11/12/2010 [DMFA #1165] - Different kinds of weird

[Tapewolf]

Well, that neatly defuses the whole 'What if Matilda finds out?' thing.  Which is probably a good thing because it's one less sword hanging over Dan's head.

What's really creepy is when the bird winks at you and spits out its liquid, but that doesn't happen much.

[MT Hazard]

What's really creepy is when the bird winks at you and spits out its liquid, but that doesn't happen much.

Damn, some times I think my imagination is out to get me.

[Jasonrevall]

That's why you always double check to make sure you have the proper number of zeros on the order form.

And I love seeing Dan is open and honest. There seems to be too few open and honest characters.

[joshofspam]

Eh... I don't know.

Little novelties like that have always kept me entertained. Maybe its just the simpleton in me. Though one does wonder who would need an entire store full of them?

Is it really all those eyes making her uncomfortable or possibly the fact that someone would  order that many that's bugging Matilda?

Guess it would depend if this is the old switch up or just the wrong item getting shipped. My money is that she was trying to get her hands on more "Jyrras toasters" for magical homes.

[Naldru]

I heard of a tax accountant who thought he was ordering a hundred copies of a form.  Image his surprise when a truck pulled up and dropped off a hundred boxes of forms, with each one containing a few thousand copies of the form.

[Shachza]

OK, Matilda is incredibly weird.  She's far too reasonable to be hanging out with the group of miscreants that occupies this comic.

[nevwyn]

 

*bobble bobble bobble bobble bobble bobble*

[techmaster-glitch]

I dunno, I for one find it absolutely refreshing to see characters acting in a totally rational and calm manner for once

[Alondro]

*watches the bobble-birds...*    THEY CAN MOVE ON THEIR OWN!!!  THEY R POSESSED BY SATAN!!!  *burns the whole stock of the clearly demonic objects*

[Gabi]

I dunno, I for one find it absolutely refreshing to see characters acting in a totally rational and calm manner for once

Posting in agreement.

[Jasonrevall]

I dunno, I for one find it absolutely refreshing to see characters acting in a totally rational and calm manner for once

I must agree. Sometimes it's good to just take a break from the chaos.

[iceick]

No chaos breaks! Chaos forever  !

Let's see, bobble birds - bobble binds - bubble binds - bubble binders. Was she trying to order schools supplies?

[Captain]

Is it me or are the jokes becoming progressively more strange as of very recently?

[Attic Rat]

What's weird is... The bobble birds are bobbling without any water to bobble in!

You know what that means?

Instead of colored alcohol, each bird was filled with the immortal soul of some poor hapless being! 

[Infranscia]

The part I thought was weird was how she apparently put all the bobble birds on the shelves before saying this.  My guess is that she's got a spell that automatically stocks the shelves.

Come to think of it... I think I've only seen the bobble birds in pictures and cartoons.  I should rectify this sometime.

Taking a look at art experimentation for todays strip, I rather like how the faces were done.  Dan's face is looking more natural, while Matilda has a smoothness that does seem befitting for her smooth skin (scales?).  Admittedly, Dan's eyes seem a little strange to me.  I think it has to do with the bright spots on the top and bottom being (from what I can tell) the same color, rather than the top one being lighter, possibly combined with the apparent lack of pupils.  They look kind of like translucent gemstones to me, so admittedly, I think that effect would look good on translucent gemstones. ^__^;  Matilda's eyes are nice, though, and ooh!  Apparently she has little spots! 

[Naldru]

What's weird is... The bobble birds are bobbling without any water to bobble in!

You know what that means?

Instead of colored alcohol, each bird was filled with the immortal soul of some poor hapless being! 

Except for one, all of the drinking birds are in the upright position.  It could therefore be that that one is defective and none of them are actually bobbing up and down.

It is also possible to make the bird move up and down without a glass of water by using a strategically aimed light source.

Being an engineer and having read the previous comments, I should also state that it is possible to have the motion power a small air pump that would periodically make noises like a whoopee cushion.

[MT Hazard]

Matilda's line "We had one date. It isn't like I own you" seems a little odd considering her history, or perhaps its a sign of how far she has moved  from the culture of her species.

[Rafe]

Bizarre Trivia Item:

Those weird "drinking bird" things were invented by Eddie Albert, probably best known as lawyer-turned-farmer Oliver Wendel Douglas on the '60s comedy "Green Acres".



I loved that show.  It was surreal.

[Angel]

...I wish I had a room filled with hinky-dinky bobbing birds.

[D'ymkarra]

I dunno, I for one find it absolutely refreshing to see characters acting in a totally rational and calm manner for once

Indeed. It gives a nice contrast to the usual insanity we've all more or less become accustomed to 

[Turnsky]

it's worth noting that i don't believe anybody's noticed Matilda's third eye looking in the opposite direction of the other two.

nice detail thar, Ambaaaargh.

[iceick]

If you pay attention to her throughout the comic, you'd notice that her third eye is rarely looking in the same direction as the other two.

[Howl]

Dan looks like a woman in the first panel.

[Acriaos]

This is really weird... I actually bought 10 of those dipping birds a few weeks ago (they were shipped on the 21. Oct.)  and I was getting worried since they haven't been delivered yet. How in the world did they wind up there?!? ... and also... if they mixed up the order, what am I going to receive? Now I'm really scared.

edit: I meant October of course 

[Wanderer]

(they were shipped on the 21. Nov.)

You can get things shipped from the future?! This is amazing! You have to tell me how!

it's worth noting that i don't believe anybody's noticed Matilda's third eye looking in the opposite direction of the other two.

nice detail thar, Ambaaaargh.

She does that often, and I think it's cool every single time. It looks like her lower two eyes move in sync like human eyes, but her upper eye is independent.

[AxiLarin]

Hmmm... perhaps she had top hats on her mind when she did her ordering, eh?    Way to go, Dan.

[hartree]

Bizarre Trivia Item:
Those weird "drinking bird" things were invented by Eddie Albert, probably best known as lawyer-turned-farmer Oliver Wendel Douglas on the '60s comedy "Green Acres".

I've heard that a couple times, but it's not right. Maybe there should be a Snopes entry on it.

"The drinking bird was invented by Miles V. Sullivan and co-developed by George H. Shackley in 1945 and patented in 1946." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_bird

patent 2402463: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2402463.html

[Tapewolf]

"The drinking bird was invented by Miles V. Sullivan and co-developed by George H. Shackley in 1945 and patented in 1946." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_bird

For what it's worth, the thing I said earlier about the bird winking is from a book written in 1956, so yeah.  Must try and find a copy of it again now.  I had wondered if anyone would recognise it

[Rafe]

I heard from at least three different sources over the years - my high school physics teacher, the Edmund Scientific catalog (they sell them) and radio commentator Paul Harvey, that those drinking bird things were invented by Eddie Albert.  

Looks like evidence shows otherwise.  Now I'm wondering how this all got started, and will  no doubt research this for some unreasonably long time until I figure it out.  (God, I'm a hopeless, trivia-obsessed fool).

Here, have another useless glass item, a radiometer thing that spins around in sunlight:

[Shachza]

I heard from at least three different sources over the years - my high school physics teacher, the Edmund Scientific catalog (they sell them) and radio commentator Paul Harvey, that those drinking bird things were invented by Eddie Albert.  

Looks like evidence shows otherwise.  Now I'm wondering how this all got started, and will  no doubt research this for some unreasonably long time until I figure it out.  (God, I'm a hopeless, trivia-obsessed fool).

Here, have another useless glass item, a radiometer thing that spins around in sunlight:

You should search out "The Most Useless Machine Ever."  I think that was the name at least; it was featured one evening on The Daily Show or The Colbert Report.  It's a box with a switch on top to turn it on.  When you turn it on the lid pops up, a lever reaches out, and it flips the switch to "off" before disappearing back inside and closing the lid.