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Let's see what happens...\n\nPEPPER (skeptical): \"What are you two doing in here?\"\n\nPARRY: \"Pixel and I want to use our kettle to bake a cake\"\n\nPEPPER (annoyed): \"Kettle? Are you wanting to make tea cake? Coffee cake? Either way, I'll do the baking, and I'll not need any kettle to do it!\nBesides, boys and their silly methods don't belong in my kitchen!\"\n\nPIXEL (indirectly at Pepper): \"She's killed our puh-puh-plans, Parry. Our kettle belongs at the cemetery---maybe it'll attract butterflies to Bones's grave?\"\n\nPEPPER (catching on): [to self] \"This is a game\" [to the boys] \"If you get hungry on the way, could you eat your kettle?\"\n\nPARRY (dryly): \"Our all-puh-puh-purpose kettle is a fine meal, yet inedible as-is\"\n\nPEPPER (with confidence): \"'Flour/(flower)'\"\n\nPIXEL (excited): \"Ding ding ding! You guessed it, Pepper!\"\n\nPEPPER (cheerful): \"Huzzah! Cake's on its way!\"\n\nPIXEL (to Parry): \"Methinks your clue was a bit too obvious, Parry!\"\n\nPARRY (sipping his coffee): \"I wanted to hasten us to the cake!\"\n\nOk, for those who don't get it, Parry and Pixel were playing an old party game.\nBasically, Parry and Pixel agreed on a homonym (in this case flower/flour), and to use the word 'kettle' as a substitute for the word in their replies (clues) to Pepper.\nPepper's task was to guess the homonym (by asking questions).\nParry made it easy for Pepper as he was thinking of cake and wanted the game to end so Pepper could make a cake happen. ^_^\n\nNow don't get TOO excited about my popples (as if), they're like the Water Pets: here to only announce their existence, have a bit of fun, then disappear (effectively) forever. ^_^\n\nAnyway...\n\nA little about our popples (yes, I'll be drawing more popple comics).\n\nFirst, our popples DO NOT exist in the same world as Gene and Tasli (Gene/Tasli have different popples).\nOur popples call themselves The Giggle Six, and they live in the human world (albeit, a human world in which care bears also exist ...but let's save that for later).\n\nAnyway, The Giggle Six (obviously) comprises six popples, but let's meet the three featured in this comic first (the other three will appear in my next popple comic).\n\nDespite his sleepy eyes and soft voice, Parry is the leader of The Giggle Six. He's the cleverest and most mobile of the popples, given he is able to phase through walls.\nParry's red as a coffee cherry, which is fitting because he's a coffee drinker (he's the only popple who'll drink it).\nSome say coffee's the reason Parry hasn't much head hair, but no one really knows for sure.\n\nPixel likes games and tricks. Pixel has a crush on Panache (we'll meet her later), and he likes to tease Pepper.\n\nPepper may be the smallest of our popples, but it's said she can cook anything. Pepper learned to cook by watching the ladies from church prepare banquets, etc (Pepper never once saw a man in their kitchen and so she doesn't allow them in hers).\nLike most redheads, Pepper has a fiery temper, and can be quite mean if provoked (Pixel sometimes refers to her as 'The Little Girl with a Little Curl', in reference to the nursery rhyme).\nPepper is loosely based on Potato Chip from the cartoon (I had to reference the show somewhere).\n\nPuh-puh-pencil...\n\nThe featured pencil is a vintage, square barreled specimen from the midst of the 20th-century (1940s-1950s).\n\nBy 'square barrel' I mean the wood part of the pencil is a square in shape.\nThough I've yet to draw with a square barrel, they feel VERY uncomfortable to hold as if drawing/writing---if there's a benefit to the shape, I dunno what it could be! 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I've not seen this done before (and I've seen literally thousands of different ad pencils).\n\nClick here for a '3-D' view of the pencil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klPwg8CiEeA\n\n...'Popples' lol", "description_bbcode_parsed": "Let's (finally) visit our popples. :3

Parry and Pixel have invaded Pepper's kitchen. Let's see what happens...

PEPPER (skeptical): "What are you two doing in here?"

PARRY: "Pixel and I want to use our kettle to bake a cake"

PEPPER (annoyed): "Kettle? Are you wanting to make tea cake? Coffee cake? Either way, I'll do the baking, and I'll not need any kettle to do it!
Besides, boys and their silly methods don't belong in my kitchen!"

PIXEL (indirectly at Pepper): "She's killed our puh-puh-plans, Parry. Our kettle belongs at the cemetery---maybe it'll attract butterflies to Bones's grave?"

PEPPER (catching on): [to self] "This is a game" [to the boys] "If you get hungry on the way, could you eat your kettle?"

PARRY (dryly): "Our all-puh-puh-purpose kettle is a fine meal, yet inedible as-is"

PEPPER (with confidence): "'Flour/(flower)'"

PIXEL (excited): "Ding ding ding! You guessed it, Pepper!"

PEPPER (cheerful): "Huzzah! Cake's on its way!"

PIXEL (to Parry): "Methinks your clue was a bit too obvious, Parry!"

PARRY (sipping his coffee): "I wanted to hasten us to the cake!"

Ok, for those who don't get it, Parry and Pixel were playing an old party game.
Basically, Parry and Pixel agreed on a homonym (in this case flower/flour), and to use the word 'kettle' as a substitute for the word in their replies (clues) to Pepper.
Pepper's task was to guess the homonym (by asking questions).
Parry made it easy for Pepper as he was thinking of cake and wanted the game to end so Pepper could make a cake happen. ^_^

Now don't get TOO excited about my popples (as if), they're like the Water Pets: here to only announce their existence, have a bit of fun, then disappear (effectively) forever. ^_^

Anyway...

A little about our popples (yes, I'll be drawing more popple comics).

First, our popples DO NOT exist in the same world as Gene and Tasli (Gene/Tasli have different popples).
Our popples call themselves The Giggle Six, and they live in the human world (albeit, a human world in which care bears also exist ...but let's save that for later).

Anyway, The Giggle Six (obviously) comprises six popples, but let's meet the three featured in this comic first (the other three will appear in my next popple comic).

Despite his sleepy eyes and soft voice, Parry is the leader of The Giggle Six. He's the cleverest and most mobile of the popples, given he is able to phase through walls.
Parry's red as a coffee cherry, which is fitting because he's a coffee drinker (he's the only popple who'll drink it).
Some say coffee's the reason Parry hasn't much head hair, but no one really knows for sure.

Pixel likes games and tricks. Pixel has a crush on Panache (we'll meet her later), and he likes to tease Pepper.

Pepper may be the smallest of our popples, but it's said she can cook anything. Pepper learned to cook by watching the ladies from church prepare banquets, etc (Pepper never once saw a man in their kitchen and so she doesn't allow them in hers).
Like most redheads, Pepper has a fiery temper, and can be quite mean if provoked (Pixel sometimes refers to her as 'The Little Girl with a Little Curl', in reference to the nursery rhyme).
Pepper is loosely based on Potato Chip from the cartoon (I had to reference the show somewhere).

Puh-puh-pencil...

The featured pencil is a vintage, square barreled specimen from the midst of the 20th-century (1940s-1950s).

By 'square barrel' I mean the wood part of the pencil is a square in shape.
Though I've yet to draw with a square barrel, they feel VERY uncomfortable to hold as if drawing/writing---if there's a benefit to the shape, I dunno what it could be! D:
That said, one of my top ten favorite pencils in my collection is a square barrel (that'd be the Chero-Cola pencil I featured with Tasli's 'Out of Order' cartoon). ^^

I asked Bob Truby about square-barrel pencils. He had this to say,

"I've got a handful of different square ad pencils myself. ...I'd say USA made, but no maker to see"

No way to know...

Something of note is this particular pencil has no ferrule. It does, however, have a cap eraser (an old, hardened one that's decades old). However, the pencil may not have come with this eraser originally (I bought this pencil from eBay, so who knows?).

The pencil is advertising King Midas Flour. Interestingly, the ad is printed on the obverse of the pencil, and stamped on the reverse. I've not seen this done before (and I've seen literally thousands of different ad pencils).

Click here for a '3-D' view of the pencil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klPwg8CiEeA

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