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2014-01-02

by shaenon on January 2, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. Moe Lane
    January 2, 2014, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    There are worse life strategies out there than the one where you carefully heed the counsel of His Imperial Majesty, Sweetheart.

    • soft
      January 2, 2014, 10:16 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps, but I don’t think that was the point she was trying to make….

  2. Jay Eff
    January 2, 2014, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    “I’m not off the throne yet, pup.

    And when I DO leave, my replacement will be unable to enter the water closet for at least twenty-five minutes.”

    ….hey, where’d that big Vaudeville hook come from? *YANK*

    • jdreyfuss
      January 2, 2014, 7:37 am | # | Reply

      And when I DO leave, my replacement may be surprised to find specific keys missing from every keyboard in the office.

      • Tehbeefer
        January 2, 2014, 3:13 pm | # | Reply

        Yo8 can j8s2 swap in some o2her charac2er 2hen, as long as i2’s no2 for work or some2hing. Yo8’d be s8rprised how q8ickly yo8 ge2 8sed 2o reading 2hings like 2ha2, i2’s q8i2e 8nexpec2ed, al2ho8gh I’m no2 s8re if it’s j8st fillinf in 2he missing le22ers or ac28ally making 2he s8bs2i282ion.

        • This Guy I Know
          January 3, 2014, 5:37 pm | # | Reply

          I2’s easy eno8gh 2o 2es2. One m8s2 simply 8nexpec2edly reverse 8he s2bs8i828ion and i8 will q2ickly become apparen8 which g2ess was correc8.
          (I’d love to know what other people’s results were–I don’t count as a test subject because I knew what was coming.)

          • Tonyris
            January 21, 2014, 7:30 am | #

            Instantaneous. And freaky. I just read the whole thing, then I had to come back to see that yes, you had reversed the 2 and the 8.

          • Windy Wanderings
            June 3, 2014, 12:52 pm | #

            I had no trouble reading it, but then I have prior experience with that sort of thing because of Homestuck.

          • Fal Leithani
            February 27, 2016, 3:56 am | #

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  3. eddurd
    January 2, 2014, 6:47 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Up On The Roof”, Goffin & King)

    This Pro-po-si-tion may shortly go bust,
    Unless my people trust
    The Government!
    To show that you have the matter in hand,
    Below, by my command,
    You’re being sent!

     In the sew-ers you will face our foe …
     And you will make them pack their bags and go!
     Don’cha know …

    If Queen Elena has sent them to kill,
    Then thwart her plan, you will!
    Go sock it to ‘er!
    And then my people will surely admit
    You really know your s**t!
    Down in the sewer!
    Down in the sewer!
    Down in the sewer!

  4. Dave Harmon
    January 2, 2014, 8:49 am | # | Reply

    Wait, Emperor Norton is pushing for trust in the U.S. Government? Death has changed the fellow. Death, and maybe responsibility….

    • Dr. Steve
      January 2, 2014, 10:02 am | # | Reply

      One’s death will often improve one’s opinion of a government. Or, from another direction, when one dies, one’s opinion of a government is not likely to decline.

    • nemryn
      January 2, 2014, 10:36 am | # | Reply

      Only as a tool to get P39 passed, though. He doesn’t necessarily trust it in its own right.

    • s854
      January 3, 2014, 7:02 am | # | Reply

      Emperor Norton is pushing for trust in the U.S. Government. Isn’t this exactly the wrong time to introduce Dr. Lee’s machine?

  5. Nan
    January 2, 2014, 11:21 am | # | Reply

    I could watch Sweetheart interact with authority figures //all day//.

  6. jdreyfuss
    January 2, 2014, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

    This is something that’s been bothering me for a few days now. Are Bummer and Lazarus part of the real Emperor Norton’s history or did Jeff and Shaenon get them from Christopher Moore’s modern-day version of him?

    • jdreyfuss
      January 2, 2014, 3:33 pm | # | Reply

      I shouldn’t say bothering, because I’m not accusing them of plagiarism or something like that. I’m just wondering if the dogs actually existed or if Moore has added to the mythology of the man.

      • Danny in Montreal
        January 2, 2014, 4:06 pm | # | Reply

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

  7. Saberbeam
    January 2, 2014, 6:05 pm | # | Reply

    Hrm, I think this is not proper quest giving etiquette. Usually when royalty sends a group to clear a sewer, cave, fortress, etc. of monsters, they are supposed to provide them with potions, arms (preferably enchanted) and no end of inane, oddly specific advice.

    Then again, add some imperial backing to Sweetheart’s bureaucratic authority and all will tremble before her.

    • WJS
      July 10, 2019, 3:10 pm | # | Reply

      Pen and paper etiquette, sure. Videogame etiquette on the other hand doesn’t involve giving any kind of advance, sketchy directions, and once the quest is completed a random article of clothing as a reward.

  8. Shadowmehr
    January 2, 2014, 9:00 pm | # | Reply

    It is on such paradoxes that civilizations are founded.

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