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2013-03-02

by shaenon on March 2, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Manifesta
    March 2, 2013, 3:06 am | # | Reply

    I used to subscribe, but I dropped it in favor of Unscientific American and Destroy.

    • Altarboy
      March 2, 2013, 3:54 am | # | Reply

      I prefer Irrational Geographic for my leisure reading.

    • Blofeld's Cat
      March 2, 2013, 4:54 am | # | Reply

      Have you tried “Improbable Research” home of the Ig Nobel Prizes?

      http://www.improbable.com/

    • Andrew
      March 2, 2013, 5:03 am | # | Reply

      That would explain issues of This New Mansion.

    • Eddurd
      March 2, 2013, 6:12 am | # | Reply

      When I was a kid, my parents subscribed to Death. I think they still have the JFK commemorative issue.

      What, too soon?

    • jdreyfuss
      March 2, 2013, 9:28 am | # | Reply

      We got Sports In Tiny, Cramped Print, but my parents always took away the swimsuit issue.

    • JET73L
      February 28, 2015, 1:07 am | # | Reply

      I enjoyed Psychosis Today until they devolved into random key-mashing that DIDN’T contain cyphers.

      Eddurd, lovely ^_^

  2. Eddurd
    March 2, 2013, 6:36 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “When You Wish Upon A Star”, Washington & Harline)

    Building things unpopular,
    Like a pudding-powered car …
    Anything that you can dream,
    Then you can build …

    Ruby has an on/off switch …
    Violet finds it, what a b*tch!
    Hearing all her victims scream
    Just gets her thrilled …

     Cy-borg girl,
     Now fallen to the ground!
     Too late, the poor thing’s found
     That Vio-let’s violent …

    Deadly mechanisms weird,
    So much worse than we had feared!
    Building things unpopular
    Will get … us … killed!

    • eddddd the mad genius
      March 2, 2013, 9:41 am | # | Reply

      Have you ever done a skin horse filk of “wayward son”? i have no idea why but that song always reminds of this comic: somehow it just fits perfectly in my mind

      • Eddurd
        March 2, 2013, 11:42 am | # | Reply

        Yes, I used that once (back in August of last year). If the opportunity comes up, I can always use it again.

        I need to expand my repertoire a bit, I’m running out of tunes I haven’t used before.

        • bigbearseviltwin
          March 2, 2013, 12:01 pm | # | Reply

          You mean there are tunes you haven’t used yet? with your output I thought you had used them all. 🙂

  3. chicgeek
    March 2, 2013, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

    At least she got to have her yogurt first.

  4. Manifesta
    March 2, 2013, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

    tune: “Come Out and Play (Keep ‘Em Separated),” Bryan “Dexter” Holland, recorded by The Offspring, 1994, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jOk8dk-qaU

    I read Unpopular Mechanics

    This android Ruby is familiar to me
    Saw her plan in 2D
    In an older issue
    How do I get her out of my way . . .
    Now I know just what I can do with you!

    Enjoy your spoon of yogurt, ’cause it’s all over now
    I know your weakness and I’m pressing right here

    I’m gonna turn you off
    I’m gonna get out of this jail
    Take you out
    I read Unpopular Mechanics

  5. Stickmaker
    March 2, 2013, 2:00 pm | # | Reply

    Bad touch!

  6. Saberbeam
    March 2, 2013, 2:55 pm | # | Reply

    So in answer to my earlier question, Violet apparently can handle combat situations, and quite pragmatically at that. Frankly, as far as robot fight scenes go, I am rather underwhelmed.

    So is it named Unpopular Mechanics because it’s unpopular, or is it unpopular because it’s named Unpopular Mechanics?

    • Robert The Addled
      March 2, 2013, 3:21 pm | # | Reply

      Or maybe it only has dull unpopular stories.

      specializing in under-reported science stories.

    • JET73L
      July 31, 2018, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

      It’s written by mechanics who are unpopular. Nobody cares enough for them to give their publication a read.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 1, 2018, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

      It contains detailed information about mechanical concepts that are unpopular. By mechanics who are unpopular (but who, being Mad geniuses, are indeed experts in their field). For readers who are unpopular.

  7. Tetra Valent
    March 2, 2013, 5:42 pm | # | Reply

    “Why do I even HAVE that switch?” She could have had it removed when she got her new wings.

    Apparently the only thing without an off switch is an infant on an airplane.

    • John Campbell
      March 2, 2013, 10:02 pm | # | Reply

      They have off switches, but people get really upset when you use them.

  8. Jacob Haller
    March 3, 2013, 2:03 am | # | Reply

    That last panel stands up to multiple readings.

  9. griffin8aka8evonix
    November 12, 2014, 9:24 pm | # | Reply

    I woulda taken that out

  10. Noaqiyeum
    July 11, 2016, 4:20 am | # | Reply

    I am like 90% certain that Unpopular Mechanics was a thing in Narbonic, too…

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