Also from that series are “101 Professional Troll Diseases”, which is a book about ailments of shrews, and “101 Vegetable Diseases”, which devotes and entire chapter to the various ways plants can turn into ravenous undead monsters.
“Don’t eat that hippie hyena garbage that will make you vomit a couple of times! Here, have this stuff mixed with foul-tasting oil that will put you in the jakes for eight hours. Spiteful? Me? Nah, that’d be unprofessional of me.”
Given Ursula’s theory that goats are the domesticated form of trolls, it’s pretty much the same book, just rewritten to replace a few found in the wild with a few resulting from pasturing.
Doesn’t Sings-to-Trees have that book?
I rather like that second panel. It says so much with just a single building and a speech bubble.
Sings-to-Trees has “101 Troll Diseases.” Similar, but not quite. 😉
“I hate my life”… Well, when sitting in that place for forced extended exercise, I feel the same way.
101 Goat Diseases in the out house… Seems so Pratchett-like… Wyrd Sisters, natch.
I suppose the book is part of a series.
Also from that series are “101 Professional Troll Diseases”, which is a book about ailments of shrews, and “101 Vegetable Diseases”, which devotes and entire chapter to the various ways plants can turn into ravenous undead monsters.
Why not tell the Shadowchild that the current illness is PROOF that it was wrong to eat a talking person? Basically true.
That could be a dangerous path to take, thisfox.
Digger: “Don’t eat someone that can talk, or you’ll get sick like I did.”
Shadowchild: “But I did eat someone that talks, you know, the bandit, back before you told me it was wrong! And I didn’t get sick then … ”
And Digger would then be caught in a lie …
😉
I love that Digger refuses to recognize cultural relativism. That, I believe, is fascinating, and says a great deal about Wombats in general.
She tried, but was hiving trouble really believing it, and then explaining it.
“Don’t eat that hippie hyena garbage that will make you vomit a couple of times! Here, have this stuff mixed with foul-tasting oil that will put you in the jakes for eight hours. Spiteful? Me? Nah, that’d be unprofessional of me.”
Given Ursula’s theory that goats are the domesticated form of trolls, it’s pretty much the same book, just rewritten to replace a few found in the wild with a few resulting from pasturing.