It's been a calm weekend, my wife being on a polar expedition and all, leaving me some quiet time with drawing and drinking tea in the absence of her vivid sexuality. But working on a computer is very seldom just working. Many people have a Steemitt stream rolling peacefully along their chores, others listen to music or check Twitter.
I've had breaks because I had a hard time getting hold of the next page of Phill from GCHQ. It happens inevitably after a couple of interesting pages where everything just went fine.
So I saw episodes of the old British sitcom Men behaving badly from back yonder in the nineties. quite a lot of episodes actually. And then suddenly there was a word I didn't know:
A totty!
A fast search on the large library of useless stuff, also known as the Internet, told me that Totty is British slang for a sexy women. It means the same as a babe, or a hottie, and suddenly the next scene was getting together in my head as I envisioned the following line: ay, she's a totty... and blimmin bonkers too (about High Priestess Gwendolyn Knight (for readers of my comic)) - or at least it got me started.
People tend to see procrastination as something wasteful, but I have been an artist for many years and I know one thing for sure. The straight road is not always the one that will get you to the goal (this might be different for other jobs like for example accountants).
@katharsisdrill, you are starting to sound like @meesterboom!
Haha, must be the German fondness with English dialect and turn of phrase - maybe it has rubbed off all the way up here in Denmark.
Those guys look so young back then. It's interesting that you choose to write in English, but you are missing a lot of the cultural references. Did you see anything about 'posh totty'? Referenced in Curse of the Were-Rabbit. A lot of these terms are regional, but TV helps to spread them.
Men behaving badly was one of the shows we watched in the nineties - on VHS bought in England :) I have a consultant who helps me a little with the language, but else I just pull on my knowledge from film and tv-shows and British people I've meet. The reason why I choose to make a comic taking place in Britain was that I wanted to do a satire over surveillance. NSA was my first choice, but after a bit of consideration I thought it would be easier for me to relate to an Englishman. I have meet and known many people from the UK, and our cultures are much closer than we are with people from USA - at least in my experience.
Oh, by the way - I have mostly seen Wallace and Gromit with the Danish voices as I saw them with my kids.
Crikey Gromit, we're out of cheese!
They have a lot of puns in those. Do they get translated?
Yes, they do. Sometimes you have to make a whole other pun, but that is how translation work - I do it myself when I make the Danish translation from the English. As I write it in English thinking in English I am placed in the same predicaments as the other translators. I just had to translate "see you later alligator" and that was quite hard actually.
Hah! I just sat down to work but clearly it's time for my daily procrastination aka nap. I'm fading fast. Hopefully I can have a few more dreams like yesterday and get another post out of it.
I think sometimes detours are the straightest route.
I had a nap this morning. I seldom do it but when my wife is not home I go far to late to bed. Detours has to be scheduled in every serious project! :)
One of my friends used to say "Hottie tottie boombalottie." So dumb, but also funny haha. Procrastination is the bane of my existence. "I can always do it later..." lol but what if later never comes? You would think I have learned this by now, at 33. ;____;
@katharsisdrill
Procrastination is the best nation, right after donation!
Haha!
Wow, really interesting way of looking at it, followed
Ay, still have to do a lot of the boring, hard work too, sometimes you just get there faster by not trying.
GREAT JOB SIR.YOUR VIDEO IS AMAZING.
UPVOTE AND RESTEEMED
NICE VIDEO SIR.KEEP IT UP
Interesting sir.That is very entertaining.I am got so funny to watch this video
Best of luck
realy good post... upvote and resteem done..
wow Great work but sometimes it's boring too ha ha ha @katharsisdrill
Procrastination is the best nation, right after donation!
Thanks for sharing your post.. @katharsisdrill
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