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2013-06-07

by shaenon on June 7, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Manifesta
    June 7, 2013, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    “PORK PORK PORK PORK PORK PORK PORK PORK PORK PORK mukluk” is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read, and fills me with joy. I’d make it my new favorite quote, but I don’t know how I’d ever explain it to anyone.

    • Treesong
      June 7, 2013, 8:28 am | # | Reply

      Agreed, and in fact the whole comic is one of the best ever, with the expressions on Unity in panel 1 and everyone in panel 3, plus the punchline/revelation in the last panel. Frellin’ hilarious.

      • Quin
        June 7, 2013, 9:51 pm | # | Reply

        Which is worse? That the program learned to seal pork as a swear word… or the fact that the robot find the new replacement just as bad?

        (still love the line… It Learns.)

        • Smithnik
          June 8, 2013, 3:30 pm | # | Reply

          But “mukluk” clearly isn’t AS bad, if they find it only slightly offensive. I agree about the line, though. There’s something delightful about the operator of remote electronic devices anthropomorphizing his software.

          • WJS
            September 26, 2017, 10:06 am | #

            Anthropomorphising how? Nick didn’t say “he learns”, and it quite obviously is learning if it starts filtering words that passed it before.

        • Darkstarr
          May 4, 2016, 12:22 am | # | Reply

          Well, at least he didn’t say “Belgium”. -_^

    • Darkstarr
      May 4, 2016, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      Have that third panel made into a T-shirt, with the Skin Horse logo on the back.

      • Forrest M Davis
        February 19, 2020, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

        I would totally wear that shirt, with or without the skin horse logo. It would be such a blast to know other fans purely by their recognition of the quote.

  2. Eddurd
    June 7, 2013, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Luck Be A Lady”, Frank Loesser)

    Mukluk, it doesn’t sound right!
    Mukluk is too darn polite!
    It’s not a word that’s used by any normal person,
    Mukluk, it doesn’t sound right!

    All Whimsy creatures agree,
    Royal, I surely must be!
    Just when I think the situation cannot worsen,
    They want to feminize me!

     I’m not a motherporking princess!
     I am a guy! I am a dude!
     Not gonna put on silk, satin, pearls, lace, or chintzes!
     I just wanna cuss and be rude!

    But swear filter gets me, for spite!
    Language it will overwrite!
    Quickly it learns and then it burns out all my cursin’ …
    Mukluk is lame-o tonight!

    • mickeyf
      June 7, 2013, 9:45 am | # | Reply

      Guys & Dolls is my all time favorite musical. Once upon a Matress is my second. But under the circumstances, I’ll forgive you.

  3. Altessia
    June 7, 2013, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Unity has such a great “Eee!” face in this one!

    • Ebony Sable
      June 7, 2013, 5:34 am | # | Reply

      She is the cutest thing in the room! I don’t know why anyone there is still standing after that overpowering cute!

      • the1trueian
        June 7, 2013, 8:26 am | # | Reply

        Seconded

    • jdreyfuss
      June 7, 2013, 8:34 am | # | Reply

      Seriously, she looks like she’s about to pop a vein in her neck from squeeing too hard. Well, not pop a vein, since she doesn’t actually have blood, but you know what I mean.

  4. Jay
    June 7, 2013, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if Nick could iterate through his entire vocabulary like that… mukluk mukluk mukluk FENNEL. ‘Course, he’d have to learn another language afterward…

    Also, is he using his vocoder or Violet’s?

    • Max
      June 7, 2013, 3:31 am | # | Reply

      Well, for one, he’s going about it entirely the wrong way. I find it hard to believe he hasn’t seen Firefly… Let’s see what the filter makes of “are you looking at me, you piece of go-se?!?”

    • jdreyfuss
      June 7, 2013, 8:35 am | # | Reply

      Well he does already know how to swear in Yiddish, though by my count it has already coded over “schmuck” and “kacker.”

  5. Ritzbot
    June 7, 2013, 1:53 am | # | Reply

    Canadian comedy groups have corrupted me. Now I think of The Vestibules whenever I hear or read the words, “mukluk,” “macadamia,” “galoshes,” or “bulbous bouffant.”

    • dancingcrow
      June 7, 2013, 9:22 am | # | Reply

      That is what I thought of instantly!

      • Andy4Hire
        June 7, 2013, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

        Yes! Totally! That’s the second thing I thought of! Which is weird, because when I hear any of those words (see also “plethora” and “gazebo”) it’s usually the first thing I think of. This time, the first thing I thought of was this old Chilly Willy cartoon–which, as of today, is officially twenty hundred percent funnier.

        Incidentally, here’s a link to the Vestibules’ “Bulbous Bouffant” for those of y’all who haven’t heard it. The animation (not done by the Vestibules) is OK, but the joy of this track is in hearing them play with words, so it’s even more fun if you close your eyes and just listen.

    • nemryn
      June 7, 2013, 3:41 pm | # | Reply

      Gazebo!

      • Ritzbot
        June 7, 2013, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

        Blubber!

  6. Jay Eff
    June 7, 2013, 2:36 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, I thought I’d just leave this porking link here…
    http://youtu.be/qgucCU5CVXg?t=2m25s

  7. John Campbell
    June 7, 2013, 3:06 am | # | Reply

    Advantages of keeping kosher (and, y’know, being a helicopter that only eats jet fuel): Nick doesn’t have to worry about going into a restaurant and being unable to order the mukluk chop.

    • Keiya
      June 7, 2013, 3:10 am | # | Reply

      Presumably his brain still needs sugars, proteins, and so on.

    • jdreyfuss
      June 7, 2013, 8:36 am | # | Reply

      All venison is kosher, including reindeer and, as of last year, giraffe.

      • TFC
        June 7, 2013, 9:19 pm | # | Reply

        What the heck did happen last year that made necessary to consider that last one??

        • jdreyfuss
          June 7, 2013, 9:45 pm | # | Reply

          The Rabbis at the OU ruled on a longstanding joke.

  8. Moor
    June 7, 2013, 3:30 am | # | Reply

    So… How long is it going to be ’til he starts deliberately using “Tip” as a cuss word, to muck with inter-team communication? (Um… more than it normally is, I mean…)

    • Cait
      June 7, 2013, 6:58 am | # | Reply

      Not sure if that would work. The people Nick was “pork”ing at were sincerely offended by it, and I imagine that’s what the filter filters for.

      • the1trueian
        June 7, 2013, 8:31 am | # | Reply

        This makes sense,There would need to be some In place to keep his vocabulary filters up to date,At one point club penguin was banning five new words every day. What’s been bugging me is that he seems like a moderately intelligent guy, I don’t know why he doesn’t just say nasty vicious things Without the use of cuss words,Stuff like I detest you and Sincerely hope that I will soon see you burn to death as your loved ones look on crying. you know?

        • polerin
          June 7, 2013, 9:11 am | # | Reply

          Because for some of us cursing isn’t about being mean or hurtful, it’s simply part of the texture of our speech. I curse all day every day, but not *at* people for the most part. Even when it is directed, it’s almost never spiteful.

          • mickeyf
            June 7, 2013, 9:48 am | #

            Peter & Lou. “A Chat with Your Mother.”

        • drbrain
          June 7, 2013, 9:48 am | # | Reply

          … but nick isn’t actually particularly nasty and/or vicious. he’s just socialized as a mmorpg gamer, so trash-talk is filler for him. remember, he didn’t call those women “head-toters” intentionally…. 🙂

  9. Dave
    June 7, 2013, 3:42 am | # | Reply

    We are Mukluk of Borg. We will adapt to your vocabulary. Resistance is futile.

  10. Robert The Addled
    June 7, 2013, 4:18 am | # | Reply

    Used to be a bit of a game when I was navy – to find the innuendo in even the most innocuous conversation.

    To this day I will often giggle when I run across conversations/statements out of context.

    • Dhraakellian
      June 7, 2013, 2:01 pm | # | Reply

      Because “anything” can be a “euphemism”

      • Sheik
        June 7, 2013, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

        And a tone of voice can make it a curse.
        My favorite in the Army was Sir.
        As in “Remember, you’re supposed to be be Superior, SIR.”

  11. David McKenney-Barschall
    June 7, 2013, 7:25 am | # | Reply

    For those who don’t know, a mukluk is a type of footwear.

    • nemryn
      June 7, 2013, 3:42 pm | # | Reply

      That’s what she said!

  12. davidbreslin101
    June 7, 2013, 7:33 am | # | Reply

    …so, if Nick learns (or creates) an obscure new swearword, he can get roughly 14 uses out of it?

  13. Rick in Mexico
    June 7, 2013, 7:59 am | # | Reply

    Nick, come in out of the cornstarch and dry your mukluks by the cellophane…

    • the1trueian
      June 7, 2013, 8:32 am | # | Reply

      I wish I was creative enough to make a context in which that sentence was coherent 🙁

      • =Tamar
        June 7, 2013, 7:49 pm | # | Reply

        In the dampness of the midsummer post-RenFaire drizzle, the Canadian pie-baker’s assistant said, “Nick, come in out of the cornstarch and dry your mukluks by the cellophane fake fire.”

    • Amonduul
      June 7, 2013, 11:10 am | # | Reply

      “Let me introduce myself. I am Nick Zerhakker.”
      “No, let me introduce myself. I am Nick Zerhakker.”
      “If you’re so smart, why don’t you pick up your cues faster?”

      On that note, I would totally watch/read/listen to/whatever “The Further Adventures of Nick Zerhakker, Third Eye.” I’d be great.

  14. jdreyfuss
    June 7, 2013, 8:40 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if it’s permanently adaptable or just situationally. Can he say “pork” when he’s not in the presence of people who find it offensive? Or perhaps it only covers otherwise innocuous words when spoken with dirty intent?

  15. Grantwhy
    June 7, 2013, 10:03 am | # | Reply

    Is it just me or is the reindeer particularly upset by the use of “mukluk”?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukluk

    ps: there might be better lines in Skin Horse than “I ain’t gonna be no motherporking princess!”, but I can’t think of them :-p

    pps: “watch yourself, young lady” seems to suggest the critters do see Nick as female. It will be interesting to see why kind of outfit Tip has to put Nick in so they will see ‘her’ as a princess again.

    • =Tamar
      June 7, 2013, 7:50 pm | # | Reply

      Nick’s AI body has long hair and a technically female body. The robots identify with the bodies they have been given: the robot pig identifies as a pig, etc.

  16. Michael
    June 7, 2013, 10:46 am | # | Reply

    I can die now. There will never be a better single-strip comic ever written.

  17. Saberbeam
    June 7, 2013, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

    Wow, that’s a whole lot of cuteness radiating from Unity. And just look at Cunningham’s little wig coming off in the third panel. I never thought that the impotent rage of a small pig would be that entertaining 😀

    • =Tamar
      June 7, 2013, 7:51 pm | # | Reply

      He’s flipped his wig.

  18. Andrew
    June 7, 2013, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

    He should start saying, “Badger, Badger, Badger…” and watch it change to “Mushroom.”

  19. Midwestmutt
    June 7, 2013, 7:40 pm | # | Reply

    Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam eggs spam. Barrister Piggles there makes me think Python.

  20. Vincent
    June 7, 2013, 8:45 pm | # | Reply

    The looks of horror on their adorable faces!

  21. Chris
    June 20, 2013, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    The profanity filter is probably just programmed to block any word Nick uses too often, on the assumption that it’s dirty.

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