Morning
Billie is hungover, Maggie seems… barely to be showing any signs of strife. What a diabolical state of affairs. I’ve seldom had to depict so wretched a display. Hopefully things will pick up a bit tomorrow. Christmas day.
Billie is hungover, Maggie seems… barely to be showing any signs of strife. What a diabolical state of affairs. I’ve seldom had to depict so wretched a display. Hopefully things will pick up a bit tomorrow. Christmas day.
Happy Christmas, everyone!
Oh my….. Billie look like she fell from a tree hitting all the branches with her face. Hangover is really horrible and embarrassing, I still remember my first (and how the priest was disappointed). On the other hand, Maggie looks fresh as a rose and the mysterious, creepy man has vanished. Can’t wait to see what Mrs. Clovis has prepared for lunch (and how badly Billie will throw up just from the smell of the food).
The creepy man was just following them to shake his head in disgust. The cigarette will not smoke itself!
Not the weirdest hobby I’ve ever heard of.
…are there earthquakes in Britain?
Yes, but they’re earthquakes that California or Japan would barely notice. We’ve had one magnitude 6+ since accurate recording began. 5s are once-in-a-decade events.
A lot of British people don’t think of earthquakes even when they’re experiencing one. Billie may be… unusual.
I remember one where the bedstead actually rattled in 44 years. Usually they’re indistinguishable from someone coughing in the next room.
I live in the Pacific Northwest where earthquakes are uncommon but not unheard of. The last really big one was about 20-odd years ago. A 6.6 or something.
But I was working in a shop at the time that had a lot of Hispanic workers in it. The owner of the company had recently moved everything up here from Los Angeles, including about 70% of his workforce.
It was kinda funny. When the building started shaking and the lights started swinging all those Hispanic workers from L.A. dropped what they were doing and ran outside. ZIP! All the locals looked around, saw what was happening, took the time to shut their machine down, and just moseyed out the door like it was nothing.
I live in the Pacific Northwest too which means I live in constant fear of the Big One which according to scientists could happen any moment! Fun thing to think about (which I do daily).
The Big One as in the Cascadia Subduction Zone?
I’m just going to look like a jackass if I talk about growing up in L.A. and being a mile from the epicenter of the 1994 Northridge earthquake, aren’t I.
I remember a line from a P.G. Wodehouse book.
“No one does of a hangover!”
“They do with hangovers like mine! They die in droves!”
And if the hangover doesn’t kill Billie Mrs. Clovis will when she sees Billie looking like that.
“Let me Febreze you” is not something I’ve ever imagined Maggie saying.
And since she has two cans on hand, it may be a typical part of her morning routine.
Two-Fisted Febreze action!
earthquakes? Several, most damaging probably was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1884_Colchester_earthquake
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_the_British_Isles#19th_century
I remember the great Dudley quake of ’02. It woke me up and I briefly wondered what was going on, before falling asleep again.
Crazy times
Poor Billie – we’ve not seen her in such a state before. 🙁
Pro tip: Doorways are not necessarily safe in an earthquake, if there’s a door in ’em. Could whack you in the face or pinch off your fingers.
Billie displays a British person’s understanding of earthquake safety ie learned from an episode of an American sitcom you watched when you were 11
Best place to be in a serious quake is either outdoors, if you can get there quickly, or under a heavy table, if you have one. A doorless archway would be good, too.
— Lived in SoCal for 18 years, concerned for readers who moved there recently.
Oh. My god. Well there’s something new to worry about.
As sad as I am for Billie kudos to John for all of the details. She looks so sublimely disheveled and out of her element. Fabrese?! I’d think Maggie’s have higher standards that that!
I, eh, tend to be Maggie after a bender, unless I’m with my buddy Bjorn.
Even now, 4am, I am about to have just one more drink before sleep, so as to remember just how to sleep.
Which rum before final sleep attempt? Kraken? Spiced Bacardi? Go mellow with Malibu? Maybe some Sailor Jerry’s.
The Kraken I think. Release the Kraken!
Sailor Jerry is not to be trusted anywhere in the vicinity of Morpheus. The much-vaunted spices tend to… interact… with the process of sleep in ways that makes your morning mouth taste like you ate a big ol’ bowl of cat taint.
This makes me wonder just how heavily Billie got into those Satanic orgies. Surely heavy drinking was involved at some point?
An hour? Dammit Maggie, that’s definitely enough time to have a shower, have some mercy XD
There are errands yet!!
Ah, buying gifts on the way to the dinner. A favourite pastime!
Well I’m glad _somebody_ bought a ‘The Goose is Loose’ t-shirt.