Your greatest unrealised ambition
I think this comic is the second visual reference in one of my pages to Super Pipeline 2. I can’t remember where the first occurred.
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New comics by John Allison
I think this comic is the second visual reference in one of my pages to Super Pipeline 2. I can’t remember where the first occurred.
So… who else just had to google “go ham”?
I’m living on the edge- trying to interpret it in context, without looking it up. Living dangerously. Imagine what could happen if someone I’d talking to uses the phrase some day!
Definitely heard that one in a theatre context before
My mental definition of the phrase involves Unseen University’s Librarian and someone who’s just called him a monkey.
It’s very common over here in the Yankee kingdom, and it’s indeed believed the phrase originated in America. We have lots of our own little verbal flourishes these days.
I’ve lived in the U.S. all my (longer than I care to think about) life, and I’ve never heard it before. Of course, it’s a big country, and a phrase can be common in some parts of the country and virtually unknown in others. Or among different subcultures, age groups, etc.
The phrase entered mainstream culture through Soulja Boy’s “Go Ham” in 2007. Hip hop! Youth culture. Stands for “hard as a mofo”. I know it’s been said among my peer groups for quite some time.
That’s the most common useage these days but is a backronym. “Going Ham” has been a term for long before that song – I grew up with it in Western Canada in the 80s and it absolutely just meant “going berserk or out of control with/on”
Regarding Yankeeland coinages of varying degrees of well-knownedness, my impression is that “yinz” is known (and often used) primarily in a very specific region, whereas “y’all” is another second person plural pronoun that is also regionally used, but more broadly known. (though sometimes “y’all” is singular, and you need to say “all y’all” to make it plural…)
I should probably stop now before I get accused of going ham on grammar.
I’ve heard “yinz”–also spelled “y’uns”, short for “you-ones”–spoken by only one person I’ve ever met, and he was from Kentucky.
THE HAMMEST. Going ham on that gram, make a brother say damn.
Yinz is a big Pittsburgh thing. In fact, “yinzers” has become slang for people from Pittsburgh.
I grew up saying “y’all” and “howdy”, then after living in England for a couple years, I now finding myself using “Cheers” and “Ta”.
Sometimes this is called “Ham mode”
Not to be confused with ham à la mode!
I lived with a millennial during COVID lockdown, so I learned the meaning pretty quickly.
My first encounter with this most excellent of terms was a link to this video, described as “a costumed mascot going absolutely ham on the drums.” https://youtu.be/-UYgORr5Qhg?si=js4PIq2vsyh9lYvz
It’s means to get cursed from seeing your father’s nakedness.
Monica looks so tired that even Lottie seems to be worried. Let’s hope Jeff will remember to cuddle her too.
She looks… resigned to me. Resigned to what, though?
Resigned to having a kid named Drusilla, would be my guess.
Disillusioned that Jeff is not the man she thought he was!
Oh… I thought Lottie’s expression was due to the firmness of the >GRIP< in that handshake…
Ditto
That was my interpretation also. I extrapolate that Lottie will have to face Monica in the upcoming fight and we’ll recall that Monica is a strong ‘un.
Glenn’s ambition is both wild and tame. A parking slab? Why not make a sculpture? (of a ham?)
Gotta get Shauna in on this and get some proper Brutalist architecture going.
Brutalism and concrete; a natural combination.
The former exists because of the latter!
Amazing – I’ve been in game design all my life and had never heard of Super Pipeline 2 before. Foreman Fred def lookin’ like he shop at the same trade shop that sold Mario his overalls.
Oh 1980’s, we miss you so.
Also, does that count as a Chibi-Lottie sighting?
I think it only counts if we don’t get an unambiguous CLS in this story.
That sort of implies that you had heard of Pipeline 1.
Not necessarily – I loved playing Road Rash II as a kid, long before it even dawned on me that Road Rash I existed.
I had to give it a good think, but I do believe I’ve got it.
I live in a cabin, within walking distance of the village, but just barely. They say I’m a holy man, but I just tend to my corner of the woods while bearded and let folk reach their own conclusions.
A few times a week, someone drops by with a small basket of farm products and a head full of worries. I give them advice and comfort as I can, and I send them on their way, their heart lighter going out than coming in.
Le sigh.
Can I sing to your cat?
I can never tell if Glenn/Glym/Glorm’s life ambitions sound quirky but quaint, or obsessive to the point of frightening.
Quaint to the point of frightening?
I’m surprised that anyone still wearing a coat within 50 yards of that fire isn’t sweating buckets.
It looks like the people too close to the fire are being burned away.
Disintegrating from the heat.
Boiling away.
They seem like nice people.
“Greatest unrealized ambition”?
I believe there are a number of assumptions within that question that are incongruous with my ultimate purpose in in life.
Glenn’s greatest ambition may have been realized, by a stranger calling him by his name for a change.
“And Claire? What’s *your* greatest unrealized ambition?”
She stares silently toward London, the bonfire’s reflection flickering in her eyes.
Dammit, you just had to go and mention Super Pipeline II… now that music will be stuck in my head again for the next three days.
You might also wanna check Killoffer’s “Viva Patamâch” for unknown and unprobable influences !