BTW, for those who missed the note yesterday, WebComicsNation is back up! You can once again browse the Narbonid archives (and my own meager efforts) at your leisure.
Now, on with the show …
(TUNE: “A Whole New World”, Menken & Rice)
I’ve been spending my life
In the seeking of knowledge …
At each medical college
In the lab, I sit and hide …
Brains go under the knife,
Neural structure exploring …
All the while, I’m ignoring
All the world that waits outside …
The outside world!
The world of TV, films, and more!
Out there, where E.T. phones,
And James Earl Jones
Will say, “I am your father!”
The outside world!
The world I’m longing to explore!
Watching Dolph Lundgren flex
His gorgeous pecs
Just gets me hot and bothered
I’ll admit …
The outside world …
I cherish it …
It makes me thrilled,
A world that’s filled
With awesome s**t!
Has she lost her ability to distinguish between reality and fiction or is it just that in a world of mad science you don’t need special effects?
I assume in such a world, a 6’4″ monster of a man with a Ph.D. in biochemistry from one of the best universities in the world who chooses to be a B-movie actor because it pays better would naturally be a mad scientist, of course.
Is it sad that I knew exactly which movie she’s referring to with her Sharks eat Samuel L. Jackson reference? Or is it just good movie watching? Or too much as the case may be?
I had some trouble parsing this one. It’s not immediately clear that Artie in the last panel is talking to himself, answering his original question, rather than responding to Virginia’s comments. (I first tried to interpret “I’ve seen that work” as “I saw that movie”…)
Poor Artie’s really bought into his childhood paradigm, isn’t he? Doesn’t even realize she might just be talking about the eye-opening experience of watching bad SciFi movies with a cyborg helicopter, just goes straight for the insanity interpretation.
It says a lot that “Watching bad SciFi movies with the cyborg helicopter” is the sane conversation path here…
Ginny is (drunkenly) trying to illustrate the difference between Knowledge and Experience.
Knowledge is knowing a lot about a little. The scientist can give you the chemical formula for beer, explain how different ingredients can alter the taste at need, and explain how to build a still, but she may have never gone to a bar.
Experience is knowing a little about a lot. The taster has sampled most microbreweries, attends Oktoberfest every year, and drunk his way through five continents, but can’t make his own ale.
The best of us combine both, but most often you have to exchange one for the other.
(To derail rampant speculation, no I do not speak from personal history. I’ve only drunk my way through two continents.)
Insanity is the only rational response to an insane world.
Did… did they mojo Tip out of the hot tub?
I think Tip just left to sulk.
Therefore, yes.
So this is what a Mensa Menagé a Trois would sound like. Creepy.
I think you mean hot. I mean…it certainly is warm in here, and I can tell that we have rather different fetishes, I mean tastes in certain areas…
… Wait, Anasigma’s Corporate?! Now they’re even more evil…
EVERYTHING is affected by Corporate Interests. Who do you think builds those Whirlygig or U.N.I.T.Y prototypes anyway?
You mean someone built them?
I thought this kind of stuff just happens around mad scientists, like hammers.
BTW, for those who missed the note yesterday, WebComicsNation is back up! You can once again browse the Narbonid archives (and my own meager efforts) at your leisure.
Now, on with the show …
(TUNE: “A Whole New World”, Menken & Rice)
I’ve been spending my life
In the seeking of knowledge …
At each medical college
In the lab, I sit and hide …
Brains go under the knife,
Neural structure exploring …
All the while, I’m ignoring
All the world that waits outside …
The outside world!
The world of TV, films, and more!
Out there, where E.T. phones,
And James Earl Jones
Will say, “I am your father!”
The outside world!
The world I’m longing to explore!
Watching Dolph Lundgren flex
His gorgeous pecs
Just gets me hot and bothered
I’ll admit …
The outside world …
I cherish it …
It makes me thrilled,
A world that’s filled
With awesome s**t!
I meant NARBONIC archives, stupid fungers don’t work rigth.
I like Narbonid. Sounds more epic and Greek.
I think the ultimate epic would be The Narboniad.
Artie is one now, being a member of the taxonomic family Narbonidae.
Has she lost her ability to distinguish between reality and fiction or is it just that in a world of mad science you don’t need special effects?
I assume in such a world, a 6’4″ monster of a man with a Ph.D. in biochemistry from one of the best universities in the world who chooses to be a B-movie actor because it pays better would naturally be a mad scientist, of course.
Dr. Lee is making some solid points here. I recommend joining a knitting group.
Is it sad that I knew exactly which movie she’s referring to with her Sharks eat Samuel L. Jackson reference? Or is it just good movie watching? Or too much as the case may be?
Terrible film watching, more like. Deep Blue Sea is an atrocity that I regret ever subjecting my senses to.
The Narbonid should be the title of the Narbonics super compendium publication.
It sounds more like something Helen would create, to me.
I had some trouble parsing this one. It’s not immediately clear that Artie in the last panel is talking to himself, answering his original question, rather than responding to Virginia’s comments. (I first tried to interpret “I’ve seen that work” as “I saw that movie”…)
Across the river of madness
The grass appeared to be green
While Ginny ‘pon the saner side
Questions where her life has been
So to the river of madness
She went to dip in her toe
Pulled in by tentacled creatures
She’s swept away by the flow
Learn from the lesson of Ginny
Who nowhere is to be seen
A little bit of madness
Is really, really keen!
Bravo!
ahhh…Igotnuthin’.
mnem
Still here,though. That’s somethin’.
One does not see a Dolph Lundgrin movie, One EXPERIENCES a Dolph Lundgrin movie.
Seeing is one kind of experiencing
Make that the “Narboniad”, and I’ll buy it.
I never would have considered as a possibility the existence of such a thing as a geek pastoral, yet here we are. Wow.
Poor Artie’s really bought into his childhood paradigm, isn’t he? Doesn’t even realize she might just be talking about the eye-opening experience of watching bad SciFi movies with a cyborg helicopter, just goes straight for the insanity interpretation.
It says a lot that “Watching bad SciFi movies with the cyborg helicopter” is the sane conversation path here…
Oh my — are we merely seeing beneath the surface of Ginny’s cool front… or is she working up to a break?
Ginny is (drunkenly) trying to illustrate the difference between Knowledge and Experience.
Knowledge is knowing a lot about a little. The scientist can give you the chemical formula for beer, explain how different ingredients can alter the taste at need, and explain how to build a still, but she may have never gone to a bar.
Experience is knowing a little about a lot. The taster has sampled most microbreweries, attends Oktoberfest every year, and drunk his way through five continents, but can’t make his own ale.
The best of us combine both, but most often you have to exchange one for the other.
(To derail rampant speculation, no I do not speak from personal history. I’ve only drunk my way through two continents.)
Three and a half years later and no one caught the Beast Wars reference?