I’m beginning to see what Tigerlily Jones’ beef is with the Secret (Secret!) Notary Public. Way too much red tape, which isn’t a flattering look for Jones.
I may have weaseled out of jury duty, but not intentionally. Since serving my one and only time in the 80′s, I’ve since worked for a police department for nine years (computer stuff), worked for lawyers, worked with insurance agents, and had a friend who was an officer killed in the line of duty (traffic accident). They’re not going to want me. My wife, PhD astrophysicist, had to drive over 100 miles for Federal jury duty after working all night, and she never got empaneled for even the possibility of serving on a jury.
No, see, this is part of her notarial quest. She must learn that notarization is all around us, in order to truly open her eyes as the Chosen One and bear the Notarial Seal.
Or something. Not totally sure where the bats come in.
I get the feeling Unity has wiped out each of these species in turn as the paperwork grew too onerous, leaving a trail of destroyed communities behind her. Why aren’t we getting to see that?
No, I think UNITY will be able to call on all of these species once she wields the Seal… although they might all be behind her because they’re still waiting for her to turn in her paperwork. In triplicate.
Hugin, I doubt Unity wants to waste time wiping out more than the immediate source of her annoyance, if that. After all, she just had her pika puke her without killing anyone. She does seem close to snapping in that last panel, though. What’s that around her tail? Angry vibration?
It’s natural to overestimate her murderousness. My first thought was that that was some of her previous host in her cheek, rather than nuts.
I’m sorry everyone, you cannot criticise this plot development without an order signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public enquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.
Funny, the banks use the same procedure for mortgage modifications. If they “lose” your paperwork, it never existed. It’s the financial equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and saying: “La la la, I can’t HEAR you.” Vive la 98%!
And the wea-sel told me to report
For jury duty right here …
And the fish said, “Ma’am, you can’t swim upstream
If your permit isn’t clear!”
And the bear’s charging me a gratutity
If I wanna hibernate there …
And the squirrel in Customs, I just wanna bust ‘im
In the face, I declare!
Forms, forms, everywhere a form!
Triplicate paperwork, that is the norm!
Sign this, fill that out,
Buncha stupid forms!
Weasel Jury Duty? That has to be an oxymoron.
I’m beginning to see what Tigerlily Jones’ beef is with the Secret (Secret!) Notary Public. Way too much red tape, which isn’t a flattering look for Jones.
I may have weaseled out of jury duty, but not intentionally. Since serving my one and only time in the 80′s, I’ve since worked for a police department for nine years (computer stuff), worked for lawyers, worked with insurance agents, and had a friend who was an officer killed in the line of duty (traffic accident). They’re not going to want me. My wife, PhD astrophysicist, had to drive over 100 miles for Federal jury duty after working all night, and she never got empaneled for even the possibility of serving on a jury.
Some people just have a built-in excuse.
http://www.cleveland.com/tipoff/index.ssf/2010/11/mentioning_old_friend_jeffrey.html
to paraphrase a certain astronaught……”My God. it’s full of paperwork…….”
Does this journey of discovery end with Unity becoming an Anti-Notary?
No, see, this is part of her notarial quest. She must learn that notarization is all around us, in order to truly open her eyes as the Chosen One and bear the Notarial Seal.
Or something. Not totally sure where the bats come in.
The bats come from the belfry, duh.
Nuts to this! Time to stamp out this mess once and for all!
I get the feeling Unity has wiped out each of these species in turn as the paperwork grew too onerous, leaving a trail of destroyed communities behind her. Why aren’t we getting to see that?
No, I think UNITY will be able to call on all of these species once she wields the Seal… although they might all be behind her because they’re still waiting for her to turn in her paperwork. In triplicate.
Hugin, I doubt Unity wants to waste time wiping out more than the immediate source of her annoyance, if that. After all, she just had her pika puke her without killing anyone. She does seem close to snapping in that last panel, though. What’s that around her tail? Angry vibration?
It’s natural to overestimate her murderousness. My first thought was that that was some of her previous host in her cheek, rather than nuts.
It’s a clump of grass on the horizon
Oh, and I love ‘hibernaculum gratuity’.
“Hibernaculum gratuity,” “hibernaculum gratuity,” “Hibernaculum gratuity,” if you say it enough times it stops meaning anything at all.
If you say it three times in a dark bathroom mirror, Smokey Bear shows up and rips your face off…
“Listen, this old system of yours could be on fire and I couldn’t even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27b/6… Bloody paperwork.”
I’m starting to side with Dr Jones on this one.
I’m sorry everyone, you cannot criticise this plot development without an order signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public enquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.
Funny, the banks use the same procedure for mortgage modifications. If they “lose” your paperwork, it never existed. It’s the financial equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and saying: “La la la, I can’t HEAR you.” Vive la 98%!
Crap! I meant 99%. I love not having spam here, but the editor in me hates being unable to correct typos.
I was right! I WAS RIGHT!
Hey! It cut out my gibbering insanely! It’s not funny with out foam and drool.
(TUNE: “Signs”, Five Man Electrical Band)
And the wea-sel told me to report
For jury duty right here …
And the fish said, “Ma’am, you can’t swim upstream
If your permit isn’t clear!”
And the bear’s charging me a gratutity
If I wanna hibernate there …
And the squirrel in Customs, I just wanna bust ‘im
In the face, I declare!
Forms, forms, everywhere a form!
Triplicate paperwork, that is the norm!
Sign this, fill that out,
Buncha stupid forms!
Beauracracy, the truly universal language.
Either U.N.I.T.Y. is going to start acting more like Sweetheart, or she’ll use the stamp to lay waste to the monastary herself.
Ah, so now she’s learning about the customs of all the different species.
the red tape that binds
And now we know that it’s not just the Human race that is doomed to die in a whimper.