Comments on: Hiccup: August 8-13, 2005 https://narbonic.com/comic/august-8-13-2005/ By Shaenon K. Garrity Mon, 15 Jul 2024 05:04:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: linkhyrule5 https://narbonic.com/comic/august-8-13-2005/#comment-16930 Thu, 08 Dec 2022 20:14:22 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3653#comment-16930 > He’s four years old and has lived his entire life in a disused storm drain. What kind of novel comes out of that background?
Mario, obviously. Novelization or game, either one. :p

]]> By: Eddurd https://narbonic.com/comic/august-8-13-2005/#comment-16826 Sat, 24 Apr 2021 03:54:19 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3653#comment-16826 In reply to Jon Stout (brasswatchman).

Shaenon wrote an additional short story, “Lovers and Madmen” that made this canon.

]]> By: Eddued https://narbonic.com/comic/august-8-13-2005/#comment-16825 Sat, 24 Apr 2021 01:24:23 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3653#comment-16825 Shaenon wrote an additional short story “Love and Madness” which makes this canon.

]]> By: Mental Mouse https://narbonic.com/comic/august-8-13-2005/#comment-16551 Mon, 04 Sep 2017 22:19:32 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3653#comment-16551 In reply to Jon Stout (brasswatchman).

Well, the epilogue indicates he bore at least one.

]]> By: David Harmon (mental_mouse) https://narbonic.com/comic/august-8-13-2005/#comment-13344 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:10:31 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3653#comment-13344 Not to step on your mpreg fantasies, but we do have gender-swap tablets in play!

]]> By: Jon Stout (brasswatchman) https://narbonic.com/comic/august-8-13-2005/#comment-13343 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:10:30 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3653#comment-13343 Actually, do we know for a fact that that’s how Helen and Dave wound up having kids? (or maybe, if they had more than one, it was a kind of one-off kind of deal. You take this one, I’ll take the next, that kind of thing.)

]]> By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd) https://narbonic.com/comic/august-8-13-2005/#comment-13342 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:10:29 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3653#comment-13342 Question: Are they still going to Manganello’s Irish Pub?  I ask because the reversed lettering in the window seems to read “IRIH PUB”.  Then again, maybe Dave’s just drunk off his S.

(TUNE: “Nowhere Man”, The Beatles)

He would be a pregnant man!
Having babies best he can!
Helen has a clever plan
To have a kid!

He and Helen marryin’,
Then a child he’s carryin’ …
Had to have Caesarean,
He did!

Somehow Dave … got pregnant
When the sperm … and egg met,
Could be worse …
At le-e-east, you don’t have to nurse!
(la, la, la, la leche!)

He would be a pregnant man!
Having babies best he can!
Helen has a clever plan
That he’d assist …
He, not she, would pregnant be,
Hear Dave insist!
‘Cause, you see, he tries to be
A realist!

]]> By: Leon Arnott (l) https://narbonic.com/comic/august-8-13-2005/#comment-13341 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:10:28 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3653#comment-13341 Saturday:

Dave is being reasonable – he thinks his meager career will always take second place to Helen Narbon’s.

]]> By: Wayne (wayne) https://narbonic.com/comic/august-8-13-2005/#comment-13340 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:10:27 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3653#comment-13340 I came across a great quote once upon a time on Slashdot:

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.  One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted , socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.  The other, of course, involves orcs.”  –Paul Krugman

]]> By: Marni Rachmiel (marniferous) https://narbonic.com/comic/august-8-13-2005/#comment-13339 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:10:26 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3653#comment-13339 Filk bookmark: “So Happy” from Into the Woods. If Ed or Kay or anyone doesn’t beat me to it, i’ll be back for that.

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