If the people they’re going to see are Tigerlilly et al. triumphantly returning, they are not going to like the whole facemask thing we invented while they were gone
[Not a conspiracy theory. At least one group was and published their work in the journal Nature. Odds are at least one government’s lab was futzing with it too. The American Pentagon tried to weaponize ticks to spread Lyme disease, so it would follow they’d try to weaponize SARS.]
Okay, I’m kinda confused about time here. Quite a bit appears to have gone by between Tip falling off the ship until he was sitting there going, “Star light, star bright…” The Blogger Kids got older and Dr. Lee got very pregnant. On board the ship it didn’t seem like that much time passed before the mutiny began. So I guess the ship was traveling at something close to the speed of light? That would sorta kinda explain the time differentiation. (And here I thought every starship beat Einstein by using “hyperspace,” just like on TV.)
Just did a second re-read of the last month, now I get it. Need to pay closer attention. Apparently this was obvious to everybody writing comments the last few days. Just dumb I guess.
Don’t feel bad, DWVR. I thought the appearance of Annex 0ne implied Hitty and Mustachio stayed behind, but others predicted the spring drive and even Dr. Lee’s involvement!
No one who reads “Skin Horse” is dumb 🙂 – I know I’ve learned a lot!
Also it’s not like time travel, visits to alternate realities and other shenanigans haven’t happened so rarely in this story as to make an explanation on those lines unthinkable
AND haven’t should be have – I’ve really got to stop changing what I want to write while writing (alternatively I should start reading the comment through before I hit the ‘Post Comment’-button
Depends. Will the next generation be directed by David Cronenberg? If so, not only will they spawn themselves, but will also spawn additional mysterious internal organs.
Heh. One of my favorite episodes of “Picket Fences” involved the town doctor suspecting an alien invasion. So he snuck into the barn and discovered cows giving birth to human babies! It was a start-up incubator service!
Incubator, got Dave to do it, test tube, Gerbil surrogate, Helen did it herself to prove she was different from her mother, implanted the embryo in a victim until she burst free Alien-style…
One of the guest strips for the final installment of Narbonic shows Dave on a delivery table with his feet in the stirrups, holding a baby, while Helen stands next to them, grinning like an idiot. That, combined with the strip where Dave says “I see myself bearing her children”, and it’s not too hard to connect the dots.
Not idolatry, it’s just… kind of a Not Done thing. It’s like naming your kid after a character in an ongoing TV show– you don’t know if they’ll end up in a place where you’d want to name your children after them.
I thought it was in horrible taste when the oldest daughter on the Cosby show named her twins Nelson and Winnie, but it just became appalling once the Mandelas divorced. Innocent days, when that was the worst thing you could say about the Cosby show.
He still wears a yarmulke and keeps kosher. Even if he’s picking and choosing, it’s still more a cultural taboo than a religious one and those are even harder to break.
Nick was flying away and was having his way
With a girl named Ginny Lee.
He returned Annex One and was well undone
When confronted by Nera V.
She said, “Hey, Zerhakker, you have really cracked her,
And now you’ve got her knocked up, true.
‘Cause that’s a good woman there,
And because we care,
You had better do right, you do.”
He was scared and feared by parenthood
And the people he was going to meet.
‘Cause she was stress, press,
Asking those questions
“Oh, wait a minute, sister, we’re married, I can kiss her,
Don’t make this harder to do.”
But to make it our day, let the rest of us say
That we want one thing from you.
“Oh, won’t you give us three kids, give us three kids, Chopper,
Give us three kids, maybe four.
Give us three kids, give us three kids, Chopper,
Before we never see you no more.”
For sure…
“Now don’t be a louse, but she’s as big as a house,
So it looks, for what it’s worth.
We know you won’t be free with paternity,
Staring straight down at multiple birth.”
Well, he turned and looked at Ginny Lee,
And she said, “You love it, Nick.”
While we speculated a mile a minute
In the comment section for a kick.
“Oh, won’t you give us three kids, give us three kids, Chopper,
Give us three kids, maybe four.
Give us three kids, give us three kids, Chopper,
Before we never see you no more.”
Out the back door…
—from “Gimme Three Steps,” written by Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant, sung by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Nick worries about a reaction. It’s not some oddball abstraction. It could be disservice, but the thought makes him nervous, when right then Gin could have a contraction.
If the people they’re going to see are Tigerlilly et al. triumphantly returning, they are not going to like the whole facemask thing we invented while they were gone
Ira distributed the COVID cure along with the reality blindness agent.
This is an alternate universe where they never had COVID … perhaps Pavane persuaded the original bat to move to Lovetron.
Or the scientists playing with SARS to stop.
[Not a conspiracy theory. At least one group was and published their work in the journal Nature. Odds are at least one government’s lab was futzing with it too. The American Pentagon tried to weaponize ticks to spread Lyme disease, so it would follow they’d try to weaponize SARS.]
OK. We have to start a baby name contest! 🙂
I suggest “Michelle” and “Mitchell”.
As long as “Melon Farmer” is their middle name, I’d be happy with whatever.
THE baby? You assumed there’s only one??
I mean, given that multiple births make up only 3% of all births in America, it’s a pretty safe assumption.
Okay, sorry, but why is my reaction the same as Nera’s? I feel personally attacked
Don’t feel attacked; Nera speaks for us all at this point. Well, not the Nera, Jr. part, but the rest is the general sentiment of the forum.
Funny name for a future Jewish husband.
Okay, I’m kinda confused about time here. Quite a bit appears to have gone by between Tip falling off the ship until he was sitting there going, “Star light, star bright…” The Blogger Kids got older and Dr. Lee got very pregnant. On board the ship it didn’t seem like that much time passed before the mutiny began. So I guess the ship was traveling at something close to the speed of light? That would sorta kinda explain the time differentiation. (And here I thought every starship beat Einstein by using “hyperspace,” just like on TV.)
Just did a second re-read of the last month, now I get it. Need to pay closer attention. Apparently this was obvious to everybody writing comments the last few days. Just dumb I guess.
Don’t feel bad, DWVR. I thought the appearance of Annex 0ne implied Hitty and Mustachio stayed behind, but others predicted the spring drive and even Dr. Lee’s involvement!
No one who reads “Skin Horse” is dumb 🙂 – I know I’ve learned a lot!
Skin Horse readers are obviously “insightful”, “Wise”,
‘Trust worthy”, and “Noble”
Any who post to Skin Horse are so much more than that.
Also it’s not like time travel, visits to alternate realities and other shenanigans haven’t happened so rarely in this story as to make an explanation on those lines unthinkable
AND haven’t should be have – I’ve really got to stop changing what I want to write while writing (alternatively I should start reading the comment through before I hit the ‘Post Comment’-button
AND after writing that last line I go and post without noticing the missing end bracket!
Um….I’m still lost ^^; wtf?
Aaaand going back in the archives, apparently I missed the strip mentioning the 5 year thing. Oops.
Five years and the first kid is just on its way? Common! The next generation of Mad Scientist Geeks won’t spawn itself!
(Or WILL it?)
Depends. Will the next generation be directed by David Cronenberg? If so, not only will they spawn themselves, but will also spawn additional mysterious internal organs.
Might be worse. Could be directed by John Carpenter.
Carpenter? That old Thing?
Nice one!
Nick is the father, right? ‘Cause with these people, their skill-sets, and their behavior, who knows?
Considering that she’s actually carrying the child, I assume it’s not a clone. So I have no doubt that Nick is definitely the father.
I have often wondered what arrangements Dave and Helen made for giving birth to *their* child.
Heh. One of my favorite episodes of “Picket Fences” involved the town doctor suspecting an alien invasion. So he snuck into the barn and discovered cows giving birth to human babies! It was a start-up incubator service!
Anything seems plausible really.
Incubator, got Dave to do it, test tube, Gerbil surrogate, Helen did it herself to prove she was different from her mother, implanted the embryo in a victim until she burst free Alien-style…
One of the guest strips for the final installment of Narbonic shows Dave on a delivery table with his feet in the stirrups, holding a baby, while Helen stands next to them, grinning like an idiot. That, combined with the strip where Dave says “I see myself bearing her children”, and it’s not too hard to connect the dots.
There is more information in the Reactorside Reader, although I’m not sure anyone wants *much* more information.
Sorry Nera, but observant Ashkenazi Jews don’t name their children after living people. It’s considered a form of idolatry.
I understand that things like that can be arranged.
Not idolatry, it’s just… kind of a Not Done thing. It’s like naming your kid after a character in an ongoing TV show– you don’t know if they’ll end up in a place where you’d want to name your children after them.
I thought it was in horrible taste when the oldest daughter on the Cosby show named her twins Nelson and Winnie, but it just became appalling once the Mandelas divorced. Innocent days, when that was the worst thing you could say about the Cosby show.
Then there’s the parents who named a kid “Woodrow Wilson Smith” because “he kept us out of the war.” Felt like fools when he got us into the war.
He turned out ok, ….He changed his name later.
However, observant Ashkenazi Jews don’t marry non-Jews. Or did I miss the scene where Dr. Lee goes to the mikveh?
He still wears a yarmulke and keeps kosher. Even if he’s picking and choosing, it’s still more a cultural taboo than a religious one and those are even harder to break.
I think Dr. Lee was considering converting to Judaism, but I don’t know if she ever did so.
It has been 5 years. Maybe?
Seems like a question for the reader mail bag.
wait when did that happen?
Between 7 and 9 months ago.
Nick was flying away and was having his way
With a girl named Ginny Lee.
He returned Annex One and was well undone
When confronted by Nera V.
She said, “Hey, Zerhakker, you have really cracked her,
And now you’ve got her knocked up, true.
‘Cause that’s a good woman there,
And because we care,
You had better do right, you do.”
He was scared and feared by parenthood
And the people he was going to meet.
‘Cause she was stress, press,
Asking those questions
“Oh, wait a minute, sister, we’re married, I can kiss her,
Don’t make this harder to do.”
But to make it our day, let the rest of us say
That we want one thing from you.
“Oh, won’t you give us three kids, give us three kids, Chopper,
Give us three kids, maybe four.
Give us three kids, give us three kids, Chopper,
Before we never see you no more.”
For sure…
“Now don’t be a louse, but she’s as big as a house,
So it looks, for what it’s worth.
We know you won’t be free with paternity,
Staring straight down at multiple birth.”
Well, he turned and looked at Ginny Lee,
And she said, “You love it, Nick.”
While we speculated a mile a minute
In the comment section for a kick.
“Oh, won’t you give us three kids, give us three kids, Chopper,
Give us three kids, maybe four.
Give us three kids, give us three kids, Chopper,
Before we never see you no more.”
Out the back door…
—from “Gimme Three Steps,” written by Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant, sung by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Oh look, they’ve got their mother’s eyes – and their father’s rotors…
Do you think Dr Lee’s thinking about implanting the same wireless ability into their children?
Think, if they grow up with it, they’ll be able to use it like any other limb! *Now* is the best time to do it!
I can see it.
Nick worries about a reaction. It’s not some oddball abstraction. It could be disservice, but the thought makes him nervous, when right then Gin could have a contraction.