Grrl Power #779 – Sydney, a portrait in light
They’ve been busy while Sydney was gone. I imagine most custom stained glass window installations usually take a few months to turn around, but it’s pretty amazing what you can get done when you have a government agency backing you… especially when they’re a small agency not bogged down by a lot of red tape.
I’m sure there might be some groups who would be offended by imagery like this. Calling her Halo, with all that implies, is one thing, but the actual halo emitting god rays might be a step too far. Arianna’s policy is that if those people can produce an actual photo of a saint or demigod with god rays coming out their head, then she’ll listen to concerns about sacrilege or whatever.
Oh, and I thought I should mention one more time, Michael-Scott Earle’s Tamer 6 Kickstarter has 3 days left. If you missed Tamer 1-5, you can get them at his personal website, and if you’re an audiobooks kind of person, he has had the first 4 audiobooks rerecorded by a dual narrator team, so a woman is voicing the female characters, which is infinity percent better than listen to some guy read in falsetto. They’re available here for free, which is a pretty amazing deal, though it’s a pay what you want thing. Considering the price of audiobooks on Audible, a few bucks in the pay what you like field might not be out of order, but I’ll leave that up to you. The audio for book 5 should be out this week, if not today, so check back if you don’t see it right away.
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Only the best comic book stores have flying buttresses.
It’s not a store anymore, it’s an emporium. Which implies…something.
I think that it implies having all that room downstairs (seeing as how they took out all the pews) they decided they didn’t have to take out their garbage…for a long time.
I’d cite you for referencing a Thanksgiving song out of season; but I don’t want to deal with the judge’s seeing eye dog again.
But… I got all these twenty-seven 8×10 colored glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one! What am I supposed to do with these twenty-seven 8×10 colored glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one?
I understand your position, but you still have to pay $50 for littering. And creating a nuisance.
What do you mean? It’s Thanksgiving Monday here in Canada, so it still fits.
Only if you, or someone you know, is or was avoiding the draft.
Kid what are you on the group w bench for? I said “littering” and they all moved away from me. “And creating a public nuisance” and they all moved back.
Sydney for “Queen of Group “W”!
Empire?
Empire? For the Queen of Salt?
All she would need is the crown
Lolwhut
Ok, now that’s funny :D
Still got the name wrong though…It should read “The Mighty, Mi-Tay Halo.”
Make sure to put the verbal emphasis on “Tay,” or it tends to lose some of its best effect.
If they’re reading Gospel in there, I’m calling Blasphemy
What about “Preacher”?
* massive laughter *
Well it Maxima’s imaginary flashback she did tell that one would be mugger to swear to grab thar rather than to God.
Umm, close enough :P
I went back and reread that and now I’m wondering what Grabthar’s hammer looks like
My memory is decent but it’s not perfect
It is strikingly similar, but legally distinct from, MJölnir as seen in the Marvel comics.
“By Grabthar’s Hammer” is a quote from the GalaxyQuest movie. It was never shown, as it was mythical.
Wow I watch that movie and did not remember it myself.
Ok to me fair here in Coperfield alone we do have a Southern Baptist minister who until recently Owned part of a comic books store, and gave his share of ownership of it to his Son who owned the rest of it as part of his wedding gift.
And our minister likes to add in story’s from Spider-Man, X-men and avengers into his catechism class. He also played WoW As a Hunter, his son was a tankadin, and hid daughter was A Dps fighter.
I love when religious people is pop-cultural and/or nerdy.
^_^
<3
i’ve been left more speechless than Sydney
Lol, That is so awesome!
Is it me or is the little we see from the building making it look like a church? Complete with a stained glass window!
Maybe they repurposed a church building?
The flying buttresses certainly make it look like a repurposed church.
And DaveB… the rays aren’t coming from Halo’s head, but the orbs circling it.
Huh lets see …
1. Halo has a halo: Check, and pun intended.
2. Said halo is, as displayed, reminiscent of Christs “sun ray” halo.
3. The word “might” ( or versions ) in the name.
4. Emporium, stamming from “to journey”, which also is what Christ did a lot.
5. Halo kind of returned from the dead, as in her outer space stranded experience.
6. Halo can work miracles, which come from a higher plane of ( alien ) existence.
7. She has followers, some of which likely disciples at this point.
8. She preaches tolerance ( for nerds and those having a few screws lose ).
9. She pretty much as an unknown in her early years, just like Christ.
10. Gothic architecture high roof building with huge doors.
11. Round eye like stained glass window.
12. Her “H” symbol has cross like crossing lines.
13. She received her orb “blessing” while diving: a baptism.
14. She helps those in need.
Kind of the only thing still missing here would be a Judas.
While I have my doubts that she might become somewhat of the next messiah, the “signs” certainly are clear enough to make a religion out of it.
em·po·ri·um
emporium; plural noun: emporia; plural noun: emporiums
a large retail store selling a wide variety of goods
a business establishment that specializes in products or services on a large scale (often used for humorously formal effect).
“the world-famous food emporium”
archaic
a principal center of commerce; a market.
So, money changers.
Time to evict the cashier.
Emporium comes from latin meaning “place of trade”, which in turn comes from the greek “emporion” meaning “merchant place” or “market”.
“Emporos”, as in the merchant, is originated from “traveler” in the sense of “traveling trader” – those who journey afar to make a living.
… i admittedly had to go a bit far back for this one …
Well, I for one appreciate your historical perspective.
You forgot that, much like my man J.C., she is also prone to (righteous?) anger. XD
Hey, He may have been the Son of God, but he was also a man, and those money changers had it coming.
Ooops, forgot one, and the page hasn’t updated to show my own comment so I can reply to it. Also, the number of her spheres is 7, considered to be a holy number in Christianity – The day God rested on. Hell, I think even circles or spheres are considered holy symbols in some faiths.
Most importantly: She saves.
I am not sure that the swear jar should be counted among the evidence for her being deified.
I dunno, it kinda adds an interesting twist to most profanity. For Haloists, saying “Holy [expletive]!” would become a form of swear-worship.
No, Krona saves. She’s the reclusive powerhouse, Halo’s the outgoing ‘face’ of the operation. All they need now is a subtle comms genius…
Does that imply that for every coming of Jesus there must also be a Judas? Like some kind of vampire slayer thing?
WOW…….
Now THAT’S branding for you
Hope Syd copyrighted her image.
I’m sure Arianna has that covered.
Right, forgot about her, you’re absolutely correct of course.
Unless Hollywood snuck a pet ruling through, no you cannot copyright your image despite braying to the contrary.
You can try and copyright a particular image like a photograph or painting but not the subject matter itself.
The copyright office isn’t that messed up yet but it is messed up as it is.
Really, the place needs to be burned to the ground, the ashes compressed into a rock, the rock thrown into the sun as well as every troll and parasite involved in the business along with it.
I believe he meant trademarked, as in the shirt/ collard/ orb uniform.
I wonder why they chose the “Flight” orb for this? The “Forcefield” orb might have been just as good, showing the protection she does for the country. Then again, she is probably seen holding the flight orb more than the forcefield.
Only other question (and a more serious one) is how would they be able to have got this renamed store without having Sydney present to authorize this?
Well, Joel is the co-owner, and could probably manage to get it done.
Obvious solution to this: different branches will have her holding a different orb.
What, you didn’t think they weren’t going to spread out? This is a BUSINESS, guys!
*envisioning Joel in swanky suit, shades, cell phone, hair implants*
With a discount pilgrimage rewards program, and each shop sells a single part of a larger voltron-style Halo action figure.
“Gotta shop them all!”
when Sydney got back and found out she missed 53 days maxima told her they ‘kept her going’ or something like that. the easy answer is- part of the contract was arianna has power of attorney, so they just told Joel she is unavailable by phone or in person, but if he sends the contract and drawings over she can ‘arrange’ for Sydney to see them. given that arianna can’t legally or ethically fake Sydney signature she either used POA or.. well.. yeah the contract is on her desk, its good but she has to leave so could someone else look at it? and when she returned, its a miracle Halo signed it. Arianna didn’t ask how.. but she feels its genuine. likely they shoved some kind of confirmation under Sydney nose while she was being debriefed hoping sydney wouldn’t notice. but this is the girl that used the light hook to make an add for her store during a national press conference. why wasn’t there an ethics complaint about that?!?
So they goth a gothic cathedral. Nice.
* laughs *
I like the word-pun.
^_^
“Hey, you were missing for a while so we went ahead and put this up without asking you.”
I’m sure this will go over well…
I mean, when an image sells, you gotta sell it. Though I draw a line at monk robes.
+100 to DaveB if the staff are wearing branded wizard/Jedi robes. Another 100 if their portable scanners are nerd artifacts carried like incense burners.
Allow me to recommend a book to you.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13609386-geekomancy
Thanks, looks interesting! I’ve come across some great recommendations here – wonder how many people here would be interested in a Goodreads group or reading list? Dunno what that actually involves, just want to pick all y’all’s brians whenever I’m hunting for my next read. :)
St. Sydney The Digressor
Patron saint of Capsaicin and swearing. Favoured amongst sailors in particular.
And nuns, don’t forget the nuns :P
…& not just ANY old nuns … NINJA-NUNS!
NUNJAS!!!
#Have_We_Forgotten_The_Bank_Parking_Lot_Incident_Already?
:P
#I’m_Just_Sayin’
;)
:)
Those were the ones was thinking of :D
and then Sidney took the pepper and said:
“This is my body, which is given for you. Eat this in remembrance of me”
In the same way, she took the hot sauce, saying:
“This bottle is the new covenant in my blood, use it as often as you drink”
Wait is that even allowed? By my understanding she wasn’t there to sign off on any name changes
Oh! Plot twist: Sydney Scoville Sr pulled it off as her executor or something.
She has to be missing for over seven years before being declared dead.
Hmm, if Sydney signed over control of the rights to her likeness to ARC/Arianna perhaps this was negotiated on her behalf?
Remember, Jo-El is co-owner, and he seemed to be in charge of the important things, like… actually running the business
Joel didn’t strike me as the kind of guy to do something like this. Too laidback, I would have said. Something like this looks more like something Ariana would cook up. I can even imagine Joel being none too happy with how this turned out, but this new place can’t have been open for very long, considering it’s only been two months. He may only now coming to realize what he signed up for…
Wait, he gave Sydney all that grief about hiding her orbs, and now you’re saying that he’s related to Superman?
No, that’s a name someone else started calling him by
And didn’t say that he had anything to do with this, just he seemed to be the hands-on ‘running the business’ type co-owner, with Sydney being, well, Sydney (which actually makes me wonder if maybe she, or her family, was where they got the money to start the store in the first place… )
I assume that Sydney had a great deal of collectibles/comics/etc that she was able to sell and/or use as collateral to buy her way into the business.
PS. She didn’t want to sell them, but when she moved out of her parents’ house, they gave her an ultimatum.
Wow, Joel. Did you even ask Sydney if you could use her image like that?
This is 99% Ariana’s doing. I’m not too sure Joel is thrilled by this either. It wouldn’t surprise me if he didn’t work there anymore. It’s one thing to manage business with one part-time employee. This monstrosity requires completely different skills to run.
It’s weird, but there is such thing as too much success. It can burn a person out.
Arianna manages Sydney’s image by contract, and Joel is the majority owner, so it’s just not a problem unless Sydney gets vociferous.
In which case->
“Oh, look, it’s time for vegan nachos with ghost pepper flambe in the lower nave!”
[Ron]:
Speaking of “image”, what are the odds that Syd would make her 1st encounter with this new venue while wearing the SAME SHIRT as seen in her stained-glass likeness?
near certainty. I’m sure there is a GITP comic that can be sited for reference.
Wait, I thought they said they had everyone sign a contract where they couldn’t brand themselves to products or stores for the first 6 months of going public.
Loophole: this was done by Joel without her express consent.
Probably not Joel. This has Arianna’s fingerprints all over it.
Sydney had special clauses in relation to the comic shop, which might allow Arianna to get around the 6-month non-branding part of the super hero requirement. They already got around it with being paid to show up at Club Intz, so wouldn’t be surprised if Arianna wouldn’t figure this way around it.
Joel owns half of the comic store, so unsure how anyone could approve the name change without Sydney being present. Arianna might have been able to pay off debts, rents and utility bills as part of the cover, but this might be something else. Unless maybe Arianna has legal authority to make decisions with the comic store if Sydney is unavailable due to missions in the contract due to being her lawyer/PR team; remember that Sydney did say that Arianna was very happy with Sydney’s comic store when she wanted that added to the contract.
Arianna is Sydney’s lawyer and PR rep, so she likely has the authority to sign off on something like this. Joel would have to be on board since he is a partner in the business, but how hard would it have been for Dabbler or Harem to “coax” him into agreeing?
Appearances at clubs can be interpreted differently in contracts but the whole thing does seem to be backed by Archon and thus is part of the ARchon branding which could technically be a contract violation. Also. just because Joel is co owner, doesnt give him the right to change the name with out the approval of Sydney. She can always change it around if she hates it by talking to Ariana.
Establishing a DBA for the business does not require approval of all partners, only the managing partner.
Joel obviously had that status, with the authority to do anything he wanted on a daily basis and make all business decisions, even before Sydney got busy Halo-ing most of the time.
Joel would not have gotten that done with out Arianna’s help, so there’s no issue over there. (From Arianna’s POV, it’s probably part of distracting the public from Halo being on “special maneuvers”.)
So, yes, if Sydney hates it, she can demand he change it. He doesn’t necessarily HAVE to, but who would argue with the big guns?
#6 said “How hard would it have been for Dabbler or Harem to “coax” him into agreeing?”
Dabbler:-“When I’m involved, EVERTHINGS hard…!”
Heatwave:-“Why you were carrying around a cymbal?”
Dabbler:-“Because…reasons…..SEXY reasons!”
Jo-El is co-owner, that doesn’t have to mean strictly 50-50 ownership
She was a co-owner of the store before she signed the contract. Her involvement triggered a massive boost in business even before they started using her for serious branding or advertising.
Seems like that ship has sailed. This brings things a bit far, but where exactly is the line?
Also no doubt Ariana added clauses to allow Archon input in the business when the exclusive merchandising clause was inserted in the contract.
Since that was probably intended to soothe Maxima’s hostility to all that stuff I doubt it’ll come up.
It’s the Cult of Sydney!
Certainly not a Cult of Personality :P
If Sydney is sensible, she should call ahead, because her sudden, unplanned appearance in the shop is bound to cause a commotion.
If *Sydney* is *sensible,* which are not two words that usually go together. :-)
I think she was still just thinking of this as coming to work, and handling customers in the usual fashion. She isn’t really prepared for her new super status.
Still early and shop isn’t open yet. The parking lot is empty. It makes sense that the comic book store’s owners would show up hours before opening on new comic book day. They need time to sort, inventory and stock the day’s shipment.
I wonder if it has roof access for fliers…
If its old enough, there could be a belfry.
Okay, so Sydney marries Wolverine in the comic shop & Batman rents the belfry space. S’all good.
Even though Sydney probably hasn’t contacted him since getting back to Earth, Joel should be aware that Wednesday is a Store day for her and that this is the most likely day for her to show up in person if she’s going to.
Heck, I’m wondering now if Sydney’s parents might make the time to come to this city today. There are multiple sensible reasons why they might know the significance of Wednesday too.
Her return HAS been bandied about by the media…
What’s the betting that Joel left his phone at work yesterday and spent the evening reading/offline
Harem et al had a prediction TO THE DAY of when she’d crop back up. They had MONTHS to warn him that Sydney would be back around X date, give or take a week in either direction, even if Cora gave them an hour’s less warning than they expected. He would have known to start expecting Sydney even without his phone.
you… are assuming that Joel is connected enough to ask, that Max and co care enough to inform, and that things are efficient enough to realize that its important.
you assume much. plus its funnier if Joel doesn’t know. especially if he doing the ‘preaching the gospel of halo’ thing when she shows up.
Another way this could have gone would have been an Hindu type god with the many arms, each one holding an orb.
For all we know, the last unknown orb does exactly that, as well as providing medical and res capabilities
That seems a bit…I don’t know… sacreligeious?
Not stained glass… colored acetate?
Which Orb is that? Should it be that one?
Looks like flight… and it’s pretty high up, so it fits I guess?
It’s the fly orb, so that’s accurate at least.
Only a bit sacrilegious? It’s a blatant ripoff of classic Christian iconography, and appears to have been used to update (or at least copy) a typical modern Christian church. Sacrilege being “irreverence to sacred persons, places, and things”, it’s absolutely sacrilegious.
Whether or not any given religious person / group is offended by it, and to what degree, is up to them. I happen to be religious and love the architecture and symbolism of the old cathedrals (especially the stained glass), but have also been in several ancient churches completely renovated into shops of all kinds.
The new Halo worship center is a touch heavy handed, but not wrong given that she has a literal halo – I’d call it “humorously irreverent” and head right in to see what was in stock.
Agreed, I’ve seen old churches treated much worse. Still a touchy subject of course, religious feelings tend to go deep.
Wouldn’t matter anyway. The ones most likely to be offended already think RPGs are the devils work, and aren’t too keen on comic books, either.
So, you know, no (actual, paying) customers were harmed or disturbed by this business decision.
Definitely sacrilegious, but not maliciously so. It’ll get a pass from most congregations, as long as they’re just ‘borrowing the branding’ and not actively trying to mislead or displace. I’m sure whichever church no longer had the numbers/income to maintain the building (not to mention the architectural/historical-interest community) would be glad to see it put to coherent use rather than turned into housing or abandoned, as far too many are.
is that a store or a church?
Yes
It looks like an old church re-purposed as a store.
Hence the need for a new stained-glass window (which is probably acetate over plain glass).
Makes good sense, actually. If the church goes under due to poor attendance, and no one else wants the building.
Also, churches tend to be located in or close to housing areas, which means the new store could be closer, even within walking distance, of a key clientele. Especially if it is now closer to a school.
That said, I wouldn’t expect a church in a residential area, such as is implied by the decent landscaping, to fail due to attendance. I’d expect that to happen more often to churches stuck in commercial districts.
But churches can also die to mismanagement, or population turnover, (although, in the latter case, I’d expect the building to be snapped up by a different denomination or even a different faith.)
At least in the Southern U.S., churches in small towns where the population is stable tend to stay in the same building for decades. In larger metropolitan areas church congregations move to larger buildings as the congregation grows with the local population. This leaves a building that is too large for a storefront church. Once in a while they are converted into private homes if the building is relatively small or quaint looking. You would think another congregation would snap up the building but churches are usually tied to the local community. What you are left with is a building that is only efficient at a public space. Of the unused churches I have seen, they usually stand empty until they are repurposed or bulldozed to make room for something else.
In a lot of parts of Texas, traditional style church buildings sit empty because they are too inefficient to heat and cool. Congregations dont care about the look of the building enough to pay the extra cost of all that glass, and they are opting for more generic but efficient designs. Thus, even if there is an attractive old church building sitting empty a lot of churches renovate part of a strip mall or an old warehouse instead.
Jo-El can afford the summer electric bill on a place like this.
Isn’t weird that the ‘icon’ and Sidney wear the same clothes? what are the chances?
Probably pretty good actually. The tee shirt over a long sleeve shirt has been Sydney’s go-to outfit since the beginning of the comic.
But it is identical. same symbol, same colors, same everything.
Wild guess, what is some kind of… huge monitor thingy? and they put on that image only to prank her? It would explain why it is wearing her exact same clothes she is wearing.
Low. The image has her “clerical collar”, which Sydney either forgot or chose not to wear this morning.
She’s off duty.
The collar is a microphone for her radio communication.
Yes, but my point was that the image does have that collar, so it’s not likely a just-captured, then quickly photoshopped, image thrown up on a big screen.
This would be a fantastic prank – everyone else would know about the new location by now, so just update the notice at the old store with a fake address, and throw up a holographic sign and the window cover on an unused church.
And add a load of cameras around the site so you can record that amazing expression in the last panel.
Arianna had these clothes set up for her knowing she wouldn’t question it.
Gotta say… That’s creepy and very cult-like.
Are you kidding me? Backed by a government agency? The place would still be in the old location. The reason it was done was because you gave the heroes “Hollywood” status. Bigger than Oprah, Martha Stewart combined worth five hot A list actresses and two actors. And almost as big as Streisand.
Sydney: “Oh, come on! I’ve got a bigger rack than that (just)!”
Also
Joel: “Look, if make this store the church of Halo we can get tax free status is all I’m saying”
Sydney: “That’s the stupidest religion I’ve ever heard of!”
Joel: (deadpan stare) “Watched many televangelists?”
Sydney: (beat) “Ok, but it’s still in the top 20%!”
There in Texas we have a self certified Pastor who uses a converted NBA Basketball stadium as church. And we have al least 3 cinemas that host worship services on Sunday’s that I know of that are televised usually from there home church.(seriously Sunday Church and a movie) Houston has Megachurches so somehow it works.
see https://cinemark.com/private-events/theatre-church/
At least it is “emporium” and not “temple”…
This made my day. Also, the best use of a church I’ve seen in a long time.
Thanks!
Better than it’s original purpose? o_O
Well, I guess it depends on what kind of fiction you like …
Interesting that the front of the store, with the rectangular shape and the choice of font, looks very much like the cover of a comic book.
Almost like it’s a comic book store…
Love it! That said, the stained glass orbs’ halos are mostly separated, but the green and purple ones are joined in a way the others are not. I would assume that was not on purpose?
Umm, check out panel three, pay close attention to the two balls on the left (her right)
Purple is Mr Buble by the way
I’m not sure what you want me to see? I guess I wasn’t clear? Look at the ‘auras’ of the orbs in the stained glass. The ones around the green and purple (air and bubble) are joined as one, while all the other auras are separated and the auras of the one in front cover the ones behind. If I look at panel three, the orbs on either side of her are similar to one another in ‘aura-impact’.
I mean, it can be an artistic choice, but it would look odd to me.
They are positioned in the same way, the only difference is the ‘aura’ in the image encompasses them both, due to their close proximity
What do you mean, close proximity? Depth-wise they would be farther apart than any of the other orbs are to a neighbouring one – which is the major reason an aura would cover another aura.
Deliberate choice by the (in-world) artist, I would guess, but artistic rather than symbolic. Purple is much further eclipsed than any of the other back-row Orbs; if Green’s aura were maintained, only a small sliver of Purple would be visible unaffected, which would disrupt the recognisable colour scheme.
Sydney should get Arianna to take some sort of legal action against her soon to be former partner for that creepy imagw…
Someone suggested, and I’m inclined to agree, that Arianna may be partly responsible for this.
Not many “Ray”s, but at least one “Athena”…
That is disturbingly church-like.
Yes, I get that that’s the point. It doesn’t stop it from being disturbing.
It probably is a church. Church’s have been sold to private owners many times. I have a friend who actually owns and lives in a church. It makes a really nice home. I am a wee bit jealous.
Thing is, there are areas with old church buildings like this that can be had cheap. They are too energy inefficient for a congregation on a budget, and churches in many areas are moving to more multipurpose buildings that are cheaper to maintain. The old cathedral style buildings get left to deteriorate.
The incentive here may have been that the building was cheap, the comic store was making an increasing amount of money but lacked capital, and the location was within the market survey ideal area.
No one’s mentioning that the Truesight orb is pretty much in Third Eye position?
Sydney… Please tell me your condition was not to have Arianna in charge of marketing your store o.0
The Condition was that she could have regularly scheduled time off from Archon to still work at the store now and then. Arianna having a hand in marketing certainly might have been a concession to get them to agree to the Condition, though.
She looks a little bit cross-eyed, which makes the display even funnier.
I work with stained glass and the only part that would be particularly irksome to me would be how HUGE some of those glass pieces are. I’d almost think they’d make the thing out of plastic and back light it with led’s to make it LOOK like stained glass. Because otherwise those big ass pieces are begging to crack and shatter. Hail, bird, even just wind. The little pieces are stronger.
It was suggested above that it’s glass backed with plastic to give the effect, not real stained glass.
In which case it would be like the glass they use for modern shopfronts, which can be plenty strong.
Emporium you say? And you didn’t mean to write church or temple?
Did they take over an old church or did they have that built in like two months?
Why do I suspect Arianna’s behind this?
Ouch! Seriously if Mal Shankman was part of this universe he would probably move to From Chicago just to picket outside this church. Never mind that the remaining members of Westbrook babtist showed up at the Berry center to announce that god hates everyone a couple of hours after the funeral for Deputy Dhaliwal. Kind of weird seeing them in an empty parking lot by the stadium barricade.
Which was kind of ammusing because usually the police around here are actualy helpful to protesters, even the more annoying ones. But Reportedly the gas station they helped them to get to had a unexpected system shutdown of all pumps that could not get fixed until after they actualy left. Supposedly the reason they even let them stay at the Berry center for a while was the van actualy broke down after someone got them gas.
And yes I found the hole thing amusing, running out of gas. Getting stuck at a gas station with broken down pumps, then breaking down just as they were about to declare god hates everyone in an empty parking lot.
But Seriously.
You made it look like a church.
In Texas.
We at Epiphany Lutheran have gotten bomb and death threats because we as a church had a Black Paster who dared preach to white congregants, and because we took in Iranian Christians when Harvey wrecked there church, so they could have a place to worship, and because many of our members are openly Gay and Lesbian.
And last time I checked it was not the 1950s here in Houston Texas.
Wait 2 stone? I thought this was set in the US that a metric measurment
Glass house, two stones, doesn’t work if you use metric
Pre metric, I thought
A stone is not a metric measure. It means 14 pounds, and is commonly used as a measure of weight in English speaking countries. The word is rarely used in American dialects.
The most common use is when weighing people – a person weighs ten stone, not 140 pounds.
Or to be precise, whole number of stone, followed by the remainder in pounds. F’rinstance I would be 15 stone 2 in that system.