Through St. Charlie, this is easy!
We’ve got Nick to … read the signs!
‘Cause what he sees … ain’t what we see,
And he’ll keep us … inside the lines!
Now GODOT is … tricky, always!
Didn’t fool us, though he tried!
Tried to send us … down the hallways
With ra-dio-ac-tive … cyanide!
Will we give up? I say no, sir!
That GODOT, we’ll … take by storm!
Hey, I think we’re … getting closer!
I think Sweetheart’s … getting warm!
It won’t hurt her! She’s got tough fur!
Flame-resistant! She’ll be fine!
Now the safe path’s … to the right, guys!
Nick will keep us … inside the lines!
Somewhere in the archives, and I cannot quote chapter and verse here, Muffin explains that he spliced a chunk of werewolf invulnerabilities into his war dog strain. This strip has not yet seen the true extent of Sweetheart’s Timex-like ability to take a licking and keep on ticking.
You’re not testing the radioactive cyanide…you’re testing the things you put IN the radioactive cyanide. Say, for instance, you’ve just frozen two pumpkins in liquid nitrogen, in preparation for dropping them off a nine-story building. You might want to know whether exposure to radioactive cyanide affects what happens when they hit the ground.
Not that I’ve ever done that…
I only saw the flash from one pumpkin out of about a half dozen, so maybe the rest had only stable isotopes. What do you use? Tritium, C11 and N13 are about the only practical half-lives for HCN unless you want to haul an accelerator to the top of Millikan.
So, the Perfectly Safe Corridor was actually a perfectly safe corridor. Unless it turns out to be full of psychokinetic honey badgers or something equally dangerous.
Well played, GODOT! S/he must have a taste for classic logic puzzles. (IF Susan says “I played tennis with Bill on Thursday,” AND Susan is a liar, THEN Thursday isn’t even a real day.)
Evidently Nick was hoping that Tip would take the lead.
It’s more that Nick can’t see what the others are seeing, so he had no way to know they saw it pointing to the right.
Ok, long time since I actuall facepalmed while laughing. That caught me off guard. XD
Hey, past me~ it also caught me off guard in -this- re-read xD
Details, details! ^_^
Looks like Godot may have been gaming this sort of scenario in advance. ^_^
(And, given that he’s an AI, 12 minutes notice could have counted as more than a century’s worth of advance planning! :P).
I bet GODOT relished that hot dog.
I wanted to reply with another pun, but I mustard up the strength to resist.
To be perfectly frank, I don’t know which of you two is worse.
You mean wurst?
You all have posted so many puns… There’s no way I can ketchup!
Too many hotdog buns!
Keep punning, sooner or later they’ll declare a wiener.
(TUNE: “Mack The Knife”, Brecht & Weill)
Through St. Charlie, this is easy!
We’ve got Nick to … read the signs!
‘Cause what he sees … ain’t what we see,
And he’ll keep us … inside the lines!
Now GODOT is … tricky, always!
Didn’t fool us, though he tried!
Tried to send us … down the hallways
With ra-dio-ac-tive … cyanide!
Will we give up? I say no, sir!
That GODOT, we’ll … take by storm!
Hey, I think we’re … getting closer!
I think Sweetheart’s … getting warm!
It won’t hurt her! She’s got tough fur!
Flame-resistant! She’ll be fine!
Now the safe path’s … to the right, guys!
Nick will keep us … inside the lines!
You know, under all that soft and fluffy, Sweetheart is really hard to dent.
Captain bred ’em to last.
Somewhere in the archives, and I cannot quote chapter and verse here, Muffin explains that he spliced a chunk of werewolf invulnerabilities into his war dog strain. This strip has not yet seen the true extent of Sweetheart’s Timex-like ability to take a licking and keep on ticking.
(“He” being “the Captain”, as though I were responding directly to ThinkinABit above.)
“Radioactive cyanide test corridor”? I’d ask “Why do they even HAVE one of those?” but I suspect the answer would be “For Science!”
But what kind of Mad Scientist thinks it necessary to actually test their radioactive cyanide before using it? Nothing could possibly go wrong!
You’re not testing the radioactive cyanide…you’re testing the things you put IN the radioactive cyanide. Say, for instance, you’ve just frozen two pumpkins in liquid nitrogen, in preparation for dropping them off a nine-story building. You might want to know whether exposure to radioactive cyanide affects what happens when they hit the ground.
Not that I’ve ever done that…
I only saw the flash from one pumpkin out of about a half dozen, so maybe the rest had only stable isotopes. What do you use? Tritium, C11 and N13 are about the only practical half-lives for HCN unless you want to haul an accelerator to the top of Millikan.
Wait a minute – everything *experimental* got turned off/shut down … but the Radioactive Cyanide *Test* Corridor is still functional?
Yep, they are definitely on a train built by mad scientists, for mad scientists and run by mad scientists :-p
They can’t power up anything they would want to test in the corridor, but the corridor itself is no longer experimental.
And the same sort of “For Science” mentality is why “Flaming” would have been redundant in the name.
So, the Perfectly Safe Corridor was actually a perfectly safe corridor. Unless it turns out to be full of psychokinetic honey badgers or something equally dangerous.
So radioactive cyanide makes you catch fire?
It’s actually an “exploding radioactive cyanide test corridor” but they only had so much room on the sign.
It kind of goes without saying.
Of course it’s a perfectly safe corridor.
For a given value of PERFECTLY SAFE.
(Psychokinetically Enabled Ratans Following Existing Commands To Leave You Singed And Flying Everywhere?)
Well played, GODOT! S/he must have a taste for classic logic puzzles. (IF Susan says “I played tennis with Bill on Thursday,” AND Susan is a liar, THEN Thursday isn’t even a real day.)
Did anyone remember to put the dog out?
Go to your room.
I’m glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read your comment. I gigglesnarfed in a most uncouth way.