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2022-01-24

by shaenon on January 24, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. David B Huber
    January 24, 2022, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Tip must be lulling Ira into a state of overconfidence to glean information…

    • DWVR
      January 24, 2022, 3:39 am | # | Reply

      Villain explication is irrational, perhaps because of loneliness. Maybe Ari has the hots for Tip. After all, he couldn’t get the girl…

  2. Dewy
    January 24, 2022, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    God, whenever the Ira side of Mister Green comes out, I expect him to begin with “Pepperidge Farms remembers…”

  3. Leslie
    January 24, 2022, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Well, he WAS rising rapidly in the hierarchy….no surprise, here he is, undergoing
    specific leadership-candidate hazing. It’s those damn high-heels; he ought to have handled those clowns VERY quickly. Among my prejudices: high heels are a devil’s plot to keep women subservient and incapable.

    I suppose that if he ‘offs’ or adjusts Green’s position, he would take over, and that would constitute a victory. Of sorts,

    • Bat
      January 24, 2022, 12:57 am | # | Reply

      In the right hands…uhh, feet…high heels can be a deadly weapon. A 1/16 inch spiked heel worn by an average-sized female can exert 1,500 psi. They ain’t called stiletto heels for no reason. And Tip’s a bit bigger, and would know just where to stomp and kick.

    • Sheik
      January 24, 2022, 9:42 am | # | Reply

      I’ve never understood the psychology of high heels. Some women seem addicted to them. I knew one who topped 6’2″ barefoot and still insisted on wearing jacked up platforms.

      • Shadowmehr
        January 24, 2022, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

        The joke goes that high heels were invented by a girl who had just been kissed on the forehead

    • D. Walker
      January 24, 2022, 2:50 pm | # | Reply

      High heels were actually historically worn by men at first, although in a different form. They were used by the Persians when riding horses, with the heel meant to help keep the foot in the stirrup. Horses were expensive and limited to the wealthy, so the heels that went with such horses came to be a signified of wealth and status.

      European men adopted heels as a fashion statement in the 1600s during a period of “Orientalist” fascination. Women soon started to adopt them as well, and for a time they were universal across the sexes. However, women’s fashion soon trended toward more ornamental shoes, while men’s fashion began to be more utilitarian, and thus heels came to be viewed as “feminine” and thus “unmanly”, and fell out of fashion for men.

      …unless, of course, you are riding horses, where boots still retain their heels, and no one would suggest that a cowboy in his high heeled boot seems “feminine”. Fashion is weird.

      • sighthoundman
        January 24, 2022, 8:06 pm | # | Reply

        They were also in fashion (for men) around about 1978. I had 2″ heels and a velour suit. I saw Isaac Hayes wearing pretty much the same thing.

        • Robert Nowall
          January 24, 2022, 9:36 pm | # | Reply

          My mother wanted me to wear heels that thick…even after I reached six feet.

  4. palenoue
    January 24, 2022, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    The correct words are important. “Dungeon” implies stairs, small windows, guards and rats, all of which can be used to escape (especially the rats.) “Pit” implies cosplaying that one scene from 300 with no way out.

    • Aname
      January 24, 2022, 4:37 am | # | Reply

      It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again

    • jdreyfuss
      January 24, 2022, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

      That’s what I was thinking. “Dungeon” implies the possibility of getting out.

    • StClair
      January 24, 2022, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

      See also “oubliette”, which is longer and fancier but has much the same meaning.

      • awgiedawgie
        January 24, 2022, 1:37 pm | # | Reply

        The Loyalty Pit really is more like a dungeon than a pit. It’s actually rather easy to get out of – especially if you went into it of your own accord. (It’s basically just a really poorly furnished employee lounge.)

        An oubliette, on the other hand, is much more cruel – even gruesome – than a pit.

        • Duane B.
          January 24, 2022, 9:04 pm | # | Reply

          Unless you know what door to open, bribe a guard.

          Just remember they have no power over you.

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      January 24, 2022, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

      “Dungeon” suggests the possibility of dragons.

      • palenoue
        January 24, 2022, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

        “Dungeon” also implies you should bring dice.

      • jdreyfuss
        January 25, 2022, 10:41 am | # | Reply

        There are dragons. They’re currently fighting on behalf of Skin Horse.

  5. Towering Barbarian
    January 24, 2022, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    So does the Loyalty Pit have a Pendulum? 🙂

  6. Robert Nowall
    January 24, 2022, 5:40 am | # | Reply

    Tip is now hatless.

    • Shen Hibiki
      January 24, 2022, 6:12 am | # | Reply

      Of course, his hat was stomped until he cried.

      • Daibhid+C
        January 24, 2022, 8:03 am | # | Reply

        And Ira’s goons are holding his arms, otherwise he would suddenly be holding an even fancier one.

        • M
          January 24, 2022, 9:05 am | # | Reply

          He could just mojo himself a complete new outfit, but only when the timing’s right. (Read: for now, it’s funnier not to.)

  7. Robert Nowall
    January 24, 2022, 9:28 am | # | Reply

    Together we’ll win,
    Divided, the same
    Come on, here, Captain,
    Let’s get on the game.
    We’ll work together
    C’mon, c’mon,
    We’ll work together.
    Now, now, Wilkin.
    Because together we can save
    Every drudge, serf, minion, every slave.

    Forget all that’s happened,
    Forget what you’ve seen.
    I’m still more Ira
    Than I’m Mr. Green.
    We’ll work together
    C’mon, c’mon,
    We’ll work together.
    Now, now, Wilkin.
    Because together we can save
    Every drudge, serf, minion, every slave.

    Stay a few hours,
    Or stay a bit.
    You’ll cool your high heels in the
    Loyalty Pit.
    We’ll work together
    C’mon, c’mon,
    We’ll work together.
    Now, now, Wilkin.
    Because together we can save
    Every drudge, serf, minion, every slave.

    Your gang at Skin-Horse
    Did win a round
    But haven’t fought the troops that
    I’ve brought to town.
    We’ll work together
    C’mon, c’mon,
    We’ll work together.
    Now, now, Wilkin.
    Because together we can save
    Every drudge, serf, minion, every slave.
    Ah, yeah,
    Because together we can save
    Every drudge, serf, minion, every slave,
    Ah, yeah.

    —from “Let’s Work Together,” written by Wilbert Harrison (originally as “Let’s Stick Together”), sung by Canned Heat. (And I’m sure I parodied it before, somewhere.)

  8. Knuckles
    January 24, 2022, 9:28 am | # | Reply

    Oh Tip, please, the Loyalty Pit is a *voluntary* program. You would have to go through far worse.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 24, 2022, 10:31 am | # | Reply

      Well, we’ve only seen the voluntary side of it. If you go in voluntarily, you can leave voluntarily. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be placed there against your will, and locked in your cage.

    • Ahno Neemus.
      January 24, 2022, 11:13 am | # | Reply

      In the words of the monumental Sgt. Detritus : ‘It ain’t compuls’ry, you just gotta,’

    • Robert Nowall
      January 24, 2022, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

      The keys to the Loyalty Washroom will be his.

    • arqyx
      January 24, 2022, 4:24 pm | # | Reply

      Shoe care re-orientation lectures, seminars, workshops and self-criticism groups

  9. Christian Rose
    January 24, 2022, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

    “The Pit of Loyalty!”
    “Don’t even think about trying to escape…”

  10. Robert Horton
    January 24, 2022, 2:12 pm | # | Reply

    WEBB IS AT L2!

  11. LuckyCheshire
    January 24, 2022, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

    Mr. Gira?

  12. BMunro
    January 24, 2022, 3:30 pm | # | Reply

    If he’s telling what he thinks is the truth, Mr. Green’s capacity for self-delusion is as strong as anyone’s.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 24, 2022, 4:19 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, that was apparent a long time ago. Like when he deluded himself into thinking that if he captured and tortured Virginia – and threatened her with permanent extirpation – she would change her mind and want to go out with him.

      He is definitely a few sandwiches short of a picnic.

      • BMunro
        January 24, 2022, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

        Really, the whole nature of A-Sig proclaims that it’s run by loonies. (_Talented_ loonies, but crazy all the same.)

        • awgiedawgie
          January 24, 2022, 10:09 pm | # | Reply

          The only talent required of the ones running the asylum is that they know how to acquire talented individuals who don’t ask too many questions.

  13. Robert Nowall
    January 24, 2022, 5:10 pm | # | Reply

    Of Tip, Ira claims to be fond. Together, he thinks they will bond. But if that isn’t it, then the Loyalty Pit will await this cross-dressing faux blond.

  14. Shen Hibiki
    January 24, 2022, 7:52 pm | # | Reply

    Ah… of course, it needs to be the piT of Loyalty, to turn Tip around!

    • Sean K
      January 24, 2022, 11:22 pm | # | Reply

      Nice.

  15. =Tamar
    January 25, 2022, 5:40 pm | # | Reply

    Supposedly hgih heels returned to fashion for men when a French kng was short and made high red heels fashionable.

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