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2014-05-17

by shaenon on May 17, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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  1. JSStryker
    May 17, 2014, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Ahh a Wizard of OZ reference!

    • Brian Bogue
      May 17, 2014, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      Well after all he does resemble the TicTock Man

      • littlebeast
        May 17, 2014, 12:42 am | # | Reply

        And the whole comic takes themes from Oz. You know that right? Tip, the color thing, many more that I don’t get because I never read a lot of that series…

        • Robert Nowall
          May 17, 2014, 8:55 am | # | Reply

          Let’s not forget the Patchwork Girl, either. It’s the books more than the movie. (This saved me from making a joke about the Wicked Witch of the East.)

    • Eraser820
      July 6, 2014, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

      Actually “Safe as Houses” is merely period slang for Moustachio, it was an expression coined when the railroad investment bubble burst so there was a massive shift into property markets instead believing real estate to be much more stable of an investment. Alternatively in modern media there’s a tie with Fringe S01E17 – Bad Dreams When agent Dunham and Peter Bishop come to NYC to investigate what has been ruled a Suicide their liason contact is justifiably worried that instead they’re giving her a cover story and are actually investigating a possible terrorist plot and asks them “Are we safe?” to which Peter replies “We’re safe as houses”

      • Fal Leithani
        February 27, 2016, 9:13 am | # | Reply

        His first line was period slang.
        His last line was the Wizard of Oz reference.

  2. eddddd
    May 17, 2014, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    Deathly? Don’t you mean deadly? Deathly is with the pallor of death, deadly is able to kill

    also lol nick I love you

  3. codebracker
    May 17, 2014, 6:37 am | # | Reply

    I know this was all orchestrated by Gavorte to distract them, but Mustachio should stop helping, seriously!

  4. Raistandantilus
    May 17, 2014, 9:31 am | # | Reply

    I love that M can pronounce the ampersand. I need to figure out how to do that.

    • jdreyfuss
      May 17, 2014, 9:41 am | # | Reply

      It evolved from a calligraphic ligature of the Latin word “et,” meaning “and.” I assume he just said et cetera.

    • mickeyf
      May 17, 2014, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

      He may have taken the correspondence course from to P.T. Bridgeport, of Pogo fame.

  5. Shadowmehr
    May 17, 2014, 9:46 am | # | Reply

    So, does Moustachio speak from first-hand experience on this?

    After all, his rampage back in the day had to be stopped somehow . . .

    • BMunro
      May 17, 2014, 11:30 am | # | Reply

      Most likely (although perhaps due to ill-considered house-smashing efforts rather than enemy action) but I’m not sure that was enough to stop him: I think he’d be less blase if a house actually ended his rampage.

  6. ChaoreX
    May 17, 2014, 9:48 am | # | Reply

    Wait, so Nick made a brown note?

    • orcurrentresident
      May 17, 2014, 10:20 am | # | Reply

      The lethal version is called a black note.

      • Classic Steve
        May 17, 2014, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

        Interesting. Most sheet music has all the notes in black.

        • orcurrentresident
          May 18, 2014, 4:18 am | # | Reply

          Sonic weaponry works on the principle of forced resonance (see Tacoma narrows bridge 1940-aka Galloping Gertie) tuned to proteins or organs. The results of shattered eardrums, collapsed lungs, and destroyed intestinal tract-hence the term black note.

          A bullet is still cheaper and more effective, though it lacks points for style one could say…

    • irdburns
      May 21, 2014, 2:41 pm | # | Reply

      Nerve gas would also be cheaper and more effective, without the problems of force falloff. There is a reason weapons technology is developed within bounds.

  7. Dr. Steve
    May 17, 2014, 10:10 am | # | Reply

    Who in the building would be effected and who would be safe from the noise? Might there be some consequences aimed at the man behind the curtain?

    • Brian Bogue
      May 17, 2014, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

      Well definitely the insane crystal entity in the sub basement, It can’t take Brittney Spears on full volume so what ever is on that disk is bound to hurt

  8. Dr. Steve
    May 17, 2014, 10:12 am | # | Reply

    Oh, and, hey – did we decide what noise is on the CD? Perhaps the Ramones?

    • MisterTeatime
      May 17, 2015, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

      That would fit with the design principles.

  9. Blue Wonder
    May 17, 2014, 10:45 am | # | Reply

    Don’t something like 75% of all accidents happen in people’s homes?

  10. =Tamar
    May 17, 2014, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

    Gavotte is a swarm of bees, who are not physically connected. I’m guessing there’s at least one in that flower on the desk, watching everything.

  11. Eugene Parsons
    May 17, 2014, 2:46 pm | # | Reply

    Nice 1.
    go primal skin care

    • David DeLaney
      August 16, 2015, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

      Shaenon, you’ve got (old) spam!

      –Dave

  12. Guesticus
    May 17, 2014, 3:51 pm | # | Reply

    Hmmm, does M mean if a building is dropped on you? Or if you are dropped on a building? (obviously he means the prior rather than the latter, but it’s still fun to imagine the latter, specially if the building has a nasty spire or weather vane :D)

    • Saberbeam
      May 18, 2014, 12:41 am | # | Reply

      @Guesticus: Fortunately, proper application of cartoon physics can allow one to come to a sudden stop mid-fall and gingerly step out from above said pointy object 🙂

  13. Pseudo
    May 17, 2014, 4:05 pm | # | Reply

    Nah, Chris’ skin looks fine. Certainly not bad enough to warrant hundred dollar soap!

    • Jay
      May 17, 2014, 10:38 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, the spambot could have picked a better target. After all, Tip’s innermost secret was that “deep down, you know you need a stronger moisturizer”…

  14. AJ
    May 18, 2014, 11:17 am | # | Reply

    “They are quite heavy if dropped on one… should be “heavy if one is dropped on you” They way you said it, it implies that the you fell onto the house. Not the same thing

    • Tetra Valent
      May 18, 2014, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

      It’s Victorian language.

      “They’re quite heavy if [they are] dropped on [some]one.

    • Sailorleo
      March 3, 2017, 2:11 am | # | Reply

      It’s perfectly correct as is. English normally operates under SVO sentence construction. They (houses, note plural construction) is the subject noun–what is being dropped–and one(-self) is the object noun–what They is being dropped on.

  15. Schism
    May 18, 2014, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

    An interesting bit of etymology behind the phrase ‘Safe as Houses’. Houses used to be considered a safe /investment/, especially after such nonsense as tulip-mania and unscrupulous investor choices – everyone needs a house, after all.

    You don’t hear that in the original sense very often anymore.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      May 19, 2014, 6:24 am | # | Reply

      I think there’s a reason for that

  16. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    May 19, 2014, 6:23 am | # | Reply

    Pacifist? We’re talking about the same Nick here, right?

    I mean, yeah, he’s not as violent as Unity, but that’s not exactly saying much.

    • =Tamar
      May 19, 2014, 8:58 pm | # | Reply

      Well, it _is_ Moustachio speaking. There is some precedent for his not understanding “safety” quite the same way as the others do.

    • irdburns
      May 21, 2014, 2:39 pm | # | Reply

      Nick IS a pacifist. For example, he refuses to mount weapons and was willing to die rather than be pressed into military service. But I don’t think he counts (cyprus) zombies since they’re not sentient.

  17. David DeLaney
    October 6, 2014, 2:52 am | # | Reply

    …Eugene Parsons up there is blogspam.

    –Dave

  18. JET73L
    March 14, 2015, 7:03 am | # | Reply

    To paraphrase Monk: “Coma, THEN filling my trousers?”

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