Sister Sprocket has now firmly cemented the honorary title of “Major Asshole,” with a capital M.
Strike a victory for positive thinking – throw the unappreciative bitch into the burning Kickstand. Her attitude is more than enough to scare the flames straight off into the next county.
-Stinko
P.S.: For those of you expecting Fizz to triumphantly show up in the Bak, you’re forgetting that the 913 strip, “News at Home,” indicates that Fizz is already snoring at home.
P.P.S.: Thanks, Fred; we knew we could count on you.
‘Sides, engineers don’t design buildings. Architechts do, although there would be a small role for an electrical engineer . And one smallish commercial building wouldn’t keep anyone in work for very long.
Woah, woah, hold on a sec there Cap. S! Haven’t you ever watched a movie before? She’s gonna berate him for being so stupid, then kiss him for going in to save her. Or at least hug him till she breaks a rib, depends on the rules of her religion, cause I dun know scrap about how Shakers view that sort of thing.
Uhhh, either the kiss or the body-damaging hug would be right out, given that Shakers were both celibate and pacifist. The celibate part is why there aren’t Shakers anymore, except here…
If so, how did she get there, alone and in the middle of the night? It’s a long enough distance that Thistle goes by bike, so not likely to be in walking distance for a very small child.
Nice to see Fred back, I hope he continues to drop in from time to time. As far as Sprocket goes, somebody once said that it really doesn’t take all kinds to make a world, but we have them anyway.
Yehuda still looks like crap right now, coughing and all but dying. And we’re assuming that’s Sprocket bitching. Pardon my French, but what an evil woman. I’m still hoping Yehuda is okay.
So… was it the wool that kept him from getting charred?
I’m married to one of those “sassy” (as you call them) women. Believe me…it gets old after a while and you start to realize that “sassiness” is just another word for ‘cruel, heartless bitch with no compassion for anyone else’.
Then she’ll double beat him. What SS is really saying, in her own celibacy-looked-like-a-great-idea-at-the-time way, is: “Why didn’t you get out right away, you could have died!”.
Is she mad because he saved the bike instead of himself? Or maybe there are memories of Fred he could have saved? Or something practical, like the deeds or something?
I’m wondering if Fred got him to go further in to get those things and save the Kickstand?
Don’t forget that previously this (comic universe) evening, Yehuda was using that Bak to transport home party patrons that were too inebriated to safely ride.
There may yet be one of them in the Bak, passed out and waiting for his ride home. Yehuda may have thrown the junk into the Bak to keep the flames off him.
I can really relate to the fire at the Kickstand. I was managing a shop when bad things have happened: thefts, assaults, etc. The shop lives, stronger today.
Fred obviously provided supernatural protection to Yehuda, a “guardian angel” if you like to use that term. We don’t need to know exactly how it works.
Gee – would all the he-man woman haters prefer SSr. Sprocket go on with “oh honey baby schmoopy woopy, I was sooo scared that you wouldn’t make it, boo-hoo, sob, sob!”…Yuk!
If so, how discriminatory and chauvenistic. If Joe had said that about the Bakfiets, it would have “oh, ha-ha, yeah, you tell’im, Joe!”
The gratitude and general amicability is not expected due to Sister Sprocket’s gender, but rather for the fact that it was the sake of her life that led Yehuda to enter the fire.
If Yehuda had gone back in for Joe, and having emerged from the flames was met by Joe’s criticism, I think the majority of readers would be critical of his words as well.
I admire Rick Smith for not being pressured by his readers’ assumptions as to where the comic will go.
Well, there is obviously *something* of value in the Bakfiets… the fireman in the first frame yelling for it to be doused confirms it for me! Rick, way to save Yehuda and *still* keep us on the edge of our seats!
It would be nice if there was something in the cargo bike but I’d think they would just want the rolling fire put out so it didn’t start one away from the building.
Speaking as one who has had a screaming crush on a guy, it would have been very awkward to have expressed deep emotion such as SS might be feeling right now. She has no idea what to do with her feelings for Yehuda anyhow, and this has magnified it 10 fold. Because she has strong feelings for him does not imply that she desires an intimate relationship, its merely that she has guarded her feelings and heart for so long that she has no clue how to express herself. A rough exterior often guards a very tender heart.
Well, we see that his cap is toast, as is his beard. Prime opportunity for Yehuda to go for a new look. I doubt that will happen, and a Walz cap will doubtless be back on his head in short order, and his beard as well, but it WOULD be interesting to imagine Yehuda with a new look. The only one I can remember is when he did the road cyclist costume for Halloween.
Hey- beards rule! I shaved mine off once, and I looked like a doofus. Everyone I knew told me to grow it back. And besides, as the great Ed Abbey once said, “Keep America beautiful- grow a beard.”
Well I must admit I always felt those straggly wisps looked ridiculous. Still, I owe the man so much. Were it not for him, I likely never would have built my first fixed gear bike.
“Of all the things you could have saved, you choose a stupid cargo bike?” – Am I missing something? How do we know it was SS who said that? It could have been anyone?
he was indeed wearing a t-shirt and shorts. But you seem to be judging a book by it’s cover. I own sevreal pure merino wool t-shirts and pairs of shorts that no one but me knows are wool. They look just like cotton. Check out the company ‘ibex’ for some badass stealth wool products.
my yehuda never wears anything that is not wool, possibly with a silk underlayer.
Is it safe to assume the Kickstand will be rebuilt? A marginal operation like thier’s might not have near enough property insurance to cover the structure, inventory, and tools. Maybe the time is right for Yehuda to rejoin the Shaker community (not implying he ever was part but the possibility has been raised by others).
Sister Sprocket has now firmly cemented the honorary title of “Major Asshole,” with a capital M.
Strike a victory for positive thinking – throw the unappreciative bitch into the burning Kickstand. Her attitude is more than enough to scare the flames straight off into the next county.
-Stinko
P.S.: For those of you expecting Fizz to triumphantly show up in the Bak, you’re forgetting that the 913 strip, “News at Home,” indicates that Fizz is already snoring at home.
P.P.S.: Thanks, Fred; we knew we could count on you.
More power to the Sister I say.
However, how many Things are in the bak I wonder.
Wool – Mother Nature’s own technical fabric. And it looks like they’ll need to hire an engineer to rebuild the Kickstand as awesomely as possible.
She is an ELECTRICAL engineer. I want to know how she we rebuild a building!
‘Sides, engineers don’t design buildings. Architechts do, although there would be a small role for an electrical engineer . And one smallish commercial building wouldn’t keep anyone in work for very long.
You can build a stable building without an architect, but not without an engineer.
Architects design buildings. Engineers design infrastructure.
“Engineers design bombs – Architects design targets.” -I forget who but I’ve heard it a million times.
Being civil engineer, I’ve got the following in my signature: “military engineers build missiles, civil engineers build targets”.
“Engineers design bombs – Architects design targets.” -I forget who but I’ve heard it a million times.
Dunno. Maybe make it ELECTRICAL fire proof?
Woah, woah, hold on a sec there Cap. S! Haven’t you ever watched a movie before? She’s gonna berate him for being so stupid, then kiss him for going in to save her. Or at least hug him till she breaks a rib, depends on the rules of her religion, cause I dun know scrap about how Shakers view that sort of thing.
Uhhh, either the kiss or the body-damaging hug would be right out, given that Shakers were both celibate and pacifist. The celibate part is why there aren’t Shakers anymore, except here…
How does kissing or hugging make one non-celibate?
Actually, there is a small Shaker community in Maine, at Sabbathday Lake.
Yeah, but, isn’t their median age 80, or something ? And there ain’t a lot of ‘em.
Funny, I personally know a Shaker, and they have a going community.
Aha, we’ve identified D.B. as another Yehuda Moon-comment-section sex maniac.
Perv.
and then we find out they’re brother and sister. Oh, I think I saw this one already. Change the channel.
“For those of you expecting Fizz to triumphantly show up in the Bak”
How did you know that’s just what I was thinking?
“Fizz is already snoring at home.”
As far as we know. She didn’t want to go home. Maybe she was just faking sleep, got up, and snuck back out to the party.
If so, how did she get there, alone and in the middle of the night? It’s a long enough distance that Thistle goes by bike, so not likely to be in walking distance for a very small child.
John, go to a store and buy some logic, will you?
Hiding your inferiority by making personal attacks, eh?
-Stinko
that’s why they resort to personal attacks, such as yours.
-Stinko
a bit of harmless revenge is a sweet thing.
-Stinko
stinko is a troll….let him keep trollin’
nothing you can do about it anyway but ignore him…
Ah, nothing like someone stealing your tagline. Get lost, hypocrisy – literally and figuratively.
Holy nerds, Batman. Does an archived web comic really need its own self-appointed archivist?
It certainly doesn’t need its own self-appointed accuser of of sex-maniacs. But it seems it’s got one.
The lady doth protest too much.
: P
It certainly doesn’t need sex maniacs either.
Everyone needs sex maniacs.
: P
Correction, “News at Home” was 903.
-Stinko
Nice to see Fred back, I hope he continues to drop in from time to time. As far as Sprocket goes, somebody once said that it really doesn’t take all kinds to make a world, but we have them anyway.
Looks like Yehuda may finally get a new cap.
“you choose a stupid cargo bike?”
Yehuda is Yehuda, he can do no more than to be himself.
Yes.. but what did he manage to load it with?
ashes
Glad to hear he’s barely burned.
Yehuda still looks like crap right now, coughing and all but dying. And we’re assuming that’s Sprocket bitching. Pardon my French, but what an evil woman. I’m still hoping Yehuda is okay.
So… was it the wool that kept him from getting charred?
PS: Looks like he’s being tugged backwards, too. Didn’t even realize it.
You could say evil. I think she’s sassy, and I like it.
I completely agree, Sprocket is most ceertainly sassy, i suspect under that cool veneer there’s compassion, she just has a funny way of showing it
I’m married to one of those “sassy” (as you call them) women. Believe me…it gets old after a while and you start to realize that “sassiness” is just another word for ‘cruel, heartless bitch with no compassion for anyone else’.
Just sayin’…
7-year itch?
just kidding
Bike wrider and Jimbo: Another confirmed sex maniac.
My condolences, PlatyPius.
you liked your own post? moron.
Gyest: You bet, buster. Try it sometime. Shameless self-promotion feels wonderful.
For anyone thinking Sprocket is evil for her comment:
So, she thought he went in to save her, but instead at this point she’s thinking he went in to save a bike.
How would you feel?
Just wait for the next kind words of wisdom from Sprocket, you idiots. Banjo is right. Damn right.
See you on BF, Banjo (and don’t blow my cover, will you?)
It´s Sister Sprockets frames in the bakfiets, obviously, Wait ´till she finds out…
Then she’ll double beat him. What SS is really saying, in her own celibacy-looked-like-a-great-idea-at-the-time way, is: “Why didn’t you get out right away, you could have died!”.
dont u see that????? he lost his BEARD!!!!!!!!!!!! damn!
“Of all the things you could have saved, you choose a stupid cargo bike?”
Lines like that, when the hero emerges from a burning building in a movie, are usually followed by a kiss…
…or a punch in a face
… and a kiss
He is barely burned?! That man can really sweat it!
He even sweats when he swims.
Is she mad because he saved the bike instead of himself? Or maybe there are memories of Fred he could have saved? Or something practical, like the deeds or something?
I’m wondering if Fred got him to go further in to get those things and save the Kickstand?
What if saving the Bak meant he thought more of Thistle than SS?
Now that might SS mad!
Stupid Bakfiets? What else saved Yehuda from the Kickstand-flames? Take a look in the Box of the Cargobike!
I’m certain Fred helped Yehuda inside. It will be interesting to hear what Yehuda has to say about it.
Wool. Warm when wet. Won’t melt in a fire.
Confirmed!
Kibbe kibbe was a little lamb,
Kibbe kibbe is pink just like spam!
What everyone is not realizing is he was in shorts and a button up shirt when he went into the fire. Look back and you will see.
Maybe Fred encased Yehuda in ghost like energy to keep the flames away from his skin? Or it could have just been the wool, like others have said.
What Did Fred say a couple of strips ago before it was removed?
He said, “BBBRRRAAAAIIIIINNSSSSS!”
Everyone knows… wool is fire resistant.
Don’t forget that previously this (comic universe) evening, Yehuda was using that Bak to transport home party patrons that were too inebriated to safely ride.
There may yet be one of them in the Bak, passed out and waiting for his ride home. Yehuda may have thrown the junk into the Bak to keep the flames off him.
I can really relate to the fire at the Kickstand. I was managing a shop when bad things have happened: thefts, assaults, etc. The shop lives, stronger today.
Fred obviously provided supernatural protection to Yehuda, a “guardian angel” if you like to use that term. We don’t need to know exactly how it works.
I would guess that the cargo bike if filled with the sisters custom painted frames – remember what the open house was all about!!!
Gee – would all the he-man woman haters prefer SSr. Sprocket go on with “oh honey baby schmoopy woopy, I was sooo scared that you wouldn’t make it, boo-hoo, sob, sob!”…Yuk!
If so, how discriminatory and chauvenistic. If Joe had said that about the Bakfiets, it would have “oh, ha-ha, yeah, you tell’im, Joe!”
The gratitude and general amicability is not expected due to Sister Sprocket’s gender, but rather for the fact that it was the sake of her life that led Yehuda to enter the fire.
If Yehuda had gone back in for Joe, and having emerged from the flames was met by Joe’s criticism, I think the majority of readers would be critical of his words as well.
I admire Rick Smith for not being pressured by his readers’ assumptions as to where the comic will go.
“I admire Rick Smith for not being pressured by his readers’ assumptions as to where the comic will go.”
Accordinly to his own comments, he rarely comes by to read the comments, except when it is reported to him that we behave like bafoons.
I like that word bafoon. Presumably it’s a hybrid of a baboon and a buffoon. That would fit. Or maybe its just a typo
Well, there is obviously *something* of value in the Bakfiets… the fireman in the first frame yelling for it to be doused confirms it for me! Rick, way to save Yehuda and *still* keep us on the edge of our seats!
It would be nice if there was something in the cargo bike but I’d think they would just want the rolling fire put out so it didn’t start one away from the building.
Speaking as one who has had a screaming crush on a guy, it would have been very awkward to have expressed deep emotion such as SS might be feeling right now. She has no idea what to do with her feelings for Yehuda anyhow, and this has magnified it 10 fold. Because she has strong feelings for him does not imply that she desires an intimate relationship, its merely that she has guarded her feelings and heart for so long that she has no clue how to express herself. A rough exterior often guards a very tender heart.
Well, we see that his cap is toast, as is his beard. Prime opportunity for Yehuda to go for a new look. I doubt that will happen, and a Walz cap will doubtless be back on his head in short order, and his beard as well, but it WOULD be interesting to imagine Yehuda with a new look. The only one I can remember is when he did the road cyclist costume for Halloween.
It is great to see Yehuda without the beard. It will be a challenge for Rick to draw Yehuda at various stages of the beard growing back.
Assuming he grows it back. Golden opportunity for Yehuda to clean his act up. Just because he’s homeless is no reason for him to look the part.
Hey- beards rule! I shaved mine off once, and I looked like a doofus. Everyone I knew told me to grow it back. And besides, as the great Ed Abbey once said, “Keep America beautiful- grow a beard.”
Mongo, are you insinuating a derogatory statement against Sheldon Brown?
Well I must admit I always felt those straggly wisps looked ridiculous. Still, I owe the man so much. Were it not for him, I likely never would have built my first fixed gear bike.
“Of all the things you could have saved, you choose a stupid cargo bike?” – Am I missing something? How do we know it was SS who said that? It could have been anyone?
Adam
Maybe the black (habit?) covered arm. Slender but strong.
Plus, if you get the RSS feed for today it says “Sister Sprocket has a few words for Moon.”
Tencon – another sex maniac.
@ Ireg
he was indeed wearing a t-shirt and shorts. But you seem to be judging a book by it’s cover. I own sevreal pure merino wool t-shirts and pairs of shorts that no one but me knows are wool. They look just like cotton. Check out the company ‘ibex’ for some badass stealth wool products.
my yehuda never wears anything that is not wool, possibly with a silk underlayer.
melodramatic.
Is it safe to assume the Kickstand will be rebuilt? A marginal operation like thier’s might not have near enough property insurance to cover the structure, inventory, and tools. Maybe the time is right for Yehuda to rejoin the Shaker community (not implying he ever was part but the possibility has been raised by others).
Assuming Yehuda’s facial hair growth acts anything like his metabolism, he’ll probably grow a new beard by tomorrow’s strip.
So, Yehuda was basically homeless, sometimes living in the store. but not always as sometimes he rode to work.
I wonder if this will get played into it.