At The Ready 2016-04-06

Cheesy1 · Post by **Cheesy1** » Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:51 pm

http://wapsisquare.com/comic/at-the-ready/

Wow, how fortunate! Quick, prep herself for surgery!

AmriloJim · Post by **AmriloJim** » Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:53 pm

And Connie gets into the act...

Opus the Poet · Post by **Opus the Poet** » Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:53 pm

Tha Winnah! in nearly a three way dead heat.

OK the library is playing a trick on Phix, but what's the deal with Connie? Doesn't she normally have eyes?

Post by **Dave** » Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:59 pm

Opus the Poet wrote:OK the library is playing a trick on Phix, but what's the deal with Connie? Doesn't she normally have eyes?

Connie goes from having normal-appearing eyes, to bare eyeballs rattling around loose in the socket, to just empty eyesockets... often changing from one moment to the next. Blood and other assorted fluids oozing out, optional. Usually it seems to have to do with her mood... calmer moods go with more human-looking eyes... but I suspect she can choose her appearance pretty much as she wishes.

"Elementally, my dear Watson!"

Cheesy1 wrote:Wow, how fortunate! Quick, prep herself for surgery!

It's when she decides to sue herself for malpractice that things get really interesting.

AmriloJim · Post by **AmriloJim** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 12:01 am

Phix must be asking how to end the theatre of pain inflicted by this motley crew.

Yeah, I know... here's your LP from '85.

jeffepp · Post by **jeffepp** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 12:03 am

Phix goes looking for that corner she keeps hearing about. Lore has it, that they have tea and cookies. She needs tea and cookies. And blankets.

DilyV · Post by **DilyV** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 12:24 am

jeffepp wrote:Phix goes looking for that corner she keeps hearing about. Lore has it, that they have tea and cookies. She needs tea and cookies. And blankets.

And an ice pack...

I swear though... I have dreams like this alla time... they make no sense whatsoever and are maddening because logic is completely flipped... nothing happens as it should... indeed, everything happens the exact opposite and no one seems to listen to you or to notice and admit something is wrong.

Post by **Dave** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 12:43 am

DilyV wrote:I swear though... I have dreams like this alla time... they make no sense whatsoever and are maddening because logic is completely flipped... nothing happens as it should... indeed, everything happens the exact opposite and no one seems to listen to you or to notice and admit something is wrong.

I think they call that "election season".

Sgt. Howard · Post by **Sgt. Howard** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 12:53 am

What the bloody hell is Nudge doing with an eighteen ninty- something- breech-loading Krupp Coastal gun in this fracas?!? Hell, call in the A-10 Warthogs and be done with it!... Next we'll see a Mk II torpedo blowing through the stacks after Pickle raises the periscope and gets a bearing...

"Phix Dear, did you eat Welsh Rarebit before you went to bed? Last time you did that, we had to fetch you out of the Smithsonian where you had crawled into the cockpit of the 'Enola Gay'... you were muttering something about "make 'em glow!" and giggling the whole time..."

illiad · Post by **illiad** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 12:55 am

hey, that cannon got a lot bigger ... is phix having a nightmare???

=-O beaten by Sargent!!

AmriloJim · Post by **AmriloJim** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 1:17 am

Nikki's show is on iHeart radio, called "Sixx Sense." Affiliate list.

AnotherFairportfan · Post by **AnotherFairportfan** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 1:18 am

I read Master and Commander because a lot of people i usually trusted (including some New York SF editors) were saying how great the Aubrey/Maturin books were. (And because i like sea novels).

I should have remembered that these were pretty much the same group who were telling me how great the Harry Potter books were.

And they turned out to be second-rate pseudo-Diana Wynne Jones...

Gyrrakavian · Post by **Gyrrakavian** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:11 am

AmriloJim wrote:Phix must be asking how to end the theatre of pain inflicted by this motley crew.

Yeah, I know... here's your LP from '85.

That reminds me, Nikki Sixx has a radio show in the evenings. 107.3 out of Wichita, KS is the only station I can think of off the top of my head that plays it.

Gyrrakavian · Post by **Gyrrakavian** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:15 am

AnotherFairportfan wrote:I read Master and Commander because a lot of people i usually trusted (including some New York SF editors) were saying how great the Aubrey/Maturin books were. (And because i like sea novels).

I should have remembered that these were pretty much the same group who were telling me how great the Harry Potter books were.

And they turned out to be second-rate pseudo-Diana Wynne Jones...

I specifically avoided the HP books when they came simply because of how popular they were.
I read the Oz books instead. Well, the 5 I could find.

eee · Post by **eee** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 6:42 am

GAH, I didn't recognize Connie wearing normal (relatively) clothes and with her hair styled. I knew I knew her, but I had to look at the page tags to figure out who. This whole situation is beyond weird. And it's probably going to get worse...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:I read Master and Commander because a lot of people i usually trusted (including some New York SF editors) were saying how great the Aubrey/Maturin books were. (And because i like sea novels).

I should have remembered that these were pretty much the same group who were telling me how great the Harry Potter books were.

And they turned out to be second-rate pseudo-Diana Wynne Jones...

One word: Hornblower.

The classics remain the best. That's why they're classics.

Hansontoons · Post by **Hansontoons** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 7:05 am

Sgt. Howard wrote:What the bloody hell is Nudge doing with an eighteen ninty- something- breech-loading Krupp Coastal gun in this fracas?!? Hell, call in the A-10 Warthogs and be done with it!... Next we'll see a Mk II torpedo blowing through the stacks after Pickle raises the periscope and gets a bearing...

"Phix Dear, did you eat Welsh Rarebit before you went to bed? Last time you did that, we had to fetch you out of the Smithsonian where you had crawled into the cockpit of the 'Enola Gay'... you were muttering something about "make 'em glow!" and giggling the whole time..."

Pablo's just having fun, perhaps he had a movie binge over the weekend that included Master & Commander and Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows... wonder what we will see tomorrow? Since he seems to be moving up in time, perhaps deuling tanks, a Sherman and Tiger (pick your favorite movie combo)? Or stick with the nautical theme and sink the Bismark- you'll get your torpedoes in the stacks with that one!

Just Old Al · Post by **Just Old Al** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 7:09 am

Sgt. Howard wrote: "Phix Dear, did you eat Welsh Rarebit before you went to bed? Last time you did that, we had to fetch you out of the Smithsonian where you had crawled into the cockpit of the 'Enola Gay'... you were muttering something about "make 'em glow!" and giggling the whole time..."

She really needs to lay off that stuff - it gives her dreams like that by the BocksCar...

Hey, how often do you get to make a pun using the names of nuclear weapons delivery systems?

jwhouk · Post by **jwhouk** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 7:38 am

One time too many.

This is putting Red Wedding to shame.

Aleister Crow · Post by **Aleister Crow** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 8:08 am

Phix is just as confused as I am.

FreeFlier · Post by **FreeFlier** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 9:16 am

Phix must have fallen asleep reading Patrick O'Brien . . .

--FreeFlier

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