This is Nate, we used to play DnD a few years back. We also played MC on redstone city. I want to reconnect. Could you send me your contact info to my email?
Eh, the Librarian at Unseen University in Discworld does pretty well in communicating with nothing more than “Ooook!” so we shouldn’t be surprised if Bubbles does OK with 5 times the vocabulary that he has! ^_^
Maybe that’s why the receptionist is looking at her PDA. Designing an app that can translate what Bubbles says into something everybody understands might be tricky, but they’ve got just the scientists to do it.
One need only learn five words… And then start interpreting them based on which words are said send the general situation. It has yet too not make sense.
Oh, come on. You can fit all KINDS of lethal toys into your average smartphone, since most of the space is taken up by the screen and buttons. Secondly, death threats while manipulating an electronic device is nothing new, as sad as that thought is.
I suppose it’s cheating to use Google for this? I do note that Brand’s first resort when faced with a problem was punching (or whatever it is you do with a vorpal blade).
Hmm, the editor ate my cookie. Here is another one. http://i.imgur.com/yBP9ol8.gif
(Also, as BrokenEye mentions, what you do with a vorpal blade is go sniker-snack.)
Bubbles started as a water cooler. As a result, she has a natural proficiency to tap on -ALL- the inside office info, jargon, rumors, and general what’s up talk. Basically the heartbeat of a corporation. She’s a natural at this. Expect no less.
You make an assumption. There is no proof that Bubbles started as a water cooler. Skin-horse was a depository were crazy mad scientists’ creations found gainful employment in public service. Who knows what Bubbles might have been before being a water cooler. Or who.
I’m somewhat surprised that so many people think that the reference is just to Jabberwocky. I mean, that’s pretty much popular knowledge.
I’m also kinda surprised that nobody else in here seems to be familiar with the referenced material, Jeff being one of the authors of the comic and all that.
Well, that’s what mail subscriptions are for. I get an e-mail every time you post something over there.
(I also use that for the comments here, but for some reason I have to subscribe separately for each day and I can’t subscribe without writing a comment myself, which is somewhat awkward.)
that is not nearly as hard to believe as it sounds except the mass of an object raises with potential energy. If you pack a nano gram capacitor with a mole of electrons over a one volt potential you could double its mass and store the same amount of energy in the electric field as mass in the capacitor.
What.
Service.
Joy!
Wait, Bubbles is in charge?
How the /lunch/ does everyone else around here understand her?
They must have a weirdness censor. A strong one at that.
Good Evening Werlitten,
This is Nate, we used to play DnD a few years back. We also played MC on redstone city. I want to reconnect. Could you send me your contact info to my email?
natethelion@hotmail.com
Eh, the Librarian at Unseen University in Discworld does pretty well in communicating with nothing more than “Ooook!” so we shouldn’t be surprised if Bubbles does OK with 5 times the vocabulary that he has! ^_^
And Groot manages with 3. which brings me to the conclusion that it needs to be an… (puts on sunglasses)
Odd number
Four, but only for the really important things.
Five: I, we, am, are, Groot.
Or perhaps just needs to be prime?
one isn’t prime
Four isn’t a prime. 1,2,3,5,7,11,13,17,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,etc are primes.
Maybe that’s why the receptionist is looking at her PDA. Designing an app that can translate what Bubbles says into something everybody understands might be tricky, but they’ve got just the scientists to do it.
One need only learn five words… And then start interpreting them based on which words are said send the general situation. It has yet too not make sense.
Okay, I did not see _that_ coming…
This is the best surprise plot twist EVAR.
Aw, yeah. The kid made good.
I’ve decided Bubbles is basically a robot Pokemon, because she only knows five words XD much love that she’s doing well.
Weird that she’s saying she’ll kill her while she’s messing around on her phone.
The phone may be how Bubbles communicates with her. She only makes audible sounds to be polite.
Oh, come on. You can fit all KINDS of lethal toys into your average smartphone, since most of the space is taken up by the screen and buttons. Secondly, death threats while manipulating an electronic device is nothing new, as sad as that thought is.
Yeah, I hear you can get a vorpal blade app on an iPhone. It kind of burns down the battery pretty quick, though.
(First person to get the reference gets a virtual cookie.)
What, the Jabberwocky reference?
No, too obvious…
DNT: 1
Hrm. Not sure what vorpal swords have to do with burning down batteries. Can we transplant a joke of Vecna?
Eye’ll try to give you a hand with that. It’s good to get a head of the inevitable puns something like that generates.
I suppose it’s cheating to use Google for this? I do note that Brand’s first resort when faced with a problem was punching (or whatever it is you do with a vorpal blade).
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
I suppose it is, but here, have a cookie anyway.
Hmm, the editor ate my cookie. Here is another one. http://i.imgur.com/yBP9ol8.gif
(Also, as BrokenEye mentions, what you do with a vorpal blade is go sniker-snack.)
Beat me to it. I should add that I did remember Swing Shift itself on my own, but I forgot who Brand was and had to search that bit.
I’d rather have the SHIP Vorpal Blade – with the requisite marines equipped w/ Wyvern mark 6.
ESPECIALLY if we are allowed to park at Away Station Anime. With a full host of Bands and Orchestras. Just In Case.
Perhaps she’s checking out the extirpation APP?
And to think we knew her when she was “just” a water cooler!
Bubbles started as a water cooler. As a result, she has a natural proficiency to tap on -ALL- the inside office info, jargon, rumors, and general what’s up talk. Basically the heartbeat of a corporation. She’s a natural at this. Expect no less.
You make an assumption. There is no proof that Bubbles started as a water cooler. Skin-horse was a depository were crazy mad scientists’ creations found gainful employment in public service. Who knows what Bubbles might have been before being a water cooler. Or who.
Yay for Bubbles rising to the top of… where the heck are they?
I was hoping for Skynet, but that is now unlikely.
This just raises so many questions…
(TUNE: “Whistle While You Work”, Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline)
Bubbles is the boss,
And for words I’m at a loss!
Now she can show
Her skills, although
Her aide is rather cross!
Her office suite is sweet,
Where Virginia she will meet!
To show her glee
At seeing Lee,
Her catchphrase she’ll repeat!
Her flunky says she will
Be happy now to kill!
It’s easy, ’cause she’s got an app
To do that while she takes a nap!
So, Bubbles is the chair-
Person of her bureau there!
To serve is joy,
She’s no one’s toy!
So watch your derriere!
Bravo, Eddurd! I always enjoy your filks, but sometimes I just have to comment when they really make me smile.
I am … Groot!
Whoah…looks like Bubbles *really* lucked out, didn’t she?
Clearly this is a service-oriented agency.
*golf clap*
And for Dr. Lee’s sake, we can only hope the word isn’t “service.”
I’m guessing somone really liked her attitude, and then the Peter Principle kicked in… Or not. Maybe she’s still rising…
So the previously mentioned cookie would be a snicker-snackerdoodle?
I’m somewhat surprised that so many people think that the reference is just to Jabberwocky. I mean, that’s pretty much popular knowledge.
I’m also kinda surprised that nobody else in here seems to be familiar with the referenced material, Jeff being one of the authors of the comic and all that.
I don’t update the blog often enough to make it worth people’s attention, I think? 😀
OK, pardon my cluelessness here, but … do you mean Nick’s blog, or is there another one I don’t know about?
In the links to the right of the comments, under More by Jeff, The Scrivnarium.
Ah! Thanks, Rex.
Well, that’s what mail subscriptions are for. I get an e-mail every time you post something over there.
(I also use that for the comments here, but for some reason I have to subscribe separately for each day and I can’t subscribe without writing a comment myself, which is somewhat awkward.)
Trust me—whatever space inside a smartphone that isn’t occupied by the screen or the circuit board is occupied by the battery.
If only battery technology could adhere to Moore’s Law; if they had, by now a single AA battery would store more energy than is contained in its mass!
that is not nearly as hard to believe as it sounds except the mass of an object raises with potential energy. If you pack a nano gram capacitor with a mole of electrons over a one volt potential you could double its mass and store the same amount of energy in the electric field as mass in the capacitor.
Whoa. My unexpectedness can’t find an adjective.
Aaah, the one shadow agent we can absolutely trust.