- Everett: You caused the Great Fires, Smokey?
- Smokey: More or less.
- Everett: But… but… why?! And how??
- Smokey: It all began on that day in May, 2015…
- Smokey: Only YOU can prevent forest fires!
- Sandra: Uh-oh.
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[0684] Smokey’s Big Blunder
└ posted on Monday, 18 May 2015, by Novil
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Perfect! So obvious, yet I didn’t see it coming.
Well many people called it… Well but I still hoped for a surprise…
This strip disturbs me.
Smokey was just doing his job, and Larisa burned down entire neighbourhood, possibly killing quite a few people along with them, and put him out of work AS A CHALLENGE.
Sorry if I don’t find this funny. Just recently, a careless fire caused one of our forests to go up in flames, and one of our native species of parrot lost a ton of specimens in the blaze, including thousands of chicks. Heartbreaking stuff, to be sure.
I’m beginning to wonder if we’re reading a comic about evil people in disguise. Ye Thuza lost my respect when she purposely blackmailed an officer after selfishly removing safety braces from a playground ride, which could injure children on it. Now, Larisa has lost my respect after this. I also pointed out a while ago that Zoey Irwin was a victim of her bullying as well, and it’s pretty easy to surmise that Zoey only became a bully herself because Larisa made her do things like literally make her eat her homework, and burn her magazines.
NewEraOutlaw wrote:
Larisa didn’t burn down anything. She just didn’t prevent forest fires… if you’re a literalist. It’s a joke about sayings that are, at least potentially, extremely stupid if taken literally.
Shoulda seen this coming. Didn’t but shoulda.
Even if you just ended it here, this story arc would be perfect.
Let’s face it, we all saw that coming.
Larisa: Do you know what you ask of me, sir?? *anguished pose* I mean, seriously – do. You. Know. What. You. Are. Asking. Of. Me???? …
(Flashback ends)
Smoky: But I didn’t. Understanding came far too late… *sob*…
OMG Smokey, what have you done :O
Why isn’t this in my local paper? It’s better than the phantom at the moment
I wish you did a strip where Larissa comes to Australia. She’d love the summer season when our country is sun baked and fire burnt XD
Sadly, Smokey learned the Truth that most Disasters are the result of Our Own Bad Choices.
@ NewEraOutlaw:
I also lost my respect for you when you insulted this wonderful comic strip.
Well was thinking this was going happen.
NewEraOutlaw wrote:
It was a comment on how people become extremely obsessed with safety. It’s people like you that make these things so incredibly boring parading the name of “safety”.
No, the roundabout couldn’t have injured someone. Someone spinning it incredibly quickly could, but not the roundabout itself. Not just spinning quickly, thing several hundred RPM to even remotely deal serious damage.
And of course it had something to do with Larisa.
I wonder if I’ll summon her if I say “fire”oiokjojkjljoijkl;’][itswher1!!!!!1!11
@ Novil:
It could even be taken a step further. Larisa has now been endowed with the sole authority to prevent forest fires. So she not only doesn’t do so (as is her character), but prevents others from doing so as “only she(you) can prevent forest fires”.
That was a mistake.
*Adds asbestos lining around whole of Bunker just in time for the City Fires, Oil Reserve Fires, Ocean Fires, Electrical Fires, and Chemical Fires.
*Roasts marshmallows.
Well, that can’t end well.
Ah. A challenge.
NewEraOutlaw wrote:
I can see the blackmailing part, but you lost me when you said “which could injure children on it”. The US child safety rules for playgrounds are ridiculous and counterproductive. If you are one who agrees to such over the top measurements then I can see you not liking this comic though.
😀 😀 Funny… I was just yesterday watching Star Trek Of Gods and Men… the Guardian seems something that is needed.
Crestlinger wrote:
Later dies from lung disease caused by the asbestos lining.
Oh, Smokey, why did you do that! Now it’s going to get violent
Well Larisa might have gone overboard a tiny little bit in useing fire to fight fire. But since it is a common method and she has no expirience in firefighting I think we can forgive her :).
@ Crystalgate:
Some people do take safety too far but some also still don’t see why we need any safety measurements at all.
Like, I’ve heard of a small slide being removed just for being at the wrong angle which is ridiculous, but I’ve also heard people complain that we’re being ‘too safe’ when we would rather playgrounds have a shock-absorbent ground built in underneath and around play equipment so that when children fall, they don’t end up with three broken bones and a trip to the emergency room.
Should children experience injury to understand danger? Yes, that’s why the ground isn’t made completely out of bouncy castles.
Do they need to break a bone, which could damage nerves or shift enough that it doesn’t heal correctly, (which could cause a permanent condition e.g. a limp, a lack of feeling in that part of the body, stiffness, lack of mobility of that part of the body, paralysis if it is the spine or nerves get too damaged) or even kill them (you break a rib and it shifts inwards, it is likely to puncture an organ and that can kill you pretty quickly, breaking your nose also has the potential to kill you if a shard pierces your brain) by falling straight on concrete or something similar in its poor shock absorption? No.
Part of why their bones are more spongy and flexible than an adult’s in the first place is to try to stop them breaking bones when they do reckless things because breaking bones is not beneficial to the human body.
@ NewEraOutlaw:
Call of duty disturbs me. My grandfather was killed in WWII and people are having fun pretending to fight in it! I think everyone in call of duty is an evil person in disguise.
Pokemon disturbs me, we just had someone arrested for having secret underground dog fights! I think Ash Ketchum is an evil person in disguise.
GTA disturbs me, we just recently had someone killed in a carjacking! I think everyone in GTA is an evil person. Not in disguise though.
Bikini ads disturb me, we just had someone get extremely sick from trying to achieve the unrealistic body type described by those ads! I think bikini models are evil people in disguise.
Beauty ads disturb me, I know a friend who got bullied into committing suicide over comments about her appearance! I think beauty models are evil people in disguise.
Transformers disturbs me, my friend just recently died in a car accident! I think transformers are robots in disguise.
Wait a minute, the talking bear exists, and is even known to people?
I thought animals only kept their ability to speak a secret from humans.
@ NewEraOutlaw:
You may be taking this a little too seriously…..
Oh, dear… I think Larisa paraphrased that old military saying (“To save the village, we had to burn the village”) into, “To save the forest, I must BURN THE FOREST!
And then things got out of hand…
@ NewEraOutlaw:
I can get Larisa, but the thing with Ye Thuza?
Frankly, I’d probably do the same thing if there was still one of those playground rides around my area. Some of the most fun times of my childhood were because of one of those playground merry-go-rounds and it sure as heck wasn’t because it had a spin speed limit (we used to go fast enough to get 3 people able to superman off the sides xD)
That’s not to say people couldn’t have gotten hurt badly, but my worst childhood injuries came from a small branch in the woods that cut my eye and a jungle gym that I didn’t quite duck low enough to get under. Me getting injured doesn’t mean the forest needs to have all the sharp points and springy branches removed, and jungle-gyms don’t need to be made of nerf. Kids will injure themselves being stupid, then they learn and keep having fun.
Many talking animals conversed happily with humans – Mr Ed, Basil Brush, Paddington Bear to name but a few.
I, for one, did not see this coming. I was expecting something dark and gritty. Turns out it was Larisa. Broke out laughing.
S.K.Ren wrote:
SCORE!
Milky wrote:
…………ahahahahahahaha!
Smokey, y u no not challenge larisa! Shouldn’t she be on like, the parks blacklis? They shouldn’t be suprised
to everyone who has a problem with this comic;
If you don’t like the content of the comic, quit reading it.
Thank you.
@ Brian:
You are forgetting one point, SHE is the EXPERT for fire management, making and control.
She lost her title of master during her seminar.
Whoa. Readers are wound up because a talking bear defies reality? In a strip about a talking raccoon?
Convulsive laughter makes it hard to breathe, dammit! 🙂
@ Zakrathnma:
I’m pretty sure she got it back when she lit that glass of water on fire.
Smokey: Only YOU can prevent forest fires!
Larisa: Challenge accepted!
@ Ian Albert:
Outside! The living quarters in a shell formation, yeah otherwise kaput at first contact.
Larisa: Ok, great. But why would I ever do that?
Okay, NOW I see where you are going with this.
@ NewEraOutlaw:
i find you are overreacting. sure some real life situations may make you more sensitive towards a thing or two, but that is not an excuse to blame everything resembling.
dont bother to answer, i just dropped by to say my opinion, i almost never read the comments 🙂
And yet, nothing more needs to be added to the web comic to show what happens next. We ALL can fill in the blanks, with this one. LOL
Larisa Confirmed.
Abort mission.
I repeat, ABORT.
How did I not see this coming…
I could see this coming
And as for everyone that is disputing stuff that has happened in this Comic before…. 3 words; Get over it.
for dear love of god this is a Comic…. nothing that’s on here REALLY matters…. It’s just makin fun of some thing.
and if you’re mad at me, Why would you be? I just said something, I find, very truthful.