She Strikes 2015-05-04

[Dave]

Oh, great. The young stinkweed has figured out how to weaponize corn husks. This means Trouble with a capital oh-shit.

If news of this gets out, the next thing you know, the Department of Defense will have recategorized corn husks as a "dual use" commodity having military applications, and will begin enforcing export restrictions. They'll start insisting on certification of the end-users, forbid export to unfriendly countries, and require detailed electronic tracking of each lot of corn husks as it travels from farmer's field to huskweaver's workshop.

The overhead and costs of all of this will make it impossible for the individual small farmer to ever sell cornhusks again. Only the big agro-conglomerates with ties to the military-industrial complex will be able to afford it. Yet another important segment of the traditional American economy will collapse, putting thousands of hard-working private-enterprise corn huskers out of work. Their families will be out onto the streets once their humble-but-neat-and-clean homes are foreclosed by the unfeeling tycoons in the big banks.

Is there no end to the havoc that this young stinkweed can unleash? Child: think of the children!

The MIB must act quickly to conceal all traces of this incident.

And, her sister is going to be miffed about being bonked in the head. That's going to require a Mama Bear intervention, betcha it will!

[Typeminer]

A shortened baseball bat would guarantee results- if I had a cutting edge of the same hardness of Atsali's skull, I could work titanium on my lathe...

Letting reality obtrude for a moment - it's not the hardness that makes working titanium difficult - ordinary tungsten carbide tools will cut the stuff - it's the gallingwhere it spot-welds itself to the tool edge and rips out small chunks.

This is why you work titanium in an oil bath to cool the workpiece and tool.

Titanium just became 20% more awesome. I never knew it spot welds itself to tools. That is really interesting. Never even heard of that phenomenon.

That is interesting. I sort of thought that titanium was hard to press and machine and largely had to be cast (from some vague memories of supposed reasons why the SST hull was aluminum rather than titanium), but I don't really know anything about it.

[Typeminer]

Oh, great. The young stinkweed has figured out how to weaponize corn husks. This means Trouble with a capital oh-shit.

And, her sister is going to be miffed about being bonked in the head. That's going to require a Mama Bear intervention, betcha it will!

I'm just glad Castela hasn't heard of El Kabong.

[lake_wrangler]

Oh, great. The young stinkweed has figured out how to weaponize corn husks. This means Trouble with a capital oh-shit.

And, her sister is going to be miffed about being bonked in the head. That's going to require a Mama Bear intervention, betcha it will!

I'm just glad Castela hasn't heard of El Kabong.

Even if she had, she couldn't afford the number of guitars needed to get through Atsali's thick skull...

[Dave]

I'm just glad Castela hasn't heard of El Kabong.

It's probably been four decades since I last saw any of that series of cartoons... and yet the moment I read the name you'd written, I swear I could clearly hear the dissonant ♫THWONNNGGGggg♫ of that particular weapon striking home!

Memory is a funny thing...

[Atomic]

I'm just glad Castela hasn't heard of El Kabong.

It's probably been four decades since I last saw any of that series of cartoons... and yet the moment I read the name you'd written, I swear I could clearly hear the dissonant ♫THWONNNGGGggg♫ of that particular weapon striking home!

Memory is a funny thing...

And, for those whose youth was deprived of Saturday Morning Cartoons... see here!

[Sgt. Howard]

Oh, great. The young stinkweed has figured out how to weaponize corn husks. This means Trouble with a capital oh-shit.

If news of this gets out, the next thing you know, the Department of Defense will have recategorized corn husks as a "dual use" commodity having military applications, and will begin enforcing export restrictions. They'll start insisting on certification of the end-users, forbid export to unfriendly countries, and require detailed electronic tracking of each lot of corn husks as it travels from farmer's field to huskweaver's workshop.

The overhead and costs of all of this will make it impossible for the individual small farmer to ever sell cornhusks again. Only the big agro-conglomerates with ties to the military-industrial complex will be able to afford it. Yet another important segment of the traditional American economy will collapse, putting thousands of hard-working private-enterprise corn huskers out of work. Their families will be out onto the streets once their humble-but-neat-and-clean homes are foreclosed by the unfeeling tycoons in the big banks.

Is there no end to the havoc that this young stinkweed can unleash? Child: think of the children!

The MIB must act quickly to conceal all traces of this inci

And, her sister is going to be miffed about being bonked in the head. That's going to require a Mama Bear intervention, betcha it will!

"When corn husks are outlawed, only outlaws will have cornhusks"

[oldmanmickey]

I'm just glad Castela hasn't heard of El Kabong.

It's probably been four decades since I last saw any of that series of cartoons... and yet the moment I read the name you'd written, I swear I could clearly hear the dissonant ♫THWONNNGGGggg♫ of that particular weapon striking home!

Memory is a funny thing...

yea that caused flashbacks among several of us i would bet. AA, the days of my misspent youth.

[oldmanmickey]

Oh, great. The young stinkweed has figured out how to weaponize corn husks. This means Trouble with a capital oh-shit.

If news of this gets out, the next thing you know, the Department of Defense will have recategorized corn husks as a "dual use" commodity having military applications, and will begin enforcing export restrictions. They'll start insisting on certification of the end-users, forbid export to unfriendly countries, and require detailed electronic tracking of each lot of corn husks as it travels from farmer's field to huskweaver's workshop.

The overhead and costs of all of this will make it impossible for the individual small farmer to ever sell cornhusks again. Only the big agro-conglomerates with ties to the military-industrial complex will be able to afford it. Yet another important segment of the traditional American economy will collapse, putting thousands of hard-working private-enterprise corn huskers out of work. Their families will be out onto the streets once their humble-but-neat-and-clean homes are foreclosed by the unfeeling tycoons in the big banks.

Is there no end to the havoc that this young stinkweed can unleash? Child: think of the children!

The MIB must act quickly to conceal all traces of this inci

And, her sister is going to be miffed about being bonked in the head. That's going to require a Mama Bear intervention, betcha it will!

"When corn husks are outlawed, only outlaws will have cornhusks"

They will get my corn husks when they pry them from my calloused cold dead hands.

[Dave]

They will get my corn husks when they pry them from my calloused cold dead hands.

[AmriloJim]

I see you got the large economy size, Dave. (That 7 fl.oz. label's gotta be a typo.)

[oldmanmickey]

my granddaddy swore by that stuff

[Typeminer]

Lot of farmers used that stuff when I was a kid. It seemed to work okay.

[DilyV]

Looks like... ew... never mind...

[MerchManDan]

This is so like Bud...

Very much so, just with considerably less blood.

[AnotherFairportfan]

This is so like Bud...

Very much so, just with considerably less blood.

I love Bud and Shelly's expressions in Panel One.

[AnotherFairportfan]

Oh, great. The young stinkweed has figured out how to weaponize corn husks. This means Trouble with a capital oh-shit.

If news of this gets out, the next thing you know, the Department of Defense will have recategorized corn husks as a "dual use" commodity having military applications, and will begin enforcing export restrictions. They'll start insisting on certification of the end-users, forbid export to unfriendly countries, and require detailed electronic tracking of each lot of corn husks as it travels from farmer's field to huskweaver's workshop.

The overhead and costs of all of this will make it impossible for the individual small farmer to ever sell cornhusks again. Only the big agro-conglomerates with ties to the military-industrial complex will be able to afford it. Yet another important segment of the traditional American economy will collapse, putting thousands of hard-working private-enterprise corn huskers out of work. Their families will be out onto the streets once their humble-but-neat-and-clean homes are foreclosed by the unfeeling tycoons in the big banks.

Is there no end to the havoc that this young stinkweed can unleash? Child: think of the children!

The MIB must act quickly to conceal all traces of this incident.

And, her sister is going to be miffed about being bonked in the head. That's going to require a Mama Bear intervention, betcha it will!

Imagine the effect on the tamale industry.

[lake_wrangler]

I'm just glad Castela hasn't heard of El Kabong.

It's probably been four decades since I last saw any of that series of cartoons... and yet the moment I read the name you'd written, I swear I could clearly hear the dissonant ♫THWONNNGGGggg♫ of that particular weapon striking home!

Memory is a funny thing...

And, for those whose youth was deprived of Saturday Morning Cartoons... see here!

I never knew Quick Draw McGraw, when I was growing up... yet I know that Kabong sound quite well... I can assure you that the sound effect stayed the same, even as I watched Grand Galop et Petit Trot, with French dubbing...

[lake_wrangler]

Oddly enough, as a side note, it took me a long time to figure out that the Flintstones was actually American-made... The French-dubbed version included, in the credits, the name of the voice-over/dubbing actors, along with their photo, and they were well known Québec actors... So I was sure, as a kid, that the Flintstones was a Québec-made show...

[kingklash]

Oh, great. The young stinkweed has figured out how to weaponize corn husks. This means Trouble with a capital oh-shit.

If news of this gets out, the next thing you know, the Department of Defense will have recategorized corn husks as a "dual use" commodity having military applications, and will begin enforcing export restrictions. They'll start insisting on certification of the end-users, forbid export to unfriendly countries, and require detailed electronic tracking of each lot of corn husks as it travels from farmer's field to huskweaver's workshop.

The overhead and costs of all of this will make it impossible for the individual small farmer to ever sell cornhusks again. Only the big agro-conglomerates with ties to the military-industrial complex will be able to afford it. Yet another important segment of the traditional American economy will collapse, putting thousands of hard-working private-enterprise corn huskers out of work. Their families will be out onto the streets once their humble-but-neat-and-clean homes are foreclosed by the unfeeling tycoons in the big banks.

Is there no end to the havoc that this young stinkweed can unleash? Child: think of the children!

The MIB must act quickly to conceal all traces of this incident.

And, her sister is going to be miffed about being bonked in the head. That's going to require a Mama Bear intervention, betcha it will!

Imagine the effect on the tamale industry.

¡No, not the tamales!