the insidious plot going on overhead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory
So, important question here. Are you a big dude, or a geek dude?
Because I am trying to figure out if you are more into Big Mac’s or the Mac computer. Or are you just a Scottish friend of Bill and Ted?
OMG that last panel. I’m howling.With laughter, I should perhaps specify, given the topic at hand.
AFAIK Twilight’s “werewolves” don’t have a lunar trigger. Might be my recollection of Luminosity interfering with vague, traumatic recollections of reading the original series for English Lit several summers ago.
They are not werewolves in Twilight. They are more Spirit Warriors/Shaman types. In the final book werewolves are mentioned but they were never seen in the books
As mentioned, but the “wolves” in Twilight are actually shapeshifters who just have a giant wolf form. There are werewolves mentioned a few times, in reference to the Volturi trying to wipe them out, and they’re referred to as “children of the moon” and the full moon does matter to them.
It’s basically only mentioned two or three times in the series though as throwaway lines like “oh yeah werewolves are real too” and “btw, those aren’t actually werewolves, I thought everyone knew that?”.
I always assumed werewolves changed during a full moon because their eyes don’t get much of an upgrade (if any), so they need the moonlight to see what they’re hunting.
Sydney has some weird vulnerabilities. Which is okay; she has some weird powers to match.
i have actually read a short story once where a werewolf’s transformation was a conscious decision she could make during her menstrual cycle. not exactly full-moon related, but it was a once-a-month thing. she could stay a wolf, of course, but could only do the change during certain parts of her hormonal cycle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThlYHfIVa8
I can’t be the only one who thought of this
Indeed not. And about the fourth to post a link to it. Which is useful mind, for those of us who have never seen Weird Al.
Bill Cosby has a werewolf bit where he talks about the Wolfman getting a haircut while the moon comes up and he transforms.
“Oh wow, Mister – this is gonna cost you about another eight dollars!”
“Yeah well, make it light around the legs, would you please?”
The last panel…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThlYHfIVa8
I wanted to be the guy to post this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThlYHfIVa8
I think you may have been beaten to it, by about five or six times. Including the comment you just replied to.
Did you copy the wrong link, by any chance?
Sorry, posted as soon as I finished reading the page.
Is it just me, or does that whole song & video seem like someone took the “wrong meds”…
…or is having a really weird dream…
Oh, I was not having a dig at you. Or anyone posting the link, actually. Everybody is entitled to voice their first impressions. And if that overlaps other peoples, then it just gives us insight into just how many people interpreted something that way.
I was just responding to Aphotep‘s comment, and was trying to figure out why that link was identical to yours. Without someone commenting, the poster might not realise that an apparent error had been made.
I find that if you have multiple tabs open, on a browser, it is easy to sometimes copy the wrong one. Given that Aphotep was replying to you, the video you linked was likely to be open, so could have been copied, in error, instead of whatever other website may have been intended.
I clicked on the link when Joe Guy first posted it and I’ve been on a Weird Al listening binge. I basically let YouTube pay on auto.
Yups, that has happened to me a few times: correctly copy-pasta one link, attempt to do the same with another but only find out after hitting [Submit] that hadn’t properly copied the URL, so now tend to check back to make sure the URL’s are correct first
Now how does he (gregor) respond to chocolate and caffeine I wonder
Depends whether it is a guy, or a pretty girl, offering them. Either way they are likely poisonous, but his response would vary depending on the circumstances. Worst case scenario probably involves ripping arms off.
That’s why nobody’s upset about upsetting a Droid…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElZfE1AVDPQ
Dire-ly :P
Personally, and it may already have been mentioned, I think the whole change at the site of the full moon has to do with the link to lunacy. During periods of the full moon, its been documented that there are more incidents of crazy person activity. Werewolves are characterized by beastial, wild natures and roaming at night so it was probably inadvertently linked together. I wonder if there is a rise in lunacy based beastiality (as in animal like behavior you naughty people.).
Speculation time (because I am in dire need of a plot hook):
Guy number two from our super villain list looked like a fanatic in a church. He said the cleansing was at hand. I now think he did not mean supers, but all the monsters here and he wants to play the supers against vampires and werewolves with the help of public opinion!? He perhaps belongs to an ancient order of poopheads who passed the knowledge about the extra-living along and tried to fight them for generations.
Reasonable speculation. He did have the feel of an extremist preacher, so what little evidence we have, does support your hypotenuse.*
* See I did take home the message, to avoid confusing terms like “hypothesis” and “theory”. So am following the advice to use mathematical ones instead.
You mean the happy chappy at the center of the top row here? Hmmm, no white collar visible, but could be lower/off at the moment, possible church in the background, or just a REALLY fancy house…
We haven’t gotten anywhere near the point for Sydney being there, and I for one don’t care! This is too much fun watching her misconceptions crashing around her! She currently isn’t handling it all that well, but I have faith that she will soon return to her mostly loopy state.
I agree that Sydney can be very flexible…If not all that well-coordinated: Panel 6 @ https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2200/comment-page-2#comment-456504
Your link goes to an inflexible place, where only Wookies win. Probably not the one you intended though.
Thanks for catching it. It should be panel 6 @ https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1937
The wolf may not howl at the moon, but the fox definitely cries at 2 AM. Actually, it’s more of a loud choked cough.
The cow jumps over the moon…
The wolf does not howl at the moon,
OK, now I have to fit in a seasonal reference, or does mentioning the moon cover that? Then how many syllables do I have left? Oh wait, I have to check the number of syllables, per line, first.
For a proper Haiku, it’s 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line & 5 syllables in the third line…
;)
Anyone can write
A haiku. Just stop at the
Seventeenth syllab