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(Deposits a tasty treat into the Pun Jar. Lemon grass and galingale and lime leaf.... yummy!)NOTDilbert wrote:The Pun Jar would like to speak with you about your account....Dave wrote:I think Paul may have decided against including such, in the Wapsiverse canon, out of fairness to the other paranormals.NOTDilbert wrote:They don't get LOCUSTS in Minneapolis, do they?
Wouldn't be cricket, you see.
1. She is not Baba Yaga. Baba means grandmother and she is nowhere that old. Also where is her hut with the bird legs. lol.Dave wrote:The lettering in her speech was accented in a way which makes me believe it's Cyrillic text, used in Russian and Ukrainian and related languages... in which case the pronunciation would probably be "kotenok", meaning "kitten" (I think it's a diminuative e.g. "little kitten" or "dear kitten" but my high school study of Russian was over 40 years ago).DilyV wrote:She called Monica Kotehok... has anyone ever figured out if there is a cultural or language reference there?
So, Lydia may well be of Russian extraction.
It's probably not all that likely that she's actually Baba Yaga but she might possibly be from the same clan? (shrug)
How are you so sure what her age is? I can't recall it ever being mentioned in the strip, one way or the other.zachariah wrote:1. She is not Baba Yaga. Baba means grandmother and she is nowhere that old. Also where is her hut with the bird legs. lol.
I respectfully disagree.2. It is not written in Cyrillic. To write this in Cyrillic requires different letters then are used. Even writing it in english needs to use other characters, such as 4 or 6 to represent sounds that do not match the english alphabet. So it is spoke, and written in English.
Correct about Bulgaria and Russia. Incorrect (backwards) about Greece. The Cyrillic alphabet was based on an older Greek alphabet (and several Slavonic scripts), not the other way around.3. Cyrillic began in the Bulgarian empire and was adopted by the Russians and others including Greece.
Covered with sugar-coated birdseed sprinkles!PermanentStudent wrote:Something tells me that Atsali will have something waiting for her at Lydia's...
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/the-donut-test/
as well as the fact, that in the comments surrounding the comic's posting date, i am pretty sure that Paul flat out said she was Russian, AND, i know for certain that he said the font used in the comic was his style for her accent... and if i remember correctly, he also said that she was NOT a paranormal... though that memory could be false... it HAS been a while...zachariah wrote:1. She is not Baba Yaga. Baba means grandmother and she is nowhere that old. Also where is her hut with the bird legs. lol.Dave wrote:The lettering in her speech was accented in a way which makes me believe it's Cyrillic text, used in Russian and Ukrainian and related languages... in which case the pronunciation would probably be "kotenok", meaning "kitten" (I think it's a diminuative e.g. "little kitten" or "dear kitten" but my high school study of Russian was over 40 years ago).
So, Lydia may well be of Russian extraction.
It's probably not all that likely that she's actually Baba Yaga but she might possibly be from the same clan? (shrug)
2. It is not written in Cyrillic. To write this in Cyrillic requires different letters then are used. Even writing it in english needs to use other characters, such as 4 or 6 to represent sounds that do not match the english alphabet. So it is spoke, and written in English.
3. Cyrillic began in the Bulgarian empire and was adopted by the Russians and others including Greece.
Uh, no?zachariah wrote: 3. Cyrillic began in the Bulgarian empire and was adopted by the Russians and others including Greece.
It was developed to allow Christian texts to be written in Slavonic, which up until that time had no real alphabet of its own.Wikipedia wrote:Cyrillic is derived from the Greek uncial script, augmented by ligatures and consonants from the older Glagolitic alphabet and Old Church Slavonic for sounds not found in Greek. It is named in honor of the two Byzantine Greek brothers, Saints Cyril and Methodius, who created the Glagolitic alphabet earlier on. Modern scholars believe that Cyrillic was developed and formalized by early disciples of Cyril and Methodius.
In the "Mercy Thompson" books, Baba Yaga turns up once and she's carrying a cute little young girl/woman glamour, as i recall.Dave wrote:How are you so sure what her age is? I can't recall it ever being mentioned in the strip, one way or the other.zachariah wrote:1. She is not Baba Yaga. Baba means grandmother and she is nowhere that old. Also where is her hut with the bird legs. lol.
A lot of the paranormals in Wapsi Square are women who don't "look their age".
Mind you, I don't think she is Baba Yaga... but I don't see how you can be so absolutely dad-gum all-fired certain that she is not.
Well, I've heard when her robe is unfurled, she will show you the world!Fairportfan wrote:I still wonder where Lydia's tattoos are.
It's Atsali's vaunted smarts that's holding up a lot of updates. Has she corrected for there being no Year Zero or not?Mark N wrote:HeHe, I used the Wapsi chronology. It is not always up to date but it can help sometimes.Dave wrote:Clearly, Mark N's Kung Fu is strong!
(hey, I couldn't pass up that opportunity... it was standing there on the street, begging!)
But what about Andy Jackson?Hansontoons wrote:Well, I've heard when her robe is unfurled, she will show you the world!Fairportfan wrote:I still wonder where Lydia's tattoos are.
Obviously they were not fans of the Marx Bros.! Good ol' Groucho.Fairportfan wrote:But what about Andy Jackson?Hansontoons wrote:Well, I've heard when her robe is unfurled, she will show you the world!Fairportfan wrote:I still wonder where Lydia's tattoos are.
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I knew a woman who owned a comic shop in Huntsville. It was named "Tattooed Lady".
A bunch of younger types wondered where her tattoos were, since they certainly didn't show.
A friend and i guessed, before we met her, that her name was Lydia.
The younger guys wondered how we knew.
Only if you stand up and tell her where.Hansontoons wrote:Well, I've heard when her robe is unfurled, she will show you the world!Fairportfan wrote:I still wonder where Lydia's tattoos are.
On the one hand, yes. The "need" for bras is cultural, and you can be healthy without one.Atomic wrote:<wet_blanket>
Even so, it's worth mentioning that women (and sirens) the world over have done just fine without brassieres for millennia. They're not a health item, they're a fashion item - like corsets, bustiers, and so on. Breasts form, fill, and settle on the ribcage with maturity, and the desire to hang 'em high is cultural. I hope part of Monica's guidance includes helping Atsali accept her new form and become independent, rather than becoming dependent on artifice to meet some social fashion.
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Not to mention that the larger the breasts the more gravity will pull them down in time without help.Julie wrote:On the one hand, yes. The "need" for bras is cultural, and you can be healthy without one.Atomic wrote:<wet_blanket>
Even so, it's worth mentioning that women (and sirens) the world over have done just fine without brassieres for millennia. They're not a health item, they're a fashion item - like corsets, bustiers, and so on. Breasts form, fill, and settle on the ribcage with maturity, and the desire to hang 'em high is cultural. I hope part of Monica's guidance includes helping Atsali accept her new form and become independent, rather than becoming dependent on artifice to meet some social fashion.
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On the other hand, with jugs that size, assistance in distributing the weight load across the shoulders is kind of necessary. Mine aren't as big as M's (or Atsali's I'd wager), but I can say that as a FF (who used to be a GG) I feel uncomfortable without my over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder. It's not just a matter of how I look or what people will think when they see me either. It's the skin-on-skin sensation of hanging breasts (which my husband nicknamed my space-heaters...so imagine how warm that could get)...for someone who is so warm that skin-on-skin is avoided at the cost of rarely ever wearing skirts or dresses, that's an important factor, though admittedly one that may not apply to all chesty women. However, there's also the fact that my posture is harder to maintain without a bra, which results in a sore back (and my mother would also say that poor posture can lead to developing a hunched back...which may or may not be a legitimate health concern). Granted, posture can be maintained without the assistance of a foundation garment, but it's a whole heckuva lot easier to sit up straight when the large masses on your front side aren't pulling you down.
Until, eventually, you can tuck them into your waistband and do away with the bra.Mark N wrote:Not to mention that the larger the breasts the more gravity will pull them down in time without help.Julie wrote:On the one hand, yes. The "need" for bras is cultural, and you can be healthy without one.Atomic wrote:<wet_blanket>
Even so, it's worth mentioning that women (and sirens) the world over have done just fine without brassieres for millennia. They're not a health item, they're a fashion item - like corsets, bustiers, and so on. Breasts form, fill, and settle on the ribcage with maturity, and the desire to hang 'em high is cultural. I hope part of Monica's guidance includes helping Atsali accept her new form and become independent, rather than becoming dependent on artifice to meet some social fashion.
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On the other hand, with jugs that size, assistance in distributing the weight load across the shoulders is kind of necessary. Mine aren't as big as M's (or Atsali's I'd wager), but I can say that as a FF (who used to be a GG) I feel uncomfortable without my over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder. It's not just a matter of how I look or what people will think when they see me either. It's the skin-on-skin sensation of hanging breasts (which my husband nicknamed my space-heaters...so imagine how warm that could get)...for someone who is so warm that skin-on-skin is avoided at the cost of rarely ever wearing skirts or dresses, that's an important factor, though admittedly one that may not apply to all chesty women. However, there's also the fact that my posture is harder to maintain without a bra, which results in a sore back (and my mother would also say that poor posture can lead to developing a hunched back...which may or may not be a legitimate health concern). Granted, posture can be maintained without the assistance of a foundation garment, but it's a whole heckuva lot easier to sit up straight when the large masses on your front side aren't pulling you down.
Ewwie!Fairportfan wrote:Until, eventually, you can tuck them into your waistband and do away with the bra.Mark N wrote:Not to mention that the larger the breasts the more gravity will pull them down in time without help.
