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She has always been portrayed as having less than ideal looking teeth. They are drawn rather pointy right now but not elongated like the other characters who actually have fangs.DilyV wrote:I was wondering about Kath Rocking the fangs too... did they just manifest?
... uh... actually... this old phart of a Luddite was asking "How does a computer inept individual as myself create a blue lettered link that allows others to left click on said link and obtain instant passage to something that the aforementioned individual thought interesting/pertinent/whatever?"Dave wrote:You follow her story... and grant Paul the authorial right to add some back-story as he goes along.Sgt. Howard wrote:Compare this to the first time we saw this woman...
2003-09-19... how do you create the link?
I think it was mostly laid out in flashback form, during the Big Adventure... that Kath was rather "normal" (to use a loaded word) in her younger years... an as-social-as-expected grad student who (if I recall correctly) had served in the military for a while. She went into a reclusive phase (which is where we first saw her back in ought-three) after she barely escaped being slaughtered along with the rest of the anthropology team on a dig somewhere in the neighborhood of the Dead Sea.
Looking back on it now, it's almost as if she was in a fugue state during those years... hiding from herself and from the world, as a way of hiding from what happened to her friends. In effect, a really bad cast of PTSD.
I think Paul showed us the precise moments at which she decided she was no longer willing to exist as a "nothing", and that she really wanted to live again, and the point at which she took back her own power and took charge of the situation (and her own life) again.
My impression is that she's making up for a bunch of lost/wasted/aimless years.
For example when Dave wroteSgt. Howard wrote:... uh... actually... this old phart of a Luddite was asking "How does a computer inept individual as myself create a blue lettered link that allows others to left click on said link and obtain instant passage to something that the aforementioned individual thought interesting/pertinent/whatever?"
he did so with the following codeDave wrote:no longer willing to exist as a "nothing"
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[url=http://wapsisquare.com/comic/another-day/]no longer willing to exist as a "nothing"[/url]Grandma Nickel from Transformers: MTMTE has that power over the frikkin' D.J.D. and they're basically the Decepticon equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition*!oldmanmickey wrote:My mother used to invoke that power as well. Its how a 5'1 110 lb woman could make a 6'2 220 lb GI quake in his shoes
psst, hey Sarge maybe this will help. do a quote,then just copy and past the part around what it says. then delete, copy and paste your link in it.shadowinthelight wrote:For example when Dave wroteSgt. Howard wrote:... uh... actually... this old phart of a Luddite was asking "How does a computer inept individual as myself create a blue lettered link that allows others to left click on said link and obtain instant passage to something that the aforementioned individual thought interesting/pertinent/whatever?"he did so with the following codeDave wrote:no longer willing to exist as a "nothing"Code: Select all
[url=http://wapsisquare.com/comic/another-day/]no longer willing to exist as a "nothing"[/url]
So....captnq wrote:Well, not to be sexist, but this is clearly a Dad problem, not a Mom problem.
Moms are great for sympathy and understanding.
Dad is who you go to when you want a solution.
Drives my wife nuts when she's freaking out. "The health insurance is requesting insane things again!" or "At the shelter a cat with cancer died" then she gets pissed when I don't start wailing and pulling out my hair, lamenting the horrors of life.
It's not that it doesn't bother me. It's that I cannot change or influence the outcome in any fashion that will improve the situation. If I cannot fix it, then I accept it and move onto what I can change.
If Atsali wants something fixed, she needs to talk to a problem solver.
Akeche wrote:So....captnq wrote:Well, not to be sexist, but this is clearly a Dad problem, not a Mom problem.
Moms are great for sympathy and understanding.
Dad is who you go to when you want a solution.
Drives my wife nuts when she's freaking out. "The health insurance is requesting insane things again!" or "At the shelter a cat with cancer died" then she gets pissed when I don't start wailing and pulling out my hair, lamenting the horrors of life.
It's not that it doesn't bother me. It's that I cannot change or influence the outcome in any fashion that will improve the situation. If I cannot fix it, then I accept it and move onto what I can change.
If Atsali wants something fixed, she needs to talk to a problem solver.
Aunt Shelly?
You have it backwards. Sali needs to apologize to Kathy! Sali did a really bad job of explaining and then lost her tempter with Kathy for not understanding. Basically Sali pitched a fit because she heard a standard line from Kathy because that is what she lead Kathy to think was going on. WHat does a parent do when their child pitches a fit, they calm them down. Sometimes you have to grab them and pin them to do that. You don't hurt them but you do have to show them you are the boss. Now Sali in angry siren form and trying to to recreate the blackboard scene from Jaws needs more than being grabbed by the shoulders and held still. SO Kathy tackled her and spoke in Mom mode.Akeche wrote:I cannot blame Atsali for losing her cool, though it's also good that Katherine acted as she did to help silence her.
But The next words out of Kathy's mouth needs to be an apology. An apology for literally regurgitating the exact same bullshit everyone keeps telling the poor girl whenever she asks for advice or help on the matter. She knows that having a great set of knockers doesn't make her sexual outright, she knows it isn't right for people to treat her differently because of this. She knows because she is a combination of paranormal creatures which literally have their lore focused around sexing people up(and eating them/sucking out their soul).
Katherine needs to apologize, and then just admit she has no fucking clue what to tell her. A parent can't have all the answers, and sometimes it's better to just outright say that. Especially when your child is well into their teenaged years and dealing with hormonal issues. They do not want to be essentially baby talked.
or the the Armageddon Inheritance series by David Weber... though he spelled it Ninhursag there.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Also Roger Ramius Chang McClintock's squeeze.lake_wrangler wrote:WordNet Search wrote:Ninkhursag: the great mother goddess; worshipped also as Aruru and Mama and Nintu
By a strange coincidence, my name is Mike Weber and i have a younger brother named David and a friend named Toni Weisskopf, publisher at Baen Books.scantrontb wrote:or the the Armageddon Inheritance series by David Weber... though he spelled it Ninhursag there.AnotherFairportfan wrote: Also Roger Ramius Chang McClintock's squeeze.
This is about the least reasonable reaction to this comic you could have had.Nimrod wrote:That is about the worst thing old spider eyes could have done...
So much for parenting classes...
Looks like Kath needs to grow up more than her associated "daughter".
Okay, I've been lurking. And I have to say that I agree that Kath didn't react to this in the same way. She's new to parenting and even experienced parents who've had their kids since they were babies are not perfect, Kath has been thrown a teenage child at a very volatile point in the kid's life. It reminds me of Hiro's aunt in Big Hero 6. "Should I have read a parenting manual? Probably!"Nimrod wrote:That is about the worst thing old spider eyes could have done...
So much for parenting classes...
Looks like Kath needs to grow up more than her associated "daughter".