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2014-04-21

by shaenon on April 21, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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  1. Batteryhorse
    April 21, 2014, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Something tells me this might not be the same sentient cloud of bees we last saw…

    • Hadashi
      April 21, 2014, 5:02 am | # | Reply

      If her intelligence is based on the number of bees, a closed door could actually make part of her really stupid.

    • Shadowmehr
      April 21, 2014, 7:30 pm | # | Reply

      I have to agree, if only based on the syntax and “accent” of the speech. Someone has suggested this is Pavane, Gavotte’s daughter. It could also be another, pardon the expression, hive mind altogether. Maybe Gavotte’s wastrel rocker cousin? Something about this brief snippet of speech puts me in mind of Russell Brand.

  2. Treesong
    April 21, 2014, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Or at least not all of it.

  3. magecat
    April 21, 2014, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Can a colony of bees get drunk?

    • Moe Lane
      April 21, 2014, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      That’s actually not the worst-case scenario.

    • Jay Eff
      April 21, 2014, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      Sure, they can get drunk.
      But drunk AND British? THAT’S a horse of a different color!

      • daibhidc
        April 21, 2014, 6:32 am | # | Reply

        I thought she was always British.

        I mean, maybe it’s because *I’m* British, but her usual precise way of talking always made me think of Mary Poppins. (Did she actually say “spit-spot” at one point, or did I imagine that?)

        • daibhidc
          April 21, 2014, 6:33 am | # | Reply

          Ah, should have read further down, someone’s already mentioned that…

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        April 23, 2014, 5:11 am | # | Reply

        Some people are angry drunks. Some people are friendly drunks. Gavotte is a limey drunk.

    • irdburns
      April 21, 2014, 8:46 am | # | Reply

      Yep. The bees in our old house used to get drunk on fermenting apples.

    • Dr. Steve
      April 21, 2014, 9:26 am | # | Reply

      perhaps not completely drunk… only slightly buzzed?

      • ibiwan
        April 22, 2014, 11:52 am | # | Reply

        ++

  4. Moe Lane
    April 21, 2014, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Well that’s not good.

  5. okiegoddess
    April 21, 2014, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Well, felgercarb! That doesn’t bode well.

  6. M. Alan Thomas II
    April 21, 2014, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Honey can be fermented. It’s also possible for bees to gather psychoactive or outright poisonous substances for their honey.

    I’m not sure to what degree it’s scientifically possible for a bee to be affected by these things in real life, but they can’t talk in real life, either.

    • GammarayCanon
      April 22, 2014, 5:52 am | # | Reply

      Considering how badly a bee’s flight patterns can be messed with by pesticides on plants, that definitely seems possible

  7. Manifesta
    April 21, 2014, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    I suppose this could be her daughter, Pavane. But, while some of us imagine Gavotte sounding like Julie Andrews, I can’t imagine any reason for Pavane to sound like Alfred Doolittle.

    • Nessus
      April 21, 2014, 1:12 am | # | Reply

      Bob Hoskins

      • s854
        April 21, 2014, 7:21 am | # | Reply

        It appears to be more like Dick van Dyke at the moment. Incidentally, Tuesday’s and Saturday’s comics are back up, now (at least in the latter case) with improved spelling.

    • casimir
      April 21, 2014, 9:50 am | # | Reply

      I was going to say that she’s gone from Mary Poppins to Liza Doolittle.

    • Pourush
      April 21, 2014, 7:28 pm | # | Reply

      Well, the whole “Pavane is Gavotte’s daughter” thing seems to have started because Sweetheart said that Pavane is Gavotte’s daughter. The grand reveal is here:
      http://skin-horse.com/comic/captain-brams-old-cabin/

      And the deduction is based on this:
      http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-404/

      I don’t know of any comic where we find out that Pavane is a girl.

      • WJS
        July 11, 2019, 6:01 pm | # | Reply

        Gavotte’s “Clever Girl” pretty strongly implies that Sweetheart was guessing correctly.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 11, 2019, 7:20 pm | # | Reply

        The swarm is controlled by the queen. Ergo, girl. It’s not exactly rocket science.

    • BMunro
      April 21, 2014, 11:20 pm | # | Reply

      A swarm of drones?

  8. GG Crono
    April 21, 2014, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    Is it just me, or is that story arc title foreboding?

    Eh, it’s probably just me.

    • Caelo
      April 21, 2014, 5:03 am | # | Reply

      vaguely

  9. Tetra Valent
    April 21, 2014, 1:06 am | # | Reply

    Another arc, another childrens’ story:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_and_the_Terrible,_Horrible,_No_Good,_Very_Bad_Day

  10. Michael Brewer
    April 21, 2014, 2:30 am | # | Reply

    …I think I might want to call this hive Morris.

  11. Efogoto
    April 21, 2014, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    Speak “friend” and enter?

    • oneuniverse2
      April 21, 2014, 9:52 am | # | Reply

      I thought it was the floor pressure sensors, or the Star Trek proximity detectors.

  12. jdreyfuss
    April 21, 2014, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

    No one mentions My Fair Lady yet? Perhaps Gavotte isn’t as high-born as her normally posh way of speaking would indicate and she’s been returned to her less prim state through dark magic and/or booze.

    • Manifesta
      April 21, 2014, 4:52 pm | # | Reply

      Hey, I name-checked Alfred Doolittle.

      • jdreyfuss
        April 21, 2014, 7:00 pm | # | Reply

        And casimir mentioned Eliza. Many apologies.

        • jdreyfuss
          April 21, 2014, 7:01 pm | # | Reply

          Liza. Duh. If it was a drunken AI speaking with a cockney accent it’d be Eliza Doolittle.

  13. Pygar
    April 21, 2014, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

    Sure, she may talk posh- but deep down inside, we all know she’s a Bee girl…

    And for her drunken voice I am hearing the dream-sequence Mary Ann doing her Liza Doolittle “Giant’s Wife” voice. “Gilligan’s Island” has warped me for life, and I never had the chance to thank it…

  14. robertnowall
    April 21, 2014, 5:50 pm | # | Reply

    “Drunk” was my thought, but I see others have had it, too.

    In passing, let me say I like your “Unity as Rosie the Riveter” ad art that I just saw pop up on another site.

  15. Andrew
    April 21, 2014, 8:44 pm | # | Reply

    Did someone put marbles in Ed’s mouth? It’s not like him to not waste a perfectly good opportunity to filk a musical.

  16. Pygar
    April 22, 2014, 3:18 pm | # | Reply

    “Unity as Rosie the Riveter” ad art” NEED LINK!!! WANT!!!

    • Tetra Valent
      April 28, 2014, 6:18 pm | # | Reply

      It’s one of the wallpapers under “EXTRAS”. Donate and it shall be yours!

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