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2015-10-19

by shaenon on October 19, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    October 19, 2015, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    So-o-o! This world’s St. Charlie might actually represent a bastion of common sense and sanity! ^_^

    • Gyrre
      November 3, 2015, 7:26 am | # | Reply

      Bottle cap currency is a reference to the Fallout games.

  2. chh01
    October 19, 2015, 1:08 am | # | Reply

    In the other world, the PAY is in goat carcasses, and the pension is half a camel carcass! And you get to wear whatever the camel was wearing.

  3. jbevan70
    October 19, 2015, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    Paid in bottlecaps – some of the survivors are Fallout fans, I take it.

    • fkberthold
      October 19, 2015, 10:04 am | # | Reply

      I’m not sure if I’m embarrassed or proud that what I thought of was the Duck Tales episode…

  4. evilmidnightlurker
    October 19, 2015, 2:47 am | # | Reply

    Capital Wasteland, here we come!

  5. B
    October 19, 2015, 2:48 am | # | Reply

    Whose idea was the bottle caps? Is the president Nick? He’s nerdy enough to do that

  6. Robert Nowall
    October 19, 2015, 7:53 am | # | Reply

    Think of our pension plan,
    Good time to make a stand.
    Show a little spunk for our part.
    If we collaborate,
    Answers precipitate.
    Show a little spunk for our part.
    ‘Cause their world might be a better place,
    ‘Cause their world might be a better place,
    In its perks, and pay,
    We will see today.
    Part of the raging mob,
    Government remnant job.
    Show a little spunk for our part.
    Bureaucrat spirit traps,
    Paid out in bottle caps.
    Show a little spunk for our part.
    ‘Cause they show (‘cause they show) potential better ways,
    Yes, they show (yes they show) potential better ways.
    For us (for us) to do (to do),
    If we see (we see) it through.
    They need a guide to get
    To our chief Soviet.
    Show a little spunk for our part.
    DC’s a nasty place,
    Government’s great disgrace.
    Show a little spunk for our part.
    We might make (we might make) the world a better place,
    We might make (we might make) the world a better place,
    For boys (for boys) and girls (and girls),
    And the mu- (the mu-) tant squirrels,
    Now, now, now, show a little spunk for our part,
    Show a little pride.
    Show a little spunk for our part,
    Overqualified,
    Show a little spunk for our part…

    —from “Put a Little Love In Your Heart,” Jackie DeShannon.

    • oneuniverse2
      October 19, 2015, 4:03 pm | # | Reply

      This is good, but it could use more cowbell 🙂

  7. waynezombie
    October 19, 2015, 8:02 am | # | Reply

    Clearly half a goat carcass is better than none!

    • Lord Foul
      October 19, 2015, 8:27 am | # | Reply

      What if you’re alergic to goats?

  8. Miyaa
    October 19, 2015, 9:14 am | # | Reply

    I guess it depends on which half of the goat she gets?

    • Robert Nowall
      October 19, 2015, 10:03 am | # | Reply

      They could split it down the middle…

    • Sean K.
      October 19, 2015, 11:25 am | # | Reply

      If a couple of pensioners got together, they could start a buzkashi league.

  9. davidbreslin101
    October 19, 2015, 10:21 am | # | Reply

    Bottle caps as currency actually sound workable. As there’s no longer hundreds of factories cranking the things out, they’d be just common enough. Not too hard to “mint” if you need more… and any “forgers” can be co-opted Mad Max style. And Bottlecoin miners in the dead cities! Considering that large parts of Africa ran just fine for centuries using seashells for money, Bud Light caps will do nicely.

    • darkstarling
      October 19, 2015, 10:54 am | # | Reply

      There is an odd logic to this yes. Landfill mining has LITERAL money.

    • s854
      October 20, 2015, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      It may sound reasonable, but where would you find someone willing to exchange something actually valuable in a post-acopalyptic world for bottle caps?

      • Void
        October 21, 2015, 12:46 am | # | Reply

        D.C. Obviously.

    • WJS
      July 27, 2019, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

      But you know what else is workable as currency? Actual currency. And unlike bottlecaps, it comes in different denominations so if someone wants a thousand units of currency for something you don’t literally need a thousand of them. Money becoming worthless in the apocalypse and folks using straight barter? Maybe. Money becoming worthless but we’ll use something else for money? That’s just heavy-handed anti-capitalist symbolism.

  10. Dewy
    October 19, 2015, 11:04 am | # | Reply

    I bet here are legends about this mythical place that treasure hunters around the world tell each other about, too.

    http://tinyurl.com/q3n2e9s

    • darkstarling
      October 19, 2015, 4:47 pm | # | Reply

      Lovely 🙂

  11. Frank
    October 19, 2015, 7:52 pm | # | Reply

    I still think it’s fascinating that they refer to each other as “guy tip” and “girl tip” instead of “Dennis” and “Rebecca”

  12. BMunro
    October 19, 2015, 7:59 pm | # | Reply

    I guess White Castle spoiled her for goat carcass.

  13. Shadowmehr
    October 19, 2015, 8:12 pm | # | Reply

    “Yes, but if you gain seniority and go up a few ranks, your pension will be a full three-quarters of a goat! You just need to stick it out!”

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