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2018-03-21

by shaenon on March 21, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Hundred Dresses
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  1. Pygar
    March 21, 2018, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    The lobster seems unperturbed…

    • Bruce A Munro
      March 21, 2018, 1:09 am | # | Reply

      Is that a little annoyed huff bubble drifting away from the lobster in panel two?

      • LogicMouse
        March 21, 2018, 2:04 am | # | Reply

        I think it’s a squirt of lemon.

        • Bruce A Munro
          March 21, 2018, 2:07 am | # | Reply

          No, by Unity’s knee.

          • awgiedawgie
            March 21, 2018, 2:28 am | #

            I was thinking it was a wine glass. Notice it’s lying next to a chair, and there’s a water glass behind Unity.

    • Pygar
      March 21, 2018, 11:12 am | # | Reply

      Ladle?

  2. Towering Barbarian
    March 21, 2018, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Nimue seems to be a fickle date. 😛

    • D. Walker
      March 21, 2018, 4:06 pm | # | Reply

      Have you MET parrots?

      (Also – “Niue”).

      • awgiedawgie
        March 21, 2018, 4:23 pm | # | Reply

        I’m guessing “Nimue” must be an auto-correct thing. I’ve seen more than one person use that misspelling of her name.

        • D. Walker
          March 21, 2018, 7:02 pm | # | Reply

          I guess auto-correct thinks one of the names of the Lady of The Lake is more likely to be what someone is trying to type than the name of a small tropical country in the Pacific Islands?

          • awgiedawgie
            March 21, 2018, 7:07 pm | #

            I’ve noticed that auto-correct makes some pretty bizarre assumptions on occasion. Almost as if it’s just a prank conceived by its programmers.

    • Shikome Kido Mi
      March 22, 2018, 5:22 am | # | Reply

      To be fair, killing a giant monster with a melee weapon _is_ pretty attractive.

  3. Chris
    March 21, 2018, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Just wait until the headless lady puts on a (head shaped) hat!

  4. emusam
    March 21, 2018, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    They fed Bubble’s drone to the lobster? Not joy!

    • Guesticus
      March 21, 2018, 9:18 am | # | Reply

      Captain Bubbles is still using her drone, this was a male drone from storage

      • Robert Nowall
        March 21, 2018, 10:36 am | # | Reply

        “Male” being far from certain with these flat-all-over drones…

        • Chrisn
          March 21, 2018, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

          Nick never actually said there wasn’t nothin down there. He just said it was way too low-rez, and built like an ironing board (I think). Violet Bee seemed to think it was “usable” at least.

          • Robert Nowall
            March 21, 2018, 5:14 pm | #

            Well, there are two ways it could be. One wouldn’t’ve thrilled Nick at all. The other would have led to the happiest moment of his life.

          • WJS
            August 4, 2019, 10:36 am | #

            Nick did say that it didn’t have nipples though.

  5. Bruce A Munro
    March 21, 2018, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    I guess the laser rifle wasn’t _cutting_ it, right? Eh? Eh?

    • awgiedawgie
      March 21, 2018, 2:30 am | # | Reply

      Well, of course… She should have brought a giant nutcracker.

      • Smithnik
        March 21, 2018, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

        Are you kidding? Do you know how hard it is to put a laser in one of those?

  6. WuseMajor
    March 21, 2018, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    …..Unfortunately, I do need to agree with Sweetheart in the last panel. She did need better pick up lines. The problem was that she needed to go beyond that and not use pickup lines at all.

    • BRGR
      March 21, 2018, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

      So you do in fact not agree with Sweetheart at all.

  7. Jon
    March 21, 2018, 1:50 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if putting Unity’s head back on would count as a hat.

  8. casimir
    March 21, 2018, 2:00 am | # | Reply

    Machetespace.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 21, 2018, 5:40 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe she finally got her wish…
      http://skin-horse.com/comic/the-dents-out/

  9. Suzanne Barnes
    March 21, 2018, 4:04 am | # | Reply

    **wistful sigh** Now, all we need is some Old Bay seafood-boil, a really *huge* pot of boiling water, a sledge hammer, a vat of melted butter with garlic and lemon, a fork and a whole helluva lot of napkins….. Oh, and a cleanup squad with lots of mops. And possibly an emergency room; I’m not sure what happens when you eat that much lobster but I’m willing to find out– I’m from Florida! Man, you could make LOBSTER STEAKS out of that monster! **drools**

    • awgiedawgie
      March 21, 2018, 4:21 am | # | Reply

      I think it’d take more than a sledge hammer. Maybe a 2-ton shop press to use as a cracker.

    • bergerjacques
      March 21, 2018, 9:46 am | # | Reply

      I doubt you’d even need a hammer. Think how succulent the radiation has made the lobster flesh. UV-ray induced lobster cancer is like the ultimate tenderizer…

      • theysabet
        March 21, 2018, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

        Mmmmm, yummy UV-cancer….. I am simultaneously revolted and intrigued (and being a cancer survivor myself makes the whole thing even *more* confusing! :P)

      • awgiedawgie
        March 21, 2018, 3:50 pm | # | Reply

        Sure, the flesh would be nice and tender, but you still have to break through the shell to get to it.

      • Robert Nowall
        March 21, 2018, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

        I imagine if you cut off a piece it’d grow back right away.

    • Pygar
      March 21, 2018, 5:25 pm | # | Reply

      You’re from “Florida Man”? Put that into Google and see what the world’s worst superhero has been doing…!

  10. lkjh
    March 21, 2018, 8:45 am | # | Reply

    Headless ladies CAN’T wear hats!

    • awgiedawgie
      March 21, 2018, 3:49 pm | # | Reply

      As I pointed out the other day, there’s plenty of neck sticking up there that she could easily put a hat on it if she wanted to.

      • Bruce A Munro
        March 21, 2018, 9:04 pm | # | Reply

        Dictionary definition of a hat: “A shaped covering for the head worn for warmth, as a fashion item, or as part of a uniform.” If there is no head, there is no hat. I suppose something placed on the stump could be referred to as a cap, as in bottle.

        • awgiedawgie
          March 21, 2018, 9:23 pm | # | Reply

          Just because a hat is a “covering for the head” doesn’t mean it cannot be placed on another part of the body. My hat is still a hat even when I have it sitting on my knee.

          • David B Huber
            March 21, 2018, 11:28 pm | #

            With all due respect, I aver it becomes a “knee cap”!

  11. casimir
    March 21, 2018, 9:36 am | # | Reply

    Our first day in Maine my partner and I OD’d on lobster. It was not fun, but close to being worth it.

    • casimir
      March 21, 2018, 9:38 am | # | Reply

      **Reply to Suzanne Barnes**

    • theysabet
      March 21, 2018, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

      I was born and raised in NW Florida right on the Gulf of Mexico; and I did find out once that you can actually OD on raw oysters. Granted, there was beer involved, but still… as you said, almost worth it!

  12. Robert Nowall
    March 21, 2018, 10:35 am | # | Reply

    What the *hey*? Are both of them being filtered through Nick’s swear filter now?

    • Marisa Mockery
      March 21, 2018, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

      Sweetheart doesn’t really cuss, and the joke depended on Unity repeating it….but what the hey do I know *puts on Captain Obvious hat*

      • awgiedawgie
        March 21, 2018, 4:13 pm | # | Reply

        The bit with one person doing or saying something in panel one, and then someone else doing or saying almost exactly the same thing in panel four (or occasionally in the next day’s strip) is something Shaenon started doing way back before Narbonic.
        http://www.narbonic.com/ratio13.jpg

        • Andy4Hire
          March 21, 2018, 7:42 pm | # | Reply

          Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. Waitwaitwait. Wait. The Ratio exists online somewhere?

          Is there a link to the whole archive, or do you have to look at each strip individually by manually changing the URL?

          • awgiedawgie
            March 21, 2018, 8:34 pm | #

            It’d be awesome if Shaenon had the whole archive (y’hear that Shaenon?), but all I’ve seen is her samples. Unfortunately that’s only 14 strips.
            http://www.narbonic.com/oldstuff3.html

          • awgiedawgie
            March 21, 2018, 9:26 pm | #

            You can read the old issues of Miscellany News (the publication in which Ratio appeared) here:
            https://news.hrvh.org/veridian/cgi-bin/senylrc?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=vcmisc&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——-

          • awgiedawgie
            March 22, 2018, 12:05 am | #

            They seem to be missing a lot of issues of Miscellany News. There are several strips in Shaenon’s sample strips that I can’t find in there. Between the newsletter archives and the samples, I could only come up with a total of 32 strips.

          • Andy4Hire
            March 22, 2018, 9:17 pm | #

            awgiedawgie, you are my new hero.

  13. Dr. Steve
    March 21, 2018, 11:03 am | # | Reply

    No head is better than some.

    • Shadowmehr
      March 21, 2018, 7:50 pm | # | Reply

      Speaking as someone who has lived in and around Washington D.C., I have to say I agree with you. To pun; you hit the nail on the head.

  14. soft
    March 21, 2018, 11:46 am | # | Reply

    My “what the hey” is how the hey did the lobster get back a hold of (and subsequently eat) the drone? I thought it was safely out of the way with Unity distracting it?

    • BRGR
      March 21, 2018, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

      But then nobody was piloting it after the objective of getting Nimue to safety had been achieved.

  15. Towering Barbarian
    March 21, 2018, 3:48 pm | # | Reply

    So may we regard this as the successful “proof of concept” in the use of drones by nonhumans that Sweetheart was trying to establish? Or did Nimue’s transfer of affection from her gestalt friend to Unity invalidate the idea? ^_~

    • awgiedawgie
      March 21, 2018, 7:51 pm | # | Reply

      Considering that the lobster apparently ate the drone, I don’t think there’s anything “successful” about it.

      • Guesticus
        March 22, 2018, 9:02 am | # | Reply

        The fact that, baring unforeseen (or unseenatall) circumstances, non-hyu-mon entities could successfully pilot one (possibly in tandem with another entity) and interact with reality-blind hyu-mons

        • awgiedawgie
          March 22, 2018, 10:22 am | # | Reply

          You make a good point. I suppose the lobster wasn’t directly related to the drone “experiment”. And they did manage — with a save from Nick — to use the drone to help prevent any loss of life due to the lobster’s untimely appearance.

          They definitely have to figure out the whole short-time-span-before-crashing issue, though. I don’t think the drone idea is anywhere near ready for deployment yet.

  16. Robert Nowall
    March 21, 2018, 6:28 pm | # | Reply

    Perhaps Tip and Unity can take Niue bowling…

    • awgiedawgie
      March 21, 2018, 7:17 pm | # | Reply

      {insert *rimshot* here}

    • OneUniverse
      March 21, 2018, 10:30 pm | # | Reply

      As long as Niue doesn’t attack weird shoes, too.

  17. woozy
    March 21, 2018, 8:09 pm | # | Reply

    The lobster looks bored and annoyed.

  18. Knuckles
    February 7, 2022, 10:12 am | # | Reply

    Unity is really getting a head in this date!

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