Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for May 17, 2012
Transcript:
Phoebe: I don't get it. I brought a UNICORN to show and tell, ad I'm no more popular than before. Marigold: Oh, it is probably the SHIELD OF BORINGNESS. Phoebe: The shield of boringness? Marigold: No, no. The SHIELD OF BORINGNESS. Phoebe: i shield of boringness. Marigold: I will forgive your accent.
Masterius over 12 years ago
I love the accents! :) And Phoebe’s so cute flipping her flipflops back and forth.
The Nihilist over 12 years ago
I think Phoebe didn’t take into account the envy factor
celeconecca over 12 years ago
yes – the curlicues do make a difference. Remember the “purfuit of happineff.”
James Hopkins over 12 years ago
I’d love to hear how those fonts are pronounced.
Simon_Jester over 12 years ago
Has anyone else noticed that Marigold is speaking those words in the same font as the banner?
DDrazen over 12 years ago
In any event, school has the ability to make even the most transcendent of subjects boring.
rocketscientist over 12 years ago
Yeah, the banner font is “H. Nostralia” and the special word font is “Unicorna”.
Comic Minister Premium Member over 12 years ago
I guess Phoebe understands now.
Coyoty Premium Member over 12 years ago
“The Shield of Boringness” should be said with the same flair as “The Pit of Despair” and “The Bog of Eternal Stench” and “The [insert object here] of Rassilon”.
Majicou over 12 years ago
No doubt the Shield of Boringness is a form of Weirdness Censor akin to the Somebody Else’s Problem Field.
John W Kennedy Premium Member over 12 years ago
“ſ” is the older form, going back to ancient Roman handwriting. Remember, the whole idea of uppercase and lowercase is relatively modern. The original Roman alphabet, was strictly uppercase. Lowercase was invented as a different way of writing. It was only in relatively recent times that the idea got around that it was cool to mix the two alphabets together, so that every letter comes in two flavors. It was only later still that printers started using “s” instead of “ſ”, first at the end of words, then throughout. (My old high-school German textbook still used long “ſ”, and even today, the special German letter “ß”, although it is now regarded as equivalent to “ss”, is actually “ſz”.) I am not sure why those old printers started using “s” instead of “ſ” at the ends of words, but it might be related to the fact that Greek uses “σ” inside of words and “ς” at the end. Hebrew also has special letters “ך“ ,”ם“ ,”ן“ ,”ף”, and “ץ” at the ends of words instead of “כ“ ,”מ“ ,”נ“ ,”פ”, and “צ”. (Arabic has four versions of every letter, for beginning, middle, end, and standalone.)
John W Kennedy Premium Member over 12 years ago
In the meantime, now that Dana’s got the Exposition section of this particular sonata out of the way, she’s getting down to Development. I eagerly await it.
reynard61 over 12 years ago
@ John W Kennedy & Frank Hightower:
Moft interefting!
Masterius over 12 years ago
I was imagining Marigold repeating the title again (and I love her soft, kind expression in panel 4; such lovely eyes!) and all of a sudden . . .
All I could hear was: “Child, child, child…,” a-la Felix Unger.
Which lead to picturing Phoebe as Oscar. ::grins::
Well, Phoebe and Marigold would make the ultimate Odd Couple!
Iron Ed over 12 years ago
Congratulations; I think you have found the definition of the Shield of Boringness! :-)
LiviaBay over 12 years ago
Poor Phoebe ….popularity isn’t everything; if anything it’s a pain in the neck.
Decepticomic over 3 years ago
Get to the point, horseteeth.