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2012-09-24

by shaenon on September 24, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Andrew
    September 24, 2012, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Mendoza had better venture into the Kansas – Missouri area, that’s all I’m saying. Saying, “They’re just the frozen microwaveable version” is asking to get run out of town. (Even though he’s correct.)

    • M. Alan Thomas II
      September 24, 2012, 2:00 am | # | Reply

      I think his point is that they could have gotten THOSE at home.

    • Morrand
      September 24, 2012, 7:21 pm | # | Reply

      The other point is that the Amtrak version is also, as you might guess, the frozen, microwaved version. Served in the package, no less. So we continue the reference from which the White Castles sprang to begin with.

      • Hadashi
        November 10, 2013, 8:15 am | # | Reply

        White castle are so notoriously bad we have heard of them in England where there is no White Castle.

        • TPmanW
          July 20, 2015, 7:20 pm | # | Reply

          They are in fact more famous than the many actual castles which are white.

  2. Theogrin
    September 24, 2012, 2:14 am | # | Reply

    Is that a nightshirt or a black dress? Obviously it’s cut like – or has the lines of – a dress (or original Star Trek uniform), but the first panel seems like she’s approaching in dishabille.

    Also, microwave or not, White Castile is pretty terrible.

    • Andrew
      September 24, 2012, 2:17 am | # | Reply

      That I would also agree with. It’s one of the reasons I had to leave Missouri.

      • Freddie Freelance
        September 24, 2012, 6:01 am | # | Reply

        All you have to do is go to St Louis; the first Sliders on I40 heading east is Bowles Rd. And I’ve driven from San Diego & stopped there.

    • JET73L
      July 23, 2018, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

      Huh, hadn’t thought of those. I figured it was a short-legged unitard, for wearing under the tops and trousers of the ASig uniform.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 24, 2018, 9:41 am | # | Reply

        Well, they couldn’t have known when they originally asked the question, but since her attire has no relevance whatsoever to the story, I can say that a few strips from now, it becomes more readily obvious that it is, in fact, a little black dress.

        I’d include a link to the relevant strip, but jumping ahead three weeks could actually be a teensy bit of a spoiler. Not much of one, I’ll grant, but still…

  3. Eddurd
    September 24, 2012, 2:19 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Catch A Wave”, The Beach Boys)

    Come on Mendoza, now we’re gonna have some fun!
    (microwave … microwave …)
    This little burger fits squarely in its bun!
    (doo wah doo wah doo wah doo wah …)
    It starts out frozen, you simply reheat!
    And then you
    Take bite, beat a hasty retreat!
    ‘Cause when you
    Microwave what you’re eatin’, you’ll probably hurl!

  4. Speedball
    September 24, 2012, 2:30 am | # | Reply

    Why is Anasigma ever around? They suck up assets. Literally. Anything paranormal, they DEVOUR. If it can be used to hurt someone, they want in on it. This whole mad science community is like a pork roast dangling on a stick for them.

    • Shadowmehr
      September 24, 2012, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

      Great, the Umbrella Corporation is branching out from zombies and mutants to death beams and dimensional gateways. Talk about messy.

    • Towering Barbarian
      September 24, 2012, 10:18 pm | # | Reply

      In other words by Mad Science standards they’re pretty much fine and upstanding citizens of impeccable moral character. Pretty much at the same moral level as Baron Wulfenbach or the Dave Conspiracy and somewhat nicer than Lucrezia Mongfish or Helen Sr. If they’re real lucky they might avoid ending up as victims by their contact with St. Charlie. ^_^

      • JET73L
        July 23, 2018, 2:39 pm | # | Reply

        The murder, slavery, and weakening of the fabric of reality are fine and dandy, but AnaSigma steals and co-opts ideas. You don’t just let that happen!

  5. Garthyre
    September 24, 2012, 3:13 am | # | Reply

    I think I’m missing something here. I had White Castle as a chess reference, but I suppose something got lost in translation across this side of the Atlantic – can anyone help?

    • matt w
      September 24, 2012, 3:19 am | # | Reply

      It’s a chain of hamburger restaurants. (Some of that may require scare quotes.)

      For more information, see Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

      • alwayslurking
        September 24, 2012, 3:53 am | # | Reply

        In the UK, at least, see “Harold and Kumar get the Munchies”, because no-one knows what White Castle is…

    • LogicMouse
      September 24, 2012, 4:13 pm | # | Reply

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:White_Castle_Building_8.jpg (From Wikipedia’s article on the restaurant chain) They’re very small, very greasy hamburgers. I’ve had them four or five times in my life and gotten the runs afterward every time. (I’ve also done business with the man who owns this particular building now. In addition to jewelry he also repairs accordions. I’m not kidding. Nice guy.)

    • Garthyre
      September 25, 2012, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      Thanks people, that makes more sense

  6. midwestmutt
    September 24, 2012, 4:13 am | # | Reply

    I only ate White Castle sliders once, in Chicago, and I thought they were pretty good…but it was 1982, very late at night, and I still drank back then. Perhaps they have changed.

    • Freddie Freelance
      September 24, 2012, 6:07 am | # | Reply

      No, they’re still pretty much what you eat when drinking, kind of like Jack in the Box Tacos on the West Coast, or Curry Wurst in Berlin, or a Donner Kebab (Gyro, dammit!) in London.

      • Smithnik
        September 24, 2012, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

        No, it’s perfectly possible to eat Jack in the Box tacos if you’re sober, as long as you don’t try to figure out what it is they add to the meat to get that texture.
        If you do, then you might need to drink to forget the ingredient list, before taking another bite.
        Actually, I’m surprised that Mendoza finally realized that something is wrong with Ms. Bee…I had assumed that he had been selected for his Bee-related blind spot or something. As an investigator, he has few other redeeming qualities, other than showing up on time.

  7. Kroykali
    September 24, 2012, 4:17 am | # | Reply

    Speaking of which:

    http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/09/23/how-to-make-your-own-white-castle-slider-at-home/?intcmp=features

    • Wayne Zombie
      September 24, 2012, 9:52 am | # | Reply

      Alton Brown did an episode on making sliders, I think it might have have been the first Man Show ep.

  8. Jacob Haller
    September 24, 2012, 6:06 am | # | Reply

    The level of chaos here on all sides reminds me of a game of Paranoia.

    • Theogrin
      September 24, 2012, 7:01 am | # | Reply

      They’ve even got an insane AI–er, I mean, friendly computer overseeing everything. Remember, GODOT is a derivative of God. Trust GODOT.

    • History_PhD
      September 25, 2012, 1:07 am | # | Reply

      Ah Paranoia, classic RPG! Game-mastering a group of six, I managed to kill twelve clones in mission brief….and another eight in equipment issue before we’d even gotten out of headquarters and into the field. Good times.

      • Ryushikaze
        September 25, 2012, 8:31 am | # | Reply

        So… a slow, uneventful session, all around? I’ve been in games where some folks didn’t make it TO the briefing without three or four dead clones.

  9. This Guy I Know
    October 10, 2012, 7:08 pm | # | Reply

    Huh. It never even ocurred to me that Violet might actually have really told them she wanted to sleep in. I assumed Sergio was just saying that because he had a hangover and wanted to sleep in himself.

  10. Zyzzyva
    January 28, 2016, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

    From the future:

    Violet’s got a different driver on day 2, doesn’t she.

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