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2013-06-08

by shaenon on June 8, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Daniel
    June 8, 2013, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    “Well excuuuuuse me, Princess!”

    • bargamer
      June 8, 2013, 12:59 am | # | Reply

      You, sir, win one Internet.

  2. MauveCloud
    June 8, 2013, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Looks like Nick’s altered swearing is becoming contagious.

    • Wayne Zombie
      June 8, 2013, 5:18 pm | # | Reply

      Infectious meme?

      • Darkstarr
        May 4, 2016, 12:23 am | # | Reply

        Viral!

  3. Riven
    June 8, 2013, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    And now it’s down to Tip to be a princess. This will be glorious.

    • Isikyus
      June 8, 2013, 1:21 am | # | Reply

      I’m still thinking makeover, unless Tip can pull of “princess” while wearing a radiation suit.

      Although…

      • Riven
        June 8, 2013, 2:08 am | # | Reply

        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…

        • ghgh
          June 8, 2013, 2:52 am | # | Reply

          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.

          • s854
            June 8, 2013, 6:46 am | #

            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.

          • Miller
            June 8, 2013, 10:17 pm | #

            Nick? …act? The mind boggles.

        • Zero
          October 20, 2020, 2:18 am | # | Reply

          They didn’t realize Nick is a robot.

  4. drbrain
    June 8, 2013, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    that excuse never worked for artie, either.

  5. Jacob Haller
    June 8, 2013, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    Best outfits ever.

    • DukeW
      June 8, 2013, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

      Does nobody else see the Airwolf T-shirt? Inspired! : D

  6. Tetra Valent
    June 8, 2013, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart finally lost it. Rampage!

    • Shadowmehr
      June 8, 2013, 9:21 am | # | Reply

      Even worse. Have you ever heard her use swearwords before?

      Admittedly, you’re not hearing it now, but still, the intent is there.

      • =Tamar
        June 8, 2013, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

        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.

      • Efogoto
        June 8, 2013, 2:30 pm | # | Reply

        And so much better than “Gosh”, “Darn”, and “Fudge”!

    • Andy4Hire
      June 8, 2013, 4:23 pm | # | Reply

      Hide the coffee!

  7. ysabet
    June 8, 2013, 3:19 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • Norman
      June 8, 2013, 4:16 am | # | Reply

      Just be careful when using that where law-enforcement officers can hear. They might not like references to sealskin footwear.

  8. Eddurd
    June 8, 2013, 7:02 am | # | Reply

    (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!

    • Daibhid C
      June 8, 2013, 7:36 am | # | Reply

      Ed wins all the internets.

    • jdreyfuss
      June 8, 2013, 7:46 am | # | Reply

      I was kind of hoping for “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” but this works pretty well, too.

      • Frith Ra
        June 8, 2013, 10:46 am | # | Reply

        I was thinking of pork-mukluk Nicky to the tune of Polk-salad Annie

        • Robert The Addled
          June 8, 2013, 3:01 pm | # | Reply

          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.

  9. Typhin
    June 8, 2013, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

    I feel bad that I *just now* caught Nick’s shirt… ^_^;;

  10. MJBarr
    June 8, 2013, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

    Obviously, the Princess is cursed! Cause thats totally a thing. With princesses.

  11. Diane Castle
    June 8, 2013, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

    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.

  12. Midwestmutt
    June 8, 2013, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

    Canadian rampage alert! Secure your coffee cups!

  13. =Tamar
    June 8, 2013, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

    Which Disney princess? I vote for Merida – the original, of course.

  14. Robert The Addled
    June 8, 2013, 3:00 pm | # | Reply

    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?

    • Riven
      June 8, 2013, 7:22 pm | # | Reply

      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?

      • Robert The Addled
        June 8, 2013, 7:54 pm | # | Reply

        “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.

    • LogicMouse
      June 10, 2013, 2:23 am | # | Reply

      Uhm… Jewish?

  15. Ogden Wernstrom
    June 8, 2013, 3:13 pm | # | Reply

    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.

  16. Grantwhy
    June 8, 2013, 4:18 pm | # | Reply

    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)

    • Rex Vivat
      June 9, 2013, 3:31 am | # | Reply

      Oh dear.

  17. davidbreslin101
    June 8, 2013, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

    Shirt, Panel 4: well, an “airwolf” sounds kinda like it could be a SERIOUS animal sidekick….

    • Robert The Addled
      June 8, 2013, 6:47 pm | # | Reply

      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.

      • BlackWolfe
        June 8, 2013, 8:20 pm | # | Reply

        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.

        • Robert The Addled
          June 8, 2013, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

          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….

          • =Tamar
            June 10, 2013, 1:05 am | #

            Try DOSbox? I’m told it plays some games better than their original OS does.

  18. Moor
    June 9, 2013, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    Woah! So Nick isn’t the princess?!
    *Mind Blown*

  19. Ziggerung the Omnipatient
    July 13, 2013, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

    Yeah, Nick, what’s your excuse you jaunty porking mukluk!

  20. Sailorleo
    July 16, 2014, 5:43 pm | # | Reply

    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.)

  21. WJS
    July 8, 2019, 7:03 pm | # | Reply

    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.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 8, 2019, 7:25 pm | # | Reply

      Never seen her exhibit wit before? I disagree. How about the last panel here?

  22. darkshallfall
    August 6, 2019, 4:45 pm | # | Reply

    I think Tip is their princess, he just needs to shave his legs and stuff his dress.

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