Yep, sounds ominous. I like that this comic isn’t funny every day, sometimes it simply tells a really engaging story. Looking forward to tomorrow’s revelation…
This sounds ominous. Is Thistle’s husband about to need a new job? Maybe he’ll want to come to work with her at the Kickstand. Or maybe he’ll want her to get the kind of high-paying engineering job for which she’s qualified. Either way, it could mean sparks will be flying…
There’s a compromise: she puts her engineering qualifications to work and starts building recumbents, over-engineered dual suspension mountain bikes, and over-designed conceptual “city” bikes.
I recall Thistle’s husband not being enthusiastic or overly supportive of her choice to work at a “bicycle sjop” when she was an overweight, housewife, stay-at-home mom. Over the months, she has grown to being a lithe wife, an interactive mom that has broadened her daughter’s world and has even brought a little ching in once in awhile.
You don’t just up and quit in this economy..she’d need a new job first and good luck with that. Firms aren’t hiring. Heck even I’m back in a shop b/c of all this.
Thistle & Sister Sprocket are the new face of the Kickstand (innovation and design respectively). Chunk and Stokley are Joe’s new wrench hands. They launch a new line of custom bikes. Sweetroll is in charge of the web presence. TLC picks it up as a new show. Yehuda runs for mayor.
Have you noticed that Thistle and Sprocket are almost never shown interacting? I don’t think they like each other, though each is trying to hide that fact so as not to appear catty…
He’s been made redundant; the good news is, he’s in PR so he’ll be advertising the Kickstand from now on. No more flyers: it’s billboards, national TV ads, viral videos and Tweets from here on in…
Never understood the English idiom “made redundant”. Doesn’t one “become redundant”? If you were made redundant you never would have qualified for the job originally. Of course this is why it’s an idiom.
Not nitpicking – just discussing this interesting difference in use…
‘made’ implies – ‘not my fault’
while
‘become’ is a little different – business changes mean business closes the section / worker’s skills don’t fit the new plan(etc)?
Along with the production team I was ‘made’ redundant in 1989. The minicomputers we made did not ‘fit’ the new plan, some of us were unwanted etc. They couldn’t sack us (law) so they made us redundant. No matter that we were the only profitable section of a big company the preceding year!
The kickstand wouldn’t want to get THAT busy, they just want steady sales at their one store. this is a local shop selling local frames hand made by local people. They could never keep up with a huge market. Besides, the kickstand is starting to do well and in story land, that means it’s crisis time.
Zing! Although I’ve always heard that Atlanta is really nice; but for a cyclist that could be a pretty bad change. Atlanta has that post automobile boom Sunbelt road engineering thing going on. I think I would prefer Cleveland.
Amy: Fry, wasn’t Atlanta an American city in your time? Fry: I think it was an airport. It had a place where you could buy nuts. Ombrial: Atlanta was more than just an airport. It was a vibrant city, the equal of Paris and New York.
Fry: Sure, honey. Whatever you say.
It isn’t as hot and humid as you’d think. It’s up in the hills. A friend of mine who lived in both Atlanta and Baltimore INSISTED that Baltimore summers were hotter and more humid. I thought he was crazy so I researched on the internet to prove him wrong – and I’ll be damned but he was right. Atlanta is cooler and less humid in the summer than the Mid-Atlantic east coast. Granted, the Mid-Atlantic is WAY WAY hotter and more humid than people give it credit for, but still.
Been to both areas in the summer. Wouldn’t want to live in either area. I’m just not into hot and humid. Others may enoy it but I don’t. Much prefer four seasons, humidity less than 60% and max temps in the 70′s.
Wow… I work a seasonal job and I get excited when those seasons come up. Its def not for the money either because I get paid under min. wage for long hours. HUZZAH!
Okay so here’s two comments where I can’t understand the lingo.
Mongo: ‘hopey-changey’ – a political slogan or chant or something from the US news?
Heidi: ‘other party’ – which one?
As the UK now has a coalition. we effectively have two parties now – the government and the Labour Party (outgoing)
In the USA I can see that the (any) new President will have opposition from conservative followers of the previous incumbent (of whichever party)
In the current world-wide recession brought on by greedy bankers and careless money-men, welfare is a difficult thing. I am no expert but it looks like all governments have to set a series of tasks in decreasing order of importance. The most important one is to get enough life-saving supplies like food into the country. To get that food to the tables, we need jobs and a transport infrastructure of some kind.
I guess the further the food travels, the more it costs and more at risk we are should the transportation break-down. So we should be looking at how to make our food production as local as possible, delivery as cheap as possible (bike) and health as high a priority as possible. Once again, the bike helps there too!
I think your Annointed One has brought most of the derogatory comments on by his own actions and/or lack thereof. His approval ratings are somewhere in the low forties, and that with the mainstream media in his hip pocket. It wasn’t that long ago when President George W. Bush’s ratings slipped below forty percent, and the press led every news broadcast with that story. I wonder if there wil be an equal degree of scrutiny when Barry Hussein’s numbers continue inevitably to slide.
“derogatorily”? That in itself would fit well in a lexicon of Palinisms. Refudiate me if you dare.
I should point out that I live in the UK so my ‘Appointed One’ is my prime minister – who I actually helped to elect by not voting Labour! When you read this strip Mongo, it helps to remember the readership is truly worldwide. I have no like or Dislike for Sarah Palin – on the Other Hand I love ‘Michael Palin’ (Comedian etc)
Really good for me Mongo. I enjoyed my job until it was axed. I found various new jobs and most were good but when the heart-attack killed me, I am a happy Zombie now.
(I only died for 2-minutes, I don’t eat dead bodies!) I enjoy helping out at the charity bike shop etc. I am sorry that your life has little sugar anymore. Perhaps if you joined a suitable group that did something positive, your life would cheer up too?
I agree with FredOak. Also, things would be better if we didn’t blame the other party for every thing that is wrong. The economy sucks because people, in general, are selfish (both republican and democrat). When selfish people get power they look out for themselves first. Whether that be their wallet or their reputation. The government is not going to fix us. We need to find a solution for the selfishness of man and go from there. I only know one person who can help with that.
I think a naive world view is one that thinks humanity ever will achieve any lasting improvements without the sort of Divine intervention of which BeanPole speaks.
Or a naive view is one that thinks that will ever happen. But, it’s a good justification for not doing anything and/or a good way to cope with despair.
Believing the Creator of the universe is expecting you to do your best, and is ready to back you up when you fail, is both a good motivation for making the effort and a good reason not to despair.
“Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” — C.S. Lewis
Or a naive view is one that thinks that will ever happen. But, it’s a good justification for not doing anything and/or a good way to cope with despair.
About as I expected. Obama’s better than any Republican, but that leaves lots of room for being over-conservative. We needed a bigger stimulus, and we need a credible plan to raise taxes in the future (especially on the well-off, which includes me) when the economy improves. Single-payer health care would have been better than what we got (look at other countries — it costs less, same or better results than other forms of universal care), but again, too conservative, and forced (?) to compromise with crazy people and insurance-industry suck-ups in his own party.
You asked. I was under no illusions when I voted for him. Consider the alternative, cranky-McGetOffMyLawn and Ms. Winky-Stupid.
The most fervently anti-incumbents running here sound as if they have been in suspended animation since the 1955 John Birch Society convention or like mental patients. They sound about as capable of governing as a preschooler in the midst of a tantrum.
On the other hand, I hear some believe that their god once hit the reset switch, so if it’s good enough for god . . . .
Sis said, “The most fervently anti-incumbents running here sound as if the…”
Yes I hear that too. I also hear the career politician’s lies. Again a choice of the lesser evil as well as the “devil I know” conundrum. Sigh…
“Conceptually” cleaning house of all incumbents would rid us of all the built in corruption and clear the decks of the established lobbyist ties. Yes, new ties may form… but hopefuly not too quickly. Heck, who am I kidding? Money, power, greed.. we are all screwed.
The most fervently anti-incumbents running here sound as if they have been in suspended animation since the 1955 John Birch Society convention or like mental patients. They sound about as capable of governing as a preschooler in the midst of a tantrum.
On the other hand, I hear some believe that their god once hit the reset switch, so if it’s good enough for god . . . .
The hope/change thing is working out great for me. My retirement savings are back to where they were before the 2008 stock market meltdown.
More importanly to the rest of us, the federal government is increasingly supporting bicycle and transit infrastructure. For years, the USA was the number one producer of oil (now we’re #3) and its oil companies were lucky to get in on the ground floor in Saudi Arabia, when other countries were setting up shop in the future Iran and Iraq. But the oil party will die down and it’s time to look to the future. Obama is doing that as well as any president can, given the frustrating realities of politics.
Whoever Thistle’s husband is, she’s too good for him….
‘Made redundant’ is managementspeak, the purpose of which is to subvert the meaning of a word or phrase in order to affirm the inherent perceived goodness and value of management and to enhance the perception of wrongness and badness in everything else, and therefore it considers itself above the normal rules which apply to language. Of course, it fools no one except the deluded idiots that spout it.
My doctor recently explained that my putting on weight despite no change in lifestyle is due to my ‘advancing from youth’-much the same sort of nonsense. I’m getting old and I’m going to start falling to bits and die; excuse me while I fail to see this as an advance (although I am prepared to accept that it will result in a small improvement in the gene pool).
I don’t think he lost his job. I bet the spin will be that they have to relocate and The Kickstand will lose one of the best things it has going for it.
How many times have we got home tired and any lack of fun at work is a ‘bad day’
It isn’t necessarily an cataclysm like has been mentioned above. He possibly ran out petrol and had to walk!
I think the pregnant pause in his response, along with the look of dread on Thistle’s face are pretty strong indicators that whatever it is it’s a pretty big deal.
Sis, I’m sorry to hear that. If it makes you feel any better, relationships are HARD. If you both are sincere and work together you can overcome this “bump in the road”. You will both be better for it and one day you may fondly look back at this with greater appreciation.
(or maybe you could flush your cookies, clear your brower history, and if all else fails, re-boot)
I think it’s js-kit – it happens to me on different computers with different operating systems and a lot of people seem to be having the same problems, judging by the duplicate comments over the last few days (watch this get posted 8 times if I don’t reload the page in time).
And if it’s because I use Noscript and disabled 3rd party cookies, it’s still js-kit’s fault, because that’s the only way to browse (and it worked fine last week).
js-kit is the 3rd party service that handles the comments, and it’s been acting up for a few of us this week (double comments and timeouts). I hope it isn’t my Firefox security settings, because I like those how they are, and they worked OK last week.
Thistles husband: the owner of the evil competing bike shop. The one who stole the bicycle made from unobtanium. Wasn’t she wearing their shirt once too. I would suppose a great night at the Kickstand would not bode well for their business.
Cue dramatic music….
Yes, this does not bode well in Yehudaland…
Yep, sounds ominous. I like that this comic isn’t funny every day, sometimes it simply tells a really engaging story. Looking forward to tomorrow’s revelation…
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*Not for today’s strip but regarding Fizz’s being the center of conversation..
At least she tells a tale worth listening to..
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27fpj_monty-pythons-the-cycling-tour-vost_creation
Have a Great Ride sometime this week everyone so we can chat about it!
he hit a biker. with his car.
thistle divorces.
YEHUDA LOVE TRIANGLE WEEOO
no, he lost his job and now thistle needs to find full time work and will have to leave the kickstand.
I was thinking he lost his job and will join the Kickstand staff along with his wife.
between you two(joe & rocjtothe) im freakin out. “ITS NOT JUST A COMIC!!! Its real…”
This sounds ominous. Is Thistle’s husband about to need a new job? Maybe he’ll want to come to work with her at the Kickstand. Or maybe he’ll want her to get the kind of high-paying engineering job for which she’s qualified. Either way, it could mean sparks will be flying…
That’s waht I was thinking…
There’s a compromise: she puts her engineering qualifications to work and starts building recumbents, over-engineered dual suspension mountain bikes, and over-designed conceptual “city” bikes.
I recall Thistle’s husband not being enthusiastic or overly supportive of her choice to work at a “bicycle sjop” when she was an overweight, housewife, stay-at-home mom. Over the months, she has grown to being a lithe wife, an interactive mom that has broadened her daughter’s world and has even brought a little ching in once in awhile.
I doubt his atitude has changed.
she may have to quit, because he got laid off. if thats true, my next comment is gonna be “called it!”
That’s what I thought, too! Maybe he will join her in the shop…?
You don’t just up and quit in this economy..she’d need a new job first and good luck with that. Firms aren’t hiring. Heck even I’m back in a shop b/c of all this.
In the current job market, unless she has stayed curent in her trained profession, she will have a tough time finding work in her field of study.
Thistle & Sister Sprocket are the new face of the Kickstand (innovation and design respectively).
Chunk and Stokley are Joe’s new wrench hands.
They launch a new line of custom bikes.
Sweetroll is in charge of the web presence.
TLC picks it up as a new show.
Yehuda runs for mayor.
Have you noticed that Thistle and Sprocket are almost never shown interacting? I don’t think they like each other, though each is trying to hide that fact so as not to appear catty…
He must work for RBS, just announced 3,500 additional job losses in the UK, bringing the total up to over 21,000 in the UK since 2008.
He’s been made redundant; the good news is, he’s in PR so he’ll be advertising the Kickstand from now on. No more flyers: it’s billboards, national TV ads, viral videos and Tweets from here on in…
Never understood the English idiom “made redundant”. Doesn’t one “become redundant”? If you were made redundant you never would have qualified for the job originally. Of course this is why it’s an idiom.
Not nitpicking – just discussing this interesting difference in use…
‘made’ implies – ‘not my fault’
while
‘become’ is a little different – business changes mean business closes the section / worker’s skills don’t fit the new plan(etc)?
Along with the production team I was ‘made’ redundant in 1989. The minicomputers we made did not ‘fit’ the new plan, some of us were unwanted etc. They couldn’t sack us (law) so they made us redundant. No matter that we were the only profitable section of a big company the preceding year!
right sack (UK) = fired (US)
redundant (UK) = laid off (US)
The kickstand wouldn’t want to get THAT busy, they just want steady sales at their one store. this is a local shop selling local frames hand made by local people. They could never keep up with a huge market. Besides, the kickstand is starting to do well and in story land, that means it’s crisis time.
Bom Bom BOMMMMMMMM!
Darn job market. I blame [insert the president of your choice here].
Millard Fillmore
LOL – I’m goin’ with Tricky Dick.
zachary taylor.
James Polk
I’ll go with James Buchanan. If you’re going to do blame, then have class and blame the worst ever.
T. Jefferson.
wyclef
I blame [insert the president of your choice here].
should be:
I blame [insert the president NOT of your choice here]. If you didn’t vote, you have no right to complain.
He is being transferred to Atlanta and the family has to move.
A fate even worse than Cleveland!
Zing! Although I’ve always heard that Atlanta is really nice; but for a cyclist that could be a pretty bad change. Atlanta has that post automobile boom Sunbelt road engineering thing going on. I think I would prefer Cleveland.
Amy: Fry, wasn’t Atlanta an American city in your time?
Fry: I think it was an airport. It had a place where you could buy nuts.
Ombrial: Atlanta was more than just an airport. It was a vibrant city, the equal of Paris and New York.
Fry: Sure, honey. Whatever you say.
Hey, it’s getting better down here!
Still too hot and humid though.
It isn’t as hot and humid as you’d think. It’s up in the hills. A friend of mine who lived in both Atlanta and Baltimore INSISTED that Baltimore summers were hotter and more humid. I thought he was crazy so I researched on the internet to prove him wrong – and I’ll be damned but he was right. Atlanta is cooler and less humid in the summer than the Mid-Atlantic east coast. Granted, the Mid-Atlantic is WAY WAY hotter and more humid than people give it credit for, but still.
Been to both areas in the summer. Wouldn’t want to live in either area. I’m just not into hot and humid. Others may enoy it but I don’t. Much prefer four seasons, humidity less than 60% and max temps in the 70′s.
But easier to ride year round… less snow and ice
One of the many reasons I live in Oregon! Our humidity falls out of the sky in the winter and pretty much disappears during the summer.
Heh, I’d miss Thistle.
I would miss Fizz even more!
I don’t know about the rest of you, but when my wife asks me “how was work?”, the answer is rarely “Great!”
Agree. If it was FUN, it wouldn’t be called “Work”.
Disagree. I like my job. I enjoy it.
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I do.
Not everyday, but quite often. I love my job
You too huh..
Wife: says how was work..
Answer: &^$#
Wow… I work a seasonal job and I get excited when those seasons come up. Its def not for the money either because I get paid under min. wage for long hours. HUZZAH!
Another poor sap joins the ranks of the unemployed. So how’s that hopey-changey thing workin’ out for ya?
It would a whole lot better if the other party cared an iota about the country’s welfare.
Okay so here’s two comments where I can’t understand the lingo.
Mongo: ‘hopey-changey’ – a political slogan or chant or something from the US news?
Heidi: ‘other party’ – which one?
As the UK now has a coalition. we effectively have two parties now – the government and the Labour Party (outgoing)
In the USA I can see that the (any) new President will have opposition from conservative followers of the previous incumbent (of whichever party)
In the current world-wide recession brought on by greedy bankers and careless money-men, welfare is a difficult thing. I am no expert but it looks like all governments have to set a series of tasks in decreasing order of importance. The most important one is to get enough life-saving supplies like food into the country. To get that food to the tables, we need jobs and a transport infrastructure of some kind.
I guess the further the food travels, the more it costs and more at risk we are should the transportation break-down. So we should be looking at how to make our food production as local as possible, delivery as cheap as possible (bike) and health as high a priority as possible. Once again, the bike helps there too!
“hopey changey” is a Palin-ism. A way that Sarah Palin, and those who admire her, refer derogatorily to Obama’s actions.
I think your Annointed One has brought most of the derogatory comments on by his own actions and/or lack thereof. His approval ratings are somewhere in the low forties, and that with the mainstream media in his hip pocket. It wasn’t that long ago when President George W. Bush’s ratings slipped below forty percent, and the press led every news broadcast with that story. I wonder if there wil be an equal degree of scrutiny when Barry Hussein’s numbers continue inevitably to slide.
“derogatorily”? That in itself would fit well in a lexicon of Palinisms. Refudiate me if you dare.
I should point out that I live in the UK so my ‘Appointed One’ is my prime minister – who I actually helped to elect by not voting Labour! When you read this strip Mongo, it helps to remember the readership is truly worldwide. I have no like or Dislike for Sarah Palin – on the Other Hand I love ‘Michael Palin’ (Comedian etc)
@mongo – Always glad to help:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/derogatorily
Not exactly a new coinage.
@mongo – Always glad to help:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/derogatorily
Not exactly a new coinage.
@mongo – Always glad to help:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/derogatorily
Not exactly a new coinage.
Really good for me Mongo. I enjoyed my job until it was axed. I found various new jobs and most were good but when the heart-attack killed me, I am a happy Zombie now.
(I only died for 2-minutes, I don’t eat dead bodies!) I enjoy helping out at the charity bike shop etc. I am sorry that your life has little sugar anymore. Perhaps if you joined a suitable group that did something positive, your life would cheer up too?
I agree with FredOak. Also, things would be better if we didn’t blame the other party for every thing that is wrong. The economy sucks because people, in general, are selfish (both republican and democrat). When selfish people get power they look out for themselves first. Whether that be their wallet or their reputation. The government is not going to fix us. We need to find a solution for the selfishness of man and go from there. I only know one person who can help with that.
What a charmingly comforting and completely naive world view.
I think a naive world view is one that thinks humanity ever will achieve any lasting improvements without the sort of Divine intervention of which BeanPole speaks.
Or a naive view is one that thinks that will ever happen. But, it’s a good justification for not doing anything and/or a good way to cope with despair.
Believing the Creator of the universe is expecting you to do your best, and is ready to back you up when you fail, is both a good motivation for making the effort and a good reason not to despair.
“Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” — C.S. Lewis
Or a naive view is one that thinks that will ever happen. But, it’s a good justification for not doing anything and/or a good way to cope with despair.
What a charmingly comforting and completely naive world view.
About as I expected. Obama’s better than any Republican, but that leaves lots of room for being over-conservative. We needed a bigger stimulus, and we need a credible plan to raise taxes in the future (especially on the well-off, which includes me) when the economy improves. Single-payer health care would have been better than what we got (look at other countries — it costs less, same or better results than other forms of universal care), but again, too conservative, and forced (?) to compromise with crazy people and insurance-industry suck-ups in his own party.
You asked. I was under no illusions when I voted for him. Consider the alternative, cranky-McGetOffMyLawn and Ms. Winky-Stupid.
Vote out all incumbents. Few if any actually care about their constituents. Time to hit the reset button.
The most fervently anti-incumbents running here sound as if they have been in suspended animation since the 1955 John Birch Society convention or like mental patients. They sound about as capable of governing as a preschooler in the midst of a tantrum.
On the other hand, I hear some believe that their god once hit the reset switch, so if it’s good enough for god . . . .
Sis said, “The most fervently anti-incumbents running here sound as if the…”
Yes I hear that too. I also hear the career politician’s lies. Again a choice of the lesser evil as well as the “devil I know” conundrum. Sigh…
“Conceptually” cleaning house of all incumbents would rid us of all the built in corruption and clear the decks of the established lobbyist ties. Yes, new ties may form… but hopefuly not too quickly. Heck, who am I kidding? Money, power, greed.. we are all screwed.
The most fervently anti-incumbents running here sound as if they have been in suspended animation since the 1955 John Birch Society convention or like mental patients. They sound about as capable of governing as a preschooler in the midst of a tantrum.
On the other hand, I hear some believe that their god once hit the reset switch, so if it’s good enough for god . . . .
Huh? Wha? Vote out the recumbents? Ain’t got a God damned one, and I must have like nine bikes. Not a ‘bent in the bunch.
Hi everybody,
Please do not feed the trolls.
Thank you.
The hope/change thing is working out great for me. My retirement savings are back to where they were before the 2008 stock market meltdown.
More importanly to the rest of us, the federal government is increasingly supporting bicycle and transit infrastructure. For years, the USA was the number one producer of oil (now we’re #3) and its oil companies were lucky to get in on the ground floor in Saudi Arabia, when other countries were setting up shop in the future Iran and Iraq. But the oil party will die down and it’s time to look to the future. Obama is doing that as well as any president can, given the frustrating realities of politics.
Whoever Thistle’s husband is, she’s too good for him….
‘Made redundant’ is managementspeak, the purpose of which is to subvert the meaning of a word or phrase in order to affirm the inherent perceived goodness and value of management and to enhance the perception of wrongness and badness in everything else, and therefore it considers itself above the normal rules which apply to language. Of course, it fools no one except the deluded idiots that spout it.
My doctor recently explained that my putting on weight despite no change in lifestyle is due to my ‘advancing from youth’-much the same sort of nonsense. I’m getting old and I’m going to start falling to bits and die; excuse me while I fail to see this as an advance (although I am prepared to accept that it will result in a small improvement in the gene pool).
just keep on pedaling!
I don’t think he lost his job. I bet the spin will be that they have to relocate and The Kickstand will lose one of the best things it has going for it.
Naa. Thistle would choose the Kickstand over Shorty any day.
How many times have we got home tired and any lack of fun at work is a ‘bad day’
It isn’t necessarily an cataclysm like has been mentioned above. He possibly ran out petrol and had to walk!
I think the pregnant pause in his response, along with the look of dread on Thistle’s face are pretty strong indicators that whatever it is it’s a pretty big deal.
Maybe there are pending layoffs. Shop life may have to adjust a bit.
js-kit and I are having relationship problems.
Sis, I’m sorry to hear that. If it makes you feel any better, relationships are HARD. If you both are sincere and work together you can overcome this “bump in the road”. You will both be better for it and one day you may fondly look back at this with greater appreciation.
(or maybe you could flush your cookies, clear your brower history, and if all else fails, re-boot)
I think it’s js-kit – it happens to me on different computers with different operating systems and a lot of people seem to be having the same problems, judging by the duplicate comments over the last few days (watch this get posted 8 times if I don’t reload the page in time).
And if it’s because I use Noscript and disabled 3rd party cookies, it’s still js-kit’s fault, because that’s the only way to browse (and it worked fine last week).
js-kit? What’s that. Obviously NOT the only way to browse!
js-kit is the 3rd party service that handles the comments, and it’s been acting up for a few of us this week (double comments and timeouts). I hope it isn’t my Firefox security settings, because I like those how they are, and they worked OK last week.
Thanks required. ‘JavaScript Kit’ Eh?
Sound like the ‘Sun’ did not come out on time then
(Just kidding – I know, now, that Java and js are unrelated!)
nb – the ! s/b a
Do we know the name of Thistle’s husband?
Is there a prior comic with a picture of him?
He’s like Carleton the Doorman or Charlie Brown’s teacher.
Thistles husband: the owner of the evil competing bike shop. The one who stole the bicycle made from unobtanium. Wasn’t she wearing their shirt once too. I would suppose a great night at the Kickstand would not bode well for their business.
Maybe they’ll decide to go car free in order to cut costs at home while he looks for a new job.
Maybe Thistle’s husband is Kevlar Bead’s colleague…
I bet someone stole his stapler
I was thinking somebody stole his lasagna from the refrigerator.
Or moved his desk to the basement.
When did he get his last pay check?
OH GOSH! Someone call the fire department!