Comments on: Professor Madblood and the Lovelace Affair: November 15-20, 2004

By: 25

25 — Wed, 11 May 2022 18:32:33 +0000

In reply to Norman Thallheimer (normanrt). @normanrt: You can form bubbles under pressure in a PWR. But you do NOT want to do so...

By: Norman Thallheimer (normanrt)

Norman Thallheimer (normanrt) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:41:40 +0000

Unfortunately, I think Helen runs a Malevolent Dictatorship, not a Democracy.

At least, she tries for Malevolent.

She could appoint Dave as Lap President, I suppose, but that would mean moving their relationship forward much faster. ^_^

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:41:39 +0000

Er, LAB President! LAB President!

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:41:38 +0000

So does that mean Dave could be elected Lap President?

By: Joe Glow (joe_glow)

Joe Glow (joe_glow) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:41:37 +0000

I never realized that Dave was continuing to replace cars and have them destroyed off-panel. Until now I thought all the jokes were about the last car we actually saw.

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:41:36 +0000

What would Artie have to pack? No clothes, so just his laptop. Oh, and his toiletries: shampoo, conditioner, brush, tail brush, ear curler, whisker polish ...

Maybe some alfalfa jerky, if he needs a midnight snack.

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:41:35 +0000

Friday:

Extinguished cars: 5. It's kind of sad that they let Mell drive under the influence of adrenaline and berserker rage. Which is to say, at all. But at least science benefited from this tragedy. We now know it's impossible, no matter how thoroughly you try, to run over a seagull in mid-flight.

By: John Lindsay (l_aine)

John Lindsay (l_aine) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:41:34 +0000

This reactor is probably a bio-reactor vessel used for culturing carniverous algae and plague germs, not the nuclear type. Helen is a Mad Biologist, not a Mad Physicist. Hope she scrubbed all the algae out before adding the bubble bath.

By: Andrew Cole (andy4hire)

Andrew Cole (andy4hire) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:41:33 +0000

OK, I keep seeing it misspelled by various people in the comments section, so now I'm finally going to say it: "Von Boom", with an "o". I can understand confusing the handwritten "o" for a handwritten "a" in the strip itself, and "van" serves more or less the same function in Dutch as "von" does in German, but Sarge even typed it with an "o" in her comment on the October 30, 2004 strip. Ergo, "Von Boom". (Sorry, sometimes things like that get to me a little more than they probably would if I were a normal human being.)

Also, I agree that Artie is the most likely off-panel character with whom Helen is talking in the fourth panel, since he's the only sentient person in the lab who can't toss in the duckie himself.

By: Norman Thallheimer (normanrt)

Norman Thallheimer (normanrt) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:41:32 +0000

(after further wiki research)

Perhaps it's actually a pool-type reactor? That would make more sense for bathing, but not if they used it for power...