I was wondering if this was going to happen, I knew it was going SOMEWHERE just was not certain this was where. (On another note note I just ordered the perfect Narbonic collection, it will be here soon.)
Well, from a mad scientist-y perspective, she should have the resources to extract some of Nick’s DNA and clone-up a new body for him (possibly making a few “adjustments/improvements”) and put his brain in it. Or put a remote control receiver, like the android body had, into the clone’s head so he could use the new body while still being in the Osprey.
Well, from a mad scientist-y perspective, she should have the resources to extract some of Nick’s DNA and clone-up a new body for him (possibly making a few “adjustments/improvements”) and put his brain in it. Or put a remote control receiver, like the android body had, into the clone’s head so he could use the new body while still being an Osprey.
Well, from a mad scientist-y perspective, she should have the resources to extract some of Nick’s DNA and clone-up a new body for him (possibly making a few “adjustments/improvements”) and put his brain in it. Or put a remote control receiver, like the android body had, into the clone’s head so he could use the new body while still being an Osprey.
I’m not even filking this, because it perfectly captures my feelings as is:
“Hooray for Love,” Harold Arlen & Leo Robin, Casbah, 1948 (http://youtu.be/h2UKJtKzLs8)
It`s the wonder of the world, It`s a rocket to the moon
It gets you high, it gets you low, but once you get that glow…
Here`s to my best romance, Here`s to my worst romance
Here`s to my first romance – ages ago
Here`s to the boys I’ve kissed, and to complete the list
Here`s to the boys who said “No!”
Love, love, hooray for love
Who was ever too blase for love
Make this the night for love
If we have to fight, let`s fight for love
Some sigh and cry for love
Ah, but in Pa-ree they die for love
Some waste away for love
Just the same – hooray for love!
It`s the rocket to the moon, with a touch of “Clare de Lune”
It gets you high, it gets you low, but once you get that glow…
Some trust to fate for love,
Others have to take off weight for love
Some go berserk for love
Loafers even go to work for love
Sad songs are sobbed for love
People have their noses bobbed for love
Some say we pay for love
Just the same – hooray for love!
With a few modifications (including a rocket motor and some transport-related Mad Science), it may be possible for Nick to do a lap of the moon… which also invokes another song, “Fly me to the moon” (Bart Howard, 1954, first recorded by Kaye Ballard)…
Nick had a mother, and Dr. Lee was not her. Virginia is not a mother figure to him, and she doesn’t think of him like that, so why try to force the concept on them just because she put his brain in a jar?
In a hot tub with two hunky men,
Chugging down a glass of wine again!
Hear Tip blather on and on, and then,
I realize … I realize …
My true feelings now are crystal-clear!
What the funnel am I doing here?!
When I hear that voice upon the phone,
Then I don’t feel alone,
I realize!
There is one guy I’m after!
We have fun, sharing laughter!
And that damp wrongswear is so cute!
Some would say that we’re more daft
When we play World of Warcraft
And we share weaponry and loot!
Though our games might seem boring,
He can send my heart soaring
Through the clouds drifting high above!
Yes, I love him for his brain
(Which is in an ae-ro-plane),
Grumpy Nick’s the one I love!
In a formulaic romantic comedy, the next scene is where Dr. Lee would discover Nick in some kind of innocent, but apparently incriminating situation. I’m assuming here that’s not gonna happen, because Jeff and Shaenon’s characters act like actual human beings.
This was supposed to be a reply to “oneuniverse2” but every time I submitted it I got this error message: “Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/shaenon/skin-horse.com/wp-includes/option.php on line 85”
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Well, from a mad scientist-y perspective, she should have the resources to extract some of Nick’s DNA and clone-up a new body for him (possibly making a few “adjustments/improvements”) and put his brain in it. Or put a remote control receiver, like the android body had, into the clone’s head so he could use the new body while still being an Osprey.
outworldcats: When that error happens, the comment has been posted, the site is just stumbling on some followup. Refresh the page, and it will be there. All four copies of it….
General: Hmm. Combining this with yesterday’s panel, could she become Mad Lee in love?
Thank you, sorry for the redundancy (redumbdancy?). When I saw “Fatal Error” and the only option given was to cancel the post, I thought they were all goners.
Good thunking Dave – yes, the line between genius and madness is so thin as to be profound. But the line between madness and love never has been found.
Shaeffrey, I think you need a permanent note under ‘Leave a Reply’, something like ‘If you got a timeout “Fatal error” your reply probably posted anyway. Refresh your screen.’
+1 for “Shaeffry”, which I feel could be more widely used. Quite often round here, if you try to call who came up with what, you’re going to guess wrong….
It’s not that hard! If it’s hard to draw, it’s Jeffrey. if it’s ridiculously hard to draw and overly cute, it’s Shaenon.. If it’s balls-to-the-walls mad and ridiculous…Well, could go either way. 😛
My immediate thought is Dr. Lee just realized she’s in love with Mr. Green. And can’t wait to tell Nick about it.
Cynical? Not at all! See, I lied. That wasn’t actually my immediate thought. My immediate thought was “so someone either just ate Nick’s brain or else mentioned the wrong breakfast treat in close proximity to him, in either case destroying the Nick she knows and loves for all of time and it is all inexorably her own fault.”
Actually, hold on. Let’s think about that for a moment. When a zombie kills an embodied human by eating the human’s brain, the victim becomes a zombie. Nick is an embodied airplane–as you said above, that’s his self-image–so if a zombie ate his brain… dude. Zombie airplane.
It’s okay, Virginia. It took me one whole year of college to realize that I had a crush on my high school classmate, despite the fact that I felt jealous when he danced with someone else at our graduation party. As well as the dream I then had about kissing him.
AUGH! I was going to post “It’s okay, I’m here”, leaving ambuguity between whether I meant to rephrase Tip or quote Nick quoting Gussie, AND YOU BEAT ME TO IT BY OVER A YEAR!
John: So somewhere, Nick just landed in a dilapidated building and got his brain-case smashed. Good to know.
Brief, infrequent flashes.
I was wondering if this was going to happen, I knew it was going SOMEWHERE just was not certain this was where. (On another note note I just ordered the perfect Narbonic collection, it will be here soon.)
Awwww… disembodied brain in a jar in a cyborg helicopter for teh win…
Shaenon, you incurable romantic, you. 😉
mnem
“You complete me. Now… I’m a complete mess.”
Of course she completes him. She helped build him.
Just how is Nick going to get lucky? Maybe Ginny can transfer his mind into a “toy”.
Having your mind placed into that sort of toy sounds kind of horrible, honestly.
I think it would depend on the toy, if it’s permanent, you get feed back, and who your with 🙂
Well, from a mad scientist-y perspective, she should have the resources to extract some of Nick’s DNA and clone-up a new body for him (possibly making a few “adjustments/improvements”) and put his brain in it. Or put a remote control receiver, like the android body had, into the clone’s head so he could use the new body while still being in the Osprey.
Well, from a mad scientist-y perspective, she should have the resources to extract some of Nick’s DNA and clone-up a new body for him (possibly making a few “adjustments/improvements”) and put his brain in it. Or put a remote control receiver, like the android body had, into the clone’s head so he could use the new body while still being an Osprey.
They have a perfectly good VR framework already set up. Dr. Lee just needs to make a few adjustments to her avatar.
You know. To make herself an appropriate aircraft.
What? Nick’s self image is a plane now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z308cYuI7BA&t=0m39s
I’m getting sentimental over youuuu…
Nick may be an aircraft himself but we’ve seen no indication that his tastes have changed from human women.
Well, from a mad scientist-y perspective, she should have the resources to extract some of Nick’s DNA and clone-up a new body for him (possibly making a few “adjustments/improvements”) and put his brain in it. Or put a remote control receiver, like the android body had, into the clone’s head so he could use the new body while still being an Osprey.
The internet has made me a very strange person.
I honestly have no surprise or even confusion over how two aircraft could have intimate relations.
It’s actually kind of boring.
YAY!!!!!!!!
I’m not even filking this, because it perfectly captures my feelings as is:
“Hooray for Love,” Harold Arlen & Leo Robin, Casbah, 1948 (http://youtu.be/h2UKJtKzLs8)
It`s the wonder of the world, It`s a rocket to the moon
It gets you high, it gets you low, but once you get that glow…
Here`s to my best romance, Here`s to my worst romance
Here`s to my first romance – ages ago
Here`s to the boys I’ve kissed, and to complete the list
Here`s to the boys who said “No!”
Love, love, hooray for love
Who was ever too blase for love
Make this the night for love
If we have to fight, let`s fight for love
Some sigh and cry for love
Ah, but in Pa-ree they die for love
Some waste away for love
Just the same – hooray for love!
It`s the rocket to the moon, with a touch of “Clare de Lune”
It gets you high, it gets you low, but once you get that glow…
Some trust to fate for love,
Others have to take off weight for love
Some go berserk for love
Loafers even go to work for love
Sad songs are sobbed for love
People have their noses bobbed for love
Some say we pay for love
Just the same – hooray for love!
With a few modifications (including a rocket motor and some transport-related Mad Science), it may be possible for Nick to do a lap of the moon… which also invokes another song, “Fly me to the moon” (Bart Howard, 1954, first recorded by Kaye Ballard)…
Joy!
well, she did once suggest she’d like it if he called her. but yeah, doc, what *are* you doing there? at least ask them to pass you your cell!
Tip usually has great insight, but only when he can see around his own ego…
Its a special kind of insight, relatively out of context insight
Maybe it’s actualy… hindsight? *rimshot*
Tip normally doesn’t need insight; he has mojo.
It is interesting that everyone assumes that it is her son she is in love with. But who else would it be.
At least Nick won’t have to kill his father. (Or will he?)
Nick had a mother, and Dr. Lee was not her. Virginia is not a mother figure to him, and she doesn’t think of him like that, so why try to force the concept on them just because she put his brain in a jar?
She built him.
No, she built the neural interface that connects his brain to his body.
She also raised him to be a helicopter.
So, I’m thinking more Pygmalion than Oedipus.
I am really beginning to wonder about her corpse-like pallor. If she didn’t occasionally blush, I’d wonder even more.
She’s Korean.
(TUNE: “You’re Just In Love”, Irving Berlin)
In a hot tub with two hunky men,
Chugging down a glass of wine again!
Hear Tip blather on and on, and then,
I realize … I realize …
My true feelings now are crystal-clear!
What the funnel am I doing here?!
When I hear that voice upon the phone,
Then I don’t feel alone,
I realize!
There is one guy I’m after!
We have fun, sharing laughter!
And that damp wrongswear is so cute!
Some would say that we’re more daft
When we play World of Warcraft
And we share weaponry and loot!
Though our games might seem boring,
He can send my heart soaring
Through the clouds drifting high above!
Yes, I love him for his brain
(Which is in an ae-ro-plane),
Grumpy Nick’s the one I love!
In a formulaic romantic comedy, the next scene is where Dr. Lee would discover Nick in some kind of innocent, but apparently incriminating situation. I’m assuming here that’s not gonna happen, because Jeff and Shaenon’s characters act like actual human beings.
Also, this comic is its own slash fic.
That should totally be one of the official Skin Horse tag lines, for banner ads and t-shirts and such.
This was supposed to be a reply to “oneuniverse2” but every time I submitted it I got this error message: “Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/shaenon/skin-horse.com/wp-includes/option.php on line 85”
My reply was –
Well, from a mad scientist-y perspective, she should have the resources to extract some of Nick’s DNA and clone-up a new body for him (possibly making a few “adjustments/improvements”) and put his brain in it. Or put a remote control receiver, like the android body had, into the clone’s head so he could use the new body while still being an Osprey.
outworldcats: When that error happens, the comment has been posted, the site is just stumbling on some followup. Refresh the page, and it will be there. All four copies of it….
General: Hmm. Combining this with yesterday’s panel, could she become Mad Lee in love?
Thank you, sorry for the redundancy (redumbdancy?). When I saw “Fatal Error” and the only option given was to cancel the post, I thought they were all goners.
Good thunking Dave – yes, the line between genius and madness is so thin as to be profound. But the line between madness and love never has been found.
Shaeffrey, I think you need a permanent note under ‘Leave a Reply’, something like ‘If you got a timeout “Fatal error” your reply probably posted anyway. Refresh your screen.’
+1 for “Shaeffry”, which I feel could be more widely used. Quite often round here, if you try to call who came up with what, you’re going to guess wrong….
It’s not that hard! If it’s hard to draw, it’s Jeffrey. if it’s ridiculously hard to draw and overly cute, it’s Shaenon.. If it’s balls-to-the-walls mad and ridiculous…Well, could go either way. 😛
She looks so weird without her glasses on.
What?
It’s just occurred to me that Ginny looks distinctly brawnier than Tip.
My immediate thought is Dr. Lee just realized she’s in love with Mr. Green. And can’t wait to tell Nick about it.
Cynical? Not at all! See, I lied. That wasn’t actually my immediate thought. My immediate thought was “so someone either just ate Nick’s brain or else mentioned the wrong breakfast treat in close proximity to him, in either case destroying the Nick she knows and loves for all of time and it is all inexorably her own fault.”
…I’ve had a monumentally hard year.
That would be the Joss Whedon version.
Actually, hold on. Let’s think about that for a moment. When a zombie kills an embodied human by eating the human’s brain, the victim becomes a zombie. Nick is an embodied airplane–as you said above, that’s his self-image–so if a zombie ate his brain… dude. Zombie airplane.
@Kyle Rudy: Zombie airplane, and this time it has the chainsaw… Crap.
Luckily Tip never flashes me.
Nor shows us his briefs.
It’s okay, Virginia. It took me one whole year of college to realize that I had a crush on my high school classmate, despite the fact that I felt jealous when he danced with someone else at our graduation party. As well as the dream I then had about kissing him.
“And so then I came back here to be with you…”
“SERVICE IS MY ONLY JOY”
“Quite!”
(Heh)
Tip’s line would be even better as, “It’s OK, I’m here”.
AUGH! I was going to post “It’s okay, I’m here”, leaving ambuguity between whether I meant to rephrase Tip or quote Nick quoting Gussie, AND YOU BEAT ME TO IT BY OVER A YEAR!
John: So somewhere, Nick just landed in a dilapidated building and got his brain-case smashed. Good to know.
To connect with my last post, Ginny is about to move from Knowledge into Experience. Just not in the direction that Tip was expecting.
I kind of wonder whether Tip actually sees the people around him as people, with their own lives and concerns.
Oh I’m sure he does. He just isn’t used to people not being interested in him. It isn’t something that happens very often.
Tip has a very strong grasp of human nature, which makes him a good psychologist. He’s also a narcissist, which makes him a terrible therapist.
Virginia blushes – 23
25
Turns out Dr. Lee wasn’t looking for an intellectual equal per-se.
She was just looking for the right brain.