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2015-03-21

by shaenon on March 21, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Kirala
    March 21, 2015, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    …and there went the last chance that this Captain is not directly engineered to respond to Sweetheart. And the next-to-last chance that this is occurring outside Sweetheart’s consciousness.

    • B
      March 21, 2015, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      But she looks so happy, don’t ruin her happy.

    • Frank
      March 21, 2015, 12:41 am | # | Reply

      Oooor, this could be the reveal that his dogs were genetically engineered to obsess over fire safety!

      • M. Alan Thomas II
        March 21, 2015, 3:23 am | # | Reply

        Or at least Sweetheart was. She WAS supposed to lead them (or so he said).

  2. Frank
    March 21, 2015, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    “I designed the escape doors! Once opened, never closed!”

    • deadsquirrelnetBrian-M
      March 21, 2015, 3:00 am | # | Reply

      But those doors also have to act as smoke doors and fire doors to prevent smoke and fire from spreading. Failure to close is a safety hazard.

      • Andy4Hire
        March 21, 2015, 3:21 pm | # | Reply

        Normally, that’s true, and common sense certainly agrees with you. But common sense seldom gets within ten or twelve miles of the mad genius approach to design.

  3. Miyaa
    March 21, 2015, 1:20 am | # | Reply

    So he’s the guy that puts a pull lever on a push door at the Gifted Adademy! Bastard!

  4. Manifesta
    March 21, 2015, 1:47 am | # | Reply

    tune: “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” Todd Pipes, Deep Blue Something, 1993 (Can it really be that long ago? Wow, I’m old!)

    She says: We’ve got nothing in common
    No common ground to start from
    I wonder if he’s still mad
    She thinks the world has come between them
    The madness separates them
    And still she can’t help but care

    Then he says: I’ve moved on. No more genetics
    It’s now institutional fire safety
    Now OCD, rule-loving Sweetheart’s excited
    And back at the Annex, she’s wagging her tail

    She thinks: I’m all about fire safety
    Then, suddenly she remembers
    The door that she didn’t close
    I ran, because that cute Ao was waiting
    Now Captain Bram won’t love me
    Oh, no, I’m such a bad dog

    And Bram says: I know you worry ’bout safety
    I raised you, you’re the responsible one
    Now OCD, rule-loving Sweetheart feel guilty
    And back at the Annex, she’s dragging her tail

    • =Tamar
      March 21, 2015, 5:54 am | # | Reply

      1993? Piffle. The novella by Truman Capote was published in 1958; the movie came out in 1961. _That’s_ old.

      • Robert Nowall
        March 21, 2015, 10:01 am | # | Reply

        Of course the British rock group did the song in 1993. Still a long time ago, though only a short time by some standards. (Don’t know it…don’t think it made the charts in the States, but it’s kinda past my time in music…)

      • Robert Nowall
        March 21, 2015, 10:02 am | # | Reply

        Of course the rock group did it in 1993, still a long time ago but not as much. (Don’t know it; past my prime in music unless it’s country.)

        • Robert Nowall
          March 21, 2015, 11:12 am | # | Reply

          Seemed to have doubled up somewhere. Tried to delete and failed, I guess. The group is American; the song did make the charts…research by Wikipedia.

  5. Robert Nowall
    March 21, 2015, 7:44 am | # | Reply

    She gets that from your side of the family, Captain.

  6. GammarayCanon
    March 21, 2015, 8:07 am | # | Reply

    My prediction has been confirmed.

  7. eddurd
    March 21, 2015, 8:46 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Call Me”, Petula Clark)

    Seems we don’t have much to say now,
    Seems we don’t have much in common …
    I’m so over DNA now,
    There’s a brand-new kick that I’m on:

    [CHORUS:]
    Safety!
    It’s institutional
    Safety!
    It’s not a crock o’ bull!
    Safety!
    Safety when dealing with fire …

    Come on, ask me any question!
    You are wanting information!
    Let’s discuss my new obsession,
    Interrupting conflagration!
    [repeat CHORUS]

    Preventing burning
    Is what I’m yearning!
    You, as well? Oh, what a shock!
    To stop ignition
    Is my ambition!
    Rules and regulations rock!

    Is this just a clever tactic
    By the evil Institute to
    Get at Sweetheart? How dramatic!
    She’s so happy, and so cute, too!
    [repeat CHORUS]

    • Classic Steve
      March 21, 2015, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

      Thank you, Eddurd! No offense to Manifesta, but I can count on you to choose a song with rhymes. And do well with it.

  8. Shadowmehr
    March 21, 2015, 10:15 am | # | Reply

    (headdesk)

    One more example of Heaven for Sweetheart, and soon to be followed by Hell.

    You’d think she notice a pattern by now . . .

  9. MisterTeatime
    March 23, 2015, 10:34 am | # | Reply

    Huh. You’d think the natural starting point would be “why did you leave?”.

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