Selkie512
Aug11
on August 11, 2014
at 12:09 am
Klingon caterers are right up there with 17th century french shoe stores on the Calumet City Esoteric Small Businesses roster.
Those bat'leths are sanitized for food serving. .. probably. XD
Bat’leths! Weapons for warriors with honor! I freaking love Star Trek. ^_^
Sesquipedalian.
(I had to count the letters, of course, but I immediately knew the word. Is that good or bad?)
That was shorter turnaround on answering Mina’s question than I expected. XD Kudos!
HAHAHA I was about to post the same word! XD
Grandiloquence also works, though not nearly as well and it’s not grammatically correct.
I thought loquacious but that’s 4 letters off xD
I thought ‘loquaciousness’, but it isn’t gramatically correct.
Sesquipi-… dammit.
… That’s like one of my favorite ironic-pretentious words….
A little of both! 😀
Good to see their lives are returning to *relative* normalcy.
Also: Sesquipedalian (thank you internet)
Todd is a dick for insulting other people for eating meat. I am sure it’s just good nature-ed jibbing between co-workers or friends, but I’ve met a lot of people who think like that on a regular basis.
Reality is, there’s a strong scientific agreement that we evolved the way we did due to the discovery of fire, and being able to cook and consume meat. And while that may not be absolutely necessary in this day and age, a portion of meat can contain more vitamins and minerals then a portion of a vegetable.
To each their own, but I don’t like shitty comments like that.
Todd’s pretty chill about people eating meat, unless he sees a window to give people “the business” in a friendly fashion. XD
He’d have to be. His daughter is a carnivore. :3 And not all vegans/vegetarians are that insulting. Sure, there’s a bunch who will shove their beliefs down your throat until you’re ready to wretch up the plants they want you to eat. But there are those who respect choices and beliefs.
Also. How can you dislike anyone with a Bat’leth? K’Plah!
As long as they’re not vegans/vegetarians who not only expect you to accommodate to their ways when they eat over, but also enforce their ways upon you when you eat over at their place (so not serving meat or animal products), then I can handle them just fine.
I’d hate it when you go out of your way to cook vegan specially for them, and when you eat over you will have to make due with a vegan burger because they won’t allow meat in their homes.
(It’s okay if you know it up front: then I won’t eat over)
I dunno — if someone’s been non-meat long enough, you don’t want them trying to cook it. Remember the Doctor’s wife handing Todd the whole head of lettuce because they didn’t know how to prepare veggies? If I ever tried to cook meat, it’d probably be burned on the outside and bleeding on the inside… >_>
Of course, restaurants are always a nice compromise. ^_^
Hey, burnt on the outside and bleeding on the inside is a good way to serve steak! I’m a big lover of veggies and fruit but could never go full vegetarian because I don’t want to either be suffering from malnourishment or be a big hypocrite by downing huge amounts of “dietary supplement” pills that are produced by extracting the essential stuff from meat (or blood from the slaughtered animals which would be otherwise discarded) and putting it into a pill (which is how 99% of those pills are made, it’s the cheapest way).
I know I sound a bit judgy there with the “all vegetarians are malnourished” implication there….but since I’ve known a lot of them and they all are if they don’t take those supplement pills several times a day, making it no different from eating the meat except that they don’t taste the meat they are ingesting.
If Todd was known for any more than good-natured ribbing between friends and co-workers, I strongly doubt he would have been invited to that party.
On the other side, what kind of comment is that to someone you know is a vegan? ‘Oh, I know you don’t like to eat animals, but I’m going to tell you somehting that I know will gross you out anyway’. Don’t be blind to shitty comments made from the carnivore side, either.
That’s odd. I’ve met one or two, but they’re dwarfed by the people who think “HURR HURR RABBIT FOOD FOR EVERY ANIMAL YOU DON’T EAT I’M GONNA EAT TWO YOU A F*G OR SOMETHING?!” is *hilarious*
Also, for anyone who thinks that middle one is funny? I hereby declare I’m NOT eating a live cone snail.
I’m pretty sure it’s a long running joke between the 2 of them… Sounds like a conversation I’d have with some of my close friends.
…and THERE’S the reason for the Star Trek shirt – a themed dinner party!
Somehow, the Star Trek shirt loses its impact thusly … I thought it was just Todd being a nerd of magnitude similar to myself.
Same here. But still, kudos to him for not being afraid to show it at the school.
So, Todd is the captain, and the boss is support crew. Interesting.
…and I’m sure the food ribbing is all good-natured. This *is* his BOSS, mmmkay?
Technically, the shirt color denotes branch of service, not rank. Red is Tactical (military), yellow is Engineering, and blue is Science. Anyone of any branch could earn their way to command.
This is part of why ‘redshirts’ had such a high mortality rate in TOS, they really were soldier cannon fodder.
Actually, in TOS, Red was Ship’s Services (Security and Engineering), and Gold was Command-only. a bit of a nonissue, though, as they’re both wearing TNG-era uniforms.
Todd doesn’t have to consume the pig, himself; I’ll bet they also serve plomeek soup.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie184/ mentioned Bill, but this is the first time we’ve actually seen him, right?
Yep, this is the first time we’ve seen him as more than a small head in the background.
Sesquipedilian.
I always think of several as meaning “roughly seven”. So I reacted with some horror to this. But then I remembered everyone else uses several to mean “a few”.
Heh! Yeah, I go “one,” “a couple,” “a few” (3-5), “several (6-9),” and “lots (10+)”…
Haha, that kind of teasing between a vegetarian friend and me happens a fair bit. (It was the snooty vegans at work trying to insist humans are actually herbivores and it was the Big Food Company conspiracy that tricked us into meat eating that drove me nuts.)
Klingon catering. That’s…better than him being at a convention. Wow, how much fun would that be?
Humans have both molars and canine + incisors.
Whoever claims we are carnivores, or herbivores are both mad: We are OMNIvores. We are equipped to deal with both.
With modern science we cab test bones of our ancestors and confirm their diet. Studies have shown that up until the birth of agricultural–roughly 100,000 years ago–our diet in all cultures was primarily meat or fish. Very little of our diet was plant based.
100,000 years is a very short time frame. Our modern plant based diets can be the cause of many aliments we have as for the longest time humans were mostly-meat herbivores… It is even shown that our brain cavity might be starting to get smaller because we aren’t eating enough meat protein (which is not at all equal to plant protein.) our jaw and nose area are sinking inward, compressing our minds and causing wisdom teeth to be a new issue.
Personally a person can be vegan/veggie all they want and I won’t critics them, but I know myself that the primary reason is for their ego and nothing more. Just like people who insist on recycling everything, including materials that cause far more damage to recycle that it would to make anew.
The birth of agriculture was only around 10-12 thousand years ago. Before than humans did cultivate some forms of wild rice and grain and other plants, and practiced various forms control over local animals and plants before domestication became a thing.
Current studies indicate that our skulls are actually getting larger, at least in the United States.
And wisdom teeth are commonly accepted as evidence that in the past human diets were even more plant heavy than they are now. More molars in the jaw meant plant cells would be more ground up and therefore easier to digest. Humans don’t digest cellulose as easily as pure herbivores, but we do it better than pure carnivores. However, as our diet changed and became more meat heavy, our jaws began to shrink. The jaw is smaller, but the teeth still grow even if there’s no room for them.
I dunno where you’re getting your information from, but…
I found a simple little documentary about the research if you need a dumbed down form of a source “In Search of the Perfect Human Diet”
Wisdom teeth as proof of eating plants? Lol. I’ll take the actual chemical analysis showing exactly what they ate as evidence.
I really want to move to Calumet City now. It seems to have a lot of unique Businesses, rather then the same old chains that dominate every other city.
It seems we already live there! Um, my husband and I are “The Kellermeyers”, as are our children LOL.
Todd> was that an intentional nod our way? And yes, we’re Star Trek Fans, among many other interests:)
Sesquipedalian ~ I first learned that word when Sam the Eagle used it on the original muppet show 🙂
I like Todd’s boss, it’s good fortune to have one with a sense of humor like that.
Hey Dave! We ever tell you how much we live you:). That is awesome!
live = love….god damn you auto correct!
no, no no… the Proper lyrics are: Live, Love, Be, Believe…
by the band CruxShadows (sorry i can’t figure out how to do the umlaut over the “u”) i listen to goth/industrial music and had never heard of them until i read the books in the “Thru the Looking Glass” series by John Ringo and Travis S.Taylor… they used the lyrics from one of their other songs “Winterborn” and i thought that had just made the band up, but was pleasantly surprised to find that that no, no they didn’t, it was a real band…
Hee hee hee. 😀
Glad you guys like it. I like little slip-ins like this from time to time. :3
So… if it was on accident, Dave, we still love it anyway:) Also, SNAFU Con in October if you can make it… I know it’s a Loooong way for you.
Wholly intentional. >:D
I’d love to but I think my October may be spoken for. I’ll look into it and get back to you!
You’d be welcome to stay with us. Got an extra room and no hotel fee :). Plus All you can eat Sushi for $20.00. And its not crappy buffet sushi either :).
“It’s all going to be okay now.”
Um, Todd? Dude? Sorry to break it to you, but you and Selkie are in a story and it’s not done yet. So… no, it’s not going to be okay, not yet. Something is going to go wrong.
A crack appears in the Fourth Wall… ;D
… I look at Bill and all I see is Kurtis Stryker…
… Which I know makes no sense, I think it’s the dark hair reminding me of the hat or something and then the shirt. Just… at a glance… Stryker @.@
Wow, they even have bat’leths?
Also, oooh, that’s why he was wearing that shirt!