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2015-10-16

by shaenon on October 16, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. ngmatt
    October 16, 2015, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    this man is actually very gifted considering this is saint charles

  2. casimir
    October 16, 2015, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    …as do the lyrics to “America the Beautiful”.

  3. WuseMajor
    October 16, 2015, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    ….Wait, there’s still a US Government?

    • BMunro
      October 16, 2015, 3:29 am | # | Reply

      It’s a post-apocalyptic mad science setting: Homeland Security might not be under human, or even biological, control by this point.

    • s854
      October 16, 2015, 7:31 am | # | Reply

      WuseMajor: At this point, all I’d like to conclude is that there is at least one person in St. Charlie who believes that Homeland Security exists.

      I’m not even sure whether or not he believes he has access to an aircraft of any description.

      • BMunro
        October 16, 2015, 5:01 pm | # | Reply

        True enough, but I’m sticking for now with my head-canon of the predator drone collective consciousness. 🙂

        • The Other Mike
          April 23, 2017, 1:30 am | # | Reply

          Personally, I like to think that “Homeland Security” is simply the name of a large anti-aircraft cannon somebody fixed up.

  4. Candace
    October 16, 2015, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    Yes, there’s an acting President working from NYC who apparently has it out for parking meter cheaters.

  5. datasstrophe
    October 16, 2015, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    It’s nice to know that, even in the stygian depths of their apocalyptic despair, Sweetheart’s laying plans to sell rights to their story on the indie circuit.

    (yes I know Sundance is the name of the dog just let me have this)

  6. Nix
    October 16, 2015, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    “Vast planes” actually does make sense of a kind (but of course it does, do you think he is *mad*?). The vast plains of the west are, after all, more or less flat: thus, planes.

    • Altarboy
      October 16, 2015, 2:41 am | # | Reply

      Yet kinda boring, therefore plain.

    • Marisa Mockery
      October 16, 2015, 2:42 am | # | Reply

      And the pun prize goes to

    • Seph
      October 16, 2015, 2:44 am | # | Reply

      Well, yes: the two words have the same etymology, from Latin ‘planum’. They ended up spelt differently when spelling was standardized during the Early Modern Period. The same goes for ‘convey’ and ‘inveigh’, for example.

      ‘Plane’ as in ‘aeroplane’, by contrast, comes from the Greek ‘πλάνομαι’, meaning ‘to wander’. This is the same root as ‘planet’, which Classical astronomers called a wandering star, because it appeared to move against the ‘fixed’ stars.

      • Foradain
        October 16, 2015, 4:24 am | # | Reply

        Oddly, Merriam-Webster’s (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aeroplane) gives the origin as: French aéroplane, from aéro- aer- + -plane, probably from feminine of plan flat, level, from Latin planus

        • Seph
          October 16, 2015, 4:50 am | # | Reply

          That does appear to be an alternative derivation, with the word originally being a synonym for ‘aerofoil’.

    • frithrikr
      October 16, 2015, 2:44 pm | # | Reply

      Being someone who lives on those plains, or planes if you will, I can assure you that they are not precisely flat. Rather they are more “rolling” with occasional deviations called “waterways.”

  7. Robert Nowall
    October 16, 2015, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    If there are “vast planes” in the west, does that mean those big mother Airbuses or Boeings, or maybe the Spruce Goose?

    • Andy4Hire
      October 16, 2015, 11:52 am | # | Reply

      Now I want to read my (still hypothetical) children bedtime stories from a Mother Spruce Goose collection. So … thanks, I guess?

      • Robert Nowall
        October 16, 2015, 2:55 pm | # | Reply

        Mother Spruce Goose, as told by Howard Hughes…

  8. John Schilling
    October 16, 2015, 8:45 am | # | Reply

    This is the alternate universe where Gordo Cooper broke the sound barrier. Here in the real world, Chuck Yeager was born in West Virginia, and through cultural diffusion all pilots speak with an Appalachian Drawl.

    Even I, born in New York and twenty years a Californian, notice the shift when I put on a headset and hit push-to-talk.

  9. CptNerd
    October 16, 2015, 11:07 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart is so good she can hear misspellings…

    • mickeyjf
      October 16, 2015, 11:29 am | # | Reply

      Channeling Antonio?

  10. Shadowmehr
    October 16, 2015, 8:11 pm | # | Reply

    Can Sweetheart still speak Dog? She’s spent so much time speaking Canadian she might have lost fluency in her native tongue.

    Sundance might actually be the sanest one in St. Charlie. Telekinesis aside, he seems as intelligent as an average dog, so wouldn’t be as vulnerable to becoming mad. Not that it would help . . .

    • Foradain
      October 16, 2015, 9:55 pm | # | Reply

      We only have Joshua’s word that Sundance is psychokinetic. Or that Joshua is sane, for that matter…

    • Pygar
      October 16, 2015, 11:27 pm | # | Reply

      How hard could it be? “Bark bark bark, ey! Woof woof, ey!”

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