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2015-02-09

by shaenon on February 9, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Alphaghoul
    February 9, 2015, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    I still don’t know anything about that lemur project from yesterday.

    • Foradain
      February 9, 2015, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      That’s because you’re not cleared for it. FNORD.

      (don’t worry, most of us aren’t cleared for it yet.^_^ )

  2. Foradain
    February 9, 2015, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart, double check your memory: You didn’t pilot that Drone into there, they carried it in while you were offline. You’re recovering stolen property. ^_^

  3. Manifesta
    February 9, 2015, 1:06 am | # | Reply

    Oh, puh-leeze let Tigerlily take over piloting the drone! The Law of Funny demands that this is a thing which must exist. I’m dying to see the whitest soul-sister on the planet.

    • Ron Armstrong
      February 9, 2015, 11:05 am | # | Reply

      “I’d pay a dollar for that!” ~ RoboCop

      • chrisn
        February 9, 2015, 11:52 am | # | Reply

        (I’d buy that for a dollar!)

        • Ron Armstrong
          February 9, 2015, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

          Thanks for the correction,I haven’t seen it in a couple of years.
          😀

      • Shadowmehr
        February 9, 2015, 6:34 pm | # | Reply

        A dollar?! I’ll see your dollar and raise you another ten.

        Any other bids? Going once, going twice, . . .

    • bergerjacques
      February 9, 2015, 3:47 pm | # | Reply

      That’s it. I’m breaking out my copy of Black Mama/White Mama tonight.

  4. BMunro
    February 9, 2015, 1:56 am | # | Reply

    “Infiltrating”, Sweetheart, not breaking in.

  5. --jt--
    February 9, 2015, 2:14 am | # | Reply

    Am I miss-remembering? Wasn’t Sweetheart all hung up on (not) being called a “woman” before? Granted, it doesn’t seem to be an issue here.

    • Andy4Hire
      February 9, 2015, 12:33 pm | # | Reply

      Sort of. In this strip, Tip gets angsty about his relationship problems and then tells Sweetheart she’s “so much easier to talk to about this sort of thing than a real woman.” But Tip’s apology in this strip, after Unity pointed out what he’d done, suggests that the reason Sweetheart had been hurt wasn’t that he’d reminded her she wasn’t a human woman but that, because she wasn’t a human woman, he’d dismissed her as being less worthy of his respect.

    • Rex Vivat
      February 9, 2015, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

      I’m not sure what you’re trying to remember, but Sweetheart was once offended when Tip told her she was not a real woman.

  6. Frank
    February 9, 2015, 4:15 am | # | Reply

    there must be something mad, yet innocuous that they can make together. Like, i don’t know, a super can opener. Wait, this is sweetheart…

    • BMunro
      February 10, 2015, 4:05 am | # | Reply

      When mad scientists are involved, even can openers can spiral out of control… http://variety-sf.blogspot.com/2008/02/henry-kuttner-c-l-moore-proud-robot.html

  7. Robert Nowall
    February 9, 2015, 6:25 am | # | Reply

    Isn’t “Working for the Man” a song by Roy Orbison? Edduard?

    • eddurd
      February 9, 2015, 7:44 am | # | Reply

      Robert, you read my mind …

      (TUNE: “Working For The Man”, Roy Orbison)

      Hey now, I’ve infiltrated right into the Institute!
      And now I’ve gotta, gotta, build some thing that’s mad, to boot!
      Ask Tigerlily, “Kindly help me if you can!”
      She says I’m working for the Man!

      I gotta maintain
      My cover, that’s plain!
      But Tigerlily’s wearing a frown!
      She says, “Get bent!
      I won’t invent
      For the ones that are keepin’ me down!”

      “I’m not workin’ for the Man!
      Won’t work for the Man!
      Better alter your plan!
      I’m not workin’ for the Man!”

      Need something built,
      ‘Cause I’m feeling guilt …
      I broke in here, and that was quite rude!
      Jones says, “Now look,
      I’m the genius kook,
      But you’re the one that’s coming unglued!”

      “I’m not workin’ for the Man!
      Won’t work for the Man!
      Oh, there’s nothing lower than
      Goin’ workin’ for the Man!”

  8. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    February 9, 2015, 6:45 am | # | Reply

    Hinges? We don’t need no steenking hinges!

    • Foradain
      February 9, 2015, 8:01 am | # | Reply

      Building a hinge, are we?

      • Stickmaker
        February 9, 2015, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

        How about a henge?

        https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608030239856722802&pid=15.1&P=0

        • Rex Vivat
          February 9, 2015, 2:41 pm | # | Reply

          “Dude, let’s build a henge or two!”

  9. Danny in Canada
    February 9, 2015, 8:11 am | # | Reply

    Actually, that’s an interesting question. Do mad inventions work if they’re built by someone non-mad?

    • =Tamar
      February 9, 2015, 8:26 am | # | Reply

      Of course they do. Why else do they need minions?

      • John Robert Mead
        February 9, 2015, 9:05 am | # | Reply

        Minions are non-mad who /use/ mad inventions, which differs from non-mad /making/ mad inventions. Unless we have documented cases of non-mad following blueprints or some such to build mad inventions, of course. But even then it’s just cases of non-mad following directions, rather than actually creating mad inventions. But Danny’s question is valid, does it need actual physical contact with mad to imbue mad inventions with their madocity, or can they be created by mundanes following directions? I’d say it requires contact, as they warp reality to create mad science; it just anyone could build them, it’s not mad science.

        • ZReporter
          February 9, 2015, 10:37 am | # | Reply

          It’s fifty fifty. Some minions do the evil work, but it all comes down to who is doing what with which reasoning.

          If the minion just blindly follows the mad science and works just like a tool or an extension of their “master’s” will then mad science works. If the minion pays attention or does their own input/will of their own… then it’s out sourcing which usually fails… horribly by not working at all or horrific mad science experiment accident.

          Also being a product of mad science might earn her a few points.

        • GammarayCanon
          February 9, 2015, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

          It’s not so much warping reality as much as finding the usually non-relevant parts of reality and pulling on them until they fall down like a shower curtain. At least, that’s my working theory.

        • Rex Vivat
          February 9, 2015, 2:37 pm | # | Reply

          You forget what Dr. Lee’s line of work is: she reverse-engineers mad science creations so they can be reproduced by mundanes. Leaving aside the constantly debated question of whether she’s a Mad Genius or not, somewhere in the chain is a non-Mad person understanding and reproducing a Mad’s creation.

          • WJS
            July 25, 2019, 3:30 pm | #

            Yes, but that gift is so rare it may well be unique. The very fact she is considered special implies that normally, Mad Science can’t be reproduced. That is in fact part of the definition of Mad Science.

  10. matteo
    February 9, 2015, 9:53 am | # | Reply

    Shout out to Tigerlily’s earrings…

    • bergerjacques
      February 9, 2015, 3:49 pm | # | Reply

      Shout out to Tiger Lily’s belt!

  11. Ron Armstrong
    February 9, 2015, 11:03 am | # | Reply

    I still say she should go for a “Rube Goldberg”!

    • Jay
      February 9, 2015, 8:10 pm | # | Reply

      “Well, of course you don’t see how it could possibly work. I’m the genius here, remember!”

      …and then Sweetheart would get the shock of her life if they actually get it working: she’d think she’s really a mad genius! But it’d turn out a technician named Dave had just fixed “the obvious mistake” without telling anybody…

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