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By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
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2014-02-25
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2014-02-25

by shaenon on February 25, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. Jay Eff
    February 25, 2014, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Is it safe at all for dogs to drink alcohol?

    I guess as long as she doesn’t eat chocolate, she’ll be OK eventually…

    • BRGR
      February 25, 2014, 3:57 am | # | Reply

      Theobromine LD_50 (oral) in dogs is 300mg/kg.
      In humans it is 280mg/kg.

      • irdburns
        February 25, 2014, 7:58 am | # | Reply

        But they have far fewer kilograms.

        • Corye
          February 25, 2014, 9:20 am | # | Reply

          well, that depends on the dog. i’d put sweetheart, as a samoyed-type, at around 20kg. so a hershey bar would be no problem. (given her character, i don’t think she’d go for that fancy-pants dark stuff anyway.)

          • Tonyris
            February 25, 2014, 10:21 am | #

            She complained to one of her former packmates that their superdog package metabolized alcohol way too fast to her taste, so it’s probably safe. Not sure how it translate to chocolate though.

  2. Manifesta
    February 25, 2014, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Is it safe for genetically engineered battle dogs to drink alcohol? Yes.
    Is it safe for this genetically engineered battle dog to drink alcohol? No.

    • Andrew
      February 25, 2014, 1:03 am | # | Reply

      How is she drinking the alcohol? That’s my question.

      • Altarboy
        February 25, 2014, 2:48 am | # | Reply

        Well, you grab the cap in your teeth, and twist the bottle around with your paws. Then when the cap comes off you lose grip with your paws spilling the contents upon a conveniently placed recepticle otherwise known as Nick’s deck. You can lap it up from there.

        • Shadowmehr
          February 25, 2014, 6:49 pm | # | Reply

          That . . . was very specific of you.

          • Altarboy
            February 26, 2014, 3:02 am | #

            I would like to state for the record that I am not now, nor have I ever been a dog, sapient or otherwise.

      • Kitirena
        May 13, 2016, 5:11 am | # | Reply

        Carefully hold the bottle between your forepaws, lifting it to your mouth, and pour it carefully on your tongue as you lap quickly, nyao.

        Not that I have any experience in such things, mind you…

    • irdburns
      February 25, 2014, 7:59 am | # | Reply

      At least she hasn’t gotten all racist this time.

  3. Corye
    February 25, 2014, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    THEY TOTALLY NEEDED TO HAVE EXACTLY THIS CONVERSATION.

    (actually no. i totally needed to lol at them having exactly this conversation 🙂

  4. Dave
    February 25, 2014, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    It’s only a matter of time before somebody finds Nick’s brain tank and empties a few bottles of tequila in it.

    • Darkstarr
      May 13, 2016, 5:12 am | # | Reply

      You just gave me a horrifying mental image of Unity trying to eat the worm out of Nick’s brain tank…

  5. Andrew
    February 25, 2014, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    4 out of 5 dogs prefer to be dry than wet. Unless there’s a chance to get everyone else wet.

    • BRGR
      February 25, 2014, 3:28 am | # | Reply

      Being dry is reason enough to drink, according to Anonymous:

      If all be true that I do think,
      There be five reasons why one should drink;
      Good friends, good wine, or being dry,
      Or lest we should be by-and-by,
      Or any other reason why.

      • Classic Steve
        February 25, 2014, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

        Presumably, the first name of Mr. or Ms. Anonymous was not Alcoholics.

    • GammarayCanon
      February 25, 2014, 6:01 pm | # | Reply

      Really? I’ve seen dogs that love to go swimming, not even bothering to shake like some sort of hairy centrifuge afterwards.

  6. maarvarq
    February 25, 2014, 5:07 am | # | Reply

    When was it established that Nick has a sense of smell, or is he just making an educated guess that she smells like wet dog?

    • jdreyfuss
      February 25, 2014, 6:55 am | # | Reply

      For fire safety and NBC-warfare purposes, it’s a good idea for a sapient helicopter to have an array inside the cabin that can detect aromatic compounds, similar to the machine they put those paper disks in when they do the one-level-beyond-annoying search of your luggage at the airport. Combine heightened with a brain that still has organic sense-memory and you’ve got a person with a super nose inside his cabin.

  7. zomg
    February 25, 2014, 6:41 am | # | Reply

    …this romance plotline is great. There should be more romance plotlines like this. Seriously. It’s always a bunch of staring at each other and sighing. There should be a subgenre of romance: “The Couple Has Friends. Dun dun dun!”

  8. Eddurd
    February 25, 2014, 6:49 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “In The Air Tonight”, Phil Collins)

    Not my fault, there’s moisture in the air tonight! Wet dog!
    Oy gevalt, I’m drunk an’ I don’t care tonight! Wet dog!
    Single malt will make our feelings bare tonight! Wet dog!
    Wet dog …

    Well, although Nick will not admit it,
    He fell for Doctor Lee!
    He’ll try and try to just deny,
    But we know that he knows what we see!
    It’s so obvious, even Tip’s catching on,
    It shouldn’t come as any shock!
    The response that Nick chooses?
    “The fridge where the booze is,
    Will soon have a dog-proof lock!”

    But that smell, there’s moisture in the air tonight! Wet dog!
    Can’t dispel that odor in the air tonight! Wet dog!
    Zinfandel she’s drinking and won’t share tonight! Wet dog!
    What the hell, she’s drunk and doesn’t care tonight! Wet dog!
    Wet dog …

  9. Dave Harmon
    February 25, 2014, 8:09 am | # | Reply

    Should be real interesting when it’s Tip’s turn for a bender…

  10. daibhidc
    February 25, 2014, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

    I totally love that, in a group including a deeply repressed dog, an anti-social former shut-in, and an id-driven zombie killing machine, the team therapist is the gold standard for “unaware of how other people feel”.

    • GammarayCanon
      February 25, 2014, 6:06 pm | # | Reply

      Said shut-in is also a cyborg with romance issues, who used a body now inhabited by a water cooler.

      While this makes for a good summary of Skin Horse, I get the feeling that, after a certain amount of weirdness, it doesn’t really increase the comedy value of that statement.

      • BRGR
        February 26, 2014, 1:47 am | # | Reply

        This is but a guess, but I think it means that in the absense of the psychologist, the water cooler is winding up the receptionist.

    • Kona
      November 12, 2014, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

      I was just thinking how under-appreciated the line “Even Tip’s catching on” is.

  11. mickeyf
    February 25, 2014, 7:57 pm | # | Reply

    In her condition I’d half expect Sweetheart to start telling … What would be the equivalent of Shaggy Dog Stories?

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