No real party
There you go. A royalty-free birthday song. Sing it to anyone and everyone you know. Always call them “Glenn”.
The Midnight Pumpkin was a real object of desire back in the nineties for Tamiya-heads. I wasn’t one, but my brother was. I looked up to see if you could still buy it, and you can. Apparently there hasn’t been a lot of progress in RC monster trucks. But I suppose, why mess with perfection. Rest assured that when I drew the Tamiya logo, under it, I wrote “TAMSTRAD”.
Note: that’s a “Crumhorn The Caterpillar” cake, the caterpillar cake available at Low Prix Convenience Shop. Other caterpillar cakes are available.
Costume night? Ooo. I wonder if Claire will be the Sexy Dray? One can hope.
Sexy broomstick. Didn’t you read the previous comic?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4FGW93j974
(I believe it’s canon that Grote is into this song)
Yes a very good song for Charlotte (and a very good song generally)
And Remi Wolf even wears a puffer coat in the video! Utterly canon.
Claire’s lisp coming and going there (pew, pew!)
So Lady S paid for Gllernm’s present on top of the solvers’ fee?
There’s definitely a family link there (unless there isn’t, of course)
Yeah, between the New Zealand flag in her memory, the fact that she seems so interested in him, and the fact that she said her sister’s name was Glinda, which is close to Glenn, it would be surprising if there didn’t turn out to be some sort of relationship there.
She doesn’t know Glenn, she just likes New Zealand.
Who doesn’t?
The scenery is amazing and there aren’t too many people and most of the people (maybe 51%) are tolerable
I don’t necessarily include myself in that 51%…
For me, all NZers gained extra tolerability points by association after I saw Jojo Rabbit.
Not a reference to the Ed Wood film Glen or Glenda?
I thought Happy Birthday was in the public domain. In the US, it’s in the public domain, and in the EU. Is it not in the UK?
Still, it resulted in Claire in a very cool guitar pose and Lottie marching with a fine caterpillar cake, so who cares?
The IP trolls that were claiming copyright on it finally lost in court in 2014, so it’s clearly in the public domain in the U.S. now. It was not for a long time.
It’s kind of unfortunate, really, because it’s a terrible song, especially when sung off-key by all your friends and relations with your name distorted to fit the limping scansion. It was nice when no one sang it on TV, at least.
(Now if only someone could do that for a certain barbarian…)
What, sing “Happy Birthday” to him?
Although, I suppose the birthday song we used to sing in my SCA days would be more appropriate for the Cimmerian.
May the candles on your cake
Burn like cities in your wake
It’s not that Happy Birthday is illegal to sing (or that bad really, unless your family can’t sing?) it’s that everyone now will refuse to sing it forever as an act of self-punishment to shame the copyright trolls.
During that time, I remember a few of the restaurant chains that offered a deal where they sing on your birthday just switched to singing some other birthday-related song, generally one that sounded even worse than the original would have. They inevitably picked something a little too musically ambitious for a group of people who were not professional singers. The original Happy Birthday Song is at least very simple.
The only thing worse than having “Happy Birthday To You” sung to you is having any (and frequently all) of the other happy birthday songs sung to you.
Happy Birthday entered public domain in the USA on January 1, 2015; and in the EU on the first of January, 2017. Since this was three years before Brexit became effective, the song entered public domain in the UK at this point too.
I am fascinated that something called Midnight Pumpkin is bright blue. But then I have never really been involved in the world of RC vehicles.
A bit of artistic license there. “The model was mostly black” per Wikipedia.
That’s the Tamiya version. The Tamstrad version is bright blue.
It’s a sort of late afternoon pumpkin.
Lottie got him a G, an L, an E, and two Ns. A rare gift to treasure.
Just not necessarily in that order.
Okay. It was one thing when Lottie used Glenn’s actual name a few pages ago, when Glenn wasn’t actually there to hear it. I know she’s used it occasionally, but I’ve never seen her use it quite so… joyously blatantly, I guess.
This is really nice, Lottie and Claire know how to make friends feel special and the dowager seems to have managed to get into their little family. I wonder what Glenn will dress up for the party.
That shuddering I felt – the universe itself QUAKED at Lottie getting Ygln’s name correctly TWICE in the same story!
It must be getting to the point for Lottie where it takes too much effort to come up with a garbled version of “Glenn” that she hasn’t used already.
“Hello, uh… [Robbie the Robot thinking noise] Glerb…”
I suspect that it’s more that Mildred’s ability to get Glenn to open up has caused Lottie to question whether her brand of teasing is really the best way to be friendly toward Glenn.
I suspect it’s more that Mildred getting Glenn to open up, coupled with Claire’s slightly suggestive Kit Kat revelation, have generated an unexpected spark of jealousy in Charlotte, so that now she’s (perhaps subconsciously) making a bit of an effort to suck up to Glenn, at least a little.
That’s… really not that different from what I said. And to the extent that they are different, they aren’t mutually exclusive in any way. mine looks more at the reasoning, yours looks more at the underlying emotion.
Time to split the Kit Kat, two fingers each, friends
It could be all 3.
Good evening, ladies and Germs…
I think Lottie and Claire unwittingly gave Glenn the best birthday present; a night of relative normalcy from his friends.
I watched Blazing Saddles the other night. The birthday song here goes well to the tune of The Ballad of Rock Ridge. At least in the way I sing it.
Wag, pew! Some strong finger action in this strip.
I do hope that Low Prix haven’t had to deal with any frivolous lawsuits over their caterpillar cake…
There have been several from rival caterpillars, I believe.
Some caterpillars do have crummy horns, and a rare few are even shaped a bit like a krummhorn (if you squint). And there are people who say that they are good to eat…? I, for one, do not mix sweet and savory.
I watched a Twitch facepainting stream a couple years ago where four English facepainters turned themselves into their favorite caterpillar cakes, and it felt more like being on acid than the time I was actually on acid.
This sounds like my kind of video and I say that as a committed non-druggist
Thank tou for explaining the cake. In Australia we do not have caterpillar cakes, we only have wombat and koala cakes which sounds like a joke about Australia but absolutely is not
I am delighted that that is the case
I’m sure that the koala cakes are of very high koala-ty.
Across the ditch we just have cakes that are …cakes
If you put a face on it we have no idea what it’s meant to be ( we’re just simple, farming folk)
What do you MEAN royalty free birthday song. I want CHORDS
The UK, reduced to caterpillar cakes and Cyprus based geno on the side.
My dad’s got a Tamiya Sand Scorcher – the Baja-style Volkswagen – which he painted to his own design. It’s not worked properly for a while though.