It’s my birthday tomorrow. I make no claims as to whether I’ll manage a fresh cartoon.
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I know how Hubris feels. Too much out-of-normal-routine going on.
Of course, the upside for you is that there’s less blather to read, here.
It’s always the way, isn’t it?
It’s like when you hold the door for someone at maybe the movie theater or someplace, then the next thirteen people brush through as though you were holding the door for them, not one of them bothering to put a hand on it to take the onus off of you. Then you see some nice older person and you figure you’ll hold the stupid door open a little while longer for that li’l ol’ soul who might appreciate it…
and they’re the person who takes the weight of the door off you as thought you’re insulting them by holding it, and lets you rejoin your family who are already across the parking lot waiting at the car and wondering where the hell you’ve been.
In the Hubris board game that I’ve started (and can’t find time to work on again lately), it’s entirely possible to use the strategy mentioned above.
You assign a second team member to gum up the works for the other teams, leaving your primary competitor with a better chance.
I learned that from those big bike races.
Well, that and ‘Talladega Nights’.
So… Patreon patrons. Are you pleased at seeing the cartoons a day or so early, or does it kinda spoil seeing them here later? Or does seeing them here a little later feel like it’s spoiling the cartoons when you see them in a few weeks on GoComics.com?
Or maybe I should be asking the Non-Patrons if they’d like to be like you guys and get to see the cartoons a day early.
Or I could ask if Patrons should see the cartoons a week early or if that’d REALLY be weird.
Discuss.
Years ago, I did a Buckets cartoon where Larry looks at his dinner plate and says, “What’s this? Is this all?” and Sarah says, “You said you wanted to eat better and lose weight.” Larry replies, “That was YESTERDAY!”
As much as Larry is me (but then, so is nearly everyone else in my comic strips) I don’t want to be like that any more.
I did about as well with my food intake yesterday as I did the day before, but I sure would like to start backsliding already. Gonna be a long road to change my habits.
I liked the idea posted earlier about writing down everything I eat. Some things just aren’t worth the bother to eat if you have to go through the extra bother of writing them down. That’s the kind of thing that appeals to my sense of absurdity.
Kara’s dad is loosely based on a teacher I knew a long time ago. I probably didn’t understand him at all, but what I decided way back then about him works pretty well as a cartoon character. Who I was at the time would work pretty well as a cartoon character, too, now that I think of it.
The title of today’s cartoon (Pride goeth before the smack) has a funny feature.
Middle English.
I don’t speak it. Neither do you. In fact, nobody speaks Middle English with a possible exception of academics who don’t study anything else and have like-minded colleagues sitting around the faculty room at their university.
But we can parrot the heck out of tiny, tiny pieces of it. Mostly when we’re at churches where the King James version is still used or when we’re pretending to be King Arthur or one of his contemporaries (who, assuming they were really running around a thousand years ago, didn’t live in an area where Middle English was spoken.) “Goeth” is one of those words that sounds best when swinging a cardboard sword at your brother who’s wearing cardboard armor and saying “It’s only a flesh wound.”
Want proof that Middle English isn’t just English with ‘thee’ and ‘thou’ thrown in? Read some Chaucer. Woo. No, Middle English is foreign.
Or (more entertaining and intelligible) read Bill Bryson’s ‘Mother Tongue- English and how it got that way” Delightful book.
Remember when you were a kid? And when your mom was yelling it was really bad… and when she got quiet, that was the worst it could get.
Wow. Ya nearly didn’t get an update this morning. It’s been a long day!
