February 1st, 2019
1 Feb 2019 · page 871 of 1306
Shoving wizards into vents for their own good.
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As an American, I don't know anything about this, but isn't shoving wizards into vents, like, an actual English sport? Or was it Scottish?
It was, but was banned after that unfortunate incident in Merthyr Tydfil
Pushing magical people into things has always been more of a water sport.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunking "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunking")
[https://www.history.com/new...](https://www.history.com/news/7-bizarre-witch-trial-tests "https://www.history.com/news/7-bizarre-witch-trial-tests") (see #1)
It is an ancient tradition from Long, Long Ago, and Far, Far Away.
[https://www.youtube.com/wat...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtoHjGWc2s8&t=4m26s "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtoHjGWc2s8&t=4m26s")
Catholic priests used to have to hide in holes?
Highly unprofessional behavior from the cook. Throwing your good knives into solid oak will ruin their edge.
Well that's one of the effects of the Sharpe-ening -- loss of good judgement.
I'm glad we've all agreed to call it the Sharpening
'Tis a good and fitting name.
if the baker catches you, you're in for some serious pain
(of course, that work better in french)
I don't think the French word for pain is "pain". If it is, they must have a low opinion of their bread.
<-- french
Pain is a general term for bread. Then you have subdivision by type (baguette, pain de campagne, viennoise, etc)
Indeed! But a Frenchman ignorant of English would not comprehend your pun, even if you said it in French, true?
Well I don't think it'd work in either way if "said" out loud, but written down, people bilingual in English and French would easily get it (and presumably the proportion of such people in Francophone population is higher than in Anglophone population......) #helpmeicantstopexplainingthejoke
Any well bred Englishman would rise to the adventure.
Danger is their bread and butter!
...and if he doesn't "make do" on his own, Eliza will...
Well ... have you ever seen a sausage being stuffed?
Only on that show "Hannibal."
"Into the garbage chute, flyboy!"
You win the Internet for today, Sanjay <3
Thank you, though I'll admit that I thought it was a pretty obvious reference. :-)
Obvious, yes; obnoxiously common, no :)
"I don't care what you smell down there, just get in!"
“Get in there ya big, furry, oaf! I don’t care what you smell!”
It's somewhat interesting that the people affected by the Sharpening don't seem to be angry at Sharpe specifically, despite being triggered by seeing him. Both this baker and the other guy seemed to be angry at students as a whole.
I don't know if you can target it that precisely. You're setting off a switch that says when [condition] happens, cause target to feel [emotion]. What thoughts go along with that feeling is probably idiosyncratic to the individual and the situation: since these are staff at a prestigious university, there are probably the occasional feelings of resentment and/or frustration with the students (most of whom probably come from wealthier families than said staff), so when the spirit says "You're angry now," their mind comes up with an appropriate reason. If they met Sharpe at, for example, the train station, they might have entirely different rants.
Ah, yeah. That does make sense.
I think the last panel says it all:
[http://www.girlgeniusonline...](http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090515 "http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090515")
Any day with a reference to Girl Genius is a good day. 😁
At least she didn't say "needs must" when she pushed him in!
"Come out to the coast...we'll get together....have a few laughs...."
[https://www.youtube.com/wat...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phs3i0onDDg "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phs3i0onDDg")
Note that Eliza only yells for Knotty to run in the first panel. She doesn’t care much if Will is in the way of flying knives, except that he’s currently tethered to her best friend.
You're not really wrong, but also, of the three, I think Knotty is the most likely to have a deer-in-the-headlights moment, so keeping him moving requires that extra effort.
He does have that sort of look in panel 1!
She is venting her frustrtions
I deeply appreciate Eliza's practicality in being the one to actually block the door, and in manhandling the, well, men into skedaddling.
She's rescuing the princess (ie Sharpe).
Where the hell did she learn to throw knives like that? Is that part of the spell?
I think it's a natural gift combined with years of pent-up frustration given a clear target and a certain loosening of inhibitions. :/
She's missing pretty badly, besides that first shot.
The fact that she gets them to land so perfectly pointy-end-in is impressive enough on its own
You know what would also help, Blunt Boytjie? Remembering the safety word. :P
Not a good night for skirts, it seems.
sometimes you get the bread, sometimes the bread gets you...
Eliza proves herself to be just as proficient a wizard chucker als Harry. I like her more with every page. Her range of expressions and general body language is absolutely priceless.
Intense
Nevermind it seems she’s got an infinite knife collection