The Order Of The Stick: January

[bedbugsareyummy]

......Because it's Thor's Day?


Where's the comic? I need my fill of OotS......... :P

[Knight13]

didn't you just say that in French, Thursday is called games day or something like that?

WOO, the Muskrat 3000 is definitely going to be the next thing my fighter buys! Plus that hornet armor looks pretty handy as long as the hornets don't puncture my eardrums as well.

[bedbugsareyummy]

.....I have bad short-term memory -.-;;;
I want the bubble armor. Think of all the fun! :P

[Meagen]

It's so much better when Keith makes up his own jokes instead of re-using over-used material.

"Druids with pointy sticks"... heh. ^^

[Knight13]

what's up with this Keith thing anyway?

[Caledonian]

A new poster thought that Giant was the guy who won the D&D setting competition. The actual winner, who submitted Eberron, is named Keith. Giant came in I believe second place.

Now everyone's ribbing Giant about it... and if they keep it up, I think Giant's gonna break out some pointy sticks of his own.

[Sundog]

Friday is actually Frey's day, not Freya's. The Vikings had Freya's day as what we now have as Saturday (after the Roman god Saturn, oddly enough).

There's some question as to whether Tuesday came from the minor Norse pantheon god Tu (also spelt Tue) or the minor Celtic god/hero Twe (pronounced either Tue or Tau).

Getting back to the comic, I have to say, is everyone in this town crazy? First the Potion makers, then the weapon shoppe, now the armourer!

I just loved the fact that our favourite cleric was turning blue in the second panel in the bubble. I would guess whatever he was saying wasn't G-rated! An idea in need of significantly greater thought...

[Eslington]

I think the original poster just got them mixed up because he was browsing the Eberron board while making a post here.

To make it a true injoke, we'd need to see people on the Ask Keith Baker thread calling him Rich.

[Peldor]

Now everyone's ribbing Giant about it... and if they keep it up, I think Giant's gonna break out some pointy sticks of his own.

Yes, I've learned it's dangerous to poke fun at the forum admin. (The unmentionable things they can do to your avatar shall not be mentioned.) But I've also learned it's more fun to live dangerously! :D


And yes, wearing 17 cymbals does indeed beat working retail.

[bedbugsareyummy]

[quote author=Sundog]
Getting back to the comic, I have to say, is everyone in this town crazy? First the Potion makers, then the weapon shoppe, now the armourer!

I just loved the fact that our favourite cleric was turning blue in the second panel in the bubble. I would guess whatever he was saying wasn't G-rated! An idea in need of significantly greater thought...[/quote]
I bet the bubble was so airtight, even oxygen couldn't get in :P

[pumpkinetics]

I bet the bubble was so airtight, even oxygen couldn't get in

It was rather obviously airtight. Otherwise, Durkon wouldn't have turned so blue.

I wonder what a common dwarven swear word is? Probably something like "D'arvit" (A reference from Artemis fowl.)

[evileeyore]

Okay, this is starting to get freaky. Let's get this straight.

RICH BURLEW IS THE MAKER OF OOTS! RICH BURLEW! NOT KEITH BAKER! RICH BURLEW GODDAMN IT!

You know everytime someone calls him Keith Baker I just picture him fighting Evil across the universe armed only with his wits, a 13 1/2" scarf, and a sonic screwdriver.

Hah!

On a side note; Tom todays comic only rates a 6. No laughs were heard, but the cymbol encrusted muskrat was amusing.

But hey one bad day is okay, just don't make it a habit.

;)--EvilE

[Fire_Wolf]

What is cool about today's strip is that it features the first stick gnome ever. 138 strips and only one gnome!? Amazing.

[penguinscanfly81]

The downside involves Druids with Pointy Sticks.

This ones true. Im a member of DPS, and we dont enjoy seeing muskrats with cymbals. Tambourines are tolerable, but only 3 per Muskrat.

[Freeman333]

This ones true. Im a member of DPS, and we dont enjoy seeing muskrats with cymbals.

[overweening pedant] Wouldn't that be DwPS? You know, like Order of the Stick is OotS?
[/overweening pedant]

;)

[archon_huskie]

I demand the druid avatar be altered to have pointy sticks!

[Eslington]

What is cool about today's strip is that it features the first stick gnome ever. 138 strips and only one gnome!? Amazing.

Well, there are gnomes in the avatar list. Like the pistol wielding gnome pirate.

[The Giant]

What is cool about today's strip is that it features the first stick gnome ever. 138 strips and only one gnome!? Amazing.

Strip #49, last panel.

[ShadowDragon8685]

That is kind of the problem about using animals as creative trap disarmaments/absoloutly insane dungeon clearance items.

IE: driving herds of sheep ahead of you in the dungeon. Detects traps, monsters, and gelatinous cubes.


But then when you get out of the dungeon, the Circle of Seventeen (druids) all cast a Quickened Flamestrike/Flamestrike combo targeted at the dungeon entrance.

[Circon]

Friday is actually Frey's day, not Freya's. The Vikings had Freya's day as what we now have as Saturday (after the Roman god Saturn, oddly enough).

There's some question as to whether Tuesday came from the minor Norse pantheon god Tu (also spelt Tue) or the minor Celtic god/hero Twe (pronounced either Tue or Tau).

Atleast in Norwegian, Saturday (Lørdag) is from Bathing or Washing Day (Laugr-Dag.) Tuesday (Tirsdag) is quite clearly from Tyr's Dag.
(Tu? Never seen that spelling. Are we talking about the same god here?)



Oh, and ShadowDragon: Summon Monster I. If you summon a celestial dog to scout for traps, that's still a Lawful Good act.

[Knight13]

One of the worst dwarven swearwords is P'charnkov. Roughly translated it means: "Your feet will be cut off and buried several yards from your body so your ghost won't walk."

[Shatteredtower]

Strip #49, last panel.

Sure enough, a gnome. Thank you also for the reminder of why I could never get into trading card games.

[Fire_Wolf]

Strip #49, last panel.

Well gosh, now I feel silly. :-[

[MattB]

Friday is actually Frey's day, not Freya's. The Vikings had Freya's day as what we now have as Saturday (after the Roman god Saturn, oddly enough).

Friday is actually named after Odin's wife Frigg (also spelled Frigga, Frige, or Frija etc depending on language/dialect etc).

Frigg (an Aesir) is often confused with Freyja (a Vanir). Freyr, Freyja's brother, also adds to the confusion... as do all the variant spellings (Freyr/Frey, Freyja/Freya, Frigg/Frigga/Frija/Frige)

[Pharazon]

How exactly does one identify a stick-Gnome from a stick-Dwarf? They look quite alike to me...

I also wonder how you can train hornets to strike specific targets. But it sounds like a good idea, your own hornet-army.

Anyway, good comic. Facial expressions are, as always, well done.

[Gez]

Okay, this is starting to get freaky.

Yeah. People, stop confusing Rich Baker and Keith Burlew. Thanks.

And for people who don't know French, JEU from JEUDI means 'game'.

To be perfectly pedantic, jeudi is actually jupiter's day, but it's true that jeu means game.

Lundi = Luna Dies, latin for Moon's day.
Mardi = Mars Dies, same thing for Mars.
Mercredi = Mercuri Dies, Freddy Mercury's day
Jeudi = Jovis Dies, Bon Jovi's day
Vendredi = Veneris Dies, Venereal diseases' day
Samedi = Saturni Dies, Saturnism's day
Dimanche = Dies Domenicus, the Lord's day.

OK, not all the translations are exactly serious.

In German, you have:

Sonntag = Sun's day (die Sonn: the sun)
Montag = Moon's day (der Mond: the moon)
Germans, like Tolkien's elves, believe the Sun is feminine and the Moon is masculine.
Dienstag =Tyr's day (somehow, Tyr became Thin then Dien in German?)
Mittwoch = Literally "midweek"
Donnerstag = Donner's Tag, which can mean either Thunder Day or Thor's day, as you wish. (der Donner, the thunder)
Freitag = From one of those viking deities with a name starting with "fr". They're about three thousands of them, chose your favorite.
For Samstag, I'm not sure. I'd trace it back to the latin Saturne, like for French Samedi, which also features a 'm' instead of a 't' for whatever reason, but I've read it came from another latin word, Sabbaticum.

The Portugueses are the most rational of all. With the exception of Sabado (Sabbath, saturday) and Domingo (the Lord, Sunday), they just give numbers to days. So Monday is Segunda-Feira (second day, the first being Domingo), then you have Terça-Feira, Quarta-Feira, Quinta-Feira, and Sexta-Feira.


And to go back on the topic of the comic:

Argh! The Giant's world has been infected by the Dragonlance virus that turns gnomes into hare-brained tinkers!

[LordofOran]

How about chinese huh?

It's just one day, two day, threeday for monday, tuesday, and wednesday.

So it's Xing Qi Yi for monday, Xing Qi Er for tuesday, etc.

[Caledonian]

Jeudi is obviously the day the French set aside to honor the Jedi.

[evileeyore]

I also wonder how you can train hornets to strike specific targets. But it sounds like a good idea, your own hornet-army.

In one Fantasy Game two Mages who had Animal Control spells (My character and his Mentor) kept an apiary on the parties wagon. We enchanted it so the bees would only forage short distances and could always find their way back. We had ourselves an Intruder Bee Detection and Assault System and tasty Honey.

Had to Hibernate them when we travelled to the frigid North though. The Mentor was sooo dispondent (he liked his honey!).

[Gez]

Jeudi is obviously the day the French set aside to honor the Jedi.

He, when I was a kid, there were no school on wednesday afternoon. So children liked wednesday, and joked about how much they loathed the return of the jeudi.

But the pronounciation of jedi and jeudi (juh dee, without that short 'd' sound that's always at the start of english Js) are too different. In fact, jedi sounds somewhat like "jet d'ail" (throw of garlic), so it's mostly good to make jokes when a vampire strikes back.