Now we get another dose of one of the strip’s favorite philosophical positions, to wit:
“That a truly attractive man will score- have his life saved, even, with and by women even if he’s dumb as a post socially
and wears a dress,”
With its corollary, that:” Being ;smart ,almost guarantees loneliness, or at least, to fail at wooing or have a cheating spouse, or both.”
While I’d agree that Tip’s main theme seems to be getting out of situations by being pretty, I think your proposed corollary involves a certain amount of projection on your part. In fact, smart people have been doing better at long-term romance out of anyone in this series. Sure they’re all more socially awkward, so there’s a whole subplot around each of them hooking up, whereas Tip hooking up with someone is commonplace, but Tip spends much of the story so far not having a deep romantic connection, and now that he does have one it’s sporadic and inconsistent, whereas the most important romance plot in the series takes place between the awkward nerds of the main cast.
Further, deriving that particular corollary implies ‘smart’ and ‘attractive’ as opposites or at least mutually exclusive traits, whereas Dr. Lee possesses both, and has thus been able to get laid while still being so socially awkward that it’s taken her this long to actually develop a romantic relationship.
If anything, I think the real theme lies with sweetheart: anyone can have a romantic relationship–except wonks.
Yes, it does indeed look like Daphne. We met her here on this side of the mirror. Then her hair was lighter when she accompanied H.T. to Skin Horse HQ. Both at SH HQ and as a tiger in the mirror world, she had that cute little dangly animal charm.
Alas the charm broke off and I lost it. The original was actually a little plush orange and black tiger keychain that I got at work. I actually later got a pink/peach rhinestone one to replace it based on the one in Looking Glass Land. But that one broke off its ring and lost its tail so I stopped using it. Then I got another plush one this time pink with black stripes and my niece saw it and named her “Ruby” so lost that one also. But she told me all sorts of stories of trouble that Ruby would get into when I visited.
Well, if 1939 was as important a year in Baseball as it was in movies, history, and world fairs I imagine many people *do* know. Seems odd that she picked 1939 rather than some arbitrary year.
The question was originally asked in WWII as part of a series of things Americans would all know, but English-speaking German spies posing as GIs would not.
Of course, the flaw in that is that German spies were specifically educated in such things, so they may have known more about what was going on in the United States than the Americans themselves did.
Not so much “spies” as “infiltrators.” The Germans tried to slip some guys into the American lines but were caught. (There’s a scene in “Battleground” where Van Johnson and his buddies try it out on an officer, who has to do the same to them—it involves more than baseball.)
Maybe that’s the test? Like the Isaac Asimov story where some spies get tripped up because they’re asked about the second verse of the national anthem … and they know it!
The second verse of ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ isn’t hard to find.
It’s the THIRD (and fourth) verse that you have to dig for, and that they replied correctly to a portion of the antepenultimate line.
“The terror of flight”
followed by
“or the gloom of the grave.”
Now we get another dose of one of the strip’s favorite philosophical positions, to wit:
“That a truly attractive man will score- have his life saved, even, with and by women even if he’s dumb as a post socially
and wears a dress,”
With its corollary, that:” Being ;smart ,almost guarantees loneliness, or at least, to fail at wooing or have a cheating spouse, or both.”
I… don’t ever read that in this comic. It may be the language barrier, but I’d be utterly disappointed if *that* was what I missed in it.
“missed” as in “lost in translation”
While I’d agree that Tip’s main theme seems to be getting out of situations by being pretty, I think your proposed corollary involves a certain amount of projection on your part. In fact, smart people have been doing better at long-term romance out of anyone in this series. Sure they’re all more socially awkward, so there’s a whole subplot around each of them hooking up, whereas Tip hooking up with someone is commonplace, but Tip spends much of the story so far not having a deep romantic connection, and now that he does have one it’s sporadic and inconsistent, whereas the most important romance plot in the series takes place between the awkward nerds of the main cast.
Further, deriving that particular corollary implies ‘smart’ and ‘attractive’ as opposites or at least mutually exclusive traits, whereas Dr. Lee possesses both, and has thus been able to get laid while still being so socially awkward that it’s taken her this long to actually develop a romantic relationship.
If anything, I think the real theme lies with sweetheart: anyone can have a romantic relationship–except wonks.
*oops- strike that punchline! I totally forgot about her and Unity.
I’m with khn0. I’ve never gotten that message from this comic. Are you sure you’re commenting on the right site?
The New York Yankees beat the Cincinnati Reds four games to none.
Thanks I was wondering.
Happy to oblige. Are you still with SugarPac and / or H. T.?
I thought you were making a joke until I remembered that the World Series wasn’t the one where they play soccer.
No, I’m not making a joke either.
Is that one of those sportsball things?
I believe so, but I’d have to check to be sure
Generally a good generic answer, as long as it wasn’t in the 1980s or before 1920.
Have we seen her before? Was she HT’s intern // future tiger, on the other side of the mirror?
Yes, it does indeed look like Daphne. We met her here on this side of the mirror. Then her hair was lighter when she accompanied H.T. to Skin Horse HQ. Both at SH HQ and as a tiger in the mirror world, she had that cute little dangly animal charm.
Alas the charm broke off and I lost it. The original was actually a little plush orange and black tiger keychain that I got at work. I actually later got a pink/peach rhinestone one to replace it based on the one in Looking Glass Land. But that one broke off its ring and lost its tail so I stopped using it. Then I got another plush one this time pink with black stripes and my niece saw it and named her “Ruby” so lost that one also. But she told me all sorts of stories of trouble that Ruby would get into when I visited.
Remarkable how easily those little critters wander off on their own and never come back. At least you still have some sort of contact with Ruby.
To me they look like little red peppers. Mementos of plants she has weeded, perhaps.
No, we’re talking about the cute little animal charm she had back in the Looking Glass Land chapter.
Tip hesitated about declaring a female his friend??? O_O
It could be a plant clone
Tip, or the female?
Yes
Well, if 1939 was as important a year in Baseball as it was in movies, history, and world fairs I imagine many people *do* know. Seems odd that she picked 1939 rather than some arbitrary year.
The question was originally asked in WWII as part of a series of things Americans would all know, but English-speaking German spies posing as GIs would not.
Of course, the flaw in that is that German spies were specifically educated in such things, so they may have known more about what was going on in the United States than the Americans themselves did.
Not so much “spies” as “infiltrators.” The Germans tried to slip some guys into the American lines but were caught. (There’s a scene in “Battleground” where Van Johnson and his buddies try it out on an officer, who has to do the same to them—it involves more than baseball.)
Maybe that’s the test? Like the Isaac Asimov story where some spies get tripped up because they’re asked about the second verse of the national anthem … and they know it!
The second verse of ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ isn’t hard to find.
It’s the THIRD (and fourth) verse that you have to dig for, and that they replied correctly to a portion of the antepenultimate line.
“The terror of flight”
followed by
“or the gloom of the grave.”
And maybe she did pick 1939 arbitrarily.
It did trip up time travellers who had come back to WWII from the far future to kill Hitler. Or so I’m told.
Somewhere, Abbot and Costello are both laughing.
Perhaps because Abbott spelled his name with two “t”s…