[1010] Expert Survey
└ posted on Monday, 6 August 2018, by Novil
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- Sandra: Quick, Woo! What’s the average gestation period of raccoons?
- Woo: Hmm…
- Sandra: It’s somewhere between two and three months, right? But is it closer to 60 days or closer to 90 days?
- Woo: …
- Sandra: You don’t know?
- Woo: I do know…
- Woo: … But I don’t want to tell you because that’d be cheating.
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LUL
Since when Racoons favor fair play?
Welp. Looks like it’s going to tie. Even if Sandra managed to get one more point, Zoey could still get an extra point for making the funniest face. I guess we’ll have to go to Larisaball to break the tie.
And now, Thursday’s strip will be Woo lecturing Sandra, and Sandra realizing she took the competition too seriously, and will all be quite heartwarming, until Zoey arrives on-site and busts the talking raccoon.
Nothing that a history lecture of saving him most of the time in this story couldn’t fix or a camp fire and s’mores.
Called it! You should know better than to cheat, Sandra. Zoey hasn’t cheated. Be like Zoey.
When a raccoon tells you not to cheat, you know you’ve crossed a line.
Just check the comic archive to see how long it was between Woo and Lily’s… activities and the birth of the kits. Sandra can see through the fourth wall, right?
HackneyedTrope wrote:
It seems Novil doesn’t want her to cheat either; there are no activities.
Woo-hoo! Woo!
Aren’t those stalls open? Like, voices can carry out from a single toilet? Is anyone gonna question a talking raccoon if they heard two voices from one stall, a girl and a raccoon come out? Or just think to themselves, ‘wow! Quite the ventriloquist, that girl!’
Should have phrased the request differently. ‘Please tell me this information so I can beat the person who wanted to take you away.’
@ Trimutius:
@ Genesis:
At first I was like ‘since when were raccoons known for cheating?!’ but then I found an article on a cognition study in which the raccoons actually did ””’cheat””’ (although calling that ‘cheating’ can be kind of like calling the use of a wheel to move stone blacks as opposed to sliding them across the ground ‘cheating’ too)
https://www.livescience.com/60784-raccoons-cheat-to-ace-cognition-test.html
I think what’s clear tho, is that while Sandra is eager to cheat, she doesn’t actually know how to cheat. Obviously she’s gotta tempt Woo with candy or something
He’s right, you know.
Trimutius wrote:
When they’re not the one playing.
Is anyone else freaking out over the fact that the speech bubble’s outlines are not solid. What does it mean!?
@ Fluffy: They’re whispering.
@ Mudsaur:
the broken lines in the chat bubbles indicates whispering.
also where is her phone? normal person would google the answer rather than consult a talking raccoon.
@ Arthiem:
First of all, who brings their phone to the pool, second of all, even if she did bring it, she is wearing a bathing suit, so she’d have no place to put it.
Yess! Go, Woo!
@ R.C.:
Ooohh, cool, thanks man.
@ Trimutius:
Ever since they realized that they can demand a treat in return.
This one remind me of Larisa:
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/am7w8Py_460svvp9.webm
Just setting Ice on flames :O
Jack wrote:
And then the US Government and the jerkass gods get involve!
@ Adarkan:
that won’t be regular ice though right? it’s some kind of frozen fuel.
Do we know for sure yet if Woo actually talks? Because if he answered something she didn’t know before, that would prove it. Or maybe that’s why he doesn’t answer…
Called you to it! Shame!
ToBeFree wrote:
Are you supposing that Sandra has been imagining Woo speaking since strip #0007?
Shades of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (the first film)!
That’s what the computer told Tim Brooke-Taylor in that film, when it had been programmed to find the remaining golden tickets. 😀
Wait, this is one of the few times Sandra has talked to Woo in public where Woo talks back. Could their secret be found out? Find out next time! On DRAGON BA- ahem, Sandra and Woo.
@ Josh:
Nope, just Ice and induction force xD
Why Woo, I am genuinely surprised.
Well done! 🙂
ToBeFree wrote:
When one of Woos kids was hurt, Vega (I think) came bursting into the house and shouted for Sandra and Woo to help. Her dad was there and heard it, and thought he was drunk. So I’d say yes…
@ Brijeka Vervix:
Well, the similarity between Sandra and Woo, and Calvin and Hobbes is more than just passing.
@ Josh:
I don’t think Adarkan’s webm file shows frozen fuel (such as alcohol mixed with water) being burnt since it burns in a wholly different fashion. Researching Adarkan’s claim that the method uses induction reveals that this could be possible in which electricity is being used the split the hydrogen and the oxygen in the water molecules and then presumably the hydrogen combusts by some method. Whether this is the truth or not will require experimentation.
Alternate but unsupported theories I have seen involve the cube actually being some kind of glass but I cannot comment on the validity of these claims 😉
Gab wrote:
A: teenage girls bring their phones to the pool. its stupid but I’ve had to replace 6 of my sister’s phones because of this.
B:but the restrooms are adjacent to the locker rooms in pools so all her stuff should be in the next room.
@ Arthiem:
It could be that those toilets are separate from wherever Sandra has left her bag (and presumably phone), which could actually be where they were lying down earlier and so if she were to go there, everyone would immediately know that she is up to something.
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2016/04/04/0774-a-strip-for-peace-and-tolerance/
“That would be cheating…” I guess it is when killing is not involved…