What’s the line for? Where is Horace at in panel 3, since the gray floor has disappeared? Is he picking up random detritus in panel 3, or something of significance?
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Drawing the line is usually a declaration that one is taking a firm stand on something; an assertion of strength and will. Here he realizes his floor is filthy, and his bold symbolic gesture must be sacrificed to proper housekeeping. Sure, he can draw an actual line elsewhere, or even here with chalk after cleaning the floor. But the panache is gone. It’s like making a grand, door-slamming exit from an argument and having to sulk back in for your hat and coat.
He seems to have hoovered up most of the “lines” the cartoonist has drawn, apart from the little lines depicting the detritus and rubbish (and himself and his hoover).
Yes, the line he drew was in the gray dust covering his floor. You can see a little bit of the dust coming off the end of the line in panel 2.
How, exactly, does he hold a stick?
@4 – Cartoon physics. How does Homestar Runner hold anything without any arms? It’s either that or telekinesis.
@Mark H., you should see him play guitar.
I say Powers has it.
Yellow floor revealed under gray dust.As for the hands/hooves, Powerpuff Girls hinted at this sort of thing in the body swap episode, where Buttercup in Professor Utonium’s body just touched her palm-flat hand to a phone and got frustrated that it didn’t just pick up the thing. “Professor, your hands don’t work!”
In My Little Pony, the usual fan theory is that the “frog” of the hoof (the soft bit in the middle) is flexible enough to manipulate objects.
He holds a stick the same way the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver’s Travels hold tools to build their houses.
What a perfect day for me to read this!
Robert seems to have this thing about our (MY) needing to clean in the house – especially the floors and the dust on things. (If we did not go out and waste time walking around in the same stores day after day I would get a lot more housework done and is why I am online at 1:15 am reading comics for the past week while doing the laundry. Cleaning was done on a schedule before he quit his job and then broke the “I go on with life as I did before during the weekdays and you do what you want” agreement made when he did so.)
His latest idea was to buy a rubber or plastic scrapper on a broom sized stick to push the mess to one spot. The concept that any of the brooms we own or the “Swiffer” I normally use would do the same thing also and easier on the floors.
Oh, he has also made a wheeled platform for his smaller shop vac to be use it as a vacuum around the house – instead of using the electric broom we have.
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Drawing the line is usually a declaration that one is taking a firm stand on something; an assertion of strength and will. Here he realizes his floor is filthy, and his bold symbolic gesture must be sacrificed to proper housekeeping. Sure, he can draw an actual line elsewhere, or even here with chalk after cleaning the floor. But the panache is gone. It’s like making a grand, door-slamming exit from an argument and having to sulk back in for your hat and coat.
He seems to have hoovered up most of the “lines” the cartoonist has drawn, apart from the little lines depicting the detritus and rubbish (and himself and his hoover).
Yes, the line he drew was in the gray dust covering his floor. You can see a little bit of the dust coming off the end of the line in panel 2.
How, exactly, does he hold a stick?
@4 – Cartoon physics. How does Homestar Runner hold anything without any arms? It’s either that or telekinesis.
@Mark H., you should see him play guitar.
I say Powers has it.
Yellow floor revealed under gray dust.As for the hands/hooves, Powerpuff Girls hinted at this sort of thing in the body swap episode, where Buttercup in Professor Utonium’s body just touched her palm-flat hand to a phone and got frustrated that it didn’t just pick up the thing. “Professor, your hands don’t work!”
In My Little Pony, the usual fan theory is that the “frog” of the hoof (the soft bit in the middle) is flexible enough to manipulate objects.
He holds a stick the same way the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver’s Travels hold tools to build their houses.
What a perfect day for me to read this!
Robert seems to have this thing about our (MY) needing to clean in the house – especially the floors and the dust on things. (If we did not go out and waste time walking around in the same stores day after day I would get a lot more housework done and is why I am online at 1:15 am reading comics for the past week while doing the laundry. Cleaning was done on a schedule before he quit his job and then broke the “I go on with life as I did before during the weekdays and you do what you want” agreement made when he did so.)
His latest idea was to buy a rubber or plastic scrapper on a broom sized stick to push the mess to one spot. The concept that any of the brooms we own or the “Swiffer” I normally use would do the same thing also and easier on the floors.
Oh, he has also made a wheeled platform for his smaller shop vac to be use it as a vacuum around the house – instead of using the electric broom we have.
But any housework he does is some of it done.