Because Greek phonemes are only transliterated that way in English and it’s intended to standardize spelling and pronunciation across all the languages spoken in NATO countries. That’s why 9 is pronounced “niner,” so it doesn’t cause confusion with “no” for German speakers.
My point was that when we first met her, she introduced herself as “Alfa Alfa”, so as far as anyone is concerned, that’s the official spelling of her name.
There are three kinds of people who give names to animals. (1) The kind that gives a normal animal name: “Spot,” “Rover,” “Smokey.” (2) The kind that gives a people name to animals. And (3) the kind that says, “I can give my cat any kind of name I want.”
I’ve had a Cat named Spot (well before Data had his), a dog named “Fella” (C’mere fella’! C’mere, boy! You lost? Where are your owners?), and a dog named Ajax who fitting grew to be extremely tall, strong, and fearless.
When I was growing up, we had a cat whose name was “Cat.” His nickname was “Gollum”, but that was not his actual name. I think it was because he was an elderly stray- my mum didn’t want to confuse him with a new name at his time of life.
Is it the kind where you need another teleporter at the other end? Is the other teleporter on Narbon Island? Might they be safer just dealing with the comically inept A-Sig agents?
When did Artie ever mojo through time? He has (or at least, he will have) borrowed Dave’s time machine, but I don’t recall him ever traveling through time without it.
As a mad scientist, you want the monsters you create to be powerful enough to destroy you. You don’t want them to become old and slow before they have the chance.
To be fair, the humans haven’t changed that much over the last decade either. That may just be the drawing style.
I think Artie may be functionally immortal. I think his human and gerbil age reset every time he transforms. This way future artie never returned to his present and has just been living a parallel life making lil’ mel co-cannon with narbonic and skin horse. Although I can’t remember what other reasons lil’ mel couldn’t have happened before narbonic.
He doesn’t reset when he changes back and forth, but Helen designed him with advanced healing abilities, so he heals much faster than normal. That effectively makes him age much slower as well.
To be fair, a hideout without food supplies would have problems and Artie is bad enough with practical details that Cinnamon isn’t necessarily wrong in making sure that alternate methods of obtaining food are available. @_@
One would think that would be the next place Echo Bravo and Alfa Alfa would look.
Alpha Alpha . . . Alphaalpha . . . Alphalpha . . . alfalfa?
Yeeeees…. and it’s spelled Alfa Alfa, not Alpha Alpha. Saves you a couple steps there.
It’s the International Spelling Alphabet (it has a variety of names), where for some reason it’s spelled that way.
Because Greek phonemes are only transliterated that way in English and it’s intended to standardize spelling and pronunciation across all the languages spoken in NATO countries. That’s why 9 is pronounced “niner,” so it doesn’t cause confusion with “no” for German speakers.
My point was that when we first met her, she introduced herself as “Alfa Alfa”, so as far as anyone is concerned, that’s the official spelling of her name.
“That’s why 9 is pronounced “niner,” so it doesn’t cause confusion with “no” for German speakers.”
To be fair, I don’t understand why they pronounce “nein” differently than they spell it. It should be “neh-in” not “nai-n”.
D. Walker: If they pronounced it “neh-in” they’d spell it differently. How they’d spell it depends largely on how you’d like them to pronounce “neh”.
I imagine Artie would have kept Anasigma from knowing about it.
Of he has more than one “place”, one public, one hidden.
Hey, the time out pen is all kinds of awesome ever since they installed the fuzzy thing on a string.
According to my Uncle John, the correct term is “cat feeder.”
My cat Grimalkin would definitelyapprove of that version. Or possibly “Self-Sustainable Cat Buffett.”
Hold up. Your cat is named “cat”? (or, possibly, “spiteful old woman”)
Or, you know, a Macbeth reference… get a grip Names…
There are three kinds of people who give names to animals. (1) The kind that gives a normal animal name: “Spot,” “Rover,” “Smokey.” (2) The kind that gives a people name to animals. And (3) the kind that says, “I can give my cat any kind of name I want.”
I’ve had a Cat named Spot (well before Data had his), a dog named “Fella” (C’mere fella’! C’mere, boy! You lost? Where are your owners?), and a dog named Ajax who fitting grew to be extremely tall, strong, and fearless.
When I was growing up, we had a cat whose name was “Cat.” His nickname was “Gollum”, but that was not his actual name. I think it was because he was an elderly stray- my mum didn’t want to confuse him with a new name at his time of life.
Hrm… username checks out (if you’ll excuse the redditism)
Or “cat bed”. Our old cat would climb up the pole and take his afternoon nap in the feeder, lying on a nice bed of bird seed.
Wasn’t really napping. Just waiting…..
Oh, he was napping alright. There were a couple times when birds came up and used the feeder anyway, and he didn’t even notice.
…of all your nomagrams I liked ‘No Rust In Me’ the best.
I love how our supergenius gerbil just realized that as escape plans go…he has a teleporter at his place. Somehow didn’t occur to him before.
Is it the kind where you need another teleporter at the other end? Is the other teleporter on Narbon Island? Might they be safer just dealing with the comically inept A-Sig agents?
Since Artie can Mojo through time as well as space, an ordinary transmat is rather limited.
When did Artie ever mojo through time? He has (or at least, he will have) borrowed Dave’s time machine, but I don’t recall him ever traveling through time without it.
You are correct, Awgiedawgie – my mistake! I assumed Artie’s mojo was responsible for his looping through Tip’s closet.
Cinnamon is in the URL story, no? She kept an eye on Sweetheart when she was in the dog rescue, and tipped Artie off so he could come and ‘adopt’ her.
Makes Cinnamon at least 16 years old? Still moving pretty well…
The world’s first immortal feline? Imagine the possibilities!
Immortal feline: “I can take even longer naps because now there’s no need to hurry through them!”
I’ve got the strangest feeling I’ve heard that somewhere before.
As a mad scientist, you want the monsters you create to be powerful enough to destroy you. You don’t want them to become old and slow before they have the chance.
To be fair, the humans haven’t changed that much over the last decade either. That may just be the drawing style.
I think Artie may be functionally immortal. I think his human and gerbil age reset every time he transforms. This way future artie never returned to his present and has just been living a parallel life making lil’ mel co-cannon with narbonic and skin horse. Although I can’t remember what other reasons lil’ mel couldn’t have happened before narbonic.
He doesn’t reset when he changes back and forth, but Helen designed him with advanced healing abilities, so he heals much faster than normal. That effectively makes him age much slower as well.
To be fair, a hideout without food supplies would have problems and Artie is bad enough with practical details that Cinnamon isn’t necessarily wrong in making sure that alternate methods of obtaining food are available. @_@
If Artie has a literal transporter, does that mean he uses it to clean up litter?
So, in effect, a teleport-o-john? That prospect is … unsettling.
Completely off-topic: The office of Jetpack Suppression has been slacking:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/airline-pilots-reported-seeing-guy-jetpack-flying-3-000-feet-n1239027
Saw the reports. Wonder who’d be crazy enough to do it.