A Warning 2012-10-19

[Opus the Poet]

Is it bad that I like Bud's figure better than Monica's or Shelly's? I have been partial to ladies with well-defined rear ends and lesser-endowed chests.

so wait, let me get this straight, you like big butts and you cannot lie?

No, I do not. I like "well-defined" rear ends and flat chests. Not big butts, big butts I have in abundance around here. You can't turn around without getting run over by a big butt, sometimes literally.

[Bathorys Daughter]

Oops...
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I guess I didn't catch it on time, this time around, and my embarrassment is now displayed for all the world to see...

It's been prvoen that you can sitll mkae snese of mxied-up wrods as lnog as the fsrit and lsat ltteres are in the rghit pacle. Obviously your brain was doing something similar with "Pibgorn" and automatically "proofreading" it into something that looked more lexicographically lgocial.

That may be so, but I'm still embarrassed about it...

Don't be. I'll be willing to bet a fair percentage of the readers to this comic saw it as Waspi Square at first. Many for some time thereafter until they stopped and really read the name. No doubt that would apply to people who just see the name in passing as well. Heck, a couple might not even notice the letter transposition in the second sentence of this comment, though they will now.

[lake_wrangler]

That may be so, but I'm still embarrassed about it...

Don't be. I'll be willing to bet a fair percentage of the readers to this comic saw it as Waspi Square at first. Many for some time thereafter until they stopped and really read the name. No doubt that would apply to people who just see the name in passing as well. Heck, a couple might not even notice the letter transposition in the second sentence of this comment, though they will now.

That may be so, but even now, as I know the real name, I find I still have difficulty looking at the name on the browser tab without reverting to my previous erroneous reading...

It's annoying, really...

Hopefully, it will settle itself with time.

[illiad]

Oh, I see. This mall is actually a street of shops. So they were poited onto a public street. So much the better.

heh, when is a mall not a 'mall' ?? when its a street name... there is a street round here called 'the vineyard' - but it used to be, 100's or years ago...

[sonicthunder]

I see a security camera on a poll in the background. The girls can't just poit out and hope no one sees, it's already too late

Bah. These are the same girls who have detonated entire restrooms in the middle of populated nightclubs, or regularly hurl golf-balls at supersonic speed (with the accompanying sonic boom) from their back yards. Even if someone does see them, it'll be just like when a two foot tall blue person boards the bus or the local coffee barista forgets to turn on her eyes.

[illiad]

meh, 'populated nightclubs' are full of drunk people,so any strange things are just thought to be crazy behavior or fancy dress... :/

'golf-balls at supersonic speed' was defused buy one of the girls, saying 'did you see that UFO???' .. as the joke goes, the guy standing on a street corner waiting to interview a 'normal' person... (many strange ones go by, time passes...) -- 'this is your man on the spot, *still* waiting for a normal person....' :/

[Aleister Crow]

I'm forty four, I have yet to meet a "normal" person.

[Bathorys Daughter]

I see a security camera on a poll in the background. The girls can't just poit out and hope no one sees, it's already too late

Bah. These are the same girls who have detonated entire restrooms in the middle of populated nightclubs, or regularly hurl golf-balls at supersonic speed (with the accompanying sonic boom) from their back yards. Even if someone does see them, it'll be just like when a two foot tall blue person boards the bus or the local coffee barista forgets to turn on her eyes.

Quite so. Not to mention a sphinx flying by, clutching her BF. Then there are, apparently, werewolves, and (soon to be introduced) vampires. The people of the Wapsi Square region must be quite used to odd things going on. At least where female paranormal creatures are concerned. They must eye every woman with suspicion by this point. Probably have the attitude, "Oh ... it's just one of them," and go on about their business. The large MIB presence (which must be in the area) takes care of the really problematic or potentially deadly issues. They, or the Apos who work for them.

I'm forty four, I have yet to meet a "normal" person.

Yep.
There are only two kinds of people: abnormal people and people you don't yet know well enough.
— Stephan Pastis

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
— P.J. O'Rourke

[Mark N]

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
— P.J. O'Rourke

Actually when I see a kid with multiple rings in his face I think that in a fight this person is so screwed.

[illiad]

Bathorys Daughter : well there is pibgorn one, where two old guys notice them flying by , and 'matter of fact' say, " ah, there is a lesser spotted succubus, and a a mottled tree fairy..." just your normal woodland birds, nothing out of the ordinary {yawn}.....

Mark N : well.... I think you may find that the 'ordinary-looking' boy or girl may have something hidden that is totally extraordinary... they drive a metal detector crazy...

[lake_wrangler]

I'm forty four, I have yet to meet a "normal" person.

Ha! You're my kind of person!


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You are a person, right?

[kingklash]

That may be so, but I'm still embarrassed about it...

Don't be. I'll be willing to bet a fair percentage of the readers to this comic saw it as Waspi Square at first. Many for some time thereafter until they stopped and really read the name. No doubt that would apply to people who just see the name in passing as well. Heck, a couple might not even notice the letter transposition in the second sentence of this comment, though they will now.

That may be so, but even now, as I know the real name, I find I still have difficulty looking at the name on the browser tab without reverting to my previous erroneous reading...

It's annoying, really...

Hopefully, it will settle itself with time.

I was first turned onto Wapsi from a Fark thread, someone posted the strip where Moni was considering her ancestors' contribution to her physical parameters. I saw it as WAPsi right off, and recognized it as some native name. It actually seemed like it might be from around here in Oklahoma. "Hey, Ma! Does 'Wapsi' sound like anything to you?" She said it sounded like something, but not local. I took the time to read up the site, and was hooked. Of course, finding Shelly to be Comanche, and from the Wahnee family helped a lot.

[Mark N]

I was first turned onto Wapsi from a Fark thread, someone posted the strip where Moni was considering her ancestors' contribution to her physical parameters. I saw it as WAPsi right off, and recognized it as some native name. It actually seemed like it might be from around here in Oklahoma. "Hey, Ma! Does 'Wapsi' sound like anything to you?" She said it sounded like something, but not local. I took the time to read up the site, and was hooked. Of course, finding Shelly to be Comanche, and from the Wahnee family helped a lot.

I am with you on the Wapsi and Wahnee connection. I have known many "Native Americans" and have a taste for American history and from that the original names of some places so those names fits my brains 'pattern recognition', so I see them the way they are right away. But Pibgorn does not fit that pattern so my brain (and it seems others have done the same thing) sees it as PIGborn which seems to make more sense.
There is a simple fact that the human brain tries to make sense of nonsense. If you listen to any distant and continuous noise long enough, you will start to hear a pattern (sometimes music) in it. That is the brain trying to make sense of nonsense. This is a similar effect as why a person might suffer from certain types of auditory delusions. The brain is making itself hear a pattern that is not actually there.

[Atomic]

FYI - PW made it clear the strip is named for the Wapsipinicon River which arises near Minneapolis. This also has appeared in the strip a few times.

[bmonk]

I'm forty four, I have yet to meet a "normal" person.

Alice: "Do you think I've gone 'round the bend?"
Her father: "I'm afraid so... you're mad. Bonkers. Off your head...
"But I'll tell you a secret... all of the best people are. "

[Wyvern]

I'll be willing to bet a fair percentage of the readers to this comic saw it as Waspi Square at first.

I didn't read it that way, but I've typed that often enough. *sigh*

[NOTDilbert]

I'm forty four, I have yet to meet a "normal" person.

Fifty six, and still waiting. But with less hope....

[jwhouk]

FYI - PW made it clear the strip is named for the Wapsipinicon River which wanders through Northeastern Iowa, which is where one of Pablo's ex GF's used to go to school.. This also has appeared in the strip a few times.

FYP. The Wapsipinicon is only in Minnesota briefly, and nowhere near the Twin Cities area.

[scantrontb]

Mark N : well.... I think you may find that the 'ordinary-looking' boy or girl may have something hidden that is totally extraordinary... they drive a metal detector crazy...

AH, like the airport scene in the movie RA ONE...

[illiad]

I'm forty four, I have yet to meet a "normal" person.

Fifty six, and still waiting. But with less hope....

well, you may have had enough of boring normal people.. But then, whats a bit extreme for some, is normal or boring for others... (a workmate thinks golf is the *most* fun you can have - and winces when I wear my 'Motorhead' rude t-shirts... {yawn} )

There are only two kinds of people: abnormal people and people you don't yet know well enough.

AH, like the airport scene in the movie RA ONE...

I mean in RL... eg a friend who keeps being scanned, and getting an alert... and then she suddenly remembers! she asks to go somewhere private with the lady guard, so she can 'adjust under her skirt' ...