Ms Wiggins-Ross doesn’t seem altogether surprised at discovering that Lowell has learned that he can have fun outdoors.
Hmm. Wonder what that means.
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Personality comes into judging, doesn’t it? I mean, if we all saw things the same way and felt the same way about what we saw, there’d hardly be a reason for judges.
But if we feel our judgements aren’t being respected, well, we feel WE aren’t being respected. And, as we all know that if everyone just felt and behaved the we ourselves behaved, there would be no war and no poverty- if we ourselves aren’t being respected, those who don’t respect us are enemies of peace and plenty. Anarchists and Huns, obviously.
We, as communicators, must consider our audience. That’s what they tell you.
They also tell you not to write to suit someone else, but write what you believe.
They also say, “If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.”
All this is the long way ’round to say, “Tell people what they wanna hear.”
So. Did any of you guys wanna hear all this?
I used to be able to talk about very minute details of whitewater kayaks.
Now, I don’t even know which manufacturers have the hot boats, or which have shut down without letting me know.
But I bet I could talk up a fine, fine cardboard kayak.
You may have heard the old saying “The cobblers children run barefoot” or “The tinker’s family eats from wooden bowls” or any of a half-dozen versions thereof.
It means that if it’s YOUR thing, your clients get better treatment than your family, mostly ’cause you can do family stuff “any ol’ time”, but it’s not that important.
But when it comes to doing something you’d LOVE to trade your career for? Your beloved Hobby? You put so much time into it that it becomes self-defeating anyhow.
And so- Kara and Steven are working hard at pleasing their need to make a fantastic boat, and their need to show how much they know about kayaks and physics around one another. Those two things, added together, means that nobody’s paying attention to the clock.
Shelly’s one of those girlfriends who doesn’t mind getting fired up over her guy.
I think.
Maybe she’s one of those girlfriends who’s been putting up with crap for long enough and has decided to take out her frustrations on anyone within reach.
Ever know anyone like that?
Before you ask… or assume… No, I never was an A-Team fan. I’ve seen the movie, though, and I like it alright. Never did watch the TV series.
But as with a lot of things in a big, strong, popular culture- I got the gist. The sense of it. The ‘feel’. Some of the catchphrases.
Add all that stuff up, and you get a ‘meme’ these days. Too bad you can’t really plan a meme.
Mal should know better than to try to have a conversation with guys who’ve basically been Tailgating it for two days.
On the other hand, the way he opened two beers at once… maybe he was a bartender in college, and he’s good at talking to drunks.
To be honest, the only cardboard kayak events I know about were staged in swimming pools.
That’s probably a very good, safe, normal, fun idea.
Maybe I should have written a pool into the Hubris storyline at some point in the last nine years.
…
But I didn’t.
I may have mentioned Billy Ireland before now. The huge Cartoon Museum and Research Center at Ohio State University is named for him. He drew a feature called ‘The Passing Show’, which is of course brilliant.
I thought of storytelling as a series of comings-and-goings for today’s cartoon.
