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September 14th, 2006

Prayer meeting

prayer-meeting

[Click on this cartoon to simulate the effect that could be obtained by putting your head 20-30cm nearer to the screen. ]

I cannot imagine any circumstances under which anyone would be wanting to republish this cartoon anywhere, but if anyone does encounter that set of circumstances let me know.

Anyway. How are you and what are you doing today? Me? Today I must finish the cartoon that has not progressed in three days. I shall utter a motivational roar:

Aaaaaaaaaargh.

I do not think that motivational roars work that well in print.

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21 Responses to “Prayer meeting”


  1. Liz says:

    I think your daddy long legs has too many legs. The ones in my house only have six legs, but maybe the ones where you live are more advanced or something. I don’t like daddy long legses.

    September 14th, 2006 at 11:45 am
  2. Graham Chastney says:

    According to abook I’m reading a lie down is more motivational than a roar.

    Sounds live a great excuse.

    September 14th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
  3. Sally says:

    If you live in Bristol, it could be renamed ‘Daddy Long legs and the standing committee’. With a vicar jumping around like crazy trying to catch the poor beastie.

    September 14th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
  4. jody says:

    dave, I’m beginning to wonder if we need to do some ‘counting’ practice………(or teaching in ‘minibeasts’ perhaps – they’re not ‘bugs’ anymore, so my 5 year old tells me)

    x jody

    September 14th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
  5. Jack the Lass says:

    I think Dave’s daddy longlegs does have only 6 legs. I think the two frontmost leg-like appendages might be feelers. I’m not entirely sure daddy longlegs actually have feelers, but that’s another debate.

    September 14th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
  6. James says:

    I can’t resist entering the leg debate.

    Full Daddy Long Legs information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly (and picture showing just 6 legs). Favourite part of entry is:
    ‘Despite being completely harmless, a recent Yahoo! Entertainment survey suggested that among British people the crane fly is the second most feared creature on the planet.’ Dave seems to have drawn on this cultural fear most effectively!

    September 14th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
  7. Karin says:

    Hope the motivational roar motivated you, anyway, Dave. I’m a bit busy for posting just now.

    September 14th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
  8. Serena says:

    It’s funny this should appear now, when our house group was twice interrupted this week by said foul beasties.

    We found that a mini-vac gets rid of them very quickly.

    September 15th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
  9. ash says:

    I was in a prayer meeting once… it was all so solemn and quiet. The wee huddle of people were waiting, patiently, on their lord…

    then a huge spider ran across the floor at me, and I yelled blasphemies and jumped onto a chair. And suddenly things were less solemn…

    September 15th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
  10. Nefertiki says:

    Foul beasties? The harmless daddy long legs? Apparently fear of them is a UK phenomenon, except for people everywhere with arachnophobia. I am not a spider fan particularly but since childhood have always been fond of any beasty with a sweet name, like ladybug or ladybird, daddy long legs, etc.
    It’s the “etc.” that nags at my memory as I can’t think of any others with harmless sounding name but I think there must be some.

    http://www.museums.org.za/bio/spiderweb/pholicid.htm
    has nice photo of the beasty and explains why we should welcome them to our homes. I have never seen one indoors though.

    Also, Dave, perhaps you need a new motivational roar. May I suggest, “Per aspera ad astra”?

    September 15th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
  11. Nefertiki says:

    Sorry I realized that I hadn’t finished with the bugs even if everyone else has. (I wonder if anyone will read this – at least I’ll get it off my chest.)

    http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/stories/hurtrnot.htm

    Another good site explaining who or what’s not harmful even if it looks nasty. I’d forgotten the walking stick as a bug with a pleasant name. The above site says they make good pets. Maybe it’s time for insect cages, once, or perhaps still popular in Japan, to the West.

    September 15th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
  12. Nefertiki says:

    I wonder why parts of my comment got separated, like a daddy long leg’s leg breaking off at the joint.

    And I also wonder why Dave did not make use of a praying mantis for the prayer meeting cartoon.

    September 15th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
  13. Dave says:

    Now, there has clearly been some confusion.

    In the UK a daddy long legs has wings and six legs.

    In the USA a daddy long legs has no wings and eight legs.

    My daddylong legs is a multicultural specimen designed to combine all the best (or worst, if you see it that way) features of both types.

    Either that or it is a bit of a rubbish drawing rushed off with no thought or attention to detail.

    Thanks for the comments. I’d like to thank Ash in particular for his account. A sobering reminder of the dangers one can face at a prayer meeting.

    September 15th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
  14. Karin says:

    FYI

    In my experience a daddy long legs is a spindly spider and the winged insect is called a crane fly, although some confused people also call that a daddy long legs.

    As I’m pretty sure my mother draws this distinction, I think it can’t be an Americanism to call a spindly spider a daddy long legs as my mum is born and bred entirely in Britain and takes pride in speaking proper English.

    Of course there could be regional differences but Hampshire variations are superior to all others. :D

    September 15th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
  15. John Bennett says:

    Yep, had one like this come and join us for the PCC meeting this week. It didn’t stay long – it couldn’t stand the excitement.

    September 16th, 2006 at 12:01 am
  16. jody says:

    No no no no no

    I am extremely very passionate about getting this right (why, I don’t know, but there we go..)

    a daddy long legs is a crane fly, no differences

    a spider type creature with 6 legs, commonly found in my downstairs bathroom is called…da da da…A HARVESTMAN. It is not a spider, daddy long legs, or a crane fly.

    glad we got that cleared up.

    x jody

    September 16th, 2006 at 9:40 am
  17. jody says:

    oh…I’m wrong….wikipedia tells me that harvestmen are commonly called daddy long legs, along with some other ‘unrelated’ insects….sorry about that…..feel silly now.

    September 16th, 2006 at 9:44 am
  18. Tiffer says:

    Um, am I being really very silly or am I not the only one who doesn’t get this one (I can’t remember the last time that happened)

    September 16th, 2006 at 10:27 am
  19. Al McCollum says:

    No, I don’t think you’re being silly Tiffer, i don’t get it either…

    September 16th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
  20. jody says:

    okay, I admit that at first I just laughed because it’s so surreal.

    but then I had this experience at my home group doing bible study where we were attacked by several of the normal sized versions. The cartoon suddenly made sense and I had a vision of DLLs being just as necessary for a prayer meeting as seven chairs. I found one in my dishwasher this morning…no really…pre-wash, so it survived, darn it.

    Daddy long legs just lie in wait for us, you know, they do, it’s a conspiracy, they’re waiting to mutate to such a size that they can decapitate us with their wings and punish us for years of having their legs pulled off…..I never did that….

    September 16th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
  21. Emma says:

    I tried to rescue a daddy long legs from a spiders web that it had one leg caught in, and inadvertantly broke off the other leg. Then it couldn’t escape and the spider came and wrapped it up in web and took it away. It is my fault the poor defenceless fly was mercilessly murdered. For that I am very sad.

    September 17th, 2006 at 4:43 pm