Something tells me these little guys are able to see through a disguise fairly well.
By which I mean I’m fairly certain they have infrared.
Come to think of it, Tip’s usually fairly skimpy attire would be hard to consolidate with a radiation suit. Hmmm…
Yeah, but do you think they’re programmed to know much about gender, cross-dressing, transgender, etc.? They’re basically confused Disneyland characters with radiation poisoning. I’m thinking long hair and a dress will be more than enough.
It may well be enough for Nick, too. Give him a nice dress, plenty of makeup, a wig and a squeaky voice and, as long as he can act a bit, they’ll never notice that they’ve seen him somewhere before.
Oh, but Sweetheart _is_ swearing – in LittleHouse language. Those aren’t altered swearwords, the typeface didn’t change. They’re what she’s actually saying.
Next time I’m driving in heavy traffic and need an expletive (probably Monday morning), I’m gonna call the object of my objections a pork-porking mukluk.
No, I think the relevant question is *which* Disney Princess is Tip going to try to force Nick to wear. I vote for the classic Cinderella, but Princess Ariel could work well with this crowd.
OK, so Nick doesn’t curse because he can’t, and the other characters don’t curse because they don’t want to. What I still don’t understand is why everybody in this strip looks like they were drawn in black and white outlines, and why what everybody says ends up hanging in the air as a word balloon. Now that we have been given an in-world explanation for one of the conventions of the comic strip, I demand explanations for all the others too.
The funny thing is, the instant I saw the “Airwolf” shirt, I felt prompted to seek out the C-64 Airwolf game. It was as bad as I remembered. Ah, the 80s.
I preferred the Activision “chopper command” The score only went up so high and the system locked up if you tried to roll it over. I THINK it was either a million or a hundred million that it didn’t like. (that WAS twenty-five years ago for me…).
Only C64 games I played were the text based – Zork and the like. I still have a ‘best of infocom’ set somewhere around here – I wonder if they’ll work on XP or Win7….
The pure text-based Infocom games are all written in Zork Implementation Language (ZIL, a.k.a. Z-Script), for which there are freely available interpreters. (Also of note: the Pascal version of the Zork games are freely distributable for non-commercial use, and included by default in a number of OSes. A few briefly used to use this version as part of the OS installation self-test: if the game correctly compiled and ran then the compiler, linker, and system libraries were assumed to have been installed correctly.)
I love Unity’s line in the last panel. I don’t think we’ve ever really seen her exhibit wit before, and that’s a great line, especially for a first time.
“Well excuuuuuse me, Princess!”
You, sir, win one Internet.
Looks like Nick’s altered swearing is becoming contagious.
Infectious meme?
Viral!
And now it’s down to Tip to be a princess. This will be glorious.
I’m still thinking makeover, unless Tip can pull of “princess” while wearing a radiation suit.
Although…
Something tells me these little guys are able to see through a disguise fairly well.
By which I mean I’m fairly certain they have infrared.
Come to think of it, Tip’s usually fairly skimpy attire would be hard to consolidate with a radiation suit. Hmmm…
Yeah, but do you think they’re programmed to know much about gender, cross-dressing, transgender, etc.? They’re basically confused Disneyland characters with radiation poisoning. I’m thinking long hair and a dress will be more than enough.
It may well be enough for Nick, too. Give him a nice dress, plenty of makeup, a wig and a squeaky voice and, as long as he can act a bit, they’ll never notice that they’ve seen him somewhere before.
Nick? …act? The mind boggles.
They didn’t realize Nick is a robot.
that excuse never worked for artie, either.
Best outfits ever.
Does nobody else see the Airwolf T-shirt? Inspired! : D
Sweetheart finally lost it. Rampage!
Even worse. Have you ever heard her use swearwords before?
Admittedly, you’re not hearing it now, but still, the intent is there.
Oh, but Sweetheart _is_ swearing – in LittleHouse language. Those aren’t altered swearwords, the typeface didn’t change. They’re what she’s actually saying.
And so much better than “Gosh”, “Darn”, and “Fudge”!
Hide the coffee!
Next time I’m driving in heavy traffic and need an expletive (probably Monday morning), I’m gonna call the object of my objections a pork-porking mukluk.
Just be careful when using that where law-enforcement officers can hear. They might not like references to sealskin footwear.
(TUNE: “New York, New York”, Kander & Ebb)
They’re kicking us out!
We’re getting the boot!
They think our words are naughtier,
They pork, they pork!
“Depart now!” they shout!
But we are so cute!
A princess, we’d embody her!
They pork, they pork!
They’re gonna wreck your mukluk village
Sometime today!
We’ve got a message for you …
If you see Kay!
They’re fumbled, no doubt!
Their chance is minute!
Won’t let us be Collodi girl!
They pork, they pork!
This mission, up we messed!
We are the jauntiest!
As agents go, we pork!
We pork!
Ed wins all the internets.
I was kind of hoping for “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” but this works pretty well, too.
I was thinking of pork-mukluk Nicky to the tune of Polk-salad Annie
This stuff is double funny because I am re-reading discoworld novels – the City of Ankh-morkpork.
You MUST love a universe that is built on puns.
I feel bad that I *just now* caught Nick’s shirt… ^_^;;
Obviously, the Princess is cursed! Cause thats totally a thing. With princesses.
No, I think the relevant question is *which* Disney Princess is Tip going to try to force Nick to wear. I vote for the classic Cinderella, but Princess Ariel could work well with this crowd.
Canadian rampage alert! Secure your coffee cups!
Which Disney princess? I vote for Merida – the original, of course.
Lets define princess types – that may let us figure things out.
There is the Royal, the Spoiled, the Pure (may or may not be of ‘noble’ decent). Any other flavours out there?
I thought “spoiled” would be a subset of Royal, as a spoiled nonroyal is in no way a princess. Do we need to establish a taxonomy of princesses here?
“Spoiled” stereotype subset is usually a rich girl or at least one who has never had to really strive to achieve anything.
I had separated Royal because that set truly stands alone as a princess category. The classic definition as it were.
Uhm… Jewish?
OK, so Nick doesn’t curse because he can’t, and the other characters don’t curse because they don’t want to. What I still don’t understand is why everybody in this strip looks like they were drawn in black and white outlines, and why what everybody says ends up hanging in the air as a word balloon. Now that we have been given an in-world explanation for one of the conventions of the comic strip, I demand explanations for all the others too.
Oh my. [emotion=mock-horror]
I just realised something ….. delightful.
That the stage is set for Nick to look and act like a princess in order for Team Rocke…. er ….. Team Skin Horse to get the information they need.
*but*
These critters will most likely *not* accept a ‘real world’ type princess.
No.
They will want a Whimsy type princess.
And if that is anything like a Disney princess, there is one very important thing they do.
Perhaps even more important than how they look and act.
They
all
SING!
(to the best of my limited knowledge)
Oh dear.
Shirt, Panel 4: well, an “airwolf” sounds kinda like it could be a SERIOUS animal sidekick….
Except for 80’s pop culture – renegade pilot turned mercenary who had stolen an experimental helicopter – named (naturally) Airwolf.
The 80’s manage to either destroy or make awesome just about anything you can think of.
The funny thing is, the instant I saw the “Airwolf” shirt, I felt prompted to seek out the C-64 Airwolf game. It was as bad as I remembered. Ah, the 80s.
I preferred the Activision “chopper command” The score only went up so high and the system locked up if you tried to roll it over. I THINK it was either a million or a hundred million that it didn’t like. (that WAS twenty-five years ago for me…).
Only C64 games I played were the text based – Zork and the like. I still have a ‘best of infocom’ set somewhere around here – I wonder if they’ll work on XP or Win7….
Try DOSbox? I’m told it plays some games better than their original OS does.
Woah! So Nick isn’t the princess?!
*Mind Blown*
Yeah, Nick, what’s your excuse you jaunty porking mukluk!
The pure text-based Infocom games are all written in Zork Implementation Language (ZIL, a.k.a. Z-Script), for which there are freely available interpreters. (Also of note: the Pascal version of the Zork games are freely distributable for non-commercial use, and included by default in a number of OSes. A few briefly used to use this version as part of the OS installation self-test: if the game correctly compiled and ran then the compiler, linker, and system libraries were assumed to have been installed correctly.)
I love Unity’s line in the last panel. I don’t think we’ve ever really seen her exhibit wit before, and that’s a great line, especially for a first time.
Never seen her exhibit wit before? I disagree. How about the last panel here?
I think Tip is their princess, he just needs to shave his legs and stuff his dress.