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2013-03-28

by shaenon on March 28, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Anderson
    March 28, 2013, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Of course she loves to check them.

    She’s a spelling bee(s).

    • Andrew
      March 28, 2013, 3:29 am | # | Reply

      That’s either the best or worst pun since Zerkhakker.

      • Anderson
        March 28, 2013, 5:08 am | # | Reply

        Oh come on, you were all thinking it.

        • Saberbeam
          March 28, 2013, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

          Perhaps, but it still stung to hear it. *rimshot*

          • Anderson
            March 28, 2013, 6:34 pm | #

            Careful, someone’s gonna ask us to buzz off before too long if we keep this up.

          • Jeff K!
            March 31, 2013, 1:13 am | #

            Look, honey, if you make me drone on about this I’ll break out into hives. And then I’d have to bee combed to clear them up. >:(

            😉

  2. furbearntrout
    March 28, 2013, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    and now we know she’s made out of /spelling/ bees..

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      March 28, 2013, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

      “Four Minutes from Glory: the Furbearntrout Story”

  3. Grantwhy
    March 28, 2013, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    We know it takes two hamsters to drive a robotic body.

    I wonder how many bees it would take to remotely operate one?
    (I doubt there is any room left inside for manual controls?)

  4. Moe Lane
    March 28, 2013, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    I think that it’s time Sweetheart got a gimme assignment. She looks like she’s ready for a little… RAMPAGE.

  5. Forzin
    March 28, 2013, 3:02 am | # | Reply

    this has been building up so Gavotte could control Violet Bee isn’t it?

  6. Paula
    March 28, 2013, 3:23 am | # | Reply

    “Is there any point” to some paperwork, oh dear Sweetheart

  7. Sora Hjort
    March 28, 2013, 4:20 am | # | Reply

    Field Reports also look good on paper.

  8. Eddurd
    March 28, 2013, 5:56 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Let It Be”, The Beatles)

    Now the field team has returned, outwitting
    Anasigma, so she sees!
    Now Gavotte can use her
    Spelling bees!

    When Sweetheart asks why they’re submitting
    Lengthy field reports like these?
    It’s ’cause they amuse her
    Spelling bees!

     Spelling bees, spelling bees, spelling bees, spelling bees …
     Dear Gavotte is made of
     Spelling bees!

    How cleverly Gavotte has picked her
    Field team so they win with ease!
    For she has efficient
    Spelling bees!

    “Did you get the fusion pie named Victor?
    Stick in the wall safe, please!”
    Seems she has omniscient
    Spelling bees!

     Spelling bees, spelling bees, spelling bees, spelling bees …
     All done with the aid of
     Spelling bees!

  9. Mental Mouse
    March 28, 2013, 7:18 am | # | Reply

    Also, “my” fusion device? Until recently, that thing was running a mobile city of Mads. Also, how does the drone/corpse not even get a mention?

    • Dr. steve
      March 28, 2013, 8:17 am | # | Reply

      MM, Those bees already drone. So… of what use would a drone named Bee, be to a swarm of bees?

      • Daibhid C
        March 28, 2013, 9:11 am | # | Reply

        Oh, good grief, I’ve *just noticed” the “drone called Bee” pun.

      • Tetra Valent
        March 28, 2013, 9:26 pm | # | Reply

        What use to bees
        could a bees’ drone be
        if a bees’ drone be Drone Bee?

      • carnackiArdent
        March 31, 2013, 11:06 pm | # | Reply

        *Do* they drone? I don’t know if we have any evidence one way or the other that Gavotte has any… then again, if her individual bees have a normal bee-like lifespan, presumably they’d have to reproduce, same way a singular organism’s cells would need to.

  10. jdreyfuss
    March 28, 2013, 7:53 am | # | Reply

    As intrinsically bureaucratic as Sweetheart is, does she really care if her paperwork gets read, as long as it gets properly filed?

    • Daibhid C
      March 28, 2013, 9:10 am | # | Reply

      What Terry Pratchett calls “write-only documents”. (This may not be original to Sir Pterry.)

      • Stickmaker
        March 28, 2013, 2:40 pm | # | Reply

        Several years ago a run of memory chips was shipped without the actual silicon electronic bit being inserted in the carrier. People were joking they were WOM (Write Only Memory) chips.

        • Storel
          November 10, 2017, 2:53 am | # | Reply

          APL is often described as a “write-only” computer language — you can write programs in it, but you can’t come back to them later and read them. Seriously, if an APL program needs modifying after it’s written, it’s usually easier to simply rewrite it from scratch than to figure out how to modify the existing code.

  11. Jay
    March 28, 2013, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    So now they have 2 out of the 3 nuclear Robbers.

    And they’ve broken each of them (assuming what they did before was “working”.)

    I get the feeling M.Gavotte and Mr. Green may be playing on the same field, but by completely different sets of rules – maybe even different games altogether…

  12. Dewy
    March 28, 2013, 9:57 am | # | Reply

    Unity: Now we can make…two fusion pies. Two is bigger than one, so…WIN!

    • kag
      March 28, 2013, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

      Two! Two fusion pies! Ah ah ah ahah

      • Anderson
        March 28, 2013, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

        Did Sesame street ever handle the issue of nuclear proliferation?

  13. Shadowmehr
    March 28, 2013, 8:20 pm | # | Reply

    Gavotte doesn’t need to be omniscent, she just needs to be well informed. Along with the various agency reports a blacks op director has access to, she can probably leave one of herselves in places where there might be sensitive info she needs. Even Anasigma’s net isn’t tight enough to keep out a single bee.

    That’s right, Gavotte has been planting bugs.

    (ducks flying garbage)

    That aside, now we have two of the portable generators, with mention of a third still at large. Smart money is on the third one showing up to join the collection; so the question remains, what does a swarm of black ops bees need with fusion power?

  14. squirrel
    March 29, 2013, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    so the current theory is Gavotte was Violet? I kept rooting for Pavane… 🙁

    • Storel
      November 10, 2017, 2:55 am | # | Reply

      No, somebody from Anasigma was controlling Violet, not somebody from Skin Horse. Two different agencies.

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