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fear-ciuil said, 4 months ago

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StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

Vulcanologist HOO-DAT???

9CWL:

Edda’d be enough to make ME believe in a Fine Divine Creator.
Margueritem said, 4 months ago

I can’t believe that the actual human mouth can contain that many teeth all at one time! Wow….
Mattimeomeg said, 4 months ago

42! DUH! That’s the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything! The mainstream media always seems to have the answer, but can never figure out what the question is! (Never mind the fact that it’s “what is six times seven?”)
Joe Minotaur said, 4 months ago

HOO-DAT SAYIN’ HOO-DAT?
Radical-Knight said, 4 months ago

Sweaty Betty? Holey-Moley!
fear-ciuil said, 4 months ago

Um … shouldn’t Sweaty Betty be wearing a sports bra?

ducks, scurries behind the couch, and dives into the pool to avoid object cast–like shoes, empty drinks glasses, and rotten fruit
StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

HOO-TERSTOO-TERS???

No, that’s “Sweaty Betty B00BZ”, in the LAST frame.
musicnut1986 said, 4 months ago

Hooder certainly looks like he belongs in academia. Turtleneck, unkempt hair and beard, a type “A” personality, and a keen grasp of the English language. Kind of reminde me of some of my old psychology professors.
Ladywolf17 said, 4 months ago

I may never watch the news again!
macFicheallaigh said, 4 months ago

Bob has red eyes – another demon wrecking havoc in society, the kind Dru was scooping up and putting in the Borgio?
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

Re-post:
It appears from the news in panel 1 that I was wrong last night about an “eruption from below”; field correspondent Al indicates that the volcano is breaking downward into the tunnel, it seems….
StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

@musicnut1986:

All my prof’s pushed old psych…or, so it seemed, at the time.
StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

@macFicheallaigh:

The eyes match the jacket - BOTH very loud.
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

At least Dr. Hööder Höödersdöötersvader is succinct. Perforce! Even so, more than can be said for most academics: I know!
debra4life50 said, 4 months ago

Bob and Betty have got to be relatives of Tom Torquemada.
fear-ciuil said, 4 months ago

Geoff needs to visit today’s “Cornered” to grab the accordion:
http://www.gocomics.com/cornered

And Llefty’s been wandering about GoComics … who left the quantum anomaly open?
http://www.gocomics.com/frogapplause
Mattimeomeg said, 4 months ago

In the sketch, is Betty supposed to be in front of a stadium? Or is channel 42 low budget enough that it get’s it’s “on the street” shots right in front of the broadcast building?
StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

@debra4life50:

At least they all share the same dentist.
Ladywolf17 said, 4 months ago

bmonk if you read this, I want to apologize to you for my arrogant outburst earlier today here at Pibgorn. I relize, that you were only trying to help me understand that movement was important for the injured bone and for the muscles. I snapped at you and feel bad about it, so I shall eat my humble pie. Please forgive me - ladywolf17
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

“Sweaty Betty” heh heh heh heh…
fear-ciuil said, 4 months ago

Bob’s eyes look to me like they might be brown. Zoomed in, and they still look like they might be brown.
macFicheallaigh said, 4 months ago

Thanks Mattimeomeg, I hadn’t caught the connection with 42 and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

So, we have 42 against the background, and a demon of the inane working his evil in human society. Sounds like Brooke is making a statement here. :-)
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

Sweaty Betty, the new sports bimbette, is a walking, talking disaster! –At least lose the purple overblouse, please! BTW, I guess yesterday’s purple chopper may have belonged to Channel 42 (in which case, if correct, the missing Ed may not have been a city inspector of tunnels-under-volcanos but rather a member of the Action Eye Team 42 Team…or something like that).
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

WARNING: I’m about to think too much again.

Here’s an idea:

Geoff said that Dru tried to perform the baiser de fee on him when he had a cold. We all thought that Dru was sick in the beginning when she collapsed. What if this is what happens when a succubus gets a head cold?
macFicheallaigh said, 4 months ago

Sisyphos said, 4 minutes ago
Re-post:
It appears from the news in panel 1 that I was wrong last night about an “eruption from below”; field correspondent Al indicates that the volcano is breaking downward into the tunnel, it seems….

If that’s true, then the plasma discharge would be coming from Dru?

I’d guess that when Dru stole back all the energy from the lamp that Spinky had set up, she upset the demonic hierarchy. Is someone trying to drain Dru of her excess mojo?
macFicheallaigh said, 4 months ago

On the other hand, maybe the volcano eruption was internal. Dru was lying on the hospital cot, and the eruption started from her. The x-ray showed a lot of bright lumpy stuff inside Dru, maybe waiting to burst out?
macFicheallaigh said, 4 months ago

Maybe that’s going to be the theme of this story arc – rescuing Dru from herself? Nat, somehow, is going to play a pivotal role.
macFicheallaigh said, 4 months ago

More – the red of Bob’s jacket shades into the 42 in the background. My decoder ring is spinning out of control, but I think it’s saying something about the inanity of demonic activity shading the meaning of life.

“What’s up with those Mets, Sweaty Betty?” Sort of makes me think of the play on words with “Don’t sweat the petty things,” “Don’t pet the sweaty things.”
mjolnir 9 said, 4 months ago

Feeling pleased as punch…since live television, of all things, just confirmed my confirmation, posted a couple of days ago, and macFicheallaigh’s confirmation of that confirmation, posted a few minutes ago, of the episode wherein the volcano began erupting through Dru, several stories up, in the operating room of The-Hospital-Where-Dashiell-Hammett-Died (Good lord! This story-arc - as well as this sentence - is incredibly complicated!)…I’ve decided to make the Symbolic Snack for today’s episode…Punch.

Details at 11.
A.M., that is.
Left Coast. time.

BTW: Do not be hornswoggled into sweatily panting after ‘Sweaty Betty’ to the exclusion of coherent thought.. Remember that the next episode is the Friday cliffhanger and that the Master loves to blind us with eye-candy, shortly before doing something dreadfully devious.

BTW #2: ejcapulet I very much like the way you’re thinking. What is one of the common symptoms of the common cold?

(exits, signalling music cue…Peggy Lee, singing…”be it Fahrenheit or Cen-ti-grade…”)
macFicheallaigh said, 4 months ago

9CWL – the gags are great but, is Monty going to help the Sister out of her muddy jam, or isn’t he?

I forsee a Catholic nun lecture to Monty. Actually, very Biblical. Those Old Testament patriarchs would argue with God, and win.
Margueritem said, 4 months ago

*ejcapulet *: I like that idea.
waycyber said, 4 months ago

For those of you not from the UK, let me introduce you to a word appropriaye to today’s cartoon. The word is

GOBSMACKED: (Pron: gob-smakt). (n.) Relating to a response to any event which causes the experiencer to cover their mouth with the fingers of their hand in a movement similar to a slap.
BikeNBoatN said, 4 months ago

Maybe Bob is Tom.
waycyber said, 4 months ago

View from a window

Why here? Why a window here?
I mean, up top, where you can see the sky, the cliff top, and the sea in the distance, that’s a great place for a window.
But here? Two hundred feet below ground?
Why would anyone want one here?
I mean. Here is a brick wall, and here is a window. Obviously, someone took the trouble to build it. But why?
I mean. It’s just rock. The other side of the wall, it’s just the inside of the cave.
I mean, you can see between the brick wall and the cave. There has to be, what, six inches?
And it’s just normal rock.
The window opens, but why?
Just raise the latch and.
What on earth? Where is that light coming from? Not the rock.
Open it further. WOW!! Look at that!! But where is it coming from?
I’ve never seen red grass before, and I can feel a breeze coming through the window. That scent. It’s intoxicating.
But if I look behind the wall, it’s solid. No light, no breeze. Just rock.
I must look again. There’s something out there. Something moving through the grass.
I think I can fit through this window. I’ll just ease out.
Amazing! I can see the whole wall. It’s part of a house. I can see the garden. The trees have red leaves. Bright red. And that smell!
Just ease through. Shoulders, waist, legs and…..
anat622 said, 4 months ago

Wow, what’s a high density of jokes in this one! I especially like Hooter Hooterdootervater (“Hooter, the father of Hooter’s daughter” – indeed).

Anat622, briefly poking her head in out of lurkdom
Meli said, 4 months ago

Al has the wrong job. He can’t be a reporter; he’s not even smiling! I’m not creeped out at all.

For shame, Al. For shaaaaaaame.
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

Uh oh, that sounds like the last we’re going to see of waycyber.
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

I think the last sportscaster before Sweaty Betty was Randy Andy; was there another sports bimbette somewhere along the line?
Ladywolf17 said, 4 months ago

Now a little something for all of you. WARNING! please put the little ones to bed before reading this.

THE NIGHTMARE

“Billy I’ve had just enough of you’re attitude, now go to your room”. Billy’s mother said angrily. Billy ran to his room, and quickly shut his door. At ten years of age Billy had become a troublemaker. He enjoyed causing trouble for everyone, and wallowed in pleasure at the expense of everyone’s misery.

Billy laid on his bed and soon drifted off to sleep. At about midnight he was awakened by a voice, “Hey Billy you awake”. The voice in the darkness said. Billy opened his eyes and sat up looking around, but could see no one. He was about to go back to sleep when the voice spoke again, “Hey Billy you want to go out and have some fun”? The voice said, getting Billy interested. With a smile on his face, Billy said “Let’s go”! and they were off.

The voice, continuing to make Billy’s excitement grow said that they were going to a playground that was like no other. “Greatest playground in the world, you shall see”. The voice said as they continued on.

Billy was so wrapped up in the mysterious voice’s hold that he failed to see the sign at the gate that read HELL’S PLAYGROUND. For Billy, the fun was about to really begin.

Dead spirits and demons reached out to him and began to torture him in every way imaginable. “Come on Billy, let’s play”. They would say in a taunting voice. Billy was so scared, he ended up wetting himself. He screamed and ran. Unfortunately for him, he could not escape his tormentors. ” Ah! poor little Billy, he peed in his pants, did he”? Said the dead spirits and demons, mocking and laughing at him.

Billy was scared and confused. There was nowhere he could run to or hide. Then Satan appeared. He took one look at Billy, and gave a bone chilling laugh that sent shivers throughout Billy’s body. Billy dropped to both knees,clenched both of his fists, and screamed at the top of his lungs.

Billy’s parents ran into his room, and turned on his light. Then they made their way over to his bed side, sat down, and hugged him. “Please mom and dad, please don’t send me down to hell”. Billy begged and continued. ” I promise that for now on, I’ll be a good boy”. The parents looked at each other, and knew that they were thinking the same thing. That must have been one hell of a nightmare.
THE END
Ladywolf17 said, 4 months ago

My cousin Ally liked this one and wanted me to e-mail the story to her. She wants to be a story writer too! Her trouble is, that she has so much ideas that she can never finish a story. She keeps asking me how I can do it. I tell her that I go with one idea at a time and keep the other ideas in a cabinet inside my brain.
BikeNBoatN said, 4 months ago

Brooke likes posing his women in the contrapposto pose, doesn’t he. Re: Juliette:

http://tinyurl.com/ks5hzp

edit: fixed link
fear-ciuil said, 4 months ago

Um … couchites? I’m in the situation of needing to explain “punny” to a non-native speaker of English. Help?
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

fear-ciuil, try by first explaining the concept of a portmanteau word: http://tinyurl.com/nopcnu
Then, it’s just pun+funny….
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

Rather like those “news” channels that the former east block has come up with.

Egad. Type into google and you get this one http://tn.nova.cz/red/

Not for the faint hearted or kids, definitely. Don’t know if the news is any good. (Wonder if it’s like what they used to say about Playboy- where they took pains to find good writers?)
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

Wonder if mr vader comes from Vader, Washington.
BikeNBoatN said, 4 months ago

Nab I just now noticed–your avatar looks like a shot-up starship Enterprise. What episode is that from?
waycyber said, 4 months ago

Riddle me this. Why could Captain Kirk not compete in the international version of It’s A Knockout?
UncaAlby said, 4 months ago

42 also just happens to be Edda and Seth’s apartment number in New York.
ChukLitl said, 4 months ago

Is waycyber related to The Cyber Way? I vaguely remember a good novel mixing SouthWestern folk-art/mythology with SciFi. Now if I could just remember where it is, to re-read it. Gotta be around here somewhere.
Hitchhiker’s Guide is in the bookcase behind me.

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A fantastic saga of adventure both high and low, of forbidden passion and iambic pentameter, of fays, fools, organists, demons, accordions, heaven, hell and Shakespeare, Pibgorn follows the whims and flights of its eponymous fairy heroine as she plies her conviction that there must be more to life than depositing dew drops on dandelions and sleeping under mushrooms.

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