I mean, a sweater is just a way of coiling a length of material together in a very specific tangle. How much tension could you get out of a sweater made of coat hangers?
Well… sometimes you remember a project you’d been working on before and had meant to finish but got distracted by colleagues so you just want to make some progress now, you know?
Perhaps the others decided that he would be of more use to them if he had freedom of action. Ira’s there and they’re here so what’s he gonna do about it if he doesn’t like it? ^_^
Ah, I see our illustrious script-writer has recognized wool as an allergen. I don’t know anyone else who is allergic to wool, so I sometimes feel as if perhaps I am alone in this respect.
To my knowledge humans can develop an allergy to just about anything, including themselves apparently. Wool, being composed of non-human proteins and such may be one of the more common complaints.
There is a misconception among many that cats produce more allergic reactions than most. But that is inspired by the fact that cats maintain their fur by licking it and people wind up painting their eyes with dried cat spit.
Candace….it’s good you’ve recognized it. Wool-allergens are extremely important,
especially in US Western history,when there were ‘range wars’, cattlemen vs sheepmen. Unfortunately few photos of the warring participants exist. We only have reports.
The ‘sheepers’ won, which is why so much of the vast plains inhabitants vote
as they do.
There’s a rather inefficient historical British knitting style in which the needles were held like pencils. It was taught to Victorian upper-class (or aspiring) ladies. Supposedly, it showed off the hands in a more elegant manner than did the “production-knitting” techniques commonly used (by common people).. Efficiency/productivity were not issues for this stylish knitting technique; the work was done as a conspicuous consumption leisure activity, not as an economic necessity. It looked somewhat like the knitting style that’s shown here.
Somehow I can’t quite envision Tigerlilly ever taking up knitting.
Yet for some reason I can imagine Dr. Doom doing it.
I mean, a sweater is just a way of coiling a length of material together in a very specific tangle. How much tension could you get out of a sweater made of coat hangers?
You have to interlock the springs somehow to get the clockwork to run. Knitting skills are just one way of doing so.
And we don’t know the coat hangers weren’t knit as well.
She takes up plenty of doubleknits.
I see the drone guy has shifted his focus…
Well… sometimes you remember a project you’d been working on before and had meant to finish but got distracted by colleagues so you just want to make some progress now, you know?
Dr. Haller had the bigfeet covered, so this guy is covering the little feet.
Phish covered Little Feat for Halloween one time!
Sorry, I’ll revert to archive lurking now . . . .
And Tip continues to not have the collar. I guess he took it off for the night…?
Perhaps the others decided that he would be of more use to them if he had freedom of action. Ira’s there and they’re here so what’s he gonna do about it if he doesn’t like it? ^_^
He took it off when he removed his curlers. He doesn’t have them, either.
Hmm, good catch! It appears Tip has mysteriously lost his collar the last two strips.
I’m assuming art slip-up, I remember it being missing in previous strips but now it’s in them.
It is only in this strip and two later ones, but it doesn’t fit with the story so I assume art slip-up too. (I won’t spoil it).
Then again, it’s been pointed out that it’s still missing in these three strips, and still hasn’t been changed, so it may in fact not be a slip-up.
He had it when he woke up. It seems he took it off to look at the video feed
It must have been the evil coffee
Disabled it five minutes in and took it off in order to get some sleep. He’ll remember it in the morning.
Ah, I see our illustrious script-writer has recognized wool as an allergen. I don’t know anyone else who is allergic to wool, so I sometimes feel as if perhaps I am alone in this respect.
To my knowledge humans can develop an allergy to just about anything, including themselves apparently. Wool, being composed of non-human proteins and such may be one of the more common complaints.
There is a misconception among many that cats produce more allergic reactions than most. But that is inspired by the fact that cats maintain their fur by licking it and people wind up painting their eyes with dried cat spit.
Candace….it’s good you’ve recognized it. Wool-allergens are extremely important,
especially in US Western history,when there were ‘range wars’, cattlemen vs sheepmen. Unfortunately few photos of the warring participants exist. We only have reports.
The ‘sheepers’ won, which is why so much of the vast plains inhabitants vote
as they do.
I’m more ticked at the fact the needles are held in the wrong direction in the fourth panel. [shakes fist]
You just don’t understand mad knitting! [shakes fist back]
There’s a rather inefficient historical British knitting style in which the needles were held like pencils. It was taught to Victorian upper-class (or aspiring) ladies. Supposedly, it showed off the hands in a more elegant manner than did the “production-knitting” techniques commonly used (by common people).. Efficiency/productivity were not issues for this stylish knitting technique; the work was done as a conspicuous consumption leisure activity, not as an economic necessity. It looked somewhat like the knitting style that’s shown here.
Find out if Dr. Lee ever knitted booties for Nick.
A scarf for the Osprey?
But Tip does still have a collar. It’s that guy in the pink robe reading Tip’s lines who does not have one. He is not him.
You may have something here. Tip is wearing the collar. The U R Not U guy appears onscreen. There’s a “BING” sound. The collar is not there.
But he wasn’t wearing it in yesterday’s strip either, even though he did have it when he woke up, so the “BING” sound wasn’t when it disappeared.
Huh? Look again: he doesn’t appear in yesterday’s strip until _after_ the “Bing”.
Oop! Well, I’ll just shut my face again.
I thought they were using Bing to Google him.
Should they not have used Opera to netscape AOL?
Is the World Wide Web knitted, or woven?
Sprang. If you’re using an IPad, it’s tablet weaving.
If DARPA used a Jacquard head on a Molecular Crystal Loom, then it’s definitely woven.
Just realized the chapter name is wrong on this one. It should be “A Life in the Woods”, shouldn’t it? Not “Yes, Virginia”?