# Slug's illustration for the light stick column **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [September 23, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugs-illustration-for-the-light-stick-column/323035 "2005-09-23T13:08:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugs-illustration-for-the-light-stick-column/323035/1 "2005-09-23T13:08:16Z")
Once again Slug has baffled me with his arcane interpretation of a light stick in illustration accompanying this column: [Why can’t I revive the “glow light” I bought at a concert?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_397c.html) What is that thing? A glowing dismembered foot? And what is that growing out of the bottom of it? Footlight? Glowfoot? Toestick? Or is this just another pre-rehab, inscrutable manifestation of Slug’s unique view of the world? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugs-illustration-for-the-light-stick-column/323035/2 "2005-09-23T13:12:57Z")
O.T.M., the guy asking the question, described his glowstick as being “about a foot and a half long”. Thus the illustration. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugs-illustration-for-the-light-stick-column/323035/3 "2005-09-23T13:14:42Z")
Slug is inscrutable. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugs-illustration-for-the-light-stick-column/323035/4 "2005-09-23T13:15:13Z")
Thank you, I was racking my brain trying to work Gordon Lightfoot into the equation! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugs-illustration-for-the-light-stick-column/323035/5 "2005-09-23T15:02:09Z")
“Is that a _leg?!_” ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugs-illustration-for-the-light-stick-column/323035/6 "2005-09-23T15:50:15Z")
No “Fleshlight” references. Be grateful. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugs-illustration-for-the-light-stick-column/323035/7 "2005-09-23T15:58:01Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Slug is inscrutable. I think \*\*SkipMagic \*\*scruted him. …which is sort of scary, come to think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slugs-illustration-for-the-light-stick-column/323035/8 "2005-09-24T13:31:33Z")
Why is it that the almighty Uncle Cecil cannot afford a real cartoonist? My dog can draw better than Slug[worth]! - Jinx