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2017-11-14

by shaenon on November 14, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Unsinkable
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  1. ngmatt
    November 14, 2017, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    yeah that seems about right.

    • Shadowmehr
      November 14, 2017, 7:40 pm | # | Reply

      “Exceptional” can have more than one meaning. Shelby is not using the obvious one.

  2. chh01
    November 14, 2017, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Why don’t they switch over to inebriac?

    • awgiedawgie
      November 14, 2017, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      It seems they already have.

      • mrinku
        November 14, 2017, 12:57 am | # | Reply

        Punch drunk, anyhow…

  3. awgiedawgie
    November 14, 2017, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    I do believe that Robert Nowall was the one who called it on Jonah getting recruited by AG-I.

    • Jack
      November 14, 2017, 6:07 am | # | Reply

      They turned him down when he applied, though.

      • Robert Nowall
        November 14, 2017, 9:22 am | # | Reply

        Well, there doesn’t seem to be an intelligence test. Or maybe a “don’t do anything stupid” test…

      • chrisn
        November 14, 2017, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

        He may not have had his “super power” when he applied.

        • Jack
          November 14, 2017, 2:46 pm | # | Reply

          No, he applied because he had a superpower. Why else would he apply to an organisation for humans with superpowers?

          • Clifton
            November 15, 2017, 12:29 am | #

            He’s a teenager.

      • awgiedawgie
        November 14, 2017, 9:51 pm | # | Reply

        Did I miss something? When did Jonah ever apply to AG-I? Unity applied and got turned down, but I don’t remember Jonah ever applying.

        • Trivena
          November 14, 2017, 11:57 pm | # | Reply

          I think it might have been in a prose story?

          • awgiedawgie
            November 15, 2017, 1:41 am | #

            I hope someone can give me more to go on than that. I like reading side stories.

  4. woozy
    November 14, 2017, 1:16 am | # | Reply

    Oh, “ithe” = “ice”. I don’t want to admit how much time I spent trying to figure that out.

    • Max
      November 14, 2017, 3:35 am | # | Reply

      Don’t feel bad about it, it was for the greater good – you spared me at least half that much of doing the same…

  5. Clifton
    November 14, 2017, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    I did basically that at age 8 or so. OTOH I was 8, not 18. I hope Bubbles has some hot water handy.

    • ebonysable
      November 14, 2017, 5:19 am | # | Reply

      According to Mythbusters, the heat from your tongue melts it pretty quickly by itself.
      Assuming I’m remembering the episode correctly.

      • S.D.
        November 14, 2017, 5:55 am | # | Reply

        That depends on a few things, actually. Like the heat conductivity and size of the object you get stuck to as well as the ambient temperature.

        • theysabet
          November 14, 2017, 2:00 pm | # | Reply

          According to what my dad once told me about his childhood in Chicago, the bigger and less likely to warm up the item you get stuck to is, the harder it is to get unstuck. Apparently big metal sign-posts were a VERY bad idea to lick (though why he wanted to do it in the first place is a puzzle to me anyway. Eeew.)

          • Sheik
            November 14, 2017, 2:17 pm | #

            I may have set a record by trying to lick a 300 gal. propane tank.
            The choice was either to use a raw flame to heat up the tank or peel the skin off my tongue.
            My tongue lost.

      • Clifton
        November 15, 2017, 12:31 am | # | Reply

        Not when the ice you were licking is on a metal fence post, in my case. Or, presumably, a pykrete aircraft carrier.

  6. Candace
    November 14, 2017, 2:11 am | # | Reply

    I wondered when someone from the Skin Horse crew was going to get involved. Where in the world are Tip and Unity?

    • awgiedawgie
      November 14, 2017, 4:31 am | # | Reply

      Well, it’s an AG-I operation on a ship in the employ of AG-I. Skin Horse isn’t supposed to be involved. Sweetheart just can’t resist. She has that whole ‘control freak’ thing going on.

      • Candace
        November 15, 2017, 1:31 am | # | Reply

        Point.

    • Dr. Steve
      November 14, 2017, 9:57 am | # | Reply

      Tip is most likely trying to get it on with crew members who are not so concerned with the emergency while UNITY is wandering around – waiting to stumble on some deeply hidden secret that is somehow stranger than all we’ve seen so far!

    • Barking Monkey
      November 14, 2017, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

      My guess is Tip is trying to upgrade to a more stylish parka (or accessorize) while Unity is making snow cones out of the Habbakuk’s hull.

  7. Jay
    November 14, 2017, 2:49 am | # | Reply

    He should have seen that coming. (badum-tish)

  8. Tom Powell
    November 14, 2017, 8:40 am | # | Reply

    Quick, Tip, grab the therapy puppets!

  9. Robert Nowall
    November 14, 2017, 9:24 am | # | Reply

    Well, Jonah Yu, ice wouldn’t work if it wasn’t cold.

  10. Pygar
    November 14, 2017, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

    Hey, Jonah, did you know ice-cold flagpoles taste just like peppermint?

    • awgiedawgie
      November 14, 2017, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

      I was gonna say that they taste like bacon.

      • Pygar
        November 14, 2017, 7:10 pm | # | Reply

        It’s anvils that taste like bacon. But give me a nice chocolaty bulldozer!

  11. Daniel Barkalow
    November 15, 2017, 2:14 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder if this story is going to include Jonah tuning a nuclear reactor by hand. Just seems like the sort of thing he’d do. (Alternatively: missing Nora at the opera, stealing from someone sleeping in grasslands, riding a giant bird, that sort of thing.)

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