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2017-10-16

by shaenon on October 16, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Unsinkable
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  1. Robert Nowall
    October 16, 2017, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Usually they kill them and *then* get dumped in the trunk.

    • OneUniverse
      October 16, 2017, 5:20 pm | # | Reply

      What? You never saw “Goodfellas”?

      • jdreyfuss
        January 30, 2020, 4:56 pm | # | Reply

        Or Sneakers?

  2. Ogden Wernstrom
    October 16, 2017, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    There are different kinds of future sight. The kind of future sight that just tells you when you’re boned like Oedipus is not the kind you want. I recommend threatening to never play with this dungeon master again unless they give you one of the good kinds.

    • Shadowmehr
      October 16, 2017, 7:37 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, the most recurrent issue with prophecy is lack of context.

      • s854
        October 16, 2017, 9:29 pm | # | Reply

        There are different sorts of careless. There’s leaving classified documents in your car. And then there’s forgetting to refill the cyanide gas dispenser in the boot after the last time something got in there.

        • awgiedawgie
          October 16, 2017, 9:39 pm | # | Reply

          Worse if you happen to do both.

  3. Clifton
    October 16, 2017, 1:28 am | # | Reply

    We’re coming up on 10 years of Skin Horse, and I think there is just a possibility that soon we might finally learn the identity of the Wizard of Oz.

    • Pygar
      October 16, 2017, 1:51 am | # | Reply

      Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs.

      • awgiedawgie
        October 16, 2017, 3:21 am | # | Reply

        Ah, but a name is not the same thing as an identity.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        October 16, 2017, 4:44 am | # | Reply

        OZ…. PINHEAD? Seriously?

        • Jack
          October 16, 2017, 6:51 am | # | Reply

          Why do you think he went only by Oz?

        • Kirala
          October 16, 2017, 9:41 am | # | Reply

          It’s CANON! 😀

    • Mental Mouse
      October 16, 2017, 8:39 am | # | Reply

      Dang, has it been that long?

      • Sheik
        October 16, 2017, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, the years have gone by waaay too fast.

  4. OneUniverse
    October 16, 2017, 3:51 am | # | Reply

    Couldn’t they get a vehicle with a larger trunk?

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      October 16, 2017, 4:42 am | # | Reply

      Hm… definitely not a Gremlin, then.

  5. Joseph Bonnar
    October 16, 2017, 5:47 am | # | Reply

    Seriously.
    In the Wizard of Oz, that is the full name of the Wizard as given in one of the books. It was revealed in the fourth Oz book, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. As this is one of the books written by Baum himself, it can be taken as canon.

    There.
    More than you EVER wanted to know about the wizard, right? 🙂

    • Al the K
      October 16, 2017, 6:24 am | # | Reply

      But book canon isn’t movie canon, as I’ve found. And just why did the land of kangaroos steal his name and incur his wrath?

      • John Schilling
        October 16, 2017, 6:57 am | # | Reply

        Used onscreen in “Oz the Great and Powerful”, FWIW. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1623205/quotes/qt1873564

    • Robert Nowall
      October 16, 2017, 4:52 pm | # | Reply

      I would accept Baum as canon, except he tended not to pay attention from one book to another. Didn’t the Nome King have two different names?

      • Landis963
        October 17, 2017, 12:28 am | # | Reply

        Yep. “Ruggedo” and “Roquat the Red” both refer to the same character.

        • awgiedawgie
          October 17, 2017, 4:21 am | # | Reply

          True, he did have both names. But in The Emerald City of Oz, when he drank from the Water of Oblivion, he forgot everything — including the name Roquat. The next time we see him, although he has finally recovered from drinking the Water, he is still going by the new name Ruggedo.

          Not that this excuses any of the other continuity issues between the books.

  6. Evan Theilig
    October 16, 2017, 8:57 am | # | Reply

    You see, that’s a very apt vision, I’d say.

    ALL WORLDS BEGIN IN DARKNESS, AND SO SHALL END. THE HEART IS NO DIFFERENT.

  7. Robert Nowall
    October 16, 2017, 10:13 am | # | Reply

    Yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh
    The trunk is so dark, the lid has been closed,
    And we’re confused on how we’ve been hosed.
    We went a-looking for shadow-gov man.
    We dove in to hide out, and now we’ve been canned.
    So, come on, we’ll take a trunk ride!
    (Trunk ride!)
    Come on and crawl in side by side,
    Come on, we’ll take a trunk ride!

    It’s cramped and its chilly, is that a spare tire?
    We’re in big trouble, position is dire.
    Relying too much on poor second sight,
    We’re shrouded in darkness that isn’t at night.
    So, come on, we’ll take a trunk ride!
    (Trunk ride!)
    Come on and crawl in side by side,
    Come on, we’ll take a trunk ride!

    Yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh
    Ah, ah, come on, we’ll take a trunk ride
    Come on, we’ll take a trunk ride, yeh yeh yeh yeah
    (Come on…)

    —from “Free Ride,” Edgar Winter Group.

  8. Bruce A Munro
    October 16, 2017, 5:59 pm | # | Reply

    You do not leave Illuminati secrets in the trunk of your car, unless they’re the sort that disintegrate thieves and meddling kids. (See, “Repo Man”)

    • awgiedawgie
      October 16, 2017, 7:06 pm | # | Reply

      Ah, but sometimes the most powerful people can become careless. They’ve put so many layers of security between themselves and the world that they simply assume they are untouchable. They make little mistakes, and little mistakes open the door to bigger ones.

    • casimir
      October 16, 2017, 11:34 pm | # | Reply

      I can’t tell you how many times I’ve left Illuminati secrets in my car trunk and forgotten about them. Then when I find them I have to wash off all that sticky spilled soda and fuzz…eew.

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