The Sharper Image
Added 2025-01-27 02:11:53 +0000 UTCno offense to knife collectors in the audience
please don't stab me
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Actually all of those are useful as part of my vehicle emergency kit. Both the zipties and the duct tape hold things together, and the knife and shovel are used for getting unstuck and disconnecting things that aren't supposed to be connected
Opus the Poet
2025-01-28 20:21:45 +0000 UTC"What's that Slur Yeller? Some Irishmen pushed Timmy down the well?" Dog: "[redacted]"
Sammitch
2025-01-28 04:24:05 +0000 UTCSlur Yeller, the lost contemporary sequel to Old Yeller.
Sammitch
2025-01-28 04:21:38 +0000 UTCHuh. All mine says is "My name is Teddy Ruxpin and I don't think I like you."
ValdVin
2025-01-28 01:51:16 +0000 UTCI believe since they are stainless steel, they are for lazy crybabies who don't care about having the sharpest possible edge. Real [whatevers] step up and do the work to prevent corrosion .
Captain Button
2025-01-28 01:08:36 +0000 UTCI (mostly) like Ayo. Let's not have Faye murder her, eh?
David Durant
2025-01-28 00:45:23 +0000 UTCI have a mis-programmed Teddy Ruxpin that does that!
Magic Chopstick Games
2025-01-27 23:36:54 +0000 UTCSwiss Army Knives are for people like me, who watched too much MacGyver as children. It's a totally different vibe. :)
Chris Warren
2025-01-27 22:33:51 +0000 UTCOne of the German words for sword is "big knife" (Gross Messer). Hunting swords are generally not primary implements; they're for administering the coup de grace to downed prey.
Evan
2025-01-27 22:13:47 +0000 UTCIs Iris "A proper artist with a knife"? Signs point to yes.
ValdVin
2025-01-27 20:54:41 +0000 UTC@OldGoat: Memory, categorized bookmark folders, and an autism-driven tendency toward mild obsession.
BookBeard
2025-01-27 20:13:55 +0000 UTCWonder how knife enthusiasts feel about Swiss Army Knives?
Miyaa
2025-01-27 19:38:10 +0000 UTCOddly The Obsidian Edge ,using the very old skill set of knapping from prehistory, makes edges far sharper than any steel
Zak Reichle
2025-01-27 19:07:16 +0000 UTCHe has a heart of gold. Or at least some gold printed circuits.
Sean Kinlin
2025-01-27 18:42:01 +0000 UTCOr Swordsmary!
Hugh Eckert
2025-01-27 18:13:15 +0000 UTCHunting swords are a thing.
Hugh Eckert
2025-01-27 18:05:28 +0000 UTC"Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself..."
Hugh Eckert
2025-01-27 18:01:29 +0000 UTCAT LAST MY ARM IS COMPLETE AGAIN!
Hugh Eckert
2025-01-27 17:59:49 +0000 UTCCue them going to Coffee of Doom to complain to Dora/Hanners, and Hanners recommending Ayo as a new roommate and Pintsize getting his/their own place.
Sean Morgan
2025-01-27 17:05:19 +0000 UTCYou're at work and pull out your EDC knife to open a box. As you are accomplishing said task the office busybody gasps, "Why do you carry a knife?" It's difficult to not add a few [explicatives] when you reply, "For opening [*******] boxes [you bloody damned doorknob]."
OldGoat
2025-01-27 16:04:00 +0000 UTCI have two Opinel, a couple Benchmade, a couple Kabar, a Glock, 3 switchblades, a gravity knife, 2 SOG, and probably 20 others. I like knives...I don't do slurs.
Huckleberry
2025-01-27 15:57:20 +0000 UTC@BookBeard Do you have the entire archive in a database or do you do it by memory?
OldGoat
2025-01-27 15:55:47 +0000 UTCWasn't it Duncan Idaho who told Paul that it was more artful to stab with the blade and cut with the tip?
OldGoat
2025-01-27 15:52:41 +0000 UTCI don't deliberately collect knives, but I do accumulate them. It usually goes like this: Misplace the current EDC ("everyday carry" for the uninitiated) pocket knife, stop by ACE Hardware & get another. Within a few days the one I misplaced turns up. It gets tossed in The Drawer (with the rubber bands, the wick trimmer for an Aladdin kerosene lamp, various picture hanging hardware, some other plastic thing that I don't remember what it's for but it's too well made and therefore must be important, stuff like that). There's too much stuff in The Drawer to find any of the prior knives on the way out the door when I'm going to ACE Hardware. And so I accumulate knives. Same thing just happened with the wireless mouse that's supposed to live in my laptop bag.
OldGoat
2025-01-27 15:47:23 +0000 UTCNothing wrong with knife collecting! Or more general blade or weapon collecting. It's the slur shouting -- professionally or amateur -- that's an issue. And unfortunately combining it with knife collecting has a high chance of compounding it into a worse issue.
James A. Whitney
2025-01-27 15:38:49 +0000 UTCMy knowledge of knife fighting is all from 12 Angry Men, and West Side Story. And that's how I know about slashing over stabbing.
ValdVin
2025-01-27 15:33:57 +0000 UTCCompletely random Thing I Learned recently, "gladius" and "claymore" are cognates and the borrowing is from Celtic into Latin not the other way round! During the Punic wars, Romans met Celtic tribes in Spain wielding what the Romans called the "gladius hispaniensis" - spanish gladius - apparently from Celtic kladi(m)os, sword - and were so impressed they adopted the weapon, and the word, for the legions. And a claymore is a cladhaim mor, a great sword :)
Stephen Wells
2025-01-27 15:17:04 +0000 UTCI think the Canadian money wasn't income, he said he had it to pay Canadian strippers.
Stephen Wells
2025-01-27 15:13:58 +0000 UTCIt's been mentioned in passing that he rents out idle CPU cycles for distributed computing, he can afford it :) One of May's economic woes was that having committed financial felonies she couldn't do likewise.
Stephen Wells
2025-01-27 15:11:49 +0000 UTCYou have an Opinel? Finest kind!
allanfranta
2025-01-27 15:00:32 +0000 UTCHopefully they will get successful enough with their robot repair that they can get their own home, far away from Pintsize.
Miyaa
2025-01-27 14:32:16 +0000 UTCI’m still surprised The Sharper Image hasn’t died to Amazon or Temu yet. Though it’s been a while since I read from “Sky Mall.”
Miyaa
2025-01-27 14:27:55 +0000 UTCThe therapy biz doesn't pay much, but he's able to kick a few bucks to Faye.
Michael Steamweed
2025-01-27 14:08:06 +0000 UTCSo does that mean Pintsize pays rent?
djellafine
2025-01-27 14:07:26 +0000 UTC“Casual racism implies the existence of competitive ranked racism.”
Richard Lindquist
2025-01-27 14:02:39 +0000 UTCThe knifes in my car are beside the bear bangers and launcher. It's nice to keep everything in reach when big critters can be about.
Carrie
2025-01-27 12:51:04 +0000 UTCThere's definitely some overlap in the large knife/short sword area, but knife does seem to imply a tool (that could be used as a weapon) whereas a sword is fully intended as a weapon & usually larger. In Lord of the Rings the hobbits acquire elven knives which, at their scale, count as short swords; the intention and wielding seem to matter.
Stephen Wells
2025-01-27 10:38:54 +0000 UTCI would argue that it is the intent to aquire more rather than the current quantity that defines a collector. Every hoard starts with a single piece of treasure. Enjoy your sword collection.
Donna Flint
2025-01-27 10:25:38 +0000 UTCSiri really must be a fan of Iris. This cannot be good.
Miyaa
2025-01-27 08:39:02 +0000 UTCSomeone once accused me of trying to look like a manager because I was wearing a T-shirt and jeans with black sneakers instead of white or blue sneakers. That might have been a professional slur.
Clifton Royston
2025-01-27 08:07:47 +0000 UTCI'd say they are different. Operationally speaking, if somebody said he had a knife collection, I think you would be surprised to look at it and find they were all swords, and vice versa. I have a small knife collection, but I would need to have and spend a whole lot more money if I were to start collecting swords. (I have one sword. currently dismantled, and one blunt iaido training sword. That's not a collection.)
Clifton Royston
2025-01-27 08:04:41 +0000 UTCshe can't be serious,.. Pintsize has become,...... (useful).
Darnel D Cooper
2025-01-27 07:46:36 +0000 UTCSooo Maga podcaster?
Mike Rodgers
2025-01-27 07:41:55 +0000 UTCOh look! It's the same outfit! Maybe it's Bubbles' "no talking" camouflage.
enchantedsleeper
2025-01-27 07:34:48 +0000 UTCNo one has ever asked me about my knives; 15 years ago, my Apple Store coworkers were weirded out when a Farscape actor & I bonded as pocket knife twins but as it resulted in a decent sell - they quickly forgot. I don’t do slurs. I’m past the roommate stage - but have to figure out how to help friends couch surfing ATM …
Sparky
2025-01-27 07:27:08 +0000 UTCThrowing shovels are the best. I didn't expect them to be so much more fun than more conventional axes, but daaaang
e.a.rowe
2025-01-27 06:48:19 +0000 UTCDepends on what you do with your hands, many people throw punches at the face and it's actually pretty easy to break bones in your hands punching someone in the head. You can certainly immobilize someone in an emergency with your bare hands without throwing punches at all. I also don't recommend people take any kind of weapon into a self defense situation without first becoming very familiar with it. If you have to use an EDC knife for self defense, there's a really good chance you're going to end up with some significant wounds on your hands from your own knife.
Zak Reichle
2025-01-27 06:13:58 +0000 UTCI bet those pictures are adorable!
Zak Reichle
2025-01-27 06:07:22 +0000 UTCSurvival shovels with edge geometry that allows it to be used as a hatchet and hammer are a pretty useful item. Can also throw them much like an axe, and some soldiers are trained to be able to fight with them
Zak Reichle
2025-01-27 06:03:09 +0000 UTCPintsize may be an agent of chaos, but by memory he actively avoids anything truly malicious. He’s a good person at heart.
AlexKorobeiniki
2025-01-27 05:52:37 +0000 UTCOne of my favorites is "Ragnarok in a rocking chair!"
Joseph Bonnar
2025-01-27 05:45:52 +0000 UTCI do have perhaps more pocketknives than average but they're so danged useful! Don't knife-shame me!
Uniquitous
2025-01-27 05:21:43 +0000 UTCWell, no shovel. That said, a shovel WOULD be a handy thing to have around for emergencies.
Tinwhisker
2025-01-27 05:18:26 +0000 UTCMany things have changed during the time skip!
SilverbackRon
2025-01-27 05:09:41 +0000 UTCAs long as the ones in your car don't include a pack of zip ties, a roll of duct tape and a shovel, I won't worry. Too much.
SilverbackRon
2025-01-27 05:07:19 +0000 UTCI am Bubs in any social situation, I would rather hide than socialize. ~<3
Mitsuki Ayane
2025-01-27 05:04:07 +0000 UTCIs it more that she doesn't want to frighten them!
Charles Hirst
2025-01-27 05:01:53 +0000 UTCI would never have described myself as a knife collector, AND YET there is currently a cardboard box full of assorted knives in my room. Guess I better start polishing up my slur repertoire.
William Cole
2025-01-27 04:58:58 +0000 UTCBubbles is right, better the idiots you know than the idiots who are unknown.
Opus the Poet
2025-01-27 04:56:25 +0000 UTCShe could have led with "I can tear the fender offa Humvee, so step lightly.l
William Cole
2025-01-27 04:49:26 +0000 UTCI'm especially curious about the part of his revenue stream that takes the form of wet Canadian Tire money.
William Cole
2025-01-27 04:46:03 +0000 UTCI can slur so hard, like a sailor with a laryngectomy!
BobC
2025-01-27 04:41:55 +0000 UTCthe "summary" was probably longer than the email 🙃
LH
2025-01-27 04:22:06 +0000 UTCyou can slur like a sailor?
LH
2025-01-27 04:20:37 +0000 UTCKnife collectors are FINE usually they don't want to get the goods dirty Knife WIELDERS you gotta watch out for
Minzoku Bokumetsu
2025-01-27 04:05:07 +0000 UTCNah, the amateur slur-yellers substitute volume for quality. The pros know that a slur can be properly yelled using nothing more than a whisper! (I was a sailor in the US Navy. I know what of I speak!)
BobC
2025-01-27 03:54:13 +0000 UTCI keep a knife at my desk and will often take one with me to the woods but that's about it... And the knife in my toolbox, my field kit, the big one in the car, does the ax in my car count?
Tinwhisker
2025-01-27 03:50:32 +0000 UTC🎵 These are my friends, see how they glisten 🎶
Elf0004
2025-01-27 03:48:56 +0000 UTCDon't worry, Jeph! (sings) First cut is the deepest ....
Amelia Lewis
2025-01-27 03:44:12 +0000 UTCOh hey, Faye must have known my old roommate 🤣 He had a large collection of katanas, and was a 4chan gaming streamer 🤦
Stephen B.
2025-01-27 03:38:47 +0000 UTCAs opposed to the rest of the time, when she's angry but knows exactly why.
BookBeard
2025-01-27 03:37:52 +0000 UTCMy usual is just a box cutter. I've considered using it to slash in an emergency, but I think my bare hands would be more useful in a self-defense situation.
Orion Rhine
2025-01-27 03:37:08 +0000 UTCHunting? (Me: "Raise the portcullis, or at least unlatch the storm door! I set out with my trusty sword Andskotiklovnir out to hunt a big, um, mushroom!")
Ursus Ridens
2025-01-27 03:36:52 +0000 UTCMay suggested that he rents out processor time, although knowing him he probably has multiple other revenue streams with varying degrees of shadiness. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3828
BookBeard
2025-01-27 03:35:39 +0000 UTCTraining an AI system to target the type of people that like to yell slurs?
Orion Rhine
2025-01-27 03:32:43 +0000 UTCI don’t like this idea of kicking out Pintsize. I still love him best! 🥰
Michael
2025-01-27 03:27:49 +0000 UTCThat face and quote from Bubs in the 3rd panel is absolutely my mood when strangers are in my space <3
Sean Brannon
2025-01-27 03:24:18 +0000 UTCIris is angry and doesn't know why.
Opus the Poet
2025-01-27 03:11:43 +0000 UTC"what can't those guys ionize??"
Kabit
2025-01-27 03:04:25 +0000 UTCMight work if the workplace is a pro wrestling ring?
Sean Kinlin
2025-01-27 03:04:17 +0000 UTCI love the Apple AI summary of the Patreon email: "Jeph Jacques humorously warns knife collectors not to stab him during his Patreon event."
Jonathan Disher
2025-01-27 03:04:17 +0000 UTCI think professional slur yellers are all in DC, trying to get jobs in the new administration.
Sean Kinlin
2025-01-27 03:03:18 +0000 UTCBoth soon to be upstaged by The Sharperest Image.
Barty
2025-01-27 03:01:34 +0000 UTCI know Faye means "Yelling slurs for money," but I can't help but imagine someone yelling slurs in a way that's somehow workplace appropriate?
Creeperkry
2025-01-27 03:00:38 +0000 UTCThat sounds like the lower level of the profession Angus was in.
Captain Button
2025-01-27 02:59:48 +0000 UTCDo we know how he gets the money for this? Do we *want* to know?
Captain Button
2025-01-27 02:55:46 +0000 UTCBubbles is shy. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4696
BookBeard
2025-01-27 02:55:28 +0000 UTCSame. I typically carry two. An utility knife (made by a certain company named after a town in Wisconsin) with a few extra features, and a thumb assisted folding knife that I’ve used for everything from stripping wires to opening soup cans. They’re tools to me.
Chauncey
2025-01-27 02:54:30 +0000 UTCNo knife collectors? Aww, sorry Iris, guess you can't move in after all. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5140
BookBeard
2025-01-27 02:52:47 +0000 UTCProbably. Marten suggested Pintsize would "pay more" if he got his own room, implying that he was paying *something* before. And now it seems like has indeed taken over Marten and Claire's old room. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4890
BookBeard
2025-01-27 02:48:57 +0000 UTCShe's not sure of the proper etiquette for walking in on therapy or pegging.
Captain Button
2025-01-27 02:47:26 +0000 UTCReal knife collectors know slashing is better than stabbing. (Bear in mind my knowledge of knife fighting is extremely rudimentary and theoretical, but I couldn't resist the joke.) (Please don't slash me.)
Captain Button
2025-01-27 02:46:14 +0000 UTCShit I forgot that collecting also means having daily drivers
Dave, Duke of Fridges
2025-01-27 02:42:48 +0000 UTCCertainly they wouldn't use the nice, pristine knives from their collection, but that's why a serious collector always keeps a couple of sturdy workhorse knives around for their everyday stabbing needs.
BookBeard
2025-01-27 02:42:14 +0000 UTCPretty much all of mine are for the kitchen.
Michael Boettger
2025-01-27 02:38:28 +0000 UTCShe's pretty introverted, makes sense she doesn't want to interact unnecessarily with random strangers.
Damian
2025-01-27 02:38:17 +0000 UTCSo it's really true. I didn't believe it at first. But Bubbles really DOES own a different color outfit! *gasp!*
Doc Gumby
2025-01-27 02:37:34 +0000 UTCWas there an actual reason Bubbles didn't feel it was safe to come out, or did she just not feel like it?
David S
2025-01-27 02:34:56 +0000 UTCI feel like being a professional slur-yeller would invite some surprising sponsorships
Brendan Luster
2025-01-27 02:32:28 +0000 UTCNooo. Bubbles. 🥺 Would have loved to see her interact with team sports cars.
legobil
2025-01-27 02:32:19 +0000 UTCAs someone who works in IT, I definitely swear professionally. And I do have a tiny, but nice, collection of knives. No slurs though.
Nancie
2025-01-27 02:31:39 +0000 UTCI would put that in with the "square vs. rectangle" question. A sword is a knife, but not all knives are swords. According to the ever-reliable Wikipedia... "Sword: An evolution of the knife with a lengthened and strengthened blade used primarily for mêlée combat and hunting."
awgiedawgie
2025-01-27 02:29:26 +0000 UTCDo you mean knives with delusions of grandeur
Kayla Soso
2025-01-27 02:29:05 +0000 UTCMy usual knife is for opening boxes, turning screws, tightening bolts, and cutting wires. I'd have to think a moment before I remembered I could stab somebody with it.
Tudza
2025-01-27 02:26:10 +0000 UTCNo, no, you're right. I don't yell slurs, but you're right.
Mortimer Langford
2025-01-27 02:23:36 +0000 UTCAs both the child and sibling of serious knife collectors (& when I say serious, I mean my brother gifted his now-wife a pearl handled knife with her engagement ring attached yet hidden in the lining of the fancy knife box), this could not amuse me further! 😁
Melissa Wilson
2025-01-27 02:19:35 +0000 UTCThe Pintsize you know v. the "Pintsize" you don't?
ValdVin
2025-01-27 02:16:25 +0000 UTCI still can't understand how The Sharper Image hasn't been put out of business by someone starting up a company called The Sharpest Image
Rich Holmes
2025-01-27 02:16:06 +0000 UTCNah the collectors wouldn't stab you because they don't want blood tarnishing their blades
Dave, Duke of Fridges
2025-01-27 02:15:45 +0000 UTC"Yeah, I'm good enough to go professional, but the circuit is RIGGED, man."
Andrew Denton
2025-01-27 02:15:30 +0000 UTCOkay so I'm 6'2" and my partner is 5'5" and i was wearing heels for the wedding and we kinda resemble this here
Hope
2025-01-27 02:15:18 +0000 UTCThat brings to a question for me. Does Pintsize pay rent?
Lynn Shepard
2025-01-27 02:15:13 +0000 UTCBeen a while since we’ve seen Stabitha!
Andrew
2025-01-27 02:14:57 +0000 UTCDo swords count as knives?
A Dark Planet, Lit By No Sun
2025-01-27 02:14:14 +0000 UTC
