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2019-04-08

by shaenon on April 8, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. Alphaghoul
    April 8, 2019, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    I don’t get what he means by goat.

    • Dave Doss
      April 8, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

      I think the swear filter is seeping through his normal speech patterns. Like its subconscious.

    • Rimwolf
      April 8, 2019, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      Greatest Of All Time?

    • Fullbladder
      April 8, 2019, 12:15 am | # | Reply

      I’ve seen GOAT as an acronym used in sports a few times. I assume Nick is using it that way here. Greatest Of All Time, maybe?

      • Fullbladder
        April 8, 2019, 10:46 am | # | Reply

        Realized later that thinking of it as an acronym had me instinctively pronouncing it “Go-At” like I’m Doofenschmirtz or something. Maybe Dr Time.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 8, 2019, 12:22 am | # | Reply

      “The GOAT” (capitalized) seems to have started with Muhammad Ali and progressed through a number of athletes and others; lately it’s been applied to Tom Brady. “Greatest of All Time” seems to be it, though.

      • Terry Hunt
        April 12, 2019, 4:18 pm | # | Reply

        In motorbike-racing circles, it’s sometimes applied to Valentino Rossi, aka “The Doctor”, though he would likely award the accolade to Giacomo Agostini. In Rossi’s case, it may additionally be taken to refer to his amorous activites (this being a man who bears on his leathers the slogan WLF, standing – slightly inaccurately on purpose – for Viva la Figa” which translates as “Long Live Pussy.”

    • Leslie
      April 8, 2019, 3:03 am | # | Reply

      Sacrificial goat, intended by the Israelites to be insulted, stoned, and driven out into the wilderness, taking the people’s sins upon himself, as opposed to the pure, white
      innocent widdle Lambie….who was sacrificed quite bloodily, with great fanfare and of course great honor.

      If you think the process is tilted, You’re not alone.

      • Rockphed
        April 8, 2019, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

        I think you mean the “scape goat”. The sacrificial goat was the one that had its entrails removed, its blood ritually spread upon the altar, its fat burned, and its flesh consumed by the congregation. And yes, they preferred a lamb as the sacrifice, but they also used rams, goats, bulls, and small birds.

    • woozy
      April 8, 2019, 11:29 am | # | Reply

      When Charlie Brown did poorly at baseball he was called a goat and everyone made insulting baa noises at him. Obviously terms change.

      • awgiedawgie
        April 8, 2019, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

        The important distinction there is whether those four letters are used as an acronym (as it is here), or as a word in reference to the animal (like for Charlie Brown).

        • woozy
          April 9, 2019, 1:44 am | # | Reply

          Or if you have the self-confidence that Ali had… (Charlie Brown clearly did not)

  2. Robert Nowall
    April 8, 2019, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    If Dr. Lee is Nick’s next competitor, I’m sure Tip would go in for him.

    • Shadowmehr
      April 8, 2019, 8:25 pm | # | Reply

      If Tip tried, Nick might seriously reconsider his pacifist stance.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 8, 2019, 10:06 pm | # | Reply

      Nick wouldn’t need a substitute or any assistance. I think at this point, Virginia would gladly allow him to conquer her.

      Although they would probably request some privacy.

  3. Barbara K
    April 8, 2019, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    M is a true gentleman.

  4. Barbara K
    April 8, 2019, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    Shaenon does such a great job conveying M’s emotion using eyes, facial tendrils, and stance. Two self-satisfied “smug”s, one “concerned sincere” from an experienced man of the world.

  5. thedoctor55
    April 8, 2019, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    Is that a smile I see on Nick’s face? (He best be smiling dammit!)

    • Robert Nowall
      April 8, 2019, 10:02 am | # | Reply

      Funny. That’s been on my mind. I was just thinking the other day that I couldn’t recall seeing Nick smile. No doubt it couldn’t be seen well when he was in the helicopter, but in the Violet-Drone-in-Whimsey-World story, the VR-Whimsey-World story, and his recent return to human form, I could only find one smile: http://skin-horse.com/comic/yet-moustachio/

      • OneUniverse
        April 8, 2019, 11:25 pm | # | Reply

        Didn’t Nick smile when in the strip where, as the drone, he thought “Damn right I’m a princess”?

        • Robert Nowall
          April 8, 2019, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

          I checked it out. Looked like some sort of grim grimace to me.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 9, 2019, 3:08 am | #

            The third panel might be a smile, but not much of one. However, there are a few others in that storyline where he is definitely smiling: the one where he’s saying “pork pork pork pork pork pork pork pork pork pork mukluk“, the one where Sweetheart is doing her Gilbert and Sullivan routine, and Nick can see it, but the Whimsy employees can’t, and this one.

      • Candace
        April 9, 2019, 12:32 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, Nick’s not much of a smiler.

  6. Leslie
    April 8, 2019, 2:53 am | # | Reply

    Yes, she’s closing into HIS space. There willl be few complaints.
    I’m glad she CARES.

    Since we’re all so sophisticated here, quick! What’s the official and professional
    label for people who DON’T TRUST anybody they can’t touch?

    • Christian Rose
      April 8, 2019, 9:27 am | # | Reply

      I think you’re referring to sensory defensiveness

  7. notactuallyaperson
    April 8, 2019, 8:07 am | # | Reply

    d’aw.

  8. Robert Nowall
    April 8, 2019, 11:02 am | # | Reply

    You gotta have a meat-based body
    To have a chance with a beautiful nerd.
    You gotta have an organ wee-er, you see
    If you wanna be who makes it with Lee.
    The fact that you’re a helicopter
    Won’t cut it when it’s so absurd.
    You gotta have a meat-based body
    To have a chance with a beautiful nerd.

    —from “You Gotta Be a Football Hero.”

  9. Shadowmehr
    April 8, 2019, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

    Always a trade-off. Nick is being reminded of the benefits.

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