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The Girl can't help it.  She's just has to shout it out!

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Sandy is affirming that Bill will be ready to go when she goes to Bills' place.

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I don't know if you noticed the spider in the last panel, well, here he is up close and since we have the ability to read his thoughts I think we should!

Watch out Pooky the Fly!

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per·fid·i·ous

adj \(ˌ)pər-ˈfi-dē-əs\

Definition of PERFIDIOUS

: of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy

— per·fid·i·ous·ly adverb

— per·fid·i·ous·ness noun

Examples of PERFIDIOUS

1. We were betrayed by a perfidious ally.
2. perfidious campaign worker revealed the senator's strategy to his leading rival for the nomination>

First Known Use of PERFIDIOUS

1572

Related to PERFIDIOUS

Synonyms: disloyal, false, fickle, inconstant, faithless, recreant, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, untrue

Antonyms: constant, dedicated, devoted, devout, down-the-line, faithful, fast, loyal, staunch (also stanch), steadfast, steady, true

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Definition of RACKLE

chiefly Scottish : impetuous

Origin of RACKLE

Middle English rakel

First Known Use: 14th century

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je·june adj \ji-ˈjün\

Definition of JEJUNE

1: lacking nutritive value
2: devoid of significance or interest : dull
3: juvenile, puerile
— je·june·ly adverb
— je·june·ness\-ˈjün-nəs\ noun

Examples of JEJUNE

She made jejune remarks about life and art.



Origin of JEJUNE

Latin jejunus empty of food, hungry, meager

First Known Use: 1646

Related to JEJUNE

Synonyms: arid, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, boring, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, slow, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying

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milquetoast
\MILK-tohst\

DEFINITION
noun
: a timid, meek, or unassertive person

EXAMPLES

Brian was such a milquetoast that he agreed to work extra hours on Sunday even though he had already told his boss that he needed that day off.

DID YOU KNOW?

Caspar Milquetoast was a comic strip character created in 1924 by the American cartoonist Harold T. Webster. The strip, called "The Timid Soul," ran every Sunday in the New York Herald Tribune for many years. Webster, who claimed that Milquetoast was a self-portrait, summed up the character as "the man who speaks softly and gets hit with a big stick." The earliest examples of "Milquetoast" being used as a generic synonym for "timid person" date from the mid-1930s. Caspar's last name might remind you of "milk toast," a bland concoction of buttered toast served in a dish of warm milk.

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PLAINTIVE:  adjective

:  expressive of suffering or woe

:  melancholy

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Sandy has known Bill too long not to know his propensity for being laconic.

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Pooky the Fly is giving Bill a wake it moment.

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Hopefully Sandy is not P-O'd about Bills' irresponsibility concerning the pressing emergency.

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Pooky, listening to Bills' discomfort remembers it hasn't always been easy for him either!

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I think Pooky the Fly wants to reassure Bill that it is worth it!

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Now that we have optimistically imagined a best possible outcome for Nightpumper, let us now face reality and check out how Nightpumper is faring ......view and weep!

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We might want this story to be resolved but what can one do?  As so many things in our lives, it must play out in its' own way and on its' own timeline!

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Explanation needed!

This panel is "imagining the best of all possible outcomes" for Nightpumpy!  ...surrounded by all his friends who are cheering him on as he comes to after being clobbered by a kitchen sink thrown by none other than "God" - of Stream of Consciousness Comics! - not the one true God of you and me!....anyway, this is only fantasy, let's hope the outcome of this story thread has this good of an ending, we can always hope anyway!