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Yeah - we gots a sticky door here, too. Annoying.

Nice to see Friday's sketch was canon to the story. Hope she finds some excitement.

And Kat's door is frozen shut by meltwater...

Ninja'd by Fairport by just seconds...

Does Oscar's guardian matter to the world?

Of course she does, and she'll certainly prove it. Nobody does it betta!

(drops a gold fiche in the Pun Jar)

"Am I making a difference - at my job, or even to the world in general?" Wish I had a nickel for every time THAT thought crossed my mind.

You matter to me, Kats. Though you might need some WD40 for the door...

The world would truly be a darker place without you, Kath - hang in there. You and Tina are my two favorites of WS. Which reminds me, I need to pick a print of Kath to put next to the one I got of Tina under the mistletoe.

All I could think of when the looking at the last frame was "Just be careful when that sucker finally breaks loose...".

Ow. Serious ow. Back of head impacting random furniture ow.

Al.

Getting the door open doesn't insure success...

Jabberwonky wrote:Getting the door open doesn't insure success...

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"Holy Shit Snacks"

donoho wrote:

Jabberwonky wrote:Getting the door open doesn't insure success...

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"Holy Shit Snacks"

I don't think you're going to pull a big market share with that product...

Re-post from Facebook: Then she sees the sign that reads "PUSH" on the door.

GreyWolf wrote:The world would truly be a darker place without you, Kath - hang in there. You and Tina are my two favorites of WS. Which reminds me, I need to pick a print of Kath to put next to the one I got of Tina under the mistletoe.

Sounds like a good idea - hope there are a few available.

Oh, Katherine -- there are armies of people drudging away at "small things" everyday, with turn out to have huge effects for everyone.

In the mid 1600s, after centuries of "The Dark Ages," some intellectual types (they could read!) started looking at old Latin texts squirreled away in nearby monasteries, and chatting/writing about them with others. By the early 1700s, you weren't in the know unless you were familiar with the ways and laws of the ancient Greeks and Romans -- which has shaped our world today.

In the early 1800s, a guy working on the leftovers you get when you cook coal (to make coke for smelting), fiddled with the coal tar. Nasty stuff. He discovered you could make a really good looking green dye with it - Aniline. Blue dyes were common, but this was new! Guess what favorite color fancy clothes were by the 1850s?

In the early 1900s, a school teacher and plant researcher worked on peanuts. He was looking for a food crop to augment the cotton crops common to the area. He eventually made Peanut Butter a common food, as well as over 100 other uses (dyes, paints, fuels, and more) for peanut products.

Basic research can be (and often is) dull as dirt. But, my dear, when somebody can connect your work with a larger picture, it can really take off! Maybe your friend Monica can take you back to that wonderful library so you can cross-reference some of your Egyptology research....

Jabberwonky wrote:Getting the door open doesn't insure success...

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I seem to remember that happening to Monica once, early in the strip. No doubt it's more common in Minneapolis than in some other places.

If the pet at the door had been a bull terrier rather than a cat, we'd really have something to talk about.

So, while I'm sure that her situation is one of "door frozen shut", all I could think of when I saw this was the day I got locked into my apartment and couldn't get out. The dead bolt had gotten stuck, and no amount of turning it would unlock the thing...and of course that's a lock you can only affect from inside the home, so no one could try and fix it from outside. I had to wait for the apartment maintenance staff to get in for the morning, then the guy who answered my call had to scale the staircase and building exterior to get to my third floor balcony and get inside. Kat's handling her situation with much more grace than I handled mine (I had a not-so-minor panic attack when I realized I couldn't get out...my claustrophobia is very situational).

In my defense, before my panic set in I did consider dismantling the door with my own tools to get out, but I didn't want to get in trouble for damaging apartment property or have to worry about leaving my home without a working door.

Wyvern wrote:

Jabberwonky wrote:Getting the door open doesn't insure success...

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I seem to remember that happening to Monica once, early in the strip. No doubt it's more common in Minneapolis than in some other places.

If the pet at the door had been a bull terrier rather than a cat, we'd really have something to talk about.

Yeah, once't or twice't...

Aw she got dressed.

Though I suppose if she's going outside, that's probably a good idea.

My adult son was trapped in the bathroom one time when the doorknob latch broke. The door opened inward, the screws for the doorknob were on his side, and he didn't have any tools inside that would have enabled him to take the hinges off. Adding to the problem was the fact that the bathroom window was painted shut and it was winter, so breaking the window to pass tools in was not an option.

I ended up drilling a series of holes around the doorknob and using a chisel to cut the entire latch mechanism out of the door to get him out, then later replacing the door.

All you needed to do was pass a single screwdriver under the door, not enough room for that?