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2022-06-09

by shaenon on June 9, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. Frank Hightower
    June 9, 2022, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    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

    • dvandom
      June 9, 2022, 12:29 am | # | Reply

      Ira distributed the COVID cure along with the reality blindness agent.

      • VickiC
        June 9, 2022, 3:29 am | # | Reply

        This is an alternate universe where they never had COVID … perhaps Pavane persuaded the original bat to move to Lovetron.

        • PuzzleMonster
          June 10, 2022, 5:53 am | # | Reply

          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.]

  2. David B Huber
    June 9, 2022, 5:11 am | # | Reply

    OK. We have to start a baby name contest! 🙂

    I suggest “Michelle” and “Mitchell”.

    • Dewy
      June 9, 2022, 10:52 am | # | Reply

      As long as “Melon Farmer” is their middle name, I’d be happy with whatever.

    • SVGeezer
      June 9, 2022, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

      THE baby? You assumed there’s only one??

      • D. Walker
        June 9, 2022, 10:40 pm | # | Reply

        I mean, given that multiple births make up only 3% of all births in America, it’s a pretty safe assumption.

  3. Joanna Cole
    June 9, 2022, 5:58 am | # | Reply

    Okay, sorry, but why is my reaction the same as Nera’s? I feel personally attacked

    • Shadowmehr
      June 9, 2022, 1:01 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  4. Robert Nowall
    June 9, 2022, 6:22 am | # | Reply

    Funny name for a future Jewish husband.

  5. DWVR
    June 9, 2022, 6:33 am | # | Reply

    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.)

    • DWVR
      June 9, 2022, 6:38 am | # | Reply

      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.

      • David B Huber
        June 9, 2022, 7:36 am | # | Reply

        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!

        • Duane B.
          June 9, 2022, 2:41 pm | # | Reply

          Skin Horse readers are obviously “insightful”, “Wise”,
          ‘Trust worthy”, and “Noble”

          Any who post to Skin Horse are so much more than that.

      • thorfinntk
        June 9, 2022, 2:56 pm | # | Reply

        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

        • thorfinntk
          June 9, 2022, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

          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

          • thorfinntk
            June 9, 2022, 3:00 pm | #

            AND after writing that last line I go and post without noticing the missing end bracket!

      • Marisa Mockery
        June 9, 2022, 11:54 pm | # | Reply

        Um….I’m still lost ^^; wtf?

        • Marisa Mockery
          June 9, 2022, 11:58 pm | # | Reply

          Aaaand going back in the archives, apparently I missed the strip mentioning the 5 year thing. Oops.

  6. SVGeezer
    June 9, 2022, 8:57 am | # | Reply

    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?)

    • bergerjacques
      June 9, 2022, 9:59 am | # | Reply

      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.

      • Xerxes Aragon
        June 9, 2022, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

        Might be worse. Could be directed by John Carpenter.

        • SVGeezer
          June 9, 2022, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

          Carpenter? That old Thing?

          • awgiedawgie
            June 9, 2022, 1:47 pm | #

            Nice one!

    • Robert Nowall
      June 9, 2022, 10:31 am | # | Reply

      Nick is the father, right? ‘Cause with these people, their skill-sets, and their behavior, who knows?

      • awgiedawgie
        June 9, 2022, 1:49 pm | # | Reply

        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.

        • Robert Nowall
          June 9, 2022, 2:36 pm | # | Reply

          I have often wondered what arrangements Dave and Helen made for giving birth to *their* child.

          • David B Huber
            June 9, 2022, 3:14 pm | #

            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!

          • Owls
            June 9, 2022, 5:54 pm | #

            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…

          • awgiedawgie
            June 9, 2022, 6:23 pm | #

            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.

          • M
            June 9, 2022, 7:12 pm | #

            There is more information in the Reactorside Reader, although I’m not sure anyone wants *much* more information.

  7. jdreyfuss
    June 9, 2022, 9:10 am | # | Reply

    Sorry Nera, but observant Ashkenazi Jews don’t name their children after living people. It’s considered a form of idolatry.

    • Robert Nowall
      June 9, 2022, 10:30 am | # | Reply

      I understand that things like that can be arranged.

    • Sasha
      June 9, 2022, 11:19 am | # | Reply

      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.

      • Manifesta
        June 9, 2022, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

        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.

        • Robert Nowall
          June 9, 2022, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

          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.

          • Duane B.
            June 9, 2022, 2:49 pm | #

            He turned out ok, ….He changed his name later.

    • Zaphod Beeblebrox
      June 9, 2022, 11:23 am | # | Reply

      However, observant Ashkenazi Jews don’t marry non-Jews. Or did I miss the scene where Dr. Lee goes to the mikveh?

      • jdreyfuss
        June 9, 2022, 4:18 pm | # | Reply

        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.

      • Candace
        June 10, 2022, 1:23 am | # | Reply

        I think Dr. Lee was considering converting to Judaism, but I don’t know if she ever did so.

      • gyrre
        June 12, 2022, 6:54 am | # | Reply

        It has been 5 years. Maybe?
        Seems like a question for the reader mail bag.

  8. engima42
    June 9, 2022, 10:26 am | # | Reply

    wait when did that happen?

    • jdreyfuss
      June 9, 2022, 4:18 pm | # | Reply

      Between 7 and 9 months ago.

  9. Robert Nowall
    June 9, 2022, 11:22 am | # | Reply

    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.

  10. Blofeld's Cat
    June 9, 2022, 1:40 pm | # | Reply

    Oh look, they’ve got their mother’s eyes – and their father’s rotors…

    • Owls
      June 9, 2022, 5:56 pm | # | Reply

      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!

      • Candace
        June 10, 2022, 1:25 am | # | Reply

        I can see it.

  11. Robert Nowall
    June 9, 2022, 3:52 pm | # | Reply

    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.

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