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Looks as if the neat boots weren't as strong as they might have been...

Got her eye on the essentials...

Blackthorn Kid's Got Toes!



Seriously - every time I can recall that we've seen Pickle's feet before, she's been stumping around on something like an elephant's... a roundish hoof-like appendage, with barely-visible toes. This is another way in which her shapeshifting has matured!

(This is also the earliest I can ever recall Paul posting a new strip.)

It's all about the scale of the thing. Rocks are cheap. Shoes cost money.

No! Not the boots!

Dave wrote:Blackthorn Kid's Got Toes!

. . .

Seriously - every time I can recall that we've seen Pickle's feet before, she's been stumping around on something like an elephant's... a roundish hoof-like appendage, with barely-visible toes. This is another way in which her shapeshifting has matured. . . .

She had toes at Oceanside on the 20th, too.

And on The Way, back on 13 July . . . and even in Where to put them on 7 July, or Have your Back or even last April in Drives Me crazy . . . though her ankles were thicker then.

We just weren't noticing.

--FreeFlier

Poor pickle... she's focused on the boot and not on the awesome-ness of what she just did... She'd be a shoe-in for the school soccer team but somehow I think that idea will be kicked to the wayside as too dangerous for other students to be in the path of a kick like that... She could always take them back and claim faulty construction...

Pickle: "All I did was kick something and the whole toe of the shoe just ripped out!!!"

Seriously though, I think she's going to have to toe the line and foot the bill for another pair of boots. Maybe Aunt Bud can buy her a new pair while she's singing Pickle's praises...

*dumps fourteen expired Shoe Source coupons and an old, empty Addidas shoe box in the pun jar* I lost track... let me know if I still owe anything...

EDIT: What would Kath say if she heard Pickle swearing like that?

DilyV wrote: . . . EDIT: What would Kath say if she heard Pickle swearing like that?

Something clever and effective.

--FreeFlier

The pickle needs to spend some time practicing her cussing. Kath is an vet she should be able to help her out with that.

So the boots weren't indestructible, after all. Bummer.

Bud. You need to LISTEN to your adopted niece. She is upset. Kicking rocks is nothing special. Destroying boots that make you feel good about chubby ankles, on the other hand...

[quote="DilyV"
EDIT: What would Kath say if she heard Pickle swearing like that?[/quote]
She gets it from her grandmother.

eee wrote:

DilyV wrote: EDIT: What would Kath say if she heard Pickle swearing like that?

She gets it from her grandmother.

...and Aunt Suzi, likely.. And Aunt Shelly. And probably Aunt Monica.

Our gals can be a pretty foul-mouthed crew.

EDIT to name the right vampire.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

eee wrote:

DilyV wrote: EDIT: What would Kath say if she heard Pickle swearing like that?

She gets it from her grandmother.

...and Aunt Lily, likely.. And Aunt Shelly. And probably Aunt Monica.

Our gals can be a pretty foul-mouthed crew.

Or, in the case of Atsali, fowl-mouthed. "Uhhh, you said '$#@*%!!!'."

(drops a DVD of the Marx Brothers "Horse Feathers" into the Pun Jar)

Well, Castela was wanting to learn about science. This can be her chance to learn more about the work of a guy named Newton.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

eee wrote:

DilyV wrote: EDIT: What would Kath say if she heard Pickle swearing like that?

She gets it from her grandmother.

...and Aunt Lily, likely.. And Aunt Shelly. And probably Aunt Monica.

Our gals can be a pretty foul-mouthed crew.

I'll give you the Aunt Shelly and Aunt Monica... However Lily IS Castela's grandmother, who was alluded to by eee. Lily is the only one remaining (that we know of) Lanthian of six whose fourth baby was fused into a single entity (Katherine). Therefore, Lily is Katherine's mother, and Castela's grandmother by adoption.

lake_wrangler wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

eee wrote: She gets it from her grandmother.

...and Aunt Lily, likely.. And Aunt Shelly. And probably Aunt Monica.

Our gals can be a pretty foul-mouthed crew.

I'll give you the Aunt Shelly and Aunt Monica... However Lily IS Castela's grandmother, who was alluded to by eee. Lily is the only one remaining (that we know of) Lanthian of six whose fourth baby was fused into a single entity (Katherine). Therefore, Lily is Katherine's mother, and Castela's grandmother by adoption.

Aggh. Meant Suzi.

Fixed.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Aggh. Meant Suzi.

Fixed.

I think Castela would have caught more about swearing from lily than Suzi, from what we've seen so far. At least, the times we've seen them on the island, Suzi would try to restrain herself when the kids were around, as opposed to Lily's continues potty mouth (and attitude, for a while, but she's better now that she's accepted that she has a family again...)

lake_wrangler wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Aggh. Meant Suzi.

Fixed.

I think Castela would have caught more about swearing from lily than Suzi, from what we've seen so far. At least, the times we've seen them on the island, Suzi would try to restrain herself when the kids were around, as opposed to Lily's continues potty mouth (and attitude, for a while, but she's better now that she's accepted that she has a family again...)

Once Lily wasn't scared about being around a bunch of apex predators all the time.

--FreeFlier

Actually, when I do Guard Patrol, the foulest mouths on the playground are tweenagers

Sgt. Howard wrote:Actually, when I do Guard Patrol, the foulest mouths on the playground are tweenagers

Neukulturny children raised by neukulturny parents. Not a surprise. I work in a big city and I see it here all the time.

That's the age where they're actively willfully learning to swear . . . it doesn't have much to do with the parents.

It's society expectations as much as anything.

And if you think your kids are different . . . they're just pretty good at hiding it from you.

--FreeFlier