THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

  • 28 Mar 2024, 14:00
  • Welcome, Guest
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: 1 [2] 3   Go Down

Author Topic: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)  (Read 25594 times)

brasca

  • Scrabble hacker
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,358
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #50 on: 27 Nov 2018, 21:25 »

Looks like Roko will fit in just fine, but I’d like to know what she’s applying for.
Logged

BenRG

  • coprophage
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 7,861
  • Boldly Going From The Back Seat!
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #51 on: 27 Nov 2018, 23:17 »

Ever since Jeph made a few posts about Beeptrice on Twitter, I started getting worried. I thought that she was going to be like Tilly - a new character that he considered cute and funny that he was going to shove in our faces and leave there. It's pretty obvious what role she was created to fill: She's Roko's new supervisor at whatever her new 'real' job is (I've got the feeling it's a community advisory/advocacy service). However, I'm concerned that she might end up becoming too prominent too quickly in a way that sours people towards her.

All that aside, I do agree with Beeptrice's employers. If there is one thing that any consumer product manufacturer should know it is that there is no upper limit to the abnormal use to which your products will be put and the capability of people to have a bizarre definition of 'intuitive normal usage'. Best to prepare in advance rather than get your butt sued for injuries after they use one as a flaming torch or something. I'm pretty sure that sex toys suffer even more abuse, given the weird places some people can go!

Welp.. I ship it.

Yeah, I'm not one to jump on a ship on first sight of a new character but Jeph is honouring at least one animé trope here (constant over-reaction to double-entendres) that suggests he is at least deliberately teasing this because he thinks it's cute. However, I do believe that this feeds into the overall Roko arc that she desperately needs a romantic sexual partner to the point where even hints are making her overheat!
Logged
~~~~

They call me BenRG... But I don't know why!

hakko504

  • Pneumatic ratchet pants
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 342
  • Geek! Beep Boop!
    • My Profile at Boardgamegeek
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #52 on: 27 Nov 2018, 23:38 »

Comic's up!
Beepatrice seems nice, if a little easily flustered.
I wonder if it's pronounced Bee-patrice or Beep-atrice?
(O.K., I've been up waaaaayyyy too long...)
I'm thinking it should be Beep-atrice. Sort of self-censored. And would go nice with a Basilisk.

[edit] No shipping of AIs intended, just the names have a nice theme together [/edit]
Logged
"Be excellent to each other!"
Bill S. Preston & Ted "Theodore" Logan

JoeCovenant

  • Duck attack survivor
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,863
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #53 on: 28 Nov 2018, 01:37 »


Roko!! YAY!!!

(Bit of a jump in topic and scenario, but that's a good thing in my book!)
:)

Logged
Covenant
A Man With Far Too Much Time On His Hands

Tai Fanboi

  • Balloon animal serial killer
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 77
    • DeadWinter
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #54 on: 28 Nov 2018, 05:16 »

Explosive ballistic testing of cylindrical objects.  Sign me up. 
Logged
Oh god, I should've drunk more so I wouldn't remember that.

shanejayell

  • Duck attack survivor
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,524
    • Church of Yuri
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #55 on: 28 Nov 2018, 07:08 »

That's gotta be fun explaining.

"I destruction test sex toys."

"......."

"Not THAT way."

oddtail

  • Bling blang blong blung
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,200
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #56 on: 28 Nov 2018, 07:45 »

That's gotta be fun explaining.

"I destruction test sex toys."

"......."

"Not THAT way."

Honestly, if I had that job and people kept making assumptions, I'd just lean into it without actually outright lying.

"I destruction test sex toys"
"......."
[with an appropriate grin] "Oh yes."
Logged

Magniras

  • Larger than most fish
  • **
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 119
  • INTERNET SPACESHIPS
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #57 on: 28 Nov 2018, 09:46 »

I’m more confused about destructive evaluation of sex toys. I thought you would be doing NDE.
Logged

tbm275

  • Not quite a lurker
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 8
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #58 on: 28 Nov 2018, 10:13 »

First... There was the rocket propelled butt.

Soon there will be the rocket dildo.

Hilarity ensures when they collide!
Logged

DSL

  • Older than Moses
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 4,097
    • Don Lee Cartoons
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #59 on: 28 Nov 2018, 10:15 »

Insert "rendezvous and docking" joke here.

(12-year-old version of me): Heh. You said "Insert."
Logged
"We are who we pretend to be. So we had better be careful who we pretend to be."  -- Kurt Vonnegut.

Thrillho

  • Global Moderator
  • Awakened
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 13,130
  • Tall. Beets.
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #60 on: 28 Nov 2018, 10:57 »

I think bringing docking up in a sexual context might be a mistake.

If you don't understand, I advise not Googling either.
Logged
In the end, the thing people will remember is kindness.

OldGoat

  • Bling blang blong blung
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,009
  • Give me heresy, or give me death.
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #61 on: 28 Nov 2018, 11:12 »

I wonder if Melon works there, too?
Logged

War Sparrow

  • FIGHT YOU
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 388
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #62 on: 28 Nov 2018, 12:01 »

I think bringing docking up in a sexual context might be a mistake.

If you don't understand, I advise not Googling either.

I googled. Wasn't as bad as I thought, unless there is more than one meaning to it.
Logged

Theta9

  • Bling blang blong blung
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,115
  • Not even that gay.
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #63 on: 28 Nov 2018, 12:56 »

I think bringing docking up in a sexual context might be a mistake.

If you don't understand, I advise not Googling either.

I googled. Wasn't as bad as I thought, unless there is more than one meaning to it.
Yeah, I'm familiar with the term and it's pretty tame in contrast with more extreme kinks.
Logged
stePH
--
Quote from: MC Chris
I'm not doing well, OK? Do you get that?

Tova

  • coprophage
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 7,725
  • Defender of the Terrible Denizens of QC
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #64 on: 28 Nov 2018, 13:23 »

I think bringing docking up in a sexual context might be a mistake.

Given this place's collective knowledge and proclivity for inference and wordplay, posting anything at all might be a mistake.

Nudge nudge, wink wink.
Logged
Yet the lies of Melkor, the mighty and the accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days. (Silmarillion 255)

Neko_Ali

  • Global Moderator
  • ASDFSFAALYG8A@*& ^$%O
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 4,510
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #65 on: 28 Nov 2018, 14:38 »

Say no more, squire!
Logged

A small perverse otter

  • Bizarre cantaloupe phobia
  • **
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 219
  • Staying well enhydrated
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #66 on: 28 Nov 2018, 14:39 »

Anytime an AI blushes in this comic I imagine a cooling fan kicking on and it makes the awkward silences much funnier to my brain.
And the little cheek blushes are accompanied by the cooling fan running at a lower speed, so they're just accompanied by a low whirr except of a piercing whine.

I can not unhear this...
Logged
"AGH! Humans are so STUPID sometimes!" -- QC #3668

Perfectly Reasonable

  • Bling blang blong blung
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,070
  • Be nice to everybody. So you're better than them.
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #67 on: 28 Nov 2018, 16:28 »

I love the expressions in this. Especially in panels 1 and 5 when they use the same smile...
Logged
What would I do if I were smart?
I guess first I'd stop taking the stupid pills.

Thrillho

  • Global Moderator
  • Awakened
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 13,130
  • Tall. Beets.
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #68 on: 28 Nov 2018, 16:28 »

Perhaps space docking is the full term. I thought it and 'docking' were interchangeable.
Logged
In the end, the thing people will remember is kindness.

Gyrre

  • Born in a Nalgene bottle
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3,288
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #69 on: 28 Nov 2018, 17:30 »

That's gotta be fun explaining.

"I destruction test sex toys."

"......."

"Not THAT way."

Honestly, if I had that job and people kept making assumptions, I'd just lean into it without actually outright lying.

"I destruction test sex toys"
"......."
[with an appropriate grin] "Oh yes."

Did anyone else read that last part in Mettaton's voice?

EDIT: typo fix
*Death By Glamour starts playing*
« Last Edit: 28 Nov 2018, 20:47 by Gyrre »
Logged
Quote
a real-ass gaddam sword
Quote
"Broken swords and dragon bones scattered on the way back home."

Too stubborn to die, just like the rest of my family.

Theta9

  • Bling blang blong blung
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,115
  • Not even that gay.
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #70 on: 28 Nov 2018, 18:15 »

"I destruction test sex toys"
"......."
[with an appropriate grin] "Oh yes."

Did anyone else read that last part in Metaton's voice?
The archangel Metatron?
Logged
stePH
--
Quote from: MC Chris
I'm not doing well, OK? Do you get that?

SpanielBear

  • The German Chancellory building
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 454
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #71 on: 28 Nov 2018, 18:52 »

New Comic!

...

Crumbs.
Logged

MrNumbers

  • Cthulhu f'tagn
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 526
  • A hoot
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #72 on: 28 Nov 2018, 18:58 »

Oof that hits me right in my personal sense of humour
Logged
oh god

DaiJB

  • The German Chancellory building
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 450
  • Utterly clueless.
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #73 on: 28 Nov 2018, 19:01 »

Beepatrice? I think I have a new favourite character.

I love the easily-flustered ones - it's why I like Hanners.   :-)
Logged
"This fellow... he picks up this tiny bird in his hands and carries its quivering little body across this busy junction -  and feeds it to his cat.
Life's like that; a complex texture of conflicting moralities. " 

Norman Clegg, Last of the Summer Wine

Gyrre

  • Born in a Nalgene bottle
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3,288
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #74 on: 28 Nov 2018, 20:45 »

"I destruction test sex toys"
"......."
[with an appropriate grin] "Oh yes."
Did anyone else read that last part in Metaton's voice?

The archangel Metatron?
... No.
Sorry, I misspelled it.

Logged
Quote
a real-ass gaddam sword
Quote
"Broken swords and dragon bones scattered on the way back home."

Too stubborn to die, just like the rest of my family.

TheCollector

  • Obscure cultural reference
  • **
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 132
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #75 on: 28 Nov 2018, 21:09 »

Shipping Intensified!!
And it's only been two pages!
Logged

Is it cold in here?

  • Administrator
  • Awakened
  • ******
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 25,163
  • He/him/his pronouns
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #76 on: 28 Nov 2018, 21:11 »

It's a bonding experience.
Logged
Thank you, Dr. Karikó.

Neko_Ali

  • Global Moderator
  • ASDFSFAALYG8A@*& ^$%O
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 4,510
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #77 on: 28 Nov 2018, 21:29 »

Whelp, looks like the bread is out of the oven now....
Logged

brasca

  • Scrabble hacker
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,358
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #78 on: 28 Nov 2018, 23:03 »

Nudge nudge!  Wink wink!  Say no more!  Say no more!
Logged

Thrillho

  • Global Moderator
  • Awakened
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 13,130
  • Tall. Beets.
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #79 on: 28 Nov 2018, 23:49 »

I love the framing of the last two panels.
Logged
In the end, the thing people will remember is kindness.

BenRG

  • coprophage
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 7,861
  • Boldly Going From The Back Seat!
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #80 on: 29 Nov 2018, 00:11 »

To me, this is what happens when social awkwardness reaches critical mass: Two socially awkward ladies boosting the fluster amplitude with every phrase!
Logged
~~~~

They call me BenRG... But I don't know why!

traroth

  • Vagina Manifesto
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 687
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #81 on: 29 Nov 2018, 06:44 »

Funny how new AI characters have geometric hair when introduced. After a while, their hairstyle improve...
Logged
"Courage is freedom and freedom is happiness" --Thucydides

SordidEuphemism

  • Plantmonster
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 41
  • Treguna Mekoides Tracorum Satis Dee
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #82 on: 29 Nov 2018, 08:13 »

I'm thinking it should be Beep-atrice. Sort of self-censored. And would go nice with a Basilisk.

That gets more clever the longer I think about it. I absolutely love it.
Logged

JoeCovenant

  • Duck attack survivor
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,863
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #83 on: 29 Nov 2018, 09:14 »

I'm thinking it should be Beep-atrice. Sort of self-censored. And would go nice with a Basilisk.

That gets more clever the longer I think about it. I absolutely love it.

I thought everyone would get that !! :)

Logged
Covenant
A Man With Far Too Much Time On His Hands

traroth

  • Vagina Manifesto
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 687
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #84 on: 29 Nov 2018, 09:41 »

I'm thinking it should be Beep-atrice. Sort of self-censored. And would go nice with a Basilisk.

That gets more clever the longer I think about it. I absolutely love it.

I thought everyone would get that !! :)

I still don't get it...
Logged
"Courage is freedom and freedom is happiness" --Thucydides

Roborat

  • Furry furrier
  • **
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 197
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #85 on: 29 Nov 2018, 11:38 »

I loved this page, so funny, and the way Jeph used the panel framing was brilliant.  I am starting to like this new character.
Logged

Neko_Ali

  • Global Moderator
  • ASDFSFAALYG8A@*& ^$%O
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 4,510
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #86 on: 29 Nov 2018, 13:17 »

I'm thinking it should be Beep-atrice. Sort of self-censored. And would go nice with a Basilisk.

That gets more clever the longer I think about it. I absolutely love it.

I thought everyone would get that !! :)

I still don't get it...

Both the cockatrice and basilisk are mythical animals that could turn someone to stone.
Logged

lemonglamour

  • Not quite a lurker
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 6
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #87 on: 29 Nov 2018, 16:26 »

ooh, a new nb character? (looking at the - is it still alt-text if it's on the actual page image? hm)

actually, i wonder if nb folks make up a higher percentage of AI than humans.
Logged

oddtail

  • Bling blang blong blung
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,200
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #88 on: 29 Nov 2018, 17:42 »

I'm thinking it should be Beep-atrice. Sort of self-censored. And would go nice with a Basilisk.

That gets more clever the longer I think about it. I absolutely love it.

I thought everyone would get that !! :)

I still don't get it...

Both the cockatrice and basilisk are mythical animals that could turn someone to stone.

Fun fact: in Polish there's no distinction. Both tend to be called "bazyliszek" (similarly, and this has nothing to do with anything, both a mermaid and a siren are translated as "syrena").
Logged

SmilingCat

  • Pneumatic ratchet pants
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 340
  • You is friend or food?
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #89 on: 29 Nov 2018, 18:17 »

Fun fact: in Polish there's no distinction. Both tend to be called "bazyliszek" (similarly, and this has nothing to do with anything, both a mermaid and a siren are translated as "syrena").

In the original mythology there wasn't much of a distinction either. The names were sometimes used interchangeably. And apparently in at least some cases, the difference was whether it was a cockerel egg raised by serpents or a serpent egg raised by a cockerel.

(also I think the notion of a cockerel, a male chicken, laying an egg was also related to the myth, so no, I didn't misspeak  :-P )
Logged

specter177

  • Balloon animal serial killer
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 75
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #90 on: 29 Nov 2018, 20:01 »

<snip>
Both the cockatrice and basilisk are mythical animals that could turn someone to stone.

I got cockatrice and cockatiel mixed up.
Logged

pendrake

  • Curry sauce
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 292
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #91 on: 29 Nov 2018, 20:21 »

For comic #3885...

I like bread the normal amount.

(I do not know what the normal amount for liking bread is.)
« Last Edit: 01 Dec 2018, 08:17 by pendrake »
Logged

Perfectly Reasonable

  • Bling blang blong blung
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,070
  • Be nice to everybody. So you're better than them.
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #92 on: 29 Nov 2018, 21:07 »

Bread. Hydraulic press. This is obviously how flatbreads are made.
(and this is my new head canon)
Logged
What would I do if I were smart?
I guess first I'd stop taking the stupid pills.

brasca

  • Scrabble hacker
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,358
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #93 on: 29 Nov 2018, 22:17 »

As amusing as this all is I’m more curious about what Roko is apply for.
Logged

BenRG

  • coprophage
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 7,861
  • Boldly Going From The Back Seat!
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #94 on: 29 Nov 2018, 23:16 »

I really hope that those two get actual work done in between awkward confessionals about their personal lives (or lack thereof, in Roko's case)!

As amusing as this all is I’m more curious about what Roko is apply for.

I think that I've said this elsewhere but I suspect it's a community advise bureau of some sort.
Logged
~~~~

They call me BenRG... But I don't know why!

traroth

  • Vagina Manifesto
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 687
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #95 on: 30 Nov 2018, 01:04 »

I'm thinking it should be Beep-atrice. Sort of self-censored. And would go nice with a Basilisk.

That gets more clever the longer I think about it. I absolutely love it.

I thought everyone would get that !! :)

I still don't get it...

Both the cockatrice and basilisk are mythical animals that could turn someone to stone.

Ok... Sorry to break it to you, but you have to be american to get "beepatrice". Here we call a cock a cock...

(click to show/hide)
Logged
"Courage is freedom and freedom is happiness" --Thucydides

pwhodges

  • Admin emeritus
  • Awakened
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 17,241
  • I'll only say this once...
    • My home page
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #96 on: 30 Nov 2018, 01:11 »

Thanks - I did indeed completely miss that!
Logged
"Being human, having your health; that's what's important."  (from: Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi )
"As long as we're all living, and as long as we're all having fun, that should do it, right?"  (from: The Eccentric Family )

JoeCovenant

  • Duck attack survivor
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,863
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #97 on: 30 Nov 2018, 01:22 »

I'm thinking it should be Beep-atrice. Sort of self-censored. And would go nice with a Basilisk.

That gets more clever the longer I think about it. I absolutely love it.

I thought everyone would get that !! :)

I still don't get it...

Both the cockatrice and basilisk are mythical animals that could turn someone to stone.

Ok... Sorry to break it to you, but you have to be american to get "beepatrice". Here we call a cock a cock...

(click to show/hide)

 :?  I am certainly not American!
(They wouldn't have me!  :)  )
Logged
Covenant
A Man With Far Too Much Time On His Hands

Tova

  • coprophage
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 7,725
  • Defender of the Terrible Denizens of QC
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #98 on: 30 Nov 2018, 03:07 »

I thought I'd got it, but now I'm unsure, because I have no idea what the post by traroth is supposed to be explaining, or why you need to be American to get it.
Logged
Yet the lies of Melkor, the mighty and the accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days. (Silmarillion 255)

BenRG

  • coprophage
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 7,861
  • Boldly Going From The Back Seat!
Re: WCDT Strips 26-30 November 2018 (3881-3885)
« Reply #99 on: 30 Nov 2018, 03:14 »

Okay, for some reason, some posters have decided that Beeptrice's name is a reference to the mythological beast known as the cockatrice, which is similar to the basilisk in its mystical properties and special abilities. The word 'cock' is how some versions of English language refer to roosters (male chickens). It is also a slang term for penis and it appears that some have, for no reason I can grasp myself, have assumed it's a double-entendre and a shipping hint.

FWIW, I think that Jeph intended the name to be a robotisation of 'Beatrice' but maybe I'm conventional and boring.
Logged
~~~~

They call me BenRG... But I don't know why!
Pages: 1 [2] 3   Go Up