By the 8! We cut you off for a reason. Do you remember the arrow incident?
TheAnonymousGuy
of course why do you think we have so many guards in whiterun.
Bluewind
Oh. My apologies. I shall bow down and lick the boots of one so clever as to INJURE THE GREATEST WORTHLESS IMBECILES OF SKYRIM! The fools go about harassing the Dovahkiin constantly. Do you know that they tried to kill her after she saved us all for the crime of stealing a sweet roll? A SWEET ROLL! For her service to us all, she could go into the barracks, take a dump on your bed, and steal your coin purse and I wouldn’t give the tiniest bit of a skeever ass! The morons stood no chance of course seeing as the children of the hold are made of tougher stuff. Then what was I to expect from a group of Nords with the ability to somehow get stuck in the ground and a shorter memory than a torchbug!?!
GreyDefender
That was perfect. o/
DaveM
By the 9 you mean 🙂
(Yes Ulfric is a dick, but he’s right on this point)
Bluewind
Blasphemy!
ApparentlyAlvin
No-one swears by the Almsivi or the Saints of the Tribunal Temple these days, and that is the bigger blasphemy.
was waiting for someone to say that. I wonder how it’s different from normal whiskey anyway. Distilled with the magical essence of elemental fire, perhaps?
I’m kind of amused that no one has commented that although she doesn’t have a wand and doesn’t actually summon any booze, her spell still manages to produce little star and circles.
“Hammerspace” is much, much older. Think, like, Ranma 1/2.
butts
And the gag itself is older than that, going back to the early days of animation. After all, Bugs Bunny doesn’t have pockets.
dn3s
haha, avatar is relevant
Sev
How old’s Ranma 1/2? I’d doubt it could predate looney tunes, and like every character in that makes extensive use of hammerspace. The name may be derived from Ranma 1/2 (see tim’s comment below), but I’d be surprised if that was where the concept originated, or was even popularised.
Sev
Whoops, took too long writing that and got very ninja’d XD
Random832
The word “hammerspace” comes from – not Ranma 1/2 itself, either, but – the anime fanfiction community of the early-mid 90s, which invented it (i.e. the purported actual existence of a dimension that hammers can be summoned from and/or stored in) to ‘explain’ what was in the original material (be it Ranma 1/2 or any other comedy anime, someone else mentioned City Hunter) an unexplained sight-gag.
Woobie
Old as we, not everyone is.
Ansel
I was thinking Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Especially since it’s a boob gag.
Gesc
Or every rpg ever. INVENTORY.
N0083rP00F
What?
You mean you have never used the encumbrance rules?
Yes, certain computer RPGs had encumbrance and enforced it strictly.
Just because it can fit in an inventory slot doesn’t mean you can effectively carry it.
[Man, why is my character moving so slowly? Duh, drop the marble statue H@xM@5t3r.]
insomniac
“Look, I have 18 strength, I’m still not encumbered.”
“It’s not about the WEIGHT. It’s about the fact that you’re carrying, on your person, a bow, a two-handed sword, a full camp set, a quiver of arrows, two full sets of armor, a fortune in gold and silver coins, and three ten-foot poles.”
“That’s right.”
“HOW? Where are you keeping that?”
“Oh! In my pack.”
StClair
Cartoon I always wanted to see in/draw for the Dragon: two adventurers, one gaping at a roughly spherical mass of bags, chests, backpacks, a laden pack mule, etc tottering along on two little legs, as his companion nonchalantly explains:
“Oh yeah, that’s Bolo the Halfling. Found a belt of giant strength last week.”
Wow, thanks Slarti, I ran across that comic years ago and forgot to bookmark it, and have been trying to find it ever since.
Roborat
You should see the load of crap my Fallout 4 character hauls around. It even gets comments from the other NPCs in the game.
Yotomoe
I find it odd that you’d quote Ranma 1/2 in a discussion of hammer space and not looney toons or something.
David M Willis
I’m not talking the phenomenon of grabbing objects from nowhere, I’m talking the specific terminology of “hammerspace.” Looking it up, the term seems to, yeah, come from Ranma 1/2 fanfiction fandom. The phenomenon existed long before Ranma, but it wasn’t given that name until then.
David M Willis
as, um, i guess 30 people below me also say, ah-heh
Sheason
Christ, can you NOT be a nerd for like five seconds
Bluewind
Why would we want to stop being awesome?
butts
…The man writes a WEBCOMIC. How can he stop being a nerd?
He could stop writing the webcomic for five seconds.
But then I guess maybe the buffer wouldn’t be out to April.
StClair
also stop being master of the Transformers wiki.
… yeah, no.
butts
He’d still possess the quality of being the writer of a webcomic.
Just Me
It’s name derived from Akane’s ability to
produce a giant, wooden hammer from nowhere in order to hit Ranma over the head with it. Which she did quite often.
It’s much older than Ranma 1/2. I have been watching cartoons since before Clarabelle became Captain Kangaroo, and Hammerspace was old even then.
thejeff
As others have said, it’s an old school cartoon trope – Bugs Bunny didn’t have pockets, but the name “Hammerspace” comes from Ranma, since that’s where hammers specifically being pulled out of nowhere was heavily used.
Actually it probably started as a reference to Ranma 1/2. One of the tropes in the series was people pulling giant hammers out of nowhere. Although a lot of people treat it as an Akane Tendo thing other characters in the series did it as well. Akane just seemed to do it the most.
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factorsofx
Insert butterbeer reference
Clif
Butterbeer doesn’t hide the fact that Billie had to be enough of a nerd to understand the reference.
TachyonCode
Bahahaha, yer damn right :3
Doctor_Who
Billie’s more into Fire Whiskey.
TheAnonymousGuy
“I’d be a lot happier and a lot warmer with a belly full of mead”
Bluewind
By the 8! We cut you off for a reason. Do you remember the arrow incident?
TheAnonymousGuy
of course why do you think we have so many guards in whiterun.
Bluewind
Oh. My apologies. I shall bow down and lick the boots of one so clever as to INJURE THE GREATEST WORTHLESS IMBECILES OF SKYRIM! The fools go about harassing the Dovahkiin constantly. Do you know that they tried to kill her after she saved us all for the crime of stealing a sweet roll? A SWEET ROLL! For her service to us all, she could go into the barracks, take a dump on your bed, and steal your coin purse and I wouldn’t give the tiniest bit of a skeever ass! The morons stood no chance of course seeing as the children of the hold are made of tougher stuff. Then what was I to expect from a group of Nords with the ability to somehow get stuck in the ground and a shorter memory than a torchbug!?!
GreyDefender
That was perfect. o/
DaveM
By the 9 you mean 🙂
(Yes Ulfric is a dick, but he’s right on this point)
Bluewind
Blasphemy!
ApparentlyAlvin
No-one swears by the Almsivi or the Saints of the Tribunal Temple these days, and that is the bigger blasphemy.
Sensei Le Roof
By the old gods and the new…
Deanatay
Tiber Septim FTW!
Sev
+1
Horrified at all the blasphemy here.
LeslieBean4Shizzle
I swear to the gods, I read that as “insert buttsex reference” and I was like “huh?”
BenRG
Firewhiskey is funnier.
Scar Man!!!
was waiting for someone to say that. I wonder how it’s different from normal whiskey anyway. Distilled with the magical essence of elemental fire, perhaps?
Mr. Random
No.
Reltzik
She even sleeps nerdy.
John
Well, she sleeps with Walky, so, yeah.
Leorale
She CAN not…
butts
Dorothy, a witch? Better check her for ruby slippers.
Doctor_Who
Since she’s kind of a goody-two-shoes, I see her as being more like Magrat Garlick, but somewhat less of a “wet hen”.
espanolbot
Miss Tick, maybe? The teacher witch from the Tiffany Aching side of the Discworld books.
Bagge
Please, if Dorothy is a witch we known which witch.
“You’re saying it wrong. It’s Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the ‘gar’ nice and long.”
“You do it, then, if you’re so clever,”
RonWalky snarled.”Jon Rich
Yesssssss, perfect reference. And the similarities *are* pretty strong.
CJ
Definitely not Magrath. Miss Tick when she was young?
I don’t know.
She reminds me more of the dragon princess.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
No, she is a Which, not a Witch.
NickG
She’s Faintly Macabre, the Not-so-wicked Which?
Roborat
Sure she is not the Wotch?
thejeff
I’m kind of amused that no one has commented that although she doesn’t have a wand and doesn’t actually summon any booze, her spell still manages to produce little star and circles.
Jackson
Not familiar enough with Harry Potter to know what that spell is supposed to do, but I’m guessing it’s not “make booze appear out of thin air.”
TheOthin
It causes a nearby object to fly over to you.
Terrh
I think Hammerspace is a reference to El Goonish Shive (Which is awesome, go read it)
David M Willis
“Hammerspace” is much, much older. Think, like, Ranma 1/2.
butts
And the gag itself is older than that, going back to the early days of animation. After all, Bugs Bunny doesn’t have pockets.
dn3s
haha, avatar is relevant
Sev
How old’s Ranma 1/2? I’d doubt it could predate looney tunes, and like every character in that makes extensive use of hammerspace. The name may be derived from Ranma 1/2 (see tim’s comment below), but I’d be surprised if that was where the concept originated, or was even popularised.
Sev
Whoops, took too long writing that and got very ninja’d XD
Random832
The word “hammerspace” comes from – not Ranma 1/2 itself, either, but – the anime fanfiction community of the early-mid 90s, which invented it (i.e. the purported actual existence of a dimension that hammers can be summoned from and/or stored in) to ‘explain’ what was in the original material (be it Ranma 1/2 or any other comedy anime, someone else mentioned City Hunter) an unexplained sight-gag.
Woobie
Old as we, not everyone is.
Ansel
I was thinking Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Especially since it’s a boob gag.
Gesc
Or every rpg ever. INVENTORY.
N0083rP00F
What?
You mean you have never used the encumbrance rules?
Yes, certain computer RPGs had encumbrance and enforced it strictly.
Just because it can fit in an inventory slot doesn’t mean you can effectively carry it.
[Man, why is my character moving so slowly? Duh, drop the marble statue H@xM@5t3r.]
insomniac
“Look, I have 18 strength, I’m still not encumbered.”
“It’s not about the WEIGHT. It’s about the fact that you’re carrying, on your person, a bow, a two-handed sword, a full camp set, a quiver of arrows, two full sets of armor, a fortune in gold and silver coins, and three ten-foot poles.”
“That’s right.”
“HOW? Where are you keeping that?”
“Oh! In my pack.”
StClair
Cartoon I always wanted to see in/draw for the Dragon: two adventurers, one gaping at a roughly spherical mass of bags, chests, backpacks, a laden pack mule, etc tottering along on two little legs, as his companion nonchalantly explains:
“Oh yeah, that’s Bolo the Halfling. Found a belt of giant strength last week.”
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Pretty much the starting concept for the webcomic Nodwick http://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2008-01-24
Halpful
Naaaaaaaaaa na na na nana na na…
StClair
Yup!
Roborat
Wow, thanks Slarti, I ran across that comic years ago and forgot to bookmark it, and have been trying to find it ever since.
Roborat
You should see the load of crap my Fallout 4 character hauls around. It even gets comments from the other NPCs in the game.
Yotomoe
I find it odd that you’d quote Ranma 1/2 in a discussion of hammer space and not looney toons or something.
David M Willis
I’m not talking the phenomenon of grabbing objects from nowhere, I’m talking the specific terminology of “hammerspace.” Looking it up, the term seems to, yeah, come from Ranma 1/2 fanfiction fandom. The phenomenon existed long before Ranma, but it wasn’t given that name until then.
David M Willis
as, um, i guess 30 people below me also say, ah-heh
Sheason
Christ, can you NOT be a nerd for like five seconds
Bluewind
Why would we want to stop being awesome?
butts
…The man writes a WEBCOMIC. How can he stop being a nerd?
John
He could stop writing the webcomic for five seconds.
But then I guess maybe the buffer wouldn’t be out to April.
StClair
also stop being master of the Transformers wiki.
… yeah, no.
butts
He’d still possess the quality of being the writer of a webcomic.
Just Me
It’s name derived from Akane’s ability to
produce a giant, wooden hammer from nowhere in order to hit Ranma over the head with it. Which she did quite often.
Willoughby Chase
tvtropes says Ranma 1/2
Opus the Poet
It’s much older than Ranma 1/2. I have been watching cartoons since before Clarabelle became Captain Kangaroo, and Hammerspace was old even then.
thejeff
As others have said, it’s an old school cartoon trope – Bugs Bunny didn’t have pockets, but the name “Hammerspace” comes from Ranma, since that’s where hammers specifically being pulled out of nowhere was heavily used.
Stephen Bierce
I first heard of it in fandom reference to the anime CITY HUNTER.
Romanticide
City hunter was the first 😛
Jhon
Tell it!
Kaori bashes Ryô with a 100T hammer pulled out of nowhere whenever he does something perverted. The manga began in 1985.
tim gueguen
Actually it probably started as a reference to Ranma 1/2. One of the tropes in the series was people pulling giant hammers out of nowhere. Although a lot of people treat it as an Akane Tendo thing other characters in the series did it as well. Akane just seemed to do it the most.
Foxhack
Hammerspace is a term for whenever a character pulls something outta nowhere. It’s been around for decades. :p
Clif
Not to be confused with plotspace which is a little used term for whenerver a writer pulls something out of their ass. It’s been around since Homer.
Willinwoods
Uh-huh. Would’ve guessed it was a bit older than The Simpsons.
Mr. Bulbmin
Think older. Think more Greek, less yellow.
N0083rP00F
You mean J wrapped in a bed-sheet with a wreath as a crown?
Showler