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2019-02-21

by shaenon on February 21, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. Owlmirror
    February 21, 2019, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    I dunno about the Feds, but the State-level gaming commission or whatever it’s called might have something to say about the gambling going on.

    Baron Mistycorn didn’t say anything about gambling? Does he seem like someone who would miss the opportunity to handle betting on contests?

    It wouldn’t surprise me if he were also involved in fixing some fraction of those contests.

    • Owlmirror
      February 21, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

      On the Federal level: It wouldn’t surprise me if some of those machines were child-equivalents. Moving minors across state lines for immoral purposes?

      Tch.

      • Steve
        February 21, 2019, 7:55 am | # | Reply

        There’s a shaggy dog story who’s punch line is:

        “They got arrested for transporting young gulls across staid lions for immortal porpoises”.

        • Andy4Hire
          February 21, 2019, 10:25 pm | # | Reply

          Heh. I’d be curious to hear the setup for that one.

          The version I learned was, “Transporting an illegal mynah across sedated lions for immortal porpoises.”

          • Myles Adams
            February 21, 2019, 11:22 pm | #

            Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1CNRF-5ckU

          • Myles Adams
            February 21, 2019, 11:27 pm | #

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_HdHHC_SY at 9:08 is a better recording.

          • Andy4Hire
            February 22, 2019, 10:26 pm | #

            Thanks, Myles Adams!

    • reynard61
      February 26, 2019, 7:55 pm | # | Reply

      “I dunno about the Feds, but the State-level gaming commission or whatever it’s called might have something to say about the gambling going on.”

      “We are shocked! SHOCKED!”

      • awgiedawgie
        February 26, 2019, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

        Of course, that assumes that the authorities can even see what’s going on.

  2. palenoue
    February 21, 2019, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Who’s their bitcoin manager?

  3. Candace
    February 21, 2019, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Oh, dear. Sweetheart is experiencing a moral quandary, and there are no longer any rules to follow or paperwork to fill out. What will she do?

    • Oneuniverse
      February 21, 2019, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      Sweetheart has already given up on the rule-bound bureaucracy by becoming a hobo.

    • Zap Rowsdower
      February 21, 2019, 9:33 am | # | Reply

      Now SHE gets to decide what rules they need to follow and what paperwork must be filled out.

      Fear her.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 21, 2019, 9:59 pm | # | Reply

      It’s a case of altruism against pragmatism. Accepting money from a sleazy gambling arena might be wrong from a moral standpoint, but when you’ve got nothing but scraps and a mobile building to your name, you need all the dough you can get. Take the cash, Sweetheart, and use it to fix what needs fixing. Not the fights, Mistycorn has that covered.

  4. Robert Nowall
    February 21, 2019, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    It’s the hobos vs. the robos…

    • Fan of Most Everything
      February 21, 2019, 7:09 am | # | Reply

      And in a few cases, the robohobos.

      • Robert Nowall
        February 21, 2019, 1:51 pm | # | Reply

        Seems my choice of “Big Rock Candy Mountain” as this week’s parody was more appropriate than I knew.

  5. David B Huber
    February 21, 2019, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    As usual, Unity is the most practical person…

    • Bruce A Munro
      February 21, 2019, 1:27 am | # | Reply

      If by “practical” you mean she’s embracing the hobo lifestyle, sure.

  6. Barbara Krooss
    February 21, 2019, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    Although Unity’s likely to use the beans for music and eat the harmonicas.

    • joycemelton
      February 21, 2019, 3:21 am | # | Reply

      Beans, beans the musical fruit…

      • awgiedawgie
        February 21, 2019, 3:47 am | # | Reply

        The more you eat, the more you toot.

        But if Unity doesn’t have an active digestive system, would the beans still make her toot?

        • Nix
          February 21, 2019, 8:20 am | # | Reply

          She’s a nanoswarm. Given time, she could probably turn the beans *into* harmonicas, if only beans had a blood supply.

      • Robert Nowall
        February 21, 2019, 4:36 pm | # | Reply

        Beans, beans, they’re good for your heart…

  7. awgiedawgie
    February 21, 2019, 3:49 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart, he’s offering you money. Take it. You’re already on the run from the government anyway, so don’t overthink it.

  8. Frank
    February 21, 2019, 6:21 am | # | Reply

    I love it how Sweetheart uses the dictionary definition for “hobo”

    • Barbara Krooss
      February 21, 2019, 10:09 am | # | Reply

      Where’s our oh-so-versatile pal Tip? He fills the bill as both a “Ho” and a “Beau”.

      • Efogoto
        February 21, 2019, 11:54 am | # | Reply

        That is a thing of beauty. Not Tip, your comment.

      • David B Huber
        February 21, 2019, 10:19 pm | # | Reply

        “Ho Beau’s Makeovers” – I can see the sign now! Can reality TV be far behind?

    • Bruce A Munro
      February 21, 2019, 1:53 pm | # | Reply

      Are they laborers if they’re not being paid for their services?

      • awgiedawgie
        February 21, 2019, 2:31 pm | # | Reply

        Labor is not dependent upon compensation. They are no longer employees (at least they are no longer being paid by the government, even if they’re still on the roster), but they’re still laborers.

  9. =Tamar
    February 21, 2019, 4:19 pm | # | Reply

    Welcome to the gig economy, in which everyone is a hobo.

  10. s854
    February 21, 2019, 8:34 pm | # | Reply

    Acquiring public property without authority and taking it across the country, sustaining yourselves with the proceeds of that property doesn’t make you a hobo or a “laborer” (even though I feel as though these terms are being used in a completely different way to any I’ve found in a dictionary). It makes you a thief. Sweetheart may not have thought this through yet.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 21, 2019, 10:01 pm | # | Reply

      Given that Annex One was all but abandoned, a good case can be made for it being akin to garbage and turning it into a mecha as recycling. A good shyster, er, lawyer, sorry, could make a case of it.

      • Thenardyr
        February 22, 2019, 2:14 am | # | Reply

        Annex One was ‘real property’ (i.e., real estate) that was abandoned, and technically there is precedent under common law for squatters to obtain ownership of real property. Of course, Tigerlilly converted the building into a mobile home, and I’m guessing the old circuit judges didn’t create a precedent for this situation. Then again, we don’t know how far back mad science goes in the Narbon-verse, so maybe there *is* precedent somewhere on the books.

        • jdreyfuss
          February 4, 2020, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

          In Virginia, you have to occupy the property for 15 years to obtain title through adverse possession.

      • jdreyfuss
        February 4, 2020, 2:14 pm | # | Reply

        That’s actually a pretty strong Jewish slur, so I’d appreciate if you’d refrain from it in the future.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 21, 2019, 10:57 pm | # | Reply

      Their labor is the support of sapient non-humans, just as it always has been. It’s just that by being on the run from their former employer, they’ve had to resort to accomplishing said labor through… shall we say, “questionable means”.

      Living as they are, day to day, surviving on what they can find, does basically make them hobos. Most hobos are – in point of fact – thieves. They have to steal to survive.

    • greenknight32
      February 21, 2019, 11:58 pm | # | Reply

      Anasigma has staged a coup, they are in control. Skin Horse appears to be the last effective arm of the legitimate government – though their lines of communication have been severed by the reality blindness, they are still performing their duties. They are fully justified in commandeering anything they require to perform said duties – this is war!

      I’m sure Sweetheart will think of this eventually – she needs to make records of whatever they take.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 22, 2019, 11:49 am | # | Reply

        Paperwork!!

      • s854
        February 22, 2019, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

        greenknight32: Justified or not, they can fully expect to be arrested once someone notices they’re there. Remember that the reality blindness results from something Anasigma is doing. It can stop.

        And thanks, awgiedawgie, for the definition (or rather, the hint that, in Skin Horse, “laborer” is a synonym for “worker” rather than the more specific term sites like wikipedia give). It’s not one I’d come across before.

        • awgiedawgie
          February 22, 2019, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

          It’s not just in Skin Horse. Next time, try a dictionary instead wikipedia. According to the dictionary, “laborer” is defined as “any worker”.

          It might have helped had you also looked up “itinerant”: “working in one place for a comparatively short time and then moving on to work in another place, usually as a physical or outdoor laborer; characterized by alternating periods of working and wandering”.

          • awgiedawgie
            February 22, 2019, 1:06 pm | #

            *of…. “instead of wikipedia”

            Stupid phone.

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