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December 15, 2011
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this one is sweet
i just want to tell you how much i love your comics!
i check them everyday and they make my day happier!
i laugh out loud almost every time!
i hope you never stop, there would probably be a mutiny of some type.................
OK, eastern WA isn't THAT bad.
At least we know how to drive in the snow. Unlike some *cough cough* westsiders.
Ha! Living in Yakima now -- parking really is great almost everywhere, and the flies are still that bad. You'd think the dry summers would be bad for the bugs, but you'd be wrong.
natedogg; that's funny, since the westsiders I know claim that, for you guys, "driving in the snow" means slamming on the brakes and idling home the moment a snow flake touches the windshield.
Yes Eastern WA istn't THAT bad; it's WAY better than Eastern Or a Gun.
I grew up in rural Northern Nevada. When I was six or so I once made a fort out of sagebrush.
We didn't have fly swarms though. It was too dry; the water in the dung would evaporate before too many flies could feast. We did have hordes of mosquito, though. And occasionally the town would be invaded by Mormon crickets. For those unaware of Mormon crickets, they are an insect the size of a mouse, are cannibalistic, and swarm in the billions.
Funny! And I just checked and that area really is called the Scablands. And the Scabland photos look pretty interesting.
I spent my childhood in a large sprawling urban area where there was never any parking, and I never want to live in a place like that again. The boonies for me.
An amazing collection of facial hair
Could have been worse, you could have lived in the Naches Valley. It's like living in Yakima, except I actually had to go to Yakima if I wanted to shop, and the manure didn't thaw until May.
And yet here I am remembering it fondly now. I'm not sure if it's nostalgia, or simply the fact that I've somehow ended up living in Tacoma, which of course makes everything seem awesome in comparison.
It would be so awesome if you had a little brother with a pencil thin Clark Gable mustache or some such fantastical facial hair.
I was chalking up Scott's dislike for his hometown area as typical teenager angst. Now seeing some other comments it looks like there is a bit more to it.
I have family that lives in Yakima. I laugh every time we drive into town and see the giant billboard proclaiming Yakima to be "The Palm Springs of Washington!"
I literally began clapping when I saw both brothers in the first panel...before I even read a word! Each panel was pure winI I laughed my ass off much to the surprise of my workmates who have nothing to laugh about.
Ah, Crackima! What a wonderful place to be a former resident of! There's still plenty of parking, because all of the cars have been stolen.
I grew up in the suburbs...
That old song "Subdivisions" doesn't quite get it; you'd need to add religious and racial hatred, patiently taught to children, so they can cluster with the right classmates and hate the wrong ones.
That is funny, I have read your comic for a long time now since, Scott Adams first mentioned you. And now to know that you were from the Palm Springs of Washington it makes me feel sorry for you a little bit more. I have to say Eastern Washington is great place to live, except for the arm pit (Yakivegas)
i want a fortress of scratchitude...in which to inter my enemies.
Today I finished reading your archived comics. It took me over a month, because there are no forward/back navigation buttons so I couldn't bookmark where I was... I had to try to remember which one I had read when returning to the archive page. Navigation buttons would make this comic amazing.
Note from Scott: Thanks for reading the comics. I'm glad you enjoyed them. Please don't read any attitude into what I'm about to write. Under the comic there should be a black line with the words "Previous Instructions: and Next Instructions."
For those saying "Eastern WA isn't that bad":
Western Washington
Eastern Washington
Wow, I feel both stupid and blind. Haha! Thanks Scott! Your comic really is amazing. Unlike mine:
Save Me, Gebus!
@Anne - The Yakima Valley is not actually the Scablands. The Yakima Valley is where all the topsoil scraped off the scablands by the Bretz floods was deposited. It is, as a consequence, one of the most fertile bits of land in the world, with topsoil 100 feet or more deep, though without irrigation, nothing but sagebrush and bunchgrass will grow. @others. I grew up in Sunnyside. Yakima is where you went for shopping, until they built Columbia Center in Kennewick. Then you could drive an hour EITHER direction for shopping! Uhmm, there were more manure piles (dairy and beef), they thawed earlier AND we had the rendering plant.... 90% of the world's mint was (is?) grown around Sunnyside, so on a warm summer day you could get (at any given moment) the strong, sweet smell of spearmint or peppermint or, uhmm, the strong, not-sweet smell of one of the manure piles or worse yet, the rotting carcass smell of the rendering plant..... We built our tumbleweed forts (really, tumbleweed warrens) in the empty irrigation canal across the street during the winter. It accumulated an inexhaustible supply.
Note from Scott: What year did you graduate? Did we know each other?
Ahhhh, Yakima! With any luck at all, I'll never ever ever have to visit there again.
The continuing difficulties w/the navigation is probably due to:
1) it's too far away from the comic, and
1b) rather understated
2) At my default size browser, all the trivial stuff (fb buttons and whatnot) are visible, but the navigation is off-screen.
Let's put it this way: I >>KNOW<< it's there, and I have trouble seeing it.
If possible, it should be moved up to directly underneath the strip.
And, as always, thank you for writing the strip: it's consistently funny and .... ummmm... unique in the best way possible.
Note to Scott: I also didn't know that was there. Your comics are so brilliant, I just couldn't see them, I guess. I'm so used to those giant arrows that scream ''DO IT, DO IT NOW". Thanks for the personal touch.