Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for March 12, 2023

It’s fun to use extremely obscure rules of the English language to trip up ameteur grammar nazis.

How much spring could spring sprang if spring could spring spring?

So… is last year season a “sprung”?

With daylight savings time, you are supposed to spring forward, but not that far.

Dana is creating a nightmare for foreign translators here.

“Sproinged”.

How is she getting out of that one? Phoebe going to pull her down?!

Spring,sprang,sprung, skewer (the tree)!

Not as bad as Tigger getting stuck in the tree to the point of needing the narrator to intervene.

We got the “point” Marigold!

The three words that best describe Marigold are as follows, and I quote:

Spring. Sprang. Sprung.

Reminds me of my horse. Do unicorns shed? I am get covered in horsehair this time of year.

Might have sprung her neck.

The Pepe LePew pursuit ‘sproings’ are outlawed in several states…for obvious reasons.

Haha, classic!

Again Marigold? She really needs to watch for overhead branches.

I know this is a rerun, but it’s still so funny!

Gary Larson, “Nature scenes we rarely see”

Look, you want help getting down or not, Marigold?

It’s never been shown how does Phoebe get Marigold unstuck from trees.

Maybe once she pulled on her tail??.

I sort of assume that it probably is along the lines of Phoebe grabbing Marigold’s legs or waist and using the added weight to pull her out.

A safer way might be to climb the tree if possible and chip away at the branch.

If worse came to worse then the branch would have to be sawed off and Marigold removed that way.

But in all honesty a unicorn’s neck should not be able to withstand bodyweight and the same for Marigold’s tail when she hangs from it.

If she was the weight of a deer then I’m not sure if deer can survive if they get their antlers stuck in something overhead.

What’s interesting however is that I’ve seen cows being carried by a helicopter with a rope tied around their horns and somehow they are strong enough to handle it.

If Marigold was the weight of a horse, even a small horse I think she could injure her spinal cord.

Marigold could probably also push and kick back and forth until her horn comes loose

So can you spring for somebody to get me down?

A unicorn in a tree, who’d of thunk it possible?

Sprang? Don’t be a di— on second thought, there might not be any Batman fans present.

Sing Joy Spring. Rip Tim. Rip Clifford. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI4r9UcdtCw

Hang in there, Marigold, while Phoebe goes to get help. Oh, you are literally hanging in there. Try not to go anywh-… oh, never mind.

This is why we need to designate no-pronking zones.

She sprang to hard, but it’s not the first time she has sprung too hard.

Marigold is a grammarian, when it’s convenient for her.

Marigold’s horn looks like it has right hand thread. So remember, righty tighty, lefty loosey.

I love the SFX “pronk.”

Didn’t Phoebe do this when she and Marigold traded bodies?

The Far Side: Nature scenes we rarely see.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/the-far-side—52354414403069422/

Spring, sprang, sprung …

Or as we used to say in grad school: Bring, brang, brung.

That, and: We done brang it! (a form of praise)

Channeling Don Martin, the Oomepdeiaologist I see.