Guilt ponies
I’m sure you know who Capability Brown was, but if you don’t, perhaps due to being born in the 18th century or later, here’s the information you need. — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
I’m sure you know who Capability Brown was, but if you don’t, perhaps due to being born in the 18th century or later, here’s the information you need. — COLOURS BY SAMMY BORRAS
Among other colorful expressions I had not heard before, I find ‘tits on a cracker’ to be marvelously evocative, but I am not sure what it evokes precisely.
In me it invokes wonder about the respective sizes of the objects in question.
To me it reminds me of the phrase “he’s as much use as tits on a fish.”
How else would crackers nurse their young? Do you want those adorable baby crackers to starve?
We’ll tell you when you’re older, Mitch 😀
I hate to disappoint you, but the “tits” in this case might be birds.
Still not sure what the phrase is supposed to mean though.
Also whilst we are discussing language: explain piss off back to rock. I mean, piss off sure, but back to rock? is that the same as saying fuck off all the way to hell? bedrock? or is Bob’s house called the Rock?
I’m overthinking this aren’t I.
Bob lives in a (real) village in Cornwall called Rock (as came up earlier). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock,_Cornwall
ah. Ok then. Geography.
He is well-advised to move away from the sturdy, 3-tined gardening tool that she is wielding with extreme vigor.
Though I think she does not understand how deep his influence extends!
It’s an earth trident!
I mean, he clearly does not fear The Trident.
Across the pond we have the equivalent expression “Tits on a Ritz” but, upon reflection, I don’t think it means the same thing at all …
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tits%20on%20a%20Ritz
We also have “tits on a cracker” over here, albeit in the south.
That intrusive double word balloon in the last panel doesn’t look to me like it comes from Bob Warren, so who could it be? Who would call Maggie “Capability Brown”, while she’s gardening? Who would address her with a “Yoo hoo”? My first thought was Billie, but I can’t rule out Mrs Clovis, or even Tom. Whoever it is, I’m guessing, probably found Maggie’s mysteriously-returned bike.
It sounds to me like Tom. And of course, if Tom asks “Who likes surprises?”, the answer would be “nobody.”
I’d agree. Who else is camp enough for “yoo hoo”, sarcastic enough for “Capability Brown”, and devilish enough for “who likes surprises”?
And I believe said bike is going to be “a bit of a project.”
Depends whether it had been properly treated with ACF-50 before being stored pickled in brine.
The difficulty of drawing it is going to permanently work against its full restoration.
Maggie still don’t know that her bike has not only returned from that land of death that the depths of the ocean are, but it’s still a Satanist and considers her a traitor! Her bike will probably want to run over her!!!
I think we need a Capability Brown – Extra Billy team up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_(Virginia_governor)
I know Capability Brown from the Tom Stoppard play, thank you very much.
If that’s what you linked to, I’ll feel very silly.
Whereas I know of him from far too much time associating with hobbyist gardeners and National Trust members.* (Though our local stately home is a Repton job.) The bigger question would be why Tom – if Tom it is off the last panel – knows the name, given that I doubt he would associate with either. The only flowers I could imagine him appreciating would be Les Fleurs du Mal.
* Come to think of it, though, I assume that some Terry Pratchett fans may just have had the name mentioned during discussions of “Bloody Stupid Johnson”.
Huh. Perhaps I’m slow, but I only just noticed that while every other character in the right sidebar has a cross showing which church they’re affiliated with (upright or inverted), Maggie doesn’t. Foreshadowing? Oversight? Time will tell.
Maggie’s was inverted until she switched residences with Billie, has been officially marked as neutral ever since.
Nothing says don’t touch me like a pinched pressure point on his hand. (self defense 101)
I’d have presumed Capability Brown was a young-readers sleuth, like his cousin Encyclopedia.
Question; What kind of crackers are said tits on?
… I really wanted to answer this one…
That’s a really great “Frustrated-Angry Maggie” in the last panel!
Is Capability Brown any relation to Bergholt Stuttley Johnson?
Otherwise known as “Bloody Stupid” Johnson?
I am mainly familiar with the former due to the late great Sir Pterry’s invention of the latter.
GNU Terry Pratchett
Yeah those pesky TPFTs are a false economy and ruining the climate too. F your pyramid apes!
What an odd gardening tool for the rectory. Considering Penrose’s ongoing war, I’m surprised to see a trident. Unless he’s vanquished bigger fish than we know……..
It’s a garden fork.
I say money from my parents is like an unknown flash drive in a usb port. If it was once in their hands, they’ll use to to exert remote control over the system forever more.
…The man’s not wrong about the insurance, honestly. And he sounds most like a real, functional dad at that moment; he should cling to it like the lifeline out of damnation that it is.
Guess I’m the token American today as I wasn’t familiar with the ‘honorable’ Ms. Brown. But hopefully you won’t hold my handicap against me.
And my work in the American “Property and Casualty” industry has me… Honestly agreeing with him.
Ack. MISTER Brown. Jeez.
Reading about Capability Brown was fascinating, thanks for that!
Tits on a cracker, snickers from a sewer pipe… Next time the rectory throws a party, Maggie must be kept far from hors d’oeuvre responsibilities.
It seems weird that he came all the way over here. I’m zooming in to check he didn’t plant something on her shoulder when he “comforted” her.