I certainly don’t feel for him. I find the world annoying too, but I’m not fool enough to think 1. that I even could conquer it, or 2. that conquering it would make it any less annoying.
Matter of how it comes across. I did think he felt some genuine upset when he couldn’t make it with Sweetheart, but he soon folded it into his manipulative plans.
I’d look forward to a match between HT and Unity. She’s been a real let-down lately, and the Chief POS will be full of himself, plus he will make a GREAT rug.
Oh, you know they won’t kill him. They’ll extricate him from the biomass, and then leave him in the care of someone who’ll make him wish they had killed him.
It strikes me that–in fiction and, depending on circumstances and your outlook, perhaps in reality as well–the sentence “Things can’t get any worse” can be considered an example of what J.L. Austin would call an inexplicit performative utterance. “What could possibly go wrong?” is another popular and probably related example, as Artie notes in this week of Narbonic strips.
Such an utterance is inexplicit because the speaking of the sentence is not itself the committing of an action, as it would be with (for example) a promise or a judicial sentence, but it is performative because the speaking of the sentence does not merely describe the reality but itself brings about a change in the reality. (That such change is inevitably to the speaker’s detriment is not part of the definition of performative utterance in all cases, but it does apply to certain performative utterances such as the one Tip is trying to prevent himself from making and the one Artie refers to as “the Famous Last Words”.)
We knew he was going to show up sooner or later. But honestly, I expected him to be a little less… green.
I suspect he’s one of those bad influences the Cypress absorbed.
I suspect he’s the majority of those bad influences.
Well, I always thought he was more annoyed at the world than anything else. Wanting to conquer it to end the annoyance.
Yeesh. When you put it that way, you make me feel for the guy. It’s not a comfortable experience.
I certainly don’t feel for him. I find the world annoying too, but I’m not fool enough to think 1. that I even could conquer it, or 2. that conquering it would make it any less annoying.
^ Fair Point
Matter of how it comes across. I did think he felt some genuine upset when he couldn’t make it with Sweetheart, but he soon folded it into his manipulative plans.
He’s very good at being one of those, you know.
Quite agreed on him being the majority of them.
And technically, Tip, yes, you did. Twice.
TECHNICALLY, he didn’t SAY it, he MENTIONED it.
Logically there’s a difference, but reality doesn’t always agree.
He may not have meant to, but he did, in point of fact, utter the words out loud – so technically, by definition, yes, he said it.
Murphy’s Law doesn’t care why he said it. The simple fact that the words escaped his lips was enough to garner the (un)desired response.
“I said it ironically, so I should be fine. Right?”
– Emporer Palpatine, Robot Chicken Star Wars special
By the POWER OF GREYSKULL…!!!!
By the power of– oh drat, someone already said it.
If HT has hijacked the biomass the way Unity did in the alternate universe, all Tip needs to do is reason with him.
And when that fails, he can always fall back on Teddy and Elenore!
I’d look forward to a match between HT and Unity. She’s been a real let-down lately, and the Chief POS will be full of himself, plus he will make a GREAT rug.
Oh, you know they won’t kill him. They’ll extricate him from the biomass, and then leave him in the care of someone who’ll make him wish they had killed him.
Speaking of, I wonder how thingummy the crow is doing with Dave and Helen.
Phil.
Oh, Helen has probably turned him into the human he always thought he was… and then turned him back into a myna… or possibly a myna/gerbil hybrid.
Is he a kind of Borg Queen to the Biomass, like Ytinu was in the alternate timeline?
It would certainly explain why the Thing collective seems to be so hostile to, well, everybody.
Her name is Disunity, not Ytinu.
Then this new Biomass is the Greater H. T….
I’m surprised that H.T. allowed himself to be absorbed into the collective. He seems / seemed to be too independent.
Why do you think he’s in charge? 😉
Are Reynard and Daphne still with H. T.? (One way or another?)
He looks better in green.
Funny that his nose is still pink.
It strikes me that–in fiction and, depending on circumstances and your outlook, perhaps in reality as well–the sentence “Things can’t get any worse” can be considered an example of what J.L. Austin would call an inexplicit performative utterance. “What could possibly go wrong?” is another popular and probably related example, as Artie notes in this week of Narbonic strips.
Such an utterance is inexplicit because the speaking of the sentence is not itself the committing of an action, as it would be with (for example) a promise or a judicial sentence, but it is performative because the speaking of the sentence does not merely describe the reality but itself brings about a change in the reality. (That such change is inevitably to the speaker’s detriment is not part of the definition of performative utterance in all cases, but it does apply to certain performative utterances such as the one Tip is trying to prevent himself from making and the one Artie refers to as “the Famous Last Words”.)
I would’a thought, too, that, after Tip’s, er, examination of Lt. Eris, he would have at least gotten her first name.
He’s still kind of new to the whole “get their name first” approach.
With HIS abilities, what are names? ‘At night all cats are grey,’ so spake the True Father of Our Land.
Thought that was Heinlein…
*Grabs popcorn* Time for the drama.
H.T. You’re looking . . . well.