The Light of Culture and Reason
Shaenon: J.N. McDonald sent us this piece of “pseudo fanart.”
As you can see, this fellow has named his gun the Light of Culture and Reason, Tip’s name for his…thingy. I’m sorry,this is all Jeff’s fault. Jeff is the one who makes the thingy jokes. Everyone go scold Jeff.
Channing: I think that if we were to look back on all the thingy jokes, we might find a more equitable distribution than Shaenon here implies. Really, for all the goinking the characters regularly engage in, there are relatively few references to thingies. Perhaps we should be including more thingy humor.
I honestly did not know that you were able to give your guns custom names in Team Fortress. This seems like it would be a treasure trove of fabulous juvenile humor.
We, your faithful readers, demand More Thingy Jokes! Penis jokes are welcome, too.
My Pyro’s flamethrower is named Butterfly Kisses.
It should be “Gentle Persuasion”.
Goinking rules!
Ok, so who’s responsible for this one then?
http://skin-horse.com/comic/never-mind/
JEEEEEFF!
There are also several pretty good innuendo ridden references in “come swing from my branches” (which can be innuendo in itself) – including at least one instance of “That’s what She said” (interrupted – but strongly implied).
http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-381/
http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-542/
http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-543/
I bought the original of this, as well as The Light of Culture and Reason, so that makes me Jeff’s official fangirl.
Why don’t you just come out and admit that you’re naughty too, nyao? After all, a dirty mind is a wonderful thing to have!
Yeah, I just called mine Absolution (my minigun, not my thingy). Since I’m the True False Prophet and all, I decided to go the Gratuitous Religious Imagery route.
Still, as Gratuitous Religious Imagery goes, it’s hard to beat Stoic Whatserface’s hilarious “ascension into heaven upon a ray of light” scene at the end of that ‘Setting Fires’ movie. Pretty sure that wasn’t meant to be hilarious, though.
The Family Business is also kind of a penis joke.
As a former sailor – Just about ANYTHING AND EVERTHING in conversation can be turned into innuendo if you think about it enough.
Some conversations are just more difficult.
The one Anson linked to above http://skin-horse.com/comic/never-mind/ just happens to be one of he easier ones.
Heh heh, you said “conversation”
UNRELATED: I just realized that Nick, who is a chopper, is a stealth-reference to the Tin Woodsman from the Oz books, who’s was originally a normal guy named “Nick Chopper” before having his entire body replaced with metal.
Was this deliberate or just bizarre coincidence?
I think it’s safe to say that it was deliberate.
IIRC, the Narbonic Director’s Cut made the observation that any four-member group can be mapped onto Dorothy et al,, if you try hard enough. So yeah, definitely deliberate.
Given all the other Oz references, I’d say there’s approximately 99.9% chance that’s completely and totally deliberate.
“Zerhakker” also means “the hacker” or “the chopper”. I’m kind of in awe of how many levels his name works on.
So, Oz reference, hacking expertise, and helicopter. Any ones I missed?
“Nick” can also mean “steal”, so his full name is basically a summation of his first storyline. I’m not sure if that one was deliberate or just a happy coincidence.
“Zerhakker” is also a double innuendoed Thingie joke.
(TUNE: “I Love To Singa”, Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg)
I love my thingy!
And when I dance without my pants
I watch it swingy!
I wuv my willy!
And when I’m on a date,
It’s really great!
Getting naughty with my body
When we cop-u-late!
Oh, I love-a my,
I love-a my thing!
And here I was semi-expecting something from the novelty song “my ding-a-ling” in it many versions.
The Chuck Berry version below has more innuendo that I would have suspected could make it past the censors of the time.
“My Ding A Ling”
When I was a little bitty boy
my grandmother bought me a cute little toy
Silver bells hangin’ on a string
she told me it was my ding a ling
My ding a ling, my ding a ling
I want to play with my ding a ling
My ding a ling, my ding a ling
I want to play with my ding a ling
And then mother took me to Grammer School
But I stopped all in the vestibule
Every time that bell would ring
catched me playin’ with my ding a ling
Once I was climbing the garden wall
I slipped and had a terrible fall
I fell so hard I heard bells ring
but held on to my ding a ling
Once I was swimming cross Turtle creek
many snappers all around my feet
Shure was hard swimming cross that thing
with both hands holdin’ my ding a ling
This here song it ain’t so sad
the cutest little song you ever had
those of you who will not sing
You must be playin’ with your own ding a ling
My ding a ling Your ding a ling, your ding a ling
We saw you playin’ with your ding a ling
My ding a ling everybody sing
I want to play with my ding a ling
North side, east side
Little Willy, Willy wears the crown, he’s the king around town.
Dancing, glancing,
Willy drives them silly with his star shoe shimmy shuffle down.
Way past one, and feeling allright,
‘Cause with little Willy round they can last all night…
Hey down, stay down, stay down down…
‘Cause little Willy, Willy won’t go home.
But you can’t push Willy round, Willy won’t go.
Try tellin’ everybody but, oh no!
Little Willy, Willy won’t go home.
—“Little Willy,” the Sweet. Long as we’re posting suggestive lyrics. And blame us if Skin Horse-dot-com gets sued.
Don’t have time to copy and paste the lyrics, but a place of honor must go to The Who’s “Squeezebox.”
Aw, but how could we forget “Big Balls” by AC/DC, nyao?
“Some balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress,
But when they’re held for pleasure, they’re the balls that I like best!
If your name is on the guest list, no one can take you higher…
The Social Pages say that I’ve got great balls of fire!”
And let’s not even get started on Nasty Habits by Oingo Boingo!
“Tell me your secrets, that no-one should hear,
Whisper them softly, into my ear!
I won’t tell! I won’t tell!”
It took me way too long to realize that Jethro Tull’s “Kissing Willie” wasn’t actually about catching her with another guy.
Are you sure you want LISTS of songs with suggestive lyrics? This could easily go on for days.
One of the great truths: Rock ‘n’ Roll is about sex.
In this family, when you’re packin’, you’re also in the family way.
So if the Heavy has an enormous gun named “The Light of Culture and Reason”, does that mean he has a little tiny thingie named “Alice”?
Confidence.
And perhaps a bit of a whimsical nature.
Alice’s name also has more than a bit to do with Tip’s other namesake, the one who isn’t a princess of Oz.
Wonderland’s Alice.
Alice Dobson (Alice Comics).
ALICE is the AI in something I read recently (Webcomic or Manga) meaning sometime last 3 days.
Alice in Resident Evil.
All suitably ‘reality distorted’ to be present in Skin Horse
None of the above. Shaenon’s slipped other hints here and there, including one blatant reference for the observant. 😉
Test.
The Reality you have reached is no longer in service. Please check the multiverse you have dialed and place your call again.
“Something strange is afoot at the Circle K.”
Other than a sometimes slow website – nothing that I’m aware of.
Beyond the usual cast of characters and forum dwellers at least.
“We have achieved normality. Anything you still can’t deal with is therefore your own problem.”
And anyone who knows who I just quoted gets a cookie, nyao!
“But I’m a perfectly safe penguin and my friend is rapidly running out of limbs.”
Very nice, though it just barely holds a candle to the original Reason, “Ultima Ratio Regum.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash#Reason
USN is developing a Railgun. I REALLY hope somebody involved in the program tags the first production weapon with that label.
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=80055
Barring that – I’m fond of the “crowbars from space” usage in various SF novels.
One disturbed but funny individual named his minigun ‘The Abortionist.’ “ENTIRE TEAM IS BABIES!”