Sockpuppets. It’s an ideal safeword, as it’s not something you’d be likely to hear otherwise, in a situation which involved safewords. Plus, it’s funny. Great tension-breaker.
One, this is hilarious in its own right.
Two, it’s even funnier to me because one of my room mates has Tourette’s, and “Bacon!” is on of his tics.
Three, safewords can and should be used in everyday life, I think. It makes everything so much easier and less traumatic.
The fact that 99% of your late night posting fan base knows what a safe word is, much less has/and or uses one raises the entertainment value,…have a roommate that needs one on every weekend he goes out, I,.. sadly fall into the Hero category, morose and depressed when sober, ..and stupidly chivalrous, brave and heroic when drunk Don’t remember whether it was a quote off the artwork or the posts, but it fits very well as I sink into the later
helusanation, it’s a quote from Terry Pratchett’s The Color of Magic that was posted as a comment a while back.
Speaking of Terry Pratchett, the password is swordfish. It’s always swordfish.
Further proof, not only that Ursula is a genius, but that visuals aren’t always necessary for an entirely un-jokelike comic strip to be tremendously funny.
I mean, I suppose if it wasn’t so overdone it’d be sad, but…
If I was in a situation where a safeword was necessary, and my partner yelled, “BACON!” I would probably just hit them again.
… Because bacon is gross, and they would have just totally ruined the mood.
ON A MORE RELAVENT NOTE, I find this page HILARIOUS. I was cracking up!
Larksliver: That depends entirely on your experiences with sockpuppets. Hypothetically.
Grim Eyes and Shadowchild are the Abbot and Costello of crazy awesome dramatic comics. And if Shadowchild /ever/ says “Hey Grim Eyes!”, I will be unable to hear it in any voice other than that of Lou Costello.
“Today’s password is… bacon.” *snrk*
Alternately, bacon would probably be a good safe-word too.
Um.
ah, shadow child is just doing its best! I so love this story!
I’ve always found “safeword” is a good safeword. easy to remember when you need it, unlikely to come up when you don’t.
The safeword is… ‘pumpkin…’
These comments have gotten me on the disturbing mental track of picturing Pee Wee’s Playhouse secret words as safeword communication.
Sockpuppets. It’s an ideal safeword, as it’s not something you’d be likely to hear otherwise, in a situation which involved safewords. Plus, it’s funny. Great tension-breaker.
“Bacon, damnit!”
One, this is hilarious in its own right.
Two, it’s even funnier to me because one of my room mates has Tourette’s, and “Bacon!” is on of his tics.
Three, safewords can and should be used in everyday life, I think. It makes everything so much easier and less traumatic.
“No means no. Unless there’s been a discussion of safewords, in which case, ‘Fuzzy purple unicorns’ means no.” from an icon that I saw once
I love Shadowchild so much more, and he didn’t even SAY anything this page.
Truly wonderful writing.
Except, of course, Jon, “This is confusing!”
I imagined waking up from the drugs during surgery to hear this exact conversation, and laughed because it wasn’t me it was happening to.
> The safeword is… ‘pumpkin…’
Not in this area it isn’t. The pumpkins are vampires!
Only if they’ve turned because they were left in the field too long …
😉
The fact that 99% of your late night posting fan base knows what a safe word is, much less has/and or uses one raises the entertainment value,…have a roommate that needs one on every weekend he goes out, I,.. sadly fall into the Hero category, morose and depressed when sober, ..and stupidly chivalrous, brave and heroic when drunk Don’t remember whether it was a quote off the artwork or the posts, but it fits very well as I sink into the later
Double facepalm! Or face-double-palm. Something.
helusanation, it’s a quote from Terry Pratchett’s The Color of Magic that was posted as a comment a while back.
Speaking of Terry Pratchett, the password is swordfish. It’s always swordfish.
Or the written out formula of some ionic solid. I prefer those, especially adding the correct empirical percentages.
Except when it’s “We don’t have a password, now open the door, moron.”
Speaking of speaking of Pratchett
“The riddle’s answer is teeth. its ALWAYS teeth.””
….
“Alright! SOME TIMES its “tongue”‘
Further proof, not only that Ursula is a genius, but that visuals aren’t always necessary for an entirely un-jokelike comic strip to be tremendously funny.
I mean, I suppose if it wasn’t so overdone it’d be sad, but…
“Bacon, dammit!”
If I was in a situation where a safeword was necessary, and my partner yelled, “BACON!” I would probably just hit them again.
… Because bacon is gross, and they would have just totally ruined the mood.
ON A MORE RELAVENT NOTE, I find this page HILARIOUS. I was cracking up!
Larksliver: That depends entirely on your experiences with sockpuppets. Hypothetically.
Grim Eyes and Shadowchild are the Abbot and Costello of crazy awesome dramatic comics. And if Shadowchild /ever/ says “Hey Grim Eyes!”, I will be unable to hear it in any voice other than that of Lou Costello.
@Emily: The idea of a safeword is to make things stop; ruining the mood is the easiest way to accomplish that.