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2014-09-23

by shaenon on September 23, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Alphaghoul
    September 23, 2014, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Babay eating huh? Looks like this has taken a darker turn. I notice that they talk about unity doing those things but never actually show her doing it.

    • Anson
      September 23, 2014, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      I’m sure they were very evil babies.

      • Hadashi
        September 23, 2014, 5:32 am | # | Reply

        well, a dark joke usually isn’t that funny if you show all the implications.

      • mickeyf
        September 23, 2014, 7:55 pm | # | Reply

        Or perhaps kittens

        http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-14

        • Kitirena
          May 17, 2016, 2:27 am | # | Reply

          >O.O< Nyaa?!? What is it with webcomics and kitens, nya? What did we kitties ever do to you, anyway?

          • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
            May 17, 2016, 2:37 am | #

            I… I don’t like to talk about it   *sobs quietly*

          • Rex Vivat
            May 17, 2016, 9:27 am | #

            Putting “nya” in every other sentence, maybe?

    • Barking Monkey
      September 23, 2014, 6:14 am | # | Reply

      He doesn’t specify baby humans. Maybe they blew their per diem on lamb chops or eggs.

      • Ian thompson
        September 23, 2014, 6:33 pm | # | Reply

        You are pre-assuming that nonhuman babies have less value, you are a speciesist.

        • Rex Vivat
          September 23, 2014, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

          Since he’s implying that they used money, the lambs or eggs in question were legally acquired. It’s acceptable to assume that those items didn’t come from sapient beings, so he’s not necessarily speciesist, just sapientist (is there such a word?).

    • griffin8aka8evonix
      November 13, 2014, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

      It was tip

  2. Smurfton
    September 23, 2014, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    So, PSH stopped being useful when they decided to visit Whimsy Corp.
    This means that there’s either some service they didn’t give before, or PSH was only supposed to take clients that promoted his needs.

  3. Robert Nowall
    September 23, 2014, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    Thought it was budget cuts…besides, which one among Our Heroes ate babies?

    • Ben
      September 23, 2014, 1:56 am | # | Reply

      Unity implied she eats babies in the strip of 2008-11-08 (http://skin-horse.com/comic/actually-you-can/).

      • Robert Nowall
        September 23, 2014, 5:20 am | # | Reply

        Ah. She didn’t do it on camera, alas.

    • irdburns
      September 23, 2014, 8:14 am | # | Reply

      I’m with barking monkey: she’s talking veal and eggs. Or it was in her pre-reformation days, and her inability to angst means she doesn’t feel guilty.

  4. Prester Fred
    September 23, 2014, 1:54 am | # | Reply

    “In our universe?” Thaaat needs some ‘splaining…

    • roberttheaddled
      September 23, 2014, 4:55 pm | # | Reply

      That explanation will require a dozen mice, a bottle of olive oil, and a basket of figs.

  5. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    September 23, 2014, 2:39 am | # | Reply

    Oh god… you mean they’re gonna bring in the Project Skin Horse from another universe or something? Like one where the government is evil or som—oh, right

    • Anderson
      September 23, 2014, 3:08 am | # | Reply

      I’m trying to imagine a mirror version of the team. But I genuinely can’t picture Tip with a goatee.

      • BMunro
        September 23, 2014, 3:28 am | # | Reply

        Mirror Tip of course is dressed like the scruffiest of he-men.

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          September 23, 2014, 4:30 am | # | Reply

          You kidding? Mirror Tip is totally the evil homme fatale.

          • BMunro
            September 23, 2014, 3:51 pm | #

            That’s the trouble with evil opposites: you’re never sure which factors are reversed (well, aside the evil). https://11andahalfyearsofbooks.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/comic2.jpg http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/freethinking/2007/assets/content/playback/cartoons/15.jpg

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        September 23, 2014, 3:31 am | # | Reply

        I was picturing Sweetheart with a goatee, actually. Admittedly, this doesn’t make much sense, but it makes me chuckle.

        • jdreyfuss
          September 23, 2014, 6:38 am | # | Reply

          Schnauzer Sweetheart

      • Bruceski
        September 23, 2014, 4:46 am | # | Reply

        Mirror Tip is a cross-dressing woman (hard to describe since “woman in a suit” conjures up 80s outfits and power-shoulders, but it can be done even in modern somewhat-gender-inclusive dress society).
        Mirror Unity is a ghost (un-alive instead of undead)
        Mirror Sweetheart is a cat.

        • irdburns
          September 23, 2014, 8:12 am | # | Reply

          Mirror gavotte, meanwhile, is a termite mound. Which means they’ve got a better excuse for their ‘furniture’ budget.

  6. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    September 23, 2014, 4:47 am | # | Reply

    Oh, and Mirror!Nick is Skynet

    • Foxhack
      September 23, 2014, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

      The other way around – it’s a military AI inside a human suit.

      • kicking_k
        September 24, 2014, 11:25 am | # | Reply

        But that sounds quite close to Violet Bee… and then Nick was at one point a human inside a military human-suit…

        This is getting a bit confusing.

        • Foxhack
          September 24, 2014, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

          A living human body. Not a robot.

  7. ShinyHappyGoth
    September 23, 2014, 5:15 am | # | Reply

    Is Robin still not letting you get enough sleep, then?

    • oneuniverse2
      September 23, 2014, 10:42 am | # | Reply

      I’m glad someone else brought up that subject.

  8. maarvarq
    September 23, 2014, 5:22 am | # | Reply

    I can’t think of baby-eating among “good guys” without then thinking of this Leftover Soup strip.

    BTW, it’s by the guy who did 1/0 and is really good.

    • Manifesta
      September 23, 2014, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

      Hey, thanks, maarvarq! I didn’t know about Leftover Soup, but now I’m reading through the archive.

    • roberttheaddled
      September 23, 2014, 6:29 pm | # | Reply

      Valid board recommendation – I’m now almost 1/6th of the way thru the archive of 600.

      Good read thus far – no RSS so it’ll go on my weekend binge list.

    • midwestmutt
      September 23, 2014, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks. Now binging on Leftover Soup.

    • maarvarq
      March 22, 2021, 5:04 am | # | Reply

      Further note for those visiting from the future, or doing another Archive Trawl if you want to be boring 😉 , Leftover Soup concluded on 1000 strips (plus a few) as did 1/0, and Tailsteak aka Mason Williams has gone on to create Forward. This latest of his is set in a future with several features in common with the meta-fictional world created by one of the characters of LS, but without the misandry.

  9. maarvarq
    September 23, 2014, 5:23 am | # | Reply

    Oh for an Edit function…

  10. jdreyfuss
    September 23, 2014, 6:41 am | # | Reply

    Pfft, those babies would never have amounted to anything anyway.

  11. SashaHoneypalm
    September 23, 2014, 10:55 am | # | Reply

    Social justice warriors? And I didn’t even know PSH had a Tumblr account.

  12. Smithnik
    September 23, 2014, 12:53 pm | # | Reply

    Just how many babies DOES the average shadow-government bureaucracy eat, anyway?
    Unity’s comment does suggest that she has either witnessed or participated in the eating of eat least two babies, one or more oiled and one or more un-oiled. Now, bearing in mind the fact that she is, in fact, a zombie, and has been known to hang around with folks of the previously-living persuasion, this may be perfectly normal social behavior.
    I can almost see it now. Unity at an upscale gathering of the undead. A quiet gathering of gourmets, having a baby tasting.

    By the way, in response to Bruceski, the woman clearly would have to be wearing a tuxedo, or white tie and tails, preferably from a major designer. Or, if the personality was reversed as well as the gender, a cross-dressing woman who’s a total slob.

    • Rex Vivat
      September 23, 2014, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

      Not necessarily. She could just have tried an unoiled baby, decided that it wouldn’t do, then oiled the same baby.

  13. freddiefreelance
    September 23, 2014, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

    I think there’s just enough babies, thank you very much. It’s when they become Sullen teens that they need to be weeded out.

  14. Daniel Ross
    September 23, 2014, 3:38 pm | # | Reply

    Now now, they went from petty bureaucrats to *SJWs*.

    Gotta stay TLA compliant, you know. They’re from the government.

  15. BMunro
    September 23, 2014, 3:58 pm | # | Reply

    “The babies were already dead when she found them, your Honor.”

  16. dianelynncastle
    September 23, 2014, 4:16 pm | # | Reply

    Hey Shaenon, today in Amy Dallen’s YouTube vlog for Geek and Sundry, she gave ‘Narbonic’ a huge plug!

    • Shaenon
      September 23, 2014, 5:48 pm | # | Reply

      Awesome!

  17. LogicMouse
    September 23, 2014, 5:33 pm | # | Reply

    My best guess, Evil!Tip would have to be a woman with short hair or shaved bald, dressed in grungy flannel and jeans, who rather than puppets uses the power of con-artistry and Neuro Linguistic Programming. (I just gave myself a little shiver.)

    I think Bruceski’s got it spot on for Unity and Sweetheart though.

  18. Shadowmehr
    September 23, 2014, 7:21 pm | # | Reply

    Wait, you mean there’s a government agency that doesn’t participate in mass destruction of buildings and babyeating?

    Boy, have I been working in the wrong departments.

  19. Frank Hightower
    September 23, 2014, 9:31 pm | # | Reply

    Guys, the baby-eating refers to UNITY

    “I can’t find my baby oil. You all tried eating unoiled babies?”

    “I love babies!”
    “Not with ketchup, UNITY”

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