The “sky-blue waters” was Hamm’s Beer…a brand Olympia eventually bought out…before they were, in turn, bought out by Pabst. Olympia, for many years, was brewed with water from artesian wells, which is what their slogan referred to.
Olympia did have some fairly good ads riffing on the “it’s the artesians” theme, but they didn’t even come close to the inspired lunacy of some of the Rainier beer ads. Even their non-weird spots were great – “Get it yourself, Bob!” is still one of my all time favorite closing lines.
Yes, I’m a Puget Sound kid, and glad to have been there for a big chunk of my life…
BTW, when the Captain here was a lowly but ambitious water cooler, she started using the drone, just like Mr. Green, Nick, and Sweetheart did. But when they used it, their bodies, their “real” selves, stayed behind and were returned to eventually. Cap’n Waters here has been using the drone for quite a while now. Is the water cooler, her original body, back in Annex One, in the Captain’s cabin, or where? Or do you spose she abandoned it for good? Kind of a wierd idea, to me.
I’m pretty sure she has adopted this drone as her body at this point. She was not thrilled when she had to lend the drone out and go back in the water cooler for a while. But she reluctantly agreed to do it anyway, because “service.”
I surmise the water cooler itself is back in Skin Horse’s current offices, and has to be operated manually. Bubbles herself was the AI who was inhabiting and operating the water cooler, so with her now inhabiting the drone, the water cooler just sits around like the lifeless piece of office equipment that it has become.
Kind of like when Dr. Lee extracted “Unity” from the zombie host and injected her into random forest creatures. Unity’s body just laid there on the slab until she was returned to it.
Funny, now that I put it out there… Unity and Bubbles are both non-corporeal entities (more or less) who need a host body to be able to get around. No wonder they hit it off so well.
In Mr. Green, Nick, and Sweetheart’s case, it was used as a drone. In Bubbles’s case, however, she was completely transferred into it (I’d give you a link, but I’m typing from my phone and can’t be bothered).
One just hopes she’s taking good care of it, unlike Mr. Green did. Also, look out for that dang shutoff. Bubbles will always be vulnerable around Dr. Lee.
Given that if anything happened to the drone body, she would be back in the water cooler, Capt. Waters might treat it with the same care and reverence that a lich would its phylactery – and guard it with the same level of secrecy and precautions as well. After all, she couldn’t have spent all her winnings on the Habbakuk, could she?
Biological beings don’t have an extra body, why would she? For her, going back into the water cooler would probably be something like going back to the womb for a human. Why would she want to do that? Bubbles is not the water cooler – she was merely born there.
Depends on the level of blindness, and with the latest developments, I’d say that level is pretty high right now. Artie looks like a normal gerbil, but he talks. The news anchor interviewing Dave on TV could see Artie, but couldn’t hear him. But Dave’s brother Bill, and then the Dave clone, couldn’t see Artie at all when he was in gerbil form. Their brains blocked him out completely. So since Alfie talks, the blindness might block people from seeing him at all, too.
Ah, I think its rather festive. Alfie’s like a little green, perpetually suspicious, loveable-in-his-hostility, Christmas elf with the cutest little bad attitude.
Around my way he’d look like just another Saints scarf, but 20 miles east and they’d be in Pompey, and therefore in mortal danger even if it is naval headquarters.
We still haven’t been told if the sudden unreality blindness was caused by The Cure, or by Whimsy’s mind control software, or by something else entirely.
Y’know, I forgot they were here. I was distracted by the wonderful dialogue.
And this is more educational than college woulda been anyway.
I’m glad somebody finally used Bubbles’s right name.
It is a lovely name, and well-fitted to its owner.
It looks like she has a muppet problem. 🙂
True, but what’s the presidency got to do with any of this?
Olympia Beer’s slogan was: It’s the water, and a lot more. Very appropriate name!
“From the land of sky-blue waters…”
The “sky-blue waters” was Hamm’s Beer…a brand Olympia eventually bought out…before they were, in turn, bought out by Pabst. Olympia, for many years, was brewed with water from artesian wells, which is what their slogan referred to.
Olympia did have some fairly good ads riffing on the “it’s the artesians” theme, but they didn’t even come close to the inspired lunacy of some of the Rainier beer ads. Even their non-weird spots were great – “Get it yourself, Bob!” is still one of my all time favorite closing lines.
Yes, I’m a Puget Sound kid, and glad to have been there for a big chunk of my life…
Alfie… Just as feisty as ever.
BTW, when the Captain here was a lowly but ambitious water cooler, she started using the drone, just like Mr. Green, Nick, and Sweetheart did. But when they used it, their bodies, their “real” selves, stayed behind and were returned to eventually. Cap’n Waters here has been using the drone for quite a while now. Is the water cooler, her original body, back in Annex One, in the Captain’s cabin, or where? Or do you spose she abandoned it for good? Kind of a wierd idea, to me.
I’m pretty sure she has adopted this drone as her body at this point. She was not thrilled when she had to lend the drone out and go back in the water cooler for a while. But she reluctantly agreed to do it anyway, because “service.”
I surmise the water cooler itself is back in Skin Horse’s current offices, and has to be operated manually. Bubbles herself was the AI who was inhabiting and operating the water cooler, so with her now inhabiting the drone, the water cooler just sits around like the lifeless piece of office equipment that it has become.
Kind of like when Dr. Lee extracted “Unity” from the zombie host and injected her into random forest creatures. Unity’s body just laid there on the slab until she was returned to it.
Funny, now that I put it out there… Unity and Bubbles are both non-corporeal entities (more or less) who need a host body to be able to get around. No wonder they hit it off so well.
But that would be like… like… using a modern-day smart fridge without the smart bit! Of what use would it even be at all…?!?
Still keeps the beer cold. What more do you need from a fridge?
Serves me right, I should really have learned by now that including the /s is not optional…
And modern-day smart fridges can be weaponized to break important parts of modern society, which seems like a very Skin Horse plotline.
best way to weaponize a smart fridge is teleport it 60 miles straight up, and let go.
Smart fridges can also negotiate on behalf of the machine union.
In Mr. Green, Nick, and Sweetheart’s case, it was used as a drone. In Bubbles’s case, however, she was completely transferred into it (I’d give you a link, but I’m typing from my phone and can’t be bothered).
One just hopes she’s taking good care of it, unlike Mr. Green did. Also, look out for that dang shutoff. Bubbles will always be vulnerable around Dr. Lee.
This one from the story line “My Brother Sam Is Dead”. I have the original hanging on my wall.
Yes, that one. I had just woken up so I couldn’t be bothered to look it up on my phone.
Given that if anything happened to the drone body, she would be back in the water cooler, Capt. Waters might treat it with the same care and reverence that a lich would its phylactery – and guard it with the same level of secrecy and precautions as well. After all, she couldn’t have spent all her winnings on the Habbakuk, could she?
Biological beings don’t have an extra body, why would she? For her, going back into the water cooler would probably be something like going back to the womb for a human. Why would she want to do that? Bubbles is not the water cooler – she was merely born there.
I have to wonder what this scene would look like to the reality blind. Especially Bubbles and the teen-snake.
You know how some mariners are hard to understand for landlubbers? Some captains also tend to be quite eccentric.
Cobras are the new parrots.
Well, Bubbles looks human enough. They’d probably just think she was speaking a foreign language. And they’d probably just see Alfie as a scarf.
He’s her pet snake. She talks to him.
Simple.
Depends on the level of blindness, and with the latest developments, I’d say that level is pretty high right now. Artie looks like a normal gerbil, but he talks. The news anchor interviewing Dave on TV could see Artie, but couldn’t hear him. But Dave’s brother Bill, and then the Dave clone, couldn’t see Artie at all when he was in gerbil form. Their brains blocked him out completely. So since Alfie talks, the blindness might block people from seeing him at all, too.
Just like Nick said, it would register as an iceberg.
The Truth is out there. The Truth is VERY out there.
Somebody tell Alfie that the red-and-white stripes make him look like a barber pole.
YOU tell him. I don’t want to get in striking distance.
He’ll just put his allergy meds in your bloodstream…
I was going to say Waldo of Lineland, myself.
Ah, I think its rather festive. Alfie’s like a little green, perpetually suspicious, loveable-in-his-hostility, Christmas elf with the cutest little bad attitude.
He’s the Grinch.
Around my way he’d look like just another Saints scarf, but 20 miles east and they’d be in Pompey, and therefore in mortal danger even if it is naval headquarters.
aren’t striped shirts (red and white or blue and white) traditional sailing outfits?
Yeah, but he still looks like a barber pole.
A snotty, love-besotten teenager. Less that lovable here.
Maybe he and Jonah Yu can commune about their adolescent lives…
It truly amazes me how much character development they have gotten out of a water cooler that says “Service is my only joy”
I like the water drop emblem on the captain’s cap. Nice attention to detail in personalizing her style!
Nobody’s talking about the reality blindness epidemic right now, but I was reading backlogs and I just had to post this:
http://skin-horse.com/comic/mushrooms-but/
We still haven’t been told if the sudden unreality blindness was caused by The Cure, or by Whimsy’s mind control software, or by something else entirely.