Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 11, 2013

Oh, Goody. Evie was just being a caringgrandma and a fine human being.

Pregnant is better than already laid ’em. Good thing the teacher caught her in time.

I’m surprised. I thought Alix would be remorseful about this.

notice Holly’s unstated “who sounds rather ticked-off”.

I hope she doesn’t get fined.. (or worse?) Maybethey will be merciful unto her, a sinner (don’t weall need grace)and return Pinchy back to the lake, maybe, never to sin again? :)

Marine biologists have no authority, it’s the DNR she has to worry about. What sort of trouble will jan get into, she let Alix bring the crawdad home. In WI, at least, that would technically be illegal, as that would be viewed as a potential transplant. Given that the teacher is from NOAA, and given NOAAs track record, I have no doubt that she has already informed the DNR, and will see to it that Jan and Ellie pay for this. Ask any deepwater commercial fisherman about NOAA.

For Ellie, please read Evie.

Who would of thought….boy, howdy.

Our friends are in trouble.

Alright, bring Pinchy back to the lake, so all her children will not have to grow up fatherless (the poor guy).

…Some decades ago we would not have made so much fuss about one crawdad. We called it “The survival of the fittest”!

…To eat her is now out of question since she is a pregnant mother. But if she would not be … I would suggest only a piece of butter and a pinch of salt. No garlic, as someone yesterday recommended.

How ever even if she laid her eggs there is no maie to fertilize them..\\//_

I think Alex misses the whole point of this exercise. (And don’t crayfish, etc. lay eggs?)

Has Pinchy really been in the park so long she couldn’t have been “pregnant” already before?

Ever!

I love this story!

Hey comicslover, not every environmentalist is a “hairy hippie” and invasive animals are a huge issue. Ask Australia how the rabbit population is, due to an Englishman bringing a few rabbits for hunting. Ask anyone in the Great Lakes about the zebra mussels clogging the waterways and water pipes. Ask any fisherman about the invasive fish that have been dumped into local lakes and have killed their favorite native fish. Ask Californian ranchers about invasive yellow star thistle. You are correct when you say that not everyone has their Ph.D but there is enough news talking about invasive animals and plants that it should be common sense not to move animals or plants. Jan is using her comic to illustrate a very common problem. Don’t be so judgmental.

“Know her place”? Really?!!! And where would that be, barefoot and pregnant? I would fully expect a biologist to be irate about deliberately introducing an invasive species. She could be more charitable in explaining why that isn’t a good idea, but her point of view is perfectly valid and she has every right to express it.

@Katla858, yes we have dill, there’s some in my kitchen this minute, now all I need is the crayfish/crawdad or whatever. Only it seems to this descendent of a transplanted Swede that the time to eat them is in the spring?

Oh no!

I’m disappointed in the job our NOAA marine biologist/teacher did in telling Alix what she did wrong. Alix should be mortified, not thrilled!

This isn’t going to end well at all.

yes, folk, that is what I love about this strip- it shines light on ordinary folks’ day to day cluelessnesses, is funny, makes us think, reminds us we are responsible, and we still get to laugh- rock it, Stones!

“Invasive species?” Or the Scottish Broom in the PacificNorthwest or, if I remember right, the tumbleweed in the West… BTW, Kudzu is simply a horrid invasive species, it has been covering and smothering southern plant life for decades… ;)

No problem. Deny everything and then have her tell them about all the animals that live in her wading pool. They won’t believe a word she says.