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2018-01-29

by shaenon on January 29, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Hundred Dresses
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    January 29, 2018, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    H.T. is starting to look more and more like a hostage to his own movement. ^o^

    • awgiedawgie
      January 29, 2018, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      Yeah… exactly where is the line where you finally say that it’s just not worth the trouble?

      • K. Iceclaw
        June 13, 2018, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

        Really, I think he crossed it a few arcs ago.

  2. Robert Nowall
    January 29, 2018, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Where *are* they? Starbucks?

    • awgiedawgie
      January 29, 2018, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      I’ve seen them refer to it a couple times as “the coffee place”, but I don’t know that they’ve ever said just which coffee place it is.

      • Proxiehunter
        January 29, 2018, 12:43 am | # | Reply

        That’s it’s name. The Coffee Place. Run by The Coffee Company, slogan “We make coffee. Don’t ask us out of what.”

        • awgiedawgie
          January 29, 2018, 12:53 am | # | Reply

          How about “We make coffee. You don’t want the details.”

      • shaenon
        January 29, 2018, 1:01 am | # | Reply

        Jeff named the coffee place “Ground Control,” but the name has never been fully visible in the ten friggin’ years we’ve been doing this comic strip. At least the owner appears clearly in this installment.

        • palenoue
          January 29, 2018, 1:24 am | # | Reply

          Or was it an early test of the weirdness ignoring effect that prevents people from seeing the true name of the coffee place?

        • Suzanne Barnes
          January 29, 2018, 1:26 am | # | Reply

          PLEASE tell me the owner’s name is Tom. And that he’s former military. **stares imploringly**

          • awgiedawgie
            January 29, 2018, 1:47 am | #

            You’re dating yourself. That came out in 1969.

            …Of course, the fact that I immediately knew what you’re talking about kinda dates me, too. :/

          • Anson
            January 29, 2018, 2:47 am | #

            Hey, I got the reference and I’m not nearly old enough to have gotten it.

          • Trivena
            January 29, 2018, 2:49 am | #

            It doesn’t date anyone. I wasn’t even *born* then and I know exactly what you two are on about.

          • awgiedawgie
            January 29, 2018, 8:01 am | #

            Ok, so I just dated myself by thinking it dated you.. I keep forgetting that Major Tom was kept alive by Bowie as well as other artists for decades in other songs.

          • casimir
            January 29, 2018, 9:21 am | #

            Great. I have my earworm for today.

          • casimir
            January 29, 2018, 9:56 am | #

            There’s no “Reply” button on this string. Just as well. Kept me from saying something insipid about dating oneself.

          • Guesticus
            January 30, 2018, 4:27 am | #

            Can have worse earworms (like… a literal worm in your ear)
            Worse thing about dating yourself: when they insist on going Dutch… >_>

  3. palenoue
    January 29, 2018, 1:25 am | # | Reply

    Dress for success!

    • Shadowmehr
      January 29, 2018, 7:43 pm | # | Reply

      Success . . . may be pushing it at this point. A decent amount of competence maybe. A firm desire that the weirdness blindness does not suddenly evaporate in the middle of the scheme definitely. Success would mean bragging rights, not a desire to drink away the memories.

  4. Bruce A Munro
    January 29, 2018, 2:35 am | # | Reply

    Not bad, but I think it needs swim fins.

    • OneUniverse
      January 29, 2018, 8:09 pm | # | Reply

      I’m sure Shaenon and Jeff will get many suggestions about HT’s next outfit, and I like that one as a start.

  5. James Rice
    January 29, 2018, 3:17 am | # | Reply

    Is that Caliban? He was planning to open his own coffee shop at some point.

    • EvilMidnightLurker
      January 29, 2018, 6:28 am | # | Reply

      Caliban has lighter hair, I think.

      • awgiedawgie
        January 29, 2018, 8:07 am | # | Reply

        I don’t know… You might be able to call that a “dirty” blond. But yeah, I always imagined it was lighter, too.

        • Andy4Hire
          January 29, 2018, 6:14 pm | # | Reply

          As did I, but I’ve been in coffee shops with pretty dim lighting.

        • Andy4Hire
          January 29, 2018, 6:16 pm | # | Reply

          As did I, but I’ve been in coffee shops with pretty dim lighting. Could be he’s just not in one of the better-lit parts of the room.

  6. Daibhid C
    January 29, 2018, 5:06 am | # | Reply

    At last, they’re going to be dealing with the important stuff.

    By which I mean the story title clearly indicates Tip is going to do something about being stuck in a suit.

  7. Robert Nowall
    January 29, 2018, 9:29 am | # | Reply

    Tiger, Tiger, burning shame,
    Rubber nose, and who’s to blame?
    Who will chortle, who will die,
    And who will misrhyme “symmetry?”

    What insistent outlet mall
    Earns the ires of them all?
    On what things did this transpire?
    Who’s the lackey he will fire?

    When your smarts gave way to crime,
    And slaughter’d seven at a time,
    Made us smile, his face to see.
    Did Reynard put it up to thee?

    Tiger, Tiger, burning shame,
    Played the nature of the game.
    Who will chortle, who will die,
    And who will misrhyme “Symmetry?”

    —from William Blake.

    • casimir
      January 29, 2018, 10:49 am | # | Reply

      Ha! Good one!

    • Manifesta
      January 29, 2018, 1:53 pm | # | Reply

      Yay, you!

    • OneUniverse
      January 29, 2018, 8:08 pm | # | Reply

      Time to reread William Blake again. Thanks for the reminder.

    • reynard61
      January 30, 2018, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      “Did Reynard put it up to thee?”

      I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about…

  8. Clifton (aka From The Volcano)
    January 29, 2018, 5:40 pm | # | Reply

    Falls under the heading “Crimes which are their own Punishments.”

  9. WJS
    August 4, 2019, 4:48 am | # | Reply

    Never mind put in a zoo, he’s asking to get shot. Which they really ought to be doing. He’s now gone past threatening mass-murder and is actually doing it, but something tells me they still won’t deal with him.

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