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2022-06-08

by shaenon on June 8, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. Moe Lane
    June 8, 2022, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    …Huh. Interesting.

  2. GREEM
    June 8, 2022, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    …Well, well, well… Seems there’s going to be another Zerhakker/Lee in the future.

    • Candace
      June 8, 2022, 1:02 am | # | Reply

      Oh, my. I find the idea of what kid of mother Dr. Lee might be both terrifying, and intriguing.

      • Robert Nowall
        June 8, 2022, 9:16 am | # | Reply

        Has she told Nick yet?

    • Robert Nowall
      June 8, 2022, 5:10 am | # | Reply

      Just one?

      • Moe Lane
        June 8, 2022, 7:37 am | # | Reply

        You typically see that level of husbandly hovering more with the first pregnancy.

        • Robert Nowall
          June 8, 2022, 8:34 am | # | Reply

          I had more in mind her apparent size.

          • Duane B.
            June 8, 2022, 11:42 am | #

            After (about) five years, it seems strange that this would be their first child, unless, they were very,very careful.

            And with these two that is unlikely.

          • Robert Nowall
            June 8, 2022, 12:18 pm | #

            Probably the same level of care that just led to Annex One stepping on Jonah Yu’s car.

          • awgiedawgie
            June 8, 2022, 1:58 pm | #

            Stepping on Jonah’s car wasn’t carelessness… it was precision.

          • D. Walker
            June 8, 2022, 2:36 pm | #

            Contraception doesn’t require being “very, very careful”.

            Condoms are simple and easy. Intrauterine devices involve a simple clinic visit to put in place and then work for years. It’s really not hard to avoid getting pregnant before you want to / are ready to in the modern day.

        • Sideways Photographer
          June 8, 2022, 5:11 pm | # | Reply

          @D. Walker: IUDs can hurt! when implanted; women are advised to “take some Advil” before coming into the procedure. Many of these devices work, but 1. Girls aren’t taught about them (in their absence, kids make up myths about reproduction, such as “you can just piddle it out” and “use a can of Spirite.”) and 2. Women’s reproductive health is poorly studied and supported. An Advil is all they give someone during an IUD implant? D:

          So, don’t disagree; just felt this was worth mentioning. Dr. Lee is educated enough to know all of this, and maybe in their world, some mad scientist got tired of all of the crud and has addressed women’s repro for the realz.

          • Rockphed
            June 8, 2022, 11:18 pm | #

            Personal experience tells me IUDs don’t just hurt when implanted. They can hurt at random for pretty much their entire expected life.

  3. Muhamad Adhi Setiadi
    June 8, 2022, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    plotz
    /pläts/
    collapse or be beside oneself with frustration, annoyance, or other strong emotion.

    I am not sure if this mean Tigerlily not approving of Spring-powered robot or in other hand, she collapse because how she liked it.

    • Candace
      June 8, 2022, 12:59 am | # | Reply

      I share your uncertainty. Hopefully, we will find out soon.

    • Wallraven
      June 8, 2022, 2:44 am | # | Reply

      Given Tigerlily’s love of spring-powered robotics, I think the strong emotion will be positive.

  4. Prodigal
    June 8, 2022, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    If she has any trouble reinstalling the disco ball, she can always call Mad Tech Support.

    • Shadowmehr
      June 8, 2022, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      And there would be the Dave Davenport cameo we’d all been hoping for.

      • awgiedawgie
        June 8, 2022, 2:00 pm | # | Reply

        There was Mad Tech Support in St. Charlie, but I think he got eaten by the zombie horde.

        • Prodigal
          June 8, 2022, 7:42 pm | # | Reply

          He did, but like Palpatine he somehow returned: https://skin-horse.com/comic/to-sit-still/

      • Prodigal
        June 8, 2022, 7:41 pm | # | Reply

        Nah, once his Mad Science gene fully expressed, he lost the ability to do Mad Tech Support. The Mad Tech Support Guy from St. Charlie is available, though.

  5. Robert Nowall
    June 8, 2022, 5:11 am | # | Reply

    Long as she’s been fixing things, I hope she fixed Mary’s vocoder.

    • Robert Nowall
      June 8, 2022, 5:27 am | # | Reply

      Or is it Gussie? Hell, it’s early.

      • awgiedawgie
        June 8, 2022, 6:12 am | # | Reply

        I hear ya. Way too early. I had to go back and look it up. Mary’s the one with the shades. Gussie’s the one with the bad vocoder.

        • Robert Nowall
          June 8, 2022, 8:36 am | # | Reply

          Second post in a week where I got the character wrong. (The other wasn’t here.) I’m not alert until I actually get out of bed and bathroom.

  6. Alphaghoul
    June 8, 2022, 6:27 am | # | Reply

    Geddout? Plotz? Have I been living under a rock?

    • Jay
      June 8, 2022, 6:34 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps a speck. “Geddout” is just “get out” with a strong accent (Bostonian?) and “plotz” is corrupted Yiddish (“to burst”)

      • Robert Nowall
        June 8, 2022, 9:21 am | # | Reply

        He’s from Philly…and he knows quite a few Yiddish swear words.

        • D. Walker
          June 8, 2022, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

          And lots of other jawns.

  7. SVGeezer
    June 8, 2022, 6:58 am | # | Reply

    I want to see the spring that can replace nukes!

    On second thought, no I don’t…

    • Nix
      June 8, 2022, 8:02 am | # | Reply

      It just needs to be wound tight enough! They’re just as possible as hammers whose strikes yield megaton-scale impacts, though those just need to be really *heavy*, and moving *really* fast.

      Finding suitable materials might be hard.

      Extra fun: gravity is not just a function of mass. It’s just that the other things that contribute to it are rarely noticeable outside of inhospitable places like the cores of stars. But one of the things that contributes to gravity, a commonplace in primers on general relativity, is tension and compression: the examples usually use (totally impractical) springs!

      Sooo, going by that: if you hold the spring under compression (which certainly requires new forces of nature to hold the springs together since the strong force is not remotely strong enough and just forgeddabout electromagnetism) you will find local gravity increasing perceptibly. Wind too tight and you get a black hole! But new forces of nature are what a mad scientist *does*.

      But the fun part comes if you stretch the spring instead, when you get reduced gravitational mass. Put it under *enough* tension (which is, of course, quite utterly mad amounts) and you might even end up with *net negative* gravitational mass and thus antigravity. Doesn’t Tigerlily canonically have antigravity?

      (Of course, if you can generate detectable amounts of antigravity this way you can probably shatter the entire planet using the same spring just by releasing the tension. But that would also reduce the amount of nearby funk a lot, so Tigerlily of course never even considered doing such a thing. A spring under that sort of tension would store *way* more energy than the uranium in a mere paltry nuclear reactor, so combine the two and you can reduce Annex One’s mass, making walking easier, and use the same thing to power it for, oh, probably millions of years before it needs a recharge. Just don’t ask where the power came from to charge it in the first place, since it probably holds about as much energy in tension as the Sun radiates in a year or two. NEVER BREAK IT.)

      • nebulousrikulau
        June 8, 2022, 8:59 pm | # | Reply

        Okay. But then why was Annex One still heavy enough to crush Jonah’s car?

        • Candace
          June 9, 2022, 12:40 am | # | Reply

          There was obviously intention behind that.

  8. sorcyress
    June 8, 2022, 7:22 am | # | Reply

    Man, I am having a weird moment of jealousy in that I don’t think any of my partners have ever offered to have me lie down with some math when I was distressed! Nick is so good to Dr. Lee <3

    • Duane B.
      June 8, 2022, 8:53 am | # | Reply

      She just didn’t just marry him….she built him. (for the most part)

  9. Duane B.
    June 8, 2022, 8:50 am | # | Reply

    What kind of repair job is it, that, you don’t replace the Disco Ball!

    Those things are mission critical…

    • Robert Nowall
      June 8, 2022, 9:19 am | # | Reply

      The Disco Ball, in all its glory: https://skin-horse.com/comic/of-skin-horses/

  10. Robert Nowall
    June 8, 2022, 9:48 am | # | Reply

    Of all the girls I’ve known or I’ve heard of,
    Until we met, I was a nerd, love.
    And when you came to hand, dear, a fat old man,
    Then a beautiful girl I could see.

    You made me a big flying wonder,
    Then you made this drone body ,
    And you preserved my brain, so I should explain
    What you’ve done that I’ve come to be.

    Bei mir bist du schön, look, I can explain,
    Bei mir bist du schön means that I’ll try.
    Bei mir bist du schön, I’ll try it again,
    It means you’re the one that made me fly.

    I could say Ginny, Ginny, worship you from afar,
    But that would never help me tell you how great you are.

    I’ve been such a pain, bei mir bist du schön.
    So Ginny, I hope you understand.

    —from “Bei mir bist du schön,” written by Jacob Jacobs (Yiddish lyrics), and Sholem Secuda (music), English lyrics by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin, most people know the Andrews Sisters version.

    • Manifesta
      June 8, 2022, 2:56 pm | # | Reply

      Excellent deep cut! I’ve always loved this song.

  11. Manifesta
    June 8, 2022, 3:11 pm | # | Reply

    Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
    Won’t you chill with some math?
    Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
    Well Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
    Won’t you chill with some math?
    Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
    Maybe take a rest now
    I’ll run you a bubblebath

    Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
    You made a spring-power’d robot
    Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
    Well Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
    You made a spring-power’d robot
    Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
    Baby, don’t you worry
    Tigerlily’s gonna plotz

    Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
    You don’t have to do it all
    Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
    Well Ginny, Ginny, Ginny
    You don’t have to do it all
    Ginny, Ginny, wooo, Ginny, Ginny
    While you’re kickin’ back
    I’ll reinstall the disco ball

    Jenny, Jenny by Little Richard, https://youtu.be/HLIlRvEa3Ls

    • Robert Nowall
      June 8, 2022, 4:38 pm | # | Reply

      Good one.

  12. Robert Nowall
    June 8, 2022, 4:43 pm | # | Reply

    Virginia could soon be a-birthing. Nick’s kindness and her heavy girth-ing. But it might be a hurry, and I start to worry—is her OB-GYN of worth-ing?

  13. Emily
    June 8, 2022, 7:36 pm | # | Reply

    Ahh, Mary! I loved the little house storyline, it’s nice to see them pop up again here at the end.

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