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2020-09-03

by shaenon on September 3, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Robert Nowall
    September 3, 2020, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    One would think that would be the next place Echo Bravo and Alfa Alfa would look.

    • guerillagrue
      September 3, 2020, 2:19 am | # | Reply

      Alpha Alpha . . . Alphaalpha . . . Alphalpha . . . alfalfa?

      • awgiedawgie
        September 3, 2020, 7:05 am | # | Reply

        Yeeeees…. and it’s spelled Alfa Alfa, not Alpha Alpha. Saves you a couple steps there.

        • Robert Nowall
          September 3, 2020, 8:00 am | # | Reply

          It’s the International Spelling Alphabet (it has a variety of names), where for some reason it’s spelled that way.

          • jdreyfuss
            September 3, 2020, 8:51 am | #

            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.

          • awgiedawgie
            September 3, 2020, 10:49 am | #

            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.

          • D. Walker
            September 3, 2020, 5:51 pm | #

            “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”.

          • s854
            September 3, 2020, 8:27 pm | #

            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”.

    • MyaApplesauce
      September 3, 2020, 9:38 am | # | Reply

      I imagine Artie would have kept Anasigma from knowing about it.

      • Shadowmehr
        September 3, 2020, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

        Of he has more than one “place”, one public, one hidden.

  2. palenoue
    September 3, 2020, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Hey, the time out pen is all kinds of awesome ever since they installed the fuzzy thing on a string.

  3. Notes in rum
    September 3, 2020, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    According to my Uncle John, the correct term is “cat feeder.”

    • Ysabet
      September 3, 2020, 2:07 am | # | Reply

      My cat Grimalkin would definitelyapprove of that version. Or possibly “Self-Sustainable Cat Buffett.”

      • NamesAreSilly
        September 3, 2020, 9:57 am | # | Reply

        Hold up. Your cat is named “cat”? (or, possibly, “spiteful old woman”)

        • NamesAreSilly
          September 3, 2020, 9:58 am | # | Reply

          Or, you know, a Macbeth reference… get a grip Names…

          • Robert Nowall
            September 3, 2020, 11:46 am | #

            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.”

          • D. Walker
            September 3, 2020, 5:55 pm | #

            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.

        • davidbreslin101
          September 3, 2020, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

          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.

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          October 13, 2020, 7:52 am | # | Reply

          Hrm… username checks out (if you’ll excuse the redditism)

    • awgiedawgie
      September 3, 2020, 7:08 am | # | Reply

      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.

      • Steverino
        September 3, 2020, 8:35 am | # | Reply

        Wasn’t really napping. Just waiting…..

        • awgiedawgie
          September 3, 2020, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

          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.

    • casimir
      September 3, 2020, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

      …of all your nomagrams I liked ‘No Rust In Me’ the best.

  4. Joshua Kronengold
    September 3, 2020, 3:09 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • Daibhid C
      September 3, 2020, 7:26 am | # | Reply

      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?

    • David B Huber
      September 3, 2020, 8:09 am | # | Reply

      Since Artie can Mojo through time as well as space, an ordinary transmat is rather limited.

      • awgiedawgie
        September 4, 2020, 10:40 am | # | Reply

        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.

        • David B Huber
          September 12, 2020, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

          You are correct, Awgiedawgie – my mistake! I assumed Artie’s mojo was responsible for his looping through Tip’s closet.

  5. Seph
    September 3, 2020, 5:00 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • OneUniverse
      September 3, 2020, 5:39 am | # | Reply

      Makes Cinnamon at least 16 years old? Still moving pretty well…

      • David B Huber
        September 3, 2020, 5:55 am | # | Reply

        The world’s first immortal feline? Imagine the possibilities!

        • CanuckAmuck
          September 3, 2020, 7:36 am | # | Reply

          Immortal feline: “I can take even longer naps because now there’s no need to hurry through them!”

          • Sheik
            September 3, 2020, 1:20 pm | #

            I’ve got the strangest feeling I’ve heard that somewhere before.

      • s854
        September 3, 2020, 12:01 pm | # | Reply

        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.

        • Caelo
          September 3, 2020, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

          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.

          • awgiedawgie
            September 3, 2020, 2:01 pm | #

            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.

  6. Towering Barbarian
    September 3, 2020, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

    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. @_@

  7. Robert Nowall
    September 3, 2020, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

    If Artie has a literal transporter, does that mean he uses it to clean up litter?

    • Andy4Hire
      September 3, 2020, 6:20 pm | # | Reply

      So, in effect, a teleport-o-john? That prospect is … unsettling.

  8. Owlmirror
    September 3, 2020, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

    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

    • Robert Nowall
      September 4, 2020, 12:02 am | # | Reply

      Saw the reports. Wonder who’d be crazy enough to do it.

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