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2019-07-15

by shaenon on July 15, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. Robert Nowall
    July 15, 2019, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    I would’a thought, what with the “hang in there” poster and the dancing flower, that they might be HR…

    • Shadowmehr
      July 15, 2019, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

      Depending on how paranoid you are, those two options are not mutually exclusive.

  2. Alphaghoul
    July 15, 2019, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Oooooh, I get it, we thought that this was the scenario where they thought that they were someone else, Jeff and Shaenon really got me there.

  3. Robert Nowall
    July 15, 2019, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    “Well, well, well, look who’s here.
    I haven’t seen you in many a year.
    If I knew you were comin’ I’d ‘ve baked a cake,
    baked a cake, baked a cake.
    If I knew you were comin’ I’d ‘ve baked a cake.
    How-ja do. How-ja do, How-ja do.
    Had you dropped me a letter I’d ‘ve hired a band,
    grandest band in the land.
    Had you dropped me a letter I’d ‘ve hired a band
    and spread the welcome mat for you.
    Now I don’t know where you came from
    ’cause I don’t know where you’ve been.
    But it really doesn’t matter
    grab a chair and fill your platter
    and dig dig dig right in.
    If I knew you were comin’ I’d ‘ve baked a cake,
    hired a band, goodness sake.
    If I knew you were comin’ I’d ‘ve baked a cake.
    How-ja do. How-ja do. How-ja do.
    If I knew you were comin’ I’d ‘ve baked a cake,
    baked a cake, baked a cake.
    If I knew you were comin’ I’d ‘ve baked a cake.
    How-ja do. How-ja do, How-ja do.
    Had you dropped me a letter I’d ‘ve hired a hall,
    great big hall, band and all.
    Had you dropped me a letter I’d ‘ve hired a hall
    and spread the welcome mat for you.
    Now I don’t know where you came from
    ’cause I don’t know where you’ve been.
    But it really doesn’t matter
    grab a chair and fill your platter
    and dig dig dig right in.
    If I knew you were comin’ I’d ‘ve kept the pot,
    coffee pot nice and hot.
    If I knew you were comin’ I’d ‘ve baked a cake.
    How-ja do. How-ja do. How-ja do.”

    —“If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake,” Al Hoffman, Bob Merrill, and Clem Watts. I can’t top these lyrics, so look at ’em while I think of something else.

    Or better yet try this:

    • Pygar
      July 15, 2019, 1:01 am | # | Reply

      “If we knew you were coming, we would run and hide, run and hide, run and hide
      There’s not much hope when Unity’s inside!
      We’re all doomed, we’re all doomed, we’re all doomed!”

  4. chh01
    July 15, 2019, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    Tip: “Is it a friendly cake?”

    • Bruce A Munro
      July 15, 2019, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      Friendly or unfriendly, Unity has neutralized it.

  5. palenoue
    July 15, 2019, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Hard to imagine the foretold squeegee incident will top this, but if anyone can do it Shaenon and Jeff can.

    • Bear
      July 15, 2019, 11:15 am | # | Reply

      Have you forgotten already the lesson of the Razor Monkeys?

      It was surprisingly pleasant.

  6. awgiedawgie
    July 15, 2019, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    And we all know Unity ate the candle as well.

    • Shadowmehr
      July 15, 2019, 8:56 pm | # | Reply

      Tomorrow, we see the smoke coming out of her ears (and stitches).

  7. Towering Barbarian
    July 15, 2019, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    Ah, so they are *friendly* surveillance experts! ^_^

  8. awgiedawgie
    July 15, 2019, 1:57 am | # | Reply

    Must be a microwave cake. Otherwise it took them a really long time to make their way in there.

    • cloudster
      July 15, 2019, 9:59 am | # | Reply

      As Alton says on Cutthroat Kitchen, you MUST know how to make a microwave cake if you have any hope of success.

    • Daibhid C
      July 15, 2019, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

      We don’t know how far back they saw them coming. We also don’t know how far away Annex One is parked.

    • Robert Nowall
      July 15, 2019, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

      I can do a cake in under an hour if I don’t wait for it to cool before applying the icing.

  9. Alphaghoul
    July 15, 2019, 10:06 pm | # | Reply

    Yeah, that was a pretty clever gag, the agents already know their coming but instead of setting up an ambush they bake them a cake and hold a surprise party.

    It reminds me why I’ve kept reading this all these years despite the times Sweetheart fails to be funny. This isn’t just yet another “clever and funny” webcomic where fully sentient zombies feed on their living human counterparts simply because zombies humans eating living humans is considered a thing, that’s just corny and cheesy.

    • Robert Nowall
      July 15, 2019, 11:30 pm | # | Reply

      “Halt! Friend or foe?” “Out of my way or I’ll run you down!” “Pass, friend!”

      • awgiedawgie
        July 16, 2019, 1:01 am | # | Reply

        Margaret did have a way with words.

    • Candace
      July 16, 2019, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      Agreed in general, although I will say that if one has (or has ever had) a dog, Sweetheart is actually pretty funny at times. (Most dogs are protocol freaks. I think the comic has done a great job of portraying what uplifted, self-aware dogs might be like. And every one of Sweetheart’s pack has had a unique, yet still dog-like personality. I suspect David Brin would be proud.)

      I think, on reflection, that’s one of the things that makes this comic great – there is a character for everyone. My personal favorite is Unity, and least favorite is Tip, although I’m pleased to see that Tip appears to be on the road to personal growth now.

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