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Katherine has Mom Voice.

Jet has Girlfriend Stare

Both excellent for dealing with childish rants.

The Legendary Stare of Truth.

--FreeFlier

'SEVENTEEN YEARS OF NIFTY DARN COMICS'... Oopsie wrong comic but Happy Anniversary and here's to many more!

I wonder if the significant other stare is the precursor to the mom voice.

oldmanmickey wrote:I wonder if the significant other stare is the precursor to the mom voice.

Nah.One does not necessarily portend the other - and Mom Voice most people don't realize is non-gender-specific. Call it Parent Voice if you will, but you develop it when you need it do deal with unruly offspring.

I can count on the fingers of one handthe number of times I had to invoke Middle Name on my daughter - and I don't remember ever getting to the point of using all three names. No yelling, no screaming, no histrionics required.

It's a modification of Command Voice - similar but not exactly the same.

When I was in high school and college, we found it interesting to note who reacted to parent voice and who didn't . . .

Admittedly, I suspected that a few of the non-reactors didn't react because they'd never done anything to call for it . . .

Oh, and parent voice can be unvocalized . . . I knew deaf people (who normally didn't speak because of that) who could do parent voice in sign language.

--FreeFlier

Looking at the last panel, i bet that if i had the energy to do an archive crawl, i could find at least one example of Cricket giving Monica that exact sullen face.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Looking at the last panel, i bet that if i had the energy to do an archive crawl, i could find at least one example of Cricket giving Monica that exact sullen face.

mmm . . . I don't think so . . . Cricket knew she was "effed up" and it scared her.

--FreeFlier

Cricket DID make that face, I'm just not sure it was at Monica.

We are sure Pickle has made that face too...