For Reals
Yes, another comic from real life! I swear my daughter doesn’t think I know anything at all about the “real world.” Being 13 years old sure makes you wise, eh? *tee hee*
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Truthfully, I don’t think Zelda actually KNOWS that language. She just mimics like a parrot. HAHAHA
BTW, Facebook people got an exclusive preview of today’s strip! Are you a FACEBOOK FAN yet?
You are braver than me, I would say something really dumb and give my kids something to laugh about for years!
PattiT: Hannah is still laughing from whatever it was I said to prompt the comment.
DadaHyena: Oh Zelda had that LONG before it was called that! HAHAHAH Thank you for the comment on the art. <3 Nothing encourages me more than positive reinforcement!
Hi, Kaye!! It is good to read you here.
Okay, I thought the "whole/hole" thing was the funniest bit of the strip, even though Zelda trying to be cool was pretty darn funny. Just goes to show how different things are in my brain than anyone else's! HAHAHA
Just wanted to post because I saw you (a week ago, apparently) on Hourly Comics Day forum. I’m from Round Rock, so I’m just glad another Texan is actually involved in something cool.
Nice comic, just discovered it about 2 minutes ago! FYI, I claimed it in my own name. Sorry.
I listened to an entire 15 minute conversation on the bus the other day that was liberally punctuated with “I be from the HOOD!”
When my daughter was in 5th grade, I went to school on her birthday and “sang” the rap song I’d written for her. I think she was torn between awestruck and mortification.
Interestingly, the other kids thought I was the.coolest.Mom.EVER!
LOL @you, Ziekk! Welcome to Life’s a Witch. It’s so nice meet you. There are TONS of webcomickers in our area. Come out to STAPLE on March 6 to say hi. I’d love to meet you in person. (P.S. What did you mean about claiming the comic in your own name?)
MsDarkstar: That’s a hilarious story about you singing RAP for daughter. My daughter is in 8th. I think she’d completely pass out from embarrassment if I even said I was thinking about doing that. “I be from the HOOD!”–WORD!
Well, those of you who can remember back that far, there was another “language” that was nigh incomprehensible to the parents of that day called Valley Speech or Speak. I think this is a fitting revenge, no? ~_^
Fur-Shure, I was all like gag-me-with a spoon, but she was like MEGA into it.
The daughter totally freaked out the first time I did that, but now she does it back to me like a native child of the 80′s.
Maybe the “Hole” joke would work better if she was insinuating her mother resembled Courtney Love!
(…okay, that wasn’t very clever, but I guess that’s why thirteen-year olds don’t respect me, either.)
I don’t get it, but if that means what I think it means…well, I don’t make references like that.
I think it falls flat because the comment came from an actual conversation and we thought it was funny. Sometimes those just don’t translate well to the strip.
These kids better watch out… Some of us parents WERE hip-hop fans as teenagers! Fools betta recognize, yo! 
Err, akin to claiming land in the name of Spain. I had said I discovered the comic.
Just…just forget I said anything ><
And thanks for that Staples link, I'll check it out.
@Ziekk: In that case, plant your flag and come a-viewing! And if you have a pointy metal helmet and distinguished beard like Ponce De Leon, that’s even cooler!
(Some comic listing sites will list your comic and wait for the creator to “claim” it on their service. I thought you may have found my comic listed somewhere.)
P.S. What a great idea for a character…I may try to draw old Ponce or Don Quixote today. You’ve only been on my site one day and I’m already getting ideas from talking to you!
The only rap I was ever able to pull off w/ success was with all those “yo Mamma is so fat….” jokes …. I was in great shape back in those days, ya know, from all the running! o.O
People seem not to like it when you rag on their mamma’s!! Just goes to show you how unaware teenagers really are. The kiddies may think we live in a hole, they be livin large in fairytale land, DATS RIIIGHT!!
Jynksie: HAHAHAHA I believe that was called “doin’ the dozens” rather than rapping. *rummages through my mind’s archives…nothing is labeled!!*
Samantha: Your mind is archived?! I can’t even get my mind to backup!
Saw the video on FB, We here on the East coast are SUPPOSED to get more snow (blasted 4-letter word!) but I am hoping not. Makes walking back and forth from town difficult.
Hey, LBD! I’d never be dissin’ folks from the Dawg House! <3
Dale: ROFL! Mind is archived…in over-full metal filing cabinets.
HEY, send snow! Dallas got some yesterday, then the fun blew directly east. Passed us by. Except for 5 flakes about a month and a half ago, we've not gotten any. This has been a very mild winter here.
Snowing right now. Just got back from the store just in time to be “frosted” with snow. Trying to warm up now, not working as fast as I would like. Darn, there goes my membership in the Polar Bear club!
Ha!
A couple of weeks back I was at my “Craft Night” and my friend said “Oh that’s fail” about something, and her 18 year old son said “MOM, please… DON’T say Fail.”
(I say fail when I want to, so there, whether teens approve or not. Take that!)
LOL. I think it un-cools the slang a little bit when the parents start using it.
(I remember an episode of Spongebob which addressed this, actually.)
I still occasionally use some of the slang I grew up with in the ’60s. “Wow, that’s cool, man!” I haven’t got any kids to embarrass and the dog doesn’t care, as long as he gets his treats! I’ll have to wait for my brother’s kids to get old enough and I can work on them! LOL!
Having lived from the NYC area, I am thankful not to be caught in the Snowmageddon, as the President called it. Here in southern Nevada, we had quite a few rainy days, courtesy of the Californian storms. It’s been 40s in the morning and 60s-70s during the day–very mild for this time of year. Not complaining!
Well, it’s always nice to know foreign languages. ^^