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2014-04-23

by shaenon on April 23, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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  1. Moe Lane
    April 23, 2014, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Annnnnd that would be the worst-case scenario. Imagine Nanny Ogg, only really good at Borrowing.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      April 23, 2014, 5:16 am | # | Reply

      Nanny Ogg isn’t stupid at all

      • Ian thompson
        April 23, 2014, 6:26 am | # | Reply

        Thank you broken eye, that was what I was going to say.

      • Moe Lane
        April 23, 2014, 7:33 am | # | Reply

        Ah, but I retain a certain suspicion that Gavotte is deliberately exaggerating her current condition as part of her long-term plans.

      • The_Rippy_One
        April 23, 2014, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

        I would accept, however, Nanny Ogg Really Drunk.

        • Moe Lane
          April 23, 2014, 4:54 pm | # | Reply

          But what if she does The Song?

          • Shadowmehr
            April 23, 2014, 7:59 pm | #

            We assign one person to stay behind to record the lyrics for posterity while the rest of us head for the nearest exits.

            Not it.

  2. Jay Eff
    April 23, 2014, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    “What’s the point of slang that makes things harder to say?”

    To make what you’re saying sound much, much funnier, Wilkin.
    DUH!

    • KA$H
      March 6, 2016, 10:59 pm | # | Reply

      preach it, sister!

  3. Nich
    April 23, 2014, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    There’s a song about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hk402r4a3g

  4. Andrew
    April 23, 2014, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    A lot of porns ends up this way.

  5. Tuiteyfruity
    April 23, 2014, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    I thought she was drunk XD I know bees can get drunk.

  6. dexitroboper (@dexitroboper)
    April 23, 2014, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    The point is to make things harder for outsiders to understand. And you can take that to the steam-powered clank.

    • Mental Mouse
      April 23, 2014, 7:35 pm | # | Reply

      It occurs to me that Mustachio is a fellow Brit, or at least European. Us Colonials wouldn’t understand… which is the point.

  7. Michael Brewer
    April 23, 2014, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    To ensure that only hip people understand it Tip. You want to be hip, right?

  8. Ron Armstrong
    April 23, 2014, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    I must watch too many shows from the BBC,I actually understood the slang!
    I do like the way Unity put it! 😀

    • Norman
      April 23, 2014, 1:44 am | # | Reply

      Sorry, Ron, that adverb “too” doesn’t seem to belong in that clause. ^_^

  9. Manifesta
    April 23, 2014, 2:13 am | # | Reply

    tune: “The Rain in Spain,” My Fair Lady, Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Lowe, 1956

    A bit ‘o bendy made her really dumb
    (Cuz she got some)
    A bit ‘o bendy made her really dumb

    What turned a swarm into a twit?
    Doing it! Doing it!
    What made Gavotte a mere half-wit?
    She banged, then split!

    A bit ‘o bendy made her really dumb
    (Her brains are numb)
    A bit ‘o bendy made her really dumb

    In supersedure, when they’re mating . . .
    Swarms begin dissipating
    And sound just like a Cockney bum
    (You come and then become quite dumb)

    A bit ‘o bendy made her really dumb
    (Like she drank rum)
    A bit ‘o bendy made her really dumb!

  10. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    April 23, 2014, 5:20 am | # | Reply

    So I suppose you could say Gavotte… *dramatically dons sunglasses* … isn’t all there

  11. Eddurd
    April 23, 2014, 6:18 am | # | Reply

    YYEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH …

    And of course, once she’s finished swarming, she’ll be “the new boss, same as the old boss”.

  12. Eddurd
    April 23, 2014, 6:49 am | # | Reply

    As long as we’re on a My Fair Lady kick …
    (TUNE: “On The Street Where You Live”, Lerner & Loewe)

    I have worked for years, here at Annex One,
    But I never saw my boss when she’s been having fun!
    Seems she stayed out late
    Just to procreate!
    She goes through Supersedure to live …

    She got loosened up, did a mating dance,
    Then some lucky drone got in her metaphoric pants!
    Had some “nudge-wink-wink” …
    Now it’s hard to think!
    She goes through Supersedure to live!

     I thought … Gavotte was a cold one …
     But she shows … that I was so wrong!
     The new … queen, same as the old one!
     (I bet Pete Townshend could compose a groovy song!)

    Hear her chatter on, with the slang of rhyme …
    Hard to understand because she had a bang sublime!
    Now she’ll run amuck,
    From some awesome … fun …
    She goes through Supersedure to live!

  13. jdreyfuss
    April 23, 2014, 7:07 am | # | Reply

    Silly Tip, the point is to make it harder. You don’t want outsiders to know what you’re saying, do you?

    • oneuniverse2
      April 23, 2014, 9:55 am | # | Reply

      That’s the same technique Shakespeare used – lotsa words to allow the actors to spout and strut around.

    • Tom Flapwell
      April 23, 2014, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

      Well, that does hold for “droog” slang among others. But then there are phrases like “go the way of the dodo” — much longer than “die out,” but just as clear and more colorful.

      • jdreyfuss
        April 23, 2014, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

        Since the half of Burgess’ slang that wasn’t Russian was Cockney rhyming slang, I’d say the answer still fits.

  14. Brian R Whitacre
    April 23, 2014, 7:44 am | # | Reply

    Thank you for frequently giving me new vocabulary. “Supersedure,” for example.

  15. freddiefreelance
    April 23, 2014, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

    “Silly Tip, the point is to make it harder. You don’t want outsiders to know what you’re saying, do you?”

    Ah, Monsieur Dreyfuss gets it in one!

  16. mickeyf
    April 23, 2014, 8:10 pm | # | Reply

    Ok, I’m waiting for another current or former beekeeper to chime in with the …details… of what this, ahem, frequently involves on the part of the “lucky” drone.

    And once again, like Cole Porter, glad to be a mammal.

    • Miserichord
      April 23, 2014, 8:44 pm | # | Reply

      In areas with severe winters, all drones are driven out of the hive in the autumn. A colony begins to rear drones in spring and drone population reaches its peak coinciding with the swarm season in late spring and early summer. The life expectancy of a drone is about 90 days
      Should a drone succeed in mating he soon dies because the penis and associated abdominal tissues are ripped from the drone’s body after sexual intercourse.
      I so like Wikipedia.

    • Tetra Valent
      April 23, 2014, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

      Over a dozen drones, right? Promiscuous AND bloodthirsty, those queens.

      I second the Cole Porter quote.

  17. Tetra Valent
    April 23, 2014, 8:41 pm | # | Reply

    Now I’m wondering what kind of bee Gavotte is made of.

    In ordinary honeybees, from what I read, supercedure is a rather sedate process, and queen “selection” is pretty much just a matter of the first new queen to hatch killing the others before they do, or fighting to the death if they hatch before she finds them. OK, maybe “sedate” is the wrong word….

    Swarms are part of a different process (hive split) and the departing swarm does not return. Neither supercedure nor swarming normally involves major die-offs, though a split would certainly affect a sentient being based on the entire original hive.

    So who- or whatever made Gavotte sentient made major changes to the behavior of her constituent bees.

  18. Mental Mouse
    April 24, 2014, 8:15 am | # | Reply

    Regarding the wordy slang, there’s another factor, which is that for most folks, talking is fun, and for many, chattering half-nonsense is funny…. (Of course, that impulse untethered is the disturbing babble of Wernicke’s Syndrome….)

  19. Guesticus
    April 24, 2014, 9:04 am | # | Reply

    Also, most ‘slang’ is not supposed to be understood by ‘outsiders’ (how do you know if you are an outsider? if you understand it, you are not an outsider)

  20. SotiCoto
    August 22, 2014, 9:57 am | # | Reply

    Oh great… the numpties posting their poetry in the comments section are multiplying. ¬_¬

    That guy who used to post Fresh Prince and then Star Trek slash-fics on the old Achewood Assetbar was far more entertaining.

    • JET73L
      March 14, 2015, 4:42 am | # | Reply

      You can scroll past it, y’know. Song lyrics are generally visibly recognizable in print shape.

  21. Waffle Sorter
    March 25, 2015, 11:51 pm | # | Reply

    Hey, at least she used the full form. If I understand correctly, most instances of rhyming slang can be (and often are) shortened to not include the part that actually rhymes.

  22. Francesco Dondi
    January 6, 2017, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

    The point of slang that makes it more difficult is satisfaction as you and your friends understand and strangers do not.

  23. WJS
    July 11, 2019, 6:09 pm | # | Reply

    Good grief, Unity! Her awakening has really progressed a long way, hasn’t it?

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