![[0585] Nobody Expected That!](/comics/2014-05-29-0585-nobody-expected-that.png "[0585] Nobody Expected That!")
- Larisa: Do you think I’m hot?
- Landon: Yes!
- Larisa: Do you think I’m very hot?
- Landon: I,… guh, yes!
- Larisa: Do you think I’m hotter than Phlegethon, the river of liquid flames and boiling blood?
- Landon: … Wait, what?
- Edward: She’s pretty funny, huh?
- Harriet: Honey, do you think I’ll find the Spanish Inquisition under “S” or under “I”?
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Because NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Phlegethon? Sounds Greek. To the bat-encyclopedias!
Oh, I have always prefered this one:
There was nothing in the beginning but seemingly almost endless chasm called the Ginnungagap. Ginnungagap was an endless void . Ginnungagap was bordered by Niflheim, which is the place of darkness and ice, far to the north; and Muspelheim, a place of fire, far to the south. Out of this chaos the first being came into existence from the drop of water when ice from Niflheim and fire from Muspelheim met.
This first being was Ymir, a primeval giant. The frost-giants called him Aurgelmir, but everyone else called him Ymir. Ymir became father of a race of frost-giants.
Ymir was the father of six-headed son that was nourished by a cosmic cow called Audumla. Audumla fed herself by licking the salty rime-stone, until that stone was licked into a shape of man. This stone-man was named Buri and he was the first primeval god. Buri was the father of Bor.
Bor married the giantess Bestla, the daughter of the frost-giant Boltha. And they became the parents of the first Aesir gods Odin, Vili (Hoenir) and Ve.
Ymir grew so large and so evil that the three gods killed Ymir. The blood that flowed from Ymir’s wound was so great that almost all the frost giants drowned in the torrent. Only the frost giants Bergelmer and his wife escape the flood in a chest, arriving on the mountain of Jötunheim (Jotunheim), which became the home of the giants.
well getting the father to like you is a third of the battle!
@ Trey Marlette:
*Spanish Inquisition barges into some guy’s house to find everything tidy and prepped for visitors.*
“The Spanish Inquisition… Well you’re too late, the pizza got cold.”
That was so unexpected.
Tell her she makes your blood boil and sets your liquid aflame. I’m not sure how she’ll respond to that, but I am curious.
Landon, quick! Compliment her waist-to-hip ratio and the luminosity of her eyes!
([0420] Two Gamers On A Couch reference)
Hm! She’s made of harder stuff! Bring out…THE COMFY CHAIR! *dramatic music*
Monty Python are awesome.
I KENW the father liked her!
Thw whole time I was wondering about his smile and how unresponsive he as in the other strips, so I really expected him to have a very different opnion compared to his wife XD
CALLED IT
Wow. Landon doesn’t even know what THAT means? Pfft.. amateur.
Wow…this page notification appeared in my inbox just as I was watching Atop the Fourth Wall, and Linkara said “Suddenly, the Greek Gods appear in front of Jesus”. The title just fits too perfectly!
@ Starship:
Knowing what it means or not, I’m sure that would catch anybody off guard.
Off the top of my head, it would be under “C”: the Inquisition goes under the name Congregation of Somethingorother these days…
Also, each country had their own inquisition. So, they would be looking for the North American Inquisition…
Cardinal Jiminez of North America: Nobody expects the North American Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, surprise and beer – surprise, beer, ceaseless evangelism, an almost fanatical devotion to this trope.. and nicely-made websites -ooooh ah! Now, Larisa Korolev, you will confess to two counts of heresy! – heresy by thought, heresy by deed, heresy by setting fire to us – three counts! – heresy by laughing and pointing at us as we burn – four counts! – heresy by running off while we’re too busy burning… look, we’ll come in again when we’ve got back from hospital.
Harriet: Don’t bother… *sigh*
>:=)>
After Larissa was a pedophile for Halloween, she might be a szatír (from another excellent Monty Python sketch next time. Except there wouldn’t be a sign that says “boo”. Instead there would simply be a best of incendiary explosives.
In reality, the Spanish Inquisition was always expected: they were required to give 30 days’ notice.
@Trey Marlette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tym0MObFpTI
😀
haha funny nobody expect the spanish inquisition!!
That’s why when EMail first began to be commonly available, years ago, that it began to be infested with unsolicited and unwelcome commercials, scams, and such junk, using the recipients’ resources and time.
Nobody expects the Spamish Imposition!
Well, it’s typical comedic chemistry. The dad accepted her but the mother will bitterly fight even when she received the “in law” status.
On the other hand, Mother in law is always a pain in the ass.
Greenwood Goat wrote:
Holy Mother Church fiddled the name to Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei (Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) as one of the changes mandated by Second Vatican Council in 1965.
The Spanish Inquisition was in fact a secular agency operating under the premise that Roman Catholicism was the state religion of the kingdom following the Reconquista. The first such heretic-chasing royal Thought Police force was actually constituted in France about a century earlier.
There has never been – officially – such an Inquisition in these United States, though Lincoln’s prosecution of his war to enforce the Morrill Tariff (also known as “the War of Northern Aggression”) had all the elements thereof, including treatment of that grafting, murdering railroad lawyer as if he were some kind of religious cult leader.
@ AckAckAck:
A mother-in-law’s gotta do what a mother-in-law’s gotta do! 🙂
Of all the romantic comics you’ve done, I think this one might be the most adorable. Though I have a bias due to my enjoyment of Larisa’s character
Tucci78 wrote:
Aww, is somebody sad he can’t own black people anymore?
Hey, if you keep the Greek myth references going, this comic could get a cameo in Blood of Olympus, coming out October 12th this year!
Although the writing is probably already done. (Sigh)
I also just beat Mitsuhide’s storyline in Pokemon Conquest, which is the hardest in my opinion.
Landon’s dad is cool. His mom, not so much. Actually, I’m suspecting her of being tied to Nazis right now. …Alright, a joke, I admit but wouldn’t surprise me at this point.
What I tell ya? Edward approves! Nuff said.
Oh and Larisa you’re hotter than a mega charizard crossed with heat man ontop of the angry sun from Mario bros 3.
(No I’m not talking about hot in an attractive sense I literally mean it!)
Tsunami wrote:
Nazis? Well I think their Christian. Christianity came out of the Jewish religion. So that’s kind of an oxymoron there.
@ MawileCeyvis:
You have fun playing Pokemon conquest. And I’ll just sit here playing VVVVVV and dying every 5 seconds. Sigh.
Landbark wrote:
Depending in what country or US state you live in (age of consent laws varies greatly from place to place).
I have to admit I was enjoying this particular story right up to the spanish inquisition line.
I get that it’s meant to be jokey and playing to the mums religious……………..’views’…
But they kinda tortured and killed people for about 350 years.. so she just went from disapproving to disturbing.
Obviously the Spanish Inquisition is in all letters of the phone book.
You’ll find them alright. Trouble is, she knows Each of them.
How did her smile move so close to her ear?
@ Switch Master:
Huh? Spoken like someone with no historical knowledge. For one thing, Germany was a Christian nation when Hitler led them into committing the Holocaust. There are plenty Christians who are prejudiced against Jews, I’m sorry to say. For another thing, Islam “came out of” the Jewish and Christian religions, in the same sense that you’re using the phrase, and Moslems and Jews have a long history of animosity.
As the satirist Tom Lehrer put it in his song, “National Brotherhood Week”:
“Oh, the Catholics hate the Protestants
And the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Hindus hate the Moslems
And EVERYBODY hates the Jews…”
@ Switch Master:
Do your damn research. Nazis were Christian. Specifically they were Roman Catholic, an EXTREMELY anti-semetic religion back in the day. (And still slightly anti-semetic with the whole “The Jews betrayed Jesus to his death.” thing they keep spouting.)
@ Tucci78:
Amen sir!
@ Thenertabou:
Uh….huh?
I don’t think anyone has “owned” a black person for a very long time….or maybe you think that Tucci78 is what…over 158 years old?
@ Chris W.:
Actually Hitler didn’t practice Christianity and only gave lip-service to it at best. The only thing he worshiped was himself.
@ Chris W.:
Dammit, I got ninja’d.
@ Avian Mosquito:
Actually its YOU who should do some research.
Nazis were very much anti-Christian. One of the biggest Nazis, the architect of the Holocaust himself, Heinrich Himmer, head of the Waffen SS was an atheist who wanted to turn Hitler’s elite bodyguard into a neo-Knights Templar and forbade his blackshirts from having Christian marriages.
Herman Goering, Hitler’s right hand man, believed in the practice of worshipping Nordic gods like Odin because they were “white Aryan gods” rather than a Jewish one. Needles to say he likewise encouraged his underlings to practice Pagan ideologies rather than Christian ones.
And Hitler as I mentioned before gave nothing but lip-service to God in his speeches. He was a maniac who worshiped nothing but himself and wanted to be his own god. He was also a Pagan occultist who listened to astrologists.
Believe me, while the German people might have been Lutherans and Catholics, the Nazi Party did nothing to encourage the Christian faith and rather prosecuted a war of extermination against God’s Chosen People. Christianity would have ultimately been phased out had Nazism prevailed. Thank God they did not.
Landon’s parents are amazing. They are on different pages and none of them seems to realize it. I wonder if that’s how their marriage works as well.
As a Humanist, I won’t “Thank God”… I’ll just go thank a veteran 😛
@ Crystalgate:
As a Humanist, I won’t “Thank God”… I’ll just go thank a veteran 😛@ C. W. Roden:
Dad approves, mom has no choice but to relent, unwillingly, but weary of Larissa. Hm, Larissa lucked out with being herself. Sandy will be shocked probably 🙂
Trey Marlette wrote:
It’s odd how most people seem to think monty python whenever they hear the word inquisition.
I certainly don’t do so, I think of Mel Brooks.
Ack ack playstation…
Well if this be set in the 90’s all is cool. I forget actually.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer @ Godwin’s law deniers?
& out cya
@ C. W. Roden:
No matter how you look at it it’s a pointles discussion, some Nazis were Christian others weren’t.
It’s pathetic when arguing atheists and theists try to push the hitler card on to each other.
It doesn’t even matter. The motivation of their conquest and extermination campaigns were neither a Christian nor an Atheist ones and neither did the atheist view some of them had let it stop them nor did the Christian views others had let it stop them.
Religions or the lack thereof has nothing to do with WWII, at least regarding the agressors, and these trying to instrumentise this low point of human history to further their own little agendas should feel ashamed.
Somehow I get the feeling that Landon’s mom is fearing for her son’s virginity. XD
Amaroq Dricaldari wrote:
So nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition… to be late? 🙂