So if a tick drinks Unity’s “blood,” does it:
A) Spontaneously combust?
B) Develop a craving for sammiches?
C) Wax idiot savantic about its cruel fate?
D) Mutate into a two meter long, three-headed guardian of an Underworld two doors and a clerestory window down from this reality?
E) All of the above
F) None of the above
G) Two from column (A) and one from column (B)
F, becomes a mobile extension of Unity, like a wee tiny version of Nick’s fembot .
I wonder why she says “dead cat ears”: they’re just as dead/alive as the rest of her, no? Or maybe she was in a hurry and just glued them on rather than properly attaching them with needle and thread?
Sometimes the parse tree enhances the poetry. Consider:
1. Time flies like an arrow.
2. Fruit flies like a banana.
(Hint: The parse trees are not the same. At least not the mundane trees.)
We do, and it’s the hyphen. If “dead cat” is a modifier phrase for “ears,” it should be “dead-cat ears.” But I don’t think Unity speaks that precisely.
Hmmm…I wonder. If Nick can use Violet’s body, couldn’t they load some of Moustachio’s thinking springs into one of these wind-up animatronics to give him some mobility in the future?
Is it crazy to think that whoever designed Whimsy was using technology originally pioneered by Moustachio’s creater?
I expect Tip is supposed to be looking a bit self concious in this situation – but it looks
to me like he is eagerly waiting for a chance to say something.
@Unity: I can personally recommend the flea and tick treatments at Drs. Foster and Smith (drsfostersmith.com/cat-supplies), especially feline Advantage, nyao. Very effective and decent price, including shipping and handling. It’s where my two-legger pets go whenever I get nasty fleas, nyao.
So if a tick drinks Unity’s “blood,” does it:
A) Spontaneously combust?
B) Develop a craving for sammiches?
C) Wax idiot savantic about its cruel fate?
D) Mutate into a two meter long, three-headed guardian of an Underworld two doors and a clerestory window down from this reality?
E) All of the above
F) None of the above
G) Two from column (A) and one from column (B)
According to previous installments, it becomes frustrated with its species’ bureaucratic/legalistic approach to social interactions.
…and then pomptly pukes her up. Poor Unity. She’s ALWAYS rejected.
So G is it blows up twice and eats a sammich?(go E go)
F, becomes a mobile extension of Unity, like a wee tiny version of Nick’s fembot .
I wonder why she says “dead cat ears”: they’re just as dead/alive as the rest of her, no? Or maybe she was in a hurry and just glued them on rather than properly attaching them with needle and thread?
They are ears from a dead cat, therefore dead cat ears. Dead modifies cat alone, rather than “cat ears” as a unit.
English (along with a lot of other languages too) really needs an equivalent of math parentheses.
Speaking in parse trees would kinda take something out of poetry, though.
I’d verb *their* noun phrase!
not to mention what it’d do to cryptic crosswords.
Sometimes the parse tree enhances the poetry. Consider:
1. Time flies like an arrow.
2. Fruit flies like a banana.
(Hint: The parse trees are not the same. At least not the mundane trees.)
Example is from Speculative Grammarian (http://specgram.com).
,comas,
Latin does this to a certain extent – what with suffixes to denote which noun is the subject, object, etc… and which adjectives go with them.
The good old “Helping your Uncle Jack off a horse”?
It does—that’s what hyphens are for. So she could have said, “dead-cat ears”. And you could also have “dead-cat–ear ticks”.
We do, and it’s the hyphen. If “dead cat” is a modifier phrase for “ears,” it should be “dead-cat ears.” But I don’t think Unity speaks that precisely.
Who said the cat was dead? Maybe it went deaf, didn’t need the ears anymore, and had them removed.
Wouldn’t Unity want a pair of ears that she could hear with? I suppose they do look pretty cosmetic, though…
Hmmm…I wonder. If Nick can use Violet’s body, couldn’t they load some of Moustachio’s thinking springs into one of these wind-up animatronics to give him some mobility in the future?
Is it crazy to think that whoever designed Whimsy was using technology originally pioneered by Moustachio’s creater?
Wouldn’t ticks ditch the bobcat pretty much as soon as it died?
I expect Tip is supposed to be looking a bit self concious in this situation – but it looks
to me like he is eagerly waiting for a chance to say something.
looks to me like he’s trying to sneak a peek down violet!nick’s collar, while nick does the same.
LOL!
Yeeeeeeeah, when the cavalry is wilder than the settlers, that’s a different kind of western alright.
Kind of fun seeing the talking dog fumbling for an argument for her normality, though.
@Unity: I can personally recommend the flea and tick treatments at Drs. Foster and Smith (drsfostersmith.com/cat-supplies), especially feline Advantage, nyao. Very effective and decent price, including shipping and handling. It’s where my two-legger pets go whenever I get nasty fleas, nyao.