“Huh-huh-huh-huh. She said ‘stiff.’ Huh-huh-huh-huh.”
“Yeah! Heh-heh! And then she burped. Heh-heh-m-heh-heh!”
“Maybe she’ll fart next. Huh-huh. That would be cool. Huh-huh-huh.”
Three, deconstructing jokes is as logical as trying to flush yourself down the toilet to see where it goes. even if it works you are still going to be covered in s***.
And fourth, UNITY is so drunk on her magically acquired biological expertise that she’s forgotten that the joke turns on ‘stiff’ being slang for ‘corpse’. Y’know, I think panels 1 and 3 are the first time that her smartness has struck me as annoying rather than admirable.
And that though her second point is dead on.
Still, I can’t really blame her. It’s probably annoying enough dealing with neurotypicals; conversing with a stupider-than-usual zombie must be a real trial.
Ok, so the effect of brain tissue consumption on Unity seems to be unique to herself. Was there ever any explanation why? (In fact, why would a bunch of blood nannies get smarter when digesting chewed up brains?)
I don’t believe there was an explanation, but it’s my working assumption that as she is not technically a zombie, but rather a gooey mass controlling any tissue it can find (eg her body) then the added brain tissue is utilized en masse, rather like a giant robot would use a load of lemons to give itself a power boost if it came across them.
Yeah, probably her “blood” connects up all the brain cells she’s “digesting” with her current-brain to make a temporary super-brain in her stomach. Actually, even if she’s in a living creature (as seen in previous story arcs), she may be able to do the same thing but most of her hosts would probably be too squicked out to try.
Hmmm… If I were possessed by Unity, could I bring myself to eat raw brains, without puking, just to gain temporary super-intelligence?
And what differences (if any) occur when the brains are bovine (which includes Cattle, Sheep and Goats), equine or any species other than homo sapiens sapiens?
neurons are neurons.. what seperates a human brain from any other animal’s is structure and the amount of neurons in a given volume. presuming the blood-nannies know how to hook the neurons up, it shouldn’t matter what kind of terran life form they came from. though i’d suspect humans brains are a zombies preference.
(interesting bit.. in Sluggy Freelance, Zombies eat flesh to replace their decaying cells. stereotypical zombies only crave brains, so they retain intelligence but end up looking like corpses and eventually fall apart. but one major bad lady ate whole bodies to ensure that all her body susrvived.. she looked perfectly normal. i thought that was a clever justification for zombies wanting to eat people..)
During the Once and Future chapter, Ginny reveals that outside her body Unity is only capable of basic thoughts and she needs a brain to be as smart as she is. It’s not hard to imagine that the effect can be amplified by adding more brains.
As for why the effect is unique to Unity, well, that would be because there is no other being like Unity. She’s only a “zombie” in the sense that she is a reanimated corpse (or rather pieces from several corpses).
Big burp bellow as we binge on brains!
Zombies make good lovers ’cause they’re stiff!
Laugh a lot …
You just roll your eyes at me, as if to say, “As if!”
Big burp bellow as we binge on brains!
Now my silly joke you’ll deconstruct!
Fun, you’re not …
I will now respond to you as loudly I eruct!
Big burp boom …
Big burp boom …
Burp loud enough, you’ll clear the room!
You know, I always just assumed that she’s legitimately that smart all of the time but really doesn’t enjoy it, so she ignores her insights. The brains act as an involuntary Magic Feather.
@Unity: 2A, women have erectile tissue in their genital areas just like men do; in fact, all fetuses start off female and, barring androgen insensitivity, fetuses with XY chromosomes then change over to male and continue developing into little boys. So yeah, you can get “stiff” in that sense too, dear.
(Apologies to anyone offended by the references; I tried to keep this as clinical as I could so as to keep everything family-friendly and not graphic.)
And this would be the downside to U.N.I.T.Y.’s unique reaction to ingested brain tissue.
Hey, the other girl had fair warning… and doesn’t seem unduly put out, anyhow.
“Huh-huh-huh-huh. She said ‘stiff.’ Huh-huh-huh-huh.”
“Yeah! Heh-heh! And then she burped. Heh-heh-m-heh-heh!”
“Maybe she’ll fart next. Huh-huh. That would be cool. Huh-huh-huh.”
They get drunk, she gets knurd.
She can’t be knurd, she hasn’t started screaming yet.
At best, she is simply the soberest person in the area. Which can have its own problems.
Well, she gets about as knurd as you can without Klatchian coffee.
If only they could somehow combine forces…
… you ‘d have one zombie of average intelligence.
Well, I like Unity on brains. But maybe that’s just me.
Three, deconstructing jokes is as logical as trying to flush yourself down the toilet to see where it goes. even if it works you are still going to be covered in s***.
0k, that came out wrong, lol, it was meant as a ‘fourth panel’.
And fourth, UNITY is so drunk on her magically acquired biological expertise that she’s forgotten that the joke turns on ‘stiff’ being slang for ‘corpse’. Y’know, I think panels 1 and 3 are the first time that her smartness has struck me as annoying rather than admirable.
And that though her second point is dead on.
Still, I can’t really blame her. It’s probably annoying enough dealing with neurotypicals; conversing with a stupider-than-usual zombie must be a real trial.
However, the “stiff” slang for corpse derives from the rigor mortis effect.
Of course. But etymology is not destiny.
Maybe UNITY needs to pickle her brains first…
…would non-brainy UNITY have let that slide as a pickup line?
She doesn’t have brains per se, she only posesses a body to controll. Her mind isn’t contained in the skull, but in her “blood”.
I love Unity on brains.
Ok, so the effect of brain tissue consumption on Unity seems to be unique to herself. Was there ever any explanation why? (In fact, why would a bunch of blood nannies get smarter when digesting chewed up brains?)
I don’t believe there was an explanation, but it’s my working assumption that as she is not technically a zombie, but rather a gooey mass controlling any tissue it can find (eg her body) then the added brain tissue is utilized en masse, rather like a giant robot would use a load of lemons to give itself a power boost if it came across them.
Yeah, probably her “blood” connects up all the brain cells she’s “digesting” with her current-brain to make a temporary super-brain in her stomach. Actually, even if she’s in a living creature (as seen in previous story arcs), she may be able to do the same thing but most of her hosts would probably be too squicked out to try.
Hmmm… If I were possessed by Unity, could I bring myself to eat raw brains, without puking, just to gain temporary super-intelligence?
And what differences (if any) occur when the brains are bovine (which includes Cattle, Sheep and Goats), equine or any species other than homo sapiens sapiens?
neurons are neurons.. what seperates a human brain from any other animal’s is structure and the amount of neurons in a given volume. presuming the blood-nannies know how to hook the neurons up, it shouldn’t matter what kind of terran life form they came from. though i’d suspect humans brains are a zombies preference.
(interesting bit.. in Sluggy Freelance, Zombies eat flesh to replace their decaying cells. stereotypical zombies only crave brains, so they retain intelligence but end up looking like corpses and eventually fall apart. but one major bad lady ate whole bodies to ensure that all her body susrvived.. she looked perfectly normal. i thought that was a clever justification for zombies wanting to eat people..)
Do… giant robots frequently use lemons for power bursts?
During the Once and Future chapter, Ginny reveals that outside her body Unity is only capable of basic thoughts and she needs a brain to be as smart as she is. It’s not hard to imagine that the effect can be amplified by adding more brains.
As for why the effect is unique to Unity, well, that would be because there is no other being like Unity. She’s only a “zombie” in the sense that she is a reanimated corpse (or rather pieces from several corpses).
Big burp bellow as we binge on brains!
Zombies make good lovers ’cause they’re stiff!
Laugh a lot …
You just roll your eyes at me, as if to say, “As if!”
Big burp bellow as we binge on brains!
Now my silly joke you’ll deconstruct!
Fun, you’re not …
I will now respond to you as loudly I eruct!
Big burp boom …
Big burp boom …
Burp loud enough, you’ll clear the room!
Sorry, left off melody. Sung to the tune of “Blackbird” by The Beatles.
Had an early meeting at work, didn’t have time to post this until lunch.
This brings back too many memories of college; both the parties and the philosophy classes. 🙂
Okay, so I accidentally now have about half a fanfic continuing this to her tracking down Artie and arguing with him over Prop 39…
You know, I always just assumed that she’s legitimately that smart all of the time but really doesn’t enjoy it, so she ignores her insights. The brains act as an involuntary Magic Feather.
Is a brain burp anything like a brain fart?
@Unity: 2A, women have erectile tissue in their genital areas just like men do; in fact, all fetuses start off female and, barring androgen insensitivity, fetuses with XY chromosomes then change over to male and continue developing into little boys. So yeah, you can get “stiff” in that sense too, dear.
(Apologies to anyone offended by the references; I tried to keep this as clinical as I could so as to keep everything family-friendly and not graphic.)