Salty Lot

 

Happy Birthday to my Grandma and niece!

What is Lot embarrassed about? See the previous comics as we move through Genesis in my church's Sunday sermon series. In case you don't know what happened to Lot's wife, she was turned into a pillar of salt. We actually haven't gotten to that account yet, but I thought this up with one of the earlier comics and had to write it up early. 

Text:

L: That's it - I'm leaving and never coming back. You are so embarrassing. 

A: That's a bit harsh.

R: Yeah, Lot, don't be so salty.

In case you've forgotten - previously on Keeping Up With the Patriarchs: 

Mannette

 

Happy Birthday to my niece!
My little dude, you are convinced of your friend's name just like your sister is convinced of her friend Faniel's name (it's actually Nathanael). But you seem to know the M is not really there. Someday you'll say their names correctly. Someday. 

Text:
Title: Annette
O: mmm-mmm-Mannette starts with A!
L: Yes, but also no. 

Age Disparity

 

The joke here is that my kids don't fully enunciate and miscommunications happen. And this is what I think of and how I respond now when one of them says they're full, as neither of them are four. 

Explanation: "Full" and "four" sound the same when you have a toddler's pronunciation. 

Text:
O: I'm full!
R: No you're not - you're three!

Body Builders

Happy Mother's Day! We are the ultimate body builders. 

Explanation: Body-building is a form of exercise to tone your body. Pregnancy could also be seen as body building, as you are literally building a new body. 

Text:
BB: Would you like to join a body-building program?
L: No thanks, I've already built two. *holding both of my kids' hands*

Alpha Gals

 

If you don't know what Alpha-gal is, consider yourself blessed. My mom-in-law has it, and it's quite limiting on what you can eat. It gives you an allergy to all mammal products - their meat, milk, hooves, etc. You don't realize how much you use mammal products until you try to make something without them.

Explanation: Lyme, CT, is where Lyme's Disease (commonly gained by a tick bite) got it's name. Another tick-bourn illness is alpha-gal. Unrelated, Alpha Males are dudes who want to be super manly men. 

Text:
Title: Somewhere in Lyme, CT
T1: Down with the patriarchy! No more Alpha Males!
T2: Only Alpha Gals here!
T3: Preach it, sister!

Linty Hair Brush

 

Yeah, toddlers don't always see things as they are. Mainly because they don't know how things are supposed to be. It can be eye-opening. 

Explanation: A lint brush is often a cylindrical shape with a handle and many layers of sticky paper over the cylinder. Don't put sticky paper in your hair. That is a bad plan. Just don't. 

Text:
O: Why you have a hairbrush?
M: That's a lint brush.
L: Don't use that on your hair.

Absolutely a Sith

 

I wasn't sure which version I liked better, so here's both.

Happy Birthday to my most amazing, my one and only, my husband of almost two decades. 

Happy May the Third! The day before May the Fourth. It's a Star Wars thing. Much like how this comic is a Star Wars thing. The Jedi are absolutely sure that only the Sith deal in absolutes. But for real, my preschooler is giving out way too many ultimatums, it's like a mattress store that is constantly having close-out everything-must-go sales. 

Side-note - we will be back to our regularly scheduled Abraham&Lot comics next week. Or actually the week after since next week is Mother's Day and I have a comic for that. It's not about Lot's kids' mom because that would be kinda wrong. 

First Version:
R: If you don't play this right now, you will never ever play it again!!!
O: Only a siff deals in absowutes!
Second Version:
R: If you don't play this right now, you will never ever play it again!!!
L: Only a sith deals in absolutes!

Millipede Legs

 

So I learned this fact when we went to a special class at our library, Zoo To You: Invertebrates. I should have known it would be all bugs, and large ones at that since they wanted you to be able to see them. So we saw an African Millipede which is quite large and apparently has an ever increasing number of legs. Lovely. Also there were hissing cockroaches and a massive hairy spider which I didn't not commit to memory. Zoo To You shows up at the library occasionally and I was remembering the Vertebrates class which had a parrot, a turtle, and a snake or two. There was also a tenrec at one of the classes. Maybe there was a Reptile class then a Vertebrate class. That could be. ANYWAYS only go to an Invertebrate event if you are good with large bugs. 

Text:
L: Millipedes get more legs as they grow older. Can you imagine getting more legs as you get older?
O: *full confidence* Yep. 

Not pictured: the lady next to us who nearly fell over laughing at Ori's fully confident answer.

Ages and Stages

 

Happy Belated Birthday to my Robin!
My Oriole, you go so many places. But not to Cubbies, Pre-K, or Kindergarten when you're two. Cubbies is the 3&4 year old group in Awana Clubs. It's always interesting to hear how a kid sees the world and explains things.

Text:
R: When you're 3, you go to Cubbies. When you're 4, you go to Pre-K. When you're 5, you go to Kindergarten.
O: I'm 2, so I'm not going anywhere.

Abrashem

 

The passage that just keeps on giving more comics. Look back at last Sunday for the others in this series. And I just realized that I didn't change the spelling of Abracadabra for this - maybe I could go with Abramcadabra. Unsure, might draw up an alternate version. 

Explanation: Noah's three sons are Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Abram getting his name changed to Abraham sort of adds the name of one of those sons to his name, so why not try all the versions. 

Text:
Title: Genesis 17
A: ACTUALLY I'm changing my name to Abraham.
R: Why not Abrashem? Abrajaphethm?
L: Abracadabra get me out of this embarrassment. 

Legumes Before Legrooms

 

I don't wish to look up if soy beans, vanilla beans, and/or coffee beans are legumes but you are free to do so. This comic was sparked by me looking up flights and thinking legumes sounds similar to leg rooms. If you move the space in "leg room" one spot to the left, then it looks like a French husband (Le Groom).   

Explanation: Southwest seats are quite snug and you don't get a lot of room for your legs. A soy vanilla latte could be considered a three-bean soup if you want to start a fight. Many beans are legumes, but not all.

Text:
A: And then I said "legumes before leg rooms!" and boarded my Southwest flight with my soy vanilla latte.
B: ... Not all beans are legumes.

Full of It

 

Parenting a toddler is a wild ride and the language acquisition is such a rollercoaster. They usually take things at face value and have their own way of describing things very literally but you have to think of how it looks to them to see the literal part. One cute thing my kids do is, when they want me to scroll up or down on a screen, instead of saying "scroll up/down" they instead say "a little bit downer" or "a little bit upper" and I'm not gonna correct them. 

Text:
O: I'm full!
M: Are you full of it?
O: Yyyyyyyyyyyep!

Abram to Abraham

In case you've forgotten - previously on Keeping Up With the Patriarchs: 

No worries guys, there will be at least one more part to this series from Genesis. Actually, my pastor is still going through Genesis so there could be even more in this line. Look up Pastor Sung Cho on Sermon Audio if you want to listen to the sermons that sparked these comics - https://www.sermonaudio.com/series/200422 

Text:

Title: Genesis 17

L: I'm gonna change my name to escape this embarrassment.

A: ACTUALLY I'm changing mine to Abraham.

Previous comic:
Title: Genesis 14

R: Abram, I heard you went after the guys who took your nephew - how are you doing?
A: I'm a whole Lot better!
L: *facepalming* 

Bonus: please note the mouseover on the first comic. It might be turned into a comic of its own, I'm unsure at the moment.

Daily Grind

 

Also, my child was confused because we only drink tea in our household so the concept of a coffee grinder is foreign - it is a thing that exists only at grandma's house. Ah, but after a quick search it shows that the daily grind is referring to a grain grinder, not the coffee kind. And also it's referring to how tedious things grind and wear you down. But also more households have a coffee grinder than a grain grinder, so maybe the meaning of "grind" is changing too.

Explanation: The daily grind is what we call the workday. A meatball sandwich is called a grinder in Connecticut. I, and therefore my children, currently live in Maryland, and my kids don't know all the CT things (despite my efforts).

Text:
M: Ok, time to start the daily grind.
L: Like a meatball sandwich.
R: *MD girl confused by the concept of a CT grinder*

Torpedo Trajectory

 

Happy Birthday to my Mom-in-Law!
Sometimes when you game, there is strategy needed. And sometimes, the strategy does not work out like you'd hope. Yes, he is playing on a Switch because drawing someone at a computer is a step more advanced than I wanted to do. Yes, that's an AtlA reference at the end. 

Explanation: if the torpedoes go off while still on the ship, you are sunk. You want them to go off when they hit the enemy's ship, not when they're still in your ship.

Text:
L: How is the game going?
M: The torpedoes have gone off, but they were still in the ship.
L: That's rough, buddy.