Now Mala is definitely just playing with her chew toy.
And she’s given him every opportunity to surrender
honorably.
Buuuuut……being an Arab …….ain’t gonna happen.
Obviously he’d rather die than live with the shame of being bested
by a girl. But since he isn’t dying a martyr’s death I don’t think
he’s gonna get those 72 whatevers.
A bit too late for that, I’ve noticed on 1288 P7 that Mala got a
cut on his forearm, and now in P7 there’s a slash across his
lower chest and stomach. All Mala has is a small cut on her
cheek and a sore jaw, even he has to know it’ll be over very
soon. She’s just too fast for a big, lumbering guy. Hell, even
in my youth I’d be sweating bullets just sparing with her!
Granted, he didn’t hear it, when we did at least, but she’s
already said no survivors and he probably expects that.
He has no real incentive to surrender. Her offering it is
a ploy, either to put him off his guard or to get an
opportunity to question him before killing him.
This puts me in mind of a part of the fight scene
(The Quiet Man, John Wayne 1952),
Red Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen) says, “Mind you,
I’m fresh as a daisy, I am.”
Thornton (John Wayne), “You look more like a
black-eyed Susan to me.”
Thanks for the responses about my joystick. It turns out it was sent
via USPS. I honestly didn’t know Amazon vendors did that. Oh well,
live and learn.
jus sayin..
Amazon wants to know at ‘contact us.’
and,,, with prime they use in house
shipping only…
friend has it,, she received a damaged
an opened box. she told prime,, they
sent a new one.. no questions.!!
Except that I DID use Prime (got free shipping and everything
and it STILL ended up in my mailbox. We don’t have mailboxes
on our property. Instead we have clusters of boxes. Mine is
around the corner about 100yds away.
But I was of the understanding that everything bought with
Prime is delivered by Amazon. Guess there’re always exceptions.
As a member of Amazon Vine, I get LOTS of packages. It’s a rare day
I don’t get something, and some days it can be as many as 10 items.
It seems like the UPS to USPS shipping is dependent on the shipper,
and the size of the package. I have gotten the “insufficient address”
message several times when the UPS truck arrived at our little rural
post office after noon, which is when they close. It generally shows
up the next day, and I’ve quit worrying about it. I’ve had one package
go to an entirely wrong address, 20 miles from here. Fortunately, they
looked me up and sent me an e-mail. And I’ve had a couple of items
just disappear. I had a trailer hitch that was reported as “damaged in
shipping” and replaced. It was a solid metal bar, almost 2 feet long.
You wouldn’t damage it by running over it with a tractor/trailer.
The strangest one was a package that was supposedly delivered to
me in Waco. That’s 40 miles from here. I reported the problem, but
my regular driver showed up with it that evening, right on time. He
pointed out one sticker was missing, so it probably got rubbed off
on another package and reported as delivered.
How in the world did you get on Amazon Vine? I would love to participate!
…
I once had a UPS package left on my porch that was addressed to a woman on another road.
I just loaded it in my van and took it to her. She met me at her door, immediately accused me
of trying to steal her package and called the Sheriff. I went home.
The deputy showed up, I explained what happened, and he just shook his head and said “It happens.”
It happened again a few months ago. I left it on my porch and called UPS. They wanted all kinds of
irrelevant information. I just gave them my address, there’s a package on my porch that doesn’t
belong to me, have your driver pick it up.
It sat on my porch for over a month, got soaked with rain a couple of times…
I finally caught a UPS driver making a delivery, asked him to get the package off my porch, and
haven’t heard anything since.
I will NEVER redeliver another package for anyone! (Unless I know them.)
No one has an explanation of how you get on Vine. You just suddenly
get an email one day inviting you. Some think it’s from writing reviews
that get a lot of views. The odds are that there are a number of factors,
such as what you buy, where you live, your demographics, etc. You
should be a Prime member. There is a daily list of available items.
That list is currently 2600 pages long, some 94,000 items. They are
all items that have either no reviews, or less than 30 reviews. You
start on the silver level and can order up to 3 items daily, each with
a value of $100 or less. You have to review at least 90 items per six
months, and you have to review at least 90% of what you order. If you
do that for six months, you will be promoted to gold level, where you
can order up to 8 items daily, any value. The kicker is that you have
to pay income and self-employment taxes on the value of the items.
You can’t sell or give away the items for six months. And 94,00 items,
but do you really need 4 no-name spark plugs for a 2010 Kia? And most
of the stuff is unknown brands of new products. The highest ticket item
I’ve gotten is an electric drum set, priced at $429. A lot of stuff is,
of course, things you would probably never order.
And some of the stuff is exactly what you needed.
Huh… I just had the exact opposite happen with me.
First name and house number were the same s mine, so I actually
opened the package, thinking my friends had checked it out.
What was inside was an item that I not only hadn’t ordered, but had no
need for. (Health related item, get your minds out of the gutter)
I then rechecked the name and full address and realised the mistake,
had a friend take it to the correct address, and apologised for opening it.
It had been sent USPS, and they’re usually VERY accurate on the
addresses, so I wasn’t expecting the error.
The guy was happy to get the item, laughed about the similarity in first
names and addresses, and thanked my friend for the delivery.
I like the nice people here in Oklahoma…
I was wondering, if we were going to see the happy couple again,
I do NOT like the look the blonde in the “lil black dress” is giving
Cissy or Alex, a hint to a problem maybe?
PC, you should add the Star Trek TOS fight music to this 😛 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AphxyjrH4SE
I guess Mala is having fun, but I don’t see this guy giving
up or in any time soon. I know the type, even after they
are beat, they try to sneak attack when you turn your
back to walk away. I’m sure Mala has a very pointed
way to prevent that though 🙂
Panel 4 – Look past the blond in the black outfit. Back in the corner.
There’s Jackson and Smits, and I’ll bet that’s Larissa with her back
to us. Probably Miller we can see part of just past Larissa.
Interesting if you’re right, it’s bad enough the story starts
with the big guy facing Cissy. I know those men are the
Empire’s version of black ops, and the big guy’s wearing
cameo pants, so either he’s part of the military or likes to
pretend to be for the ladies. Either way, someone’s about
to learn a hard lesson. I was never 6 ft tall, but being
over-muscled slows you down, that’s part of the reason
my sensei took me in, told me I was dumb if I needed to
fight. I won’t go into the entire story of how we met, it
reads like a bad Chinese novel HEH.
My money is on asshole muscle guy (henceforth AMG) being a wanna-be.
But PC has set up the story pretty well. I figure Alex is going to
school AMG in the accuracy of the aphorism
“Dynamite comes in small packages.”
Ok, I missed that, somehow this guy
or his ladies are going to cause an issue.
It’d be funny as hell if Cissy put him in
his place, with backup from the guys!
I suspect that the blond may recognise Cissy from her
old occupation. As such, she may not realise that Cissy
no longer does that, and suspects she might be looking
for ‘customers’…
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
Stolen Valor.
Every military worth their weight will be reading this one.
PC, with your permission, I’d like to alert one of my daily
must-read websites, “ValorGuardians dot com”
(formerly This Ain’t Hell But You Can See It From Here).
Their latest post was about Tampon Timmy, and his claims of
being a retired CSM (plus other f##kery).
The consensus is that he didn’t BREAK the Stolen Valor law,
but he pushed the envelope out of shape.
Meanwhile, the TGW story begins….
let’s listen in to what our muscle bound braggadocio is saying.
You don’t have to ask,
I WANT this comic shared as much as possible.
And I don’t care about the group persuasion of my readers
as long as they treat others with respect, argue honestly,
and accept dissenting opinions.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
Ooooookay. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya.
Mostly military, active and retired.
And those that aren’t directly military,
are affiliated in some way. And those
that are straight up civilian, can give
as good as they get. No shrinking violets
here.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
Really, though, we are semi-civilized.
Opinions may differ, but we respect
each other. BUT…..we do have a resident
troll that pops up from time to time.
As ignorant and “Libtard talking points”
as they come. If he shows up, feel free to
shut him down and block him.
Nah, I haven’t blocked anyone yet. I’d have to figure out how to even do that.
The trolls always go away when they get a reasoned response instead of the
hysterical flame war that they want, anyway.
See the last comments here: http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-932/
And Curtis’ response at the end.
Trolls just want to make everyone as miserable as they
are, if you laugh at them they just rant harder and storm
off. They want to piss people off, it’s like “nose candy” to
them, Curtis made it clear we weren’t buying.
My “Violet” (is that what they’re calling it now?) isn’t shrinking, but I am getting a little weak
kneed over Ms Stabby Brunette Headed Thang. I surrender. Thanks for the heads up, Tox.
I bookmarked this page.
Welcome, KoB.
The little brunette is Mala, one of the Empress Teresa’s security detail. She’s best
explained in this (bottom) storyline: https://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-685/
Hi KoB! Join the party 🙂 Be sure to read from the start,
Petercat has a lot of lore. Mala is a highly trained body-
guard, her trainer makes Bruce Lee look like a brown-belt!
I was going to wait on it, but I can’t sleep and my wife and son are a
bit freaked out. For the last 2 weeks I’ve been feeling ill, and now my
back is causing me a lot of pain. It feels a lot like it was in 2020, just
before I found out about my cancer. I had blood work done yesterday,
and I’m meeting with a doctor Thursday about it. I’m praying it hasn’t
came back, or that my kidney is failing. Either way, I feel like shit.
Sitting here at my desk is getting to be too much, but I hate laying
around. I’ll keep you all posted as I find out what’s next.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
Just got a call, I’ve got to get a liver scan done.
I guess my heavy drinking in my 20’s has finally
caught up with me. Was NOT what I expected,
but my hope is it’s manageable. I stopped about
39 years ago!
Mala is like any well-trained fighter, it’s fun to have a challenge
now and then. She had him pegged from the start, so now she’s
crushing his pride by showing him how wrong he is about
everything. I know once I had confidence, I’d love a good scrap.
Mala is leaps and bound better than I ever was 🙂
I ALMOST hope this guy survives and has a change of heart. His martial arts skills
are quite good, if, injured as he is, he’s been able to keep up with Mala.
Her kicking his butt, even after allowing him a breather to regroup, would definitely
show a high degree of honor, and, as I suspect he KNOWS that they were sent on a
suicide mission that they had little, if any actual hope of accomplishing, he may be
wise enough to take the “L” and live. If not, at least he fought well…
Death gone live?
Now Mala is definitely just playing with her chew toy.
And she’s given him every opportunity to surrender
honorably.
Buuuuut……being an Arab …….ain’t gonna happen.
Obviously he’d rather die than live with the shame of being bested
by a girl. But since he isn’t dying a martyr’s death I don’t think
he’s gonna get those 72 whatevers.
A bit too late for that, I’ve noticed on 1288 P7 that Mala got a
cut on his forearm, and now in P7 there’s a slash across his
lower chest and stomach. All Mala has is a small cut on her
cheek and a sore jaw, even he has to know it’ll be over very
soon. She’s just too fast for a big, lumbering guy. Hell, even
in my youth I’d be sweating bullets just sparing with her!
Granted, he didn’t hear it, when we did at least, but she’s
already said no survivors and he probably expects that.
He has no real incentive to surrender. Her offering it is
a ploy, either to put him off his guard or to get an
opportunity to question him before killing him.
OTOH, if he’s convinced he’s going to lose, I could see him turning his
knife on himself, rather than enduring the shame or giving her the pleasure.
This puts me in mind of a part of the fight scene
(The Quiet Man, John Wayne 1952),
Red Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen) says, “Mind you,
I’m fresh as a daisy, I am.”
Thornton (John Wayne), “You look more like a
black-eyed Susan to me.”
Thanks for the responses about my joystick. It turns out it was sent
via USPS. I honestly didn’t know Amazon vendors did that. Oh well,
live and learn.
jus sayin..
Amazon wants to know at ‘contact us.’
and,,, with prime they use in house
shipping only…
friend has it,, she received a damaged
an opened box. she told prime,, they
sent a new one.. no questions.!!
Except that I DID use Prime (got free shipping and everything
and it STILL ended up in my mailbox. We don’t have mailboxes
on our property. Instead we have clusters of boxes. Mine is
around the corner about 100yds away.
But I was of the understanding that everything bought with
Prime is delivered by Amazon. Guess there’re always exceptions.
As a member of Amazon Vine, I get LOTS of packages. It’s a rare day
I don’t get something, and some days it can be as many as 10 items.
It seems like the UPS to USPS shipping is dependent on the shipper,
and the size of the package. I have gotten the “insufficient address”
message several times when the UPS truck arrived at our little rural
post office after noon, which is when they close. It generally shows
up the next day, and I’ve quit worrying about it. I’ve had one package
go to an entirely wrong address, 20 miles from here. Fortunately, they
looked me up and sent me an e-mail. And I’ve had a couple of items
just disappear. I had a trailer hitch that was reported as “damaged in
shipping” and replaced. It was a solid metal bar, almost 2 feet long.
You wouldn’t damage it by running over it with a tractor/trailer.
The strangest one was a package that was supposedly delivered to
me in Waco. That’s 40 miles from here. I reported the problem, but
my regular driver showed up with it that evening, right on time. He
pointed out one sticker was missing, so it probably got rubbed off
on another package and reported as delivered.
How in the world did you get on Amazon Vine? I would love to participate!
…
I once had a UPS package left on my porch that was addressed to a woman on another road.
I just loaded it in my van and took it to her. She met me at her door, immediately accused me
of trying to steal her package and called the Sheriff. I went home.
The deputy showed up, I explained what happened, and he just shook his head and said “It happens.”
It happened again a few months ago. I left it on my porch and called UPS. They wanted all kinds of
irrelevant information. I just gave them my address, there’s a package on my porch that doesn’t
belong to me, have your driver pick it up.
It sat on my porch for over a month, got soaked with rain a couple of times…
I finally caught a UPS driver making a delivery, asked him to get the package off my porch, and
haven’t heard anything since.
I will NEVER redeliver another package for anyone! (Unless I know them.)
No one has an explanation of how you get on Vine. You just suddenly
get an email one day inviting you. Some think it’s from writing reviews
that get a lot of views. The odds are that there are a number of factors,
such as what you buy, where you live, your demographics, etc. You
should be a Prime member. There is a daily list of available items.
That list is currently 2600 pages long, some 94,000 items. They are
all items that have either no reviews, or less than 30 reviews. You
start on the silver level and can order up to 3 items daily, each with
a value of $100 or less. You have to review at least 90 items per six
months, and you have to review at least 90% of what you order. If you
do that for six months, you will be promoted to gold level, where you
can order up to 8 items daily, any value. The kicker is that you have
to pay income and self-employment taxes on the value of the items.
You can’t sell or give away the items for six months. And 94,00 items,
but do you really need 4 no-name spark plugs for a 2010 Kia? And most
of the stuff is unknown brands of new products. The highest ticket item
I’ve gotten is an electric drum set, priced at $429. A lot of stuff is,
of course, things you would probably never order.
And some of the stuff is exactly what you needed.
Huh… I just had the exact opposite happen with me.
First name and house number were the same s mine, so I actually
opened the package, thinking my friends had checked it out.
What was inside was an item that I not only hadn’t ordered, but had no
need for. (Health related item, get your minds out of the gutter)
I then rechecked the name and full address and realised the mistake,
had a friend take it to the correct address, and apologised for opening it.
It had been sent USPS, and they’re usually VERY accurate on the
addresses, so I wasn’t expecting the error.
The guy was happy to get the item, laughed about the similarity in first
names and addresses, and thanked my friend for the delivery.
I like the nice people here in Oklahoma…
I was wondering, if we were going to see the happy couple again,
I do NOT like the look the blonde in the “lil black dress” is giving
Cissy or Alex, a hint to a problem maybe?
PC, you should add the Star Trek TOS fight music to this 😛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AphxyjrH4SE
I guess Mala is having fun, but I don’t see this guy giving
up or in any time soon. I know the type, even after they
are beat, they try to sneak attack when you turn your
back to walk away. I’m sure Mala has a very pointed
way to prevent that though 🙂
Panel 4 – Look past the blond in the black outfit. Back in the corner.
There’s Jackson and Smits, and I’ll bet that’s Larissa with her back
to us. Probably Miller we can see part of just past Larissa.
Interesting if you’re right, it’s bad enough the story starts
with the big guy facing Cissy. I know those men are the
Empire’s version of black ops, and the big guy’s wearing
cameo pants, so either he’s part of the military or likes to
pretend to be for the ladies. Either way, someone’s about
to learn a hard lesson. I was never 6 ft tall, but being
over-muscled slows you down, that’s part of the reason
my sensei took me in, told me I was dumb if I needed to
fight. I won’t go into the entire story of how we met, it
reads like a bad Chinese novel HEH.
My money is on asshole muscle guy (henceforth AMG) being a wanna-be.
But PC has set up the story pretty well. I figure Alex is going to
school AMG in the accuracy of the aphorism
“Dynamite comes in small packages.”
LOOK at the title…
his name is Duncan Standloaf
AKA (call sign) Rick
Ok, I missed that, somehow this guy
or his ladies are going to cause an issue.
It’d be funny as hell if Cissy put him in
his place, with backup from the guys!
Where are you finding that info?
Not doubting you just don’t
see it anywhere.
i suggested the name ‘Duncan’ to PC.
i don’t wanna post the link…
but look up,,
most notorious stolen valor …
also,, pull a PC…
Alex – – No Comment.!
hehe,, does no look at the ‘character’ list..
yes it IS the Cissy rescue crew.. 🙂
And . . . being a little slow, I just now looked at the characters listing above
the comments section. Yep, yep, yep, yep.
I suspect that the blond may recognise Cissy from her
old occupation. As such, she may not realise that Cissy
no longer does that, and suspects she might be looking
for ‘customers’…
Stolen Valor.
Every military worth their weight will be reading this one.
PC, with your permission, I’d like to alert one of my daily
must-read websites, “ValorGuardians dot com”
(formerly This Ain’t Hell But You Can See It From Here).
Their latest post was about Tampon Timmy, and his claims of
being a retired CSM (plus other f##kery).
The consensus is that he didn’t BREAK the Stolen Valor law,
but he pushed the envelope out of shape.
Meanwhile, the TGW story begins….
let’s listen in to what our muscle bound braggadocio is saying.
You don’t have to ask,
I WANT this comic shared as much as possible.
And I don’t care about the group persuasion of my readers
as long as they treat others with respect, argue honestly,
and accept dissenting opinions.
Ooooookay. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya.
Mostly military, active and retired.
And those that aren’t directly military,
are affiliated in some way. And those
that are straight up civilian, can give
as good as they get. No shrinking violets
here.
Really, though, we are semi-civilized.
Opinions may differ, but we respect
each other. BUT…..we do have a resident
troll that pops up from time to time.
As ignorant and “Libtard talking points”
as they come. If he shows up, feel free to
shut him down and block him.
Nah, I haven’t blocked anyone yet. I’d have to figure out how to even do that.
The trolls always go away when they get a reasoned response instead of the
hysterical flame war that they want, anyway.
See the last comments here:
http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-932/
And Curtis’ response at the end.
Trolls are immune to insult.
But reason and logic are like sunlight to a vampire.
Trolls just want to make everyone as miserable as they
are, if you laugh at them they just rant harder and storm
off. They want to piss people off, it’s like “nose candy” to
them, Curtis made it clear we weren’t buying.
I’m sure they’d fit in, I’ve shared this page a few times but sadly
most of the site’s I go to get annoyed if I send a link.
MORE brothers and sisters.!!
My “Violet” (is that what they’re calling it now?) isn’t shrinking, but I am getting a little weak
kneed over Ms Stabby Brunette Headed Thang. I surrender. Thanks for the heads up, Tox.
I bookmarked this page.
Welcome, KoB.
The little brunette is Mala, one of the Empress Teresa’s security detail. She’s best
explained in this (bottom) storyline:
https://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-685/
Hi KoB! Join the party 🙂 Be sure to read from the start,
Petercat has a lot of lore. Mala is a highly trained body-
guard, her trainer makes Bruce Lee look like a brown-belt!
I was going to wait on it, but I can’t sleep and my wife and son are a
bit freaked out. For the last 2 weeks I’ve been feeling ill, and now my
back is causing me a lot of pain. It feels a lot like it was in 2020, just
before I found out about my cancer. I had blood work done yesterday,
and I’m meeting with a doctor Thursday about it. I’m praying it hasn’t
came back, or that my kidney is failing. Either way, I feel like shit.
Sitting here at my desk is getting to be too much, but I hate laying
around. I’ll keep you all posted as I find out what’s next.
Our prayers and God’s Blessings upon you.
But remember, His Will be done.
be well,. an bless.!
fingers crossed.!!
I’m hoping for the best news you can get, Scars. Keep us informed.
Just got a call, I’ve got to get a liver scan done.
I guess my heavy drinking in my 20’s has finally
caught up with me. Was NOT what I expected,
but my hope is it’s manageable. I stopped about
39 years ago!
Mala is:
* Having too much fun to stop.
* Running an exhibition for her students-to-be.
* Pre-breaking his resistance for when he wakes up in an interrogation room.
* Those students are wondering how anyone survives a spar, let alone an actual fight :}
Mala is like any well-trained fighter, it’s fun to have a challenge
now and then. She had him pegged from the start, so now she’s
crushing his pride by showing him how wrong he is about
everything. I know once I had confidence, I’d love a good scrap.
Mala is leaps and bound better than I ever was 🙂
I ALMOST hope this guy survives and has a change of heart. His martial arts skills
are quite good, if, injured as he is, he’s been able to keep up with Mala.
Her kicking his butt, even after allowing him a breather to regroup, would definitely
show a high degree of honor, and, as I suspect he KNOWS that they were sent on a
suicide mission that they had little, if any actual hope of accomplishing, he may be
wise enough to take the “L” and live. If not, at least he fought well…