Permission to party
Cleo got permission. Time to start planning!
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Twirling hair and making plans;
Cleo rallies the troops.
Calling them up whilst on her way;
before they fly their coops.
Benji’s first on her list of names;
perhaps that’s for a reason?
Anyhow, she lets him know
that this… is PARTY SEASON!
Her dry humour shines through
She is actually kidding, right?
Although I’m sure she’s having fun
a robo scanner could be in sight…
Whether this is Cleo’s reason or not, calling Benji first is wise because he and the twins go to school on the same bus. After the three of them leave home, Cleo may not get a chance all day to talk to Benji without Kai or Kaya noticing.
I know. I just get the feeling she likes him a bit.
Aww, Cleo’s a little noodle! It looks like the Twins and Mr. Portas are in agreement on how they don’t like being splurged on like that. It seems that Benji and Cleo’s friendship consists of sarcastic banter, you wouldn’t think dogs could be snarky like that. Better have some good presents, Benji, otherwise the Dalek droid will reduce you to a singed piece of Cruella de Ville’s wardrobe, so those presents better be thoughtful!
Very cute that Benji and Cleo can have friendly banter like that. And the vote insensitive is cool but once it’s replaced I think it would sit well in the Gamer Dragons page.
Where can I get one of these robots (are they Daleks?)? I need one as a gatekeeper to to keep annoying people from bothering me.
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! 😜🤣
I might not be some dumb mindless gatekeeper robot, but a Cybertronian like me could do the job for Cleo. And I would do it for a reasonable price, which will make Daniel the Human happy to see me bringing in SOME money. I can even look Human if need be. But if miss Cleo doesn’t want to hire me, I could work for someone else for the right price…
If those “guard robots” are indeed Daleks, I’d suggest calling the military, the Doctor, and Kai and Kaya to roast those squid brained, cyborg pepper grinders. If possible, also call in people likely to be immune or at least resistant to the Daleks’ electro laser weapons, maybe some Autobots or the Straw Hat Pirates (particularly Monkey D. Luffy, since he’s a super insulator for electricity).
Benji: Well, guess I’m spending my next couple months allowance to avoid disintegration!
Cleo having her own credit card makes sense. Probably has a pretty decent credit score too thanks to her dad’s teaching. Seems like even though he’s mega rich he’s also pretty fiscally responsible and taught that to Cleo.
Considering how young he looks and how entrepreneurial he seems to act he probably made his fortune through his own work, you don’t get that way without being savvy about saving. (He also seems to be working to nip second gen affluenza in the bud as well)
Can one have a decent credit score before one is 18? I recall a number of the more entrepreneurial classmates I had experienced a lot of friction over this one. Generally speaking, they weren’t able to get credit without it being associated with a bank account that had more money in it than their credit limit and withdraws limited to those their parents authorized.
Now, I recall one of them basically had a max credit score as soon as he turned 18, but by that point, he was so used to not borrowing money and so annoyed with banks for the hassle they gave him, he at least claimed to be intending on never borrowing money. I didn’t know him well enough to have any impression on whether he was actually living by that even then, let alone later. But he sounded pretty serious.
Assuming he characterized things correctly, his father wasn’t technically in the mega-rich category, but was certainly among the affluent. I seem to recall he indicated his father made about four times what mine did, and mine was making an upper middle class salary. But he did have enough money to feel it was reasonable to provide his son with some seed money and some entrepreneurial advice at a time when my father was only willing to buy a C64 for his sons to share.
The other more entrepreneurial classmates I had did not share even that much about their business dealings. Mostly all I got from them were gripes about not being able to get credit cards despite running small but successful entirely cash-based businesses that had been big enough to fund their entire out of state college tuitions without any details on what those businesses might have been.
To be fair, I’m currently in the ‘old’ category, so it’s possible that my information’s out of date.
>> To be fair, I’m currently in the ‘old’ category, so it’s possible that my information’s out of date. <<
Welcome to "Club Ed!" 😉 🙂
I’m guessing admission is ¢25?
No; it’s two bits! 😉 🙂
Here we see one of the disadvantages of deviating from the human norm: Benji’s phone is rather far from his ear. If he’d hold it to his ear, it might get too far from his mouth instead. He may need to keep it in loudspeaker mode to be able to hear.
Guess the tech companies in their world need to step up and start making hybrid-friendly gadgets,
It would be a niche market. Not only are hybrids a small minority, but different hybrids need different adaptations. Lacking economies of scale, such specialized gadgets would be much more expensive than the mass-produced ones. Many hybrids (who aren’t as rich as Cleo) couldn’t afford them unless they were subsidized.
Note that current smartphones are already uncomfortable to use for calling for HUMANS. Making the phone louder is easier than making the shape better.
If he has a dog’s typical sensitive hearing, he shouldn’t have much trouble.
How sensitive is the hearing of dogs with floppy ears like Benji’s? Wolves’ upright ears serve to guide sound waves into the ear canals, amplifying the sound. Skin flaps covering the ear canals should instead attenuate the sound like earmuffs.
There’s a bit of give and take there, as the rest of the design of those ears does still guide sound better than a human’s. Having lived with dogs with floppy ears like that, it was my distinct impression their ears were still at least an order of magnitude more sensitive than mine. Of course, it could’ve also been a matter of their hearing range going a bit higher up than mine, but mine went up enough the first person to check my hearing told me, “You heard all the sounds. You’re not supposed to hear all the sounds. What’s wrong with you?” like there had to be something wrong.
If I knew then what I know now, I’d have responded, Asperger’s, but I wasn’t diagnosed until decades later.
And the planning has begun! Can’t wait to see what happens.
I don’t get the joke of the last panel
It’s more a dry response. Like a deadpan “yes, you’re totally right” kind of delivery
Panel 1: The period at the end of “remember” should be a colon.
Panel 6: The apostrophe in “others” should come before the “s”.
Alt-text: The “e” at the beginning of “exterminate!” should be capitalized.
This time you’re right about the grammar on all three points. However, the “alt-text” you see is from an attribute called “title”, not “alt”, so it should properly be called “title-text”.
No, jp’s wrong about the apostrophe in panel 6. Where it is is correct. Moving it to the other side would create the impression that she’s shortening the words ‘other is’, which doesn’t make sense.
A possessive form that ends in an apostrophe is used when there is a plural -s or the singular form ends in s. When the word does not already end in s, the possessive is formed by appending an apostrophe followed by an s. “Each other” doesn’t end in s, so the possessive is “each other’s”. Putting the apostrophe last makes it look like a plural form, “each others”, which isn’t in the dictionaries.
Yes, English has a bit of a problem distinguishing between plural, possessive and “is”.
Looks like Cleo and Benji have learned how to properly quip with each other, it’s nice to see that.
Cleo the little noodle!
Dad: You know the combination to the safe, right?
Cleo: Which one?
A sign of friendship. Knowing when your friends are joking, and being able to return with full snark.
With Cleo you never know if she’s joking though.
She’s really good at it! 😉
And here I thought; you had fight , for your right, to party!
Glad to see Cleo being able to casually snark like that again. I doubt she would have felt comfortable with her old crowd. Speaking of which who wants to bet that they’ll try to crash the party in some fashioh?
ED-209: “DROP YOUR PRESENT. YOU HAVE TWENTY SECONDS TO COMPLY.”
Cleo: “Maybe I need to rethink my security arrangements.”
CSM-101: “Come with me if you want to live.”
Cleo: “Better, but I think we can lose the shotgun.”
Cleo: “At least this one doesn’t carry any weapons…”
E-123: “Surrender the birthday presents and face near annihilation! Failure to comply will result in prolonged and excruciating annihilation!” [Hands transform into multi barreled guns and flamethrowers]
Cleo: “ISPOKETOOSOON!”
LG05: “Put the presents over there or I’ll start shootin’! Wahahahaha! Don’t make me pinch you with these (horrible, ugly, clumsy) claws! Don’t go pulling over my one optic!
Cleo: ” This one’s no better! Bad robots!”
LG05: “Robot?! I’ll have you know, I’m a metal based, mechanoid life form, a Cybertronian, you little scaly meat bag!”
I just noticed that we haven’t seen the twins in 8 pages. That has to be a record.