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2013-05-10

by shaenon on May 10, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Anderson
    May 10, 2013, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    I *have* been on a couple of rides like this before….

    Also I must say, that combo of mirrored safety-glasses, hard hat and suit goes rather well together. Not sure the tie is a good idea on a building site but it’s a good stand against bad fashion in the workplace.

    • DanD
      October 26, 2019, 11:33 pm | # | Reply

      White hard hat. That’s an engineer or exec on the site. They don’t get to close to the work. (I mean, I do on job sites, by I’m more small machinery than building construction or demolition).

      • awgiedawgie
        October 26, 2019, 11:59 pm | # | Reply

        Since the comic is black and white, it’s hard to state that it’s a white hard hat. And even if it is, that’s not a good indication of his position. There are contractors here where all the employees on a job site wear white hats.

        But the suit and tie is a good indication that he’s probably a GF on the site.

  2. Evil Midnight Lurker
    May 10, 2013, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    “Bart, stop teasing your sister. Lisa, drink the water.”

    …

    “I AM THE LIZARD QUEEN!”

  3. Some Smartass
    May 10, 2013, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    Their version of the Small World ride is the only working one? I’m thinking someone’s trying to ruin the park on purpose.

  4. Frank
    May 10, 2013, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    it’s a world of love, it’s a world of spears
    its a world of magic, a world of queers
    there’s so much that we hide
    let us realize inside
    its a small world after all

    wait, oops!

  5. WuseMajor
    May 10, 2013, 3:14 am | # | Reply

    You’d think they’d have disabled the song first thing.

    • Altarboy
      May 10, 2013, 3:42 am | # | Reply

      No, the song is the entity. Replicating in your head until you pass it along to someone else, at which point it goes dormant for a time with occasional flare ups.

      • Robert The Addled
        May 10, 2013, 4:50 am | # | Reply

        Is that how the sentient meme that Dave accidently created works?

      • Ysabet
        May 10, 2013, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

        Heh; sounds EXACTLY like the sort of thing that Terry Pratchett would come up with (and pretty damn close to The Music from his book Soul Music.

        • Robert The Addled
          May 10, 2013, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

          Funny you should bring that up – I am about to finish the Rincewind arc, and was debating following the Witches or your almost-namesake’s father.

      • Lars H
        June 21, 2019, 2:21 pm | # | Reply

        For when it goes beyond mere replication, see Gen-13 #43–44. Written by Adam Warren.

  6. Eddurd
    May 10, 2013, 6:19 am | # | Reply

    And of course, every time Shaenon mentions the song, it ends up stuck in my head all day. So, why should I be the only one to suffer?

    (TUNE: “It’s A Small World”, Sherman & Sherman)

    Well, the water’s toxic, the wiring’s bare,
    And asbestos fibers are in the air!
    There’s so much going wrong,
    All except for the song!
    Yes, the “World of Love” plays on!

     [CHORUS:]
      ”World of Love” you know so well!
      In your brain for weeks will dwell!
      There’s no doubt that this is Hell!
      Sing the “World … of … Love”!

    Your survival chances are quite remote
    When piranha start chewing through your boat!
    And they’re still more decreased
    When the kraken’s released!
    But the “World of Love” plays on!
     [repeat CHORUS]

    • maarvarq
      May 10, 2013, 6:36 am | # | Reply

      You fiend…

    • Diane Castle
      May 10, 2013, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

      Marvelous! I only say that because I got the song stuck in my head last night when I read the comic, so this just improves matters. And the filk I was writing to the same tune isn’t nearly as good.

      FYI, the way to defeat an earworm is to combat it with another earworm – only make it one you can live with. I use the theme song to “The Gary Shandling Show”. Once you perfect this technique, you can whistle “It’s a Small World” and drive enemies insane, while you quickly divest yourself of the earworm and continue on your merry way.

      “This is the theme to Gary’s show… the opening theme to Gary’s show… this is the music that you hear while you watch the credits…”

      • Wayne Zombie
        May 10, 2013, 2:31 pm | # | Reply

        Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance does a good job for me.

      • kytyn
        May 13, 2013, 3:59 pm | # | Reply

        thank you! I was terrified of having that…. song… in my head all day.

      • Storel
        November 22, 2017, 3:36 am | # | Reply

        My revenge when people infect me with an earworm is to sing “Feelings” back at them.

        Unfortunately, this only works with people who are old enough to remember “Feelings”, so it’s getting less effective every year.

    • reynard61
      May 10, 2013, 8:57 pm | # | Reply

      “It’s a Dark Ride after all!
      Eldritch en-ti-ties that call!
      Something that will cast a pall!
      It’s a Dark ride after all…”

  7. Midwestmutt
    May 10, 2013, 7:11 am | # | Reply

    Looks like anasigma got there first.

  8. jdreyfuss
    May 10, 2013, 7:48 am | # | Reply

    Naked asbestos? Carcinogens fully nude at a children’s park? Risqué.

    • Robert The Addled
      May 10, 2013, 4:11 pm | # | Reply

      to paraphrase a quote I heard somewhere “Its the fine line between using a feather and the whole chicken”

      • JET73L
        March 2, 2015, 2:18 am | # | Reply

        Terry Pratchett, while referencing someone else: “Erotic is using a feather. Kinky is using the whole chicken.”

  9. MisterTeatime
    May 10, 2013, 5:55 pm | # | Reply

    Given that at least some of the “animatronics” are supposedly fully sapient artificial life, I’m going to root for “shipped overseas.” They might be hard to get to, but I generally think unharmed is preferable to otherwise.

  10. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    January 26, 2014, 3:56 am | # | Reply

    Oh boy, here come the traumatic flashbacks

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