David Harmon (mental_mouse) says:
Well, the stereotypical enemy of a cobra is a mongoose.
Scott: What you’re describing was the original form of a “fool’s errand”:
It’s a medieval winter, everyone’s stuck in the castle for months. People are getting really bored — including the knights, who you don’t want getting too bored, because they’re armed and dangerous. If the lord sees that someone’s starting to lose it, he can tell them to ask the castle fool for an errand. The fool, of course, has been very busy, and had had plenty of chances to make arrangements with folks scattered around the castle….
Rasteen Nowroozi (herandar) says: How exactly does a cobra consume killer robots? I would think that they are indigestible.
Brand Willis (brandyllyn) says:
Surely we end up back at the silverfish when we’re done.
Maybe the cobras don’t eat them, but dismantle them for parts instead?
Fred (narsham) says: If this continues, the last group of sentient whatsis is going to ask Tip to keep Unity from eating them.
So It Begins (soitbegins) says: Ooh! I know! Steampunk cobras!
Aaron Shades (prof_tinker) says: I keep expecting him to just give it up, at this point. Eventually he’s gonna end up going right back into the office. . . .
Dave Van Domelen (dvandom) says: Basil, grafting a cute girl onto the snake is cheating. For full credit, you need to show cuteness with just a snake.
Alycia Shedd (leeshajoy) says: o/~ She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, she swallowed the cat to catch the bird, she swallowed the bird to catch the spider that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her… o/~
Aaron Shades (prof_tinker) says:
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
I don;t know why, she swallowed the fly. . .
Peeeeerhaaaaaps sheeeeeee’ll dyyyyeeeeeeee!!
Incog Neato (ghede) says:
… What kind of cobra could eat a robot?
A metalophage AH-1 Cobra?!?
John Vertical (tropylium) says: Indeed, it’s quite reasonable that by death robot standards, the word’s basic meaning is “sentient helicopter”, not “snake”. The mongooses are there just to thro us off track.
Ed Gedeon (eddurd) says:
“And now, your moment of Zen …”
(Cut to shot of cobra basking in the sun, with a large bulge in its belly where the death robot has been swallowed. From the bulge comes the sound of plaintive singing, “Yes, they’ll aaaaaaaal coooooome to meet meeeee, in the shaaaaaade of that old ooooooak treeeeeeee ….”
So It Begins (soitbegins) says: What kind of cobra? One with acid in its fangs, not poison.
So It Begins (soitbegins) says:
Today on the Mad Scientist Wars:
Professor Tinker and the Locked Room, the Continuance of SoItBegins’s Dire Predicament, and Jane Narbon’s Semi-Triumphant Return.
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John Campbell (jcampbel) says: Don’t worry, Tip. Cobras are fairly easy to defeat in personal combat, as venomous snakes go. They strike straight-bodied from a upright position instead of lunging from a coiled position like most other snakes, which makes them relatively slow and gives them a sharply limited and easily estimated range. If you stay just at the edge of that range, you can taunt them into striking when they can’t quite actually reach you, and then just grab them behind the head, putting them entirely at your mercy.
Basil Jelly (basil_jelly) says:
But can you do it while using hand puppets?
John Campbell (jcampbel) says: All I can say is: if I were a cobra, and someone waved a therapy puppet at me, I’d try to bite it.
David Harmon (mental_mouse) says:
Well, the stereotypical enemy of a cobra is a mongoose.
Scott: What you’re describing was the original form of a “fool’s errand”:
It’s a medieval winter, everyone’s stuck in the castle for months. People are getting really bored — including the knights, who you don’t want getting too bored, because they’re armed and dangerous. If the lord sees that someone’s starting to lose it, he can tell them to ask the castle fool for an errand. The fool, of course, has been very busy, and had had plenty of chances to make arrangements with folks scattered around the castle….
Rasteen Nowroozi (herandar) says: How exactly does a cobra consume killer robots? I would think that they are indigestible.
Basil Jelly (basil_jelly) says:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o19/bensano/comics/snake8.jpg
Take that Mr. ‘Cobras can’t be cute”.
Brand Willis (brandyllyn) says:
Surely we end up back at the silverfish when we’re done.
Maybe the cobras don’t eat them, but dismantle them for parts instead?
Fred (narsham) says: If this continues, the last group of sentient whatsis is going to ask Tip to keep Unity from eating them.
So It Begins (soitbegins) says: Ooh! I know! Steampunk cobras!
Aaron Shades (prof_tinker) says: I keep expecting him to just give it up, at this point. Eventually he’s gonna end up going right back into the office. . . .
Dave Van Domelen (dvandom) says: Basil, grafting a cute girl onto the snake is cheating. For full credit, you need to show cuteness with just a snake.
D. Connolly (theogrin) says: For the benefit of dvandom: http://www.ragnarokhq.com/images/items/Snake_Card.jpg
Alycia Shedd (leeshajoy) says: o/~ She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, she swallowed the cat to catch the bird, she swallowed the bird to catch the spider that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her… o/~
Aaron Shades (prof_tinker) says:
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
I don;t know why, she swallowed the fly. . .
Peeeeerhaaaaaps sheeeeeee’ll dyyyyeeeeeeee!!
Incog Neato (ghede) says:
… What kind of cobra could eat a robot?
A metalophage AH-1 Cobra?!?
John Vertical (tropylium) says: Indeed, it’s quite reasonable that by death robot standards, the word’s basic meaning is “sentient helicopter”, not “snake”. The mongooses are there just to thro us off track.
Ed Gedeon (eddurd) says:
“And now, your moment of Zen …”
(Cut to shot of cobra basking in the sun, with a large bulge in its belly where the death robot has been swallowed. From the bulge comes the sound of plaintive singing, “Yes, they’ll aaaaaaaal coooooome to meet meeeee, in the shaaaaaade of that old ooooooak treeeeeeee ….”
So It Begins (soitbegins) says: What kind of cobra? One with acid in its fangs, not poison.
So It Begins (soitbegins) says:
Today on the Mad Scientist Wars:
Professor Tinker and the Locked Room, the Continuance of SoItBegins’s Dire Predicament, and Jane Narbon’s Semi-Triumphant Return.
Only on Comics By Shaenon II – comicsbyshaenon dot free-forums dot org !! Visit it today!!
John Campbell (jcampbel) says: Don’t worry, Tip. Cobras are fairly easy to defeat in personal combat, as venomous snakes go. They strike straight-bodied from a upright position instead of lunging from a coiled position like most other snakes, which makes them relatively slow and gives them a sharply limited and easily estimated range. If you stay just at the edge of that range, you can taunt them into striking when they can’t quite actually reach you, and then just grab them behind the head, putting them entirely at your mercy.
Basil Jelly (basil_jelly) says:
But can you do it while using hand puppets?
John Campbell (jcampbel) says: All I can say is: if I were a cobra, and someone waved a therapy puppet at me, I’d try to bite it.
Mongoose people!?!
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