0097b — How to Manufacture Fracture
Added 2024-11-22 20:00:07 +0000 UTCThe Christmas holiday looms near at the horizon, which means I am busy gathering oddball lines and visuals — like a squirrel with his walnuts — for the Twelve Days of Christmas mini-strip run. Or however it shapes up this year. In the above scratchboard (which lives off to the right of the board where I assemble the final strip) you will see an early draft of Permanent Agent Mike Colton wearing glasses which are actually designed for feline anatomy. I immediately transferred this visual oddity to the file in which I will assemble the final mini-strips. I am not sure what the deal will be yet, but I imagine it has something to do with Pat.
The idea for this strip arose because we heard a news story about immigration policy while we were driving to pick up some craigslist medicine cabinets for our bathroom. (We are always working on the house, even during our winter off.) It got me thinking about how constantly working on this house together has given Lauren and me a type of "twin language," where we can look at a particular flathead screw or sagging bit of stamped tin ceiling tile and be having the exact same thought — anyone who visits with us will immediately know we spend a LOT of time around each other. When we first were dating I heard a relationship expert say couples need to spend at least 37 minutes a week talking with each other. I think we knock that out before we even decide who's going to start the coffee pot each day.
Did you know there are no other good rhymes for "fracture"? It's like "orange" in that way. The only other word that rhymes with orange is fornge, which is "forge" with an "n" in the middle.
Comments
Thanks, I specifically left those in for the sake of the curiosity of it all. All this computer stuff we’ve been involved with all these years.
Chris Onstad
2024-11-24 01:49:48 +0000 UTCI'm enjoying the weird arrows in the broken font from the 2005 panels
Misty De Meo
2024-11-24 01:38:22 +0000 UTCLeaving the 'satisfied' bit ambiguous was the right choice. I could not believe there were no good rhymes for fracture so I went a-Googling and only discovered a broken (haha fractured) rhyme - the phrase 'act sure' so do with that what you will.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-11-22 23:50:22 +0000 UTCI wrote to her once - I think because she was a fellow Stanford grad and I was starting a cartooning career — crickets.
Chris Onstad
2024-11-22 20:18:35 +0000 UTCThat made me laugh
Chris Onstad
2024-11-22 20:17:11 +0000 UTCApropos of rhyming with "orange": 1) I recall that the newspaper comic strip "Rhymes With Orange" once did an April Fool's strip where they changed the title to "Rhymes with Door-hinge." 2) There's a novelty Scottish folk song praising all the whiskeys that start with "Glen-," which includes this line in the bridge: "Glenisla, Glenugie, Glenkinchie, Glenmorangie / I prefer them to Cointreau which I find too just a little too... orangey."
Uncle Elephant
2024-11-22 20:11:42 +0000 UTC
