“Tired of always going stag? Want to buck the trend? Want the ladies to fawn all over you and your hart-stopping good looks? Then have I got the product for you!” crowed the peddler. In hind-sight, we probably should have wondered more about his choice of words.
So…Herne has a beef with a travelling salesman/trader, eh? Given the connections that tend to crop up, I wonder if Digger’s next contact with Trader Manuel might be a little more…interesting…than she might like.
Considering hyena culture, you’d only be half-right. Grim Eyes’ look is probably more of a, “I’ll have to keep that in mind the next time a snake oil salesman comes my way..”
arrrggg. i re-read Kinto’s comment. “In HIND-sight, we should have wondered more about his chose of words.” that one got past me first time!
And Eugene, i wouldn’t be so sure. Spotted Hyenas have some of the sympathetic nervous system reverenced compared to most mammals. That is to say some involuntary fight-or-flight functions appear reversed. To put in bluntly, we all know about girl hyenas plumbing by this point. Hyenas of both sexes use erect phallus’s in dominance displays. The interesting bit is as opposed to other animals that do so, say Bonobos, chips and (by a variety of symbolic proxy’s, usually, hopefully) human males, with Hyenas an erect phallus shows SUBMISSION, not dominance and is an involuntary fear response to aggression from a superior hyena of ones own in-group. Of course as the continued existence of baby hyenas bears out, things still get used in the usual way as well, and other ways too given how complex hyena social groups are. As a result I doubt Grim-Eyes would care one way or another about such a product even without the side effect. No one wants a pill that makes them look involuntarily submissive.
This is also why I flagged Owl-caller as male early on; he was holding a staff. Given in any culture based on Hyena biology both sexes are likely to use phallic symbolism, the fact he alone felt it was necessary whilst surrounded by the female elders, and the fact it was a staff and not a spear and as a result very symbolically lacking in power if ever compared to the spears we had prior seen the females using, had me interested from the start. Of course, he may just be old and need it to walk.
And now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go and have a nice lie down and a nice talk to Herr Freud about my mother… have a link. its wiki, but I’ve checked the citation and it seems okay.
Kinto, that was amazing. BunnyRock, as always, you exceed our expectations (or at least my expectations) of any post each time you produce such information.
I am having trouble interpreting Digger’s expression in the last panel. It could be any one of several things depending on what you assume she assumes and knows, and what her opinions on certain… activities, actions, intentions, human things, etc. are.
I’m going to hate myself for saying this, but I wonder if the snake-oil salesman specialized in topical medications.[/reference to syntactic ambiguity]
You should never trust those traveling viagra peddlers…
Horny Deer Weed maybe?
“Tired of always going stag? Want to buck the trend? Want the ladies to fawn all over you and your hart-stopping good looks? Then have I got the product for you!” crowed the peddler. In hind-sight, we probably should have wondered more about his choice of words.
Kinto_M, you just made my day. 😀
Kinto wins.
As do the bemused looks in the last panel.
An excellent job, my deer Kinto! I herd you were good, but I’m just stuck in a rut. Well done!
I was aiming for the funny bone. Glad to see I could pricket.
*groans appreciatively at puns* The risks of being overly horny, I guess…
Well, he is talking to three females and a child. Bound to be a little awkward about… such things.
Some of the expressions in this page are the best Ursula’s ever done, IMO.
So…Herne has a beef with a travelling salesman/trader, eh? Given the connections that tend to crop up, I wonder if Digger’s next contact with Trader Manuel might be a little more…interesting…than she might like.
(Disaproving Mommy look) “Puns are the lowest form of humor” (but the only ones I get)
Congrats to you both!
Kinto = win!
Kinto, that’s going in my D&D campaign, word for word. And I already know which player will fall for it.
Kinto, brilliant.
To translate their look in the last panel:
MEN!
Considering hyena culture, you’d only be half-right. Grim Eyes’ look is probably more of a, “I’ll have to keep that in mind the next time a snake oil salesman comes my way..”
I interpreted the looks in the last panel as “you know what he’s not saying too, don’t you?”
Kinto FTW
…and you could say that the merchant has been a (t)horn in his side since then
Kinto – that was awesome 🙂
I’m laughing so hard from what Kinto said that this took two minutes to type.
snake oil salesman XD
arrrggg. i re-read Kinto’s comment. “In HIND-sight, we should have wondered more about his chose of words.” that one got past me first time!
And Eugene, i wouldn’t be so sure. Spotted Hyenas have some of the sympathetic nervous system reverenced compared to most mammals. That is to say some involuntary fight-or-flight functions appear reversed. To put in bluntly, we all know about girl hyenas plumbing by this point. Hyenas of both sexes use erect phallus’s in dominance displays. The interesting bit is as opposed to other animals that do so, say Bonobos, chips and (by a variety of symbolic proxy’s, usually, hopefully) human males, with Hyenas an erect phallus shows SUBMISSION, not dominance and is an involuntary fear response to aggression from a superior hyena of ones own in-group. Of course as the continued existence of baby hyenas bears out, things still get used in the usual way as well, and other ways too given how complex hyena social groups are. As a result I doubt Grim-Eyes would care one way or another about such a product even without the side effect. No one wants a pill that makes them look involuntarily submissive.
This is also why I flagged Owl-caller as male early on; he was holding a staff. Given in any culture based on Hyena biology both sexes are likely to use phallic symbolism, the fact he alone felt it was necessary whilst surrounded by the female elders, and the fact it was a staff and not a spear and as a result very symbolically lacking in power if ever compared to the spears we had prior seen the females using, had me interested from the start. Of course, he may just be old and need it to walk.
And now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go and have a nice lie down and a nice talk to Herr Freud about my mother… have a link. its wiki, but I’ve checked the citation and it seems okay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour#Spotted_Hyena
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. BunnyRock, I want to be your friend.
Kinto, that’s a horrible barrage of puns and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Of course, I’m still grinning.
Last panel: says it all.
I think bunnyrock has got a new stalker.
Oh, and also, your creeping me out bunny.
Woot for tv tropes reference!
Kinto’s hurricane of puns is very much FTW, now go look up hurricane of puns on TVTropes so I can feel like a right bastard 🙂
Kinto, that was amazing. BunnyRock, as always, you exceed our expectations (or at least my expectations) of any post each time you produce such information.
I am having trouble interpreting Digger’s expression in the last panel. It could be any one of several things depending on what you assume she assumes and knows, and what her opinions on certain… activities, actions, intentions, human things, etc. are.
I’m going to hate myself for saying this, but I wonder if the snake-oil salesman specialized in topical medications.[/reference to syntactic ambiguity]