Lots of exciting things going on!
First is the Prism Podcast comic caption contest! I just recorded a very fun podcast with these two sciencey dudes, who also happen to be dentists. This led to the question: what is something you would NOT want to hear while in the dentist chair? Here is the official verbiage:
“What is something unscientific you would NOT want to hear from your dentist? Alternately, have you heard any egregious anti- or pseudoscientific advice or explanations at your dentist’s office? If so, submit your answers to The Prism Podcast/Carbon Dating Caption Contest at prismpodcast@gmail.com, @prismpodcast, or @carbonkyle using the hashtag #prismcaption. The winner will be drawn into a Carbon Dating comic! Contest ends April 25th and the winning comic strip will be released a few days later.”
Second in awesome news, I am borrowing a friend’s Wacom Cintiq and used it to draw this entire comic! I am sold, and now I have to have one. I recorded a timelapse of my 1.5 hours of cartooning adventures for all my supporters on Patreon. You can see this and join me next week Wed-Fri while I do NOTHING BUT WORK ON CARBON DATING FOR THREE STRAIGHT DAYS. My patrons will be able to pop in anytime on a private Ustream while I work to hang out – plus we are only $32 dollars per month away from the three-comics-per-week goal! Please support us as we prepare a full-color hardcover print edition of Carbon Dating!
I have to push this baby out so I can have real coffee again.
WYLONA
I wanted to ask - do you have a birthplan?
KATE
Doesn't it just happen? Nobody said I needed a plan.
WYLONA
Great! I've been taking online midwifery classes to get us ready.
KATE
You did what?
WYLONA
That's right, midwife Wylona reporting for uterus duty!
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RUN AWAY! RUN AW-
no, wait …
WADDLE AWAY REALLY FAST!!!
Good grief, that’s an actual website!
Somehow its boast that “Babycatcher Midwives of New Jersey offers the premier homebirth team in Northern New Jersey” seems reminiscent of Flint, Michigan rebutting “Money” magazine naming the town “the worst place to live in America” by pointing out that they have trees…
Ah, geez. I should have checked first!
I take a very simple approach regarding childbirth; as a guy, I’ll just keep my mouth shut.
Why keep your mouth shut? It wasn’t your mouth that got you to this crisis in the first place.
Online midwifery classes from the Jenny McCarthy accredited University of Google I presume?
Don’t worry, it’s just a Midwife Crisis they’re going through.
HA! ZING!
My oldest sister and her husband were on an “all natural, organic, drug-free” kick when they got married, and went for the “natural childbirth” for their first child. After my niece was born, my brother-in-law came out of the delivery room white as a sheet, and muttering “She wants to kill me, and I didn’t even know she knew words like that!” She got over it, but when my younger sisters were starting their families, the advice for them from those two was “Drugs. Lots and lots of drugs.”
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel the urge to sing the chorus to the “Princess Knight” theme when they hear the word “Doula?”
It’s just me, isn’t it?
Do you have to pay extra to make sure that your midwife is unvaccinated?
Things I don’t want to hear at a dentists:
“I’m sorry, Mr Wobbler, but it looks like we’re going to have to go in via the rear.”
“Damn, I dropped the drill again!”
“Don’t worry, my hand usually stops trembling once I start drilling!”
“Wow, you’re my first patient.”
“Hello, I’m you’re naturopathic dentist. It’s not often I get to practice without anaesthetic.”
“Funny story. On the way in I lost my glasses, but fortunately my receptionist’s are close enough.”
“Don’t worry, I’ve done this loads of times. I could do it with my eyes closed. Just watch”.
“The good news is you won’t have any more problems with tooth decay. The bad news is I’ve got to take out all your teeth.”
“Statistically this procedure will be very safe for you. The previous patient died and we very rarely get two deaths in a row.”
“Oops, sorry, I’m always getting my lefts and rights mixed up.”
“We’re doing a 3 for 2 offer today.”
“I’ve just got to apply some laughing gas before I operate on you. Would you like some too?”
“Nurse, I think this tooth is a little impacted. Can you pass me the jack hammer.”
“It’s not very often I get the chance to use these old big bore needles.”
“I’m afraid the x-ray machine is out of action. We’ll have to do this the old fashioned way. Eennie, meenie, miney, mo….”
“If you can hold him down nurse while I get the ‘Jaws of Life'”
“I can fit a new set of false teeth at a 50% reduction as Mrs Brown no longer needs them since she passed away. Seems a waste to leave them in just to be burnt.”
“Now, open your mouth and let’s have a look at that brain…no, no not that mouth”
“I swear, I’m completely sober. These are just the DTs.”
Things I don’t want to hear at a dentists:
“Doctor! That’s not Mr. Stevens!”
You can have coffee when pregnant now. I know the OB docs keep going back and forth about that, but the latest preponderance of evidence suggests no harm at normal caffeine intake levels.
Yep! With all things the dosage makes the poison. In this case the limit is the caffeine of about a single cup of coffee per day. If you knew how big of a coffee fiend my wife is…
I could have told them this without needing to research it. When my wife was pregnant, I continued to drink coffee as normal and saw no side effects whatsoever.