- Vega: Daddy, Sandra, come quick!
|
Currently on hiatus :-(
S&W in German/auf Deutsch Gaia (my fantasy comic) Scarlet (my science fantasy comic) |
Sandra and Woo is supported by our patron BorgLord. Thank you very much! |
- Vega: Daddy, Sandra, come quick!
|
Russ wrote:
Still if you are seeing hallucinations, one should stop drinking.
New comment –
Wait a minute, Lily has a TV and a pool table, she probably has a first aid kit.
@ Asrial:
Ads are randomly selected but some of them are bad, pretty sure this has been mentioned before. Some of the ads (when viewed on mobile and not on an adblocked browser) do an auto-redirect to a redirect loop of ads, and the page must be completely closed and then this site reopened in the hopes of getting a less shitty ad.
As a result, I usually read the site in an ad-blocked browser instead. Not all webcomics with ads suffer from this problem, but at least a few. Scandinavia and the World also does, off the top of my head.
why is everyone calling that Burbon wine?
I’m not surprised that Richard assumed he was hallucinating. He’ll probably also selectively forget the incident later. It’s a trick Joyce was really good at on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
– Agent Kay, Men in Black
@ Daniel J. Drazen:
Nah, the pink elephants weren’t Warner. They were Disney.
Diamondmx wrote:
They just serve malware to the target of their attack and something benign to those who would complain (ad auditors, site author, anti-malware people). That’s why ad frames should have no dynamic content (javascript) and be generated entirely server side. That way the ad-provider running they ad has complete control of the content rendered, and the person running they ad has to supply the entire ad they want to run for review.
One way to do this right now is to add this to all ad iframes:
security=”restricted”
sandbox
Many ads will render fallback content (for those with no scripting) over all the ads will be safer.
Wait, since when can Vega talk? I don’t think they’ve been shown to be talking before and yet Sandra seems completely unsurprised by this?
It’s time to go on the wagon!
No More Drugs
Cobalt wrote:
Sandra is already good friends with one talking raccoon, who is also Vega’s father. So she’d likely be less surprised that Vega can talk, and more that Vega chose to do so in front of someone other than just her and Woo.
@ Edda:
Sandra: Woo’s kit came in screaming, and Woo raced out after her. I knew something was wrong, and followed to help. How come you didn’t come too?
@ Tatsurou:
Come to think of it, Sandra and Richard drove Woo and Lily way out into the country and dropped them off, on their own, for a few hours (or days?). Not what you do with a species most humans keep in cages.
They were part of an army of raccoons which had gathered to watch one of their number ascend an “unclimbable” cliff face.
Novil never said what rationale Sandra gave her dad and he never asked. He didn’t know Woo can talk but he seems pretty laid-back about most things. Except whether P = NP, of course.
Afterthought: At least some of the kits can speak. Inherited trait? (then taught English or German by Woo?) If so, still an open question whether Lily can talk.
Walter wrote:
She certainly has a to be first-aided kit at least. We hope.
Good night everybody!
Raccoon kit dashes inside, pet raccoon and daughter chase it out: Normal.
Raccoon kit dashes inside and TALKS, pet raccoon and daughter chase it out: Aaaand now I’m teetotal.
Cobalt wrote:
Vega could talk since Vega could talk, she has not been shown talking before and raccoons can talk.
Rocky wrote:
Why the knowledge of Woo’s speech was tightly held was revealed in a very early strip. Up to now no one has been shown to know except a hunter who is believed by no one else.
@ Thisguy:
Very common in a lot of Loony-Toons stuff.
So that settles the question about whether or not Woo’s offspring inherited his ability to speak.
Sorry if this has been mentioned before… but anyone get a Disney Aristocat vibe? XD
So basically he decided that he’s been, for probably a good while, seeing hallucinations of Sandra and Woo being next to him. Otherwise it’d be pretty hard to imagine himself seeing something wrong with his drink when both Woo and especially Sandra reacted to Vega’s outburst.
Sure he could imagine Woo reacting to whatever noice
Vega let out, but Sandra following suit the moment the kit yelled was a little too fitting for his “hallucination” for it to be just him hearing things.
Hit send too early by accident. XD
@ zug:
Woo would have reacted faster anyway as a father, hearing one of his kids scream for help. Parents are just wired that way. Hopefully Richard will follow as well. A shock to hear an animal speak, even more shocking that your child runs out the door with her “pet” at the request of a talking animal…. Yup I’m running out the door after my kid to help or keep her from harm. As my way of thinking, if something is bad enough to get a baby raccoon to bust into my house and scream for help, using my kid’s name, you know I’m in on that road trip!
Bucc-i wrote:
Or at least no more ducks.
Walter wrote:
No more insulin.
Novil wrote:
JUKE JOINT JEZEBEL’S COMIN’ FOR MY CREMATION!
oledakaajel wrote:
Had she been shown talking English, though, or just talking with other raccoons?
Tanall wrote:
Even if you know a talking raccoon who is related to the other talking raccoon, a talking raccoon is not a common thing. Just because you’ve seen something before doesn’t mean you would not be surprised to see it happen again.
I’m hoping this will lead to a bit more discussion on Woo’s ability! Been waiting for that for a while.
Also would be funny if it led Richard to start becoming suspicious or paranoid all of a sudden.
But what I really came here to say was: the appropriate English onomatopoeia is “glug”.
You know it’s time to stop drinking when the raccoons in your house start speaking english.
@ DysprosiumDy:
Nope, Sandra is the only main character to hear Woo speak~
Thank goodness her dad happened to be drinking x__X Otherwise, there’d be no excuse to explain Vega talking.
Such a waste. That looks like a nice bottle of Scotch.
Blkbear wrote:
What I was talking about was how Sandra would explain to her father why she ran after the raccoon kit in case her dad indeed convinced himself he just hallucinated. As in, I was coming up with a way to explain that plot hole.
Asrial wrote:
I did say that Woo could just leap over the table from the position he was in my second comment. Here:
zug wrote:
NOOOOO!!! I WOULD DRINK THAT INSTEAD! It’s X-mas Eve soon! It’s why she talked! Maybe a bit too early but… don’t waste such precious things Dx
@ Thisguy:
That’s what I thought of, too!
Blaise Z. wrote:
I’m assuming that Woo either got it from his parents who managed to live a secluded life, or it is possible that he got a genetic mutation, and managed to learn with his brain and vocal range (Which I’m assuming are human-like) from humans that surrounded him. Since this is a useful trait, it would be passed down to his kits.
@ Blaise Z.:
Woo probably taught them.
To be fair few people wouldn’t dump the drink if something like that happened when drinking.
@ Russ:
“Pink Elephants” is a prohibition era trope, I think? Back in the day, you could GET alcohol, but it was mixed with so much other stuff that it would mess you up. “Patent medicine,” also known as alcohol mixed with anything the snake oil salesperson wanted to throw in there, was a really good way to bypass prohibition laws and still have something vaguely safe. Not PERFECTLY safe (jake leg syndrome comes to mind here), but better than industrial alcohols, which had things like methanol, mercury salts, strychnine, and all SORTS of poisons mixed in to keep people from drinking it. Of course, patent medicine wasn’t just drinkable alcohol. Patent medicines might contain cocaine, opiates, marijuana, capsaicin, menthol, and all sorts of other lovely things. So if the booze was making you hallucinate, you’d want to pour it out because there was no way in hell drinking the whole thing was going to be good for you.
This will spice things up a bit.
That moment you’ve written things so well you tend to forget Sandra was the only person he really let hear him speak…then again if I remember correctly…she caught him doing it and that’s why.
As to how Sandra knew that Vega was talking is that she had been with Woo since the beginning of this web-comic and had gone through a lot of things, so hearing Vega speaking might be the next story arc or because Sandra had been with Woo and his family, she might have caught on what Vega is saying.
Although I thinking it more of the former then the latter an Vega can speak. So if Vega can speak, it might mean that the males would be able to speak.
As to how Sandra’s father would react to a talking raccoon I wonder how writer and artists will tackle it would be interesting.
@ ZayyanA:
When this web-comic started, Woo was about 6 months old, as well he was living in a abusive place, to which Sandra’s father handled Woo’s previous wonderfully.
As well Woo’s case, he had the wherewithal to make Sandra promise that she would let anyone know that he can talk.
Thisguy wrote:
Seen that movie
Yeah, guys like Tex Avery and Bob Clampett used that gag quite a bit. Usually the booze tossed away was of a cheaper vintage, though.
You’d think this far into the comic that Sandra’s dad would have noticed that Woo could talk.
Russ wrote:
It does if you drink too often and too much. It’s not a direct effect but an indirect one.
Let’s go back a bit:
Why do we sleep? Our body does various things when we sleep but one of them has been shown that dreaming is a necessary and important component of sleep. What are hallucinations? That’s what happens when the dreaming system is running whilst you are conscious.
How does this happen when you drunk alcohol? It shouldn’t if you are not a heavy drinker. There are two things that alcohol does. It suppresses the dreaming system but, for normal levels of drinking, it’s not a complete suppression. You’ll dream more when your body is free of chemical influences. Another thing it does is causes you to wake up sooner than you should for the state of your body. A heavy drinker, therefore, would lose a phenomenal amount of dream time. When a person is in desperate need of catching up on dreams, that system will activate when you are awake.