Don’t try drowning yourself in the Charles. You’d never survive the poisons for long enough, unless you’re some sort of toxic Peter Parker in a Zodiac.
Amazing what one gets to learn reading a webcomic – like the fact that Ospreys do tend to have an… in-flight refueling… probe.
While clearly not the same thing (re: cute Cessna’s), hey, maybe Nick develops a… BBP fetish, and he would certainly easily qualify for the mile high club…
On 28 January 2010, Virginia decided to wait for the second evacuation flight on Nick. However, we never learned whether there was a second evacuation flight. Imo trust Jeff and Shaenon on canon here.
(TUNE: “I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight”, Cutting Crew)
Oh I’m … gonna drown in the Charles today!
My lady just shot me down!
Gonna drown in the Charles today!
Hey, what a shock! It’s Doctor Lee now!
She’s never been … up in me, now!
And I’m just hoping to spend some time alone with her …
But who is this? She’s with some dude here!
And now my heart has come unglued here,
Even though that I know I got no way of bonin’ her …
[CHORUS]
Oh I’m … gonna drown in the Charles today!
My lady just shot me down!
Gonna drown in the Charles today!
Oh I’m … gonna drown in the Charles today!
She’s here with some other clown!
Gonna drown in the Charles today!
He says, “Are we talking to a ‘copter?”
I don’t know … if he’s bopped her,
But the joy I was feeling now has up and gone …
What’s the use? I got no chance now
To get lucky, get in her pants now!
I can get it up, but I can’t get it on! [repeat CHORUS]
My cockpit’s just for flying,
For nothing else, feel like I’m dying!
Yeah, she’s a girl, but I’m not a boy,
I may have a joystick, but oy, I can’t give her joy! [repeat CHORUS]
Uh oh. Another suiter! Gotta make sure he walks in JUST the wrong place when I start up my rotors. Just a liiiiiitle closer and to the right Mr. On My Girl’s Arm.
Ok, he would never do it, but you KNOW it flashed through his mind for a sec there.
Relax. It’s just Reverse Scott McCloud Mouth. Frequently contracted while whispering or gritting the teeth, anyone can get it, but recovery is usually swift.
Don’t try drowning yourself in the Charles. You’d never survive the poisons for long enough, unless you’re some sort of toxic Peter Parker in a Zodiac.
Woo! Zodiac ref! You meet the coolest people over here!
It’s cleaner than it used to be. Clean enough to have otters and snapping turtles, which kinda surprised me.
If they could clean up the Cuyahoga, the Charles is small potatoes.
Hey, we got an award for that.
Drown, or scuttle?
Well, he’s a helicopter with an organic brain, so I’d say “both.”
Amazing what one gets to learn reading a webcomic – like the fact that Ospreys do tend to have an… in-flight refueling… probe.
While clearly not the same thing (re: cute Cessna’s), hey, maybe Nick develops a… BBP fetish, and he would certainly easily qualify for the mile high club…
Didn’t she fly in him when they were evacuating Annex 1? I seem to remember a lot of baby cobras and the line “It smells like librarian in here”.
On 28 January 2010, Virginia decided to wait for the second evacuation flight on Nick. However, we never learned whether there was a second evacuation flight. Imo trust Jeff and Shaenon on canon here.
It was in this comic: http://skin-horse.com/2010/todays-comic-130/
I know because I commissioned Shaenon to draw a T-shirt design based on it shortly thereafter.
Sergio isn’t cleared to know about that incident. Therefore, this is the “first time.”
(TUNE: “I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight”, Cutting Crew)
Oh I’m … gonna drown in the Charles today!
My lady just shot me down!
Gonna drown in the Charles today!
Hey, what a shock! It’s Doctor Lee now!
She’s never been … up in me, now!
And I’m just hoping to spend some time alone with her …
But who is this? She’s with some dude here!
And now my heart has come unglued here,
Even though that I know I got no way of bonin’ her …
[CHORUS]
Oh I’m … gonna drown in the Charles today!
My lady just shot me down!
Gonna drown in the Charles today!
Oh I’m … gonna drown in the Charles today!
She’s here with some other clown!
Gonna drown in the Charles today!
He says, “Are we talking to a ‘copter?”
I don’t know … if he’s bopped her,
But the joy I was feeling now has up and gone …
What’s the use? I got no chance now
To get lucky, get in her pants now!
I can get it up, but I can’t get it on!
[repeat CHORUS]
My cockpit’s just for flying,
For nothing else, feel like I’m dying!
Yeah, she’s a girl, but I’m not a boy,
I may have a joystick, but oy, I can’t give her joy!
[repeat CHORUS]
Heh. See? That song is infectious. Once it gets in your head, you just HAVE to think up alternate lyrics.
mnem
*Infected*
Odd. I could swear I heard a heart breaking here. Must have been my imagination.
Uh oh. Another suiter! Gotta make sure he walks in JUST the wrong place when I start up my rotors. Just a liiiiiitle closer and to the right Mr. On My Girl’s Arm.
Ok, he would never do it, but you KNOW it flashed through his mind for a sec there.
GAH Sergio’s mouth is on backwards!
Relax. It’s just Reverse Scott McCloud Mouth. Frequently contracted while whispering or gritting the teeth, anyone can get it, but recovery is usually swift.
Well, at least some good came out of Jonah an Neera’s incursion into Anasigma!
I wonder how long will it take for Nick to be informed that Sergio is gay…
Or indeed for Dr Lee to be informed. She looks very happy to be holding his nice manly arm….
Sergio’s bisexual, not gay. http://www.shaenon.com/lilmell/?p=435 for more.
Not necessarily. The timeline changed. Tho, considering Sergio, that particular trait might shine through.
Good point. Plus, he certainly liked the ladies when he was younger. I clearly need to do an Li’l Mell archive-re-crawl….
Hmm… The Charles River. I wonder if St. Charlie is located under the river basin?
Uh-oh. So Nick, being the only one who didn’t want to find it, would be the only one to find it?
“I’d drown myself in the Mersey only it looks like rain….”
What?? Since when are they based near Boston? Am I that oblivious, is there another Charles, or does Nick just prefer that river?
They flew to Boston so that the MadCity could find the others.
Oh I am just so confused…. Can I get a memory upgrade?
Hmm. Dr. Lee in the vicinity of a town full of mad scientists? Time for some more hollow protestations of sanity!
Has Sergio gotten *his* mad scientist papers certified yet? Or is he too much of a Renaissance man for a single label?
Inspired by Eddurd’s filk.
To Nancy Sinatra’s version of “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)”
She’s called Lee, and I’m called Nick
She’s normal, I’m mostly inorganic
I’m wonderin if she just might
Join me on a private flight
Oh lunch, make swearing sounds
Oh lunch, think I’ll go drown
Oh lunch, now Charles bound
Oh lunch, Doctor Lee shot me down
Hung around, played video games
Then she went and transplanted my brain
Now she’s with some other guy
And it’s with him she wants to fly
Guess I’ll just let out a sigh
and go give cessnas a try
(Repeat chorus)
all the mad scientists live in somerville. we just call it st charlie to confuse people 🙂