Born Sassy 2017-05-10

[lake_wrangler]

An early one, tonight...

So Digit is good at humour, but not quite there yet on the facial expressiveness...

"You're smiling, aren't you?"

I don't know... her face looks the same, from one panel to the next...

[Dave]

If she ever learns to play poker... may Ghu have mercy on her opponents.

I'm definitely jealous of her in a way. I too find it difficult to keep from cracking up during the set-up, and my face usually gives me away. (That, and the great long-suffering experience of my usual targets. My wife has a tendency to scowl at me before I finish talking, and say "OK, what's the pun?")

[FreeFlier]

Well, she does have an advantage at keeping a straight face, but giggling would give the game away.

--FreeFlier

[AnotherFairportfan]

If she ever learns to play poker... may Ghu have mercy on her opponents.

I'm definitely jealous of her in a way. I too find it difficult to keep from cracking up during the set-up, and my face usually gives me away. (That, and the great long-suffering experience of my usual targets. My wife has a tendency to scowl at me before I finish talking, and say "OK, what's the pun?")

I, OTOH, seem to manage to sell the setup quite well - it sometimes takes my victims a second or two to realise they've been had.

[Typeminer]

If she ever learns to play poker... may Ghu have mercy on her opponents.

I'm definitely jealous of her in a way. I too find it difficult to keep from cracking up during the set-up, and my face usually gives me away. (That, and the great long-suffering experience of my usual targets. My wife has a tendency to scowl at me before I finish talking, and say "OK, what's the pun?")

I, OTOH, seem to manage to sell the setup quite well - it sometimes takes my victims a second or two to realise they've been had.

My ex says--quite often--that no one understands my jokes. But she does admit that I'm a master baker. Or something like that.

[AnotherFairportfan]

If she ever learns to play poker... may Ghu have mercy on her opponents.

I'm definitely jealous of her in a way. I too find it difficult to keep from cracking up during the set-up, and my face usually gives me away. (That, and the great long-suffering experience of my usual targets. My wife has a tendency to scowl at me before I finish talking, and say "OK, what's the pun?")

I, OTOH, seem to manage to sell the setup quite well - it sometimes takes my victims a second or two to realise they've been had.

My ex says--quite often--that no one understands my jokes. But she does admit that I'm a master baker. Or something like that.

I'm not taking that bait.

[FreeFlier]

If she ever learns to play poker... may Ghu have mercy on her opponents.

I'm definitely jealous of her in a way. I too find it difficult to keep from cracking up during the set-up, and my face usually gives me away. (That, and the great long-suffering experience of my usual targets. My wife has a tendency to scowl at me before I finish talking, and say "OK, what's the pun?")

I, OTOH, seem to manage to sell the setup quite well - it sometimes takes my victims a second or two to realise they've been had.

In high school and into college, I made a specialty of shaggy dog jokes . . . My personal best was slightly over fifteen minutes to tell the Kludgemaker, and a full thirty seconds before the victim reacted.

By which time I was long gone.

--FreeFlier

[oldmanmickey]

note to self, never get in a comic competition with this bunch

[TazManiac]

In high school and into college, I made a specialty of shaggy dog jokes . . . My personal best was slightly over fifteen minutes to tell the Kludgemaker, and a full thirty seconds before the victim reacted.

By which time I was long gone.

--FreeFlier

"They'll fall off on their own..."

[Catawampus]

So instead of putting on their sassy-pants in the morning, jumping spiders ready their sassy-spinnerets?

[Armorlord]

The mention of twentysomethings and it seeming to refer to Digit has me nervously looking around for another timeskip somewhere..

[Dave]

So instead of putting on their sassy-pants in the morning, jumping spiders ready their sassy-spinnerets?

Yup. While a human might have a sassy-pants valet, a jumping spider would have a sassy 'ret butler. I'm sure Scarlet could confirm that.

[FreeFlier]

Oh, and wouldn't Digit have been hatched sassy?

--FreeFlier

[Opus the Poet]

Still born, but not birthed.

[TazManiac]

Shades of Mrs. Jessica Rabbit, which btw, was the 1st Laser Disk I ever owned...

"I'm not Bad, I'm just drawn that way..."