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2018-02-02

by shaenon on February 2, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Hundred Dresses
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  1. Jerry Aethers
    February 2, 2018, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Huh? What? Did Dr. Lee’s brain get fried somewhere or is she just descending slowly into the madness? An off side effect of the reality blindness possibly? This doesn’t really seem like her.

    • Petra
      February 2, 2018, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      I thiiiiiink the guilt of working for Anasigma has been getting to her so she’s trying to make herself useful in any possible way, including sorting toilet paper.

    • VillageWizard
      February 2, 2018, 4:34 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think this is too out-of-character for Dr. Lee. She’s always seemed a little bit excitable about unusual things. And since she says “as requested”, this was not her own idea, she just did it to please someone else. To me, it seems she’s just very happy about finally being in an environment where being nice is actually appreciated, or something.

    • bergerjacques
      February 2, 2018, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

      When Anasigma had to take a few days off, Dr. Lee found volunteering at Skin Horse preferable to doing nothing: http://skin-horse.com/comic/but-regrettably/

      It’s been a love fest ever since: http://skin-horse.com/comic/the-new-guy/

    • Robert Nowall
      February 2, 2018, 3:55 pm | # | Reply

      I’m thinking that Anasigma still hasn’t rebuilt its destroyed HQ and Dr. Lee is still killing time by volunteering here. Unless she’s doing it on weekends or nights or somesuch…

      • Shadowmehr
        February 2, 2018, 7:57 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t know. I’m still not convinced that she isn’t slipping further and further into madness. Between puzzling out madtech and working for Anasigma (the company that keeps storerooms full of dead OSHA inspectors) I’m surprised she’s lasted this long.

        • Eva
          February 2, 2018, 11:05 pm | # | Reply

          The line between raving mad and sane but brilliant isn’t that wide to start with in this world… so I could definitely see this as a sign that Lee might be edging toward the other side. On the up side, a breakthrough on her part could lead to an even more interesting mess with Nick!

  2. Towering Barbarian
    February 2, 2018, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Ah, now we’ll see if the reality filter has started to affect Ginny’s mind yet. I wonder how the others will react if it turns out she thinks herself a volunteer Office Lady and no longer understands all this sane science/Mad science talk? ^_~

    • Pygar
      February 2, 2018, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      Why would an office lady be reporting to a dog?

      • Towering Barbarian
        February 2, 2018, 1:03 am | # | Reply

        Why would one call a dignified human lady like Sweetheart a dog? o_O

    • Bruce A Munro
      February 2, 2018, 1:12 am | # | Reply

      Since she’s canonically said to not be mad, I suspect she will at least continue to be aware of herself of a _scientist_, although she might forget some of the weirdest stuff she’s done.

      (Personally, I’m still going with my gut feeling that the blindness doesn’t affect people who already have an insanely expansive notion of what “normal” is, with the possible exception of Mads.)

      • Pygar
        February 2, 2018, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

        That she’s not mad, ’tis true. Tis true, ’tis pity, And pity ’tis ’tis true… she’d make an *excellent* Mad!

      • Leandro Toniut
        February 3, 2018, 3:43 am | # | Reply

        But… What is the point of being a regular brilliant inventor if you can’t create an infinite brain dispenser out of improvised materials?

      • Mental Mouse
        February 3, 2018, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

        Well, *she* thinks she’s not Mad.

  3. Robert Nowall
    February 2, 2018, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    You can make an android drone out of toilet paper?

    • dexitroboper
      February 2, 2018, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Mad science can. Tigerlily made a teleporter out of coat-hangers. Maybe the effect of reality blindness will be to send Virginia Mad.

      • Bruce A Munro
        February 2, 2018, 1:14 am | # | Reply

        Making the toilet paper gears is the trickiest bit.

    • Max
      February 2, 2018, 3:36 am | # | Reply

      No. Toilet paper AND DUCT TAPE, on the other hand…

      • Shadowmehr
        February 2, 2018, 8:00 pm | # | Reply

        Don’t forget the WD-40. The toilet paper provides structure, the duct tape provides reinforcement and protection, and the WD-40 lubricates the moving parts so they turn smoothly without catching fire eventually. Of course, Dr. Lee would try to find a way to install a disembodied brain in there somewhere, but that’s just her.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      February 2, 2018, 5:38 am | # | Reply

      Hey, if you can make a radio out of a coconut…

      (Why the hell am I making so many Gilligan’s Island references lately? I’ve never even seen that show.)

      • Cloudster
        February 2, 2018, 9:43 am | # | Reply

        Everyone has seen Gilligan’s Island. Even those who have not watched Gilligan’s Island have seen it: it’s been broadcast so many times that the radiation has permeated our DNA, causing a permanent mutation making it a proud part of our genetic heritage.

        Welcome to the Gilligan’s Island Fan Club, BrokenEye!

        • Robert Nowall
          February 2, 2018, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

          Of course they can make a drone out of toilet paper but they can’t get off the island…

          • Seph
            February 3, 2018, 5:15 am | #

            Toilet paper, which is famous for naturally occurring on deserted islands.

  4. casimir
    February 2, 2018, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Mad or sane, reality blind or not, Virginia’s presence just kicked the interest/anticipation level up several notches. This is a woman who, whether consciously or not, makes things happen.

  5. Robert Nowall
    February 2, 2018, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    By the way, I miss being able to get multi-colored tissues and toilet paper. I’ve gotten, like, three different explanations of why they don’t sell it anymore, but I’m not sure I believe any of them.

    • Dalillama
      February 2, 2018, 12:28 am | # | Reply

      Apparently mostly fashion, with a side of ‘what are those dyes doing to your body/the environment’ (Answer: nothing that was ever demonstrated, but what the hell. Anyway, the internet has you covered.

    • Candace Griffin-Campbell
      February 2, 2018, 2:13 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, me, too. And none of the major brands is as good as it used to be, either. Ah, for the good old days…

    • mickeyjf
      February 2, 2018, 11:45 am | # | Reply

      You can still get this stuff :

      https://www.amazon.ca/Thumbs-Up-Dollar-Bill-Toilet/dp/B002L6EKH0

    • OneUniverse
      February 2, 2018, 2:19 pm | # | Reply

      Toilet paper is one of the few things I will actually miss in the post-apocalyptic world.

      • Forrest M Davis
        April 13, 2020, 9:57 pm | # | Reply

        Wow, reading this comment brings up a whole different set of emotions during the current COVID 19 panic! Prescient much. OneUniverse?

  6. Shane Wegner
    February 2, 2018, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    It’s not gonna be either of those colors when I’m done with it. #jokes

  7. Manifesta
    February 2, 2018, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

    In today’s Comics Curmudgeon, Josh Fruhlinger links to his Village Voice article about the late Mort Walker (https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/02/01/that-time-beetle-bailey-taught-us-about-sexism/). This article links to Shaenon’s 2010 article (http://classic.tcj.com/blog/the-strangest-pictures-i-have-seen-4/) about Walker’s NSFW Beetle Bailey strips that are popular in Sweden!

    • efogoto
      February 3, 2018, 4:13 am | # | Reply

      Thanks Manifesta. I knew about Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), but hadn’t heard about Mort Walker. Nobody is one dimensional.

  8. Manifesta
    February 2, 2018, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

    Some of my comments aren’t posting, so I’ll try again: Read today’s Comics Curmudgeon, which links to Josh’s article about the late Mort Walker, which in turn links to Shaenon’s article about NSFW Beetle Bailey strips that are popular in Sweden!

  9. awgiedawgie
    February 2, 2018, 11:37 pm | # | Reply

    Are there any Madblood androids still around? Oh, wait… Bill couldn’t see the androids, so this reality blindness would probably be a problem for them, too.

    • EvilMidnightLurker
      February 3, 2018, 1:20 am | # | Reply

      Which makes me wonder if people will be able to see the drone.

      …of course, they never did test if Bill could see -one- drone, as opposed to a dozen identical Madbloods at once.

  10. Robert Nowall
    February 3, 2018, 9:49 am | # | Reply

    I was going to say you weren’t up on GoComics this morning, but you aren’t up here, either. I feel as if I’m stuck in an endless loop of February 2nds…

    • Eddurd
      February 3, 2018, 11:00 am | # | Reply

      We say that we will never fear,
      At midnight sharp, a new page will appear …
      But now we’re saying, “What the hey?!”
      We see this page, the same as yesterday …

      Page!
      We want new page!
      We want new page!

      (To the tune of an appropriate song for “Groundhog Day”. Heh heh heh.)

    • s854
      February 3, 2018, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

      wget -S –spider skin-horse.com/comic/feed/ 2>&1 | grep -qs ‘Date: Sat’ && wall -n “New comic!”

      To be fair, this isn’t the web site I routinely use this sort of thing for. And, of course, I don’t come back until it finds something.

  11. Frank
    February 4, 2018, 8:42 am | # | Reply

    Ok, it may be time to start paying her

  12. jdreyfuss
    January 31, 2020, 10:16 am | # | Reply

    Heh. Paperwork.

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