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2019-07-06
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2019-07-06

by shaenon on July 6, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. awgiedawgie
    July 6, 2019, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Oh, just kiss already, dammit!

    • Towering Barbarian
      July 6, 2019, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      +1. ^_^

    • Dave Doss
      July 6, 2019, 2:46 am | # | Reply

      Also +1

    • Moe Lane
      July 6, 2019, 6:51 am | # | Reply

      Same sentiment, two fewer words, in all-caps.

    • Triksy
      July 6, 2019, 9:14 am | # | Reply

      Scruffy-style “Second” here

    • Shadowmehr
      July 6, 2019, 10:18 am | # | Reply

      Thirded, and since Tigerlily has to have Barry White on the speaker system in there, why hasn’t anyone shoved them both into a closet for a couple of hours?

    • Some Bob
      July 6, 2019, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

      That’s priority number 3. (Number 2 is getting a breath mint first). Numbers 4 through 7 are mission related again. The remaining 11 priorities are things not to be talked about in polite company.

    • dornbeast
      July 6, 2019, 1:59 pm | # | Reply

      In the immortal words of Sally Brown, “Kiss her, you blockhead!”

    • Ysabet
      July 6, 2019, 2:40 pm | # | Reply

      DITTO.

      Also? If y’all sold ‘Black Ops Softball League’ or ‘Black Ops Softball Playoffs’ t-shirts or similar, I would totally buy one.

  2. Jim Janney
    July 6, 2019, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Will L’il Abner ever marry Daisy Mae? Oops, wrong strip…

  3. casimir
    July 6, 2019, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Baltette?

    • Rimwolf
      July 6, 2019, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      Sweetheart. (See the Wikipedia article “Balto”.) I think Nick made up this nickname a while ago, though I haven’t been able to find the strip.

      • Rimwol
        July 6, 2019, 1:03 am | # | Reply

        Found it: http://skin-horse.com/comic/now-concluded/

        • gyrre
          July 6, 2019, 8:23 am | # | Reply

          Thank you, I was also lost on that.

  4. sweetuncleLESLIE
    July 6, 2019, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    A Master Scout would rub those two sticks together….warmth would ensue. Something like this awkwardness must have preceded much of Romantic Poetry.
    Goth stuff, too.

  5. casimir
    July 6, 2019, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    “first” and “base” in the same sentence? Well, it’s a start.

  6. Owlmirror
    July 6, 2019, 1:06 am | # | Reply

    My first priority is getting those base locations!

    My priority is first getting those base locations!

    My priority is getting first to those base locations!

    My priority is getting to those base locations first!

    My priority is getting to the locations of first base!

    • arqyx
      July 6, 2019, 5:47 am | # | Reply

      All your base are first.

      • cloudster
        July 6, 2019, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

        All your first bases are belong to us!

  7. Robert Nowall
    July 6, 2019, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    Y’know, if Annex One is moving, the floor they’re standing on sure doesn’t roll much. My compliments to the engineer—Ms. Jones, one would presume—for such excellent work.

    • Dave Doss
      July 6, 2019, 2:47 am | # | Reply

      Spring shock absorbers in the floor, no doubt.

      • Mental Mouse
        July 6, 2019, 5:46 am | # | Reply

        Pshaw… given it’s Tigerlily’s work, there’s probably spring-powered artificial gravity!

  8. Dave Doss
    July 6, 2019, 2:49 am | # | Reply

    Caling it now: The airbase is where Nick’s plane body is. Hence the ”for me” bit. Also, bet the neuro tranceiver lets him fly it.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 6, 2019, 4:17 am | # | Reply

      That seems far too simple.

      • Marisa Mockery
        July 6, 2019, 11:04 am | # | Reply

        Not if he has to pick between being capable of boinking Dr. Lee or flying again.

        • awgiedawgie
          July 6, 2019, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

          I meant that it would be too simple – story-wise – for them to find the Osprey at the first airbase they infiltrate.

    • MonkeyChoker
      July 6, 2019, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

      Considering that Whimsy made that Full-AI Clone of Nick, and A-Sig likely have all the same technology, then who wants to bet that when they find the Whirligig there’s still a “Nick” in charge of flying it around…?

    • David B Huber
      July 7, 2019, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

      You’re forgetting Mr. Green declared the Osprey experiment a failure and intended to scrap it, with the exception of the “comfy seats”.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 7, 2019, 4:45 pm | # | Reply

        True. However, after Virginia escaped from Walnut Hell, she found the Osprey in what appeared to be a completely intact condition, sans Nick’s brain. And very shortly thereafter, everything went higgledy-piggledy, so it’s possible that it is still sitting in whatever hangar she found it in.

        As much as I’d dislike being wrong about how convenient it would be that it should be at the airfield in Kansas, she did have to take a rather lengthy bus trip to get to Annex One.

  9. sweetuncleLESLIE
    July 6, 2019, 9:27 am | # | Reply

    Awgie: Aren’t we, though?

    • awgiedawgie
      July 6, 2019, 2:32 pm | # | Reply

      Aren’t we what?

      • sweetuncleLESLIE
        July 7, 2019, 1:24 am | # | Reply

        Playing off your “seems too simple” comment….that maybe your insight is self-referential, we ourselves are simple creatures, being led about by our eyes by superior personages. AKA heavy-handed attempt at snark. Mr. Obvious making an announcement, I suppose.

        • awgiedawgie
          July 7, 2019, 1:38 am | # | Reply

          I kinda thought that might have been what you meant, but it didn’t make sense, since my remark was in reference to Dave’s guess at the plot-line, not in reference to any person. I figure the plot has to be more complicated. They can’t just go off and find the Osprey right away.

  10. Chrisn
    July 6, 2019, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

    Mutually assured cluelessness

  11. David B Huber
    July 7, 2019, 4:56 am | # | Reply

    This is so reminiscent of “The Gift of the Magi”. Virginia totally believes Nick’s greatest desire is to be restored to his Osprey body, so she has provided a way for him to shift his senses wirelessly, leaving his cloned body sitting in the pilot seat as a life support tank. She loves him but feels he deserves better than her evil self.

    While Nick is feeling confirmed in his suspicion that someone so wonderful could never look at him as worthy of her love so he’ll content himself with going back to being her favorite project and best friend…

    • Robert Nowall
      July 7, 2019, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

      Since they kept getting interrupted when Nick and / or Dr. Lee were going to explain his tranceiver, it’s still up for grabs just what’s in his head.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 7, 2019, 4:57 pm | # | Reply

        But it’s already been demonstrated that his tranceiver can control A-Sig tech, so he should be able to control the Osprey.

  12. Clifton
    July 11, 2019, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, the priority for both of them is getting to that first base, then that second base, then that third base…

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