I guess that’s why on the list of instructions, escalators always say “Dogs must be carried”…
…which reminds me of the joke about someone who approached an escalator, saw someone walking past with a dog, scooped it up, and carried it while he traversed the escalator. When questioned, he pointed to the aforementioned rule 🙂
Hmm, the Porter Square MBTA stop has escalators close to that. Wikipedia says 146 feet for the longest stretch and there’s another that at least seems almost that long. That’s in Cambridge, though, not Boston. Judging by the look of the area they’d be near Park Street station but that doesn’t (in our universe) have down escalators.
(I’m overthinking this)
The longest near me are “only” 30m down, translating to 98.4 freedom units. This is, however, the longest in the southern hemisphere apparently, and slightly unnerving to run down.
I empathise with Dr Lee here, as someone who doesn’t doesn’t normally make risque joked. When you *do* come up with one you want to make sure everyone knows “Yes, I said that!”
I was thinking the other day that Unity’s historical monument looked an awful lot like the old state house, which “Go Down” could only mean “enter the subway at the State Street T stop.” Looks like I was right!
I refuse to believe that Violet Bee didn’t catch the joke. Not after her mentions of climbing gear and computer hacks, culminating in a long, hard job…
I wonder how hard Violet’s circuits will crack when, after hours of patient digging and mining to get to St. Charlie’s, the native simply point out the escalator to the surface.
Dogs don’t like escalators. Huh, who knew?
I guess that’s why on the list of instructions, escalators always say “Dogs must be carried”…
…which reminds me of the joke about someone who approached an escalator, saw someone walking past with a dog, scooped it up, and carried it while he traversed the escalator. When questioned, he pointed to the aforementioned rule 🙂
On what date *does* one hack public works?
I think Virginia missed the l in public.
…is it worse than the Kiev metro’s Arsenalna Station? 102 meters below the lobby, down two seemingly endless escalators…
Hmm, the Porter Square MBTA stop has escalators close to that. Wikipedia says 146 feet for the longest stretch and there’s another that at least seems almost that long. That’s in Cambridge, though, not Boston. Judging by the look of the area they’d be near Park Street station but that doesn’t (in our universe) have down escalators.
(I’m overthinking this)
The longest near me are “only” 30m down, translating to 98.4 freedom units. This is, however, the longest in the southern hemisphere apparently, and slightly unnerving to run down.
Worse to run up though.
I empathise with Dr Lee here, as someone who doesn’t doesn’t normally make risque joked. When you *do* come up with one you want to make sure everyone knows “Yes, I said that!”
*jokes, not joked
I know it’s an escalator rather than an elevator, but I still hear “The Girl From Ipanema” in the last panel.
(TUNE: “Slow Ride”, Foghat)
Go down! Es-ca-LA-tor! [x4]
Hack Public Works!
And get dynamite!
Gee, on a first date?
It just isn’t right!
Weeeee’ll … go down!
Weeeee’ll …
Go down! Es-ca-LA-tor!
Go down! See ya LA-ter!
Go down, low town …
Escalator’s moving so slowly!
Go down, b’low ground,
(Not on a first date, we know, Lee!)
We gotta go
Where St. Charlie says!
Taking a long time …
We need sammiches!
Go down! Es-ca-LA-tor!
[repeat, fade out]
OMG, it’s Charlie on the MTA! (Will he never return? No, he’ll never return, and his fate will be unlearned. Until now….)
Oooooooooh. I JUST got that.
Brilliant!
Two different agencies… with very different approaches to problem solving. 😉
It’s a good job Nick works for Skin Horse… imagine the carnage if he was working for A-Sig… “Drop the bomb… now!”
Whereupon half the neighbourhood disappears…
Yeah, Blondie’s putting way too much thought and effort into it…
“enter boston via black helicopter, then transfer to the mbta red line….”
Um, Virginia, dear…That’s not what Tip said.
Awww, Virginia misses having Nick around already.
Hooray for escalators! Oh and Unity’s arms are free. I guess that’s good too. 😉
I was thinking the other day that Unity’s historical monument looked an awful lot like the old state house, which “Go Down” could only mean “enter the subway at the State Street T stop.” Looks like I was right!
They’re gonna have to go to Porter Square if they want the *really* deep T station.
I refuse to believe that Violet Bee didn’t catch the joke. Not after her mentions of climbing gear and computer hacks, culminating in a long, hard job…
I’ll shut up now.
I wonder how hard Violet’s circuits will crack when, after hours of patient digging and mining to get to St. Charlie’s, the native simply point out the escalator to the surface.
-1st World (see what I did there?) Problems, Sweetheart!
(TUNE: Overture to the Forbidden Zone, Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo)
Going down down down
Where to will it go?
You might well bet it’s not the Sammich Zone
Going round round round
On the MTA
It might trap Charlie
‘cuz the fare has changed
Working in the civil service things get rough
Working in the civil service can be tough
‘cuz the silverbugs take the phone
They take the phone!
Going down down down
Past the jetpack sign
Chekov may be scary
But Pushkin’s pretty fine
A-Sig’s on the ground
A-Sig’s on the ground
A-Sig’s on the ground I know
Boston’s secret’s found
Charlie’s underground
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!
(…and I’ve got a newfound respect for Ed)
Walt Kelly!!!!!! yay “Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie” 🙂