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  By admin | March 10, 2012 - 1:01 am | Uncategorized Comments Off

Yes, Harry Potter fans DO have parseltongue translation sites up online.

Obviously there are different dialects. A rattlesnake says “I’m angry” somewhat differently from a cobra. But in both cases you need to get away fast.

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  By admin | March 4, 2012 - 1:01 am | Uncategorized Comments Off

bumpy for her pleasure

As pro-forma as Norma…

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  By admin | March 3, 2012 - 1:01 am | Uncategorized Comments Off

and by de-lighted I mean you have removed all the light from my life

A search for “Seinfeld Australia” brings up a lot of references to Seinfeld being shown on Australian TV, and one video clip of Kramer saying that crazy people should be sent to Australia.

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  By admin | February 26, 2012 - 1:01 am | Uncategorized Comments Off

used, used, used... the one that gets used

Abby uses all her friends, and enemies, that way.

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  By admin | February 25, 2012 - 1:01 am | Uncategorized 2 Comments

or maybe for the hell of it

I’m trying to make Abby’s religious conversations less one-sided. Abby has her flaws too. Chrissy may be more religious than I like, but Abby is way more obnoxious than anyone likes. Just because you have a good argument, that doesn’t justify shoving it in everyone’s face.

On an unrelated note, I’ve recently read some of “The Left Hand of Darkness.” Is anyone else struck by how much it influenced the Star Trek episode “Amok Time”? They even use some of the same terminology, like “the veneer of civilization.”

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  By admin | February 19, 2012 - 1:01 am | Uncategorized Comments Off

Achilles and Oedipus both had foot problems caused by their parents

The Wikipedia page on Achilles is interesting. He is featured in the Iliad, but the part about him being invulnerable except for his heel was added centuries later, and directly contradicts parts of the Iliad. Also, there’s an alternate version where his mother tried to make him immortal by covering him in ambrosia and burning him.

I guess the ancient Greeks were less strict about the particulars of their religion than anyone in the present day.

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  By admin | February 18, 2012 - 1:01 am | Uncategorized Comments Off

and she can't give her computer back to herself because she already has it

This is Erika in the year 2011, and I’m writing this comic for all of you great people in the year 2012.

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  By admin | February 12, 2012 - 1:01 am | Uncategorized 2 Comments

really, though, you can still make muffins if bugs get into the flour; they're just higher-protein muffins

Thank you, spider in my cabinet this morning, for inspiring this comic. Enjoy the grain bugs you caught, and congratulations on your bundle of joy.

Really, I’m not an insane nature freak, I’m just cheap. Pesticides cost money, and that spider and its kids are willing to do it for free.

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  By admin | February 11, 2012 - 1:01 am | Uncategorized Comments Off

you can't spell our name without RNA

To come up with the punny names Abby makes up, I had to spend a lot of time on a webpage devoted to listing all the words that begin with a given letter or series of letters. Not surprisingly, that webpage is intended as a Scrabble resource. To use it, just type in http://www.scrabblefinder.com/starts-with/something/ and replace “something” with whatever letters you like.

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  By admin | February 5, 2012 - 1:01 am | Uncategorized Comments Off

ha ha

But they don’t pop out as reliably. Kleenex is the default brand name for a reason.

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