Is it a bushbaby?
No one can idle with Claire on their case. She has a hummingbird’s metabolism and sees the world at twice the speed we do.
Now, here’s a reward for you just for sticking around. A bushbaby video. DId you know that bushbabies are primates? Well, you do now.
“primate” is also an honorific title given to some catholic bishops. Here for example is the Primate of All Ireland https://irishshopper.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1011
Right, that’s the sense meant here. Bushbabies are all bishops.
If they could fly they’d be Cardinals
Back in the 1800s my great great uncle (or some complicated relationship like that) was Primate of Borneo. My extremely Catholic mother does not appreciate the comedic potential inherent in such a position.
“Primate” basically means “first place”. The biological order of the primates was named such because, being the group we humans belong to, it had to be the loftiest of all Creation.
With recent human DMT intake, it’s certainly lofty in the sense of ‘high’.
I don’t believe I have ever heard or seen “flannel” used as a verb before. A quick Google tells me it is a synonym for “flatter.”
Now I know…
Yes, though if you’re flanneling someone you’re probably flattering them in order to draw attention away fromsomething rather than to improve their opinion of you.
Very Northern English. Especially Yorkshire.
Ah, I’d actually assumed it was a malapropism for “flatter” (and was a bit surprised since I didn’t think Claire had previously shown any indication of being prone to malapropisms). I didn’t realize it was an established regional usage; that makes more sense.
I don’t want to sound elitist but… that thing counts as a laptop?
It’s almost a full tower PC for Claire.
It looks exactly like my Surface Go 2 – even down to having the same colour keyboard! (I hope she also has the matching mouse and pen)
It clacks like a laptop, it looks like a laptop, it walks out of the coffeeshop like a laptop … and in any case it violates the spirit of the law. I am with Charlotte on this
First no more mysteries, now no more solving cases. Lottie’s crisis seems getting worse. But why??? I’m really worried for her. Good she has a fantastic friend like Claire.
I think there is an episode of The Goodies that features a (giant?) bushbaby
Technically isn’t that a bushadult?
I was going to say “adults are not giant babies”, but then I thought about a lot of adults I’ve known who disprove that idea.
The Goodies! I recall watching that show, uh, 40+ years ago.
There’s a giant kitten that wreaks havoc across London – including demolishing the Post Office Tower – but I cannot recall a giant bushbaby.
Kitten Kong (which I don’t think I’ve seen since the 1970s) apparently does feature a (normal sized) bushbaby as one of the patients at the Goodies’ animal clinic, before Twinkle is fed the growth mixture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitten_Kong
Any relation to the Holy Kitten in Lumberjanes?
I’m glad Claire is here to sort Lottie out. Though to be fair, she’s the one who told Lottie that her side hustle needed something to be to the side of in the first place.
I also enjoy the notion that she can identify Lottie’s handwriting just from a series of plainly printed ‘L’s.
And I like the piece of twilight sky that Lottie’s wearing as a shirt. I imagine the clouds drifting across it as time passes.
Does it count as a hack if Claire is looking at information that she has legit access to? Of course, the “Hack” sound effect could just be her digital version of “J’accuse!”
Je hack youse!
Yep, you know Lottie’s not in a good place when it’s Claire being a better sleuth. Also only Lottie could fill in a work schedule calendar with such panache. Also a sign that she’s using her barista job and side-hustle as crutches and forms of avoiding the world of real mystery she’s afraid to go back to.
also, perhaps she has become enamored with the degree of celebrity she has acquired as a hip bespoke barista – I see that she has a special shirt that we didn’t see when she left for work… it’s getting to her head!
I find myself starting to try to figure out exactly when Claire lithpth and when she doethn’t. That way madness, or madnethth, lies…ah, to Hell with it.
I don’t put every possible lisp in because it would be unreadable.
There has to be more to it than that, like the persistent rumours that Henry Kissinger’s German accent vanishes after two beers.
Claire’s lisp also vanishes whenever Henry Kissinger has had two beers.
It looks like Claire’s lisp creeps in during periods of high emotion.
That bushbaby in the video is cute but I take exception with the title: it is hardly “playing” with the ball. “Bushbaby Stares Incredulously at Ball” is more accurate.
I felt the same. He never gets his turn.
He got it at the end. Briefly.
He is attempting to move it with the power of his mind alone.
That’s how bushbabies subdue their enemies in the wild.
The Red Sox will probably sign him to replace Bogaerts at shortstop…
Nobody puts Bushbaby in the corner.
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I have built a small shrine to this comment in the corner of our living room.
A no laptop coffee house? supporting a world of getting coffee without people on laptops camping out on all the tables is arguably a higher calling than solving people’s problems.
See the comic of 28 July 2022: “Is there WiFi?” “Yes, but it is not for customers, who do not deserve it.” I presume Claire has a mobile data plan.
https://badmachinery.com/comic/very-bijou-solver-autumn-special-concludes/
That page also seems to clarify the “no laptops policy” Lottie refers to on the current page. It looks like it’s not so much an officially stated policy as it is something customers are supposed to be forced into by physical constraints. Claire’s flouting it by using an unusually small device.
I noticed a blue green haired young man looking at Claire in the previous week… looks like he is getting Claire’s number???
Looking on in admiration, wondering how she figured out the wifi password
Saturday’s and Sunday’s are still open. That’s prime side hustle time.
Based on previous information while Lottie might be a good solver her real passion is coffee. I wish her the best in that endeavor.