Deep in thought
Don’t ask me what a “penny longstand” is, it’s a term I have only ever heard my mother use. It does not appear on Google. My Patreon subscribers in the $3-and-up tiers can read the whole second part of Author Unknown now!
Don’t ask me what a “penny longstand” is, it’s a term I have only ever heard my mother use. It does not appear on Google. My Patreon subscribers in the $3-and-up tiers can read the whole second part of Author Unknown now!
I’m sure when Mrs Clovis started with “Don’t worry about THEM”, she was intending to follow up with something like “the Satanist around here are mostly harmless”, but, being Mrs Clovis, it came out the way it did.
Dunno. Mrs. Clovis is right saying that in Tredregyn there are a lot o things that are very bad. Maybe she’s exaggerating, but not so much.
I didn’t mean she was exaggerating. Just that she may have intended to be more reassuring than she ended up being.
Yep Lottie. Satanists are really the lightest problem around there. Surely Mrs. Clovis knows a lot of horrible local things that Shelley may be going through right now and she can’t wait to tell you about them. Poor Lottie, she seems so worried about Shelley. I hope Maggie will try to console her with some good words.
True. most of the Tredregyn Satanists (even Tom) care more about their own hedonism than carrying out any truly demonic bidding.
Tom strikes me as probably down for some demonic bidding… for the right price, of course.
Not on Google? This means the phrase is yours to do with as you please.
Quickly, contact the OED
Sigh. Have they taught you nothing in grad school? Trademark office first, OED second. You cannot trademark a standing term.
Well, she tried?
Unfortunately yes…
Reassurance isn’t really in Mrs. Clovis’ job description – that’s more the Reverend’s thing.
I love this. It’s always good to see Clovis has a heart underneath her position of woman-at-arms for the Great Destroyer.
The way the Y tails off in Rectory it’s as though written in a dying man’s blood
Ah, Penny Long Stand, the rarest brand of blinker fluid. Used to sell steam by the bucketful.
OK, here’s my completely un-informed guess. At certain spectator events, you could pay a minimum admission (a penny) to watch from some not-so-ideal area. It was far away and had no seats. Thus, a penny longstand.
Well, there’s this: https://picturestocktonarchive.com/2007/06/20/the-penny-long-ride
Does John’s mother have any connection to Stockton-on-Tees?
Yes! That’s where that side of my family are from!
So does penny long stand mean when you’re standing around waiting for the Penny Long Ride?
I am also in the North East.
A penny longstand was something that apprentices were sent to get on their first day.
It involved going down to the stockroom, where the caretaker would say “There’e one out the back. Just wait there, son” and would disappear.
That a kind of hazing prank and normally the name of the fictive tool/material would be an existing expression for something else, even though it sounds like an implement. In my country, it was the “eye measure” (“ögonmåttet”), which is an expression for gauging size and distance merely by looking. So I think that “penny longstand” must also have been something else to begin with.
Yes, but did you try to Bing the phrase
Hell, no!
Is Penny Longstand related to Pippi Longstocking?
Sending a new recruit to the stores for a “long stand” sounds like the sort of prank old-fashioned workshops would commit. A “penny long stand” might be a bit of flair to stop it being so obvious. The context suggests otherwise though.
Can confirm, “go and ask Mr So-and-So for a long stand/long weight” was a favourite jape among science/techie teachers in my high school.
Exactly right.
I’m sure thinking over the possible implications of Mrs. Clovis’s parting comments. is more effective than counting sheep for a good night’s rest. “But in your dreams whatever they be, dream of monsters from the sea…”
Mrs. Clovis: “Far worse things, like sea monsters, ghosts, werewolves and aliens. Here, read this graphic novel that’ll fill you in on the back-story.”
Also, I’m in awe of Maggie’s tights (yoga pants?), you’d think those rips would get stretched out over time (unless they aren’t really rips, but flesh-coloured panels on the material itself. Maybe I’m over-thinking it.
As a Level 9.8 Overthinker myself, I can say… Yes, I think you’re overthinking it. But on the other hand…
They’re skinny jeans with as much hole as jeans. This is a common fashion item in the UK.
I like to think that you drew it when her left eye was winking at me. Makes my heart flutter.
Nope, we’ve seen her nekkid in previous Steeple stories, those eyes are defs in the skin.
they are rips, she has those tatoos
Poor Lottie’s expression in the final panel has reached Daisy levels of worry.
Final panel – Mrs. Clovis looks kind of….. hot???
Better don’t ask questions about Mrs. Clovis’ past. I can see her as one of the firsts Doctor Who’s companions.
She is giving me “Gran’ma Rose from Bone” vibes… it makes me wonder about her track times and grip strength
HOT TAKE!!
You want to get to Specsavers.
I hear there’s a particularly good branch at Barnard Castle.
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/a+long-stand
a long stand
An imaginary object that someone is instructed to request from someone else, who then proceeds to leave them standing around waiting indefinitely while it is being “located.” A practical joke usually played on a new member of a group or organization.
A: “The other guys told me to go ask the foreman for a long stand, and he just left me waiting for nearly an hour before I finally gave up!”
B: “Gosh, did you really not understand that they were pulling your leg?”
Maybe waiting for a penny or perhaps connotations of a “bad penny.”