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Alice Grove MCDT - January 2015
Zebediah:
I think this was an exile, plain and simple. Ardent and Gavia annoyed Cupressaceae every bit as much as they are now annoying Alice, so Cup got rid of them. Fortunately their antisocial tendencies made it easy: dangle a shiny object in front of them and they jumped.
Which will lead to an interesting conversation when Alice finally manages to contact Cup: "These two are your problem!" "NOT ANY MORE!!!"
Stoutfellow:
Ah, so they're "irreversibly contaminated", or will be by the time Alice gets ahold of Cupressaceae....
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 27 Jan 2015, 06:05 ---
--- Quote from: Wildroses on 27 Jan 2015, 06:00 ---Am I the only one who thinks that Cupressaceae sounds like something an American would call a cup of coffee or coffee machine? Maybe in the distant past a coffee machine gained sentience and went on to take over human civilisation.
--- End quote ---
This leads to the inevitable scenario that, when Alice confronts Cupressaceae, it keeps on presenting her with a cup of tepid sludge that only purports to be coffee and chirping "Share and enjoy!" in a way that implies a profound and irreversible coding error.
ALICE: "You mean you did all this in an attempt to selectively breed a human race that actually likes your coffee?!?" :facepalm:
--- End quote ---
Origin story of Cupressaceae
:evil:
StMonkey:
So, is there a pronunciation guide somewhere? I could slide by assuming praeses might be pronounced like when someone 'praises' something. But Cupressaceae is a bit much for me.
Method of Madness:
I see "praeses" as rhymes-with-brace, followed by ease.
Cupressaceae to me would be cup-ress-ack-ay-eye
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