Comments on: ANTONIO SMITH, FORENSIC LINGUIST: October 2-7, 2000

By: linkhyrule5

linkhyrule5 — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 10:21:20 +0000

One amongst Dave’s powers: for cigarettes specifically, gravity points towards his mouth and not to the ground. It’s the only explanation for how he can just keep emitting them and be smoking them a moment later without taking his hands out of his pockets!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:10:15 +0000

I bought the original of ‘The wind bites shrewdly…’ and I still have it up on my wall! Looking at it make think ‘and what’s Shaenon Garrity doing now?’ which led me here. I personally like the longer quote: “The learned pate / Ducks to the golden fool: all is oblique; There’s nothing level in our cursed natures / But direct villany.” How right you were, Timon of Athens! etc.

By: Seph

Seph — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 12:46:50 +0000

In reply to 25. As I recall, she wears kevlar pants anyway, just because she can, but if Dave were any hotter she’d _have_ to.

By: Seph

Seph — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 12:45:36 +0000

Does Dave have the power to make cigarettes light spontaneously, or is he just a sufficiently dedicated smoker that he carries a spare lighter? Later on, when Helen gets her genes spliced with Dave’s, a lit cigarette appears in her mouth out of nowhere, which may be a related phenomenon.

By: 25

25 — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:48:43 +0000

With respect to Helen’s pants, didn’t she have to start wearing Kevlar pants (due to Dave)?

By: Steve Boyd

Steve Boyd — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 19:05:54 +0000

I liked Monday’s strip so much I purchased it. It now hangs proudly in my office. I feel like it sums up how some of my past jobs have gone.

By: Dave III (dave_iii)

Dave III (dave_iii) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:29:57 +0000

Well, since Helen was able to spontainiously generate cigarettes when she was turning into Dave, I just assumed Dave could just as easily light them using the same mojo. On the other hand, would he still have been able to do that after the Time Travel thing?

By: ribbles (ribbles)

ribbles (ribbles) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:29:56 +0000

Ooh. I’ll bet we can explain _all_ the continuity errors as we go along.

By: Chris Brunner (cjbrunner)

Chris Brunner (cjbrunner) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:29:55 +0000

I just assumed Dave was able to light his cigarette from some of the smoldering rubble in the background.

By: Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity)

Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:29:54 +0000

Yeah, you’re right. I’ll fix that.