Cricket And Jugs 2014-06-26

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analyst wrote:So, if Castila is "Speed", the moniker of "Mother" is still open...
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ChattaStarhawk wrote:...together, they fight crime!

;)
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Mark N wrote:Taking the speech pattern I can say that she is from either Chicago or Brooklyn. Both dialects have similarities (but Brooklyn sounds more likely in my head).

And at lunch she is likely to meet the twins as well.
I don't suppose Cricket could have an 'Aussie' accent ? :?
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"Beep-Beep!" BEARNG!
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Awwww...dey's friends! :D
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Ya know, this might be exactly what Atsali needs to get past being all self-conscious about her, um...size.
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analyst wrote:So, if Castila is "Speed", the moniker of "Mother" is still open...
Not really - Atsali is going to take Cricket home and introduce her to Katherine.
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Mother, Jugs, and Speed, you say?
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Dave wrote:... and now I'm going to have to do a Web resource-troll, looking for a really convincing "BEARNG!" springy-sound. :)
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Leak wrote:
Dave wrote:... and now I'm going to have to do a Web resource-troll, looking for a really convincing "BEARNG!" springy-sound. :)
Accept no substitutes:

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Yeah, that's along the right lines!

Here are a couple which aren't at all bad.

http://soundbible.com/266-Boing-Cartoonish.html
http://soundbible.com/85-Cartoon-Hop.html
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Thank you! Excellent.
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We seem to be assuming that Calista is a good influence and becoming friends is going to be the making of a great team. Calista is starting to seem like the tough girl that leads with her fist, not her head. I suspect she might be a trouble maker and goes looking for things to get into. She's strong and tough and ready to take on the world. She also seems to be insensitive about others. Jugs is not a good nickname for Sali. She's so self conscious about them why accept a nickname that brags about them. It is also slightly degrading when you think about it.
Sali is also short of friends so being accepted by Calista and including in the circle of a tough girl seems like a good thing. All we can do is wait and see but I think this has the chance to turn into a problem for Sali if she hangs with Calista. Who knows what scrapes she might end up in and maybe even fights. Who knows maybe the mermaid will drop a hint on Sali that hanging with the cricket isn't the best thing to do.
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She seems rather like a young Shelly, from what we've heard about her younger years - remember that Shelly was a bit of a bully in school.
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AnotherFairportfan wrote:I'm trying to imagine a Cricket-sized mobile phone.
The electronics can be miniaturized that deep, but an 800MHz phone still needs an antenna... a quarter-wave radiator is just shy of 80% of Calista's height.
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AmriloJim wrote:
AnotherFairportfan wrote:I'm trying to imagine a Cricket-sized mobile phone.
The electronics can be miniaturized that deep, but an 800MHz phone still needs an antenna... a quarter-wave radiator is just shy of 80% of Calista's height.
Perhaps some sort of a repeater/amplifier system: the repeaters can be installed in places where she is likely to often be found (home, school, jail, wherever), and then she only needs to carry around a tiny weak little transceiver unit that can reach the repeaters. Her phone then wouldn't even need to use normal cell-phone wavelengths. She'd be out of luck if she went to someplace different, of course.

Or she could just keep a regular phone in a bag, and haul it around with her. She's likely strong enough for that. And at least she wouldn't have problems trying to press the ridiculously tiny little buttons some of these newer models have.

Or she could just use MiB-tech. Re-write the Akashic records so that the other person's phone suddenly has the information that you wanted to send to it, or have a phone where only part of the device was in normal space and the rest of its workings are in something similar to Bud's tummy-storage space, or something like that. That would probably cost more than the usual phone contract, I'd expect.
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AmriloJim wrote:
AnotherFairportfan wrote:I'm trying to imagine a Cricket-sized mobile phone.
The electronics can be miniaturized that deep, but an 800MHz phone still needs an antenna... a quarter-wave radiator is just shy of 80% of Calista's height.
Surely there are alternatives available to her.

I'll bet her cellphone has an E-H crossed-field fractal Isotron antenna. I'm sure it works great.

This is a fantasy strip, after all. :mrgreen:
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Dave wrote:This is a fantasy strip, after all. :mrgreen:
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Glad to see that others were also trying to determine the actual 'sound' of BEARNG!
From the sound clip provided by Paul it really comes across more like a BOING! seeing as the 'EA' phoneme would have a more swallowing resonance in English speaking ears. Plus I like to think that old PW slips in 'BEA' every so often.

I actually have a problem with JUGS liking to associate with CRICKET as Ms. Bearng is obviously a bully.
Bullies are themselves either cowards, lack proper self-worth or have some manner of asocial defect (of a combination of the above) - they choose to act the way they do out of fear, inappropriate resolution skills or a total disregard / lack of empathy. Not really an individual one would want (or should) hang out with.

Also - I am not going to even touch the various scale problems with a creature that is around 6 cm tall - this is just a comic and magic to boot.
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zachariah wrote:We seem to be assuming that Calista is a good influence and becoming friends is going to be the making of a great team. Calista is starting to seem like the tough girl that leads with her fist, not her head. I suspect she might be a trouble maker and goes looking for things to get into. She's strong and tough and ready to take on the world.
All the more reason why it will be interesting an awesome if they become friends. Besides...maybe Calista just gives Atsali a taste of being self-assured, but in the end it's Atsali who is an influence on Calista. :) It could happen! :P
zachariah wrote:She also seems to be insensitive about others. Jugs is not a good nickname for Sali. She's so self conscious about them why accept a nickname that brags about them. It is also slightly degrading when you think about it.
Fair point, but sometimes this kind of nickname is the best way to learn to accept who you are...awkward features and all. Sometimes having it thrust in your face in a matter-of-fact way (especially by someone who clearly has figured out in two seconds that there's more to you than the rack you have through no fault of your own) is the best way to learn to see that it's just a recognizable feature, and not something that defines who you are. If the nickname was given by someone who didn't seem to have an ounce of respect for her, or who truly believed that "big boobs = airheaded slut" then it would definitely be degrading and generally a bad idea for a girl like Atsali. Her reaction to Calista this far already shows that she isn't likely to be really hurt by the moniker...she picked up on the respect and (whether or not she even consciously realizes it) knows that it's possible for someone to see her breasts but also see past them. :)
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