You’re not thinking of the moment when Jack told Mildred he was worried she might be a dangerous nutter and ran away are you? There’s a certain echo there anyway!
I think it was in the Great British Bump Off – Quilt or be Quilted. The quilting mother of the kid Shauna likes says that about both her son and Shauna.
When using the Holy Hampernade, thou must repeat an uncommon phrase thrice. Thou shalt not repeat it twice without proceeding to the third repetition, nor shalt thou repeat it a fourth time. Five repetitions is right out.
I once saw an air duster can with a series of visual warnings.
The first showed that you shouldn’t spray the can into your eye.
The second showed that you shouldn’t spray the can into your ear.
The third showed that you shouldn’t spray the can into your ear with the can upside down.
Do you realize what that means? At some point, all of those warnings became necessary because somebody did them.
Furthermore, that means that at some point, somebody saw the “don’t spray the can into your ear” warning and though, “Well, it doesn’t show the can upside down…”
Well theoretically we should conspire to misuse an air duster can in in 20 more biszarre ways and than watch if theycan fit aditional 20 warnings on their can.
We repeat this until they are out of space and then threaten to go on until they reimburse us generously for our troubles.
The earliest chainsaws were for medical purposes to cut through bones, so that warning could very well be helpful in narrowing the anatomical areas of operation…
Yeah, we have to protect those American kids who might get scared of a cartoon snake printed on cardboard. It’s no wonder our society is going in the toilet.
The name “Chutes and Ladders” dates back to 1943. It’s specifically Milton Bradley’s variant of the game. Presumably, they renamed it at least partly for trademarking purposes, though apparently they also had the erroneous idea that children didn’t like snakes.
Poor Lottie. Bobby clearly hasn’t believed a word she said. And she had no idea she even HAD any legal problems until that last panel. I hope she doesn’t inadvertently offend Dean and bring the legal problems she didn’t know about right back to where they were.
Only one, I believe. It’s heavily implied, if not outright stated, that Ryan wore the same clothes from his first appearance in Bobbins on September 5th, 2001, until Shelley and Amy burned them in the October 1st, 2003 SGR strip.
Even if the tales are true, it’s a bit painful hearing someone rattle off the entirety of their life story from kindergarten up to the last syllable of recorded time. #IStoopWithBobby
Bobby has a point, Lottie is a troubled girl. Then he lose it because she’s too much even for Tackleford. Too bad, I liked him and kinda hope in his return. He’s also right on another thing, Lottie should see a psychologist.
In fairness, Lottie never adopted a fish person, owned a cursed moped, married the devil, got jilted by the devil, procured for a visiting robot dignitary, got murdered, headed a cult of satanic nuns, was a zombie, opened a portal of unknown provenance, got murdered by her necromantic computer or dated a selkie.
She’s pretty normal for Tackleford, just… intense and indiscrete.
I’m enjoying the thought that the question mark above Lottie’s head is not a stylistic flourish added by our brilliant artist, but somebody’s graffiti on the wall behind her.
Not a bad thing, really. Watching Bond (especially 60s and 70s Bond) with a newcomer today means fielding awkward questions in every third scene along the lines of “And you were somehow okay with this?”
There was another John Allison comic where the words “brazen fantasist” were uttered as I recall, but I can’t think of it right now.
You’re not thinking of the moment when Jack told Mildred he was worried she might be a dangerous nutter and ran away are you? There’s a certain echo there anyway!
https://scarygoround.com/badmachinery/?pg=1262#showComic
I think the editor of the Tackleford local newspaper aired similar grievances about Shelley turning her respectable publication into a penny dreadful.
I think it was in the Great British Bump Off – Quilt or be Quilted. The quilting mother of the kid Shauna likes says that about both her son and Shauna.
When you start repeating yourself, it’s time to retire. I hereby announce that the final page of this story will be the last one I ever publish.
I agree, so long as what you were repeating was “Goo goo g’joob.” “Brazen fantasist” ought to be used MORE often.
NOOOOOOOOooooooooooo
All right, how many hampers do we have to sacrifice at the Allison Shrine THIS time? And how many do we still have in the emergency stash?
We might need whatever is next in the progression above hamper.
Bring out the Holy Hampernade!
When using the Holy Hampernade, thou must repeat an uncommon phrase thrice. Thou shalt not repeat it twice without proceeding to the third repetition, nor shalt thou repeat it a fourth time. Five repetitions is right out.
Retire in peace, John, you had a good run.
Raising my whisky glass to John as the bagpipes play Amazing Graze.
Nice to see Mr Khan on the side of the common man. Big Ladder has had it their own way for far too long!
Look at his stern face, you can tell he’s not titting about.
Certainly not in a forest, anyway.
next level oblique reference!
are you a victim of a titting-around-on-ladders related injury? call Kahn & Kahn today!
The advisory label clearly says to not tit about on ladders. Iron clad defence.
Don’t be too sure.
I once saw an air duster can with a series of visual warnings.
The first showed that you shouldn’t spray the can into your eye.
The second showed that you shouldn’t spray the can into your ear.
The third showed that you shouldn’t spray the can into your ear with the can upside down.
Do you realize what that means? At some point, all of those warnings became necessary because somebody did them.
Furthermore, that means that at some point, somebody saw the “don’t spray the can into your ear” warning and though, “Well, it doesn’t show the can upside down…”
Well theoretically we should conspire to misuse an air duster can in in 20 more biszarre ways and than watch if theycan fit aditional 20 warnings on their can.
We repeat this until they are out of space and then threaten to go on until they reimburse us generously for our troubles.
Every product warning label ever represents a lawsuit. Even the possibly-apocryphal ‘Do not apply chainsaw to face or genitals’.
The earliest chainsaws were for medical purposes to cut through bones, so that warning could very well be helpful in narrowing the anatomical areas of operation…
Obligatory The Onion reference
https://theonion.com/cryptic-new-laundry-room-rule-hints-at-tale-of-bizarre-1819579613/
Don’t even get him started on scaffolding.
Better a brazen fantasist than a braised fantasist.
This interlude known as “Little Days” is all just to get them on that ferry wasn’t it?
God I hope so
I see what you did there, Dean
Yay for day drinking!
Also, no ladder is innocent indeed – especially where stockings are involved
Ladders don’t kill people. Clumsy people do.
Ladders don’t kill people, but snakes do.
“Oh chute. I was aiming for a ladder but landed in a pit of adders!” – Paid testimonial from a real client, not an actor.
By the way, ‘Snakes and Ladders’ is known as ‘Chutes and Ladders’ in the US
I still have my one from the 1960s…
But we’ll let that slide.
Yeah, we have to protect those American kids who might get scared of a cartoon snake printed on cardboard. It’s no wonder our society is going in the toilet.
The name “Chutes and Ladders” dates back to 1943. It’s specifically Milton Bradley’s variant of the game. Presumably, they renamed it at least partly for trademarking purposes, though apparently they also had the erroneous idea that children didn’t like snakes.
“I don’t like spiders and snakes…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOs1w3zzWCQ
It was a shame Ladders on a Plane never got made. That would have been a great sequel.
Your loss Bobby, and a big one at that!!
She’s a puffer, he’s a hoodie, it never would have worked.
I dunno about that. I suspect Bobby’s brain would have burst if he actually lived in Lottie’s life for even a fortnight.
Poor Lottie. Bobby clearly hasn’t believed a word she said. And she had no idea she even HAD any legal problems until that last panel. I hope she doesn’t inadvertently offend Dean and bring the legal problems she didn’t know about right back to where they were.
tbf, I find that the best legal problems are the ones that resolve themselves before you ever learn of their existence
But Bobby can find out more by reading Bad Machinery on scarygoround.com, or GoComics, or OniPress, or-
Or wherever the archives have moved to now, breaking all the older deep links that people have posted to refer to old strips.
I’m not judging, but does Kahn only own one shirt?
I bet he owns seven copies of the same shirt.
How many “Captain America shield” shirts did Ryan have? (Shelley burned one of them, or was it Amy?)
Only one, I believe. It’s heavily implied, if not outright stated, that Ryan wore the same clothes from his first appearance in Bobbins on September 5th, 2001, until Shelley and Amy burned them in the October 1st, 2003 SGR strip.
Even if the tales are true, it’s a bit painful hearing someone rattle off the entirety of their life story from kindergarten up to the last syllable of recorded time. #IStoopWithBobby
It’s not easy, guesting in the Charlotte Grote Cinematic Universe.
Bobby has a point, Lottie is a troubled girl. Then he lose it because she’s too much even for Tackleford. Too bad, I liked him and kinda hope in his return. He’s also right on another thing, Lottie should see a psychologist.
In fairness, Lottie never adopted a fish person, owned a cursed moped, married the devil, got jilted by the devil, procured for a visiting robot dignitary, got murdered, headed a cult of satanic nuns, was a zombie, opened a portal of unknown provenance, got murdered by her necromantic computer or dated a selkie.
She’s pretty normal for Tackleford, just… intense and indiscrete.
Normal For Tackleford.
I’d buy that on a T-Shirt.
(Reader, he would NOT in fact, buy that on a T-Shirt.)
I believe I would…
Lottie’s never done any of those things YET.
I wonder if Bobby noticed he’d been caught close enough into Lottie’s orbit to pull off self-duplication.
So he made his Saving Throw vs. Manic Pixie Dream Girl, never to learn the full extent of his ultimate loss
Perhaps he’ll sing a different tune when his rash clears up.
How can he have no idea about Lottie’s shenanigans
Rejected by Bobby Problems! 🙁
What is the last word on Dean’s totes? Nerd? Nerve? Nero? Nergal?
NEBULA, Dark Nebula recurs throughout Giant Days (Esther works there) and Lottie calls in early on in Solver.
It’s a bad sign when Bobby Problems thinks you have problems.
He’s named Problems because he SOLVES problems. Lottie was in such obvious need of fixing that he couldn’t resist!
Bobby Problems continues his run of questionable decisions, we see.
Oh man, I hope Lottie isn’t too distracted to notice that CHEDDAR CULTURE is opening!
They’re either a band or a boutique fromagerie, and either way I’d down.
*I’d be down
or I’d down it
either way
TAKE AWAY
WARNING: DO NOT TIT ABOUT WITH LAWYERS ON LADDERS!
I’m enjoying the thought that the question mark above Lottie’s head is not a stylistic flourish added by our brilliant artist, but somebody’s graffiti on the wall behind her.
“Betty Phage”! Brilliant!
Bobby Problems, how DARE you.
Is Dean slyly paraphrasing one of Bond’s more misogynist moments? (Diamonds Are Forever, Act V, Sc. IV)
I’ve rethought the full context of that moment and regret the comment.
He is not, my Bond knowledge is cobweb thin
Sounds like ripe grounds for another spinoff… surely the Fleming estate would never sue a chap for some light-hearted hijinks!
Not a bad thing, really. Watching Bond (especially 60s and 70s Bond) with a newcomer today means fielding awkward questions in every third scene along the lines of “And you were somehow okay with this?”
Gawd, I only JUST got the pun where Dean says their legal issues are ‘behind you’ to Lottie when Khan’s poster is behind her
I thought the phage pun was excellent and didn’t even notice that one!
(now I’m wondering how many others I’ve missed – maybe I’m getting too old for this and Solver is a young man’s game?)
It’s Bettie Page, but “Phage” in reference to the virus, right?
I am absolutely charmed that Dean’s drunken activity was loading up on comic books and Funko Pops.
Time to pour one out for Lottie I s’pose. At least she still has Claire <3