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[nDed]

I would be lying if I said that somewhere, deep in my soul, a part of me doesn't take grim satisfaction in seeing Ray suffer. Still, I'm sure Ray will find a way to turn this situation to his advantage.

Also, either Nightlife is standing on a damn tall pitcher's mound or Ray's kneeling at the plate.

[CortJstr]

I don't remember seeing a roller skate. Onstad didn't go back and add one into an archive strip or anything, did he?

[Carlos del Vaca]

Illegal pitch!  The top of the pitch's arc must be between 6 and 12 feet high.  Should be called "illegal pitch" on the way in by the umpire, and the batter is not obligated to swing.  Automatic ball.

[jaydub]

Why does the ball change size?  Is it ricocheting towards the viewer after striking Ray?

[theinevitable]

I am afraid. I am afraid for Ray.

[oball]

The ball has obviously achieved a speed high enough for relativity to come into play, and has increased in mass.

[nDed]

It's what we need more of, as I've been led to believe.

[KeithHernandez]

Wait, I thought there weren't mounds in softball.  Is this different for fat old man (or stoned) softball?

[Golfhaus]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the size of the softball is (more or less) accurate when it hits Ray in the noggin. On looking at the size of the ball as it leaves Mingus, it's on the small side, but not terribly so. It just looks so much bigger because of the perspective shift*. That being said, Ray's glasses are BROKEN? Does he have another set? Does another set exist???


* Yes, I use this line in the bedroom too.

[linnea]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the size of the softball is (more or less) accurate when it hits Ray in the noggin. On looking at the size of the ball as it leaves Mingus, it's on the small side, but not terribly so. It just looks so much bigger because of the perspective shift*. That being said, Ray's glasses are BROKEN? Does he have another set? Does another set exist???


* Yes, I use this line in the bedroom too.

Wasn't there something in the Ray's Place or Ray's Blog that mentioned him inheriting his dad's glasses frames?

Where did you get your sweet spectacles. Mine are okay but yours are hella cool.
D, Internet

Dear D,

Eyeglass companies can make lenses for any size or shape of spectacles! All you have to do is provide the frames and they do the rest. These particular frames belonged to my dad, Ramses Luther Smuckles (CFA Registered name: GC Tinkerbell’s "Careful He’s A Spaniard") and I’m proud to wear them. I didn’t know him well, but I like to think they fit me ‘cause they fit him. I have an old redded-up Kodak photo of him holdin’ me as a baby and he looks just tough as hell, just sittin’ on our old cement stoop in the Avenues and cradlin’ my swaddled ass in his arms, no doubt barely able to sit still for a second, as it was with him. Let me see if I can attach the photo here.

Then when he's describing them to D'Shawn on the phone, he mentions that they're Versace frames?

Then during the GOF arc

his daddy shows up wearing the same frames?

Convoluted canon we've got there.

[CortJstr]

Convoluted canon we've got there.

It's like Sealab or the Simpons. It's anticanon unless otherwise specified. Philippe is now a bratty 3 year-old braniac in the Jason Fox style.

[Carlos del Vaca]

There is not typically a pitchers' mound in slow-pitch softball, no.  However, I expect they are poaching a field at a local park, so you take what you can get.

[jaydub]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the size of the softball is (more or less) accurate when it hits Ray in the noggin. On looking at the size of the ball as it leaves Mingus, it's on the small side, but not terribly so. It just looks so much bigger because of the perspective shift

I'd buy that, except in the same frame where Ray's being hit there are "ghost images" of the ball that are smaller than the instance hitting him.

[Golfhaus]

I'd buy that, except in the same frame where Ray's being hit there are "ghost images" of the ball that are smaller than the instance hitting him.

Umm... Doppler effect?

Yeah, I got nothing.

[Teatime]

It's like Sealab or the Simpons. It's anticanon unless otherwise specified. Philippe is now a bratty 3 year-old braniac in the Jason Fox style.

I'm not so sure about this. If the Simpsons go to hell or something, it won't have happened by the next episode. Considering Beef has memories of going to heaven and hell, I'm pretty sure that these are just dudes who are totally nonplussed by the stuff that is actually happening to them.

I'm backing up the glasses of Ramses theory.