I sincerely doubt there *are* any normal, non-GE dogs in St. Charlie, but I do think this is the first time she’s seen any of normal intelligence in the comic proper.
The filename story treats her time in the shelter, an experience she describes as “mindnumbing.”
Speaking of language apps, there’s a Kickstarter underway for a contemporary magic RPG set in Korea called Magicians. at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1858774754/magicians-a-language-learning-rpg/, it closes in six days and is fully funded. The part that ties this in to language apps is that the mechanic for casting magic is to speak Korean in to a smart phone dictation app, and if you say it correctly, the spell works. Start with a small vocabulary and a small amount of magic that you can do and your power set becomes larger as your skill and vocabulary improves.
They’re doing expansions to learn Chinese and Japanese as already-funded stretch goals.
I’m just shilling for them, I’m not part of the development group. I think it’s a pretty awesome idea.
Non GM in a city of Maddies? Must have been the control group.
Also – looks like a collie/shelty and whatever Orphan Annie’s dog was (or maybe it was Tin-Tin’s dog – i haven’t read those since elementary school). The stereotype for german guard dogs is Doberman/Shepard/Rottwieller, w/ a dachshund thrown in for comic relief.
I’m cross reading the Sparks of Girl Genius. They DO use control groups. In one recorded instance, a spark who studied behaviour in children used to let the children out of their cages for xmas.
More crosslink/similarities than you might think. Variable degrees of Mad, Good and Evil Mad, and Mad that still try to get their research published. Journal of Malology had a writeup on the Tinasky papers.
AND most telling – early on Dave’s smokes were taken away and he was losing to the NON-ENHANCED gerbil. Week of January 1-6, 2001.
(TUNE: “All I Need Is The Girl” from Gypsy, Styne & Sondheim)
Got the guest log,
Got the guard dog,
All I need now is the Word!
Got the hound who’ll
Take you down, fool!
He will wipe you out just like you vermin!
(Just one problem, I don’t speak German)
If you
Try to get through,
You will meet death, fanged and furred!
But what’s the word? Oh, drat!
Did you say you’ve got an app for that?
Then will you
Help me to kill you?
All I need is one freakin’ Word!
In panel four, that is the derpiest dog I’ve ever seen that isn’t a Boston terrier. Nothing against Boston terriers, mind you. It’s just that the pop-eyed thing makes them look dumber than they are.
Also, vermutlich ist es das Wort “Hallo”, eventuell auch “Guten Morgen”, “Guten Tag” oder “Grüß Gott”. Und ganz eventuell “Entschuldigen Sie bitte, wo ist denn hier das nächste Bierlokal?”
I immediately imagined Unity standing there going “Hasenpfeffer! Schadenfreude! Autobahn!” The fact that this is the reaction of a number of the readers as well is… alarming, but not surprising. ^.^
The dog in the fourth panel looks a little like a Corgi, except (1) Corgis aren’t nearly so derpy looking, and (2) everybody knows Corgis go ‘Yark!’ and not ‘Yip!’
These were my dogs, I donated to the Kickstarter and everything.
Iolo*, the airedale, left us just over a year ago, aged 10. These comics really captured his personality (and bulk). Vashj**, the tricolor collie — who despite this depiction was not a perpetual puppy, she just acted like it well into adulthood — is 11 now, and is starting to have real trouble with the steps at our house.
“farfetnugen?”
Is this the first time we’ve seen Sweetheart interact with a normal, non-GE dog? I suppose it would be a lot like us hanging out with a chimpanzee?
I sincerely doubt there *are* any normal, non-GE dogs in St. Charlie, but I do think this is the first time she’s seen any of normal intelligence in the comic proper.
The filename story treats her time in the shelter, an experience she describes as “mindnumbing.”
“I’ve got a language app!” made me laugh SO HARD.
Speaking of language apps, there’s a Kickstarter underway for a contemporary magic RPG set in Korea called Magicians. at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1858774754/magicians-a-language-learning-rpg/, it closes in six days and is fully funded. The part that ties this in to language apps is that the mechanic for casting magic is to speak Korean in to a smart phone dictation app, and if you say it correctly, the spell works. Start with a small vocabulary and a small amount of magic that you can do and your power set becomes larger as your skill and vocabulary improves.
They’re doing expansions to learn Chinese and Japanese as already-funded stretch goals.
I’m just shilling for them, I’m not part of the development group. I think it’s a pretty awesome idea.
Non GM in a city of Maddies? Must have been the control group.
Also – looks like a collie/shelty and whatever Orphan Annie’s dog was (or maybe it was Tin-Tin’s dog – i haven’t read those since elementary school). The stereotype for german guard dogs is Doberman/Shepard/Rottwieller, w/ a dachshund thrown in for comic relief.
Control group? CONTROL group?!?! You obviously don’t understand how mad science works.
Now, the *mind*-control group, on the other hand…
I was about to answer that, then I noticed your comment.
I’m cross reading the Sparks of Girl Genius. They DO use control groups. In one recorded instance, a spark who studied behaviour in children used to let the children out of their cages for xmas.
EXCEPT of course, the control group.
Narbonic/Skin Horse ≠ Girl Genius
More crosslink/similarities than you might think. Variable degrees of Mad, Good and Evil Mad, and Mad that still try to get their research published. Journal of Malology had a writeup on the Tinasky papers.
AND most telling – early on Dave’s smokes were taken away and he was losing to the NON-ENHANCED gerbil. Week of January 1-6, 2001.
Don’t dis dachshunds! They were created to go down badger holes and drag the badger out for the hunters.
Let me guess the word is HOSEN!!!!!
This is a mad city.
“One word in german” probably means “any word in german” ^^
Keep ’em away from the kindergarten then.
That’s the way I read it initially. But if there’s going to be a specific word, let it be “Blaubeerwaffeln”.
I suddenly have a horrible headache that’s inhibiting my ability to do violence, and I have no idea why.
(TUNE: “All I Need Is The Girl” from Gypsy, Styne & Sondheim)
Got the guest log,
Got the guard dog,
All I need now is the Word!
Got the hound who’ll
Take you down, fool!
He will wipe you out just like you vermin!
(Just one problem, I don’t speak German)
If you
Try to get through,
You will meet death, fanged and furred!
But what’s the word? Oh, drat!
Did you say you’ve got an app for that?
Then will you
Help me to kill you?
All I need is one freakin’ Word!
In panel four, that is the derpiest dog I’ve ever seen that isn’t a Boston terrier. Nothing against Boston terriers, mind you. It’s just that the pop-eyed thing makes them look dumber than they are.
“Why yes, Mr. Chekhov, you are *perfectly* welcome to leave that gun on my mantelpiece for a bit, I assure you that’s no trouble at all.”
Yeah, one kinda assumes that he’s gonna start messing with spoken language any time now.
It doesn’t even have to be spoken. The guy has an app! Written words on a computer screen!
Also, vermutlich ist es das Wort “Hallo”, eventuell auch “Guten Morgen”, “Guten Tag” oder “Grüß Gott”. Und ganz eventuell “Entschuldigen Sie bitte, wo ist denn hier das nächste Bierlokal?”
Ja, das klingt ungefähr richtig.
Under the circumstances, “Grüß Gott” might be slightly too close to “Meet your Maker”.
“Frau Blucher!” No, wait, that only works on horses. Drat!
Tip’s just lucky he didn’t get an informative answer to that question in panel 3.
He wouldn’t even need the dogs if he could say:
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer?
Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Heh. Hehehe. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *dies*
Interesting how Google translate treats that: http://goo.gl/1TjLA
My guess? “Gesundheit.”
“Oh, what cute dogs! But I have an allergy…”
Grudging apparently comes from the Old German grunnizōn (to grunt)
Sweetheart might want to choose his words more carefully
His?
*facepalm*
I immediately imagined Unity standing there going “Hasenpfeffer! Schadenfreude! Autobahn!” The fact that this is the reaction of a number of the readers as well is… alarming, but not surprising. ^.^
The dog in the fourth panel looks a little like a Corgi, except (1) Corgis aren’t nearly so derpy looking, and (2) everybody knows Corgis go ‘Yark!’ and not ‘Yip!’
Maybe the Corgi has a language app too.
It looks like an Australian or maaaaybe American Shepherd to me. But you’re right about at least one thing: It’s so, so derpy.
Tomorrow, “Hey, Stu, was that writing on the wall earlier? What’s it saying? FAR – FIG – NEW . . . what’s that last one?”
say one word in German?
hmmm ….. I wonder …..
perhaps the answer/trigger phrase is to say “one word” in German? (thank you Tolken
so, that would be (according to google translate), that would be “ein Wort”, yes?
AIREDALE
These were my dogs, I donated to the Kickstarter and everything.
Iolo*, the airedale, left us just over a year ago, aged 10. These comics really captured his personality (and bulk). Vashj**, the tricolor collie — who despite this depiction was not a perpetual puppy, she just acted like it well into adulthood — is 11 now, and is starting to have real trouble with the steps at our house.
* Ultima IV
** World of Warcraft Cataclysm
I suggest “Jaegerhunde” — hunter dog