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2013-09-26

by shaenon on September 26, 2013 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Dave Van Domelen
    September 26, 2013, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Possibly the first time “I want you inside me” has worked as a pickup line.

    • Manifesta
      September 26, 2013, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      Well, the second.

  2. Daniel
    September 26, 2013, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    I know this sounds perverse, but they could probably work something out. Shouldn’t be too hard to load the inside of nick’s copter mode with some artificial nerve endings and other gizmos. Dating a helicopter could have its perks too. Your boyfriend IS the fun ship.

  3. Corye
    September 26, 2013, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    awww, she likes him too!

  4. Anderson
    September 26, 2013, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Is it just me, or is Nick missing a rotor blade?

    • Riven
      September 26, 2013, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      He just has /really/ accurate stealth equipment.

    • LogicMouse
      September 26, 2013, 2:49 am | # | Reply

      I just checked Google. Ospreys have just three blades on each rotor.

      • WJS
        July 10, 2019, 8:22 am | # | Reply

        Look at his port nacelle. The angles don’t look right for the blades to be evenly spaced.

  5. Anderson
    September 26, 2013, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Actually, I can imagine the USAF inventing an advanced optical cloaking system and only fitting it to a single blade of a tilt-rotor. Gotta spend all that grant money to get the same amount next year, after all.

  6. Axel
    September 26, 2013, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    It turns out that the perfect date was inside Nick all along!

  7. Manifesta
    September 26, 2013, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    Ba-dump bump!

    • Manifesta
      September 26, 2013, 1:44 am | # | Reply

      And that was supposed to be a reply to Axel. How did ComicPress bill this upgrade, “Now with extra suckiness!”?

  8. Diane Castle
    September 26, 2013, 1:50 am | # | Reply

    I’m pretty sure that line has worked a heck of a lot more than twice. It just doesn’t work that often when a straight guy says it.

  9. Anderson
    September 26, 2013, 2:22 am | # | Reply

    @Manifesta

    It’s the new Comicpress Shuffle. Like an iPod Shuffle, only even less useful. It’s designed to keep commenter mindfulness high by forcing them to create a flow diagram in order to follow the more intricate comment-threads.

    Or, more likely, it’s what happens when someone spills crude oil on a laptop containing the update before sticking it in the microwave (someone, please find a way to get this on Mythbusters) and uploading it via two steel cans and a piece of string.

    Still. At least it’s not adding our replies to the *wrong* post. Yet.

    • Saberbeam
      September 26, 2013, 4:22 pm | # | Reply

      “Still. At least itโ€™s not adding our replies to the *wrong* post. Yet.”

      Maybe the comments system has become sentient and is just practicing messing up replies before it moves on to it’s grand scheme: sowing chaos by purposefully mismatching replies to the wrong comments like some unholy mashup of Telephone and Mad Libs.

      Someone call the Annex One team. Do you think Unity can punch the Internet?

  10. Anderson
    September 26, 2013, 2:23 am | # | Reply

    Testing something out…..it looks like replies are fine, but replies to replies are bugged.

  11. Anderson
    September 26, 2013, 2:24 am | # | Reply

    Nope, they’re all bugged equally randomly. Ok, I’ll reset the microwave.

  12. Andrew Kunz
    September 26, 2013, 3:01 am | # | Reply

    You know you’re a mad scientist is when you really love Funyuns.

    • Sheik
      September 26, 2013, 6:05 pm | # | Reply

      OMG
      And I don’t even have a Master’s, much less a PhD.
      I’m doomed!

      • Miserichord
        September 26, 2013, 7:03 pm | # | Reply

        Don’t worry about it.
        Many great inventors had little or no formal education.
        Just got to your lab and start doing SCIENCE!

        • Dewy
          September 26, 2013, 7:29 pm | # | Reply

          I LOVE Funyuns…but HATE onions. It’s a conundrum.

          • awgiedawgie
            September 22, 2019, 2:00 am | #

            A conunyundrum.

  13. eddurd
    September 26, 2013, 6:16 am | # | Reply

    So if I can’t encode HTML spaces, I’ll try something different to indent …

    (TUNE: “I’m Happy Just To Dance With You”, The Beatles)

    We were heading out to see a show …
    I’d prefer it if we didn’t go!
    We could stay at home and get it all for free …
    I’m inviting Doctor Lee in me!

    It’s so awesome that Virginia flips
    When I mention “lossy YouTube rips”!
    Entertaining vids on which we both agree,
    Man, I’m happy having Lee in me!

    _ Having Lee in me,
    _ With Funyuns all for her now,
    _ That’s not a barrier!
    _ I’d like to marry her,
    _ But it’s nice just having Lee in me!

    Kick your shoes off now and spend the night,
    Watching redshirts dying left and right
    On a ninety-nine-inch plasma screen TV …
    I’m just happy seein’ Lee in me!

    (Seein’ … Lee in … me!)

    • eddurd
      September 26, 2013, 6:17 am | # | Reply

      … and of course it deletes the extra spaces. Lovely. ๐Ÿ™

  14. Brian R Whitacre
    September 26, 2013, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    Aww.

  15. Tuscahoma
    September 26, 2013, 10:08 am | # | Reply

    Well, this is a perfectly lovely date, and yes, Dr. Lee seems truly into Nick. And as for how they progress from here, they could go the mechanical route and perhaps modify Nick somewhat, either his helicopter body or the violet bee drone, or they could go the VR route.

  16. anonymous
    September 26, 2013, 10:45 am | # | Reply

    He should keep the drone and use it like the waldo it was intended to be.
    At least until he and the good doctor have dated long enough for Nick to ask her for a better tactile suite and some anatomical revisions. Or she makes him a new drone for Christmas.

  17. theysabet
    September 26, 2013, 10:58 am | # | Reply

    Awwwwwwwwwww….. Yes, just “Awww” and nothing else. This is awkwardly, stupidly romantic. Why is it that the more intelligent you are, the stupider you tend to act in forming relationships? I bet Albert Einstein was stupendously awkward, and well, we all know about Tesla. So there.

    Awwwwwww…..

  18. Nerdly Nerds R Us
    September 26, 2013, 11:46 am | # | Reply

    test line 1
        test line 2

  19. Nerdly Nerds R Us
    September 26, 2013, 11:49 am | # | Reply

    Hm; the above comment was to respond to eddurd’s complaint about indents.

    I wrote it as:

    test line 1
        test line 2

  20. Nerdly Nerds R Us
    September 26, 2013, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

    What does this do?

    test line 1
      test line 2

  21. Nerdly Nerds R Us
    September 26, 2013, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

    Huh. The above used   to indent.

    @eddurd: It looks like HTML entities do still work.

    I, however, do not have javascript for this site enabled. WordPress.com is enabled, although I am not sure that it needs to be in order to comment. I am using the noscript extension on firefox.

    So maybe javascript-enabled commenting is what is causing problems with HTML entities not posting?

    • Rex Vivat
      September 26, 2013, 3:32 pm | # | Reply

      I tried testing that myself, since I don’t have any kind of script blocker… and kept getting “Invalid security token” errors.

  22. Freddie Freelance
    September 26, 2013, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

    Well, the first time it worked for a male bodiless brain mounted in a helicopter but using a cute female robotic drone.

    That line has been used successfully on my by cute females.

  23. mnementh
    September 26, 2013, 3:32 pm | # | Reply

    This is what Dr Lee thinks of when she talks about “making friends”. :-/

    I wonder if she intended to make a “Special Friend” with Nick, or if this is just more of the experiment for her… what an opportunity for scientific observation of the subject as it attempts to engage in “casual social intercourse”…

    mnem
    Oooh… I wonder what the drone will get up to while Nick’s jacked out?

    • soft
      September 26, 2013, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

      Well, it’s better than… wait… I shouldn’t complete that thought….

    • Shadowmehr
      September 26, 2013, 8:11 pm | # | Reply

      Given Dr. Lee’s specialties and known track record, her “making friends” may be more literal that one might want to think about. Nick might be an example in more than one way.

      • mnementh
        September 27, 2013, 2:00 am | # | Reply

        :facepalms:

        mnem
        I got nuthin’.

  24. Miserichord
    September 26, 2013, 7:06 pm | # | Reply

    What’s with all the demands for a physical relationship?
    So far, she’s only been interested in his brain.

  25. eddurd
    September 26, 2013, 10:31 pm | # | Reply

    Testing to see
     if I managed to disable
      Javascript properly

  26. eddurd
    September 26, 2013, 10:33 pm | # | Reply

     Hoo
      -ray!
       Thank you Nerdly Nerds!

  27. Eric Burns-White
    September 29, 2013, 3:55 pm | # | Reply

    A bit late maybe but…

    Wouldn’t the VR suite they used to ‘train’ Nick still be potentially viable? She could jack into that easily enough.

    Er, no pun intended.

    • Rex Vivat
      September 29, 2013, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

      No and no. He had the VR deleted and, in Nick’s own words, “the hardware is really really REALLY not up to that level”. See this entry his LJ: http://zerhakker.livejournal.com/5579.html

  28. JET73L
    March 6, 2015, 4:06 am | # | Reply

    Testing how line breaks work…
    And using a mini-filk to test it, because why not?

    Hey I’ll, tell you something,
    I think you might find odd.
    Yeah I’ll tell you something:
    I want you in my bod.

    I want you in my bo-o-od.
    I want you in my bod.

    And when you touch me
    I feel happy inside.
    It’s such a feeling but
    The drone isn’t right.
    Isn’t right,
    Isn’t right.

    Yeah you, the one who made me,
    From the [corpse] made by G-d.
    Yeah you, are the person,
    Who I want in my bod.

    I want you in my bo-o-od.
    I want you in my bod.

    (Okay, not such a “mini” filk after all, but it’s still a tiny bit shorter than the original song. I have no idea how Nick pronounced “God” with a hyphen, but he’s good at saying things that most people can only type as long as it’s not a [filking] expletive, so I guess he found a way.)

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