I honestly assumed that either he’s got a vacuum reclamation system, that he catheterized himself while on his cyborg kick, or that he just goes the medeival route and has (high tech) diapers.
Is this true? Then I know now what it is I must do. I must find this fabled confection that is called lemonade pie at all costs, and when I find it I must eat it.
A few short hours ago,
We found out our friend had been exposed to Narbon’s “Cure” …
A modern miss, no longer Mad!
And Doctor Jones said, “This is bad!
Imogene, we’re bustin’ out, for sure!”
Though Prudence was a total loon, her
Rocket-powered prairie schooner
Helped to break us out now …
So what’s that all about now?
Our captors don’t keep us in check;
They let us work, then steal our tech!
And now I’m saying, “What the heck?!”
They went … and stole … my pie!
It’s …
[CHORUS:]
My, my super lemonade pie!
Now they’ll take off to the bake-off,
And my rights they’ll deny!
They’re all so mean, make me just want to cry!
And for that, I swear they’re all gonna die!
Institute, they’re all gonna die!
When I just a girl, so small,
Back in the Fifties, I recall
What my mother said to me …
“When life give you lemons,” Mama said,
“Then just make something sweet instead.”
So I whipped up this ingenious recipe!
With lemons, sugar, and cream cheese,
This fine dessert is such a breeze!
Then, in the Frigidaire,
You just let it chill in there!
Then on the top, you sprinkle some
Asbestos and plutonium!
But now the Institute has come,
Those fiends! They stole … my pie!
(Yeah, they took it!) [CHORUS]
Yeah – good everything and awesome gloves! Weird… I just happened to catch a first season episode of ST original series recently. Uhura was wearing those same green hoop earrings.
And, of course, now we know for sure where Dr. Lee was getting the Mad Science to reverse-engineer.
And sure, Imogene appears to be back to her old self… but I wonder what her reaction will be when TL inevitably reminds her of what just happened.
Well, except for the fact that when people are roofied they are not normally told “don’t drink that, I put a roofie on it”. This is more like a Pandora situation, except that she was given way more information that Pandora ever got.
You’re right, she did ignore a clear warning. I’m sure Imogene had no idea what “mojo” meant, but that’s not much of an excuse for barging in when she was warned.
I notice they’re all basically gelatin or cream or custard pie that’s lemonade flavored or flavored with lemonade. I feel like it’s implied that Imogene’s recipe is a mad science invention. In that spirit, we need a pie that somehow embraces the paradox of solid pie and liquid lemonade. Like a pie filled with “cells” of liquid lemonade… which would be too easily doable, actually, and therefore not weird enough.
Maybe something state-change based? So it cuts like a solid, but the moment it hits the tongue it turns liquid?
Why won’t this thing let me reply to comments? I was trying to make my post above a reply to Warren Terra’s comment, but pressing the “reply” button next to his post created a general reply at the bottom of the list instead.
CBob, I think it has to do whether Javascript is enabled or disabled. If I enable it, I can reply to comments … but I have to disable it to get the proper indenting when I post a filk. (Otherwise I get error messages.)
Depends how useful you think their inventions are, I suspect. “Okay, yeah, those last six inventions were… interesting… but we only need so many ways to style one’s hair.”
The thought also occurs that testing with the cure is reserved for those who know too much. Debbi found the files pertaining to that research, so she’s the one A-sig fingered for testing. (Why not Tigerlily? Already intended as a Skin-Horse catalyst. Why not Imogene? Didn’t have any paper or electron trail leading to her before she found out about the cure, so it’d be easier just to release her with Tigerlily).
To me it was pretty clear that Debbi was “cured” to make sure Tigerlily would try to escape. Hell, it wouldn’t surprise me if she turns out to be a hired actor.
Why bother hiring them? If they actually have the cure, why not just dope up an inmate? There are several available in Tigerlily’s ward who are not Tigerlily. The rest is simple, just set off the chain reaction.
Well, in the first place, an actor might be cheaper than the cure, and much less likely to show unforseen and unwanted side effects. In the second place, what makes you so sure they actually do have it? If you know they want Jones to escape (and think it was her own idea), the timetable becomes mightily suspicious. They decide to throw all the “displaced” Mads together, and Jones suddenly starts hearing rumors about the cure. Then one of the other Mads she conveniently began hanging out with shows up cured, and immediately Echo Bravo comes in.
They want to make mad inventions sane, and they want the ability to neutralize mad scientists once their tech is to the point that they decide to assert their own planned paradigm. Remember, their basic raison d’etre is the imposition of rationality on an insane universe.
Look, Tigerlilly, just because Imogene’s mojo is *different* doesn’t mean she doesn’t have any. People *think* innocence mojo is weak, but that’s not always the case…
Imogene’s lemonade pies are not baked, as such; they are grown from a starter culture which has to be ‘fed’ organic matter from time to time until the pie is ready. If it’s a good batch, people think the pies are delicious. If it’s a bad batch, the pies think people are delicious.
What we are witnessing here is the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Mr. Green wanted Tigerlily out of the Institute in a convoluted plan to get Skin Horse under his thumb. But in the process of escaping, Tigerlily found evidence of hoarded madtech in the Institute. This will result in her pulling a few threads that will cause Skin Horse & allies to bring down Anasigma.
If Mr. Green figures out the cause and effect of this, the results will be . . . amusing for us to watch.
See, Imogene is resilient!
Imogene has her own reality-blindness.
Maybe, maybe not. Never underestimate the importance of a good lemonade pie. ^_^
Nah man, I’m pretty sure that’s just your garden variety insanity.
To sell them to the Military Industry,or to the Koch Brothers.
Or sell them to …. Tony Stark!
Tony can do his own mad science.
And buy them out to own their mad science along with his own mad science
That wagon looks like a more comfy ride than that iron suit, including ease of restroom breaks.
Hey, if you were in a cave with a box of scraps, you’d probably cut a few corners here and there.
I honestly assumed that either he’s got a vacuum reclamation system, that he catheterized himself while on his cyborg kick, or that he just goes the medeival route and has (high tech) diapers.
Tiger Lily only thought of that angle just now? It would appear that mad scientists can be as unworldly as their sane counterparts at times. @_@
She had other things on her mind, plus she may not have known about the tech warehouse.
There are a million Google hits for Lemonade Pie Recipe, 30,000 hits if you put it in quotes. This is apparently a thing.
Is this true? Then I know now what it is I must do. I must find this fabled confection that is called lemonade pie at all costs, and when I find it I must eat it.
And there will be a whole lot more after this shout out…
(TUNE: “American Pie”, Don McLean)
A few short hours ago,
We found out our friend had been exposed to Narbon’s “Cure” …
A modern miss, no longer Mad!
And Doctor Jones said, “This is bad!
Imogene, we’re bustin’ out, for sure!”
Though Prudence was a total loon, her
Rocket-powered prairie schooner
Helped to break us out now …
So what’s that all about now?
Our captors don’t keep us in check;
They let us work, then steal our tech!
And now I’m saying, “What the heck?!”
They went … and stole … my pie!
It’s …
[CHORUS:]
My, my super lemonade pie!
Now they’ll take off to the bake-off,
And my rights they’ll deny!
They’re all so mean, make me just want to cry!
And for that, I swear they’re all gonna die!
Institute, they’re all gonna die!
When I just a girl, so small,
Back in the Fifties, I recall
What my mother said to me …
“When life give you lemons,” Mama said,
“Then just make something sweet instead.”
So I whipped up this ingenious recipe!
With lemons, sugar, and cream cheese,
This fine dessert is such a breeze!
Then, in the Frigidaire,
You just let it chill in there!
Then on the top, you sprinkle some
Asbestos and plutonium!
But now the Institute has come,
Those fiends! They stole … my pie!
(Yeah, they took it!)
[CHORUS]
Hmm, I was wondering what evil was in that lemonade pie…
*applause*
Wow! That may be the best one ever (especially the surprise ingredients!) I’ll be singing that all day!
Tiger Lily’s magical ability to appear in funky threads the instant she escapes remains intact.
And note that Imogene has likewise manifested Total Square threads the instant *she* escaped.
And if we hadn’t been affected by change blindness (http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1912), we’d have noticed this in yesterday’s comic.
Yeah – good everything and awesome gloves! Weird… I just happened to catch a first season episode of ST original series recently. Uhura was wearing those same green hoop earrings.
Could Skin-horse be *gasp* influenced by our cultural legacy? Good eye to notice the earrings.
And, of course, now we know for sure where Dr. Lee was getting the Mad Science to reverse-engineer.
And sure, Imogene appears to be back to her old self… but I wonder what her reaction will be when TL inevitably reminds her of what just happened.
Well, Imogene has basically been roofied. I’d expect her to be upset.
Well, except for the fact that when people are roofied they are not normally told “don’t drink that, I put a roofie on it”. This is more like a Pandora situation, except that she was given way more information that Pandora ever got.
You’re right, she did ignore a clear warning. I’m sure Imogene had no idea what “mojo” meant, but that’s not much of an excuse for barging in when she was warned.
I notice they’re all basically gelatin or cream or custard pie that’s lemonade flavored or flavored with lemonade. I feel like it’s implied that Imogene’s recipe is a mad science invention. In that spirit, we need a pie that somehow embraces the paradox of solid pie and liquid lemonade. Like a pie filled with “cells” of liquid lemonade… which would be too easily doable, actually, and therefore not weird enough.
Maybe something state-change based? So it cuts like a solid, but the moment it hits the tongue it turns liquid?
I believe the phrase is “Melts in your mouth”..?
Why won’t this thing let me reply to comments? I was trying to make my post above a reply to Warren Terra’s comment, but pressing the “reply” button next to his post created a general reply at the bottom of the list instead.
CBob, I think it has to do whether Javascript is enabled or disabled. If I enable it, I can reply to comments … but I have to disable it to get the proper indenting when I post a filk. (Otherwise I get error messages.)
Heavy lemonade pie?
She uses lemonade with lots of lovely wholesome deuterium oxide in it.
She has that CANDU attitude
I was confused for a moment myself. I thought “heavy” referred to the wagon. Perhaps Google Translate needs a funk setting.
No passengers in evidence: They made a break for it without Prudence or others.
Wait a minute. Why is the Institute both saving the mad inventions and testing with the cure? Seems like you’d want it one way or the other, not both.
Depends how useful you think their inventions are, I suspect. “Okay, yeah, those last six inventions were… interesting… but we only need so many ways to style one’s hair.”
The thought also occurs that testing with the cure is reserved for those who know too much. Debbi found the files pertaining to that research, so she’s the one A-sig fingered for testing. (Why not Tigerlily? Already intended as a Skin-Horse catalyst. Why not Imogene? Didn’t have any paper or electron trail leading to her before she found out about the cure, so it’d be easier just to release her with Tigerlily).
To me it was pretty clear that Debbi was “cured” to make sure Tigerlily would try to escape. Hell, it wouldn’t surprise me if she turns out to be a hired actor.
Why bother hiring them? If they actually have the cure, why not just dope up an inmate? There are several available in Tigerlily’s ward who are not Tigerlily. The rest is simple, just set off the chain reaction.
Well, in the first place, an actor might be cheaper than the cure, and much less likely to show unforseen and unwanted side effects. In the second place, what makes you so sure they actually do have it? If you know they want Jones to escape (and think it was her own idea), the timetable becomes mightily suspicious. They decide to throw all the “displaced” Mads together, and Jones suddenly starts hearing rumors about the cure. Then one of the other Mads she conveniently began hanging out with shows up cured, and immediately Echo Bravo comes in.
They want to make mad inventions sane, and they want the ability to neutralize mad scientists once their tech is to the point that they decide to assert their own planned paradigm. Remember, their basic raison d’etre is the imposition of rationality on an insane universe.
Look, Tigerlilly, just because Imogene’s mojo is *different* doesn’t mean she doesn’t have any. People *think* innocence mojo is weak, but that’s not always the case…
Respect the power of the moe.
Imogene’s lemonade pies are not baked, as such; they are grown from a starter culture which has to be ‘fed’ organic matter from time to time until the pie is ready. If it’s a good batch, people think the pies are delicious. If it’s a bad batch, the pies think people are delicious.
Either way, it’s a culinary delight!
Thinner
What we are witnessing here is the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Mr. Green wanted Tigerlily out of the Institute in a convoluted plan to get Skin Horse under his thumb. But in the process of escaping, Tigerlily found evidence of hoarded madtech in the Institute. This will result in her pulling a few threads that will cause Skin Horse & allies to bring down Anasigma.
If Mr. Green figures out the cause and effect of this, the results will be . . . amusing for us to watch.
Every generation thinks they’re the ones who invented it…
To be fair to Imogen, she did get sent to the future because of a Home Ec experiment gone wrong – it *could* involve lemonade pie.