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As for this comic…
I debated for a while whether to include the ‘sproing’ in panel four. On the one hand, I thought, “It’s a stupid move, and it makes the comic stupid.” On the other hand, I thought, “This comic is already stupid, so the ‘sproing’ fits right in.” And so I went with it.
Phoebe’s best ensemble in ages !
The stripes – the collar – even the glasses all POP !
But Daphne dressing like a girl ?
Neva’ happen.
I initially colored the vertical stripes red and white. The result was that she looked for all the world like a movie popcorn bag. ‘Pop’ indeed. So I shifted it to black, and it looked less popcorny.
@EG
I wanna’ see the rest of her outfit.
And Phoebe totally needs to accessorize her tail this time.
Nope. Nothing goes on the tail. I’m no expert on tail physiology, but most animals that have fleshy tails (including dogs and cats) hate having anything attached to or on their tails. I imagine it would be the same for Phoebe and Satan. The tail must be unadorned for comfort’s sake.
if its necessary to make her enemies weep, daph *will* wear a dress – and who says it has to be pink or glittery? as long as it emphasises her ‘girls’ enough to make tylers eyes fall out, everything goes. she does have a nice pair hiding underneath her cool shirts….and with satans smoking hot daughter to help her, daph will succeed to make *her* tyler forget about that blonde 😉
Can’t go to a prom without a dress, right?
It that foreshadowing? Is she going naked? Or in one of those censored plastic dresses nudists where on Futurama?
Re the “Sproing”… It’s NOT just stupid, it’s “Satisfyingly Stupid”!
In other words, it’s perfect!
I am glad you second my stupid decision.
When Phoebe dresses like that, the “Sproing!” sound could be coming from half the audience.
@rewinn
No disagreement here !
I mean, where else you gonna hide a Phoebe?
Well, the traditional hiding place for a Phoebe has been inside a cake, but behind the couch works too.
WELLL the shadows would work she is satans daughter after all
Gecko, I gotta tell ya.
Those last two panels….
100 per cent Puckish.
That is, I hope, a positive thing.
Now I’m not going to tell you. Now I have to go outside and yell at the tropical depression to invade, nay, inundate Ontario.
Now, I’m going to guess that phoebe will go wild on daphne’s hair. Cover one ear maybe, lose the pigtails.
Aw, no talking mice? Also, there must have been Daleks in the area – it’s the only reason there is to hide behind a couch 🙂
The only way to watch Doctor Who, right?
“Makeover, makeover, makeover!”
*Phoebe appears in a puff of smoke.*
It’s like Beetlejuice! She’s even wearing stripes!
Attention Macy’s Shoppers.
@WizeManBOB
You mean, of course, this would be the DALEK’s refrain.
DALEK :Make-Over – Make-Over – Make-Over !
I like it !
And here I thought Daleks would say, “Accessorize! Accessorize! Accessorize!”
At least, the stylish ones would.
For a LONG time I have wanted to make a Dalek t-shirt where their plunger of death has been replaced with a loofah sponge, and they’re saying, “EXFOLIATE!” I have never gotten it to look right.
@EG
😛
@ Lokitsu
Colorful Daleks really DO leave every other fictional Robot genre in the dustbin.
No, Phoebe wasn’t hiding, she just passed out back there.
Phoebe isn’t the ‘pass out behind the couch’ type. For one, she doesn’t even drink. Passing out behind a couch sounds more like a Tracee thing.
Secret drinking, then.
No secret drinking for Phoebe. Unless it’s herbal tea.
Phoebe obviously materialized behind the couch once she was summoned.
OBVIOUSLY
That explains the puff of pink smoke behind her.
@Robert Nowall
The creator is always the last to know 🙁
Check for FIREBALLS under the sofa
Fireballs or furballs?
NO butt tripping and knocking herself out fits
Yes, it’s Phoebe and another one of her trademark impossible outfits. Looks great. Very professional. I think the sensible hair, stripes (and of course the glasses) make her look bossiness like, don’t you?
If your boss was missing half her outfit, then maybe.
I think I meant buiness like, but that’s what I get for not proof reading before posting.
I think bossiness is even cooler, actually.
I’d personally have been disappointed if there had been no “sproing” but that’s just me.
Given Daphne’s face, she was aware that Phoebe was there the whole time. That or I’m highly imagining things.
Not gonna lie, I’ll never figure out fashion – case in point, Phoebe’s top. I have no idea how that thing is attached to a body (be it human or humanesque) without falling down…
I have heard from good sources (namely women who have worn this stuff) that this type of clothing is attached to the body through one means: double-sided tape.
As someone who once wore an off-the-shoulder gown to my prom, I can confirm that rumor. Also safety pins.
SAFETY PINS?
who the hell is your seamstress?
Penn & Teller?
Safety pins, hat pins. I’m halfway going to be suprised when they start using nipple piercings for clothing stability. And those little goth frill things that hang from the top hem line of the dress to cover those up.
My prom dress fit perfectly well, thankyewverrymuch, but I was just 17, and my mom assuaged my fears by attaching a couple of safety pins through the ruching of the bodice to my bra strap. Hence the stomping incident. Some of the girls were three sheets to the wind, so he found fair game before that, but I was situationally aware of his approach.
Double-sided tape? OUCH!
In the immortal words of our head cheerleader when I was a soph, “Beauty without pain is less than Beauty *with* pain.” She also said, “Shoes that don’t hurt are at least a size too big.”
I would modify that slightly, in that beauty with pain is usually far more noticeable and showy than beauty without pain. BUT … every once in a while, there comes along a person who breaks that rule, and is astoundingly attractive and magnetic with fairly little effort. And that trumps any effort or primping whatsoever. Also, the pain is less effective if it becomes actually noticeable to the crowd. It must be effortless pain. So one must be both good at suffering AND good at acting.
Yeah, yeah. Spoken like a man. Ever wonder why your wife takes longer to get dressed than you do? And as for the public perceiving the pain: that’s why we start practice walking in high heels at about age five. Never let them see you sweat.
Hate to tell you, but at least around these parts, those millennials have stopped following your torture program. My wife had commented on the increasing lack of high heels in the shoe store, and I related to her what I see in my school and on staff: almost no girl or woman under the age of thirty willingly wears high-heeled shoes on a regular basis anymore. The likelihood of a woman wearing heels goes up right now proportionally with age. The girls still bow to traditional pressure on prom night, but almost all of them can’t walk three feet in high heels (due to the lack of rigorous training you describe), and they all ditch their shoes under their tables after sitting down. As a result, most of the girls spend the night barefoot.
Like soda pop and travel agents, the high heel might be all but dead in the next ten years.
@EG
Oh, mebe in Academic Circles CFM Pumps are not popular, but I daresay any prediction of their demise is thoroughly premature.
Hmf, who *doesn’t* take high heels off at the first opportunity and go barefoot? I certainly do. And I am in healthcare, I wear cross-trainers to work, also for shopping. I am talking party-and-date clothes, here. Think I would wear heels if all the other women weren’t? Fat chance. Anyway, the heels I wear are two-inch, max. When we started dating I made sure to ask my bf if he found stilettos exciting. He just went “Ew” and wrinkled his nose. That was just *one* of the tests he passed. 😛
I suppose it was fortunate that Colin wasn’t around to see Phoebe’s sproing and respond with a sproing of his own.
@Robert Nowall
Living with Phoebe just beyond a sheet on 5/8″ Drywall day and nite cannot be easy.
My human pet Baldie confesses (to me – not to Janet) it would be a Dante Circle of Hell to live that way.
I scoffed – then he asked me how I would get by if it were not Phoebe, but instead TRACEEE.
I keep quiet now.
“Cinderella” has always been one of those stories that might be better with a b1tchy protagonist. Now we’ll see!
“Where’s My Fairy Godmother At?” made me laugh (I think the “at” changed it from plaintive to demanding)
Next: Hansel Und Gretel seek revenge on the parents who abandoned them?
Cinderella is, at least in the Brothers Grimm version, essentially a tale of vengeance. It is my personal opinion that were Cinderella to become queen, her awful treatment as a young woman would likely lead her to become one of those terrifying ‘Game of Thrones’ style monarchs who would leave a trail of dead political rivals behind her.
It’s not really Cinderella who gets revenge though. It’s the Prince who decides to punish the stepmother, and the stepmother herself who chooses her own punishment. That was pretty common in Grimm stories. The protagonist/victim tells someone in power their life story, the person in power invites the stepmother (it was almost always an evil stepmother) to a party, asks them a hypothetical about what punishment a person deserves for all the horrible things the stepmother did, and the stepmother gets the punishment she describes. Those old stories were really formulaic. Also, most of the punishments were some variant of “trap them in a barrel with a bunch of nails hammered into the sides before rolling it down a hill into a river.”
And Cinderella wasn’t watching gleefully the whole time? Any dude on a warpath is usually on said warpath because his wife told him it was a war which needed to be pathed.
@Susan
Living in the Lone Star, mebe you would know….
I never heard the peculiar usage of the preposition “at” until I and Baldie spent some time South running guns.
Usually it was “where’s my beer at ?”.
Is it a “Southern” thing ? As popular in Dixie as “EH” is in Hockey-Land ?
To my mind, it just sounds slang-y and cool and kind of forceful. The difference between “Where’s my beer?” and “Where’s my beer at?” is the difference between, “Good morrow, friend. Have you, perchance, observed the location of my beverage?” and “If there’s not a beer in my hand within ten seconds, I’m cracking some skulls!”
In short, it makes sense that this verbal form of expression would start in the Texas area.
@Salem: Adding “at” is an intensifier of the verb. My bf (who went to college in New Orleans) says that the less-educated natives say things like “Where y’at?” so he and his fellow Tulane students called them “Yats.”
@EG
@Susan
When we were Loozy, everyone used “at” every time.
It was not used as an intensifier. But not using it was unthinkable.
Mebe things have changed ?
When the two youts in question, pick up..
@rewinn
Shouldn’t the proper exclamation have been: “Where’s my FURRY Godmother at ?”
Does Daphne realize that, by invoking that particular “Fairy Godmother,” she is essentially making a deal with the devil?
Granted, it’s the Devil’s sweet, sexy, naïve, air-headed daughter… Still, buyer beware!
Well, in the traditional European scheme, the church taught that ALL magical beings that were not angelic or representatives of the Christian God were, by definition, Satanic. Meaning all fairies, dryads, goblins, gnomes and elves were aligned with Satan. Meaning the original Cinderella was ALSO MAKING A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL. From a thoroughly medieval Catholic viewpoint.
Did I just BLOW YOUR MIND?!?!? Enh, probably not.
Even from a pre-Catholic perspective deals with fairies were pretty Faustian. Fey were often volatile and bound by their own alien rules. Depending on which region your looking at, their realm was also heavily associated with the underworld essentially making powerful fairies gods of death.
Fairies in pre-Christian society were seldom good. Every once in a while, you lucked out and they treated you well, but most of the time, they’d steal your kids and curse your mom. And honestly, as a societal metaphor for the natural world, they weren’t far off the mark.
“Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.” ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
That Pratchett. A wise, wise man.
@EG
According to no less an authority that Walt Disney, and as explained in DARBY O’GILL and the LITTLE PEOPLE….
In the Great Battle between God and Lucifer, the Leprechauns did not want to get involved, and simply hid under the stairs leading up the Pearly Gates.
God won, and in His mercy, did not wish to condemn the Wee Ones to Hell. But they did not deserve Heaven, either.
So they were allowed to live on Earth, for as long as Earth exists.
Afterwards – no Hell – but no Heaven, either. They will simply vanish.
That sounds like the closest thing we’ll get to divine authority right there.
Tolkien mentioned in “On Fairy-Stories” that the very “Ylfe” were held to be leading Man up the wrong path “by the Devil’s Tithe.” As Thomas the Rhymer had it:
O see ye not yon narrow road,
So thick beset wi’ thorns and briers?
That is the Path of Righteousness,
Though after it but few inquires.
‘And see ye not yon braid, braid road,
That lies across the lily leven?
That is the Path of Wickedness,
Though some call it the Road to Heaven.
‘And see ye not yon bonny road
That winds about the fernie brae?
That is the Road to fair Elfland,
Where thou and I this night maun gae.
Just wanted to thank you again for posting this every Monday. Each week you get a grin or a chuckle. Thanks, been reading the strip for years now.
Well, thanks for checking it out on a weekly basis. If it weren’t for you guys encouraging me to keep going, it would have died a long time ago.
@EG: word
To my mother?
Reply got moved by evil forces. My regards to your Mom 😛
@Susan
Did you kill EG’s mom, too ?
Wasn’t TRACEEE in Cinderella ?
Wait …. it was SINderella and her NAUGHTY Step-Sisters
Close enuff 😛
@Salem: Dare you to Google that. 😛
@Susan
Wat makes u think I haven’t ?
(snicker)
Umm – purely for research.
Can’t you two keep this at least pg-13 instead of sleazy perv?
Who’s a perv? *I* didn’t google it. 😛
Daphne, no…. you have a faerie stepmother, and you need to listen to her now.
Phoebe’s acting like her dad. 0_0
Well, there’s always a little bit of that Satanic gene pool slipping through.
“Speak of the devil and he or she doth appear”
Oh that Daphne … she’s kinda’ a mix between a Wild Jackal and the Planet of the Apes.
(can I say that ?)
Why couldn’t you say that?
Roseanne Barr said something similar about a former member of Obama’s staff and the press isn’t taking it well.
Oh. I’m not up on these things. And I might not be as cool with such a statement being used to refer to actual humans, but when we’re talking about a canine half-human intelligent hybrid, I think it might be entirely warranted.
@EG
I love Roseanne, and it is a darn shame that ABC could not simply accept her heartfelt apology and move one.
A show or two ago the Rosanne character got new Muslim neighbors, and quickly not only accepted them, but stuck up for the wife during an ugly incident at the supermarket.
During this brief season, she also addressed the personal life experiences of Blacks and Gays very positively and without a trace of animosity or condescension.
Her extended family is a microcosm of America; and is not just a pack of White Rednecks as some might assume.
And all the while Roseanne was attempting to kick a Prescription Drug Habit she has acquired – from having a bad knee she cannot afford to have surgery on.
Social Issues were important to the show, and she never took cheap shots at any Politicians. Cheap shots, sadly, is what passes for “comedy” these days.
While her drunken tweet was over the line, she immediately retracted and apologized.
The cancellation is a loss for us all (and not just for Trump supporters as non-viewers might assume).
I am jumping off this High Horse right now !
(acrophobia)
The cancelled the show? I didn’t even know that. Man. Shows how closely I follow the media.
Canceled it just this afternoon. I could go on a pretty good rant about the why of it—I probably will somewhere else—but I’d also have to say I never watched it before and I didn’t watch it this time, even though things came more in line with my way of thinking than they had before. I just can’t stand Roseanne.
(Actually, that was a pretty good rant.)
Disney is going to take a bit from the Barr-a-inos. Maybe not by much, but by a percentage latex in single digits.
Eh Roseanne. I don’t watch television because one-way entertainment is boring.
But.
This was not her first racist tweet. Recently she accused Soros of cooperating with the Nazis which was way over the line.
She may be talented and people may love her, but the world is full of talented loveable people who don’t encourage hatred as she does off the show.
Firing her was a smart move by her employer. Most advertisers don’t want to be tainted by association with that stuff. It may not have been such a big deal in the past but the internet has changed everything by letting everyone in on the discussion. And it turns out that most ppl don’t really like racists etc.
Which is a nice thing to say about our species.
@rewinn
I’m sorry, but on 60 Minutes George Soros explains, in his own words, how he and his Nazi “Father” delivered warrants to Jews.
If that is not cooperating, we have different definitions of that word.
INTERVIEW
Now now, let’s not start American political debates on this Canadian website. I’ve seen you people debate things. It always gets ugly.
Newspapers will call you racist. Then again, what won’t they call racist these days?
The little dork is depressed that Tracee didn’t pop out from behind the spa in a birthday cake suit.
@drakeye
Sooo…. Phoebe was not a spy, she was simply gaining information as an informant.
@pat
I will continue to resist any efforts to malign that sweet angel of the clouds – TRACEEE TOPAZ.
Phloebeles doesn’t wear birthday cake suits. She just looks like she is an incautious movement away from one, or at least a “wardrobe malfunction”.
O M G
The incoming tweets are brutal.
This time I have gone too far.
If any of the Jackal Community, or Simians from Future Millenia, are offended, bite me.
I have just the dog for that job. For you see dear Salem, I have stolen Marmaduke, infected him with rabies and gave him a taste for latex, leather and all things fetishist.
Don’t turn around.
@pat
Pretty much sounds like the same ole rabid, omnivorous Marmaduke we’ve all know and loved (but haven’t read) of the past 64 years.
😛
Careful, Tim Roth might actually do it.
And yes, I did just reference the 2001 film rather than the classics or more recent series.
@Marduk
THADE is pretty scarey !
she wasn’t hiding she was lightly sleeping with her eyes and ears open
in a place that happened to be near a interesting conversation.
that is accur…my lawyers are telling me that i cannot confirm nor deny these i’ll have a 6 inch sub why is he repeating everything i say TURN THE MIC click……
As all good people do.
@Salem: The Organisation of Persons Identifying as Canids (OPIC)will be chanting outside your cat door within seconds. No, they don’t own any oil wells.
@susan
I don’t care what ANYONE says !
SPHYNX are NOT like me !
And not one of them will ever be invited to DINNER !
your right, in a evil villian sort of way Sphynx is better
Doesn’t this make Puck the wicked stepmother, though?
Robin can be preternaturally violent.
She did beat up a WOMAN IN A WHEELCHAIR.
Regular Humans wouldn’t do that.
right….excuse me a moment i think i left my uh, sofa on.
And … Um … No
I did not see this week’s episode coming.
Pure Genius !
*I* did. I had an earworm of the theme from “Carrie” for like DAYS. Besides my bff in high school did go to the prom with a member of the football team and spent her college fund on a dress for similar reasons. Unfortunately, she didn’t have Phloebles as a fashion adviser.
I don’t understand why women spend so much on dresses they’ll probably wear for half a prom before dumping it on a motel room floor and probably never wearing it again.
Because you gotta look good. Not so much for the guys, who are hormonally-addled teenage boys, but for the other women there. That determines your status, silly. Van Morrison never wrote a truer line than “The girls walk by, dressed up for each other.”
Which seems to be the point of Daphne’s revenge.
She’s not dressing up to impress Tay; she’s dressing up to punish van Beek. As long as the latter is humiliated: Mission Accomplished!
Indeed. This is only marginally about Tyler. Girls seldom dress up to impress boys, really. It’s more to impress and/or intimidate other girls. Which is WAY harder to do.
Yeah, I saw that right away. Daffy wants to ruin Ms. Van Beek’s prom by looking better than she does. But, I see things going horrendously wrong, as in most of Daffy’s schemes. For one thing, Phloeble’s style sense involves impossible outfits and showing a lot of skin. Would that work for a furry? And if it failed, as I suspect in Ms. Van Beek’s mind it will, what will Daffy’s reaction be? If Ms. Van Beek’s reaction is like most women’s, even if she is seething inside, she will still look outwardly blase. (“Darling, that is such a gorgeous dress! Wherever did you find it?” which means, “Not at Neiman’s or Saks, that’s for sure”) That would fail to get the expected reaction from Daffy’s revenge fantasies. She might lash out.
@Susan
Daphne betta’ keep a LOT of clothes on.
As a Jackal, let me be blunt: If she wore a Bikini she’d need THREE TOPS !
Note that she has never actually worn any outfit that bares her midriff. Just saying.
@EG
You can have Horns, Pointy Ears, Hooves (Satan?), but something tells me even you guys might Stop-N-Stare at Many Pairs.
Ew. I keep remember that Martian “woman” in “Total Recall” with *three,* let alone six.
@Susan
That’s wat I’m sayin’ !
SIX of them might not go unnoticed.
Even in Canada.
Then again, while the girls may go EWWWH, the boys may go AHHHHH
Underarm shaving is bad enough for baseline humans. Poor Daphne!
@rewinn
Heh heh heh
Shaving ?
Daphne won’t bother shaving.
She never has – won’t know how.
If she tries – she’ll be a bloody mess of drooping bandaids.
I hope she tries.
@Susan: If “where did you get that dress” means “Not at Niemans or Sacs”, does “This old thing? I’ve had it lying around for AGES!” mean “I can still wear cloths I had when I was 18, you snobby old B**ch.” ?
wow… a whole level of subtext most guys aren’t even aware of….
Well, at a party, yeah, but not at a prom. Nobody ever had a prom dress “just lying around”, unless it belonged to your older sister or, worse, your mother. Then It would be passe, even if it was a Dior original. At a party, the preferred cut is, “Honey, you alwayyssss look so nice in that,” which means, “Why don’t you wear something else, once in a while?” Context is all.
@DLKmusic
Tread lightly.
Susan is a woman to be reckoned with.
Even without the Benelli.
Whoa. I was somewhat right? Huh. And the Sun is still there. We are living in an Age of Miracles.
And the moon too.
Nice shelf teapot.
It’s always there for you.
@Robert Nowall
That’s Mrs. Potts !
Chip is nearby….
Unless EG killed Chip.
That may explain why Ms. Potts is not dancing and singing.
The cruel lizard-induced death of her son has left her permanently in shock.
I often wondered about what happened to *Mr.* Potts.
He died in the Great Dishware War of 1685.
Best Pheobe look ever!
(Fine ‘Sproing!’ as well)
It’s the ‘sproing’ that really makes it.
Yeah, I like the “Sproing!” and the movement lines.
rPhoebe was kicked off of Hell’s Kitchen because her bikini was “inappropriate for food preparation”, but the one episode she did appear on was the highest rated in the series history.
I want to see a bikini that’s appropriate for food preparation. I really do.
@EG
Breast Milk is food.
Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nahhhhhhhh
Salem, I can always count on you to take my quasi-inappropriate conversations and immediately make them fully inappropriate. It is your gift.
I would hate to watch Chef Phloebles fry bacon. Or anything, really. Or saute, that pan can just about get anywhere, the way my bf does it. He wears a beeg apron, btw.
@EG
Kat takes bow.
Please, EG, no pumpkins turning into carriages!
😉
Now I’m trying to figure out whether that’s a metaphor for something else…
@EG
Pumpkins are more Gourds than Melons, so this time I’ll pass 😛
Well they do say speak of the devil and…
so like father like daughter?
I didn’t even see that one coming.
Speak of ANYBODY and they’ll show up. 😉
This one (444) is la creme de la creme, or, the quintessence of Puck. 🙂
Well, I think I can take that as a compliment. I think.
Hey, my post got dumped! 🙁
You used a popular fashion brand name. I have most high-end fashion names blocked because I get about 1000 spam posts a day from people selling that stuff. But I went in and undeleted it.
Thank you, most great and powerful Oz…I mean Gecko. 🙂
I see Phoebe more of a Daemon Godmother than a Fairy Godmother… In fact with the mere use of the expression to identify Phoebe, I can see a fairy showing up and jibber at everybody in the room.
Well, when there’s technically already a fairy in the room, is it less awkward or more?
Guess I was thinking of fairies more in terms of Neverland or Inkspell fairies… Personally, I see Puck as more of a Brownie or nature spirit, but most of the references for A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream says he(she in this case) is a fairy.
I’ll agree. A pissed off fairy is scary, and daemons can be good or evil. Quite the debate to contemplate, but some other day….
Fairies can be deemon-kin. Just ask Oberon.
The “sproing” made the daily one of my favorite strips. Puck comes from fairy tale legend (will be interesting when her family catches up with her) so her foster having a Fairy Godmother just makes soooo much sense!
Well, now I’m glad I kept the ‘sproing’ in!
I never knew Cinderella could be used as a verb.
There are a great many words in the English language that jump from noun to verb; we have a rich history of verbifying everything. Which is why one can shoulder the blame, or table a meeting. So in that spirit of linguistic innovation, I believe one can totally Cinderella a b!tch.
@EG
Verbifying ?
Ok. It works for me.
It is a word, according to Merriam-Webster.
But note that in Origin and Etymology of verbify , the space is blank.
Unlike the similarly spelled verify, which has extensive historic reference.
Well, give verbify time, and it too, will be respected.
I vividly remember a naval wargame in which the judge ruled that so-and-so (not me) had “Midwayed” the opposition.
I once had a safety compliance officer, full bird, who would always say “Never let your name become a verb”
That’s a good point. Becoming an adjective, meanwhile, can be good or bad. ‘Shakespearean’ is cool, but ‘Kafkaesque’ is not as much.
As in “Don’t Custer that operation?” Heh heh
Or “Don’t Bogart that blunt.” Hee hee.
The sproing sound affect…loved it. Perfectly captured 😀
I’m glad the sproing worked. Because it was a fierce internal debate.