Wapsi Square Forum

It reminds me of a story told at a nearby convent. One of the elderly sisters was getting dementia, and so they reversed the doorknob on her door so she would not go wandering around without someone to watch her. One day the mother superior accidentally locked herself in with the sister, and began ...

For the overly idyllic vegetarian, may I suggest reading "The Desert Year" by Joseph Wood Krutch. A naturalist and philosopher wandering the Southwestern US, one topic he touches isthe struggle for life of desert flora with that of the rainforest. The battle of plant vs plant is every bit...

It occurs to me that Monica has been accepting the mythical beings in her life like someone walking through the zoo, observing the bears and lions and noting only their beauty. Today's reaction is the scream of someone who's just noticed there are no bars between herself and the apex predators all ...

Sphinx probably tastes like cat. Never eaten one. Ask someone from China and related countries. As for a litter box - remember, they're desert animals. They have BIG sandboxes. but if they have eagle wings.... wouldn't they also taste a bit like chicken? and if they have human torsos, then the flav...

:!: And come to think of it - cleaning out that pan could be like one of the tortures of Hades! Remember Tantalus and the guy who had top roll a huge rock up hill forever?!?!?! Would you use the regular size scoop or a large economy sized one? Having 4 enthusiastic cats like I do, the kitty-pan cle...

Dave11 wrote:

Wapsi wrote:(edited by Bookworm. Assumption that Sphinx don't flow slowly)

The edit comment is full of win and covered in awesomesauce.

But no molasses. Because then it would be viscous.

Well, we've heard sphinxes described as the apex predators of the paranormal. I guess we're seeing why they have that reputation. ... Hadn't foreseen cannibalism, either. Grisly, and gristly. Greek mythology is pretty much a charnel Chik-fil-a. But Paul has been building to this for some time. I es...

NOTDilbert wrote:Oh, come on! NO ONE has made a 'splitting headache' joke yet?

I didn't think of that one. I was more thinking of "She moves up the pecking order; it's natural to feel peckish."

[drops in the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked.]

Could that have been a demon? If sphinxes have them? For what it's worth, the horns resemble those of the goat-headed sphinxes thst Connie was portrayed facing down in the Time Forest. Phix has described herself as being the low sphinx on the totem pole; this might be one of the other apotropaic sp...

Hi--I'm bmonk, and I drifted over here over the last four or so years.

Well, that's one way to say "Chill out, Monica!" and have it stick, I suppose... Icy what you did there. *clunk* I must be glacial today. I was pretty slow in seeing what phrase you were turning. Even though you made it crystal clear. Hope it doesn't bite me in the . . . chin. [drops in a...

Hmmm. Take one blood feud, simmer for millenia, reopen wound and stir. Yep - one hell of a recipe. For what, however, I'm not sure. Is it possible that immortality ultimately makes you stupid? As in unable to learn (vs. unwilling)? I think that's been a theme in several series I've read. Nathan Bra...

jwhouk wrote:PUN JAR! NOW!

Do you have a pun jar angst?

(Would that be a Pungst?)

Drops in a quarter eagle, just in case.
In this case, a small hippogriff.

I'm thinking I started with 9 Chickweed Lane, which led to Pibgorn, both being by Brooke McEldowney, and that led to the Pibgorn comments, populated by certain comic addicts, who posted their lists or favorites--and eventually I got hooked here.

A confusion corner would need to be a discussion board all of it's own. No thread could hold it all and be even partially readable. I started this one just for a place to discuss what happened during the week comments were disabled on the strip before this forum came active. I am glad I did but let...

Well, that was an interesting way to fish for a guy. And here is a gift for the forum. ... Ummmm, I hate to mention that when I tried to make my payment recently, I found your nice box had exploded from the variety and quantity of items in it. I suspect we need something like that, only about 5 met...

And, fortunately for all concerned, the Pun Jar doesn't suffer from "lacked us" intolerance. If it had, the sudden eruption through its new portal into this forum would have been unpleasant. Ummm, Dave, I hate to mention that you seem to be being followed by a gaping, hungry maw for that ...

Can fish vomit? My son is lactose intolerant, and that's what milk does to him... I didn't know, so I googled the question, and found this article title: "Pukalide, a widely distributed octocoral diterpenoid, induces vomiting in fish" I still don't know what it takes to induce it, but I c...

Alex_H wrote:Nicely done!... Is it bad that my family has a family portrait done in just this style?

Only if you have big-racked pixies and assorted supernatural creatures in your family also.

Well, at least everything came out okay for the little guy... *deposits two dinar into the pun jar* You know, we never did decide what happened to the pun jar after the comments were disabled... I'd opine that, since the Pun Jar already had opened into a capacious Escheresque Hammerspace, it was ab...