Dinner With Dad 7
I’ll admit: I’ve been guilty of this. The dialogue between Alex and Mick here may be based on a real conversation. I have to meet a gal’s dad for the first time? I want to not look like a hobo.
I don’t know WHY the site fails to autoupdate about once every week. I’ve tried setting it to various random times, usually around 1:00 am CST. Sometimes, I wake up, and have to manually update, because the interface just says “UPDATE FAILED” with no explanation. I’ve tried to hunt down a log file, but can’t find one. Urgh. Let’s try 2:00 am CST this time.
Let’s pause the Gun Control topics for a moment and watch something fucking weird.
[EDIT] Can anyone in NY confirm/debunk this, please?
Cannot corroborate. No other reports. Resuming normal programming.
Funny that you should post some Mummenschanz, that was my older brother’s Halloween costume this year.
I thought that looked vaguely familiar, I *had* seen it many years ago, especially the clay-masked mimes. It may have shown on one of the movie channels as a filler.
“You never get a 2nd chance to fuck up a 1st impression”
So. Very. True.
I grew up watching the Mummenschanz! My wife had no idea what I was talking about when I told her about them. When I first showed her a video? Oh, the expression on her face was priceless!
I first saw Mummenschanz on the Muppet Show when I was a little kid and it stuck in my head for years and partially felt like a weird childhood dream. I was too young to know WTF was going on, but I knew I liked it. It wasn’t until 2007 when I found clips from that show on YouTube and I felt like I found the Holy Grail.
Well that was…
I’m not going to mince words, that was weird as fuck. I think “B” was what Super-Herpes looks like. I mean, what the fuck?
Actually, that sums up my feelings nicely. What in the actual fuck did I just watch? Is that a kids show? Was it made by the people who did Candle Cove? I feel like I am slipping out of reality here.
In regards to your link, above: NY City Admin Code 10-306(b) does indeed state that per NYC law, you may not possess a device capable of feeding a rifle or shotgun which may contain more than five rounds at any one time.
I cannot confirm or deny that the letter posted actually exists, but it appears on its face to be a pretty straight-forward and not-unreasonable attempt to bring someone in line with the law. It does not appear to be anything other than that. The website hosting that letter *immediately* gets the facts wrong, in reference to the image they posted – The letter they display refers directly to NY City and does NOT “…requires people to register, sell or transfer (out of state)…”.
IOW, someone fucked up when they posted that, and are – at best – jumping at ghosts. At worst, they’re deliberately distorting the facts to create hysteria. Which is bad, m’kay?
Distortion of the facts makes 2nd Amendment supporters look bad, yanno? DO. NOT. DO. THAT.
I’ve got to say I’m glad you’re taking a break from the gun control debate. I just wanted to throw my two cents in as someone who is staunchly pro-gun control. I’m not going into it, but I just wanted to say that I respect responsible gun owners because, frankly, guns are cool, they’re fascinating pieces of engineering, and they are a hell of a lot of fun to shoot. I don’t believe that guns should be legal for private ownership, but that’s a personal political opinion that I came to after a long time looking at the facts and hearing arguments from both sides. I’ve also been a big fan of your work for a very long time and I love Failure to Fire. The only time I don’t like it as much is when you do the hyper-political satire strips. But you know what I do? I close the tab and wait for the next update, because anything I say won’t change your mind just as nothing you say will change mine. And I respect your opinion on the issue and understand your need to vent at some of my fellow pro-gun control…well, let’s just say “zealots” and be done with it. Keep up the good work!
Alex looks legitimately freaked out. I’m impressed, Mick.
I LOVE MUMMENSHCNANZ! 😀
Man, I’d forgotten about them.
Now if you can just dig up some old Shields & Yarnell..
Shields & Yarnell…
o.0
The horror. The horror…