Calling Your Buff
on August 2, 2016
at 12:00 am
This is two strips in a row where someone is peeking their head out of some sort of plant. Not intentional, but I’m mildly curious if I can keep this streak going.
Bug Martini
Random nonsense three days a week
Is the buff in the bush in the buff?
Speaking of, Voltron: Legendary Defender is glorious.
A nerd in the hand is worth two in the bush!
A buff is?
Buff (Noun): a devotee or well-informed student of some activity or subject
A ‘buff’ is a nerd.
A ‘Biff’ is a bully who beats up buffs.
A “buff” is a geek. Except, only history. You’re a history buff, but a Voltron geek, even though they’re functionally synonyms.
Civil war buff, English royalty buff, medieval Germany buff, Meji-era Japan buff. But, linguistics geek, topology geek, and, if you go back far enough, even history won’t save you — Sumerian history geek, not Sumerian history buff.
Artists often get inspirations from what surround them, are there some stalkers and/or hobos hidden in bushes in your garden?
Totally unrelated, but I am a French that just arrived in Canada and I tried poptarts because I remembered you doing a few strips on it.
I may be addicted to the chocolate chip cookie dough one now. Not regretting it 😀
I eat them cold, how do you eat them?
Always cold. The newer Pop Tart flavors cannot be put in a toaster, they say.
fandoms though
I’m not a Voltron buff, but I’m “buffy” enough in other areas (like magic tricks and Rubik’s Cubes) to appreciate today’s cartoon.
And I love the way some random guy in some random shrub spouts off some random Voltron fact.
I’m confused. What’s the difference between a buff and a topic loving weirdo?
A buff is sufficiently well socialised communicative and coherent to appear as an interviewee in a serious TV documentary about (for instance) a particular era in history. A King Buff may even present his (almost all buffs are male) own TV documentary. Think Brian Cox, if you know who he is (Google him if you don’t) or Patrick Moore.
A topic-loving weirdo can’t be trusted to appear on a serious TV documentary, except one of those ones which seeks to humiliate the subject, such as “Please Clean My House I’m a Sloven”. They may also appear on Police fly-on-the-wall shows as “half-naked-drunk seen walking down street”. Most of them never appear on TV at all, but prefer to inhabit the internet making unfunny, long posts in webcomic comments sections.
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Ummm…
If I was in very good physical shape and well versed in a topic, would I be a very buff buff?
Everything else gets fans; you won’t find any history fans. (*Historical* fans, yes, though.)
The weirdo would be correct if we were talking about Voltron III – have the die cast small and mid size one. Voltron II was 3 robots of red blue black that stacked – I have the small die cast set. Then there is the Voltron I which was 15 vehicles – I have the monster size one.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/103090278947251242/ for all you nerds needing pictures
Sooo … Voltrons are Transformers?
…kind of? Voltron is/was a giant robot that was formed from several smaller robots joined together. The “Lion” version had five: red, yellow, blue, black, green. When they were separate, they were quadrupedal robots (driven by human beings), and they could kind of tuck in their legs and tails to make the bigger robot. (Why does this sound super-dorky now, when it was super-cool when I was a kid?)
The original Voltron was GoLion and Dairugger XV shoved together and dubbed in English. The sequels The Third Dimension, Voltron Force, and Voltron: Legendary Defender (actually a reboot) are based on Lion Voltron, or Voltron III. It’s presumed to be Lion Voltron (applicable to all incarnations)
And the reboot complicates things even more. For example, in the original series, Chip and Pidge were twins, and the latter’s real name was Darrell Stoker. In Legendary Defender, Matt was significantly older than Pidge, whose real name this time was Katie Holt.
I’ve heard of “film buffs.”
For anyone curious about the term in regards to enthusiasts, it comes from New York City’s volunteer firefighters, who wore jackets made from buffalo hide.