Takes all sorts
Reverend Penrose’s position has been degraded to one of “deflated Daddy”, he’s really going to have to raise his game if he wants to get to stand at the front on the cover of any future print collections. Today’s comic features another James Herriot (real name: Alf White) reference, “pencil” being a term for the penis used by one of the literary vet’s farming clients, one that I have used ever since. I read those books repeatedly when I was 11 or 12. They are in my writing DNA and I cannot get them out. My mother trod on Mr White’s foot in Thirsk post office when she was pregnant with me, and I believe this may be the reason that Herriotisms occur so frequently.
There you go, Reverend. Drill nice and deep. Get that excess blood pressure out…ought to cure that headache in no time.
A lot of red pixels in tomorrow’s page.
“Welcome to Trepannregyn!”
Well done. Fresh from the weekend and straight into Celtic Fringe puns!
KUDOS!
Since Maggie moved in, Mrs Clovis is having a lot of fun, almost a second youth. Penrose, on the other hand…sad, tired, looks older. Deflated daddy 100%! But I’m really sorry for the poor, misunderstood Sentai.
Even we don’t understand him yet.
He lost his belt buckle, remember? Might have something to do with his system’s catastrophic failure.
The reverend promised himself he would use those power tools by year’s end, and he WILL make it happen one way or another.
If she can’t distinguish between pointing at a belt buckle and pointing at a “pencil,” I think it’s Mrs. Clovis who’s got issues to deal with.
I’m worried about Mrs Clovis’ grasp of anatomy, as pencils aren’t to be found at waist level.
Perhaps Mr. Clovis had a rather curious kind of accident in his youth?
While it appears frm his actions that the Sentai needs to bleed off some hydraulc pressure, who’s to say that his “plumbing” is similar to mammals’ or an insects’. May not have a pencil at all.
It is important to me to believe that “not just nearly 50 but several years past it” and “dead sexy” are entirely compatible.
If you ever do audiobooks, the versions of Herriot’s read by Christopher Timothy are pretty enjoyable!
I think I can make an audiobook of “It Shouldn’t Happen To A Vet” play in my mind just by force of will.
In my house, he’s always “Christophy Timother”
I do believe that’s roughly the age I was at when I first read them all as well.
They’re good books for kids, a safe, cosy, but adult world.
If only there was some way he could communicate! His charades game is sadly weak. A sketch pad? Magnetic letters on the refrigerator door? Speak & Spell? Super-intelligent cockroaches that spell out words on the wall?
Guessing English is not a strength of his, so spelling would be an issue.
So has anyone guessed yet how the Sentai got there?
My guess is he was piloting the giant robot from inside its head (which, of course, crash landed right behind the enraged Billie several weeks ago).
If I’m the last to figure that out … oh well.
I am living for her her Christmas Jogging Suit.
Is that green arrow supposed to show us he’s pointing at something? If so, what is it he’s pointing at? Or is he actually shooting an arrow out of his glove and no one’s noticing?
Follow the sparkles!!!!!
Aha!
Maggie’s belt buckle.
In my haste to get to the comicky goodness, I completely missed that James Herriot bit. I *devoured* those books as a kid. Thanks for the reminder!
The All Creatures Great And Small TV series was a huge hit in my country when I was a child. It may have influenced my fleeting plans to become a veterinarian (until I realised that I would in fact have to be really good at maths to get into vet school).
I may also have had a tiny bit of a crush on Peter Davison. This also passed, but unrelated to my ability in maths.
I’m glad you are over your crush. I have heard that he’s bit of a divo of a thespian.
Allegedly.