[0948] The Deciding Game
└ posted on Thursday, 21 December 2017, by Novil
Finally beginning to feel better after one week of sickness…
- Sandra: Mr. Hayer, please open the door!!
- Bob Hayer: I’m coming, jeez…!
- Bob Hayer: What’s up?
- Sandra: Woo’s kit’s badly injured! You have to help him!!
- Bob Hayer: Not during the deciding game of the N.B.A. finals!
- Sandra: Pleeeease!!
- Bob Hayer: I should’ve become a drug dealer like my father wanted. But noooo, I had to study veterinary medicine!
- Commentator: 60 to 60 at the start of the third quarter! This is truly the game of the century!
![[0948] The Deciding Game](/comics/2017-12-21-0948-the-deciding-game.png "[0948] The Deciding Game")
What kind of father wants their son to be a drug dealer?
@ Òlafur Kristinn Hannesson:
Easy, the one that requires Pharmasutical’s. It’s basically the same profession. One just has less green leaves. (in most states)
@ Òlafur Kristinn Hannesson:
One who’s a drug dealer himself, particularly a gang boss.
I think Sandra’s speech balloon would read clearer as “Woo’s kit is”.
One apostrophe signifies a possessive and the other a contraction.
Nothing illegal about that but, as a native English speaker, I think eliminating the contraction sounds more “natural”. Also, easier to read.
I know Sandra’s in a hurry but it wouldn’t take any longer to say. And there’s space in the balloon.
Don’t do drugs cause drugs are bad, m’kay?
@ Edda:
“Damnit Jim, I’m a doctor not an english major!“
@ Edda:
I’ve heard “someone’s thing’s” as contraction for “his thing is” quite a bit. Sometimes people do a double take to understand it, but it isn’t really that uncommon
@ Edda:
It’s pretty normal, though.
How does Sandra know where he lives???
Blaise Z. wrote:
Google.
Yeah… Who watches NBA anyway? Twitch is the thing!
Wow, it’s been literally YEARS since we last saw him. This is literally his second appearance in the entire comic.
… And are you telling me that he doesn’t have a video recorder that can save the game for him to watch later?
MarqFJA87 wrote:
Recorded isn’t -quite- as good as live, even if you’ve heard -no- spoilers at all! It’s kind of a ‘psychological’ thing. 🙂
Interestingly, Dr. Hayer was named ages back in strip #11!
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2008/11/27/0011-heaven-and-hell/
@ Puyon:
Wow! It’s been about nine years!
who would win
“doing the humane thing”
or
“some egg shaped boi”
once you’re a doctor your always a doctor whether it be for humans or animals
Jee, just have someone tape the game and move your ass over there! xD
AustinDR wrote:
When your life depends on using drugs, you might be a bit less judgmental.
I really wish illegal substances were not called drugs.
The deciding game of the NBA Finals? So, this is happening in June, then.
@ Max Goof:
Makes sense. Northern cherries tend to ripen later into June.
Isn’t he already a drug dealer?
I read that score as “GO TO GO” the first read-through instead of “60 TO 60″…
What kinda vet is he, to let a game be more important than an emergency?
Also, I hope he was kdding about his dad.
Dude, record it!
@ Alex Paws:
It’s been 7.5 since we saw him. http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/06/28/0177-facehugger/
Lily Duncan wrote:
It may be hard to believe, but vets and doctors are humans, too and require relaxation and free time once in a while. I don’t know about the U.S., in Germany, there is actually a network system of emergency duty for vets similar to the one for doctor’s. So if you are on emergency duty – fuck the game, off you go. If you are not on emergency duty – hope that the damn kids don’t know where you live and call the guy who IS on emergency duty. Of course most vets wouldn’t like to slam the door infront of someone who seeks urgent help for his pet, but imagine it happens every day … or every two hours. You’ve got to draw the line somewhere.
And yeah, the line about the drug dealer is probably a joke, hinting at the fact that junkies on withdrawal are less needy and impatient than kids with injured pets. 😉
…Shouldn’t it be “Dr. Hayer”?
someguy wrote:
Maybe they live in a small town where there isn’t such a thing? Rural docs have it pretty rough a lot of times where you have to pretty much be on call all the time.
Had he insisted on staying for the game, I’m sure a certain momma raccoon would have words with a certain raccoon goddess >_>
Speaking of, that bobcat is going to have 40 years in hell for hurting Arci >:T
Unfortunately, if this was football, it could be ‘goal to go’, but there isn’t any equal phrase in basketball. So the last speech bubble is certainly mixing up sports at the minimum.
Also, just as an FYI, for close-ish games basketball gets really exciting in the last 2 minutes and is usually decided in the last couple seconds. For example, if you are watching the NCAA tournament, they have the timing staggered so you can cycle through the live games and watch the last 2 minutes for each one (barring having to go to overtime). Another nit to pick ‘start of the 3rd quarter’ also means ‘just after halftime, so we have a lot of game to go still (for both sports).
Threndor wrote:
Read the transcript- those are 6’s, not G’s.
@ Old Brit:
Properly, those things are ‘narcotics’, but difficult words and addicts don’t tend to mix welll…
That said, the thing where people get addicted to painkillers doesn’t help the distinction. that’s a real problem too.
Medical doctors and drug dealers do basically the same thing, right?
(No pun intended.)
@ Alex Paws:
Loksel wrote:
But about 2 years in story time. Started with Sandra at 11 and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” she was celebrating her 13th birthday. (At that she’s having Birthdays at the same was as “Fredric in The Pirates of Penzance or, The Slave of Duty”.) 🙂
@ SkySquid1989:
Well, usually doctors who prescribe drugs don’t generally administer them (which is why many people go to a pharmacy to have their prescription filled); and when they’re prescribed they’re only prescribed for a certain length of time and in controlled amounts. Which really, is pretty antithetical to the traditional drug dealers stock and trade.
good job we live in the time of live pause then.
Ivain wrote:
Narcotics are only a small sample of illegal drugs. In fact many common drugs even those given to children are illegal without prescription. Stimulants and sideways for example.
If sugar and HFCS are not drugs they certainly act like them. If you don’t believe me try giving them up for a couple of weeks.
@ Walter:
You die, because glucose, a sugar, is pretty much the only thing your body can burn directly to energy. Or, break down to ATP which it burns, technically, but most everything is at one point in the metabolic process a sugar.
Commentary Ver.2.72 wrote:
Beautiful.
@ oledakaajel:
In what sense of the word?
@ Commentary Ver.2.72:
Yeah but the thing is that Glucose can be gotten from various other sources like carbohydrates. I believe you are taking this too literal and he is talking about white sugar, the sugar you eat almost everyday. Anyway I would say love is a drug cause it releases dopamine in the brain and happiness is not good for you. Cause Drugs do that
@ Commentary Ver.2.72:
Technically, no, because your liver can manufacture enough glucose for your brain even if there are no carbohydrates in your diet, starting from proteins, and using fat for energy to do it.
This does require that, if there are no carbohydrates at all in your diet, you increase your protein intake.
@ Commentary Ver.2.72:
Every sense.
@ Brett Bellmore:
I was saying that at some point in the metabolic process, you would need the sugar to be in your system, not that you had to ingest any, but,
that is still a fair point.
Warcraft-3-Player wrote:
It’s literally my job to take things literally. Okay, fine, it’s not, I’m unemployed.
@ Edda:
Also may sound like the plural to the listener – as if many kits are injured.
h_rayz wrote:
Then it would be “Woo’s kits’re” instead.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Commentary Ver.2.72 wrote:
Alright then I would like to employ you to be bait in popular youtube comments to get a video compilation of the wrong way to take baits.
@ Òlafur Kristinn Hannesson:
A gang leader…or somebody who would rather their son have control of their income instead of working a dead end job fulfilling the agenda of another…vet’s a good second choice though.