jephjacques patreon

Tropes 101

🕑 Added 2023-05-15 01:03:17 +0000 UTC

Comments

MiqoRems

it requires literally zero effort to not be an asshole, bobbie

William Burns

'moron lingo' is a pejorative phrase in English. If English is not your first language, I could understand your ignorance.

Robert Heinig

There's language evolution to keep up with general progress and facilitate communications, and then there's language change to hinder communication. That wasn't an insult, that was applying the second pattern to emphasize a point.

Yelling Bird

Well if we're counting that...

I really wish that was when Bubbles busted out the next "Howdy" for Becky

David Durant

Round these parts we tend not to insult people who happen to use different phrases to ourselves - even if we think they're silly.

It's real

Chris Warren

It makes me want to shake my walking cane in their general direction, so I'm thinking it's probably real.

Robert Heinig

So, _is_ "toll/smol" actual current moron lingo or did you make that up for this strip?

Shawn K. Younkin

Cute Emmett gets it from their cute mother!

Devinity

"high-ways." I see what you did there

Carol Metzger

I am 5'2" and DH is 6'. How do we get in the book? Also having a tall person around is extremely useful. But "toll" makes me think of highways.

Hugh Eckert

As the "toll" component of a 35-year "toll/smol" couple, I am happy now.

Hugh Eckert

I think that's "Legends and Lattes."

Hugh Eckert

How many wells must an Emmett fall down?

Hugh Eckert

Their first album will be "Dangerously Heterosexual."

YsabetJustYsabet

How about 1'5"? My friend Kat is 5'2" and her husband Fergus is 6'7". Poor guy spends his life trying not to looooooom over people. He now has a pure white beard and hair and hires out to parties and so forth as the tallest, most impressive Santa at Christmas time you've ever seen, though.

William Cole

It must have taken me 4 re-reads to realize it didn't say "TROLL/smol".

Todd Ellner

We know you're Randy. But what should we call you?

joe velsher

Would you like some stupidly speculative answers?

joe velsher

I mean, 1'4" isn't the biggest height difference I've seen. Also, I'm Randy! I'm a bandicoot!

Gary Walker

Figure 2. The cloaca.

Mad Marie

“All right…this is getting ridiculous. Let’s take them back right after we randomly carry this pane of glass across the street.”

Mad Marie

Even if a publisher has rejected YB, it’s entirely possible there is DNA left behind in at least one copy of one or more qualifying books.

While I concede being in the Guinness Book of World Records for loudest profanity is impressive, it doesn't count as a textbook.

Mrpink

A normal day in the life of Emmett

Yelling Bird

It's cool. I'm already in several.

Stephen Wells

Might be tempted, but as far as we know Aurelia is enthusiastically, even dangerously heterosexual and recruits strapping young men to fulfil her needs. So she might also go in the textbook in the chapter on "The MILF-cougar axis"... ooh, band name.

Opus the Poet

"They"

Alasdair Mackintosh

Dear Mr Bird,

Yelling Bird

My fiancé is about 5 ft. I'm 6'4".

Dylan T

I have. Several questions.

Edward Clayton Andrews

... sigh. Again. (Rueful smile) Also, parents respecting their kid's pronouns. You love to see it.

Ace of Hearts

how many wells have they fallen down?

Morgan Byrd

She’s going to smash Aurelia isn’t she

Justin

Schrodinger's Emmet - She is simultaneously in horrible danger and completely safe at all times.

Thomas A. Dennis

There's a certain subreddit that I won't mention because it's mostly porn, but celebrates the toll/smol dynamic. Also: "again."

MikeT

Emmett's other name is 'Timmy'

Bagge

* Someone tries to kidnapp Emmett * * They make it five blocks before their car breaks down somehow * * All kidnappers slip on banana peels and knock themselves out * * Emmett gets free from the ropes, only to be chased by a mob of angry alpackas for some reason * Emmett's shenanigans field keeps them at baseline level safe/in danger and tolerates no deviations

Bagge

Parents, 'mIright?

DaddyUmbreon

Of course she is 😂

Magic Chopstick Games

Chapter 1: Mommm

TubaGinger

They have the exact same adorable squint-smile 🥺

Ace

I'm now the tol in a gay male tol/smol couple. Can confirm, living the dream.

Michael Boettger

Waitl'll Becky meets Veronica!

Celine Chamberlin

I want to read that textbook.

Thisguy

Smol outgoing one who does the talking, tol quite one who is nervous around new people. Yeah, thats textbook all right.

Diptych

I imagine they lengthened both the 'o' and the 'm' sounds, but if it was written 'Mooom' or 'Moooommm', it'd look like they were saying 'Moom'. Also, I find 'ringggg' slightly easier to pronounce than 'riiiing'. The 'ng' sound feels nicer in my speaking-parts than an extended 'i'. I'd probably only say 'riiing' if I was imitating an irritating phone.

Mad Marie

“…she looks like one of those repair gals’ girlfriends…”

Mad Marie

I totally get that…although “mooom” gives me the impression of a different vowel sound than “mom”.

Jeremy Westerfield

"...fell down a well AGAIN"?? (emphasis added)

Mad Marie

“Oh. My. God. Becky! Look at her ‘bot! She is sooo big…”

Jeremy Westerfield

Did Emmett really say "Mommm"? It seems like they might have said "Mooom". This has been hitting my OCD the last couple of years. Why do people lengthen their consonants instead of their vowels? How would you pronounce "No! My ringggg" versus "No! My riiing!"?

Mad Marie

Bubbles in panel 3 = super cute.

Ed Marshall

It's okay Becky, we're all still cheering on this ship, you're among friends here

Ursus Ridens

...but we know someone who knows someone who probably does.

Dean Reilly

Faye is only smol in comparison, though.

Summer Sudbrink

But we still don't know where the phone is.

Douglas E. Smith

Becky almost has a mullet!

Brittany Huckey

Happy Mother's day Becky!

Joseph Bonnar

Another good possibility, certainly. :)

schmod

Given the Canadian connection, I'll bet that Becky writes textbooks for Cubetown

Simon Green

Goodness ... you're very big... do you two need any extra friends? It's ah, for my research too.

Solomon Garland

Or guilt over having acquired her number surreptitiously

Mason Griffith

Tall and Small

Jackson Bockus

Cutesy homophones for tall and small.

Ash359

Thanks

Joseph Bonnar

My headcanon: Bubbles side glance in the second panel is caused by Yay gloating about being right (again.) Loudly. Over Bubbles' interior phone.

Jay MacKinnon

It's cutesy internet speak for Tall and Small.

Ash359

I'm old, what's Toll and Smol?

Shey

I love Becky

Bill Silvia

Most professors I can think of that would write about something like that also have either novels on the market, films going to festivals, or something like that.