I also refuse to “get out” or “live it up” under any circumstances
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Rex Morgan, M.D., 1/9/25
I regret to inform you that we are almost to the end of week one of “Kelly is in college, now” and it appears we never did make our way out of the phone talking part of the storyline. But I do think today’s strip has an nice message about how much better Summer and Kelly get along now that she’s out of her rebellious phase. Back then, Kelly was very dismissive about her mother’s “dumb boyfriends,” but now she’s like “Mom, I’m not at home anymore, so shouldn’t you be using the opportunity to, I dunno, have more sex? Just a suggestion. Welp, gotta go!”
Curtis, 1/9/25
Today’s Curtis is a repeat — you can tell because Curtis isn’t wearing the streamlined new hat he got as a gift in 2018 — and I’m pretty sure it may date to before I even started doing this blog. That’s because I can’t find any evidence I talked about it when it first ran, and maybe I’ve become a different person over the years, but I find it hard to believe that at any point in my long life of reading the comics so you don’t have to I would’ve neglected to note that Greg thought of his ample posterior as being in a monogamous sexual relationship with his chair, and his butt and the chair have sex, and are in love, and we’re left to speculate on the mechanics of both types of interaction. I feel like I would’ve talked about it! It’s a lot.
Pluggers, 1/9/25
“Oh Lord, I started out the day with good intentions, but then I got out of bed and, as usual, that’s when it all went wrong! So much blood! So much killing! If You didn’t want me to maul and maul and maul, why did You make me a bear with such powerful claws?”
108 replies to “I also refuse to “get out” or “live it up” under any circumstances”
Pluggers – The problem is this bear stayed in bed so long that he obviated the need to shit in the woods once he got up.
Curtis: Diane threw away the old chair because it kept getting those weird sticky stains and the fabric was getting strangely stiff.
RMMD-“Me and some girls are going to eat ice cream too and make a movie.”
FC-That’s what Chicken Little gets for scaring her neighbors.
Pluggers are so far towards the anthro end of the scale that they don’t maul. It’s barely a week into January; do they even hibernate?
Now I want to do an archive binge to see if Andy Bear has ever eaten honey.
This year’s Kwanzaa story is about a man’s hinder and his magic chair? That tracks, but it could use more telepathic otters.
Pluggers stuck to a strong Calvinist interpretation of predestination: whatever their intentions, they cannot escape their natural compulsion to sin and sin — non posse non peccare.
RMMD: Ding dong!
“Who’s there?”
“Man of your dreams, who you will initially resist, until it becomes impossible and you succumb to starry-eyed bliss, like a good woman.”
MW: Silly me, I’d hoped Dawn would get up from that head smash with a super power. Like minimal common sense.
Curtis’ dad is ranting all about the monogamous relationship of his butt with his chair while his butt is cheating on his living room chair with a kitchen chair! That ass is a whore!
“Ice cream and a movie are all I want these days.” And a vibrator, of course, but they both know this so there’s no need to spell it out
RMMD: The complications that come with dating? Like what? When your significant other doesn’t love “Muddy Boots” quite as much as you do? The boring douchebags of Glenwood have the most conflict-free romances ever seen in fiction. The closest thing this comic has had to relationship problems in years is when Truck sulked for fifteen minutes after spilling coffee in Wanda’s diner.
DT: Sure is handy that this colonel is randomly dispensing all this information that just so happens to be relevant to the case. Well, that was the intent, at least. I’ve talked before about how inefficient strangling is as a murder method back when we saw him actually do that to Sprengstoff, but this is even worse. I don’t care how proficient you claim your character is at unarmed combat techniques; this is the absolute worst depiction of a rear naked choke I’ve ever seen. The left hand placement is wrong (should be on the back of the head), the choking arm angle is extremely wrong (you want to create an isosceles triangle that puts forearm and upper arm pressure on each carotid artery), and worst of all it’s over the chin (obviously it needs to be under). This isn’t an expert’s lethally dangerous choke technique, this is just a mean-spirited hug.
JP: Judge Parker doesn’t do courtroom scenes (supposedly because Mike Manley finds them boring to look at), so instead it’s up to Sam and Yelich to litigate Ann’s case themselves in this visually thrilling diner. That’s the only way I can account for the purpose of this baffling conversation. Everything coming out of Sam’s mouth is pure horseshit, as well. I had hoped Marciuliano hadn’t mentioned self defense until now because even he realized how stupid that would be to even bring up, but as always the bar can never be low enough. This case was never going to see trial, anyway. My prediction at present is that some third party, probably Harrison or someone related to him, will tip their hand by ineptly trying to target Ann or Sam or something, and then it will quickly come out that they’re somehow the real killer; few-to-none of these revelations will concord with what we were told before about Don’s death.
RMMD:
“Have meaningless conversations with that vacuous legendary king of Pylos from the Iliad, Mom! Get out and live it up — enjoy that ’empty Nestor‘ status!”
Kelly’s mom is right not to take risks. One wrong swipe right and you end up in a date with a scammer or, worse, with Wilbur!
RMMD:
“Why are you sitting around the house, Mom?”
“It’s too dangerous otherwise, sweetie. As you can see from the interface between our first and second panels, there’s a fierce electrical storm out there!”
RMMD: A medical story about Summer’s weight gain due to depression and loneliness would be relevant for an aging readership but…no, that would be interesting.
The bear is looking up at that Curtis strip above him on the blog, and saying what we’re all thinking.
RMMD:
“I went out a couple of times with a guy whose work involved using radioactive isotopes to determine the age of objects, but he was wedded to his profession and so the relationship never really progressed beyond the carbon dating phase!”
Have we considered whether Rusty is the bastard son of Curtis’ dad? I know he looks white, but he could be an albino or Curtis dad could have the reverse of what Michael Jackson had. What I mean is, they both cry tears of melted flesh!
Pluggers: When you have an enlarged prostate, that first urination of the morning is not something to look forward to.
—And a tip o’ the hat to Tom ‘Notorious BPH’ Calvert of Dallas, Texas.
No, see, Gregory is upset because that char is the only place he was comfortable shitting.
MW: For a second I was almost impressed that Dirk made a pop culture reference instead of just calling Dawn “Blindgirl,” but then I realized that he only made it because Moy is obsessed with Stevie Wonder, as demonstrated by the endless mentions of him in the Keith Hillend arc. So no, actually. No points for Dirk.
JP: I remember when I was actively taking photos as a Public Affairs Airman that one of the most difficult things to document was when the General had breakfast with the enlisted members. You want to get that shot of the leadership showing warm concern for their issues or the junior members stoically talking about their jobs and home lifes, but you want to avoid that awkward pose of someone talking with their mouth full or about to take a big spoonful of glop, precisely like we see with Yelich today in Panel 2.
Any PA NCOIC worth their salt would immediately ask ‘didn’t you get anything better than that?’
MW: Zap him back, Dawn! Call him ‘Jay Leno’!
Josh – I hope you aren’t at risk from the fires in LA. Best wishes.
Pluggers: The caption didn’t fit on my screen at first. All I saw was a fat Plugger saying “Ugh” while struggling to get out of bed, which is as succinct a summation of Pluggerdom as any I’ve seen.
Mary Worth: all dawn wanted was to not be called Stevie Wonder ,but I guess she’s stuck with this vanilla thunder
Curtis: Edogawa Ranpo wrote an extremely effective horror story once called The Human Chair. Not the sort of thing I want to be reminded of by the funnies in the early morning.
RMMD – Who said anything about dating, Summer? There are lots of ways to get out of the house and live it up. I hope you’re at least going to enjoy a premium ice cream. Something in a Haagen Dazs or Ben & Jerry? See, that would have been funny, to refer to your boyfriends Ben and Jerry. Sitcom 101 Funny, but still…
@Lauralot: Amazing story! He’s a great, fucked-up writer!
Curtis: Curtis really missed the opportunity to pivot the strip to be about a newely divorced dad who has to navigate raising two children and a new marriage to a chair that’s dubiously legal at best
@Ettorre: Junji Ito also made a manga adaptation that was even more terrifying!
FC: Jeffy enjoys Thel’s annual ritualistic slaughter of their pet chicken from the previous Easter.
Oh shit. Mud Mountain Murphy is single, isn’t he?
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I hope Tom Calvert gets as much pleasure from the bear man looking directly at his name and saying “Ugh” as I do.
Fifty years ago, Congress considered a proposed one-year emergency tax cut for low and middle income persons while Sluggo compared his impoverished living arrangements to Rollo Haveall’s. In other economic news, Hagar did his bit by consuming vast quantities of wiffleberry wine.
The Coalition of Labor Union Workers sought a larger role for women in union activities. Meanwhile, Juliet Jones’s sister Eve had a testy exchange with a tech bro.
Curtis: Hey Greg! There is a dating simulator videogame in development, where you’re in a house where literally EVERYTHING inanimate takes on a human form for you to date. Including living room chairs. Go nuts!
MW – The ellipsis after “Hello” suggests that Dirk is doing a “Seinfeld” bit. Name-calling and dated pop culture references – you’ve got yourself a winner there, Dawn.
Plugger tip for starting the day: Always exit the bed on the side closer to where you sleep. Do not attempt to contort your corpulent body and crawl to the other side. Things never go right when you get up on the wrong side of the bed.
BF: You can’t fool us, Blonde Friend — we know you Brazilian wax your mustache.
(In groundbreaking comic strip news: first acknowledgement of the existence of pubic hair)
JP: Yellich is eating his oatmeal with a fork. 8AM and he’s drunk already.
Rex Morgan, MD – Usually its the parents that see their child go off to college and feel conflicting emotions about whether they will be having sex safely vs. remembering the fun they had having sex in college. But Gen Z isn’t having sex, and Kelly is merely taking an academic interest in her mother’s love life.
Curtis – Greg’s chair made have been designed for merely one person to sit on instead of two, but it was a love seat, damnit!
Pluggers – I share Andy Bear’s feelings of dread when waking up and reading about Tom Calvert from Dallas, Texas
RMMD I wasted a little time trying to see if I could imagine my mid-twenties son saying “Enjoy that ‘empty nester’ status “, then realized I couldn’t imagine anybody saying it.
JP: “Because all she’s known the last several years is running!”
“Uh, sorry, but what the flaming hell is that supposed to mean?”
“Hell, I don’t know. I just wanted to make some dramatic pronouncement that would be perceived as clever and one that would have been accompanied by one of those musical stings if we were on television.”
“Well it didn’t work. We done here?”
I’m skipping today’s Dennis The Menace, because jroggs’ knowledge of real-world choking techniques has to be the most menacing thing in the comics today.
MW – Dawn’s masochism matches her S&M collar. Girl does know how to accessorize.
MW: Just start calling him “Assholeboy.” On the other hand, he might like that, so love it or leave it.
GT: Gil softens up someone to fill in while Beth is working the night shift.
MW – I’d go with “Micropeen!” Dirkhead definitely wouldn’t like that.
RMMD – RMMD code – House Dating All Say – promiscuous houses are the social challenge of 2025….
Curtis – Some where out there where dreams come true – like farting in a threadbare barcalounger. Dream big dad – dream big….
Pluggers – Well…it doesn’t help when you wake up to find you shit the bed in the night. Ugh. Ugh, indeed….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
MW: ooooooh ok I get it now. Dawn can’t see how “gorgeous” meathead is, so now she can “see” the real meathead.
@Smokey Stover: Fifty years ago a “tech bro” was the guy who came over to repair your radio.
Luann: Piro is being pursued by the police.
PBS: Pastis getting whiny about federal taxes is a sure sign he’s advanced to a higher income bracket. Pop another magnum of Champagne and pay what you owe, Stephan, us poor folk appreciate the roads, disaster aid, and National Parks.
Gil’s going to tap that ass, isn’t he?
Curtis: sounds like his dad’s ready to be vice-president.
Family Circular File: having just watched the miserable 2005 Disney computer-animated flick, the melonhead wants to terminate its title character with Most Extreme Prejudice. Simply killing this chicken ain’t enough; for this performance he deserves to be cooked, eaten, digested and excreted.
Having seen that movie myself, I wholeheartedly agree with the melonhead.
RMMD: Wow, the contrast between Kelly and Summer in 2025 vs 2011 is striking!
6 CX:. It might just be the coloring on my phone and smudges on my screen, but those peeps look ghastly today. Like they were supposed to be covered with chocolate but someone usedsludge instead. I hope those actors are being well compensated for their humiliation. If they’re in-house talent, can we connect them to a good lawyer?
Don Abundio, translated:
“I’m taking a bus to visit one of my girlfriends”
[Sign: BUS STOP]
“Why a bus? Don’t you need to impress these gals with your wealth?”
“That’s what I’m doing…”
“I just bought and privatized the city’s whole transit system!”
Just wait to the melonhead discovers the boiled bunny courtesy of one of Bil’s one-night hookups.
@jroggs: Judge Parker doesn’t do courtroom scenes (supposedly because Mike Manley finds them boring to look at), so instead it’s up to Sam and Yelich to litigate Ann’s case themselves in this visually thrilling diner
Of all the terrible and lazy creative decisions that the JP makes (and lord knows there’s a new one every day, almost as if they’re in a contest with “Mary Worth” and “Funky Crankershat”) their insistence that courtroom scenes are boring but people sitting around a diner (or, for variety, a breakfast nook) are not may be the most incomprehensible. I mean, for the love of all that’s holy, it would take Manley about five minutes to turn the counter top into a trial table and the booths into a jury box.
@Her Father, John Darling: JP: Don’t try to get Manley out of his comfort zone.
Red Morgan, M.D.: That “I don’t have time for the complications that come with dating” thing really swooped in out of nowhere. All Kelly suggested was to go have some fun. It’s possible go to an ice cream parlor and a movie without dating, isn’t it? She is right to hang up fast: suggesting “Maybe join a book club?” might’ve gotten her mother responding “If you think I’m going to strip naked in a bar and drink Drambuie out of some fat guy’s navel. . .”
RMMD. Summer soon gets more than she bargained for when she discovers that “Ice Cream and a Movie” is not the same thing as “Netflix and Chill.”
Rex Morgan: “Man, remember when I had an actual personality, mom? Thank God that Doctor Morgan lobotomized those nasty independent thoughts and feelings out of me for you!”
Curtis: The actual way you can tell this is a repeat is because it’s funny, which Curtis hasn’t been in over a decade at the least.
Pluggers: If you hate your life so much you wish you could live in a state of permanent somnolence rather than having to wake up and actually exist… you might be a Plugger.
MW: Dawn is the first woman who didn’t punch pretty boy the instant he opened his mouth.
SF: My wife informs me that ‘Reeky’ Rat is a nickname, and his birth name is Rico Rat. If I have learned anything from old movies, he has a brother who’s a priest, ‘Brother’ Rat, and another who’s the DA, Theodore ‘Trade’ Rat. Finally there’s Reeky’s favorite, Ronald ‘Raunchy’ Rat. Their sisters don’t count as they are too busy giving them nieces and nephews.
Luann: If I know Piro, Luann’s bedroom will seem to him like a miracle of neatness and organization.
Marvin: what’s really interesting is that even though Marvin is stealing from “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” that comic has a fun fact about pooping today. “ON AVERAGE, MOST MAMMALS – INCLUDING HUMANS, ELEPHANTS, AND CATS – TAKE LESS THAN 20 SECONDS TO POOP.”
9CL: Rape runs in the family.
love is… when you discover you can crash cars with your mind!
Plug: Gee I hate to admit it, but the older I get, the more this speaks to me.
MARY WORTH: Dawn: “Well then, I’m only going to be your Part-Time lover then. Goodbye!”
@Handsome Harry Backstayge, Idol of a Million Other Women: @ectojazzmage: Oh, Rex lobotomized both Kelly AND Summer back in the day, using the approved Rosemary Kennedy icepick-through-eye-cavity method. Because Summer’s former go-to date procedure was stripping naked in a bar and drinking Drambuie out of some fat guy’s navel.
Dennis the Menace: In what context would an octogenarian woman be talking to her 5 year old neighbor about the cursor on a computer screen? Was she finally deciding to read a book about basic computer lingo? How surprised was she that a computer mouse is not an actual living rodent?
Beetle Bailey: I guess the soldiers at Camp Swampy are training to be deployed to Antarctica where they will immediately freeze to death.
Family Circus: Jeffy is supposed to be 3 years old and I’m wondering if these people have actually met a 3 year old because they do not speak that well.
Fred Basset Spanish to English.
@jroggs: On DT, choice of responses:
(a) Very knowledgeable on strangling techniques. Do you “consult”?
(b) 1d6+STR modifier bludgeoning damage and target must make a CON Saving Throw or be Unconscious for 1d6 rounds.
Palurdeando: I can’t believe what I’m seeing here, nor that it’s in the Web version of my local dead tree news. I thought Marvin’s poop jokes were bad. This is a whole new level of awfulness.
Today’s Curtis will send editors racing to the Urban Dictionary page for “the stranger,” which will now henceforth refer to having sex with a chair that you’ve never sat in before.
@BarflyLS20: Wow, you made me look it up. Never knew that about The Stranger.
Meanwhile, in other news, today’s Beatoff Bailey made me laugh (unironically).
AAGGGHHHH: Ever wonder how scan codes are made?
@Lauralot: I don’t know much about horrifying chairs, but I do remember an old computer game, Monkey Island 2 where at one point the villain plans on killing the protagonist, by melting his skin off in acid then making a magical chair out of his bones which will scream in horror every time the villain sits on it.
This was the only game (out of six) in the franchise that the villain was genuinely threatening. He was played for mostly comedic relief otherwise.
FC: Well, Jeffy, “Chicken Little’s” catchphrase was “The Sky is Falling,” and from the looks of those large icicles outside the kitchen window, the ceiling might be falling in on you and Mommy…BECAUSE BIL NEGLECTED TO CLEAR THE ICE DAMS FROM THE GUTTERS AND NOW YOU’RE ALL GOING TO SUFFER!!!! (*whew!* That felt good!!)
I don’t know if Greg’s sexual relationship with his chair is established history, but Curtis’ sexual relationship with his bed goes back a long way: https://joshreads.com/2005/03/i-make-my-little-rule-and-i-break-my-little-rule/
@Bob Tice: #11
Aw, now you’re just “hectoring” us, Mr. T…
Pluggers: “Pluggers start the day with wood.” We stopped reading here.
@Bob Tice: #16
“But then I found an even more accurate dating site, ‘Pre-Cambrian Singles,’ and upgraded to Potassium-Argon!”
@Anonymous: #22
Ditto from all of us!
@White Rabbit: #70
Based on the dialog in the comic, I’m thinking maybe those are corks from wine/Champagne bottles? :-p
@Ukulele Ike: So, she’s met Wilbur?
I honestly found today’s Curtis pretty relatable. As a middle-aged man, I’ve come to understand the appeal of the “dad chair”, and how hard it is to throw it out and adjust to a new one.
Unlike Pluggers, which doesn’t know the difference between “experiences we all share” and “experiences we all share but have the good taste to keep to ourselves.”
@White Rabbit: Palurdeando and its Sunday sister Willy Black are the greatest funny papers disappointments of my life, after Mara Llave, Keister of Time.
@Guy Nerdlinger: Hopefully Junior isn’t operating under 3.5 edition rules when he kills people. Those grappling mechanics were incomprehensible.
Pluggers: A Plugger regrets eating so adventurously when they wake to see blast marks on the wall next to their bed.
CURTIS: Gregory: “And now my ass is a hoochie-couchie mama! I’m so ashamed! (sob)”
CURTIS (2): So it wasn’t a loveseat, it was a lustseat then?
CURTIS (3): So would Curtis’s dad spontaneously orgasm if Ricardo Montalban (or the ghost of Ricardo Montalban, depending on when this was originally created) whispered “soft corithian leather” into his ear.
JP: Wow, these two are both such idiots that Yelich is doing a better job of convincing me Ann might be innocent than Sam is! All he’s got is circumstantial evidence and “for all we know, there might have been a motive!” But all Sam’s got is “Okay, what if she did kill him, but he started it?”
MW: Okay, so we’re adding ableism into the mix. Is that enough for Dawn to dump him, no matter how hunky he is?
OTF: Ms Trellis’s inability to understand how running a company actually works (the HR department is working for you, in keeping workers satisfied that their complaints are being heard and therefore less inclined to quit and/or sue, which would be bad) was a lot funnier when it wasn’t clear that some real CEOs are equally confused about the difference between being CEO and being Supreme Dictator. And it wasn’t that funny then.
Peanuts Begins: Protip: If you’re a radio DJ and someone requests a record you don’t have, you can just ignore it! You don’t need to read out the request and then say “But we’re not going to!”
REX MORGAN M.D.: Kelly: “Geez mom, as a 50 year-old college student, I’m already taking the spot of ‘boring frumpy do-nothing sad-sack.’ Live a little and establish your own identity!”
Mary Worth – Dawn smacked into that door with enough force that she should be black and blue by now.
Moy sure loves Stevie Wonder. At least we don’t have to endure Dirk and Dawn singing one of his songs. Are twenty year olds even aware of him, other than “Who taught you how to park – Stevie Wonder?”
Rex Morgan – Already this promises to be boring, but there is something very positive about it – the phone conversation is not drawn with up chin views of mother and daughter.
Frazz – Wow – Caulfield is smugly superior to Frazz, brushing off the wisdom Frazz is trying to impart. I can’t deal with this. Oh, well, maybe it’s good to see Frazz getting a dose of his own smug medicine. Now he might see how he behaves toward his inferiors.
Speed Bump – This is sweet. Dogs are good.
@I speak Jive: The joke will be on us when it turns out they’re headed to Wilbur’s favorite karoke bar…
FG: Gee, Shark People are easily distracted. Unless “deep thunder” and “shuddering walls” customarily means “multiple breeches to hull and we’re all about to be crushed under tons of water pressure.”
@88 Horace Broon:on Peanuts Begins
You got to remember that this strip was written in the 1050’s when DJing was in its infancy. So I’m going to give this a pass.
@Sequitur: This was also during the payola era, so it’s possible that Frankie Yankovic’s label was simply taking good care of their star.
@93 Sequitur:
Uh, that would be 1950’s. I don’t think this had anything to do with William of Normandy.
MW: I had read a little about negging before this story started, but I had assumed that to be successful, negging would have to involve at least a minimal amount of strategy and finesse. This version is just insults accompanied by unpleasant hugging. I do feel a little sorry for Dawn, but mostly my pity is for myself, because I know I will follow this story no matter how icky it gets, and it is clearly heading downhill.
MW-“And I shall call you Limp Dick,” Dawn retorts.
@Activist: 6 CX:. It might just be the coloring on my phone and smudges on my screen, but those peeps look ghastly today. Like they were supposed to be covered with chocolate but someone usedsludge instead. I hope those actors are being well compensated for their humiliation. If they’re in-house talent, can we connect them to a good lawyer
Just count your blessings that Mary Lawton picked something as anodyne as a pigeon for you to bite the head off of, and not some wacky creative idea like Penis Peeps.
MW: I was today years old when I learned about negging.
@Sequitur: You got to remember that this strip was written in the 1050’s when DJing was in its infancy.
The Djing Dynasty in China came and went so quickly that most historians don’t even remember it.
The poetry of the late Djing period is some of the finest in all of Chinese literature.
By Yangtze and Han the mountains pile their barriers.
A cloud in the wind, at the corner of the world.
Year in, year out, there’s no familiar thing,
And stop after stop is the end of my road.
In ruin and discord, the Prince of Ch’in-ch’uan:
Pining in exile, the courtier of Ch’u.
My heart in peaceful times had cracked already,
And I walk a road each day more desolate.
Yeet!
— Atazhoon Leo, at M’il-ph’ord, c. 1087
@Ukulele Ike: 7/10 — no mention of medieval vendos or solo chariot dates…
Curtis: Is Greg trying to quit smoking? He has “substance withdrawal” written all over him.
RMMD: Having helped to establish that her mother is living the first act of a Hallmark movie, Kelly peaces out to do something more interesting, i.e. pretty much anything.
C-Shaft: It’s starting to look like the gang will be snowed in at the depot all weekend. Maybe we’ll get lucky and Crankshaft will be the first course at the Donner party.
DT: Given a general discharge for administering unauthorized noogies.
Dustin: This one makes no sense at all if you add “in bed” to the end.
MW: Dirk is such a dick that even Dawn is starting to notice, although we’re still far from the point where she does anything about it.
Phantom: My research tells me that Graham Norton’s show typically runs for half an hour. Thus we find the most obvious difference between him and the fictional Graham Vincent. If the other two guests got anything like what Neville Stokes is getting this show must drag on for at least three hours.
SFx: WHY DON’T THE MARTIANS HAVE A CAR SEAT FOR THEIR BABY?!?!?!
@Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol: The Chinese Empire never bothered to domesticate horses for chariot travel, having perfected the internal combustion engine by the mid-700s. The coin-operated vending machine, however, didn’t come along until nearly a half-century later. The first ones dispensed green tea, ginseng, and hot bird’s-nest soup.
— Uke, Pan-Asiatic Technology Scholar and Tuba Fixer
@Jake: Deep BF5 cut!
@Artist formerly known as Ben: Nah, they’ll eat Lena first, so they can joke about how everything she makes is inedible.
@The Breathtaking Bonehead Brothers: I’d like to meet a historian who does.