![[0385] Motivational Aid](/comics/2012-06-14-0385-motivational-aid.png "[0385] Motivational Aid")
- Woo: Why do you study so hard for school?
- Sandra: To get a great job later.
- Woo: What for?
- Sandra: To be able to work on interesting things and earn lots of money.
- Woo: What for?
- Sandra: To buy you a lifetime supply of fresh salmon.
- Woo: !
- Woo: Wow, look at the interesting tasks on this page! You should do them all!!
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…Good point, Woo. *throws math homework out window*
@ Landbark: you scare me sometimes but I scare myself much more than you ever could
Racoons will inherit the land. Octopuses the sea, and Owls the sky. They will collectively learn from the humans mistakes, and form a utopia. Then cold fusion. Go to space. everything we wished we could do.@ Landbark:
Mmmmmmmh… salmon!
lol, it’s like shut-up button.
@ tfeth282:
Octopi. Not octopuses. 😛
@ Landbark:
But there would be nobody to care. Unless we invented a way to prevent permanent death, prevent pain, and hopefully, prevent any type of actual damage at all. In other words, as close a video game as you can get to real life. THEN I would gladly go into battle. XD @ Brothernature0:
Relating to what I just said, I would also be more willing to go into battle if I had complete control over ice and water. Then I would freeze all foes around me and then grow spikes from their frozen insides, shredding them from the inside out. And then use their blood as a weapon against other foes. SCARED YET!? >:D
@ illeatyourself:
If that’s not enough, the constant supply of blood from the wounded combined with the moisture in the air and in the bodies of my foes and the fallen would give me a constant source of water and ice, meaning I would NEVER run out. In other words, you would have no way to stop me from using my elemental powers. Not even fire would stop me, as I could just put it out, or block it with a wall of ice and then use the wall itself as a weapon against you. SCARED YET!? >:D
@ illeatyourself:
When did you get elemental powers?
Give someone a salmon and she will feed her pet raccoon once.
Teach someone to catch a salmon and she will feed her pet raccoon for a lifetime.
Teach someone Science and she will grow up as a scientist, at least she can feed her pet raccoon salmon once a week for the rest of her life.
Teach someone Business and she will grow up as a businessman and she will feed her pet raccoon salmon every day for the rest of her life.
Teach someone Veterinary skills and she will grow up as a vet and she will feed her pet raccoon according to the healthy diet standard for raccoon for the rest of her life.
SANDRA: You know, Woo, maybe you could do this yourself. They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
WOO: Lily? Is that you? Sorry, Sandra, there’s… an emergency involving a rosebush. I’m sure you can manage without me.
All those questions Woo asked about Humans and whatnot?
Sandra answers them easily in five easy words =P
Why does Sandra sound seductive when she tells Woo about the lifetime supply of fresh salmon?
We work and study hard so that one day we can work hard for things we want
@ Dontar:
It’s the pose.
Landbark wrote:
Oh we do… I am just thinking how to build Command and Conquer style Ion Cannon.
Challange accepted @ Brothernature0:
illeatyourself wrote:
Octopodes, actually – if you’re going back to ancient languages for your syntax. Otherwise, it’s octopussies. 🙂
…Which amounts to one mercury-ridden fish.
Well…I’m not into salmon….but I’m into PS3 and Wii games x-x!!!!
Too bad that when you get a job…you have no time to play….not as much as you wish
First I feared this would be yet another “joke” about how humans should be more like animals and not need jobs. Instead Sandra convinces Woo of the truth. I like that.
And Woo’s excited reply is not at all motivated by gastronomical self-interest?
Not too hard to please. Now she’ll have constant motivation.
@ OldBrit:It would actually be octopi, as octopus is the Latin word. The Greek word, whose plural form would be oktopodes, is oktopous.
@ Argondr (guest): No, it’s a Latin word, but through Greek. Most Latin words that end in -us are second declension, and the plural is “-i,” like “radii,” but there’s also fourth-declension, like “virus” and “status,” which in Latin are pluralized “-ua,” and a few words that come from Greek are in third declension. These usually use “-os,” but “octopus” and others built around the root “pous”/”pus” (such as “platypus”) are among the few that don’t. The Latin is indeed “-pus, -podis,” with the plural “-podes, -podum.”
Woo is apparently a genius, HE should get a job. Whatever job he gets; having a talking raccoon as an employee the company’s reputation will skyrocket.
Come on Woo, Martha the talking dog became a telemarketer as well as an advice radio show host. You can do so much better than PBS 😀
But can you blame the guy? Salmon are delicious! Love how much he lights up at the end there.
That’s… kinda cute. ^^
Nice to see some unbiased support, for a change.
Alas, a work ethic and hard-earned knowledge aren’t enough to get you into a high-paying job.
I was your typical nerd in high school and college– alone with the books, in love with studying, wary of other students. Both the studiousness and the introversion are still there: I still have the impressive academic record and I retain much of what I learned, but I’m too scared of human conflict even to try for the kind of jobs that pay well.
That is, they all seem to require a lot of people skills, and even interviewing for them requires impressing someone in person, which can be hard for me to do, especially when I’m nervous. So I stock shelves in a retail backroom. It’s relaxing compared to most jobs. But I don’t get to eat salmon all the time.
Still, I might be able to give a raccoon a lifetime supply of salmon, since most raccoons live only a few years, and probably don’t eat as much per day as humans.
So! That’s why I didn’t study so hard….
I don’t have a racoon to give a life time supply of fresh salmon.
How sweet–nice to see Woo looking out for Sandra’s interests (>_<)
@ OldBrit:
Octopus has three plural forms: octopuses, octopi and octopodes. The most commonly used is the first one, the second is the result of an error, while the third is the correct plural. All three are acceptable to use these days though misspellings such as ‘octopussies’ and ‘octopusses’ are still incorrect.
The way to a man’s heart, is through his stomach no matter what species!
Sandra is learning quickly.
So I’ve found myself with a pet coon (rescued from the side of the road) They bite….a lot
Moogle wrote:
I am pretty sure (considering the smiley face) that OldBrit deliberately misspelled it as Octopussies.
That’s one way to get your raccoon to let you study. XD
Is it me, or has Woo gone grey? In the “LOOK” area, he’s brown!
Well he is a very old racoon.
Salmon are use less anyways, let’s eat them!
Put your money With your tummy!
@ Moogle:
The first is the English plural of an English word. The second is the Latin plural of an English word with a Greek root and no Latin whatsoever. The third is the Greek plural of an English word with a Greek root. The third makes sense, but according to Merriam-Webster.com, it’s not really correct as octopus is not a Greek word. So the first is correct, the second is not really correct but usable in everyday language with people who don’t correct you, and the third is the ancient way of saying a modern word, which is passable but not completely correct. So don’t correct someone who says octopuses or octopodes if you say octopi. Don’t correct someone who says octopuses if you say octopodes.
Please say in this universe raccoons have similar lifespans as humans…
Get a good job is RIGHT. -_- I got a Bachelor’s in Theater and Communications, and nobody wants me. Back when I started, the job market wasn’t so constricted, but I guess I’m useless. Well, it’s been a good life. *tightens noose*
I would give the exact same answers if my cat could talk and ask them .. =P
Classic Steve wrote:
Totally. You’d think he’d be smart enough to realise that as a pet, his quality of life is totally different to animals in the wild. I mean, it’s not like he doesn’t know any better, what he went through on the field trip would scar many people for life. I would certainly expect it to give someone perspective on the desirability of being an apex predator, and humans are the ultimate apex predator, in any biome.
Sandra, you have spoken the greatest lie ever told to children…”get a good education and you will get a good job.”
Woo is gonna starve.
The *Pronailurus vivverinus* inside me just exploded.