{"id":5858,"date":"2011-03-26T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=5858"},"modified":"2012-01-18T18:07:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T23:07:20","slug":"5858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/5858\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Genius and the Squid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor Nightfall wrote this in the Girl Genius mailing list, and I thought people might get a chuckle out of this&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlgeniusonline.com\/comic.php\">This was in response to Friday&#8217;s Web Comic&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/girlgenius-squid.png\" alt=\"squid clank\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&gt; &gt;&gt; Does anybody else find it really funny that the Heterodynes would BUY a<br \/>\n&gt; &gt;&gt; mechanical squid? Had to have been an impulse buy.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; &gt;&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; *A* mechanical squid? From the dialogue at the start of Friday&#8217;s comic, it<br \/>\n&gt; &gt; would appear that in fact there are several.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Actually, I just realised something about them. And this is just a little scene and conversation I could see; this is NOT meant to be any kind of Fanfic!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dammit. Conduit 12 is blocked *again*. I&#8217;m going to have to get out the pressure suit for that. AGAIN. And it&#8217;s almost certainly going to be biomass from one of Maleficienza Heterodyne&#8217;s Body Hunts. *AGAIN!* And I will be doing this again in less than three weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*grumblegrumblemoangrumble*<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have you tried introducing some of Pisetscia&#8217;s Green Ripperfish into the tanks?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;you ARE familiar with their lifecycle, aren&#8217;t you? Yes, they&#8217;d dispose of any remaining flesh and scrimshander any bones into flutes and clarinets, but if one of those spores got into the drinking water? No. I like my bladder unruptured and my spleen intact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good point. Hmmm. Hey, you ever heard of this guy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Captain Qualifurm? Good quality clanks, incredibly limited functionality though. What&#8217;s he selling now? Can&#8217;t be any worse than that automated Buried Bone detector for dogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was a work of sideways genius, you must admit. A device that would ONLY detect bones that that specific dog had chewed on? The principles alone took me a month to figure out- so simple, so elegant, but such a ludicrous application.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was. Anyway, what have you found?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Squid Clanks. Configurable to your needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OK, That sounds like it might have a sensible application here! Tentacles with hooks and drills and corkscrews&#8230; general maintenance&#8230; no more calibrating the pressure suit&#8230; no more panicked fights with mutant mermen in the dark&#8230; how long will it take to get them here?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlgeniusonline.com\/comic.php\">Girl Genius is fantastic, if you have not taking a look, then please do so&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0I think you&#8217;ll enjoy it&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor Nightfall wrote this in the Girl Genius mailing list, and I thought people might get a chuckle out of this&#8230;. This was in response to Friday&#8217;s Web Comic&#8230; &gt; &gt;&gt; Does anybody else find it really funny that the Heterodynes would BUY a &gt; &gt;&gt; mechanical squid? Had to have been an impulse buy. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/5858\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[916,239],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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