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2012-08-04

by shaenon on August 4, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Dave Van Domelen
    August 4, 2012, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Well, Tip does have the most meat on him of those present.

  2. James Moar
    August 4, 2012, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    “I’m so hungry I’d eat Tip” — mildly peckish, then?

  3. Eddddd the mad genius
    August 4, 2012, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    maybe its a classification system, rating exactly how hungry she is via which of them she would choose to eat at the moment.

  4. Sparks
    August 4, 2012, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Well, she can’t eat Dr. Lee (“blueberry waffles!”) and Sweetheart is her best friend. That leaves Violet (who probably doesn’t smell appetizing, somehow), Sergio, or Tip.

    And she doesn’t know Sergio’s name. “I’m so hungry I could eat that guy” is much less dramatically effective.

    • Sparks
      August 4, 2012, 12:28 am | # | Reply

      And Ruby’s got too many metal bits. Hard on the teeth. 😉

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        January 23, 2014, 3:01 am | # | Reply

        Unity has eaten parking meters.

  5. Joyce
    August 4, 2012, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Oh, come on. She wouldn’t be the first one to offer to eat Tip.

    • Eddurd
      August 4, 2012, 3:58 am | # | Reply

      I see what you did there.

    • Shadowmehr
      August 4, 2012, 6:15 am | # | Reply

      I’m sure Tip normally takes up any offer by a woman to eat him, but U.N.I.T.Y. might just be a little more literal than most.

      • Grantwhy
        August 4, 2012, 7:57 pm | # | Reply

        from memory, wasn’t there a mention of Tip attempting to ….. woo(?) Unity not long after they first met?

        (-.^) [bad attempt at a ‘raised eyebrow’ emoticon]

        I believe it ended with several dislocations for Tip.

        • Tonyris
          January 20, 2014, 6:30 am | # | Reply

          I think when he dated Marcie, he mentionned that Unity “doesn’t understand invitations to ‘get physical'”. I think it was the Tin Soldier arc.

  6. Fossegrim
    August 4, 2012, 2:02 am | # | Reply

    Aww, but Tip /always/ looks so adorably edible!

  7. Andrew
    August 4, 2012, 2:03 am | # | Reply

    Choosy zombies choose Tip?

  8. Ben Jims
    August 4, 2012, 4:13 am | # | Reply

    oh my gosh saint charlie’s a train
    this is an unexpected and kickass development

  9. davidbreslin101
    August 4, 2012, 4:15 am | # | Reply

    St. Charlie: City, train… and giant battle robot? Stay tuned!

  10. Eddurd
    August 4, 2012, 4:39 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “City Of New Orleans”, Steve Goodman)

    Waiting for the city of St. Charlie,
    Moveable, mad municipality!
    Secret railroad runs beneath ol’ Beantown,
    Hoping they’ve got a snack for Unity!

     The well-dressed Anasigma team
     Will come with us, so it would seem
     That they and we must presently compete!
     So listen to what Ruby said,
     It seems we’re being railroaded,
     But we don’t mind, this train is freakin’ sweet!

      Hello, now come below old Boston!
      The underground location’s not so bad!
      So it’s all aboard the city of St. Charlie!
      ’Cause the population here is completely mad!

    • W.
      August 4, 2012, 7:09 am | # | Reply

      That was a great.

  11. commodorejohn
    August 4, 2012, 8:45 am | # | Reply

    “Pardon me, boy, is that the city of St. Charlie?”

    • commodorejohn
      August 4, 2012, 8:48 am | # | Reply

      If I were cleverer, I’d make a filk out of it. If I were at least paying attention, I’d have put some kind of contextual information with it to at least indicate what the reference was. Oy, I need sleep.

      • woozy
        August 4, 2012, 9:00 am | # | Reply

        I’d like to think everyone would get the reference but than I assumed everyone would get the rarebit fiend reference several weeks ago to.

        It’d be a funny filk if every line began to the tune of Chatanooga-choo-choo and ended in the tone of The City of New Orleans.

        Pardon me boy, is that the City of St. Charlie

        Track twenty-nine under 20 feet of crushed concrete

        … and so on.

  12. woozy
    August 4, 2012, 8:52 am | # | Reply

    So Einstein is on a train and says “Does Saint Cha….

    Wait. Isn’t Unity standing to close to the tracks in panel one?

    • MrSitouh
      August 4, 2012, 1:59 pm | # | Reply

      Presumably there are multiple tracks coming through.

      • woozy
        August 4, 2012, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

        Stupid BART… totally skewed up my world perspective. (Of *course*, in cities outside the SF Bay area stations have more than one set of tracks….)

  13. Cbob
    August 4, 2012, 9:14 am | # | Reply

    I am the only who now has Crazy Train stuck in internal loop mode now?

    • woozy
      August 4, 2012, 10:29 am | # | Reply

      Maybe. But I have Chatanooga-choo-choo stuck in my head now. I tried tap-dancing and singing to get a reaction out of my cat. Whoever invented the word “unflappable” must have owned a cat.

  14. Schreiberg
    August 4, 2012, 10:37 am | # | Reply

    Actually, what all y’alls should have in your heads is the (1920s?) protest song “Charlie on the MTA.”

    Well played, Shaenon.

    • Klyfix
      August 4, 2012, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

      Oh, dang it, I should have got that. Argh.
      Hmm, I have a “Charlie Card” for the T; would it work for St. Charlie?

      • Amonduul
        August 4, 2012, 10:39 pm | # | Reply

        We can only hope. I want to ride on St. Charlie!

    • History_PhD
      August 5, 2012, 1:24 am | # | Reply

      Didn’t I mention “Charlie on the MTA” a few days ago…
      I could have sworn…

  15. Blofeld's Cat
    August 4, 2012, 10:47 am | # | Reply

    OK Now that’s a boss entrance.

  16. Andrew
    August 4, 2012, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

    “Next stop, Anaheim, Westwood, and Cucamunga!”

  17. mnementh
    August 4, 2012, 10:16 pm | # | Reply

    All aboard for New Vertiform City!

    mnem
    Now where did I put that damned brick…

  18. Nekura
    August 5, 2012, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    Wait… HERself!? Is St. Charlie sentient? And female? Someone needs to play matchmaker…

    • typomouse
      August 5, 2012, 6:17 pm | # | Reply

      Trains are usually referred to in the feminine, sentient or not. XD;

  19. mnementh
    August 5, 2012, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

    Maybe we can get her a date with these two…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lutNECOZFw

    If they make this guy that excited, they must have SOMETHING goin’ on…

    mnem
    This is what I get for hanging out on the RC heli forums.

  20. typomouse
    August 5, 2012, 6:17 pm | # | Reply

    okay I can’t stop staring at Sweetheart’s floofy curled tail. SWEETHEART Y UR TAIL SO CUTE?

  21. woozy
    August 5, 2012, 9:09 pm | # | Reply

    Whoa! I just noticed that Sain’t Charlie has an apostrophe! Implying it should be read as “S ain’t Charlie”.

    Is that a hint?

    • markhh
      August 6, 2012, 6:18 am | # | Reply

      I believe that is an ornate serif on the “N”. Like on the R, S and A and E

      • woozy
        August 6, 2012, 6:39 pm | # | Reply

        Too ornate, In my opinion. Dang! I *really* had hoped I caught something.

  22. griffin8aka8evonix
    November 12, 2014, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

    Whats REALLY impressive is the spacal warping to fit a city in a normal sized subway tunnel

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