[0203] Healthy Cookies, Part 1
└ posted on Monday, 27 September 2010, by Novil
Hello new (and old) readers! Today’s strip is not supposed to be funny, witty or anything. The next updates will make it clear what’s going on. So you may rather want to start reading at the beginning or have a look at some of our recent strips: [197] Tick, [199] Larisa vs. Sushi, [201] Eating Out.
- Richard: Woo seems to want some of your cookies.
- Sandra: I don’t think that’s very healthy.
- Richard: Cookies are very healthy for raccoons. Here, read this article in the BBC Wildlife Magazine.
- Sandra: Really? That’s strange…
Nah.
That mag will surely be a forgery made by woo and the gang and printed in shadow’s lair.
I now wish that I was a racoon… I could have cookies all day, and it would be good for me!
I think I’ve seen this joke before
ekimmak wrote:
You are both right and wrong.
Unrelated to the strip, but I though was fun…
LINK
Raccoons Will eat anything. Garbage,insects,frogs,turtle eggs,
bird eggs, worms, you name it!.
What -kind- of cookies?? Something’s fishy with that magazine fer sure! 🙂
Well… If you ask me, chocolate with an high cacao allotment and corn can’t be that unhealthy.
Wholemeal and cacao would actually be a good breakfast.
@ Novil
This strip is not suppose to be funny…. BUT IT IS! 😀
Also how are they SUPPOSE to be in America, but they get BBC Wildlife Magizine? You couldn’t find one in a library in the states if you wanted to!
Novil, I love Woo telling me to look at your comment. It’s super effective and amazing! There’s no tail coming from Dad’s speech bubble, it this intentional? Cookies are not health foods, that’s why they taste good, so yeah Sandra, it’s not “healthy” but I’d eat them!
My computer’s whacked so it looked like Woo was telling me to look at your comment, but he was actually telling me to look at the ad. I still love it though!
whoa, I didn’t know that. I wonder where that BBC magazine did get its infos?
Personnaly, I think that I wouldn’t give woo those cookies-regardless of that “good-for-the-health-of-a-raccoon”tidbit. Unless the next story arc involve a certaint raccoon going to the dentist, of course.
oh gee i wonder who did the “research”
Hmmm not a funny strip? … Fine by me I’m interested what’s what “dad(Sorry can’t remember his name. XP)” was talkin aboot. 😀
Just do what always do Novil and I’m sure it’ll come out great in the end. 😉
This seems dreamlike to me. I think someone is dreaming it.
Hey Novil, just sent you an email regarding a small visual glitch I’ve noticed on the website.
Other than that, woo, new arc!
I have a subscription to BBC wildlife and I’ve never seen that article… XD
Does Sandra have a whole plate of cookies to herself?!
BobisOnlyBob wrote:
Thanks for the notice.
That is strange. Normally chocolate is very unhealthy for mammals, especially rodents. And considering that it’s a BBC magazine ‘cookies’ would refer only to the round biscuits with chocolate chips (The kind as seen in the strip) since we refer to what Americans call cookies as biscuits.
Guess I’ll just wait and see.
I’m also wondering if the lack of a pointer on the dad’s word balloons is important or not.
Bucc-i wrote:
eBay maybe? We can get quite a lot of far away iems off the iternet. So easy a raccoon can do it!
…waiiit. 😀
OK, I can’t be the only one noticing the sexual connotations of the last couple strip titles… Larissa vs. Sushi, Eating Out, Girlfriend, Healthy Cookies…. common….
If it’s a simple as Woo forging some papers, I’ll be disappointed.
Oh, now I see. I haven’t been an unhealthy slob eating too many cookies all this time, I’ve just been on the Raccoon Diet!!!
Ryan W. wrote:
Wat?!
Novil wrote:
I second that. What the heck you talkin’ about? o.O
@ Novil:
Paradox.
Ryan W. wrote:
I took this as an xkcd style challenge. Using Google search result numbers, I tried to determine the “innuendo value” of each phrase, which gives you an idea of how synonymous each phrase is with “sexual connotations.” For family friendly reasons, I will not reveal the actual search terms used, but what was basically done was to search each phrase individually and with “AND” various cross references (e.g. “sex”). I averaged the innuendo values, then divided them against the phrase value. The results of the “connotation meter” are as follows:
22.6% = “Girlfriend”
8.47% = “Eating Out”
6.70% = “Healthy Cookies”
5.87% = “Sushi”
“Controls”
7.33% = Bicycle
27.2% = Pussy
While there are clearly flaws with this method, it does give an estimation of how the listed phrases equate on the scale. The scale limits are approximately set by the controls. The fact that “Healthy Cookies” and “Sushi” score less than “Bicycle” means they shouldn’t even be considered. “Eating Out” is on the scale but low enough to not be a major concern, especially given they are in a restaurant. . “Girlfriend” does score high (and probably inflated for various reasons, thanks Internet), but here it’s important to take into consideration the context (song), which I certainly don’t take to mean sexually charged.
Conclusion: 3/4 = Busted. 1 = Plausible, but not intended.
Now, go take a cold shower and get your mind out of the gutter.
@ Landbark:
now theres that sense of humor good job
Well, his lost poster did say he’s sly. Tricky raccoon is tricky.
@ D-cat:
You mean 2 plausible. You honestly never heard eating out before? I will say no more.
yes raccoons eat a lot.
on the previous commics of kick ass jokes. after you recommended it. i bought it.
i loved it even. its really good. the part i loved the most is when a 10 year old girl kicks whopping ass.
thnx
Is this the same magazine as the one we see in strip #36?
My favorite bumper sticker: Come to the Dark Side- We have Cookies!
Gotta love Woo asking me to download Google Chrome xD
This strip alone is not funny, but knowing Woo I am already giggling at the potential results.
@ D-cat:
He used Science. It’s super effective.
Woo is too cute in that last panel dammit >.<
@ D-cat:
Try it again with a different negative control. The word “bicycle” as in “village bicycle” can be used as a synonym for slut, and therefore, fails as a negative control.
@ myth buster:
D@mn you’re right… I thought that seemed to scare a little higher than intended. Any suggestions? I tried “clock” and it scored about the same, I hesitate to try and figure out why (I can guess).
I’m at a loss to figure some common object or phrase that can’t really be used as a sexual connotation; I think rule 34 has doomed us all. 😛
sed ‘s/scare/score’ $comment-13273
Woo probably wrote that article in a cleverly crafted facsimilie of that magazine. So they must be very good cookies to go through all of that bother.
…I should probably do this. Except with a tiger magazine.