Thursday, January 17 2008: Playground Oral History

[Kyubi Kusanagi]

You gotta love playground gossip.

[Sage]

Is it me or is Avery wearing a different hat? (The vest is obvious)

It's killing me, what's going to happen? *uses time machine that is definitely NOT evil to go see what's in store for Ozy and Millie*

[teozo]

Bekul wrote:

I dunno, I think Jeremy might just call Millie out to have a 'fair fight' - by which I mean, corners her in a hallway, beats her into the hospital, and succesfully claims 'self defence' because Millie is on record as hitting him first.

The sad part is, that's a plausible scenario not just fo the comic, but for real life.

I feel bad or the lack of Justice.

My school has also a zero tolerance rule against hitting but they dont punish the ones who was hitting at least not yet.
First they ask why did .... hit?
Then they check the inf. of thoes involved.
They ask thoes who were there.
And finaly they ask the involved.
And on that they base they're judgement.
At least in my school.

And I should have said that the teacher who sees the hit memorizes it quick what was all said and by the time were at the princepal it isn't any more what the others said thus there is a 50% chance that I will be blamed.
So not even by me its that fair.

[VenM2]

Jeremy's face fell off!

Now I have an image of Jeremy's face on the floor trying to direct his blind body to pick it up and put it back on his head.

Think you can doodle that?

[KJ Fellie]

Jeremy's face fell off!

Now I have an image of Jeremy's face on the floor trying to direct his blind body to pick it up and put it back on his head.

That sounds like one of your drawings.

[GeorgiaCoyote]

Can't wait to see just how crazy this story gets as it spreads. Leave it to Avery to make things interesting. Glad to see him BTW. Avery's one of my favorites from the strip.

[Tom Flapwell]

I appreciate this strip coming today. It's a break from the agony of yesterday. 'Course, I'm not sure whether the legend will benefit Millie in the long run.

Is it me or is Avery wearing a different hat?

Depends on your time frame for different. He used to wear a baseball cap, but since the little holes were time-consuming to draw, DCS gave him a beret last year (or was it earlier?). I like the change. It shows Avery following not a precise fad but a variant of it that just makes him look like an oddball.

IMO, that black jacket is the closest Avery's come to looking cool. Outside of fan art, anyway.

[Lig]

Oh goody Avery's spreading gossip. I imagine this might actually have a positive effect. Those who believe the rumors will either steer clear of Millie or Idolize her.

[Steve the Pocket]

He used to wear a baseball cap, but since the little holes were time-consuming to draw, DCS gave him a beret last year (or was it earlier?).

I thought the beret made its debut when Avery decided he didn't care about what people thought anymore and wanted to be a rebel.

Did D.C. actually say the change was because the holes took too long to draw? That hardly seems plausible; they're just four tiny circles. He puts far more detail into background patterns.

[Sage]

Can't wait to see just how crazy this story gets as it spreads. Leave it to Avery to make things interesting. Glad to see him BTW. Avery's one of my favorites from the strip.

Hey...
...
What about Timulty?

[teozo]

Normaly I don't like gossip, but if it will somehow help Ozy and Millie I'm almost for it.
Machiavelli said "the end justfy the means" so the gossip can be enterprited like this.

[Baconsticks]

Normaly I don't like gossip, but if it will somehow help Ozy and Millie I'm almost for it.

I'm guessing it will. When your in my profession, this stuff becomes way too predictable.

[Amber]

One time in my school last year, some kids called and told that there was a bob threat in the High School, then The Junior High school, which is literally across the field from our school. The Junior High Kids evacuated to our Elementary school, and by the time lunch was over I had heard the following rumors:
- Lake Junior High was on fire from a bomb explosion
- Two students had been burnt
- The bombers would come here next
- There was also a gun found in Lake Junior High

What really happened: There was no Bomb Threat, they were fake calls. No one was hurt, nothing mysterious happened. The Prank callers were caught that week.

[Hanging Tree]

That Bob is a real jerk, blowing up schools and what not.


My high school had a bomb threat. Everybody was evacuated except the kids in detention. Nobody remembered to tell them to leave. My dad ended up discovering that they were still in the school.

[teozo]

So in my school some idiot brought a tear gas granade and activated it on top of it all but I don't complain about that we got to go home becouse of it.