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2020-10-20

by shaenon on October 20, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Urlance Woolsbane
    October 20, 2020, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    I imagine that when a law gets through rat congress with no possibility of veto, they say that it passed with a double-double majority.

    • davidbreslin101
      October 20, 2020, 7:31 am | # | Reply

      They probably do, in rat Congress. But how about in the Congress of this underground rodent colony?

      (b’dump-tish)

    • Frank
      October 20, 2020, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

      Been watching Secret of Nimh?

    • Candace
      October 21, 2020, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      But do they vote in the Rathaus?

  2. awgiedawgie
    October 20, 2020, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Oddly enough, I have never seen the word “burgomaster” before. I’ve always seen it spelled “burgermeister”, which would actually work out well for the rat’s dialogue.

    • Towering Barbarian
      October 20, 2020, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      I think back in the 60s or 70s the Burger King commercials had a burger roster as well as a hamburgler. Not at the same time, of course. There was also the infamous commercial where the King told his Court Wizard, “Make me a hamburger!” with predictable results. >_>

      • Towering Barbarian
        October 20, 2020, 12:25 am | # | Reply

        burger roster should be burgermeister. >_<

      • Foradain
        October 20, 2020, 12:47 am | # | Reply

        I’m fairly sure the Hamburglar only “worked” for MacDonald’s. ^_^

    • Foradain
      October 20, 2020, 12:55 am | # | Reply

      I blame the prevalence of “burgermeister” on Meister Burger of that title in “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town”

      • kiralamouse
        October 20, 2020, 8:40 am | # | Reply

        I mean, it’s also the way I’d spell “Bürgermeister” if I just heard it. “Burgermeister” is the same word with a really strong Anglophone accent.

    • Toby Fernsler
      October 20, 2020, 1:52 am | # | Reply

      Me neither, feels like a ME, but looks like translation shenanigans. In any case, it’s still bürgermeister in Deutsch.
      https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCrgermeister

    • Gyrre
      October 20, 2020, 2:38 am | # | Reply

      It could be a matter phonetic spelling combined with Anglicization.

    • kiralamouse
      October 20, 2020, 8:42 am | # | Reply

      I think it’s the “burgerMASTER” part where the joke works – why would you Anglicize the last part of the word but not the first? I didn’t know “burgomaster” was a word till I Googled it just now – I’ve always heard “burgermeister” too – but this makes sense.

    • Frank
      October 20, 2020, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

      “Burgomaster” exists, but it doesn’t mean what you think it means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgomaster

      • awgiedawgie
        October 20, 2020, 5:57 pm | # | Reply

        Actually, it means exactly what i thought it meant. And you’ll notice in that article that it is indeed alternately spelled “burgermeister”.

    • Rejutka
      March 20, 2021, 2:53 pm | # | Reply

      I thought it was an invention of Terry Pratchett. The spelling “Burgo” doesn’t make sense to me, since the word likely derives from the german “Bürgermeister”, or a common root.
      After all, there is even the word “Burgher” in english – which seems to mean almost the same thing as the german “Bürger”.

      I’ve often thought it’s almost scary how similar german and english are while they are still so different.
      Another “fun” word to think about: “Iceberg salad” – it’s almost literally the same as in German: “Eisbergsalat”. Why the …. is “Iceberg” the same as “Eisberg” in german? How did the “berg” get to english without being used elsewhere?…

      • wizard4169
        September 11, 2021, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

        English owes its earliest roots to Germanic languages. I’m sure you’ve heard of Anglo-Saxons, right? The Angles and Saxons were Germanic peoples who moved into the British Isles. But then the Norman conquest stirred in a big helping of French. Since German is an Indo-European language and France is a Romance language, mixing them up explains a lot about how weird English can get. And then you had the whole British Empire, which eventually spread all around the globe, shamelessly hijacking words from countless indigenous languages, not to mention all the words borrowed from various European languages. The lack of any kind of systematic method for Anglicizing the spelling of these loan words is a big part of the reason that English spelling is so complicated we make a competitive sport out of it.
        (Languages are a pet interest of mine, but I’ve never done much formal study. So this is a really simplified version, and possibly not totally correct.)

  3. Foradain
    October 20, 2020, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    And now I must go get a double-double and a large chocolate shake…

  4. Zor
    October 20, 2020, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    Next, they meet a Milk Sheik.

    • davidbreslin101
      October 20, 2020, 7:32 am | # | Reply

      …and a Deep-Fat Friar?

      • nebulousrikulau
        October 20, 2020, 7:54 am | # | Reply

        Of course, HE would be a ChipMonk.

    • Sheik
      October 20, 2020, 10:50 am | # | Reply

      Hey!
      I resemble that remark!

  5. Robert Nowall
    October 20, 2020, 8:02 am | # | Reply

    Thought it was always their creators that were coming for them. Dunno how Sergio would be affected.

    • Rob Nobody
      October 20, 2020, 11:39 am | # | Reply

      I think he means that he doesn’t know if Skin Horse is coming to rescue them, since Sergio just messaged them for help but they got cut off.

  6. Sleepy John
    October 20, 2020, 8:37 am | # | Reply

    It’s a pity Warren Burger is no longer Chief Justice.

    • John
      October 20, 2020, 4:19 pm | # | Reply

      For ever so many reasons.

  7. KeeCoyote
    October 20, 2020, 9:29 am | # | Reply

    We all remember Rankin-Bass’ Burgermiester Miesterburger

  8. D. Walker
    October 20, 2020, 9:56 am | # | Reply

    “We demand our government animal style.”

    Wait, what? What is this supposed to be / mean? Like, I get the general gist from context, but it reads like a word is missing or out of order.

    I’m not sure whether “demand” is supposed to be transitive or intransitive here.

    “We demand (that) our government (be / operate / etc) animal style”?
    …or… “We demand animal-style government”?
    …or something else entirely?

    • Forrest M Davis
      October 20, 2020, 10:33 am | # | Reply

      The joke doesn’t play as well outside of the In-n-Out franchise area, but “animal style” is one of the ways you can order their burgers. A bit messier than the standard version, but oh so good!

      • D. Walker
        October 20, 2020, 11:19 am | # | Reply

        Ahhh, so it’s a joke that doesn’t play AT ALL outside the In-n-Out franchise area.

        At least I get it now. If they ever do a “Director’s Cut” of Skin-Horse like they did with Narbonic, they should explain the joke in the commentary, for posterity.

        • D. Walker
          October 20, 2020, 11:22 am | # | Reply

          I think what would have made it clearer that there was some sort of in-joke going on was if instead of “animal sytle” it was written “Animal Style”, indicating it’s a specific thing, a “proper adjective” so to speak.

        • awgiedawgie
          October 20, 2020, 6:00 pm | # | Reply

          I’m with you on this one. Having never visited an In-n-Out, I had no idea what the joke was.

        • Manifesta
          October 21, 2020, 12:14 am | # | Reply

          Admittedly it’s pretty inside baseball, but if you’re ever in a place that has In-N-Out Burgers, I highly recommend the Animal Style fries, which have cheese, burger sauce and fried onions. They will kill you, but you will die happy.

        • Candace
          October 21, 2020, 12:37 am | # | Reply

          I live in an area with In-n-Out restaurants, but had never heard of the secret “animal-style” thing until, oddly enough, someone I know mentioned it very recently (just within the last couple of weeks). Otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten that particular joke, either.

          • thenardyr
            October 21, 2020, 3:42 am | #

            There is a (not really) secret menu you can look up online for these names. Some make some sense, some don’t. Why two cheeseburger patties (two meat patties, both with cheese, and nothing else) would be called a “Flying Dutchman” is beyond me.

  9. jdreyfuss
    October 20, 2020, 10:45 am | # | Reply

    Good thing they’re not under a Whataburger or it would get really confusing.

    • D. Walker
      October 20, 2020, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

      When the man places his order, what does he order?
      Whataburger.
      I get that he orders a burger! What I want to know is, what burger?
      Yes, that’s right.
      What’s right?
      Whataburger.
      That’s what I’m asking you!
      That’s what I’m telling you.
      You’re telling me what?
      Whataburger.
      Oh for crying out loud…

      • David B Huber
        October 20, 2020, 11:25 pm | # | Reply

        Well done! 😉

  10. Woof
    October 20, 2020, 10:59 am | # | Reply

    If they were in Washington state they could have actually been under a Burgermaster.

    https://burgermaster.biz/

    • dark
      October 20, 2020, 3:35 pm | # | Reply

      Came here just to say that. xD

      Also, if you go back far enough, Windows used to have a Bugermaster code segment because that’s where the dev team ate lunch a lot. (There was one across the street from the then-only Microsoft building. It’s still there. The old Microsoft building isn’t.)

  11. Frank
    October 20, 2020, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

    I’ve read this several times, and just now got the Fri-bun-al joke

  12. Shadowmehr
    October 20, 2020, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

    Apparently puns are not only the lowest form of humor, but also transcend the species barrier.

  13. Knuckles
    February 15, 2022, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

    Well at least if they’re animal style, they should be able to cut the mustard.

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