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Part 7 Comic 18

Apr 30, 2010#1

KEM

That's an awfully big house to not have any spare rooms, do they have the cows sleep indoors or something?

While I'm at it, where did all of these kids come from anyway? Did they institute a breeding program after the plague? Man, I need to go through the Handbook again, there's so much stuff to keep track of.

Apr 30, 2010#2

Dusty668

After world wars there are routinely baby booms, and minor increases in areas with wide disasters. Plus with the huge hit on the gene pool that 49% of your population represents, yah it would be a good idea.

Apr 30, 2010#3

KEM

Dusty668 said:
After world wars there are routinely baby booms, and minor increases in areas with wide disasters. Plus with the huge hit on the gene pool that 49% of your population represents, yah it would be a good idea.

Yeah but to be fair I don't think they were so much consciously trying to make babies in those cases as much as a lot of under-sexed men coming home to their wives/girlfriends. Babies were just the natural end-product. In this case I guess it was more a matter of Eloise going to town the turkey baster...

Apr 30, 2010#4

Kugai

Either that, or the Martinez's are just naturally a large family.

Mary worries me though. I hope Francesca can help her out of her funk. Peeps like that tend to wind up walking under Shuttles.

Apr 30, 2010#5

Doctor Emmit Brown

Frankly I'm surprised Francesca hasn't just hugged her and cuddled in bed. Nothing sexual, just trying to keep the nightmares away for both of them.

"Pardon my English" got a chuckle out of me

Apr 30, 2010#6

Dusty668

KEM said:
Yeah but to be fair I don't think they were so much consciously trying to make babies in those cases as much as a lot of under-sexed men coming home to their wives/girlfriends.

Well on an individual basis you're right, no one comes home and says "Lucy, hop on the bed, we must reaffirm our genetic heritage!" Yet still, it happens.

Apr 30, 2010#7

Officer_Charon

I like Mary's line at the end "I understand them now."

Thank you, Han.

May 1, 2010#8

KEM

Kugai said:
Either that, or the Martinez's are just naturally a large family.

"Naturally" is the tough part considering that most of those kids look well under 10 years old, which means they were born after the plague.

Mary worries me though. I hope Francesca can help her out of her funk. Peeps like that tend to wind up walking under Shuttles.

In a way I'd be even more worried about her if she didn't feel any pain. Kid is right that time heals all wounds, but the scars last forever.

May 1, 2010#9

Harbinger

KEM;379135][QUOTE=Kugai said:
Mary worries me though. I hope Francesca can help her out of her funk. Peeps like that tend to wind up walking under Shuttles.

In a way I'd be even more worried about her if she didn't feel any pain. Kid is right that time heals all wounds, but the scars last forever.[/QUOTE]

It definately helps that Kid is there for her. I remember reading an article that discussed soldiers coming back from World War II and finding that they couldn't really talk about their experiences with their families since they had never been there. Battle and war is something that's apparently very difficult to talk about with someone who's never experienced it. At least she has someone who was actually right there fighting alongside her and saw everything that happened.

May 1, 2010#10

Dusty668

George Carlin said it so well:

In the first world war, that condition was called shell shock. Simple, honest, direct language. Two syllables, shell shock. Almost sounds like the guns themselves.
That was seventy years ago. Then a whole generation went by and the second world war came along and very same combat condition was called battle fatigue. Four syllables now. Takes a little longer to say. Doesn't seem to hurt as much. Fatigue is a nicer word than shock. Shell shock! Battle fatigue.
Then we had the war in Korea, 1950. Madison avenue was riding high by that time, and the very same combat condition was called operational exhaustion. Hey, were up to eight syllables now! And the humanity has been squeezed completely out of the phrase. It's totally sterile now. Operational exhaustion. Sounds like something that might happen to your car.
Then of course, came the war in Viet Nam, which has only been over for about sixteen or seventeen years, and thanks to the lies and deceits surrounding that war, I guess it's no surprise that the very same condition was called post-traumatic stress disorder. Still eight syllables, but we've added a hyphen! And the pain is completely buried under jargon. Post-traumatic stress disorder.
I'll bet you if we'd of still been calling it shell shock, some of those Viet Nam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time.

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