Comments on: Please Hold.

By: meowwl

meowwl — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 09:21:20 +0000

@ The Rippy One. I think the word everyone is hunting for is “Laid”

One does have to wonder, what kind of bat guano insane was Fenirel, that her kids turned out with such a boatload of resentment and hate for Daisy…

By: e_voyager

e_voyager — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 06:01:30 +0000

does anyone else get the impression that Daisy is mothers mad with Julian do to him telling Jason too much?

By: Hartree

Hartree — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:57:28 +0000

The_Rippy_One: Well, if she had lain with dogs, then both she and the dogs may have lied about it.

Gotta keep up reputations, you know. 😉

By: The_Rippy_One

The_Rippy_One — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 02:51:34 +0000

oops, dang it all, never mind, don’t want the participle with that subject/verb. if it were “she has” or “she had” instead of the flat “your mother.” dang it brain keep up.

By: The_Rippy_One

The_Rippy_One — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 02:48:37 +0000

Actually, you want the past participle, which, in this case is “lain”

By: Anodyne

Anodyne — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 23:33:50 +0000

As a few others have mentioned already, it should be “lay with dogs” rather than “lied with” – due to the fact that ‘lay’ is one of those weird words that never quite works how you think it should, you tend to see ‘lied with’ more often if the speaker is implying that the person in question is telling untruths, rather than doing something sexual.

The truth is, there’s two forms for how ‘lay’ can be used: lay, lie, lied; and lay, lie, lay.
The problem is, that the first set are easily confused with ‘lie’ (to say something untrue): lie, lies, lied. So to avoid that, people usually turn the past-tense of ‘lay’ into ‘lay’ rather than ‘lied’.

By: Maximum Carnage

Maximum Carnage — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:07:02 +0000

… Has anyone else noticed a sudden influx of comments involving mention of blogs and social media written in poor english? I didn’t really pay it much mind until one of them decided to throw a resurrection post on another comic I posted on last year (October 13th),but last weeks comic in particular appears to have several examples of this. I am not sure what the deal is, but it seems somewhat spammy…

By: Sulucamas

Sulucamas — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:12:13 +0000

Surprisingly classy behavior from Tactless, but then again I guess this is his forte. @Josh.C: I almost don't want all the gory details about their childhood. Sounds like it was shitty, regardless. :( @Lavabat: Aye! Now we may actually find out if they're broadcasting from the same location. :o

By: LavaBat

LavaBat — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:07:48 +0000

Looks like his wife is going to open up a big can of whoop ass on him! XD

By: von Corax

von Corax — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 06:07:54 +0000

Well-said, meowwl.

I apologize, Ms. Keslensky; I’m actually not normally much of a grammar-Nazi, but that particular mis-useage really bothers me for some reason.