So, I’ve got this doctor thing tomorrow. And I can’t have caffeine all day today, right? So, I haven’t.
There’s probably a conclusion to that idea, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out what the hell it is.
Time is all weird, and I can feel the great grandmother of all headaches coming, I feel like I need a nap, and by tomorrow morning, when I haven’t had enough caffeine to make a neuron jiggle, I’m supposed to do some kind of stress test and run on a treadmill.
And I bet I know what the result of the test will be. That I can never have sweet, sweet caffeine again.
Goodbye, thoughts. It’s been nice having you.
Greg, there IS life after caffeine. Honest. I had to do it some years ago. Morning Slug Brain is how I describe it.
17 hours into a 48 hour bus ride, currently bucketing across Nebraska as I type.
Noooo! Not Greg’s thoughts! We need those! What else is he going to put into the pop-up texts?
Greg, stay calm! Don’t panic! We’ll find a way to carve those thoughts out of your brain! You don’t absolutely NEED that caffeine, do you?
i feel your pain Greg.
but i fully admit i am not sure i get the joke here. sorry.
It might be an outdated idiom. “Give ’em enough rope to hang themselves.”
i KN0W about that idiom…just not sure if it’s a joke to hubris, or Lowell, or another one I am missing.
SINCERELY i am REALLY sorry if i don’t get the “obvious one”
You don’t need to give any apologies! It’s my job to write cartoons that make sense!
After the first few thousand, though… there’s gonna be some weird ones.
I for one figured right off the bat that “Give ’em enough rope… ” was exactly what you meant. And though the term goes back a ways, it never occurred to me that it might have become ‘outdated.’ Or am I ‘dating’ myself by making that admission? (Assuming that Wikipedia is correct, we’re the same age.)
I don’t feel it’s outdated my ownself, but try using it front of a thirty-something. It’s rapidly losing ground. You got a maybe one in three chance that they’ve heard it at all.
Greg, I can check the 55 and up box for age, and I got carded today. Don’t give up!
It would have been nice to have had time to get price quotes on my broken ankle. It is unbelievable how expensive three screws are.
Lowell needs rope? Kara’s gonna need thread!
They’d do better to give him a jump rope and space to move.
They’d do better to give him a jump rope and some room to move.
I had to cut my caffeine intake too. (heart problems… So Fun. [/sarcasm]) And honestly, it’s not That bad. They probably won’t say to cut it out Completely, just down to a lower amount. You’re a tough guy, you can handle it. You white water raft, and all Sort of wild stuff… This isn’t even a big thing.
As to the comic… Is she Trying to get fired so soon after getting the job? I really thought she had more brains than that… Messing around haggling prices over Hubris’ store. Note I said His store, not hers. She might wanna remember that. Just because he lets her have free reign does Not mean it’s Hers.
You have spotted one of the things about Nikki that I ascribed to her when I first made her up. I try (in the best traditions) not to spell out everyone’s ‘thing’. I’m sorta pleased that you isolated it, though. Keep an eye on her, it’ll continue to surface now and again.
You may recall that it’s not the first time Nikki has let slip her possessive attitude toward the store. It originally surfaced almost immediately after Hubris hired her:
http://hubriscomics.com/comic/hubris-level-playing-field/
And again after Lowell had sauntered in, boasting that he was going to (stop me if you’ve heard this before) put the store out of business, prompting Nikki to call Kelly about the program he (then) wanted to do:
http://hubriscomics.com/comic/hubris-televisions-of-sugarplums/
People — and sometimes cartoon characters! — have a way of revealing themselves (often inadvertently) through such small, almost offhand, words and actions. That stokes our curiosity, making us eager to learn more, which wouldn’t happen if everything was right up front, on the surface, from the beginning. Much more interesting to come to know someone via those little revelations that add up over time.
they are giving lowel a little rope as they wait for him to hang himself or wind up using it against them as a whip and come out of this whole thing as the winner
I had to give up most caffeine types due to kidney stones. >_< Luckily I still got tea, rootbeer, and once in a while I can drink coke/pepsi, but no longer Doctor Pepper, its what gave me the stones, I drank too much of it.
Caffeine isn’t sweet. It is bitter. And my husband used to refer to Dr Pepper as “Drug of choice” Sadly, caffeine has no effect on me (so no use at all, if I am too sleepy to drive…)
They could be giving someone a short pier to take a long walk on.