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.
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!
Probably not 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…
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.
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.
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.
It also means that if he gets crushed under a falling building or whatever, that he’s dead instead of mildly inconvenienced by needing to jack into another drone. The positives would seem to greatly outweigh the downsides.
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.
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.”
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 “the biological component has outlasted its usefulness,” 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.
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.
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?
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.
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.)
“Does it have to be walnuts? In light of my time in the loyalty pits could I request pecans or pistachio instead? o_O”.
Is it a room with a moose?
Someone call for a moose?
At least she’ll finally know exactly what extirpation is.
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.
So it’s a room with a moose?
My thoughts exactly!
What? Explain?
Invader Zim reference. Well worth your time, especially with a film coming up for it sometime this year.
Aw, you beat me to it!
(For those wondering, watch Invader Zim.)
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!
Then again, the walnuts and shea butter are not necessarily being eaten.
Probably not
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…
As someone severely alergic to wallnuts, this revelation makes it seem even more lethal.
It’s already been established that they have a lot of unused drones laying around, perhaps she could just transfer Nick to one.
Had – past tense. We can’t be certain that they weren’t collected while the whole Skin Horse crew was gallivanting all over creation.
By “they” I meant Anasigma.
I thought Nick was operating the drones remotely? Either way, it’s not looking good for Nick and Dr. Lee.
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.
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.
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.
It also means that if he gets crushed under a falling building or whatever, that he’s dead instead of mildly inconvenienced by needing to jack into another drone. The positives would seem to greatly outweigh the downsides.
“intolerable and endless”: sounds like hell. With walnuts.
I was going to say the DMV (with walnuts), but it could be argued that the two are roughly analogous.
“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.”
I had a tooth extirpated a couple weeks ago. Wasn’t bad.
For me, that is, sucked for the tooth.
Y’all may think “Invader Zim” for walnuts, but us olds have a different think: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0559769/
Maybe the best episode of the best sitcom ever.
Oh, indeed it is!
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.
Never much thought so, favored other shows…favored the episode with bald outing, which seemed the best thing Carl Reiner ever did.
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.”
On *that* one I favor either “The Builders” or “The Kippers and the Corpse.” But they were *all* hilarious.
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.
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
Y’know, nobody’s disagreed with you about that… yet. You don’t need to keep pointing it out every day.
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 “the biological component has outlasted its usefulness,” 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.
He might not have the skill to do it. And it’d be kinda messy, I imagine…
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.
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?
The only rational reason would be to learn if Nick made any backups of his backups. He’d be sure to tell Virginia!
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.
That’ll teach her to read those things before she signs them.
I’m convinced that extirpation means they get fired and have all their records erased so they don’t get their government pension.
While I wouldn’t mind believing that,….where do the walnuts fit in? o_O
(Wince!) I think I just figured out “where they fit in”… ooch, ooch, ooch!
And now you know what the shea butter is for.
Partially to mess with you, partially the smell in the room where you walk in. The firing guy has a ‘thing’ for walnut wood.
I’m hoping Nick’s still got Dr. Lee’s sexy supervillain armor in his hold.
Seconded!
Bring a nutcracker.
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.)