Ohhhhhhhhh!

Nslashk · Post by **Nslashk** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 3:19 am

Flying horse.. PEGASUS.

Sorry, took me awhile.

n/k
I'll try to keep up from now on.

Andrick · Post by **Andrick** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 3:33 am

A-Are you sure you're posting in the right forum?

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:17 am

Karla, the strip's co-creator, actually hit me when she read the "Peggy Seuss" strip. It's quite possibly the single corniest joke I've ever pulled off. I'm reasonably certain we'll be seeing Dr. Pegasus again, but not in the terribly near future.

All of the mads have names which are references, ranging from the corny to the sublime. (I didn't get a chance to drop the name of the scientist Saundra's talking to. It's Dr. Harp.)

Andrick · Post by **Andrick** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 8:45 am

Oh... I wasn't really paying any attention when I read that. Score set back to zero for the 'tard boy, here.

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 9:31 am

I wouldn't set it all the way back to zero...I'd say you still have 10.2 points. *giggles at the inside joke*

Fallwind · Post by **Fallwind** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 2:23 pm

is that a poke at us mac users?

Hampster · Post by **Hampster** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 3:58 pm

Huh. You too?

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 6:15 pm

Actually, it is not a poke at Mac users. 10.2 is the exact number of grams of a certain substance Alfador and I once had to measure in lab. Due to a memory allocation error, this value has been stored permanently in both our long-term memories. There is one reference of this in the comic; but I'll leave it up to the viewer to go and find it.

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 9:10 pm

I know where it is. Hint: it's not alone.

Nslashk · Post by **Nslashk** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 1:16 am

allan_ecker wrote:Karla, the strip's co-creator, actually hit me when she read the "Peggy Seuss" strip. It's quite possibly the single corniest joke I've ever pulled off. I'm reasonably certain we'll be seeing Dr. Pegasus again, but not in the terribly near future.

Drop me a line when you do if I'm inattentive. Horsey chicks wearing zero-gravity panties are hot.
n/k
Oh, come on. I'm allowed a fetish.

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 7:22 am

I will keep you, uh, posted. It should be warned that I tend to "cloud paint" these strips very far in advanced, and considering various factors, Umlaut House could be on Keenspot before Peggy comes back.

And plus, Peggy's story is a *bit* angsty, and I'm not quite sure how good an idea it'll be to go for it in the exactly-four-panels-and-one-to-three-jokes-per-strip architecture I've laid out. If I do tell Peggy's story, it may end up being a different format altogether.

On the name:

Umlaut House is not called Umlaut Haus for a very, very specific reason:

Umlaut House is a college assisted-resident facility. The University owns the property and charges slightly below the market value to students living there. It doesn't have any official designation, but it is nestled in this vast ocean of frat houses, and as such, Saundra figured it's name should end in "house", just like "Eta Kappa Nu House", "Lambda House", and "Ohmega House". But she didn't want to go nailing things to the house to give it a placcard, so pragmatism, along with a total lack of functional fixitivity, kicked in and she used the two knobs just above the door *as* the placcard. Because this house was named, not for a greek character, but for a German punctuation: the Umlaut.

But you can call it whatever the hell you want to call it; I don't care as long as the hits keep rolling in.

Nslashk · Post by **Nslashk** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 8:21 am

Humour me, will you?

SCREW YOU! NO ONE PLAYS HUMOUR THE DRUNK AROUND ME!
n/k

Andrick · Post by **Andrick** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 4:57 pm

Uh... 'nother question: You speak of this place as being Saundra's and imply that the residence is only big enough for the current cast, is this true?

From the earlier sequences and art, I had the thought that the place was an apartment dorm, large units but still connected by a central hall.

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 6:52 am

In truth, this whole story has been kinda nebulous to me too. But here's what I've known since the beginning:

It's a very small house. It is one story, and has either two or three bedrooms, but it should be a tight squeeze for three people to live in. Saundra is sort of in charge. She inhabited the house before anyone else in the cast. The main, or "living" room, the only room we've actually seen, has a worktable at one end and the door to the house at the other. Somewhere, there must be a kitchen.

Now, this has done me pretty good so far, but I've recently decided on a few more details. Hopefully, enough detail to keep you nitpickers happy:

There are two bedrooms and one room which is really freaky small, to the point where you're pretty sure it was a walk-in closet at some point. There is only one bathroom, but it does have a tub instead of just having a shower, which is actually a little unusual in the UHniverse. The kitchen is a lobe that sticks out directly across from the work table. Umlaut House is owned by the University. They assign it rent as though it were two and a quarter dorm rooms. With two people, it's a little pricey, but not rediculous, and with three people, it's downright spiffy. The common area is large enough to accomodate three people for most activities, and since Volair doesn't do anything in his room except sleep, he is quite comfortable using the small room. Saundra has been living here for almost four years, now, Jake for two, and Volair for a little under a year. (There are some timeline inconsistencies due to the fact that covering one night can take three months.)

Andrick · Post by **Andrick** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 7:29 am

allan_ecker wrote:...to keep you nitpickers happy:

I hope you're not casting aspersions at me because I wanna' no what the lay of the land is like.

WolfFur · Post by **WolfFur** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 7:49 am

Andrick wrote:
allan_ecker wrote:...to keep you nitpickers happy:
I hope you're not casting aspersions at me because I wanna' no what the lay of the land is like.

I wanna know what kind of lay VOLAIRE is like.

Kaos Incarnate · Post by **Kaos Incarnate** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 11:11 am

...since Volair doesn't do anything in his room except sleep...

*blinks several times*

Am I missing something here?

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 11:15 am

Well, I didn't say he slept there often.

(Andrick, I'll draw a floorplan for the house as soon as possible.)

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 11:55 am

Ah yes, something the size of 0.25 bedrooms might be a little too small for...certain Volair-isms.

:D:D

Andrick · Post by **Andrick** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 8:55 am

You don't have to go through such trouble if you weren't already planning on doing so. All I was doing was making refernce to the strip where Jake and Volair first meet. That looked like a hallway to me, starting at one end and moving to another. It was that strip that locked me into the "multiple connected townhouses" floorplan.

WolfFur wrote:
Andrick wrote:
allan_ecker wrote:...to keep you nitpickers happy:
I hope you're not casting aspersions at me because I wanna' know what the lay of the land is like.
I wanna know what kind of lay VOLAIRE is like.

I SO did not want to go there.