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2012-07-17

by shaenon on July 17, 2012 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Norman
    July 17, 2012, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • Michael
      July 17, 2012, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      Woo! Zodiac ref! You meet the coolest people over here!

    • Klyfix
      July 17, 2012, 11:19 pm | # | Reply

      It’s cleaner than it used to be. Clean enough to have otters and snapping turtles, which kinda surprised me.

      • Ardacil
        February 27, 2015, 12:44 am | # | Reply

        If they could clean up the Cuyahoga, the Charles is small potatoes.

        • jdreyfuss
          January 21, 2020, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

          Hey, we got an award for that.

  2. ShinyHappyGoth
    July 17, 2012, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    Drown, or scuttle?

    • Malicron
      April 4, 2016, 10:51 pm | # | Reply

      Well, he’s a helicopter with an organic brain, so I’d say “both.”

  3. Max
    July 17, 2012, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    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…

  4. Barking Monkey
    July 17, 2012, 3:16 am | # | Reply

    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”.

    • Kay Gilbert
      July 17, 2012, 2:52 pm | # | Reply

      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.

    • reynard61
      July 17, 2012, 3:10 pm | # | Reply

      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.

    • Ted
      July 18, 2012, 10:49 pm | # | Reply

      Sergio isn’t cleared to know about that incident. Therefore, this is the “first time.”

  5. Eddurd
    July 17, 2012, 3:55 am | # | Reply

    (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]

    • mnementh
      July 18, 2012, 11:58 am | # | Reply

      Heh. See? That song is infectious. Once it gets in your head, you just HAVE to think up alternate lyrics.

      mnem
      *Infected*

  6. Mason
    July 17, 2012, 5:31 am | # | Reply

    Odd. I could swear I heard a heart breaking here. Must have been my imagination.

  7. Dewy
    July 17, 2012, 6:46 am | # | Reply

    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.

  8. nemryn
    July 17, 2012, 7:23 am | # | Reply

    GAH Sergio’s mouth is on backwards!

    • davidbreslin101
      July 17, 2012, 8:57 am | # | Reply

      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.

  9. Frank
    July 17, 2012, 7:43 am | # | Reply

    Well, at least some good came out of Jonah an Neera’s incursion into Anasigma!

  10. Rex Vivat
    July 17, 2012, 7:54 am | # | Reply

    I wonder how long will it take for Nick to be informed that Sergio is gay…

    • davidbreslin101
      July 17, 2012, 9:00 am | # | Reply

      Or indeed for Dr Lee to be informed. She looks very happy to be holding his nice manly arm….

      • Eric Burns-White
        July 17, 2012, 10:10 am | # | Reply

        Sergio’s bisexual, not gay. http://www.shaenon.com/lilmell/?p=435 for more.

        • Dewy
          July 18, 2012, 6:43 am | # | Reply

          Not necessarily. The timeline changed. Tho, considering Sergio, that particular trait might shine through.

        • davidbreslin101
          July 18, 2012, 11:53 am | # | Reply

          Good point. Plus, he certainly liked the ladies when he was younger. I clearly need to do an Li’l Mell archive-re-crawl….

  11. Rob, Arbiter of Reality
    July 17, 2012, 8:05 am | # | Reply

    Hmm… The Charles River. I wonder if St. Charlie is located under the river basin?

    • Frank
      July 17, 2012, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

      Uh-oh. So Nick, being the only one who didn’t want to find it, would be the only one to find it?

  12. Dave Van Domelen
    July 17, 2012, 8:52 am | # | Reply

    “I’d drown myself in the Mersey only it looks like rain….”

  13. Katherine E. C.
    July 17, 2012, 9:10 am | # | Reply

    What?? Since when are they based near Boston? Am I that oblivious, is there another Charles, or does Nick just prefer that river?

    • Eric Burns-White
      July 17, 2012, 10:10 am | # | Reply

      They flew to Boston so that the MadCity could find the others.

      • Katherine E. C.
        July 18, 2012, 7:16 am | # | Reply

        Oh I am just so confused…. Can I get a memory upgrade?

  14. commodorejohn
    July 17, 2012, 10:13 am | # | Reply

    Hmm. Dr. Lee in the vicinity of a town full of mad scientists? Time for some more hollow protestations of sanity!

  15. Wodwo
    July 17, 2012, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

    Has Sergio gotten *his* mad scientist papers certified yet? Or is he too much of a Renaissance man for a single label?

  16. Saberbeam
    July 17, 2012, 3:48 pm | # | Reply

    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)

  17. drbrain
    July 17, 2012, 6:54 pm | # | Reply

    all the mad scientists live in somerville. we just call it st charlie to confuse people 🙂

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