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- Sandra: ?
- Woo: Grrr
- Sandra: RAWR!
- Woo: Meow.
- Sandra: Do you think we humans would have made it to the top of the food chain if we were just a bunch of pussies?
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Poor Woo. He must have born with a special chivalry stat that causes him to lose to anyone that’s female 🙁
Honestly didn’t expect that kind of language to come out of Sandra. Larisa maybe, but not Sandra.
@ QuintonW:
She must be REALLY hungry.
Let this be a lesson in biology for all of you, All females are predators and apparently male racoons are part cat.
and thats why you don’t mess with hungry teenage (i think shes a teenager) girls.
Haha! Sandra’s reaction to Woo growling is my reaction when someone tries to take my food.
since she can understand you….you can get your revenge woo…say something like…”it’s ok….but You should consider start making a diet”……then run like hell…
Alternatively…
Woo: Grrrr
Sandra’s cattle prod: Bzzzzzzt!!
Sandra: Tool use enabled humans to overcome their physical limitations, and become the planet’s most successful species.
Of course, what Woo should have done…
Woo: *puppy dog eyes*
Sandra: *sighs*
Woo: Nom!
never, ever get between a teen and her food! that is one form of self-abuse! Dieting and Exercise are two others
That’s only part of the reason for humanity’s dominance, Sandra dear. Let these lyrics I shamelessly cribbed from Phineas and Ferb explain it:
La, la, la, la,
Weaponry!
It’s the way to get it done,
Weaponry!
It’s effective and it’s fun.
If you want to make them fall on a bended knee at your command,
Bow their heads and swear that you’re the leader of the land,
State your wishes in a language they all understand,
With weaponry!
That’s the plan!
I’ve actually taken bellowing practice (and yes, there are people that can teach you how to bellow).
Anyway, I got a schnauzer for my friend, but after having him for a while, the friend was worried he would be violent, because he got aggressive when eating.
I visited my friend, and the dog growled at me as I walked passed while he was eating. I took a deep breath and bellowed at the top of my lungs at that dog, and did so until I was completely out of breath.
To this day, he will not go near his food dish if a human being is within ten feet of it.
Wow, Cloud gets kisses from THAT mouth? Must be part of his courage training.
To quote Kipling: “The female of the species is more deadly than the male.”
And here, we see the Sandra bravely defending her meal…
…The Woo will have to wait its turn.
Now Woo, remember that you’re a sly raccoon. You don’t take your food up front. In the first comic you’re able to took Sandra’s cotton candy (even when she found out about it later and took you home).
I think you’re getting a little bit soft after living a pampered life with Sandra. Time to go to the forest and sharpen your skills once again.
Always fun to watch the fight over food thing. Even funny watching kittens fight over food with the older cats. Little food fighting monsters!
Is is just me or is this comic having more and more comic gold lately? :3
I think being around Larissa is making Sandra be a little looser with the language, even if it’s on a subconscious level.
Not quite sure the reverse is true. Lar seems to be as unpredictable as ever.
OH–just as a side note are their any plans to go back explaining what that box was that became so important to Larissa during the search for the stolen jewels? And can we see Lawson (and maybe a double date with the two couples) soon?
Don’t screw with her, Woo. There’s not an animal we haven’t made into food at some point.
Suck it, Woo. Suck it long, and suck it hard.
Not only can Woo talk, he’s also apparently bilingual.
@ QuintonW:
I was surprised myself, but I’m fine with it; she wasn’t calling anyone a pussy or something, she just said it. That was perfectly acceptable in my home growing up.
Clearly, Sandra is referring to the fact that Human beings are not, in fact, felines. (Well what did YOU think she meant?)
I think we made it to the top of the food chain because we had the intelligence to solve problems and figure out how to overcome the various beasts of the wild that would otherwise eat us into extinction. I must admit though, I can see why she managed to scare Woo. We are the only things that can randomly make a face that says “If you don’t let me have my way I will go INSANE”. XD Seriously, that is one crazy expression on her face!
Sandra uses Roar.
It was super effective!
Woo is no longer able to fight.
Woo drops Snack.
Sandra uses Snack.
HP UP!
MP UP!
@ Roachester:
I read that with David Attenborough’s voice in my mind…
*pants and huff’s heavily* finally….made it…too most recent…strip… *falls over* so…much…funny
Where did she learn that “word”? :O
I don’t care that Sandra’s using bad language, but I’m rather disappointed to hear her using a sexist insult. Someone should make her go see The Vagina Monologues.
Well, now we know who will be the boss in the Cloud-Sandra relationship… Cloud may wear the pants, but it’s be Sandra who choses them….
since slang is different form country to country and the writer is German they my not know what that word fully means
@ Blitz:
Makes sense considering Woo’s meow.
And in case anyone doesn’t – it basically means, “weak. girl, only good for sex”. Really.
We don’t have threatening teeth, we don’t have claws of any import, we lack pouncing muscles, our skin is thin, we don’t have a shielding coat, our eyes suck, our intestines like to get tangled, we get bad backs, inefficently digest our food, and burn just by being exposed to the sun… and our species will STILL eat you. Boo yeah!
I think Sandra’s been watching one too many nature survival documentaries.
Tualha wrote:
That’s not sexist. At least where I come from anyway.
Dat face of Sandra!
Nick/Tyrong wrote:
Humans do have some physical advantages. We can run long distances better than any other animal, due to our upright posture and the ability to cool off by sweating. This gave early hunters a huge survival advantage. A gazelle might be able to put on huge bursts of speed, but it will wear out and overheat far more quickly. Our muscles might be slower and weaker, even compared to other primate species, but in the long run this conserves a lot of metabolic energy.
The lack of fur coats also has evolutionary advantages. It greatly reduces the risk of exposure to parasites that live on the body, and it saves energy in that we don’t require all the nutrients necessary to grow and maintain a coat.
What sets humans apart from other animals though is that we make the most sophisticated tools, and have the most complex languages. Our brains are capable of grasping abstraction, which is necessary for written language, and the communication of any ideas or emotions other than those related to immediate survival needs. The human brain is also what compensates for our lack of acute senses, by allowing us to make assumptions and draw conclusions based on limited sensory data. That rustle in the bushes could just be the wind, or it could be a big predator, and it’s better to be safe than sorry.
With that in mind, humans actually make a very poor choice of prey for other predators. Relative to the mass of our bodies, there’s very little for a predator to consume. We’re not worth the energy to chase down, let alone the risk, since humans have a tendency to retaliate. This, however, is why many of the wild predator species alive today are terrified of humans, because we’ve been way too efficient at killing them when our territory encroaches on theirs.
I would say though that the dynamic in this strip is more along the lines of pack hierarchy and dominance. Sandra is the Alpha, Woo is the subordinate. She is, after all, the one who shelters, feeds, and protects him. So if your pack Alpha says back off, you damn well better back off.
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! im all caught up!!!!!
AND SANDRA! bite your tongue!
wolf in bears Clothing (its the last thing they’d expect)
Food Evy…the first symptom of wereraccoonism!! O.O
I can’t believe Sandra just said that word. XD
@ speedddogg:
I thin she’s early teens (13-15)
I did that to a female German Shepherd. She was a breeding dog and her latest litter had been taken from her too early and too quickly. She turned nasty and would charge the fence around the yard scaring lots of people (thankfully no bites). She pulled this on me many times and I ignored her, but one day I was in a bad mood myself and when she charged the fence I did too snarling very loudly. The look on her face was priceless. It was basically “OH SHIT! I just pissed off a bigger, meaner predator.”
Tualha wrote:
Why do you (and others) think that when a young girl refers to the human race as not “a bunch of pussies”, she’s using bad language or a sexist insult? She’s talking about pussy-cats, a meaning that long predates any rude meaning. Blitz got it right.
Geeze, all pussy/pussies means in North America is wimp. Also used as slang for vaginal, but in this context she is saying that humans are not a bunch of wimps.
I went and just re-read some of the archive. Anyone remember comic number 181?
I had to do this with my cat earlier yesterday when she was getting all hissy after my brother moving her off of him when he wanted to get up, then when I checked my comics before bed I saw this and didn’t even realize the connection until now xD
@ Frozenwolf150:
Which is why, as I said, we’ll still eat you. Mainly the tool thing, though. Let’s face it. The rest is allright, but they don’t make you an apex predator all over the world.
Bellowing? Easy enough. I’m an old non-com, we get sent to school to learn how to bellow.
I have difficult whispering to a person right next to me – my tone carries, and someone thirty feet away can hear me clearly (this has happened!)
Range at full bellow is somewhat farther. I used to work at an outdoor shooting range – I yelled at someone for crossing the red line during live firing, and forgot to use the PA. A CDF station a mile and a half away called, making sure that what they heard was what was being yelled about (it was. THEY understood me just fine. The guy I was yelling at was about two inches tall, and firing stopped on the whole range while I tore into this guy.)
On the upside, he did say he deserved it, and commended me for catching him right away. He was chasing paper targets that blew forward off of his gear.
I have a fox and I had a raccoon for a wile, that will not work, they will bite your face…not even kidding.
*Sandra’s father swoops in and grabs the chip from out of her hand, eats it then walks off.