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2013-02-02

by shaenon on February 2, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. fluffy
    February 2, 2013, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

    I think Homeschool Joe had a lasting impact on Sergio.

    • Wasabi Jane
      February 2, 2013, 4:35 pm | # | Reply

      !!!

  2. John Campbell
    February 2, 2013, 6:13 pm | # | Reply

    Bah, 300 Spartans.

    Just wish for your best friend from 1st grade. She’d be more effective, and more likely to show up.

    Though I think if Mell and Unity ever ended up in one place together, I’d be glad to be watching it from safely this side of the LCD.

    • Malicron
      April 5, 2016, 2:30 am | # | Reply

      Don’t fear the Mad Scientists, fear the creatures that survive them.

    • wizard4169
      June 7, 2021, 11:07 am | # | Reply

      If Mell and Unity ever met, I’m not sure whether they’d immediately become BFFs or try to kill each other. I’m also not sure which option would cause more collateral damage.

      • Tim
        November 24, 2022, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

        You have failed to consider that they might become bffs AND try and kill each other. That would have the most by far

  3. Dewy
    February 2, 2013, 7:20 pm | # | Reply

    THIS IS SKIN-HORSE!

    Had to be done.

    • The Other Mike
      February 18, 2017, 5:16 am | # | Reply

      Madness? THIS. IS. …Wait. Yeah, you’re right, this is madness.

  4. Grantwhy
    February 2, 2013, 8:00 pm | # | Reply

    so, what are the odds that the little dog takes down more zombies than the other two combined?

    • Miserichord
      February 3, 2013, 10:11 am | # | Reply

      Pretty good.

      The desperately hungry zombies will attack the larger dogs for their brains, but the little yap dog, having no brains, will be able to attack with impunity.

  5. bobthe6th
    February 2, 2013, 11:13 pm | # | Reply

    … and again they forget the thousands of other greeks that stood with them… I mean really, the spartans weren’t alone in the end…

    • davidbreslin101
      February 3, 2013, 7:40 am | # | Reply

      I am delighted to report that Leonidas I’s rearguard also included 700 Thespians.

      • Eddurd
        February 3, 2013, 7:58 am | # | Reply

        They allowed women in combat back then?

        (SOMEbody had to say it.)

        • JET73L
          July 31, 2018, 8:18 am | # | Reply

          Only men dressed as women. Remember, women weren’t allowed to be stage actors.

    • Jeffrey Wells
      February 3, 2013, 8:16 am | # | Reply

      Hence Sergio’s “including” line, rather than “a force of 300 Spartan warriors”.

    • Laurentius
      February 21, 2013, 9:25 pm | # | Reply

      300 is a much more inspiring number than somewhere between 5,200 and 11,200. Also much easier to put on a movie poster

  6. Stickmaker
    February 3, 2013, 9:03 am | # | Reply

    300 sticks of dynamite to bring down a rockfall and block the pass would’a worked better. (Sorry. Transportation engineer. 😉

    • Sheik
      February 3, 2013, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

      Actually, picks, shovels, and baskets to haul earth would have worked better.
      A good trench and berm can work wonders against just about anything that has to move.

      • Eric Burns-White
        February 3, 2013, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

        While this is true, 300 sticks of dynamite would be relatively more useful when a single physicist needs to hold off a zombie horde.

  7. Katrika
    February 3, 2013, 11:57 am | # | Reply

    Just out of curiousity, how canon is Lil Mell and Sergio? I know Artie /did/ time travel back to teach Mell’s first grade to study aggression, Sergio /did/ mention knowing a good lawyer, and Project Second Gate /can/ sub in for the time travel storyline, but…

    I just really want to know if Mell and Sergio are canonically still friends!

    • Eric Burns-White
      February 3, 2013, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

      Yes. Because any other possible solution would mean Sergio broke his pinky swear to Mell, and if that were the case Sergio would not today be in any position to be fighting a zombie horde with another man’s pistol.

      • Katrika
        February 3, 2013, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

        You know, I can’t believe I didn’t consider that!

    • Robert The Addled
      February 3, 2013, 3:43 pm | # | Reply

      Well – we are dealing with the author-verse – retcons and parallels are possible.

      After all – All the Tenchi sequences were awsome, but mutually exclusive.

      Walkyverse rebooted into Shortpacked and now Dumbing Of Age.

      I think we’ll have to wait for the proverbial Word Of God(s) (since we have both Shaenon and Jeff) to determine whether Mel is his chosen lawyer.

    • Reb
      April 3, 2013, 6:14 pm | # | Reply

      Mel being Sergio’s lawyer is the only way he’d stand a chance against A-sig in negotiations.

    • Dementron
      December 18, 2016, 9:02 pm | # | Reply

      It’s canon, though we have seen a lot of timelines and we don’t really know for sure which this is. It’s likely the one the Lil’ Mell storyline ended with (which would also fit with some things suggested in Narbonic), but anything could be different because of all the parallel timelines.

  8. Eddurd
    February 9, 2013, 5:41 pm | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Five Hundred Miles”, Hedy West)

    Now I’ve got to save the day!
    It’s just like Thermopylae,
    With the Spartans in 480 BCE!
    In BCE, in BCE,
    Agnostic scientists agree,
    They refer to ancient years as BCE!

    Oh, the things that I could do
    With Leonidas and his crew!
    Kicking Persian ass with just 300 guys!
    Three hundred guys, three hundred guys,
    They sure gave Xerxes a surprise!
    Cut them down to size with just 300 guys!

    I wish they were here again,
    All those sweaty, muscled men,
    Wish I had 300 Spartans at my back!
    At my back, at my back,
    When the zombie hordes attack,
    I need Spartan muscle coming from the back!

  9. Imperator
    August 12, 2013, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

    Well, he IS a physicist. Not a lot of room for history classes when you’re going all in on a major science degree, doctorates, PHDs, all that stuff, as well as building interdimensional pseudo-portals that turn nerds into Groundhog Day Loopers/infinite respawners.

  10. h4rrish4wk
    January 31, 2019, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

    While yes – Leonidas had 300 Spartans (and 1,400 other mix Greek state troops) to help hold Thermoplyae, and Henry Vth at Argincourt used similar choke-point tactics to win against a larger force — one must ALWAYS remember how Leonidas was defeated and why Henry the Vth was required to order the execution of prisoners to avoid losing… They were taken from the rear.

    • h4rrish4wk
      January 31, 2019, 2:55 pm | # | Reply

      *Thermopylae Gosh darn fingers

  11. Brian R
    November 10, 2021, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

    Somehow everyone forgets all the other Greeks who were there with the 300. At least you imply their existence with “including 300 Spartans”. The 700 Thespians fought to the death to give the rest of the army time too!

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