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May4th

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Part 4.4 – Tingly Feelings and Metaphysical Underpants

Posted in: Comic Strips, Feelings, Guidance, Inspiration, Strip 4 - The Intuitive Gyro-Compass

Even penguins in the frozen wastes of the Antarctic get their laundry mixed up – strange articles of clothing appear that couldn’t possibly belong to them! It’s one of those universal laws – that laundry and metaphors, sometimes, only seem to exist in order to be mixed up.

It’s a bit like that tingly sense
when your undies are too tight

Just heed your Cardio-Gyrocompass
and it will immediately *put you right

*If you have to ask “HOW?!” – it’s because they’re ~~metaphorical~~ metaphysical underpants.
March21st

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Part 4.3 – What Happens to Penguins Who Don’t Listen to Their Intuition!

Posted in: Comic Strips, Guidance, How to, Inspiration, Strip 4 - The Intuitive Gyro-Compass

There’s no big mystery to it,
just a feeling one should heed…
Since those who ignore such feelings,
sometimes end up sea-lion feed!
November8th

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The Beginning, Part 2 – Stare-out!

Posted in: Inspiration, Strip 2 - The Beginning (ii)

A stare-out develops between Mr. Garwe and Tad, since Garwe won’t admit his paternalhood, and he’s still a bit confused about the whole situation.

He loses obviously (everybody knows that younger people are far better at stare-outs) and seems a bit worn out by the ordeal.

A STARE-OUT DEVELOPED, A TRIAL OF MIGHT…

HARD CORE EYEBALLING, LASTED ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT!

AT 5 IN THE MORNING, THE CROCODILE BLINKED

Oh $%&#@!

HE CONCEDED

I now need a drink…
November7th

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Is This the End?

Posted in: Inspiration, Strip 1 - The Beginning (i)

Tad is a little intimidated, but undaunted… we wait to see what happens next. A Bitterfishtoswallow (a type of fish found in the upper-Zambezi) loitering nearby remains externally unimpressed (although in all actuality, his insides are beginning to dissolve with curiosity, being a typical male-closet-soap-opera-fanatic!)

COULD THIS BE THE END?

My Dad is one scary dude…

BUT TO STOP AT THIS POINT

WOULD BE UN-AFRICAN, AND RUDE!

Give me strength (Bitterfishtoswallow/Peanut Gallery)
November6th

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The Knobbly, Astounded Crocodile …

Posted in: Inspiration, Strip 1 - The Beginning (i)

Questions that had no answers! So much for a quiet snooze on the river for TerroroftheZambeziwhowilltakeyoutoawaterygrave – which was the name he preferred, but which nobody would call him.

THE KNOBBLY CROC WAS AGOG AND ASTOUNDED

HOW WAS THIS POSSIBLE? ON WHAT SCIENCE WAS THIS FOUNDED?

My nostril’s been troubling me since I ate that Namibian

It’s his fault this problem, this virgin birth of Amphibian!
November5th

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By the Time the Old Croc had Finally Woken – an Amazing Birth!

Posted in: Inspiration, Strip 1 - The Beginning (i)

Suprisingly, Tad managed to hatch out of his/her/it’s egg in the warm confines of the dilligator’s nostril! (I told you stranger things had happened!) … and upon emerging he had lots of questions to put to whomever he spotted first.

BY THE TIME THE OLD CROC HAD FINALLY WOKEN

A YOUNG TADPOHL HAD HATCHED AND CHOSEN TO SPOKEN

Hello there Sir

Why am I here?

Are you my Dad?

Why do you stare?

Where are the others? There were many in my dreams

Have they all gone?

Those were the screams?
November4th

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By Some Quirk of Destiny…

Posted in: Inspiration, Strip 1 - The Beginning (i)

While Tad’s brothers and sisters, and its, are all swept downstream he/she/it gets swept into a snoozing croc’s nostril (or as it transpires, a “Dilligator’s nostril”) … stranger things have happened.

BUT BY SOME QUIRK OF DESTINY, FATE OR BLIND LUCK

A SURVIVOR IS MOVED TO EXCLAIM

“wtf”!

CAUGHT BY AN EDDY AND SWEPT INTO THE NOSE

OF A NEARBY DILLIGATOR HAVING A DOZE
November3rd

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Purveyors of Woe!

Posted in: Inspiration, Strip 1 - The Beginning (i)

More true-life-drama occurs when an oblivious elephant nonchalantly stamps through Tad’s family!

PURVEYORS OF WOE!