And then they run up against Dave’s robot armies.
“Identify yourself!”
“YOU WILL IDENTIFY FIRST!”
“You appear formidable, though your design lacks elegance.”
“ANASIGMA HAS NO CONCEPT OF ELEGANCE!”
“Obviously.”
With Victorian!Madblood’s sudden reappearance, I’ve a feeling that scenario might not be entirely out of the question. Although the span of time in between Artie’s reappearance and Victorian!Madblood’s tells me Shaenon is playing a long game with that particular plot point, so it may not necessarily happen soon.
Somehow I don’t see the Narbons and Project Skin Horse being on the same side, which is frustrating, because I don’t know who to root for.
Well, they’re both on the Mad side at least. And Artie will probably tell his mom at least SOME of what’s going on… (‘Oh my, you’ve threatened the world again? I’m so proud of you!’)
Unfortunately, I have a sinking feeling about Dave’s robots and Narbon’s biotech playing out the FULL role of the cybermen in that exchange: threatening but ultimately overshadowed and trounced by the A-Sig armies. The reason, of course, being that A-Sig is allowed to use common sense while Mad Scientists are not.
verb (used with object), extirpated, extirpating.
1. to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
2. to pull up by or as if by the roots; root up:
“Extirpated” is also the term used to describe a species of animal or plant that has been removed from an area, yet remains extant in other areas (i.e. is not extinct); i.e. “the White-breasted Nuthatch is extirpated from its former range in the Florida Everglades”.
You’d think someone as intellectually precocious as Dr. Lee would know what “extirpate” meant. (I hesitate to say “smart,” given the things I’ve seen her do.)
She knows the definition, but exactly HOW they’re obliterated and with which noodle implements is the real worrying question.
It will, of course, all turn out to be apparently relatively harmless (letting the rumors and the employees imaginations do the work) and then subtly horrible.
No one knows what extirpation involves, not even thought supposedly in charge of doing it. The higher-ups spread rumors about things like walnuts and shea butter to keep the peons scared.
I’m betting that it’s exactly that…with the twist that the truth isn’t amusingly gruesome but just horrible. “Shoot them.” “What? That’s it? No death trap?” “No.” *boom*
Lemme put it this way, Dr. Lee: if you think that you’re about to be extirpated… whatever you do, don’t lesnerize.
“The ultimate fear of not knowing what it is you need to avoid doing.” Good point.
So lets see, what do we know about extirpation? Monkeys, walnuts, and now shea butter? I’m picturing a monkey noix beurrés restaurant
Not another buttered monkey nuts joint!
Now I have this mental image of Dalek-esque Anasigma ‘security droids’ wandering around going “EX-TIR-PATE! EX-TIR-PATE! EX-TIR-PATE!”
And then they run up against Dave’s robot armies.
“Identify yourself!”
“YOU WILL IDENTIFY FIRST!”
“You appear formidable, though your design lacks elegance.”
“ANASIGMA HAS NO CONCEPT OF ELEGANCE!”
“Obviously.”
With Victorian!Madblood’s sudden reappearance, I’ve a feeling that scenario might not be entirely out of the question. Although the span of time in between Artie’s reappearance and Victorian!Madblood’s tells me Shaenon is playing a long game with that particular plot point, so it may not necessarily happen soon.
Somehow I don’t see the Narbons and Project Skin Horse being on the same side, which is frustrating, because I don’t know who to root for.
Well, they’re both on the Mad side at least. And Artie will probably tell his mom at least SOME of what’s going on… (‘Oh my, you’ve threatened the world again? I’m so proud of you!’)
Unfortunately, I have a sinking feeling about Dave’s robots and Narbon’s biotech playing out the FULL role of the cybermen in that exchange: threatening but ultimately overshadowed and trounced by the A-Sig armies. The reason, of course, being that A-Sig is allowed to use common sense while Mad Scientists are not.
Been a while since we heard that word last
Let’s see…
verb (used with object), extirpated, extirpating.
1. to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
2. to pull up by or as if by the roots; root up:
“Extirpated” is also the term used to describe a species of animal or plant that has been removed from an area, yet remains extant in other areas (i.e. is not extinct); i.e. “the White-breasted Nuthatch is extirpated from its former range in the Florida Everglades”.
They *do* have a portal to a parallel universe.
Hm.
Now I’m imagining a universe full of greased-up Echo Bravos who’ve all failed their shoe inspections and been kicked out of their timeline…
Death by shea butter? Sounds horrible.
You’d think someone as intellectually precocious as Dr. Lee would know what “extirpate” meant. (I hesitate to say “smart,” given the things I’ve seen her do.)
She knows the definition, but exactly HOW they’re obliterated and with which noodle implements is the real worrying question.
It will, of course, all turn out to be apparently relatively harmless (letting the rumors and the employees imaginations do the work) and then subtly horrible.
Shea butter now? What happened to the walnuts?
Did they serve shea butter at Shea Stadium?
No one knows what extirpation involves, not even thought supposedly in charge of doing it. The higher-ups spread rumors about things like walnuts and shea butter to keep the peons scared.
I’m betting that it’s exactly that…with the twist that the truth isn’t amusingly gruesome but just horrible. “Shoot them.” “What? That’s it? No death trap?” “No.” *boom*
Two words: Educational Movies.
About shoes.
Even Anasigma has standards.
Not many, granted, but still.
Could be worse…. could be margarine (in all fairness, I can’t remember if I’ve ever tasted margarine. I’ve just heard it’s bad).
You probably have. Very few restaurants actually use butter now (not that margarine is much better).
Lately even margarine is going away. Many places are using butter flavoured canola oil.
Extirpate: to root out and destroy completely.