Aw…Santa Claus is out of the picture! I am even negotiating an acting role were I play a young muscle bound Kris Kringle that is going to be filmed next year…
That’s some pretty impressive hand-strength right there, crazy noodlebrain notwithstanding.
Also, did anyone else see “Mrs. Clause” and think it was Ginger at first glance? Leave it to Santa to still use a curly-cord landline. Or maybe it’s his less famous younger brother Mike.
I thought the whole idea of obscure rules regarding first commenting was to have an officially accepted “you failed” to people who don’t at least put a little effort into what they’re saying.
I don’t really see any point in such rules and announcements past that.
He was obscure enough in his statement of first. He used first as a first glance statement in thinking that Mike was sleeping with Ginger.
You know, I’m wondering if we could look into the possibility of being able to edit our entries. But anyway, why not have some positive reinforcement as well?
I did actually find a few options on that and sent them to Jessica a while ago, but I don’t know what all other plugins she uses and there’s always possibility of conflicts and issues. I seem to recall there were either the ones that allowed logged in users to edit their own posts or the ones that used a cookie and allowed editing for 5-10 minutes after posting.
Determining that such things don’t break the stack of plugins already present can be a pain at times.
Considering the massive differences in characterization of the Joker’s particular brand of crazy, it seems fair to me to flex Harley’s psychosis details a bit too.
Oh. Yeah. Not too crazy about that movie. I mean she seemed to have been doing an okay Harley, but the relationship between Harley and the Joker was just too much pimp and ho. The Joker was somewhat holding Harley in contempt whenever she was wanting to go out for a ride.
I actually thought the Joker/Harley dynamic there was a bit more attached (on the Joker’s part) than usual. Though I guess I haven’t really made a large study of characterizations for Harley so much either (much more solo Joker).
Well…that’s one way to hang up a smart-phone..
And that look that Ellie gives her in panel one speaks volumes.
Having “Ish thad ma phone!?” coming from off panel in Cinn’s speech bubble color would’ve been a good joke here, though I think the tone of this comic is ultimately better without it.
I thought there was a comment by Rusche that had stated Mike was co-owner of the tattoo studio Anise works at.
Which brings up the question of if Rusche changed her mind, or if that’s also true and this is just a different Mike that was a mall Santa Anise got fixated on (and apparently his phone number at some point).
There’s something almost endearing about Anise’s flavor of crazy for me.
I’m sure it’d get upsetting fast if I knew and closely interacted with her in real life, though a year’s association would probably give me a lifetime’s worth of conversational bits and pieces to mention.
I don’t see any indicators of a fake beard in comic Stuck in the Middle with You (current post date January 24, 2014).
I’d say it’s within differences of artistic style between now and then for it to be the same, but it’s easily explainable otherwise too. I mean, if Anise saw that guy on the street I don’t think she’d need the costume to target him as SANTA!
Anise had the “Call Mike” tattoo before Black Friday, so probably not that mall Santa, but they did know her well at that point, so quite possibly an older mall Santa (maybe before or maybe after the art school decision).
Either way, he doesn’t seem to make the connection. Also, I get the feeling that “reality disagrees with you” isn’t a particularly compelling argument for Anise.
I don’t see how leaving herself a note to call him rules out the possibility of her flashing him every Black Friday.
It’s not impossible, but based on the reaction of the mall Santa in comic Stuck in the Middle with You (current post date January 24, 2014), it doesn’t seem like it’s a yearly occurrence. He seems a bit more surprised & embarrassed than someone who’s been seeing that same spectacle year after year. It’s certainly still possible that she got his number elsewhere and he mentioned he was going to be the mall Santa at that time.
However, either way on that, it seems to me that if he’d had several years of Anise flashing him and she tended to call him enough that he tells her to stop calling here, he’d put two & two together between frequent flasher and frequent caller.
So, is anyone else getting a touch of cognitive dissonance with the “hot goth” sister wearing whay looks like a pink nightgown? Just me? Okay.
When I worked at Disneyland, people would walk into the stores in September/October and say “Christmas ornaments already?!” They actually keep the ornaments out year-round because some people are only ever going to visit once. Might as well let them spend money on ornaments in April if they’re never coming back.
Better than going to Frankenmuth, Michigan I suppose.
Frankenmuth is a special case. Michigan has a surprisingly large number of holiday-themed destinations. We have Frankenmuthfor the Christmas crowd, Turkeyville for the Thanksgiving crowd, and Hell for the Halloween bunch.
By Hell do you mean Detroit?
No. Detroit has it’s own special holiday. Hell is it’s own entity altogether. It’s a famous destination for nerds who want to date that hot chick. So they go there to find out if Hell has frozen over. So they go up there, slip on the ice and break their necks. So, then their parents have it stipulated in the will that the nerd’s ashes have to be compressed into a diamond and given to that hot chick.
Oh no, there actually is a Hell, Michigan. Google the images sometime; there’s a wonderful road sign that reads “Hell” and it’s covered in icicles.
Hello all, and welcome to Friday. SHOTGUN SHUFFLE is currently at slot #92 at TWC (enter link here: http://topwebcomics.com/vote/14850) with a total of 345 votes at this time. This translates into an average vote tally of:
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…and then I looked more closely at the text under the strip.
Feeling old. Yeah, I remember the first time I felt old. I was in the car and The Chainsmokers’ “Selfie” song came on. And I remember my first thought being “This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”
You must be younger than me, because I didn’t know that song was by The Chainsmokers. Literally thought Don’t Let Me Down was the first Chainsmokers song.
I mean, that’s just creepy to the max. How would she get all of that unless she went through the trash with the literal fine toothed comb.
(END SHUDDER)
No, I mean stuff that she could have lifted from around the guys house. Or his trash. Or those delivery boxes that never got there. But I kind of doubt that last one.
77 thoughts on “Magical Thinking”
Damn 90’s flip phone kids.
No, no, no. Anise is teaching us an important lesson.
All phones are flip phones if you try hard enough, and don’t mind if they don’t work later.
Hey my dad still uses a flip phone and he’s about as 90s as the Space Race.
Everything is Air droppable at least once.
Every Phone is Flip-closable at least once
Will someone just hook her up with Gibbs from NCIS.
But Gibbs no gots the beard. Anise not like the clean shaven man.
He had one for the start of season 4 when he “retired” for few episodes.
That was not a beard it was scruff at best. A real beard takes years of dedication.
You called?
Kinda deluded isn’t she?
It’s that third panel look that sells it. I think she even kind of knows she’s delusional.
Oh Anise, what is going on in that electric hoo-ha candyland of a skull?
I do like that Anise has the most normal colored speech balloons when she’s the craziest member of the crazy sisters of Crazytown.
Oh look, now I’ve got two phones.
And dammit, was logged out again
Aw…Santa Claus is out of the picture! I am even negotiating an acting role were I play a young muscle bound Kris Kringle that is going to be filmed next year…
Or, Kris Kristopherson?
Are they remaking ‘Santa with Muscles’?
From what I understand it is a heartwarming tale about how the spirit of giving never gets old.
Six of the most horrifying words I’ve heard so far today, thank you.
look at that dirty cheaty santa. shame on him! xD
That’s some pretty impressive hand-strength right there, crazy noodlebrain notwithstanding.
Also, did anyone else see “Mrs. Clause” and think it was Ginger at first glance? Leave it to Santa to still use a curly-cord landline. Or maybe it’s his less famous younger brother Mike.
Congratulations on the official first comment.
If you ain’t first you’re eighth
I thought the whole idea of obscure rules regarding first commenting was to have an officially accepted “you failed” to people who don’t at least put a little effort into what they’re saying.
I don’t really see any point in such rules and announcements past that.
Some of us don’t hate fun.
Someone forgets that fun died in this comic over four years ago:
http://shotgunshuffle.com/comic/jenga-where-fun-goes-to-die/
He was obscure enough in his statement of first. He used first as a first glance statement in thinking that Mike was sleeping with Ginger.
You know, I’m wondering if we could look into the possibility of being able to edit our entries. But anyway, why not have some positive reinforcement as well?
I did actually find a few options on that and sent them to Jessica a while ago, but I don’t know what all other plugins she uses and there’s always possibility of conflicts and issues. I seem to recall there were either the ones that allowed logged in users to edit their own posts or the ones that used a cookie and allowed editing for 5-10 minutes after posting.
Determining that such things don’t break the stack of plugins already present can be a pain at times.
Yep on the first glance reminding me of Ginger.
She is approaching Harley Quinn levels of crazy and I love it
…still a better Harley than Margot Robbie.
I blame that more on the writing/costuming than anything. I thought she had the accent pretty spot on.
Considering the massive differences in characterization of the Joker’s particular brand of crazy, it seems fair to me to flex Harley’s psychosis details a bit too.
Margot Robbie?
She played Harley in ‘Suicide Squad’.
Oh. Yeah. Not too crazy about that movie. I mean she seemed to have been doing an okay Harley, but the relationship between Harley and the Joker was just too much pimp and ho. The Joker was somewhat holding Harley in contempt whenever she was wanting to go out for a ride.
I actually thought the Joker/Harley dynamic there was a bit more attached (on the Joker’s part) than usual. Though I guess I haven’t really made a large study of characterizations for Harley so much either (much more solo Joker).
Well…that’s one way to hang up a smart-phone..
And that look that Ellie gives her in panel one speaks volumes.
The disdain…
The disdain, or some of the crazy that Ellie mentioned to Quinn back around Lake Hollingsworth, which may or may not be flooded coming this Monday.
Only time (and buckingham sister chaos) will tell after this point then.
It was Cinnamon’s phone, anyway.
Having “Ish thad ma phone!?” coming from off panel in Cinn’s speech bubble color would’ve been a good joke here, though I think the tone of this comic is ultimately better without it.
I second this motion.
“Old man!”
https://youtu.be/aMNk-YlpuBo
Damn she is a strong gal to. No effort to fold that smartphone.
So that’s Mike… now we have a face to match the tattoo and phone number.
And here I think that most of us were speculating that Frank worked at the tattoo parlor with Anise.
I thought there was a comment by Rusche that had stated Mike was co-owner of the tattoo studio Anise works at.
Which brings up the question of if Rusche changed her mind, or if that’s also true and this is just a different Mike that was a mall Santa Anise got fixated on (and apparently his phone number at some point).
There’s something almost endearing about Anise’s flavor of crazy for me.
I’m sure it’d get upsetting fast if I knew and closely interacted with her in real life, though a year’s association would probably give me a lifetime’s worth of conversational bits and pieces to mention.
Is that the same mall Santa from Black Friday?
Pretty sure that he had a fake beard.
I don’t see any indicators of a fake beard in comic Stuck in the Middle with You (current post date January 24, 2014).
I’d say it’s within differences of artistic style between now and then for it to be the same, but it’s easily explainable otherwise too. I mean, if Anise saw that guy on the street I don’t think she’d need the costume to target him as SANTA!
…it occurs to me that, if this IS the same Santa, there is INDEED a man who those bought boobies can’t buy.
Anise had the “Call Mike” tattoo before Black Friday, so probably not that mall Santa, but they did know her well at that point, so quite possibly an older mall Santa (maybe before or maybe after the art school decision).
Either way, he doesn’t seem to make the connection. Also, I get the feeling that “reality disagrees with you” isn’t a particularly compelling argument for Anise.
I don’t see how leaving herself a note to call him rules out the possibility of her flashing him every Black Friday.
It’s not impossible, but based on the reaction of the mall Santa in comic Stuck in the Middle with You (current post date January 24, 2014), it doesn’t seem like it’s a yearly occurrence. He seems a bit more surprised & embarrassed than someone who’s been seeing that same spectacle year after year. It’s certainly still possible that she got his number elsewhere and he mentioned he was going to be the mall Santa at that time.
However, either way on that, it seems to me that if he’d had several years of Anise flashing him and she tended to call him enough that he tells her to stop calling here, he’d put two & two together between frequent flasher and frequent caller.
So, is anyone else getting a touch of cognitive dissonance with the “hot goth” sister wearing whay looks like a pink nightgown? Just me? Okay.
Look back a few strips – she was wearing a black body suit under the pink dress until Ellie demanded everyone be less… themselves.
Just in time for Christmas stuff to start appearing at my local Big Lots.
Eventually they won’t bother to take it down. They’ll pass it off as “Christmas in July,” and just leave it up all the time.
When I worked at Disneyland, people would walk into the stores in September/October and say “Christmas ornaments already?!” They actually keep the ornaments out year-round because some people are only ever going to visit once. Might as well let them spend money on ornaments in April if they’re never coming back.
Better than going to Frankenmuth, Michigan I suppose.
Frankenmuth is a special case. Michigan has a surprisingly large number of holiday-themed destinations. We have Frankenmuthfor the Christmas crowd, Turkeyville for the Thanksgiving crowd, and Hell for the Halloween bunch.
By Hell do you mean Detroit?
No. Detroit has it’s own special holiday. Hell is it’s own entity altogether. It’s a famous destination for nerds who want to date that hot chick. So they go there to find out if Hell has frozen over. So they go up there, slip on the ice and break their necks. So, then their parents have it stipulated in the will that the nerd’s ashes have to be compressed into a diamond and given to that hot chick.
Oh no, there actually is a Hell, Michigan. Google the images sometime; there’s a wonderful road sign that reads “Hell” and it’s covered in icicles.
Hello all, and welcome to Friday. SHOTGUN SHUFFLE is currently at slot #92 at TWC (enter link here: http://topwebcomics.com/vote/14850) with a total of 345 votes at this time. This translates into an average vote tally of:
per day ——— 43.125
per hour ——— 1.6666666666666666666666666666667
per minute —— 0.02769304864344196500240809118639
per second —– 4.5398440399085188528537854403912e-4
To get the SHOTGUN SHUFFLE back to the 40 or better slot will need an average vote tally of:
per day ——— 57.25
per hour ——— 2.2125603864734299516908212560386
per minute —— 0.03676352544549686948145769786483
per second —– 6.127254240916144913576282977471e-4
ANNNNND To get the SHOTGUN SHUFFLE back to the number ONE (1) slot will need an average vote tally of:
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Done and done. On a sadder note the comic for my robot test is no more. :(
mis named file, power outage, flooding, coffee, cat, pug, mice, spaghetti sauce?
I would call it “delusional? NAH that’s an understatement!”
…and then I looked more closely at the text under the strip.
Feeling old. Yeah, I remember the first time I felt old. I was in the car and The Chainsmokers’ “Selfie” song came on. And I remember my first thought being “This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”
That was when I realized I was old.
You must be younger than me, because I didn’t know that song was by The Chainsmokers. Literally thought Don’t Let Me Down was the first Chainsmokers song.
You know. I’m halfway wondering if Anise has ever gone through this guys garbage to get some of his stuff.
By stuff do you mean beard trimmings?
Ehhhhhhwwwwwwwwww. (ACTIVATE SHUDDER)
I mean, that’s just creepy to the max. How would she get all of that unless she went through the trash with the literal fine toothed comb.
(END SHUDDER)
No, I mean stuff that she could have lifted from around the guys house. Or his trash. Or those delivery boxes that never got there. But I kind of doubt that last one.