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2013-11-23

by shaenon on November 23, 2013 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. Evil Midnight Lurker
    November 23, 2013, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    This calls for Klatchian coffee. Dark, no sugar.

    • Norman
      November 23, 2013, 1:07 am | # | Reply

      Will that take her from a drunk nerd to a dren knurd?

    • Seabhac
      November 23, 2013, 1:07 am | # | Reply

      Are you sure you actually want Ginny knurd?

      • iburns
        November 23, 2013, 2:05 pm | # | Reply

        Does Klatchian Coffee make SRMD better or worse?

        • Huggy Cobra
          October 12, 2015, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

          If Girl Genius is any indication, worse, much worse.

    • Dave
      November 23, 2013, 1:45 am | # | Reply

      Klatchian coffee was totally my first thought! But then I thought, ‘Nah, that’s way to obscure.’
      Haha! So happy to be proven wrong! 😀

      • Altarboy
        November 23, 2013, 4:14 am | # | Reply

        Around here you will never be so obscure as to be singular. Not everyone will get it, but someone always will.

        • roberttheaddled
          November 23, 2013, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

          And THAT my friends – is part of the joy of Internet – somebody, somewhere – groks you.

          • commodorejohn
            November 23, 2013, 3:21 pm | #

            I’m just waiting for that to work out to someone grokking me in the Biblical sense…

  2. Rex Vivat
    November 23, 2013, 1:36 am | # | Reply

    “Beyond Sober” sounds like a name for a band.

    • roberttheaddled
      November 23, 2013, 6:51 pm | # | Reply

      That as a band name makes me try to imagine ‘freak out the senses’ music of a lovecraft-giger nature or some such.

  3. Dave
    November 23, 2013, 1:39 am | # | Reply

    I can’t help but feel a little worried about the change in scenery…

    • Beachfox
      November 23, 2013, 11:19 am | # | Reply

      No reason to be, they’re just trying to get to the Necropolis in the graveyards of Colma.
      It means that Artie didn’t engineer Tip ditching in an attempt to kidnap Ginny, which was my first suspicion.

    • Tetra Valent
      November 23, 2013, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      @Dave: Yeah, that doesn’t look like a hotel. And Ginny didn’t get her scrip of passage….

  4. Manifesta
    November 23, 2013, 2:37 am | # | Reply

    Another classic by The Zombies, “Time of the Season”:

    Why the phlox are we fighting?
    (I can’t) I cannot say
    When you schlorped my cerebrum
    (You took) You took away
    My potty mouth
    So now I cannot tell you
    What is wrong.
    I really want to yell. You
    Are unkind, for no reason
    So bite me!

    What’s my deal with the chopper?
    (It’s so) It’s so obscure
    I’m his mom, I’m his doctor
    (What else?) What else? Not sure
    He’s my best friend
    But still he drives me crazy
    Drunk or not
    The picture is so hazy
    It’s a crime how I tease him
    I’m guilty

    • Corye
      November 23, 2013, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

      *loves this!*

  5. Dave Harmon
    November 23, 2013, 7:05 am | # | Reply

    And that Gear of Plot turns another notch….

    Judging from the tombstones, they’re heading back to the “job site”.

  6. eddurd
    November 23, 2013, 8:50 am | # | Reply

    Everybody knows that the knurd is the word …

    (TUNE: “Freebird”, Lynyrd Skynyrd)

    Nick can’t even swear right, Art!
    He said phlox right in my ear!
    Seems we’re letting a fight start;
    What about, though, isn’t clear!

    My emotions are stirred, now,
    By this disembodied brain …
    ‘Cause I need to be knurd now
    So this nerd I can explain …
    Knurd, so nerd I can explain!

     [insert 47-minute Guitar Hero solo]

    • mrmonkeyhead2013
      November 23, 2013, 11:34 am | # | Reply

      Thanks a lot eddurd! A quick check of the strip turned into a 50 min. musical interlude…

  7. Shadowmehr
    November 23, 2013, 10:04 am | # | Reply

    There’s complicated, and then there’s really complicated.

    Ginny and Nick? Whole ‘nother level.

    I think we’d all need the Klatchian coffee to untangle it. (Or maybe just force feed it to the principals.)

  8. Frank
    November 23, 2013, 10:36 am | # | Reply

    oh no! Anything but potty mouth!

  9. Saberbeam
    November 23, 2013, 4:50 pm | # | Reply

    To the tune of “It’s not easy being me” from the movie Popeye

    It’s not easy bein’ Lee,
    Even though she’s cute and science-y,
    Her life ain’t so carefree,
    It’s not easy bein’ Lee.

    Oh, it’s very had to work,
    For those Anasigma jerks,
    Though it’s a real perk to work,
    It’s not easy bein’ Lee.

    It’s not easy bein’ Lee,
    Talk with Nick drives her crazy,
    So complicated now, you see?
    It’s not easy bein’ Lee.

    She altered Nick,
    Did stick his brain in a helicopter,
    Now he’s bricked cause she made it,
    So that he can’t swear.

    It’s not easy bein’ Lee,
    Is this what the fight’s about really?
    Or is it something else maybe?
    It’s not easy bein’ Lee.

    It’s not easy bein’ Lee.

    • oneuniverse2
      November 26, 2013, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

      These filks should be collected into an album. 🙂 Yes, I know albums are out of style right now.

  10. Moor
    November 23, 2013, 9:01 pm | # | Reply

    Erm… Could someone translate for Nick? It seems like the cuss being censored is important to understanding the strip, and I guess I don’t cuss enough…

    • BrotherPrickle
      November 23, 2013, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

      It’s fuck, isn’t it?

      • roberttheaddled
        November 24, 2013, 7:05 am | # | Reply

        Sex, Love, – both fit the grammar and conversation for both sentences. Relationships sorta fits but is a stretch. Relations or congress would also fit (thinking on that gives a new spin on Washington politics).

        I think adding ‘-ing’ would be required for your option to better fit both statements.

        • kanta
          November 24, 2013, 8:58 pm | # | Reply

          He can probably say Love.

  11. Smithnik
    November 24, 2013, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

    Wow, a three-filk day, and one with a long guitar solo!

    In panel two, it really looks like two different words are translated into Phlox. If the first is the second but with an “-ing” suffix, as Robert the Addled suggests, then it works, but it still feels like we’re missing something.

  12. KA$H
    March 6, 2016, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    Virginia blushes-23

    • maarvarq
      January 11, 2021, 6:49 am | # | Reply

      Agreed.

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