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2018-04-07

by shaenon on April 7, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Angry with the Sky
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  1. John Campbell
    April 7, 2018, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Oh, man, what I wouldn’t give to have Tigerlily Jones in the Senate…

    • Kitirena
      April 9, 2018, 8:17 pm | # | Reply

      Better idea–Tigerlily for President! Instead of “Make America Great” (for the filthy rich), she’d “Make America GROOVY!” ^_^

      • Knuckles
        February 7, 2022, 10:50 am | # | Reply

        What the hay, we *could* use a reroll on some of those decades.

  2. Towering Barbarian
    April 7, 2018, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    I still think it would be amusing if Ira turned out to be Mr. Green. Then again, I also think it would be amusing if he’s still collecting government pay for his original job because they never bothered to cancel his job even after closing down the building. ^_^

    • Shadowmehr
      April 7, 2018, 10:07 am | # | Reply

      It frightens me how possible that latter scenario actually is.

      • Mental Mouse
        April 7, 2018, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

        Or he might be something like Charles Stross’ “Residual Human Resources”. (Don’t call them the Z-word, Personnel thinks it’s insensitive.)

  3. Bruce A Munro
    April 7, 2018, 4:43 am | # | Reply

    Seeing the Senator reassures Ira that it’s still the 70s and he’s a strapping 40 years young.

  4. Bruce A Munro
    April 7, 2018, 4:45 am | # | Reply

    For those not up on the lingo, a “fin” is $5, which is pretty generous for a 1970s hobo, but then those Senators are often big spenders.

    • Frank
      April 7, 2018, 6:41 am | # | Reply

      Wait, how much is Ira getting paid?

      • Efogoto
        April 7, 2018, 11:48 am | # | Reply

        Paid?

        • Bruce A Munro
          April 7, 2018, 9:09 pm | # | Reply

          If you assume that Ira hasn’t been paid in months or even years (how long has it been in comic internal time since Skin Horse shut down?), it starts getting eerie. Does Ira need to eat? Does he sleep? When Tigerlily finishes a hard day of funky mad science, does he have a home to go to, or does he just sit in the dark – waiting?

          • Efogoto
            April 8, 2018, 4:10 am | #

            lurking.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 7, 2018, 11:55 am | # | Reply

      Should’ve gone high as a sawbuck.

      • awgiedawgie
        April 7, 2018, 2:49 pm | # | Reply

        But then again, $5 in the 1970s is about equal to a sawbuck today.

        • Bruce A Munro
          April 7, 2018, 9:15 pm | # | Reply

          According to the CPI inflation calculator [1], $5 in 1976 had the buying power of $22.19 today.

          [1] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

          • awgiedawgie
            April 7, 2018, 10:42 pm | #

            I’ll buy that. I’ll be honest, it was only a guess.

  5. s854
    April 7, 2018, 5:57 am | # | Reply

    So Tigerlily isn’t a fan of Tip’s new look. Who’d have thought?

  6. mickeyjf
    April 7, 2018, 9:50 am | # | Reply

    “or season my scorn with pity…”

  7. Robert Nowall
    April 7, 2018, 11:56 am | # | Reply

    Senator Jones, now. Good to see she parlayed that mad scientist gig into something other than honest work.

    • casimir
      April 7, 2018, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

      Well, we only have Ira’s perception to go on here, and that may be a little suspect.

      • awgiedawgie
        April 7, 2018, 10:49 pm | # | Reply

        To be fair, he did say “something other than honest work.” So that leaves her options — and Ira’s perception — pretty much open.

  8. everlastingwonder
    November 1, 2018, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Ohhhhhhhhhhh, sweet irony. Thou art a cruel, cruel mistress indeed. (this comment written from several months in the future — don’t mind me if you’re just passing by on your way through the archives!)

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