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2013-02-21

by shaenon on February 21, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Max
    February 21, 2013, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Yup, there’s hardly a more surefire way to drive a pro frustrated by failure to perform a job crazy than showing them that even an idiot can do it right after they declared it cannot be done.

  2. Mike
    February 21, 2013, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Undead Nanobot Infusion Terrorizing You!

    • Robert The Addled
      February 21, 2013, 3:36 am | # | Reply

      I like that one, altho she goes for more destruction than terror.

      • jdreyfuss
        February 21, 2013, 5:24 am | # | Reply

        I’m with Robert here. Terrorizing, to me, implies intent. Unity doesn’t give enough thought to the consequences of her actions to intend anything.

        Undead Nanobot-Infused Technological Y–
        Yorganism?

        This would have been so much easier if she was Eunice.
        Electronic Undead Nanobot-Infused Cybernetic Entity.

        • mithril
          February 21, 2013, 9:35 am | # | Reply

          Undead Nanobot-Infused Technological Youth?

        • Jon
          February 22, 2013, 10:16 am | # | Reply

          “Traumatizing”, then.

  3. Ebony Sable
    February 21, 2013, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if it came from way back when people in the comments were trying to come up with an acronym for her?

    • Ryushikaze
      February 21, 2013, 2:31 pm | # | Reply

      If it does not involve Ylem, I will be forced to go on a rampage of U.N.I.T.Y. Proportions!

      Or Worse! Sweetheart level rampage!

  4. Sora Hjort
    February 21, 2013, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    Unity Now Is The Yams

    • mittfh
      February 21, 2013, 3:12 pm | # | Reply

      Bonus points for coming up with a recursive acronym 🙂

  5. Eddurd
    February 21, 2013, 2:53 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “If I Only Had A Brain”, Arlen & Harburg)

    Well, my mind won’t stop revolving!
    This problem I’m not solving!
    I’d say the odds are slim …
    Are you smelling the stink of
    Dismal failure? I can’t think of
    A successful acronym!

    I am moping, I am pining,
    I’m U-N-I-T-whining,
    I’m grouchy and I’m grim!
    Now you’d best get the hell out,
    ‘Cause I’m angry I can’t spell out
    A successful acronym!

     Impossible, you know!
     I’d bet you half a million bucks!
     You say … eight months ago,
     You named yourself?
     That really sucks …

    This is totally no fun now!
    How can I be outdone, now,
    By someone who’s so dim?
    You are dumb and demented,
    And yet somehow you invented
    A successful acronym!

    • Classic Steve
      February 21, 2013, 7:04 am | # | Reply

      Bravo as always!

      OK, the fact that failure prevents GODOT from shutting down goes a lot further toward explaining its fury.

      • jdreyfuss
        January 22, 2020, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

        GODOT has essentially gone mad from sleep deprivation.

    • JET73L
      July 31, 2018, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

      As usual, your scansion is on point, but one thing stands out today:

      > U-N-I-T-Whining

      Glorious ^_^

  6. Robert The Addled
    February 21, 2013, 3:34 am | # | Reply

    I wonder what kind of messed up Unity-style free-association acronym it will be.

    After all – Unity constantly surprises us w/ her insight….

  7. Tinman
    February 21, 2013, 6:15 am | # | Reply

    Universal. Necrotic. Interface. Technology. Yeoman.

  8. EmuSam
    February 21, 2013, 7:29 am | # | Reply

    It’s probably recursive, a la GNU’s Not Unix. UNITY’s Now Inconceivably Too YOLO.

  9. Pat Myers
    February 21, 2013, 8:04 am | # | Reply

    I MISSED YOU SO MUCH, SKIN HORSE.

  10. Smithnik
    February 21, 2013, 9:41 am | # | Reply

    I really wonder if UNITY’s solution really included a correct spelling of her own name. That would really drive GODOT crazy, if she created an acronym that was incorrect.

  11. Saberbeam
    February 21, 2013, 1:40 pm | # | Reply

    I’m betting Unity can’t remember what the acronym she created was. It was eight months ago after all, assuming that she didn’t just grab that timeframe out of her hat.

    • EmuSam
      February 22, 2013, 3:03 am | # | Reply

      Eight months is the length of the current storyline – 236 strips, which I think includes Sundays. The previous two storylines did not feature UNITY at all, so Once and Future may have been concurrent with those parts not involving time travel . . . which was pretty much all of it, so ignore me there.

      So far, reading through Once and Future gives me Unfit Notary Idaho Tigerlily . . . the Y as Y is baffling.

  12. Exasperation
    February 21, 2013, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

    GODOT’s problem:
    Unmanageable
    Names
    Invite
    Terminating
    Yourself

  13. Riven
    February 21, 2013, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

    United Nations Intelligence Taskforce… Youthfully!

  14. Xodiac
    February 21, 2013, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

    Undead Nanobot-Infused Thing, Yikes!

  15. Shadowmehr
    February 21, 2013, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

    If G.O.D.O.T. was human, he’d be thumping his head on a nearby desk.

    Actually, we don’t know his configuration, he still might be hitting his head on a nearby desk.

    The real question is, have Our Dear Writers known U.N.I.T.Y.’s acronym all along, or have they been scanning the messageboards on this topic?

    • David B Huber
      January 13, 2021, 11:44 pm | # | Reply

      I just now happened across official clueage.

  16. Steve Jackson
    February 21, 2013, 9:13 pm | # | Reply

    We only need GODOT because we lost Mike Ford. Sigh. I’m just sayin’ . . .

    • Eric Burns-White
      February 22, 2013, 10:34 am | # | Reply

      Depressingly true. Depressingly true.

  17. Prodigal
    February 21, 2013, 11:51 pm | # | Reply

    Too true, Steve, too sadly true.

  18. MutantSentry
    February 22, 2013, 2:15 am | # | Reply

    Undead
    Nanobot
    Infused
    Terror
    Yeoman

    Yeoman is an old fashioned word for soldier, right?

    • Rick in Mexico
      February 22, 2013, 4:48 am | # | Reply

      Yeoman=yew-man=archer (longbows were made of yew wood. It’s nice and springy). Applied as well to captain’s clerks in Starfleet (Yeoman Janice Rand was also nice and springy).

  19. davidbreslin101
    February 22, 2013, 5:40 am | # | Reply

    Place your bets now, ladies and gentlemen, betting ends soon!
    (I’m going for “Upgradeable Necrotic Intelligence Terrifies Y’all.”)

    • Rex Vivat
      February 22, 2013, 6:21 am | # | Reply

      If only. The gocomics mirror already updated, and we still don’t know Unity’s acronym.

  20. Eric Burns-White
    February 22, 2013, 6:55 am | # | Reply

    Undead Nanocoordinated Intelligent Terrorizing Yatterer.

  21. Stereo
    February 24, 2013, 2:10 pm | # | Reply

    Unity never intends to yield.

  22. David B Huber
    September 29, 2018, 9:49 pm | # | Reply

    Universal Nanite Intelligence Training Yoke

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