The bats in my own belfry (PART 1 CONCLUDES)
Feeling a bit low? Look up ice cream vans on eBay. You’ll feel better. New story starts here Monday, with the whole thing going up on my Patreon then too.
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Soft serve is the way to go. Don’t get into direct competition with the local supermarket.
Can you serve frozen dairy product from a van if you “Don’t have a cow, man”?
You’re thinking of BART Simpson. This is BORT Simpson, who clearly has no legal resemblance to Bart, and cannot in any way be considered infringement. I believe his famous catch-phrase is “Don’tcha give birth to a horse, Dude.”
I like Bort Thimpson as the American variant of Dennis the Menace.
On the other side of the van there’s a picture of his sister Larsa, playing jazz on her bassoon.
Along with Mildred Mouse, Michael Mouse’s live-in lover.
And their dog Neptune.
Don’t forget Daniel Drake, and his girlfriend Maisy!
Somehow I imagine his girlfriend as more of a Doris maybe?!
I really hope Glenn will not become a ice lolly specialist. That sounds like ŕ
Like wrong.
Ice lollies are for suckers.
Michael Mouse! Does this have anything in common with John Finnemore’s ice cream van painter sketch? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lray-9F1WP4
That was great!
what are you doing? WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? My got lad, you’re about to eat ice cream! Focus!
Claire’s not talking about eating ice cream. She’s talking about selling ice cream. From an ice cream van. https://badmachinery.com/comic/my-expert-opinion/
and definitely not eat any?
That would certainly eat into the profits.
My dad ran an ice cream van in the 60’s, you definitely get to eat your own ice cream (you buy it cheap!)
Claire’s choosing her lisp.
I think it’s choosing her — whenever it feels like it.
From the amount of lisping she’s doing, she must be more stressed out than Glenn.
I thought Mickey Mouse was now out of copyright?
Winnie the Pooh is out of copyright. The House of Mouse will hold onto Mickey until the stars go out.
Mickey the Poo and Winnie Mouse on the other hand …
Steamboat Willy goes out of copyright at the end of this year. Modern Mickey has a little while to run yet.
How about an ice cream steamboat? Sailing up and down the [insert waterways of Sheffield here] selling frozen treats to passers by!
While true, we’ll see if they manage to convince the law to extend it even more… at this point the damage is pretty permanent, it hardly seems to matter
Some day, thousands of years in the future, there will still be laws about putting two small circles next to a big circle, but nobody will remember why.
Mickey Mouse is still very much in Trademark, however, which is significantly more relevant to the Ice Cream Van business
Looking forward to part two! Chekhov’s ice cream van will surely end up crashing headlong into the talent contest, that’s just the way stories go.
Crash into the contest and win. Because bot everyone love K-pop but everyone loves ice-cream.
I didn’t know birds can be drawn this way, but they can. They totally can. I just. Love the art style, always.
The ones perched along the wall?
Yes, them.
KLF
Uh-huh uh-huh
Because I wasn’t really paying enough attention, I thought ice cream vanth was going to turn out to be Ice Cream Vance, the latest viral tiktok star whose amusing antics delight us all
Ah, a Zambian Octo-Camera model with the new lens for taking upside-down pictures.
Vans, vans. Spent 3 minutes trying to figure out that lisped word before scrolling down, couldn’t.
Just replace the “th” with an “s”.
Well yes, of course. But I also went the “vance” route first and my brain stuck. Partially because I’m from the U.S. and it’s “ice cream truck” here, so “van” did not enter my mind. Now you know.
When placing Claire’s lisps I always try not to obfuscate words beyond interpretation, but I’d forgotten about ice cream trucks in the USA.
Ahh, poor Glermo. At least you had a month’s excitement from solving. If the ice cream thing doesn’t work out, just remember there’s no shame in joining the silent ranks of the Bobbinverse Also-Rans.
I read this “Glenmo” which would make an excellent payment app if he and Claire decide to pivot that way
“Oooh, here’s a good-looking van at a decent price. It’s ancient, but it certainly looks justified.”
Just how many cameras does Claire’s phone have? I count zoom, extreme zoom, sees-individual-molecules zoom, wide-angle, 720º wide-angle, infrared, x-ray, and sees-into-the-future.
(720º is of course a 360º camera that then double-checks to make sure it didn’t miss anything.)
Or perhaps it takes a 360 photo around two different axes? Useful for imax video production.
Now, I don’t want to come off as weird, but I would date Claire in a heartbeat.
I’m not entirely sure if the first phoneme of “Thimpson” is Claire’s lisp, or simply part of what makes him definitely legally distinct from any other yellow-skinned, spike-haired, skateboarding cartoon characters you may have heard of.
Well I’m glad to know that hyper-focusing on Lottie Chaos is a real diagnosis and a manageable condition.
My son is also named Bort!