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2015-02-19

by shaenon on February 19, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. harryvoyager
    February 19, 2015, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    Mission status: tiny metal man beating head against hard object while singing.

    That’s never going to get old is it?

    • Towering Barbarian
      February 19, 2015, 1:15 am | # | Reply

      No, no it is not! ^_^

  2. Towering Barbarian
    February 19, 2015, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    I keep forgetting that the guy who created the Peter Principle got his start in a government bureaucracy in California and that his observations were said to cover the public sector more accurately then the private sector. Somehow it should not have surprised me that Sweetheart is every bit as bad as Sergeant Colon became when he was promoted to the head of the Watch but all the same it did! ^_^:

    • Daniel
      February 19, 2015, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

      Sir or madam, that reference earns you one “win”. Please report to the watch house at Treacle Mine Road to retrieve your “win”.

      • Galian
        February 19, 2015, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

        It shouldn’t surprise me to find Pratchett-ists in the fanbase of this comic, but it makes me very, very happy.

        • Bryce
          February 20, 2015, 4:16 am | # | Reply

          When I was growing up, my family were the only Pratchett fans I knew of. We lent a few books to friends and got chuckles, but whether because they matched our sense of humor or because Dad was English, we were the ones who kept re-reading them. Now I’ve gotten out into the real world, and the Internet has made it so much smaller, and Pratchett is everywhere. It’s kinda awesome and “this was MY thing, this made me special!” at the same time.

        • davidbreslin101
          February 20, 2015, 9:25 am | # | Reply

          Honestly, Skin Horse is one of a teeny-tiny handful of things that stand up to comparison with Pratchett for me.

  3. D. Walker
    February 19, 2015, 2:13 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart thinks she has it rough with those posters, but consider the poor bastards stuck in the printers being forced to make a new poster every day that they know is wrong.

    • Kirala
      February 19, 2015, 10:43 am | # | Reply

      Ugh, I once worked in a T-shirt shop where the customer ordered shirts saying the following:

      Texas: At it’s best.

      I even had a chance to talk with the customer beforehand and gently suggest a correction. The customer appeared surprised that any correction might be needed. He reflected for a second and insisted on his original version.

      For therapeutic reasons, I had to print an extra and go at it with a red Sharpie…

      Texas, at its best, cant spel gud.

      • =Tamar
        February 19, 2015, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

        Unintentionally ironic shirts – sometimes they’re the best kind.

      • oneuniverse2
        February 19, 2015, 2:56 pm | # | Reply

        That t-shirt story got a chuckle out of me 🙂

      • woozy
        February 19, 2015, 7:37 pm | # | Reply

        So in Sonoma Country there was always this billboard in the shape of a windmill with four blades with each blade having a single word on it. In clockwise order starting at the lower left– upper left — upper right — lower right, the four words read: IT’S FOOD AT BEST. And that is how I read it all through my childhood. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized one was supposed to read it upper left to upper right, lower left to lower right to read: FOOD AT IT’S BEST.

  4. Rob Furr
    February 19, 2015, 3:15 am | # | Reply

    Did any previous strip indicate whether or not a nonhuman can go Mad(tm)?

    • Paul
      February 19, 2015, 9:34 am | # | Reply

      In Skin Horse, no. In Narbonic, however, Artie did make several mad scientist gerbils.

      • WJS
        July 25, 2019, 3:57 pm | # | Reply

        I’m not entirely sure they qualified as Madâ„¢; while Dana was completely insane by the end, her magnum opus was recreated by the Hamsters, who were officially not Madâ„¢. One of the key defining things about Madnessâ„¢ in Narbonic is that they create things which can’t be understood even by geniuses.

        • awgiedawgie
          July 25, 2019, 11:00 pm | # | Reply

          Quite right. Artie made them into super-genius gerbils, but they were sane, just as he is. Unfortunately, without the genetic modifications that Helen made to Artie, the other gerbils were destined to go insane as their brains turned into pudding. But “insane” is not the same as “Mad”.

  5. Robert Nowall
    February 19, 2015, 5:27 am | # | Reply

    Maybe the cat poster wasn’t so bad…

    • oneuniverse2
      February 19, 2015, 2:57 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe we can get the one from Beta’s place.

  6. Robert Nowall
    February 19, 2015, 6:56 am | # | Reply

    Okay, in edduard’s regrettable absence, here’s one from “Honky Cat,” Elton John.

    I was the straw that broke the camel’s back
    I was too much for the Institute to attack
    They changed my poster, but never got it right
    So how can I get Moustachio out of that fight?

    They say, get back, honky cat,
    Better get back to the world
    Well, I did my crime, and I spent my time.
    And oh, oh, oh, the change ain’t gonna do me good

    You better get back, honky cat,
    Pens that won’t write just ain’t where it’s at
    It’s like faking smart when you think you’re really dumb
    It’s like trying to open cans without any thumbs.

  7. Robert Nowall
    February 19, 2015, 6:58 am | # | Reply

    I tried, but what can you do with something like this:

    I’m ‘Enery the Eighth I am
    ‘Enery the Eighth I am I am
    I got married to the widow next door
    She’s been married seven times before
    And every one was an ‘Enery
    Wouldn’t have a Willie or a Sam
    I’m ‘er eight old man I’m ‘Enery
    ‘Enery the Eighth I am.

  8. Brian-M
    February 19, 2015, 7:05 am | # | Reply

    Either Moustachio has been listening to Herman’s Hermits on the wireless, or he’s been part of the audience in a British Music Hall at least as recently as 1910, which is when that song was written.

    • Robert Nowall
      February 19, 2015, 7:22 am | # | Reply

      There’s a pit stop at Joe Brown and the Bruvvers, too…

  9. Bartimaeus
    February 19, 2015, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    I am starting to suspect this is a setup to drive Sweetheart— well— Mad.

    • DarkStarling
      February 19, 2015, 1:36 pm | # | Reply

      Suspect? They’re actively gaslighting her.

    • BMunro
      February 19, 2015, 4:11 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t think they’re trying to drive her Mad as much as break her down psychologically to the point where she’ll be easily manipulable.A-sig needs Skin Horse in the War, but on their terms.

      • Shadowmehr
        February 19, 2015, 7:11 pm | # | Reply

        Seconded. This has all the hallmarks of a planned attack.

        Hopefully being in radio contact with a trained psychologist will counter the effect.

        Wait, it’s Tip, never mind.

  10. Grace
    February 19, 2015, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

    Uppercut, M! Get that blue guy on the chin and his head will pop right off!

  11. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    February 24, 2015, 4:08 am | # | Reply

    Second verse:
    Same as the firs’.
    A little bit louder and a little bit worse!

  12. jdreyfuss
    January 27, 2020, 8:31 am | # | Reply

    They’re not gaslighting her, because she knows they keep replacing the poster with new, different errors every day. It’s not a Yellow Wallpaper situation, because they are changing it and it’s not her descent into madness that’s causing her to see the errors. This is basically a behavioral equivalent of the old punishment where they would put someone in a cell that was just a little bit too small in all dimensions to stand, sit, or lie down comfortably.

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