page 1265 – too busy
One of the nice things about knowing I’ll never be rich enough to eat anyplace nice is knowing I’ll never have to put up with the annoyance of having food brought out to me in multiple courses of minuscule serving sizes. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: just dump all the food on a buffet and let me take care of myself. It’s simpler for everybody.
OKAY, so remember what I said about my schedule finally starting to settle down a bit? Yeah, it turns out that was a big ol’ lie. There’s actually a TON of things I’ve gotta get done across various points across the internet, by the end of this week. Even if I made the effort to TRY and get a new TWC thing done over the next few days, I’d probably just end up forgetting again, so I’m just gonna go ahead and declare that it’s not happening this week. But speaking of the many things that need to get done, work on this year’s April Fools page is coming along relatively well, so don’t forget to swing by on Saturday for that!
Marshall! Enjoy the food you made with everyone else who will be enjoying it! You are a Cook in this situation, NOT a Chef! Eating with everyone is a part of the process!
See, YOU know that and I know that, but Marshall…
…and once again showing he’s tempermentally completely unsuited to be a Nitpicker field agent with that reaction…seems very much like Sophia really wanted a good chef on staff at HQ, but Guild Regs required everyone to go through the field internship program regardless of their eventual job. If he ever gets on her bad side, as Ichabod often does, he may get a temporary field assignment as a “punishment” but that’s about it.
**though, to be fair, it’s not true of everyone anyway – echoing Blitz’s own misanthropic/unsociable sentiments from over on CW, I would definitely myself much MUCH prefer to serve and go have a sandwich later than be forced into strained chitchat at a table with a bunch of people most of whom I barely know. But then, Marshall isn’t me, he probably would prefer the latter. Or even if he wouldn’t he probably needs the practice. Also there’s a rule that if a cute girl your age DEMANDS you have dinner with her, you should probably oblige 😉 Especially if it’s Layla.
Marshall has himself pegged as a Chef & Waiter, and isn’t as comfortable being in the “Customer” seat. He’s socially awkward, and would prefer the sandwich because he can just quickly eat it for the nutrients. He considers himself half-full from things like the taste-testing, anyways.
*writes down elements of BOTH these posts for future use*
As Avi’s attention-grab tantrum is 105% totally and completely ignored by everyone but especially Layla.
😀
If he actually wanted to get some GOOD attention he might volunteer to help with the serving, but Planet H311 hasn’t frozen over yet, so that ain’t gonna happen!
How close is Planet H311 to it’s star? Because I’m assuming that it’s a little closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Technically it’s a bit further, but it’s star is much much hotter than our sun. After many centuries of failed attempts to terraform H311 to make it habitable they gave up, and it ended up being a Mad Scientists’ dumping ground for the toxic waste of Technodemons they seem to produce/use in abundance (if we can base it on Tabitha’s family) when either creating experimental abominations of nature, violating the fundamental Laws of the Universe and rules of causality, or cooking dinner. So now it’s inhabited by those things – they seem to like it there. (There actually used to be more of them there, but then Stilez happened to them, so the population’s down by about 75% these days.)
Stilez’s visit must have happened before she picked up Tax, because Planet H311 sounds far too hot and dangerous for Tax.
Yup, exactly! This was way back in her early days, shortly after she broke out of The Facility, long before the Tax Effect began to moderate her behavior into the Adorably Destructive Kitten we know and love today, and even before her “date” with Ichabod taught her that not every living thing she encountered was her enemy. The time when she was just an urban legend to most, but fully earned the terror with which her name is now regarded across the galaxy.
There really are so many characters in FOT who deserve their own spinoff strip, we’re just going to have to clone Blitz at some point.
Heck, we should do that just to keep the MAIN strip going. Maybe then it’ll finally get back to two pages a week.
Blitz, if we clone you, you will have two mouths to feed, instead of your current one. Literally, you’ll need to eat twice as much.
OMG, I’m literally eating right now as I read this 😀
No problem, we’ll clone him again, and that Blitz will be responsible for providing the food for the first two so they have more time to get strips out. Yeah, sux to be him, but that’s what happens when you’re 3rd clone. Somebody has to be! 😀
But the third clone is solely responsible for feeding three mouths, then! You’ll need a fourth clone to feed themselves and the third clone, and by that point you’re running into space issues! Let’s just leave it at one Blitz, and just be patient.
See, that’s exactly how there ended up being Eight of us Eds. And you know everything just flows downhill, so all the real work ends up being dumped on Ed #8!