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2012-12-16

by shaenon on December 16, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Ron Armstrong
    December 16, 2014, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Who is gonna break the news to Ira about “that horrible Madonna woman”?

    • oneuniverse2
      December 16, 2014, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

      That she’s been usurped by Lady Gaga?

  2. jbevan70
    December 16, 2014, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    You’d think he’d prefer to forget about Katy Perry.

    • datasstrophe
      December 16, 2014, 2:39 am | # | Reply

      He can’t forget what he can’t remember in the first place.

      • Robert Nowall
        December 16, 2014, 2:41 am | # | Reply

        He forgot to remember to forget her.

      • SYABM
        December 16, 2014, 9:41 am | # | Reply

        That’s Shakira.

    • Robert Loughrey
      June 7, 2018, 10:19 am | # | Reply

      She was 5 in 1989. He’s never heard of her. Lucky guy.

  3. Manifesta
    December 16, 2014, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    So I was working on a “Lady Madonna” filk, and then I realized that I can’t bear to think about Madonna, either, as much as I was a big fan in the ’80s and early ’90s.

    • awgiedawgie
      June 7, 2018, 11:02 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, she was great 30 years ago. It’s amazing how rock stars have this huge blind spot where they can’t see when it’s time to hang up the pointy bra and call it quits. Like the Rolling Stones. Of course, Madonna’s done a lot worse than just keep singing.

  4. Eddurd
    December 16, 2014, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    I’ve used “Lady Madonna” too often. How about one from the woman herself?

    (TUNE: “Like A Virgin”, Madonna)

    I’m working here at Annex One …
    I have, for many years!
    Now I’m getting old and gray,
    But my mind’s still clear!

    Zadie’s knee! I was three!
    What the heck! Recollection’s fine,
    Like a steel trap!
    But there’s a ti-i-iny gap
    Since ’89!

     It’s amnesia!
     Missing a neuron or three!
     It’s amne-e-e-e-sia!
     Got no long-term … memory!

    I can recall the Reagan years!
    Now there’s a man with guts!
    That Bush is fine, replacing him …
    (But his son’s a putz!)

    Berlin Wall, saw it fall!
    Shrunk the kids? Yes, he did, somehow!
    But what was the name
    Of that cra-a-azy dame
    Who sang “Take A Bow”?

     It’s amnesia!
     Mind’s just a trifle unsound!
     It’s amne-e-e-e-sia!
     Hope Madonna’s … not around!

    • little Sis
      December 16, 2014, 8:19 am | # | Reply

      and… I’m late for work again!

    • Tom Flapwell
      December 16, 2014, 2:44 pm | # | Reply

      Ach, there’s just one problem: “Take a Bow” came out in ’94.

  5. Frank Hightower
    December 16, 2014, 1:34 am | # | Reply

    It’s interesting that he says “since 1989” and not “since last thanksgiving” or “last Thursday” or anything like that. He’s at least aware it’s not 1989. Which is huge, considering

    • kag
      December 16, 2014, 3:19 am | # | Reply

      Sometime in the past ten minutes, he’s noticed the calendar in his cubicle. So he knows it’s 2008.

  6. Nate FitzSimons
    December 16, 2014, 1:36 am | # | Reply

    Good gravy.
    He’s 80’s Dan.

    • oneuniverse2
      December 16, 2014, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

      Big hair bands but no grunge? What a trip, man!

  7. Robert Nowall
    December 16, 2014, 7:06 am | # | Reply

    But where’s Konstantin?

    • oneuniverse2
      December 16, 2014, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

      Probably in storage room C.

  8. Treesong
    December 16, 2014, 8:44 am | # | Reply

    kag; Excellent!

  9. Bear
    December 16, 2014, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

    Dat boy has been Neuralyzed a few too many times….

  10. Robert The Addled
    December 16, 2014, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

    The close up today makes me think of old Dave. I’m Getting a feeling this could ALL end (this comic strip) with Dave and Helen pulling the strings of the entire world.

    • oneuniverse2
      December 16, 2014, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

      I would like that, but not for several years. Maybe when Shaenon’s and Andrew’s child is in college.

    • Shaenon
      December 16, 2014, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

      I can only draw like three different noses. Ira has Dave nose.

      • roberttheaddled
        December 16, 2014, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

        I was actually thinking the hair/glasses on future Dave – MOST of the mads we’ve met outside the institute setting seem to be at odds with each other – I’m speculating that the Helen/Dave mad marriage has opened up reams of possible plots within plots by manipulating the rest of the mads. The Dave/Artie/Mel vs Madblood so she could get work done for example.

  11. Shadowmehr
    December 16, 2014, 7:07 pm | # | Reply

    Now, the length of time is a bit much, but let’s be honest – how many of us don’t have a weekend or two that just seems a blur later? It happens even without mindwiping.

  12. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    December 18, 2014, 2:30 am | # | Reply

    Okay, maybe its just me, man, but the phrasing in the second panel kinda parses as being about something other than physical height, if you take my meaning

    Also: Whoa…

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