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2018-08-28

by Jeffrey C. Wells on August 28, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Figgs and Phantoms
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    August 28, 2018, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    “Does it have to be walnuts? In light of my time in the loyalty pits could I request pecans or pistachio instead? o_O”.

    • Gyrre
      August 28, 2018, 2:33 am | # | Reply

      Is it a room with a moose?

      • thejoemoose
        August 28, 2018, 9:35 am | # | Reply

        Someone call for a moose?

  2. awgiedawgie
    August 28, 2018, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    At least she’ll finally know exactly what extirpation is.

    • Author X
      August 28, 2018, 11:19 am | # | Reply

      I’m beginning to suspect extirpation is being put in a room with a bowl of walnuts and told your extirpation will begin shortly, but it never does, leading to even more speculation and dread about what it will be.

  3. EvilMidnightLurker
    August 28, 2018, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    So it’s a room with a moose?

    • skyblueelite
      August 28, 2018, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      My thoughts exactly!

    • Sir William
      August 28, 2018, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      What? Explain?

      • William
        August 28, 2018, 1:08 am | # | Reply

        Invader Zim reference. Well worth your time, especially with a film coming up for it sometime this year.

    • Gyrre
      August 28, 2018, 2:35 am | # | Reply

      Aw, you beat me to it!

      (For those wondering, watch Invader Zim.)

  4. David B Huber
    August 28, 2018, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Hmm. Walnuts and Shea butter… Intolerable and endless…

    Excessive consumption of walnuts can lead to intestinal problems. Shea butter is an emollient. A diet consisting solely of the two might certainly seem so after a couple of weeks!

    • awgiedawgie
      August 28, 2018, 1:26 am | # | Reply

      Then again, the walnuts and shea butter are not necessarily being eaten.

      • David B Huber
        August 28, 2018, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

        Probably not šŸ˜‰ But I too thought first of Laura Petrie sliding out of the closet on Kolak’s walnuts and could only connect the purported real-life gorging which followed to anything bad…

  5. Brushtail
    August 28, 2018, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    As someone severely alergic to wallnuts, this revelation makes it seem even more lethal.

  6. greenknight32
    August 28, 2018, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    It’s already been established that they have a lot of unused drones laying around, perhaps she could just transfer Nick to one.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 28, 2018, 2:08 am | # | Reply

      Had – past tense. We can’t be certain that they weren’t collected while the whole Skin Horse crew was gallivanting all over creation.

      • greenknight32
        August 28, 2018, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

        By “they” I meant Anasigma.

    • Mariann Grantham D'Arcangelis
      August 28, 2018, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

      I thought Nick was operating the drones remotely? Either way, it’s not looking good for Nick and Dr. Lee. šŸ™

      • greenknight32
        August 28, 2018, 5:22 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, he was operating them remotely, but that doesn’t mean she couldn’t rig up something. Probably not room in the head of a human-size drone for his brain jar and associated plumbing, but could be space in the torso.

      • D. Walker
        August 28, 2018, 5:49 pm | # | Reply

        Why does it matter if the connection is wireless or wired?

        Does your internet experience change if you disable your wifi and instead connect via a cable? All that matters is that the data gets where it is suppsosed to go.

        • Shen Hibiki
          August 28, 2018, 11:54 pm | # | Reply

          Because wired means for sure that he can decide where the brain is and goes, along with the body. Else, it’s in danger of the classic “missing head” situations, just with a brain.

  7. Bruce A Munro
    August 28, 2018, 2:36 am | # | Reply

    “intolerable and endless”: sounds like hell. With walnuts.

    • Shadowmehr
      August 28, 2018, 7:43 pm | # | Reply

      I was going to say the DMV (with walnuts), but it could be argued that the two are roughly analogous.

      • Bruce A Munro
        August 28, 2018, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

        “If it it endless, how comes it then that thou are out of the DMV?”
        “Why, this is the DMV, nor am I out of it.”

  8. Huttj
    August 28, 2018, 3:14 am | # | Reply

    I had a tooth extirpated a couple weeks ago. Wasn’t bad.

    For me, that is, sucked for the tooth.

  9. Ray Radlein
    August 28, 2018, 3:18 am | # | Reply

    Y’all may think “Invader Zim” for walnuts, but us olds have a different think: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0559769/

    • Manifesta
      August 28, 2018, 5:30 am | # | Reply

      Maybe the best episode of the best sitcom ever.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 28, 2018, 6:57 am | # | Reply

        Oh, indeed it is!

        • rcalmy
          August 28, 2018, 8:07 am | # | Reply

          omigosh. I haven’t thought of that episode in years. I don’t know if the reference will resonate with anyone else, but “I seeee yooou,” was iconic in our family.

      • Robert Nowall
        August 28, 2018, 9:25 am | # | Reply

        Never much thought so, favored other shows…favored the episode with bald outing, which seemed the best thing Carl Reiner ever did.

      • Daibhid C
        August 28, 2018, 1:50 pm | # | Reply

        Maybe I’m too young and British, but the idea that the best episode of the best sitcom involves walnuts immediately made me think “I’m not sure ‘Waldorf Salad’ was the best episode. Not when ‘Gourmet Night’ has the same basic idea and Basil hitting his car with a stick.”

        • Robert Nowall
          August 28, 2018, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

          On *that* one I favor either “The Builders” or “The Kippers and the Corpse.” But they were *all* hilarious.

      • Andy4Hire
        August 28, 2018, 6:34 pm | # | Reply

        That’s a strong claim, but a defensible one. In any case, that episode is certainly what all the “walnut” references in Skin Horse make *me* think of.

  10. Codebracker
    August 28, 2018, 4:35 am | # | Reply

    Again, she was just told to dismantle it, lawyer-wise she can just keep the brain as it’s one of the components she will dismantle from the plane.

    And if they ask for a brain, she literally invented a brain dispenser

    • awgiedawgie
      August 28, 2018, 6:55 am | # | Reply

      Y’know, nobody’s disagreed with you about that… yet. You don’t need to keep pointing it out every day.

  11. awgiedawgie
    August 28, 2018, 9:21 am | # | Reply

    And a horrifying thought just occurred to me. Virginia is undoubtedly still trying to think of a way to save Nick. If Mr. Green truly feels that ā€œthe biological component has outlasted its usefulness,ā€ he will have already disconnected, and possibly even removed, Nick’s brain. In a sick and twisted way, that would be easier on her than if she were forced to terminate him herself.

    Mind you, I’m still holding out hope that she can save him, and together they can save the day, but given the nature of the book from which this chapter got its title, it’s not looking very good.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 28, 2018, 9:23 am | # | Reply

      He might not have the skill to do it. And it’d be kinda messy, I imagine…

      • awgiedawgie
        August 28, 2018, 9:51 am | # | Reply

        Well, the brain’s in a tank, so it wouldn’t be that hard to simply remove the whole thing, nice and neat as you please. And Mr. Green has proven to be a lot more talented than the average CEO. He has also proven to be more ruthless than the average CEO. He’s already had people on board to extract all the data Nick had stored, giving ample time to take care of Nick as well. So I hate to say it, but I wouldn’t put it past him. The only thing really stopping him is his affection for Virginia.

        • greenknight32
          August 28, 2018, 5:33 pm | # | Reply

          It seems to me that the only reason for getting her involved in dismantling Nick is to give her a chance to salvage his brain. Mr. Green freed Nick from his “spectacles” because Virginia wanted it, after all – if he catered to her then, why would he stop now?

        • David B Huber
          August 28, 2018, 7:35 pm | # | Reply

          The only rational reason would be to learn if Nick made any backups of his backups. He’d be sure to tell Virginia!

          • awgiedawgie
            August 28, 2018, 11:55 pm | #

            It may also be to find out if she had made any backups of his backups. He may not even know himself whether she did, but she may disclose it to try to assuage his fears at being disassembled. And they would undoubtedly be listening in to the entire conversation.

  12. Robert Nowall
    August 28, 2018, 9:26 am | # | Reply

    That’ll teach her to read those things before she signs them.

  13. Pat
    August 28, 2018, 10:30 am | # | Reply

    I’m convinced that extirpation means they get fired and have all their records erased so they don’t get their government pension.

    • Towering Barbarian
      August 28, 2018, 10:42 am | # | Reply

      While I wouldn’t mind believing that,….where do the walnuts fit in? o_O

      • Pygar
        August 28, 2018, 10:51 am | # | Reply

        (Wince!) I think I just figured out “where they fit in”… ooch, ooch, ooch!

        • awgiedawgie
          August 28, 2018, 11:56 pm | # | Reply

          And now you know what the shea butter is for.

      • Chameon
        August 28, 2018, 10:54 am | # | Reply

        Partially to mess with you, partially the smell in the room where you walk in. The firing guy has a ‘thing’ for walnut wood.

  14. John Campbell
    August 28, 2018, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

    I’m hoping Nick’s still got Dr. Lee’s sexy supervillain armor in his hold.

  15. David B Huber
    August 28, 2018, 7:33 pm | # | Reply

    Seconded!

  16. Robert Nowall
    August 28, 2018, 10:12 pm | # | Reply

    Bring a nutcracker.

  17. Nonie
    August 29, 2018, 7:27 pm | # | Reply

    Extirpation is actually a short version of “ex-stirrup-Asian”; they brought Genghis Khan back as a zombie, and you’re trapped with him for eternity in a cocktail party of automatons with nothing to drink but lukewarm Tab while he tells you about his hemorrhoids.

    (Genghis is too stoic to tell you that Anasigma is punishing HIM for a typo in his plunder-tax form, which is why he’s trapped with you for eternity, drinking this gods-cursed badger piss and wishing for his disembowling knife.)

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