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![[0255] Roasted Rat](/comics/2011-03-21-0255-roasted-rat.png "[0255] Roasted Rat")
The current story arc started with this strip: A New Adventure.
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- Harvey: I’m so hungry I could eat a rat!
- Harvey: Let me rethink that.
- Sandra: They eat rats in Asia, right? If we roasted it, it might taste okay.
- Harvey: “If we roasted it”? How??
- Sandra: No problemo.
- Larisa: I think you overestimate me a little bit sometimes, Sandy.
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Why are their noses attached to their chins?
Is Powree taking SHORTCUTS now?!
Mystery Penguin wrote:
Oh, it seems that it’s been this way for a few strips.
Larisa has admitted that she can’t start a fire. The situation is VERY grave indeed.
What? Larisa can’t create fire during heavy rain?
I think something inside me just died… (sad music with violins play on the background)
Swedish Firesteel. That is all.
OMG… Larisa admited that she can’t start a fire. What’s next? Will she admit that there are certain situations where she won’t kiss pretty eyed boys?
Don’t you like a challenge? A good X-maniac always finds a way to indulge.
whatever happened to our favourite pyrotechnic? this must be worse than we thought.
Nah, she’s just setting up to make it look more impressive when she gets the fire going.
Incidentally, has Larissa discovered Chlorine Triflouride? Swedish Firesteel is for amateurs 🙂
just waiting to see what they do next….
I dunno, but I lol’d when the advert next to Woo failed to load :p
Landbark wrote:
Wait, what was the pun? 😮
Sorry for double-post; I don’t see an edit button… But Novil, you may want to check your advert’s code, because now this came up for me. I’m not using an ad-blocker or anything, and the banners to the sides and top of the page load just fine, but that advert in the comments section keeps failing.
Also, I love how Woo keeps pointing out these problems 😀
Larisa knows something that Sandra doesn’t. She knows that rain beats flame, and that stick pokes face.
Oh, come-on, Larisa, I know several local Boy Scouts who could start a fire in that rain without the use of a lighter. I’m not saying it’s easy, but it can be done.
@ wpngjstr:
Chlorine Triflouride is proof that Satan exists, and I’m an atheist!
But seriously, that stuff is so damn nasty, even the Nazis thought twice about using it for anything. It ignites sand!!
Huh. Must be December 21, 2012 where they are, cuz Larisa said she can’t start a fire.
@ BobisOnlyBob:
It also ignites water.
“I’m so hungry I could eat an Oktorok!”
Very polite of Woo to offer Harvey a rat even though he poked him in the eye five minutes… excuse me, I mean 4 hours ago.
And once again it is proven: Be careful what you wish for you just might get it.
But honestly: Larisa can’t start a fire?
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“I wonder why they call this one ‘heavy rain’…” >_>’
( a cookie for who is getting this)
‘kay, my quote-quota is filled 😀
wait… WHAT? I’m asian, and we don’t eat rat. No, NOT eating RAT, even if it’s roasted!
@ Someone:
Someone wrote:
Left 4 Speed 2 – Nick – About 2 minutes in.
And Lorisa didn’t say she COULDN’T start a fire, just that Sandra overestimates her sometimes.
Ah, rat: the most versatile object of tabletop fantasy.
Alive, it can help you. Dead, you can poison someone with it. Roasted, you can eat it. Skeletonized, get yourself a necromancer and you have a minion. Put it on a string, you’ve got bait. Put it on a stick, you have a flail. 🙂
If you go to a dungeon, never forget to bring your cage of rats!
@ kesadisan:
I guess you’re a different kind of asian than I am.
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Just kidding! Just kidding! 😀
Woo finds Raw Rat!
Sandra takes Raw Rat to Larissa!
Larissa does not have a contribution of 50 gold, and thus cannot roast Raw Rat.
So Larissa is given an opportunity to (atleast try to) set something on fire and she’s not going for it?…SKRULL! Larisa’s been replaced by a skrull!
@ Mystery Penguin:
yours isnt?
i was just reminded of a comment made in the doctor who episode, “the two doctors”, where shockeye noted that rat meat was a bit gamey, but with the right seasoning, it just might be palatable.
I wonder what species of rat that is. It looks like a true rat (Old World rat), which would probably make it a black rat or a brown rat. But since this story is set in North America, I don’t think black or brown rats would be found in the middle of a forest that is well away from human habitation. Maybe I’m wrong.
REAL pyros can STILL start fire in a pouring rain! True story – my best friend Michael did it once by tossing gasoline on a pile of wood. He shielded a match from the rain and, after a few tries, succesfully tossed it onto the gas to get it going. Did it go for very long? No. BUT IT WENT, GOSHDARNIT.
Bah, Larissa’s just being modest. We all know she could light a fire underwater if she wanted to.
Well at least Woo didn’t offer him a squirrel
Still better than eating at Arby’s.
Just be glad he didn’t quip he could eat a horse. Who knows how Woo would have gotten that in shot. Who knows what Cloud can do with that Mithril Swiss-Army Knife +3. :p
Wow. Woo’s REALLY good at hunting.
@ kesadisan:
Asia is a pretty big place. There is bound to be one asian country that has rat as a staple of their national food. I mean, it’s not everywhere in Europe where people eat (insert something unique to a specific culture) neither.
Depends on the breed, location, general wealth and other factors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat
Had a friend who did a survival course. Swore by rat meat.
Larisa must be dillusional, I bet she’d start a forestfire in that rain in no time if she’d stop being all negative. 😀
BTW WOW Sandy just turned badass in my eyes. XD
@ Zeronikku: Squirrell … Rat … whatver. They’re rodents. They taste good if prepared right. Don’t forget, rabbit is considered to be “good food” … even sold in many grocery stores … it’s basically a long-eared rat.
Speaking of rat quotes … first thing I thought of; “that’s not a hamburger … do you see any cows around here?”
“This is a ratburger?” [To lady who served the burger:] “This is rat?”
“Si!”
“Best rat I ever ate!”
[“Demolition Man”]
@ Cloud+Larisa_Shipper:
She already has. She won’t kiss pretty eyed boy Cloud because he’s Sandra’s beau.
Awww. Woo is so cute when he’s trying to be helpful
…except if you’re the rat
@ Anne: Old World Rats have infiltrated every square mile of the world (except Alberta — long story) so do not dismiss that so quickly.
Sandra has the right idea. That is EXACTLY what I would have done. I wouldn’t put it past Larisa to be holding out on them either…..
@ Rikushadow5:
Yeah! I’ll be if those things don’t work! They are some heavy stuff!
What?!I’m Asian (Cantonese-Chinese) myself and WE DO NOT EAT RATS!NOT even if it is ROASTED!DX
With enough tar, lighter fluid, and kerosine all things are possible…..then again that would be more like spreading the love with grecian fire or a molitov cocktail.
Larisa, stop being coy! None of this “talk me into it first” schtick, your friends are cold and wet, start a fire already! This is IT, Larisa! It’s now or never, this is your call to the Big Leagues!
How to build a fire in a rainy forest:
1) Search for a very thick log, it is most likely that somewhere in a middle there still would be some dry wood.
2) Take off your coat and put it above the dry wood to protect it from rain.
3) …
4) Profit!
@ M0HAX:
That would work for starting a fire. To keep it going search for “squaw wood” dead limbs still attached to the trees. They will be dryer and will relieve the trees of dead weight.
Frank, of course you are quite right that Old World rats are found almost all over the world. However, brown rats do prefer to live in and near human habitations. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find them in the nearest town or the nearest farmstead. But finding them in the very middle of the forest itself doesn’t seem so likely to me. As for black rats, they tend to prefer warmer climates, and I get the impression that this forest is in a more northern region. If that is the case, brown rats would be much more likely than black rats. But again, I could be wrong.
@ Barn0wl:
If you hadn’t posted that, I would have! 🙂
@ Anne:
Uh… Aren’t we looking too deeply into this? It’s a webcomic – meant to go from dramatic to comedic in 12 seconds!