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1. 

   BikeNBoatN said, about 16 hours ago

   Boilerplate courtesy of fear-ciuil:

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   Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane at the Houston Chronicle

   Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane at Brand X

   Pib: Whoa! So Pib has Dru’s hair and ear(s), and got smacked by that 8 again? In mid-word! Looks like there’s some really weird mix-n-match going on between Pib and Dru.

   9CWL: Greet God. For us non-Germans, just what does that mean in this context?

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   Sisyphos said, about 16 hours ago

   The twisted PibDru of panel 2=”8” reflects my state of mind. Some Dreamscape mixing of our two fair ladies needs to get sorted out. But who is Sylvia?

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   BikeNBoatN said, about 16 hours ago

   Is it just me, or does the DruSylvia in Panel 1 have a little more Leno-esque chin than usual? Something about that drawing just doesn’t look quite like the Dru we usually see.

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   LADYWOLF17 said, about 16 hours ago

   So if Dru is Sylvia then what shall we call Pib?

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   annalitchka said, about 16 hours ago

   Wikipedia says this is a very common greeting in Austria, with the essential meaning of “God bless you.”

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   Fairportfan2 said, about 16 hours ago

   9CL: It’s just a sorta neutral greeting - sort of like “Hello, there” or “Bonjour” as you pass…

   No - that looks like Dru (in Pib’s plumage); got Dru’s almost lantern jaw, cheekbones and lashes.

   Maybe it’s something like what happened to them in Suzerain … which also involved vampire-style neck biting…

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   BikeNBoatN said, about 16 hours ago

   I see day and night have switched again after getting 8ed.

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   Sisyphos said, about 16 hours ago

   BikeNBoatN, taking into account Edie/Eva’s fears, it seems Lt. Kiesl is implying that he needs some prayers; i.e., is in trouble. Note also the strict formality of that quick exchange: he’s under hostile observation?

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   BikeNBoatN said, about 16 hours ago

   Sisyphos Thanks. That makes a little more sense explaining the reason she mentions in panel 2.

10. 

    UncaAlby said, about 16 hours ago

    Eight Strikes Again!

11. 

    UncaAlby said, about 16 hours ago

    9CL

    See the following for Grüß Gott

    Literally, “Greet God.”

12. 

    LADYWOLF17 said, about 16 hours ago

    See you all tomorrow night.

13. 

    CoBass said, about 16 hours ago

    Dru’s comment about needing to get “back to the beginning”, combined with the 8, makes me think the poster a few days who observed that we’re coming up on the eighth anniversary of the launch of “Pibgorn” as a more-or-less daily strip was on to something.

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    ♠Lonewolf♠ said, about 16 hours ago

    There’s that eight again! What’s up with that?

15. 

    Urquell said, about 16 hours ago

    It is to ponder

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    Sisyphos said, about 16 hours ago

    The most I dare say for 8 is that it appears to serve as a portal for shifting place/time/persona in the Dreamscape. This time around Drusilla is retaining some degree of self-awareness and control over herself, in contrast to what occurred at the outset of the recent Volcano arc.

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    BikeNBoatN said, about 16 hours ago

    I see the wikipedia link for Grüß Gott that I had in my first post has been mentioned a few times afterward now. I must have not made it prominent enough.

18. 

    gimmickgenius said, about 16 hours ago

    Her alarm clock struck 8 and knocked her out of the dream!

19. 

    fatuncle said, about 16 hours ago

    Notice, please, that the eight is slightly curved, as though inscribed on a rounded surface.

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    BikeNBoatN said, about 16 hours ago

    I wonder if that’s deliberate or not, as the sketch doesn’t seem to show any similar rounding of the 8.

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    Trellowyn01 said, about 16 hours ago

    Grüß Gott The posts up there seem to be correct, however there was part of a blurb indicating that it was also used as a goodbye in some parts, such as Austria, where I believe he was from.
    
    My understanding was he was trying to say goodbye to her because something bad was about to happen to him.

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    RinaFarina said, about 16 hours ago

    One thing nobody has mentioned is that the character in panel 2 (who to me is obviously Dru) has a much heftier body than Pib in panel 3. This has always been the way they have been drawn. Dru is a real, full-figured woman. (In case I have expressed this badly, I do not mean that she is too heavy - not at all - I see her as voluptuous.) Pib is, say, a half-grown girl.

    Does anyone else agree with me?

    And in panel 2, you have Dru’s hair, ears, and body, but Pib’s costume and wings. Seems to me that somehow Dru has to go thru this merging step, before emerging as herself, in her own costume, with no wings. Have I left anything out?

23. 

    AmriloJim waycyber said, about 16 hours ago

    A quote from Homer’s Odyssey

    After the cyclopes had drunk of the wine, he slept a deep sleep. The men, burning with fierce hunger, descended the rocks to where the sheep fed, and, selecting the best, carried their spoil to the woods.

    I saw that the cyclopes mighty club was unguarded so, seeking to claim it as a prize, I grasped it. Hearing me, the cyclopes awoke and rage filled his being. I looked into his single eye and cried “D’oh”.

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    The Old Wolf said, about 15 hours ago

    @Trellowyn01 Props for your deduction, but “Grüß Gott” is never used as an Abschiedsgrüß. The corresponding “goodbye”, at least in Austria, is “Pfiati!”, a mashup of “Führt dich Gott,” or “May God lead you.”

    One sometimes hears the full form, as in “Grüß dich Gott”.

25. 

    vanillabean said, about 15 hours ago

    interesting comment regarding the possible curvature of the ‘8’ today….. perhaps the billiard ‘8’ ball, characteristically unlucky and known for the foreseeing of future events?

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    Fairportfan2 said, about 15 hours ago

    Well, i wouldn’t say Pib is “half-grown” - more that she’s a Diana Rigg type, slender and athletic, rather than a Lucy Lawless type.

    Rigg compiled a book of “killer” reviews, called No Turn Unstoned, and included one from her Broadway run in a play that had a nude scene (about 1968 or ‘67, when she would have been just about thirty). She said that after she read it she sort of slunk into the theatre for the matinée, hoping nobody would see her, and hid out in her dressing room until she had to come out.

    The review? Well, it included the phrase “… Diana Rigg, who is built like a brick cathedral with insufficient flying buttresses …”

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    Fairportfan2 said, about 15 hours ago

    I don’t think the “8” is so much curved as seen in slight perspective - as if the surface it were on is turned thirty or forty-five degrees away from us, with the diagonal clipping due to panel border adding an impression of curvature.

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    Sisyphos said, about 15 hours ago

    AmriloJim waycyber, are you sure that’s a quote from the blind bard, Homer, and not the doughnut-loving Homer?

    Or have you been into the cider and doughnuts?!

29. 

    AmriloJim waycyber said, about 15 hours ago

    It’s Root Vegetable Day

    Love your turnip

30. 

    WOLFBYTE said, about 15 hours ago

    Now that is one bizarre switch-a-roo moment.

31. 

    Sisyphos said, about 15 hours ago

    So, after a bit of flummery, we’re back at the beginning. Now what?

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    ♠Lonewolf♠ said, about 15 hours ago

    That’s the feeling I’m getting too, Sisyphos.

33. 

    BikeNBoatN said, about 15 hours ago

    Well, since we’re now back at the beginning, it’s a good time to bid you all a good evening and good night.

34. 

    WOLFBYTE said, about 15 hours ago

    This is going to be fun.

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    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 15 hours ago

    http://tinyurl.com/yevgpzx

    Uncharacteristically crafty of Brad…

36. 

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 15 hours ago

    Potatoes, onions, garlic, leeks— man, those Brahmins are missing out— carrots, rutabagas, sweet potatoes, shallots, celeriac, beets, daikon…

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    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 15 hours ago

    Anteaters and wolves were meant to be the best of friends…
    http://www.johnhartstudios.com/homepage/

38. 

    darkwraith said, about 14 hours ago

    This story arc has promise. I’m curious as to what awaits Pibgorn and Drusilla and all of us for that matter as we make our way to this beginning that Drusilla mentions.

39. 

    darkwraith said, about 14 hours ago

    Wolves and anteaters as best friends. LOL! I wonder what the wolves that come here would think about that. Though it does look promising.

40. 

    UncaAlby said, about 14 hours ago

    It’s not a eight – it’s two zeroes stuck together

41. 

    AmriloJim waycyber said, about 13 hours ago

    Please, don’t 8 me.

42. 

    Fairportfan2 said, about 13 hours ago

    The lastes Giselle rings sadly true…

43. 

    notfromhere5 said, about 13 hours ago

    Brooke really enjoys confusing his readers, doesn’t he? And that symbol that keeps cropping up–is that an eight, or an infinity sign tipped over on its side?

44. 

    Sisyphos said, about 13 hours ago

    While the East Coast looks forward to another foot or so of snow, Chicagoland is about to get its very own dose: the predictions started a few days back at “up to 6 inches” and now stand at “10 to 14 inches” by Wednesday (so far, as I glance out the window, there is just a light cover on the street)….

    Meanwhile, just for funsies, here’s alma mater coping with the D.C. blizzard (last Saturday).

45. 

    Sisyphos said, about 13 hours ago

    Kali sas nykta!

46. 

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 13 hours ago

    I quit liking snow much when a weather system stalled for three weeks in January 1993 over Oregon. It deposited 96 inches of snow in Kfalls over those 3 weeks. It started snowing and literally didn’t stop for 3 weeks until that system moved. Couldn’t go anywhere because only the highways and the most major streets had any plowing at all. Walking to the grocery was a drag. Had to go more than a mile and it was… interesting… and whatever one bought had to be something that one could carry and that wouldn’t be affected by 20 minutes in 25 degrees or so.

47. 

    Taz said, about 13 hours ago

    Looks like Drusilla is determined to get to the bottom of this situation.

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    azrach said, about 13 hours ago

    I got confused one way, looked back at the 2 previous installments, and am now confused in another way.
    Specifically; at first, I was trying to figure out how the dream sequence got shifted from a foggy night to a sunny meadow, and I thought that the “Sylvia” on the ground was Dru, just like Dru is the one on the ground back in the waking world.
    Okay, there’s been a switch from the dream to the sunny meadow. Got it. Now I’m trying to figure out why what I figure is Dru zapping herself back to being awake is covered (colored?) in Pib’s green rather than her regular black-with-red-highlights scales ….

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    jerrywmc said, about 13 hours ago

    Now THIS is the Pibgorn I look for when I open this strip! Thank you!
    As for understanding it, I can rarely keep up with it anyway, I just like ths artwork and the dialogue.

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    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 13 hours ago

    re: “Fairportfan2 said, about 1 hour ago

    The lastes Giselle rings sadly true…”

    Not any too good on His followers, either. Called “haters”, “fuddyduddies” and pretty much everything else you can imagine for acting in love and for not wanting people to hurt themselves. Called “unhip” and “not with it”, some years later “biased”, “closed-minded” and most recently “bigots” for not compromising on the truth. Etc., ad nauseum.