(Didn’t leave myself enough time before work, so here’s an “I’ll Finish It After Work” comic again. Seriously, I am speed-typing and about to dash into the shower right now)
Todd’s been talking with his father.
I am also going to do a bonus Sketch Day update tomorrow for Thanksgiving, so check in Thursday!
You all sussed this out years ago. XD
Sombody get that doctor six sessions of poker, stat!
Also, if a city that size is in one lake, how many fish must they cultivate to feed themselves? Obviously hunting is out of the question, unless herds of cows vanish from the sides of the lake.
Good idea – about the poker I mean. We should invite him to play BEFORE he learns the fine art of lying.
That’s why he’s a doctor, and not a lawyer. 🙂
I, for one, didn’t connect those dots from 180 strips ago. But perhaps I’m just slow. XD
I didn’t connect them myself either. Todd’s dad did that for me. 😀
Selkie’s socks got me to thinking. Todd should ask Pohl where they get their shoes. Maybe they get them somewhere BESIDES some incredibly expensive custom shoe place.
… o.o
Give Alpo a prize.
I don’t know why, but that line of Pohl’s at the end cracks me up, especially when it’s followed by Todd’s line.
I know. It’s quite amusing.
I like how this hits so close to home. I live in Upper Michigan.
Okay so the only problem I have with Sarnoth being in Lake Superior is that canonically Selkie’s kind cannot stand the cold… and Lake Superior is the coldest lake there is…
A few folks already mentioned when the water is deep enough it stays warmer. They could also go into a state of hibernation during the cold or they have ways to keep their homes warm—just as we do ours.
I’m getting there. :3
MAGIC! Or technology to keep themselves warm. Then again, it wouldn’t explain how they managed to evolve into cold blooded humanoids in very cold waters. Dave, you got some ‘splaining to do~
This … just all of this.
BEST. POHL. EVER.
So if that’s where Sarnoth is… Then where’s “the colony”?
Well, now we know what happened to the Edmund Fitzgerald…
A+
I just reallized! If sarnothi start as egg, do they celebrate birthday from when they are laid or from when they hatch?
Yes.
Humans don’t celebrate Conception Day so I wouldn’t expect Sarnathi to celebrate Laying Day.
http://www.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_6021350/tom-smith/tpx_9512522
Conception Day would be weird.
“Mommy, why are we celebrating today?”
“Well, sweety, eight years ago in the backseat of a Volvo…”
Haha. *Shudders* No thank you on Conception Day. It was traumatizing enough just being told I was a honeymoon baby.
It depends whether the egg was fertilized internally or externally. I believe fish can do either (though it’s usually external–unless it’s certain sharks and other older fish).
Lots of aquarium fishes “give birth” to baby fish rather than lay eggs. So I assume quite a few species handle the matter internally too, not just some sharks. (Some sharks’ babies stay inside the mother and eat other eggs/other baby sharks before being born. Some other sharks have placentas.)
Pohl is the best. :3
Pohl, dude, you’re worse than Applejack! : /
Still waiting for an explanation of why Selkie has the weird “s” problem in her words. None of the other Sarnothi seem to. I hope Pohl explains that 🙂
I expect it’s an accent thing or something.
Selkie’s “accent” may have to do with how she learned to speak English. She spoke Tensei until she was somewhere around 5 (I think. Can’t find the comic off the top of my head). Then, she learned English from people that probably had very little idea of how to tech English as a foreign language. Her accent may be the result of how she originally learned to vocalize sounds, when she spoke Tensei.
Along with that, Dr. Pohl’s lack of an accent may simply be a matter of his education. As a doctor, he needs to be perfectly understandable, so he may have trained out his ‘natural’ accent.
Then again, the extra S sounds in Selkie’s vocabulary may have a lot to do with her clan. Pohl never did explain how he know she was Clan Jin’Sorai. It could be similar to how someone from the US can tell the difference between someone who was born and raised in, say, Boston, as opposed to someone born and raised in Dallas. Even here in the US, the same word uttered by two different people from two different regions can sound vastly different. Take the world ‘caramel’ for example. I grew up in an area where it was pronounced Car-Mul. Moving to another part of the country, it suddenly became care-a-mel.
is the sketch gonna be a live turkey with suspiciously recenly missing eyes?
Everyone has their shoes off. Is that a Canada-border thing? I’ve heard that Canadians usually take their shoes off when they go in someone’s house. I’ve never done that.
I know a few households around here (central FL) that insist on it.
Of course, where I grew up (northern GA), we tracked so much mud around anyway that it didn’t really matter…
I don’t know about the U.S. but in Canada, yes, we do take our shoes off. It makes sense that they would just south of the border too, at this time of year comic-time there’s snow. Why would you want to wear your winter boots inside? Even if it were comfortable, they’re snowy (which means soaking wet in a few minutes) and probably filthy because city snow is about a third mud. We take our shoes off year round, now that I think about it, it’s really not necessary in summer but that’s how we roll. Habit, probably.
How would you NOT take off your shoes when entering someone’s home? Think of all the crap you step on outside – you really want to bring that onto someone’s rug???
*is European*
I live in Kansas, and I always do that; it’s kind of rude to get their carpet all dirty.
I don’t know, I just never have. We’ve always been shoe wearers.
Maybe it’s because of my dad. He grew up dirt poor and a lot of the time he didn’t even have shoes, so he always insisted we had to wear shoes. Something about ringworm. Is it customary in (any/many/most) European countries to take your shoes off when you go inside?
I am intrigued by this.
Probably depends as much on the household as the region. In my northwest coast area, probably about 10-20% of the homes I visit ask you to take your shoes off, or at least do under normal circumstances if it’s muddy outside even if it’s not strictly required. Others are 100% shoes, all the time (like my parents’ house growing up). And then my house is strictly Japanese style, with shoes indoors absolutely forbidden.
I’ve always taken shoes off when entering a house. I honestly didn’t realize some people don’t do this. Learn a new thing each day.
Although if they have hardwood floors, sometimes I don’t think about it. I think it’s a carpet thing.
So how is the Canadian government involved in this, seeing as how Lake Superior is half-ours?
ok 1 in panel 4 how Todd looks total sex/ I mister bad-ass, 2 crap its already that time of the year again…better get the fish-turkey! Also I just love everyone’s thoughts so far on selkie and on everything to this comic! this is so freaking cool.. I do believe well get more info on who what and HOW in the next few weeks.
Or we’ll go back to the school soon.
Though I don’t think Dave would be quite *that* cruel.
Maybe not even that ornery.
I hope.