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    Quote Originally Posted by theangelJean View Post
    Off-topic thoughts from today's comic:

    What the **** is Oggie's hand doing in the first panel?

    Oh, he's sewing. With a frame and everything. My sewing never looked like that...

    What's he sewing?
    His shirt, by the looks of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by theangelJean View Post
    Oh, he's sewing. With a frame and everything. My sewing never looked like that...

    What's he sewing?


    Quote Originally Posted by PhantomFox View Post
    His shirt, by the looks of it.
    Yup - He's not doing embroidery with a frame (I can't see a frame anywhere), he's reparing his shirt - probably stitching up where it got in the way of a stab wound. You can't look sharp if your shirt is in ribbons.

    I like the interplay here - Oggie is old enough that the attractive marriage option was the girl who could carry two pigs under her arms rather than the pretty one. And he very obviously cared about her.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Manga Shoggoth View Post
    Yup - He's not doing embroidery with a frame (I can't see a frame anywhere), he's reparing his shirt - probably stitching up where it got in the way of a stab wound. You can't look sharp if your shirt is in ribbons.

    I like the interplay here - Oggie is old enough that the attractive marriage option was the girl who could carry two pigs under her arms rather than the pretty one. And he very obviously cared about her.
    Standards of beauty also change with time, so his wife might have been considered pretty when he married her but would be considered ugly by the current standards. Or his wife was decently attractive when they met and she got ugly later in life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rockphed View Post
    Standards of beauty also change with time, so his wife might have been considered pretty when he married her but would be considered ugly by the current standards. Or his wife was decently attractive when they met and she got ugly later in life.
    Or for that matter it could be his now-Jaeger standards at work. She could be ugly because she doesn't have fangs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manga Shoggoth View Post
    ... the girl who could carry two pigs under her arms rather than the pretty one. ...
    Discworld reference, or is that a common meme?
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    Fairly common. For a large chunk of human history, being able to do the work was more important than appearances. Modern Beauty Culture is a pretty late development.

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    Im betting she is stunning but only according to human tastes. Not enough fangs and claws for a proper sexy jaeger bride.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Agi Hammerthief View Post
    Discworld reference, or is that a common meme?

    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar Demonblud View Post
    Fairly common. For a large chunk of human history, being able to do the work was more important than appearances. Modern Beauty Culture is a pretty late development.
    It is in fact both: I am very aware of the principle, but I think Pratchett managed to encapsulate it nicely in words.

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    Im betting she is stunning but only according to human tastes. Not enough fangs and claws for a proper sexy jaeger bride.
    And lest we forget who the typical Jager pin-up girl is : 1, 2.

    Quote Originally Posted by Traab View Post
    Im betting she is stunning but only according to human tastes. Not enough fangs and claws for a proper sexy jaeger bride.
    Andre doesn't seem to be caught up in appearances here. Now that I think of it, reading Andre's list of attributes, I do wonder why Madame Von Pinn has the Jager seal of approval, while none of them seem to be interested in Bang. Perhaps because they know her from their time in the castle and recognise her as (at least in part) a girl from home.
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    Jaegers were nuts even back then.

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    They like incredibly lethal and violent ladies, fangs and claws included. So I could see him hooking up with a relatively normal lady and this was him admitting that she isnt a jaeger 10, but she was sweet enough for him. We have seen them flirting with normal looking ladies, but they tend to really lose it for the scary ones.
    "Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
    Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."

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    For some strange reason I am imagining her like Oggie with a beard.
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    An ugly woman in Girl Genius? Is that even allowed?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
    An ugly woman in Girl Genius? Is that even allowed?
    If it's just an informed attribute and we never actually see the picture in the locket sure, but I'm going with 'this is a humorously ironic situation created by different standards of attractiveness.'

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
    An ugly woman in Girl Genius? Is that even allowed?
    Looking through the back issues, the art style doesn't really lend itself to "ugly", so it's hard to tell, but there's the young Albia; I suspect that Mistress Spudna is not conventually attractive; Lillith is supposed to have asymmetric features (especially mismatched eyes); Da Gurls aren't exactly lookers, but with them it's hard to tell what is make-up.

    Also the early drawings of Sanna and some of Zola (admittedly while on drugs) look somewhat off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Manga Shoggoth View Post
    Looking through the back issues, the art style doesn't really lend itself to "ugly", so it's hard to tell, but there's the young Albia; I suspect that Mistress Spudna is not conventually attractive; Lillith is supposed to have asymmetric features (especially mismatched eyes); Da Gurls aren't exactly lookers, but with them it's hard to tell what is make-up.

    Also the early drawings of Sanna and some of Zola (admittedly while on drugs) look somewhat off.
    Phil's always had kind of a ... flexible approach to model consistency, and there's more than a few pages where characters are kind of deformed even when they're not being cartoonishly exaggerated in the middle of a fit of anger or yelling. Not sure how much any single page can be taken as a representative of what a character 'should' like like for this particular artist. (Although yeah mistress Spudna appears to basically be a football with a toothy mouth and is probably not many people's choice of beauty ideal.)

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    I kind of had flashbacks to the first ten minutes of Up! there...and one wonders just how long it's been since that last panel, given how long Jaegers live?

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    Oggie's wife died 74 years after conceiving their child. That's a long life there.

    Quote Originally Posted by factotum View Post
    I kind of had flashbacks to the first ten minutes of Up! there...and one wonders just how long it's been since that last panel, given how long Jaegers live?
    Given that the stroyteller is only Oggie's great-great grandson, I'd say fifty years-ish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
    Oggie's wife died 74 years after conceiving their child. That's a long life there.
    Not an infeasibly long one, though--she could have been as young as 90 or thereabouts when she died.

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    Quote Originally Posted by factotum View Post
    Not an infeasibly long one, though--she could have been as young as 90 or thereabouts when she died.
    And if the Heterodynes remember you as someone who tells good jokes and sings good songs it is possible that they actually gave you the good medicine when you got sick. I personally guessed 94 for his wife's age at death, but anything between 90 and 120 is possible (albeit, having a child at 46 is unlikely).

    As for how long it has been since his wife died, my mother's great, great, great, great grandfather died about 140 years ago, but she is the same age as someone who is 2 generations closer to him (i.e. he is her great, great grandfather). If Oggie and his wife had children after he took the Jaegerdraught or his descendents had children late in life it could push his age out by a fair bit.
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    It's also a question of birth order. One of my parents was the youngest of the youngest, the other was the eldest of the eldest, so there was a full generation age gap between those great-grandparents.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar Demonblud View Post
    It's also a question of birth order. One of my parents was the youngest of the youngest, the other was the eldest of the eldest, so there was a full generation age gap between those great-grandparents.
    I think in the case I listed a large part of the generation gap was because my ancestor was one of the first kids (so born when 5-great grandpa was ~25) and the nth-cousin was a product of his old age (when 5-great grandpa was 70 or so and had just married a 20-year old).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rockphed View Post
    And if the Heterodynes remember you as someone who tells good jokes and sings good songs it is possible that they actually gave you the good medicine when you got sick. I personally guessed 94 for his wife's age at death, but anything between 90 and 120 is possible (albeit, having a child at 46 is unlikely).

    As for how long it has been since his wife died, my mother's great, great, great, great grandfather died about 140 years ago, but she is the same age as someone who is 2 generations closer to him (i.e. he is her great, great grandfather).
    Great-great-great-uncle right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
    Great-great-great-uncle right?
    To make this simpler I will assign names to the people involved. My 5th-great-grandfather is John. He had 2 sons (well, 2 that matter in this case), named Fred (who he had at 25) and George (who he had at 70). Fred is my 4th-great-grandfather. George is my 4th-great-uncle and is the ancestor of my cousin-a-couple-times-removed who is my mother's age. I am not actually sure how many greats back it is, nor how many generations different it is, but the difference in generations is at least 2 and John is at least 7 generations back from me.
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    At that level of genetic drift, they essentially aren't related to you at all. But I think the term would be first cousin X times removed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar Demonblud View Post
    At that level of genetic drift, they essentially aren't related to you at all. But I think the term would be first cousin X times removed.
    My mother's brother and, let's call her Sue, Sue's brother would have almost identical Y-chromosomes, but otherwise relatedness is indeed rather low. And technically for a y-cousin z-times removed y is the minimum generations back to siblings and z is the difference between the generations to siblings. So my uncle's children are my first cousins, their children are my 1st-cousins once-removed, and my great-uncle's grandchildren are my second cousins. My great-uncle's children are also my first cousins once removed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rockphed View Post
    To make this simpler I will assign names to the people involved. My 5th-great-grandfather is John. He had 2 sons (well, 2 that matter in this case), named Fred (who he had at 25) and George (who he had at 70). Fred is my 4th-great-grandfather. George is my 4th-great-uncle and is the ancestor of my cousin-a-couple-times-removed who is my mother's age. I am not actually sure how many greats back it is, nor how many generations different it is, but the difference in generations is at least 2 and John is at least 7 generations back from me.
    Ah okay, I thought the ‘her’ in your previous post was still your mother.
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    Oggie gives good advice.
    Okay, the specifics might be a bit odd, but, well, Jägermonster.
    And in general it still applies.
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    Ah, good old Oggie - not so much the wrong end of the stick as the wrong end of the forest.

    Interestingly, he refers to Higgs as "De kid", which suggests that Higgs is younger than him - but Higgs is a General, which seems to be a function of age.

    And there is the suggestion that he is disappointed in him (for not growing horns and stuff).
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    Maybe Higgs is "de kid" because he looks like one by Jäger standards.
    I mean, all those features come with time, don't they?
    Either that or he matured faster/was less wild from the start than the usual Jäger.
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