While we wait for me to get off my keister and get back to the story, please enjoy this never-before-seen-online LoB strip that ran in Kobold magazine last year! Is Bill’s logic sound? I think so! What say you?
P.S. I will be getting back to the regular story as soon as humanly possible. Thank you SO much for your patience, my fellow Billbarians. Pixie, drinks for everyone! (Get ‘em drunk so they don’t realize time passing)
Barbarians wear tighty-whiteys? *crash*
My worldview is utterly destroyed.
While I can’t vouch for all barbarians, I know that this one definitely wears tighty-whiteys.
I also remember a strip about boxers. “Feel the breeze…”
I don’t think that pink is his problem. Seeing as how he tried to wear someone’s pink hair as an accessory at one time. So in conclusion:
Logic = not sound.
This is Bill we are speaking of….his logic has NEVER been sound, hence Frank is the brains of the outfit…
Pink is like fat – it’s “where it’s at”…
Any chance we can get an archive of LOB strips not previously posted here?
Is Bill’s logic sound? “Bill’s logic” is an oxymoron. The two words contradict each other.
On a related topic: The very serious scientific journal, Scientific American, of a few years ago had an article on sockase, the enzyme in washing machine water that dissolves socks. Sockase exists in two versions: lepto (left-handed) and recto (right-handed) which are mutually exclusive. That is why only one sock of a pair will disappear in the wash.
The article appeared in the April issue of that year — if that is of any significance.
I always thought that dryer lint was the cremated remains of missing socks.
That’s the insidious thing, Master Ganyon: dryer lint is the cremated remains of everything in the dryer. Little by little, you lose all your clothes by attrition.
In my decades of washing clothes at home and afield I have never lost a sock. The one and only time I did was when someone else did my laundry for me. And considering how easily I mislay or even lose other things, I think that’s a pretty remarkable achievement.
I think some FAN ART might help everyone get back in the mood.
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(hint, hint, nudge, nudge)
I know this is coming from someone who calls himself a zealot, but be politically correct, kids: It’s african-american magic and socialist magic!
I don’t get the “african” magic part, despite having a sizeable fraction of the family being black.
Socialism indeed seems to work like magic in the way people religiously “believe” in it. 30 million in the Chinese Civil War, 30 million in the Great Leap Forward, 30 million in the Cultural Revolution. 25-50 million Soviet civilians via Stalin (His system used 8 planks of the communist manifesto), another 24 Soviets via Hitler (who used 7 Planks of the communist manifesto) during WWII, although almost ten were from Stalin’s practice of Shock Armies and the Commissar System. 3 million in Vietnam. 2 million in Cambodia. Perhaps another 400 million via abortion in China due to the “one child only” policy. Several million Allied casualties in the European Theatre against the National Socialists. At least another 10 million in central Europe as the armies went back and forth between the two Socialist armies. An unknown number in Yugoslavia and other east bloc nations. 100,000 or so in Cuba, plus an unknown number from rampant malnutrition and the lack of medical care despite it supposedly being free. (People die from diseases conquered elsewhere in Cuba and they used to in the former east Bloc). Mongolia and the other Socialist nations and victims of Socialist nations like Tibet had their numbers. Egypt under Nassar, Syria under Nassar. The list goes on, unfortunately.
Parliamentary Socialist nations like the UK and Canada have a 1/7 and 1/5 casualty rate from their medical systems due to rationing. For at least 3 years each year had more than 100,000 people in the UK, mostly kids, have had to have their entire set of teeth surgically removed due to never having seen a dentist. (Daily Mail, BBC, etc.)
Yup. Socialism is magic to those who’ve never lived under it.
Have you ever thought of putting such things like this on a blog, and then putting a link here for those who might be interested, so we can all stay on the “serious” business of romping through Terragard?
(I know, I know, what’s sauce for you the goose is sauce for me the gander…)
Oh, socialism is a much better form of government than just about anything else around. It’s only flaw is that is depends on humans to make it work.
Bees do this all the time. Then again, Bees aren’t greedy little mud suckers. Unfortunately, people are.
As long as you’ve put out the bait… that’s where you’re wrong. Bees don’t operate on socialism, they operate in a strict hierarchy. Socialism doesn’t work among humans because it’s fundamentally flawed on principle, not because human beings are imperfect socialists. Hierarchy can be made to work despite flawed humans, by contrast.
Every human social hierarchy that works balances cooperation among peers, support from below and direction from above – among four other principles, including love. (I’d follow my own advice and put up an already-extant blog entry here, but I’ll spare you.) Hierarchy motivated by love isn’t socialism – it’s pure centrism, balancing group authority and personal liberty, private interest and public welfare, and much else. Socialism is at best authoritarian-center, and most that goes by that name is authoritarian-left. It has a fundamental distrust of people’s ability to make their own social and economic decisions.
Fine, I’ll explain what I meant with my message: I replaced the words “black magic” with “african-american magic” because african-american is the politically correct and polite way to refer to citizens of african decent. The same goes with replacing “red” with “socialist”.
It’s a joke, guys!
I suppose joke now, Silly Zealot – is that apparently others here are more zealous than yourself!? Or perhaps just sillier? or both? And to think, I gave up reading political blogs because there was too much comedy there….
Thankfully the stuff in games and comics is nothing like the real thing. Having grown up in Oregon— there’s a reason why places like Ashland make the news— it’s tough to avoid the occult. Possession is not uncommon here as a result. Lots of “interesting” groups that liked to sacrifice things in the state. It’s a housing development now, but there used to be a spot east of town where some “interesting” people would sacrifice and burn animals. Used to be that the econuts would go to “party” in the woods (with all that goes with that. I turned down an invite to one of the big “festivals” in Eugene in college. Blech!) but now most of them are into various occultic things.
Do they wear pink whitety-tighties?
I don’t take such real-life considerations lightly either but if we can’t put them aside in a fantasy context then we have no business participating in it. Just sayin’…
*hides her red lacy wing covers behind her back* What?
Did those “sneak” into the wash again?
Why does this not surprise me.
I’d say Bill should be worried about WHITE magic in fact, ’cause they only turn pink because of the stubborn resistance of the white.
Surrender to Red Magic!
But Bill IS white, he’s have to be scared of himself!