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Poor Claire. Finally she cracks.
Apologies to the audience for the fart trapped in the puffer. I don’t know what I was thinking. I wrote this story very quickly and I’ve got about two days before I have to start thinking what the next one is. There are options on the slate. We’ll see.
LARVAL FORM
KERN ING
Could Claire be hitting a brick wall academically? Her reaction here reminds me of when my advisor put me in numerous physics classes for which I did now have the relevant maths background, assuming I could just pick it up on my own
[SPOILER: I could not]
[grumble]”for which I did NOT have the relevant maths background”
I knew what you meant. ;D
“So like you’ve done all the calculuses right?”
“Calculuses? The stuff that gets on your teeth?”
Been there, did that. At my own initiation, of course. I took high school physics because it interested me and I liked the instructor. After about a month I went to him and asked to take it credit/no credit. He said, “You understand all this don’t you? Why do that?”
“Because I can’t handle the math, and I’m failing.”
He nodded. “As long as you understand that.” Then he signed my request. We got along, which was not true with some of his other students, some of whom he threw things at for asking dumb questions. I always asked smart questions, and he appreciated that.
The good news for me is that by the time I had taken enough Math to understand the Physics, I looked around and realized I had completed a maths degree
This is interesting because I’ve experienced it the opposite way. I failed calculus before physics. Physics helped me ‘see’ the math and pass calculus.
I had a teacher in high school who did that – threw stuff at students. I hated him. It was mutual. What is it with slightly abusive science teachers??? I’m pretty sure he singlehandedly turned me off of science for the rest of my life. Thanks a lot Mr. Jones, ya jerk. *shudder*
I have long hated my… difficulties with mathematics. Which sucks because I DO comprehend a lot of the Concepts of physics. I like to think I understand them, I just couldn’t calculate it.
I insisted on taking a senior-level engineering class, as a freshman, and had to invent probability theory to complete the assignments.
I was right about the puffer!!
Is that how the biscuit crumbles, Claire?
Sad thing is, in a little while, she’s going to look down at the shattered remains and wonder how it got that way.
It is now a crumb cake.
And in her hair.
Trifle.
I think Claire feels her issue is rather serious, actually.
Lottie’s comparison makes me wonder – wouldn’t an actual giant larva in a puffer coat (zipped up) be worse?
I’m just wondering what about Lottie’s recent priest experience leads her to believe that they’re puffer larvae.
I confess to being a member of the lowest class of your readers, because I thought the trapped fart was a real highlight.
I have good news! There’s lots of room down here at the bottom. … The bad news were trapped in here with the rest of the flatus.
Me too. I thought it was very Charlotte-appropriate.
Of all things I never expected Claire to break down over it’s a puffy jacket.
“Pull a puffer off” is a euphemism I wouldn’t use on a dare. No wonder Claire is in distress.
It’s so sad to see Claire so desperate. What’s the problem? Seems really bad if a Puffer can’t resolve it.
Perhaps it’s a cape-caliber problem.
Now that I think about it, Claire would be super-cute in a cape. Though not like Lottie’s just-tie-a-blanket-around-your-neck Cape of Despair. Maybe a neat, fitted grey wool one with the little arm slits.
Maybe I’m just thinking about that half-cape she had in that Wicked Things bookplate.
There’s tongue twister in there somewhere. Starting –
Polly pulled a purple puffer off….
Pallid Polly pulled a purple puffer. 😀
Claire’s lisp returns under stress.
I know and that little correction broke my heart! (I have stutterers in my family so have a soft spot for speech impediments.)
Yes some speech impediments can sound nice and they have been used in songs. I was thinking of David Bowie and Changes and The Who with My Generation but when I googled songs with stutters there are more than I’d thought.
My sister had a lisp when she was little and to my great shame I used to get her to sing “Sing a song of sixpence”. However, now that I’m old and rather deaf she gets her own back by speaking to me without making any actual sound.
If they’re stuck inside, are they speech imbediments?
Oh, Nordic Bakery! A good spot for a coffee and cake. Glad to see it’s going strong, I’m just sad Claire wasn’t in there when I last popped in, since I’m assuming she’s a regular.
…And I just looked it up and discovered it’s permanently closed. Sad times.
I can relate. My favorite line from Shakespeare is
“Verily to wear out their shoes.”
The English teacher explained that some lines were for the lower
elements of the audience. He got my number.
Ah, yes, the standard lie. It’s difficult for some people to accept that the
“upper crust” of Shakespeare’s day (including Queen Elizabeth herself) had a sense of humor that we would not now associate with “higher elements of society”.
The Victorians may have had something to do with the change in attitudes, it seems to me.
I will always think fondly of Arsène Wenger in the technical area fighting the zips on his very long puffer. Poor cold Frenchman.
I consider him the archetypal long puffer miscreant
John, the trapped fart was not your fault. Lottie drew that one!
Yes, your only responsibility lies in creating Lottie, which clearly requires no apologies.
I was going to say…vintage Lottie. It’s nice to know some personalities never change.
Maybe it is Lottie that draws these comics, and it is John that is fictional??
Sh!
Mind…blown.