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2017-10-10

by shaenon on October 10, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Unsinkable
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  1. Chrisn
    October 10, 2017, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    That’s very sweet.

    • Brian Swetland
      October 10, 2017, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-1000/ comes to mind

      • Manifesta
        October 10, 2017, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

        Brian, completely off-topic, but are you from Cleveland?

        • Jon
          October 10, 2017, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

          If he isn’t, I am. :waves:

          • reynard61
            October 11, 2017, 1:01 am | #

            I lived in Shaker Heights from 1964 to 1969. Then lived in Cleveland Heights and on the West Side from 1970 to 1972.

        • jdreyfuss
          January 30, 2020, 4:52 pm | # | Reply

          I am. Grew up in Beachwood. Lived in Texas 9 years, then Virginia for 3, then Texas again for 2, and now I’ve been back in Cleveland for 5. I live in Tremont now.

    • Adept Arcanist
      June 28, 2020, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

      I dunno, looks more gross to me. So much mayo….

      😛

  2. Towering Barbarian
    October 10, 2017, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Our hero’s response: Eh, living to legal drinking age is overrated anyway! ^_^

    • Shadowmehr
      October 10, 2017, 7:15 pm | # | Reply

      Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse. In this case, a mayo-encrusted one.

      (Always assuming, of course, that Jonah leaves a corpse and isn’t instantly whisked back to the shoe-care theatre.)

  3. wykstrad
    October 10, 2017, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    Teenage metabolisms are designed to handle mayonnaise-lubricated corn dogs, Jonah. Eat up; it’ll prepare your system for what it’s going to face when you reach legal drinking age.

  4. metaceryn
    October 10, 2017, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    West Coast Amtrak doesn’t serve corn dogs. I feel cheated and bereft.

    • Barking Monkey
      October 10, 2017, 6:21 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think any Amtrak trains have corndogs. This is just another point of departure from our universe. There’s unfettered access to mayo packets though!

      • Jeffrey C. Wells
        October 10, 2017, 6:26 am | # | Reply

        If you feel too bad, just substitute “White Castle.”

        • awgiedawgie
          October 10, 2017, 7:06 am | # | Reply

          I think White Castle would make me feel worse.

          …oh, you didn’t mean eating.

      • Forrest Davis
        October 10, 2017, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

        Last time I road the Amtrak in the LA-OC corridor they had corn dogs available at the snack bar/car, but coating them with Mayo? Urgh. The appropriate condiment is mustard!

        Note: Opinions expressed are solely those of the commentator, but seriously, mayo?

        • Forrest Davis
          October 10, 2017, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

          “Rode”, not road. My fingers and my brain don’t seem to be communicating properly…

    • SVGeezer
      October 10, 2017, 8:01 am | # | Reply

      Serve corn dogs? Inflict is more like it.

    • shaenon
      October 10, 2017, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

      This is my fault. Jeff had it as veggie burgers in the script but I didn’t think that was gross enough.

      • awgiedawgie
        October 10, 2017, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

        Frankly, I would have considered the veggie burgers much more gross. Especially if you had called them “tofu burgers”. Call me a bloodthirsty carnivore, but tofu in any way, shape, or form just sounds disgusting and wrong. Corn dogs, I actually eat (tho admittedly not with mayo).

        • Chrisn
          October 10, 2017, 8:14 pm | # | Reply

          Yup, me too. What might do it to me tho is the thought of all the weird artificial ingredients in the mayonnaise packets.

        • reynard61
          October 11, 2017, 1:06 am | # | Reply

          You’ve obviously never been introduced to Nattō…

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nattō

          • awgiedawgie
            October 11, 2017, 10:25 am | #

            There is a world of difference between tofu and nattō.

            Yes, they both come from soybeans, but cottage cheese and steak both come from cows.

  5. Urlance Woolsbane
    October 10, 2017, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    So he *isn’t* twenty-one yet…
    Hmmm…

    • gyrre
      October 10, 2017, 2:25 am | # | Reply

      Pretty sure they’re both around 16.

      • Urlance Woolsbane
        October 10, 2017, 3:02 am | # | Reply

        They were sixteen in “Choose,” but in “Grillo Parlante” they were a few months away from eighteen. What I’ve been trying to figure out is how much time has passed, in-universe, since then. Jonah doesn’t look anywhere near twenty-one, but I suspect he has a baby-face.

        • awgiedawgie
          October 10, 2017, 7:04 am | # | Reply

          I’d have to go back and really analyze it to be sure, but I suspect it’s been right around a year. “Grillo Parlante” spanned a whole summer for Jonah & Nera. There have only been a handful of stories since then. Some of the story arcs were quite lengthy, but as far as elapsed time, they were rather short. “Mixed up Files”, for example, ran for nearly a full year, but only covered a few weeks of real time. Others only covered a day or two. “Yes, Virginia” was the Secret Santa story. And now we’re at least well into the next Spring, since in Vermont there were flowers in bloom and leaves on the trees. Probably early Summer, since Nera is home from Cal Tech. So I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the kids are now a few months away from nineteen.

  6. Jon
    October 10, 2017, 3:13 am | # | Reply

    So she’s still the golden ending, huh? Good to know. 🙂

  7. SVGeezer
    October 10, 2017, 8:10 am | # | Reply

    Like your take on Amtrak colors. They looked familiar while not matching any known scheme.

    Also like the “Face” on the P42!

    (What? You didn’t expect Train Nuts to read?)

  8. Robert Nowall
    October 10, 2017, 9:31 am | # | Reply

    Why wait?

  9. Miyaa
    October 10, 2017, 9:52 am | # | Reply

    Who puts mayonnaise on hotdogs, let alone corn dogs?! Eww!

    • awgiedawgie
      October 10, 2017, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

      Agreed. I like mayo, and I like hot dogs — even corn dogs. But in combination it sounds like peanut butter and bologna. (Some of you will catch the Cheech & Chong reference.)

      • Brainstorm
        October 11, 2017, 4:12 pm | # | Reply

        You just need the right kind of mayo!

        Admittedly, “the right kind of mayo” is probably nowhere in evidence in this strip, but I still stand by my statement.

        • awgiedawgie
          October 11, 2017, 5:08 pm | # | Reply

          Well, I used to get this “Cajun mayonnaise” when I got the blackened chicken sandwich at a local restaurant. That stuff had some kick. Aside from that, I can’t imagine any other mayonnaise sounding good on hot dogs or corn dogs.

  10. Noumena
    October 10, 2017, 11:47 am | # | Reply

    Nice visual metaphor with the blurred backgrounds in the second and third panels!
    (Someone’s got to point these things out.)

  11. D. Walker
    October 11, 2017, 2:26 am | # | Reply

    Ah, corn dogs! A foe deadlier than even Eyeball Razor Chimps!

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