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1. Andy
   July 14th, 2010 at 7:07 am

   Freaking hilarious. The timing of this was spot on.

2. Bo Lumpkin
   July 14th, 2010 at 8:43 am

   Perfect timing. Good one.

3. Chris
   July 14th, 2010 at 8:56 am

   Thanks, guys!
   And thanks for the email, Andy. Typo fixed! Phew!

4. Luemas
   July 14th, 2010 at 11:41 am

   You gotta love Colin’s face.

5. DadaHyena
   July 14th, 2010 at 12:02 pm

   Ainu…the mountain folk? Is that right?

   At least she’s not a Yeti (sorry, wrong country).

6. Chris
   July 14th, 2010 at 12:10 pm

   Luemas: Well, he’s probably not too happy about it right now
   DadaHyena: Basically. The Ainu are the indigenous people of northern Japan. Yeti, on the other hand, were dropped everywhere all over the Earth by the aliens, when they came to build the pyramids.

7. dgriff13
   July 14th, 2010 at 12:50 pm

   Moms are SO good at the back-handed BURNS. You never see ‘em coming.

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9. Chris
   July 14th, 2010 at 4:25 pm

   But they do burn, don’t they? Long and simmering, like a sunburn.

10. David
    July 14th, 2010 at 6:59 pm

    BURN! Ha! Isn’t it funny that it’s often saying things at the wrong time that seem so right in the moment.

11. SpilledInkGuy
    July 14th, 2010 at 8:37 pm

    Yikes!

12. George
    July 15th, 2010 at 6:48 pm

    Sprout’s timing was superb! This was a great strip, Chris.

13. DadaHyena
    July 16th, 2010 at 1:08 pm

    Regarding our discussion above, there was an old Toho movie called “Monster Snowman” (known in the US as “Half-Human”) which featured not only Yetis but somewhat-racist depictions of Ainu natives. I haven’t seen it (it’s extremely hard to find, especially in Japan now that things are more PC), but it might be an interesting watch.

    Sprout would probably want a Yeti for a pet.

14. Bob
    August 4th, 2010 at 9:45 am

    Love this one!

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