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2013-01-17

by shaenon on January 17, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Anderson
    January 17, 2013, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    Evidently Nick was hoping that Tip would take the lead.

    • Rex Vivat
      January 17, 2013, 8:09 am | # | Reply

      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.

  2. Shen Hibiki
    January 17, 2013, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Ok, long time since I actuall facepalmed while laughing. That caught me off guard. XD

  3. Towering Barbarian
    January 17, 2013, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    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).

  4. Andrew
    January 17, 2013, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    I bet GODOT relished that hot dog.

    • Eddurd
      January 17, 2013, 3:21 am | # | Reply

      I wanted to reply with another pun, but I mustard up the strength to resist.

      • jdreyfuss
        January 17, 2013, 4:23 am | # | Reply

        To be perfectly frank, I don’t know which of you two is worse.

        • Andrew
          January 17, 2013, 4:50 am | # | Reply

          You mean wurst?

          • Lady J
            January 17, 2013, 5:40 am | #

            You all have posted so many puns… There’s no way I can ketchup!

          • mrtt
            January 17, 2013, 3:13 pm | #

            Too many hotdog buns!

          • The Other Mike
            February 18, 2017, 1:26 am | #

            Keep punning, sooner or later they’ll declare a wiener.

  5. Eddurd
    January 17, 2013, 3:20 am | # | Reply

    (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!

  6. Voyager
    January 17, 2013, 5:53 am | # | Reply

    You know, under all that soft and fluffy, Sweetheart is really hard to dent.

    • ThinkinABit
      January 17, 2013, 9:29 am | # | Reply

      Captain bred ’em to last.

    • Jeffrey Wells
      January 17, 2013, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

      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.

    • Jeffrey C. Wells
      January 17, 2013, 5:54 pm | # | Reply

      (“He” being “the Captain”, as though I were responding directly to ThinkinABit above.)

  7. Jerry C
    January 17, 2013, 6:12 am | # | Reply

    “Radioactive cyanide test corridor”? I’d ask “Why do they even HAVE one of those?” but I suspect the answer would be “For Science!”

    • Viadd
      January 17, 2013, 6:54 am | # | Reply

      But what kind of Mad Scientist thinks it necessary to actually test their radioactive cyanide before using it? Nothing could possibly go wrong!

      • Smithnik
        January 17, 2013, 10:21 am | # | Reply

        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…

        • Viadd
          January 17, 2013, 10:34 pm | # | Reply

          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.

      • Grantwhy
        January 17, 2013, 7:39 pm | # | Reply

        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

        • Tetra Valent
          January 17, 2013, 8:50 pm | # | Reply

          They can’t power up anything they would want to test in the corridor, but the corridor itself is no longer experimental.

    • Confusador
      January 17, 2013, 10:20 pm | # | Reply

      And the same sort of “For Science” mentality is why “Flaming” would have been redundant in the name.

  8. Ben Jims
    January 17, 2013, 6:59 am | # | Reply

    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.

  9. Rex Vivat
    January 17, 2013, 8:12 am | # | Reply

    So radioactive cyanide makes you catch fire?

    • PlasticInsect
      January 17, 2013, 10:35 am | # | Reply

      It’s actually an “exploding radioactive cyanide test corridor” but they only had so much room on the sign.

      • Confusador
        January 17, 2013, 10:26 pm | # | Reply

        It kind of goes without saying.

  10. Scott's Folly
    January 17, 2013, 8:14 am | # | Reply

    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?)

  11. davidbreslin101
    January 17, 2013, 8:25 am | # | Reply

    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.)

  12. Kiri the Unicorn
    January 17, 2013, 3:35 pm | # | Reply

    Did anyone remember to put the dog out?

    • jerryc
      January 17, 2013, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

      Go to your room.

    • JET73L
      February 21, 2015, 8:12 am | # | Reply

      I’m glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read your comment. I gigglesnarfed in a most uncouth way.

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