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Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at December 10, 2005 1:09 PM

Interesting ambiguity in the phrase "Jesus spouting puppets". "Jesus-spouting puppets" versus "Jesus, spouting puppets". Heh.

Comment from: Howard Tayler posted at December 10, 2005 1:17 PM

I like the thought of a greasy spoon run by Jesus. I bet those 1st-century A.D. jewish carpenters ate heartily. Building stuff with wood without power tools requires serious body fuel.

You probably couldn't get pork-chops, or a side of bacon, though.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at December 10, 2005 1:21 PM

Or milk in your coffee. Well, not if you were having (beef) sausage.

Comment from: Chris "Slarti" Pinard posted at December 10, 2005 2:25 PM

Pretty good bagels, though, probably.

Comment from: Tangent posted at December 10, 2005 2:35 PM

SPOON!!! :D

I miss The Tick. Well, when The Tick was funny. *shiftyeyes*

Rob H.

Comment from: quiller posted at December 10, 2005 3:17 PM

How does Jesus spout puppets anyways and is the second-coming in a greasy spoon?

Most of the first 12 issues of the Tick were pretty darn funny. I kind of stopped my comic collecting about the time they started trying to come out with a few more issues. I don't suppose Chainsaw Vigilante ever made it to any of the TV properties. "What this feast needs, Arthur, is Pez!"

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at December 10, 2005 3:56 PM

Well, see, they're puppets.

And they spout Jesus.

It's kind of... straightforward, really.

Comment from: Robert Hutchinson posted at December 10, 2005 4:07 PM

These puppets, they also shun the use of the hyphen to clarify compound adjectives, you see.

Comment from: siwangmu posted at December 10, 2005 4:47 PM

Then they all sing "Don't Let the Hyphen Dilute Your Love of Jesus"

(followed by "Don't Lose Your Hymen, You'll Lose the Love of Jesus," of course.)

Comment from: John posted at December 10, 2005 8:21 PM

Well, see, they're puppets.

And they spout Jesus.

It's kind of... straightforward, really.

Eric, please lose the condescension and learn to use hyphens. I had no idea which one you meant either.

Comment from: joeymanley posted at December 10, 2005 8:47 PM

I misunderstood it as well. I wasn't confused -- or, at least, I thought I wasn't. I was perfectly happy to go along with the psychedelic imagery of puppets spouting Jesuses (when I imagined it, I saw them coming out of the tops of the puppets' heads).

I think it's actually better that way, Eric.

Joey
www.webcomicsnation.com

Comment from: Ghastly posted at December 10, 2005 10:18 PM

I like the idea of "Jesus sporting puppets" myself. Maybe he's sporting a set of finger puppets then he could have 10 of them. They'd be like his other deciples.

Comment from: enchiridion posted at December 10, 2005 10:20 PM

If you think it's odd to have a guy named 'jesus' working food service nowadays, then you have no idea.

I was at a Chinese place the other day, and heard the waiter shout our order back into the kitchen; "Hey, Amigo;"

...not trying to perpetuate stereotypes... just sayin'...

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at December 10, 2005 10:37 PM

And here, I misread the quote at first. My mental image was Jesus was wandering around, and periodically, a puppet would sprout fully formed from somewhere on Christ's body.

You know, I don't really care which Eric meant. I'm going to run with my image.

Comment from: Canuck-Errant posted at December 10, 2005 10:55 PM

*mumbles something about a panda that eats, shoots and leaves*

Comment from: miyaa posted at December 11, 2005 1:24 AM

I love that book! (Eats, shoots and leaves).

Comment from: The REAL Brian posted at December 11, 2005 1:37 AM

Puppet; "JESUS TAP DANCING CHRIST! We've got a customer!"

Comment from: Benor posted at December 11, 2005 3:03 AM

I like the idea of it being completely literal.

"Now sir, how would you like that BLARGH!"

"JESUS!"

"Yes, sir, sorry about that, sir....it's a condition I have. I occasionally vomit Our Lord And Savior. Terribly inconvenient."

Comment from: Buzzfloyd posted at December 11, 2005 6:52 AM

I also misunderstood it as Jesus, who was spouting puppets. A curious image. In British English, we are required to use hyphens more often than in your confusing Amerenglish, but I suspect one would not have gone amiss here, nevertheless.

Comment from: SeanH posted at December 11, 2005 12:51 PM

Okay, this? This is why I love Websnark, and by extension, the entire Interweb.

Comment from: AndrewWade posted at December 11, 2005 4:36 PM

One of my secret joys in life is taking words that should be hyphenated, and just smashing them together, as if to say "This word is popular enough to be its own dictionary entry... because I have used it."

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at December 11, 2005 4:46 PM

I would vote that there ought to have been a hyphen there.

If, y'know, this were a democracy.

Comment from: Canuck-Errant posted at December 11, 2005 4:53 PM

AndrewWade: I bet you /love/ German.
What was that one word again? The tugboat captain standing on the bridge of the ship?

Comment from: SeanH posted at December 11, 2005 5:55 PM

A quick Google tells me that the longest word ever in German is Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitaensfrauenverbandsvorsitzendenaufwandsentschaedigungsrahmenordnungsrichtlinienen, loosely meaning "The Danube Steam Navigation Company's Captain's wives federation for basic remuneration expenditure guidelines." The longest everyday dictionary word is Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften, meaning "insurance companies which provide legal protection". However, in German it is entirely correct to make up grammatically correct words as and when they are needed, so longer words could well be made, with imagination.

Comment from: SeanH posted at December 11, 2005 6:11 PM

The comments technology seems to object to agglutination; my apologies. Also, Weds, is there any reason the latest post has no comments allowed?

Comment from: chalcara posted at December 11, 2005 7:42 PM

There's a reason we Germans like abbrivations. ;)

Comment from: Robert Hutchinson posted at December 11, 2005 10:43 PM

SeanH: I think the title of the post might be a clue. Or maybe not. (Considering its length and subject, *this* post is doing good to only have turned into an exploration of grammar.)

Comment from: Canuck-Errant posted at December 11, 2005 11:11 PM

I'm afraid I'm going to have to bring up QC and the suicide thing again. Check the latest Punks and Nerds comic, linked.

Comment from: miyaa posted at December 12, 2005 5:29 AM

*snert* Why do I keep drinking cola in front of a computer screen, I keep asking myself?

I am reminded that the longest word in the world is an African city with a name so long, it takes four large lines to write out the name. (Somewhere in the top ten has to be the Khan! line from Star Trek 3 or 4, something about Discovering a Country or Rediscovering Spock or something like that.)

Comment from: Pseudowolf posted at December 12, 2005 10:17 AM

In any discussion about long words/place names, someone has to mention that one train station in Wales.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Which means "St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave"

Comment from: quiller posted at December 12, 2005 5:33 PM

My personal favorite longword is Floccinaucinihilipilification. The act of esteeming something as worthless. The longest non-technical word in the OED.

Comment from: Paul A. posted at December 14, 2005 9:13 AM

Some people would say that Llanfairpwllgwyngyll ought not to count, since its name was much shorter for most of its history, and the new longer name was deliberately invented in the 1850s as a tourist gimmick.

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