![[0254] Positive Attitude](/comics/2011-03-17-0254-positive-attitude.png "[0254] Positive Attitude")
The current story arc started with this strip: A New Adventure.
Have you already read the blog post about our Sandra and Woo fanart contest? The winner will receive $100, and the four runner-ups will receive another $100!
- Sandra: We may be stranded in the wilderness, but let’s look on the bright side: We certainly won’t die of thirst!
- Larisa: Harvey, am I allowed to poke Sandra in the face with this twig to express my disapproval of the statement she just made?
- Harvey: Yes, you are.
- Sandra: Hey!
- Sandra: Let’s look on the bright side: It can’t take long before the others are going to search and find us.
- Caption: 4 hours later
- Sandra: Well, maybe it can.
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So, Larisa just got tired of poking, I presume? 😛
Oh. . Theres Sandra. .
I Thought She Would’ve Been Missing. .
4 Hours Later And Its STILL Raining. . There Should Be A Flood By Now
A good poke to the face can change any weather pattern!
“Well, look on the bright side, at least it’s not hail-” *thwack!*
Now we know the situation’s dire: Larisa ran out of stick.
(But hey, at least she took the time to ask the permission of an adult first. That was very mature of her)
They’ve got cloud. They’ll be fine 😀
Umm… I realize that this is not the most realistic strip, but 4 hours in the rain after being soaked in the river is likely cause hypothermia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia) This is an extremely dangerous condition and the leader should be trying to build a fire of something.
they need to find a cave or somthing, and damn it cloud and sandra need to have one make out session just once!
@ugwump; It’s too darned wet to build a fire! LOL (Hmmmm… though given a bit of time I expect Larisa could do it!) And yes, it is a comic … we must suspend reality almost every time we check in with Sandra and Woo, mustn’t we? I mean, how many TALKING RACCOONS have you run across lately? Though I could’ve sworn that one of them up in one of my trees was telling me to call off my dogs the other night …
Glad that everyone’s safe and (relatively) sound. Though we have yet to hear from Woo. Is he going to show up and save the day soon?
Oh good they’re all safe, I was getting worried. Right, major worry dealt with, on to the next= how come Larissa hasn’t made a fire yet? Did she lose her lighter? What? What’s that you say? It’s raining, so how do I expect her to start a fire with wet wood? Um . . . that’s not actually impossible, you know. Find a tree with low-hanging branches, go under the branches next to the tree trunk, there ought to be some dry wood, pine needles, cones and seeds to start on fire.
@ Barn0wl: Personal anecdote about animals talking; I once saw a cat intently watching a bird. Above the bird and staring at the cat was a squirrel. The squirrel was chattering LOUDLY at the cat. I knew EXACTLY what that squirrel was saying, and hoo boy! was it not polite! My ears still turn red from the language!
(The bird meanwhile was perfectly unconcerned; there were too many branches in the way for the cat to catch either it or the squirrel.)
Well, I guess the rescue team found whatever Larisa ticked off.
Rescuer 1: Hey, a cell phone! We MUST be close!
???: *RAWR!!!*
Rescuers: OH DEAR GOD!!!
@ Barn0wl:
in answer to your question barn0wl three talking raccoons but one was actualy a prototype toy that hit me with a rock to get my attention which with my low attention span would have been impposible otherwise and then appologiesed and offer me a candy bar, for $2. the piece of crap wouldn’t shut up about helpping it servive the winter by supporting it’s fund raiser so i ran away
Let’s look on the bright side. At least it isn’t raining as hard as it was before and that monster in the woods apparently is either really slow at finding them or has giving up.
Let’s look on the bright side, it appears as though it’s almost done raining.
Damn, someone already put that, let’s look on the bright side, there’s a new Sandra and Woo comic.
Rain can only cause hypothermia if it’s cold. If it’s 80 degrees out, you won’t be getting hypothermia.
Sandra don’t let a bit of rain dampen your spirits
*Poke Poke* XDDD
awesome pannel is awesome ^^
Let’s look on the bright side Sandra: The twig is not burning although Larisa is the one poking you with it 😛
@ Barn0wl:
@ ghostkeeper:
I know what you mean. It’s similar to me with cats and squirrels . They can’t really talk but i can hear most cats think about if they would like to get petted or not and every squirrel I see is looking at me with some kind of “are you nuts?”-face.
@ ghostkeeper:
Someone wrote:
Be carefull, when the squirrel decides, you are indeed nuts, you are going to be in deep deep trouble. 🙂
Cloud used search
he found a cave!
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*FIXED
He found a wolves den!
@ unknown zz:
anyway, no one get the blue square in this strip~
Wonderful thing about an off screen passage of time…it might have stopped raining for a short time, an hour or so maybe, and as Sandra sat there waiting for rescue, it started to rain again, thus it being lighter variety of rain.
It’s about time we saw Sandra. I was beginning to worry she’d drowned or gone down a waterfall.
Small question
Why don’t they just follow the river back to where they started?
@ The Anon:
You know, I don’t think in the history of “getting lost down-river” did anyone think to try that. 🙂
Larissa clearly burnt her stick, as she found that to be a better use of her time.
@ Ugwump:
From irl experience: gettin soaked in the water and then staying in the rain for ~5 hours would not get you a hypothermia. During one of the hiking trips our group leader fell in the river. He fell because rocks which were normally used as a part of a trail were extremely slippery from the rain. After we had to go down the river to cross it in a better place and then go back up, there still were another three hours till the next stop. At the stop itself we couldn’t get the fire started for some time too. It was around 5 hours total he spent absolutely soaked and without fire. He was absolutely fine. Well, to say the least he was a very healthy man, so that might have been of some assistance to him ^_^
Yeah, facepoking is always a good way to express disapproval.
Also: Rainy day is rainy.
Yeah, but only because it isn’t dry
Woo probably knows where they are by now!
@ Ryan W.:
how do you burn a stick in the rain??
unknown zz wrote:
The cave is DARK!
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Cloud finds a GRUE!!!
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Cloud is eaten by the GRUE!!!!
Sandra is okay. Yaaay! I thought this “she’s nowhere on the strips” thing was some kind of a buildup, but it’s okay. 😀
BTW at least the rain’s aboot to stop, so that’s a positive thing. 😀
This should be the point where Sandra says that at least it hasn’t been very buggy so far…
Who sits in the cold pouring rain for four hours? I’d believe in the possibility of forty five minutes that feels like it dragged out four hours, and that’s only because I spent the first half of my life in Florida.
@ Ugwump:
build a fire you say? it is raining, id imagine making a fire would be pretty hard. besides, its a comic. its supposed to be funny, so don’t take it so seriously.
I like that Sandra remains smiling and talking as she’s being poked in the face with wet kindling.
Thanks, Ugwump. I was thinking that myself, and also wondering what would happen if they weren’t rescued by nightfall. Temps usually drop then.
@ NightFaller:
that or they’re in Oregon
Go to google
type sandra and woo
watch the second proposal
cry
Larisa’s stick broke after obsessive abuse against Sandra, *sniff* his sacrifice will not be in vain: it died for the greater good.
Oh, come on! You walk downstream to find civilization, everybody knows that. So long as you are near water, you will come to civilization eventually. And you won’t starve or die of dehydration because of the fresh water. What kind of cut-rate guide is Harvey anyway? Even if his plan is to stay put till found, he’ll have a better chance of being found by walking along the river because it’s more open and free of vegetation, and a more likely path for rescuers to search by boat, land or air!
@ the dark ferret:
I do not think riverbanks are generally open and free of vegetation unless they tend to flood a lot, or there’s a trail. 😉
I was thinking more along the lines of “they had to get onto the water somewhere, if they go back up they’ll at least get back to there”, you know, where there’s tents, dry clothing, probably a camp fire, also the point which any search party that goes out looking for them will start from shortening the wait until “rescue”.
PS. due to lack of edit button.
R.I.P Mr Pokey Stick, went before his time.
Starting a fire with wet wood… you peel the wet outer layer off. Unless it’s been soaking for a long time the inner wood will be dry.
But if you want reality checks, what kind of river divides while going down stream? Watercourses run into each other on their way to the ocean. The only place I can recall that does anything like this is a lake in Yellowstone National Park, its water goes down both sides of the Rockies.
Ugwump, I like the way you think:-).
@ Barn0wl:
They have Larisa. They should be fine.
awwwwww! i just found this comic and its AWSOME but now i have to wait several days for the next page instead of 6 or 7 seconds….. old comics are the best