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  1. Anonymous

    Amusing spam above … Things are about to get weird with Casa De Chuck!

    1. Dawn

      Ugh, I try to get to the SPAM quicker but we have a new kitty and I have been distracted. It is gone now. 😀

  2. Anonymous

    New kitty tops spam any day … and I enjoy getting to see it in it’s brief lifespan.

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536 – Great State Of Tech Sass
Posted on October 30, 2024 by Dawn

Welcome to Team Paranoid, Oscar! Spoiler alert: they really are out to getcha!

The Stealthiest of Puns

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Clint
Ever run across the Stealth Pun entry on TV Tropes? It’s mostly something where writers get to feel clever by inserting jokes into their work that they don’t explicitly call attention to, often in the form of sleazy puns or references. One example listed on the page is from the old Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series where the character Oz–who is a werewolf–habitually wears a sheepskin jacket. Making him a… well, you get the idea… Well it wasn’t too long ago that I realized I’d crafted a pun so stealthy even I didn’t realize it until it was more or less too late. For many years we’d been intending to introduce a traveling doctor and their bodyguard, with the bodyguard role eventually fleshing out into a Native American, and the name of that Native American kept coming to me as “Whitecloud.” There were times I would go out and research looking for alternatives but nothing just seemed to fit quite as well, and so the name persisted and persisted until finally, the character was introduced. But she wasn’t introduced by name right away. We decided to leave the readers in a bit of suspense as we brought Issue 17 to a close with the newcomer raining down tear gas to drive off a Huachuca charge. Somewhere in our in-between issues break as I was looking at Dawn’s art for that sequence for the dozenth time or so, a realization hit me so suddenly that I let out an audible groan. The mysterious Whitecloud’s first appearance in the comic had featured her unleashing…

…a white cloud.

I had without any conscious intent stealth punned myself. Honestly though, with her name still unrevealed at that point I could have changed it, so the fact that I did not do that probably says even more than anything my subconscious may have done. Well played, me.