Thirded, and since Tigerlily has to have Barry White on the speaker system in there, why hasn’t anyone shoved them both into a closet for a couple of hours?
That’s priority number 3. (Number 2 is getting a breath mint first). Numbers 4 through 7 are mission related again. The remaining 11 priorities are things not to be talked about in polite company.
A Master Scout would rub those two sticks together….warmth would ensue. Something like this awkwardness must have preceded much of Romantic Poetry.
Goth stuff, too.
Y’know, if Annex One is moving, the floor they’re standing on sure doesn’t roll much. My compliments to the engineer—Ms. Jones, one would presume—for such excellent work.
Considering that Whimsy made that Full-AI Clone of Nick, and A-Sig likely have all the same technology, then who wants to bet that when they find the Whirligig there’s still a “Nick” in charge of flying it around…?
True. However, after Virginia escaped from Walnut Hell, she found the Osprey in what appeared to be a completely intact condition, sans Nick’s brain. And very shortly thereafter, everything went higgledy-piggledy, so it’s possible that it is still sitting in whatever hangar she found it in.
As much as I’d dislike being wrong about how convenient it would be that it should be at the airfield in Kansas, she did have to take a rather lengthy bus trip to get to Annex One.
Playing off your “seems too simple” comment….that maybe your insight is self-referential, we ourselves are simple creatures, being led about by our eyes by superior personages. AKA heavy-handed attempt at snark. Mr. Obvious making an announcement, I suppose.
I kinda thought that might have been what you meant, but it didn’t make sense, since my remark was in reference to Dave’s guess at the plot-line, not in reference to any person. I figure the plot has to be more complicated. They can’t just go off and find the Osprey right away.
This is so reminiscent of “The Gift of the Magi”. Virginia totally believes Nick’s greatest desire is to be restored to his Osprey body, so she has provided a way for him to shift his senses wirelessly, leaving his cloned body sitting in the pilot seat as a life support tank. She loves him but feels he deserves better than her evil self.
While Nick is feeling confirmed in his suspicion that someone so wonderful could never look at him as worthy of her love so he’ll content himself with going back to being her favorite project and best friend…
Oh, just kiss already, dammit!
+1. ^_^
Also +1
Same sentiment, two fewer words, in all-caps.
Scruffy-style “Second” here
Thirded, and since Tigerlily has to have Barry White on the speaker system in there, why hasn’t anyone shoved them both into a closet for a couple of hours?
That’s priority number 3. (Number 2 is getting a breath mint first). Numbers 4 through 7 are mission related again. The remaining 11 priorities are things not to be talked about in polite company.
In the immortal words of Sally Brown, “Kiss her, you blockhead!”
DITTO.
Also? If y’all sold ‘Black Ops Softball League’ or ‘Black Ops Softball Playoffs’ t-shirts or similar, I would totally buy one.
Will L’il Abner ever marry Daisy Mae? Oops, wrong strip…
Baltette?
Sweetheart. (See the Wikipedia article “Balto”.) I think Nick made up this nickname a while ago, though I haven’t been able to find the strip.
Found it: http://skin-horse.com/comic/now-concluded/
Thank you, I was also lost on that.
A Master Scout would rub those two sticks together….warmth would ensue. Something like this awkwardness must have preceded much of Romantic Poetry.
Goth stuff, too.
“first” and “base” in the same sentence? Well, it’s a start.
My first priority is getting those base locations!
My priority is first getting those base locations!
My priority is getting first to those base locations!
My priority is getting to those base locations first!
My priority is getting to the locations of first base!
All your base are first.
All your first bases are belong to us!
Y’know, if Annex One is moving, the floor they’re standing on sure doesn’t roll much. My compliments to the engineer—Ms. Jones, one would presume—for such excellent work.
Spring shock absorbers in the floor, no doubt.
Pshaw… given it’s Tigerlily’s work, there’s probably spring-powered artificial gravity!
Caling it now: The airbase is where Nick’s plane body is. Hence the ”for me” bit. Also, bet the neuro tranceiver lets him fly it.
That seems far too simple.
Not if he has to pick between being capable of boinking Dr. Lee or flying again.
I meant that it would be too simple – story-wise – for them to find the Osprey at the first airbase they infiltrate.
Considering that Whimsy made that Full-AI Clone of Nick, and A-Sig likely have all the same technology, then who wants to bet that when they find the Whirligig there’s still a “Nick” in charge of flying it around…?
You’re forgetting Mr. Green declared the Osprey experiment a failure and intended to scrap it, with the exception of the “comfy seats”.
True. However, after Virginia escaped from Walnut Hell, she found the Osprey in what appeared to be a completely intact condition, sans Nick’s brain. And very shortly thereafter, everything went higgledy-piggledy, so it’s possible that it is still sitting in whatever hangar she found it in.
As much as I’d dislike being wrong about how convenient it would be that it should be at the airfield in Kansas, she did have to take a rather lengthy bus trip to get to Annex One.
Awgie: Aren’t we, though?
Aren’t we what?
Playing off your “seems too simple” comment….that maybe your insight is self-referential, we ourselves are simple creatures, being led about by our eyes by superior personages. AKA heavy-handed attempt at snark. Mr. Obvious making an announcement, I suppose.
I kinda thought that might have been what you meant, but it didn’t make sense, since my remark was in reference to Dave’s guess at the plot-line, not in reference to any person. I figure the plot has to be more complicated. They can’t just go off and find the Osprey right away.
Mutually assured cluelessness
This is so reminiscent of “The Gift of the Magi”. Virginia totally believes Nick’s greatest desire is to be restored to his Osprey body, so she has provided a way for him to shift his senses wirelessly, leaving his cloned body sitting in the pilot seat as a life support tank. She loves him but feels he deserves better than her evil self.
While Nick is feeling confirmed in his suspicion that someone so wonderful could never look at him as worthy of her love so he’ll content himself with going back to being her favorite project and best friend…
Since they kept getting interrupted when Nick and / or Dr. Lee were going to explain his tranceiver, it’s still up for grabs just what’s in his head.
But it’s already been demonstrated that his tranceiver can control A-Sig tech, so he should be able to control the Osprey.
Yeah, the priority for both of them is getting to that first base, then that second base, then that third base…