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by Paul Taylor on January 10, 2021 at 8:30 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Bud, Scarlet
Location: Gryphon High

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  1. Brynn Morrigan
    January 10, 2021, 8:32 pm | # | Reply

    Welcome to the MIB, Scar.
    Remember that you wanted this.

    • jwhouk
      January 10, 2021, 9:07 pm | # | Reply

      Yep, you want it, you got it.

      Your new Toyota is waiting for you outside the school.

  2. robnot
    January 10, 2021, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

    yay you won…
    bet you didn’t know that you just became MIB..

  3. All-Purpose Guru
    January 10, 2021, 8:46 pm | # | Reply

    *wham* welcome to the party.

  4. Robert Nowall
    January 10, 2021, 9:52 pm | # | Reply

    But can she still get together with Timmy?

    • themadkansan
      January 11, 2021, 1:15 am | # | Reply

      As long as the pillow-talk isn’t of the classified variety.

    • kingklash
      January 11, 2021, 8:58 am | # | Reply

      *kaboom!*
      “We need a new Timmy!”

      • Robert Nowall
        January 11, 2021, 11:02 am | #

        There was that one in the alternate universe, the one that liked alternate Daylla…

  5. Tiger Tomcat
    January 10, 2021, 9:55 pm | # | Reply

    Scar looks like she got hit by either an anvil or took a bat upside the head the way Bud took control

    • Brynn Morrigan
      January 10, 2021, 10:42 pm | # | Reply

      And this is *why* the Ancient Lanthian Farmgirl is in charge of MIB…

  6. Avenger
    January 10, 2021, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

    Well, in the words of Kosh, “The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.”

    • Syncline
      January 10, 2021, 11:23 pm | # | Reply

      it is too late for the pebbles to vote… except with their feet.

      • illiad
        January 11, 2021, 4:05 am | #

        erm pebbles don’t have feet… obv. you do not know B5.. :/

        when you are *under* the avalanche, it is impossible to move..

      • Syncline
        January 11, 2021, 8:42 am | #

        A) Pebbles don’t _vote_ either, literalist. Listen to yourself…
        B) Obv. I know a little more than you do.
        C) Much older versions of this quote existed before long Kosh spoke it or more precisely, before David Gerrold had Kosh say it.
        Gifted as he is, David Gerrold didn’t appear in the Sci-Fi biz from nowhere; for good, historical reasons, Jewish wisdom is anti-authoritarian. This quote and the various versions of it, came straight out of Eastern Europe in the nineteen thirties, fleeing the brownshirt shenanigans we just got to see for ourselves this week. Growing up visiting the Deli across from my grandfather’s shop, I heard it more than once in different translations.
        Learn history, or watch it repeat.
        We seem to like to watch it repeat.

      • W.
        January 11, 2021, 10:23 am | #

        “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who [i]do[/i] study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.” From a cartoon I read one time. It sums it up nicely. I’ve also read “History may not repeat, but it does rhyme.”

      • Fairportfan
        January 11, 2021, 2:20 pm | #

        Heh. From a story blurb in Astounding Science Fiction, sometime in the Fifties:

        History doesn’t always repeat itself; sometimes it just screams “Why aren’t you listening to me?” and swings a club.

      • puzzlemonster
        April 23, 2021, 3:00 pm | #

        Regarding the learningof history: And those that write the history control what can be learned from it.

  7. ZybotAus
    January 10, 2021, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

    Congratrulations Scar! You’ve just entered the major league. Batter up!

  8. BarGamer
    January 10, 2021, 11:02 pm | # | Reply

    Can someone pull back the decoherence curtain and make that coherent for the rest of us who aren’t fluent in technobabble? I mean, I watched a LITTLE bit of Star Trek, so my probably-wrong translation is… “I need a seven dimensional peek-box and an Invisibility Cloak.”

    • DeltaFX
      January 11, 2021, 3:45 am | # | Reply

      Watchin’ stargate Sg1 helps a lot. A decoherence curtain probably means a way of watchin quantum entangled stuff with the naked eye.

    • illiad
      January 11, 2021, 4:19 am | # | Reply

      she has already described its capability..
      ‘allow for visualization of lifeforms across seven dimensions’

      you know that ‘cohrence’ means ‘solid’ so… its a bit like an infra red camera.. 😛

      • Fairportfan
        January 11, 2021, 2:25 pm | #

        Nitpick:

        Actually “coherent” means “solid” {sort of – actually, it means “hangs together”}.

        “Coherence” means “the property of being correlated or of hanging together”.

    • RBZ
      January 11, 2021, 10:21 am | # | Reply

      Basically, she wants to set up an interdimensional analogy to a diffraction grating experiment, in order to test her theories that what appear to be inert particles are in fact very active but only with other things that don’t interact with ‘normal’ matter.

      Or, for the more Felis sapiens, among you, she wants a magic tv that can get the otherworldly channels.

  9. Dana Tweedy
    January 11, 2021, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Ah, a #6, and a TN, clockwise. Gotcha. Amazon has them in stock with two day shipping.

  10. JSStryker
    January 11, 2021, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    That look on Scar’s face in the last panel just screams “Bloody hell, what have I done?”

    • themadkansan
      January 11, 2021, 1:13 am | # | Reply

      “You’ve just talked yourself into the Laundry. May whatever deity you believe in have mercy upon your soul.” >:)

    • illiad
      January 11, 2021, 4:23 am | # | Reply

      a bit like Zaphod, when he looked into the infinite perspective vortex… :O 😮 :O 🙂 :p

      • RBZ
        January 11, 2021, 10:23 am | #

        But when Zaphod looked into the Total Perspective Vortex, he was unperturbed, due to his already knowing he was the most important person in the Universe.

        Scarlet does not look unperturbed.

  11. Dave
    January 11, 2021, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Ha ha I love how “wall of technobabble” meets “wall of cryptobabble”

  12. BarerMender
    January 11, 2021, 1:30 am | # | Reply

    Damn. Bud doesn’t half-step around.

    • DR.REVENGE
      January 11, 2021, 8:09 am | # | Reply

      She is a dancer you know.

  13. Lee Jackson
    January 11, 2021, 2:36 am | # | Reply

    Your paper is pre-emptively classified, as is your report card. You will receive it in a plain brown envelope at a mail drop to be specified via encoded text later. Oh, and if some day you graduate, your ceremony will take place at a secure location known only to MIB high operatives.

  14. Great Scott
    January 11, 2021, 2:57 am | # | Reply

    show-off!

  15. Crotalus
    January 11, 2021, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    Well..shit…

  16. TazManiac
    January 11, 2021, 11:29 am | # | Reply

    Hur ya go-. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/the-curious-observers-guide-to-quantum-mechanics/

    A “no math” (but seven-part) guide to modern quantum mechanics

  17. txmystic
    January 11, 2021, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

    The “Dirichelet Membrane” intrigues me. A dirichlet distribution is a multivariate and vector-parameterizeable version of a beta probability distribution, which is itself parameterized for shape. The fact that she refers to *the* Dirichlet Membrane suggests that it has fixed parameters and at least seven dimensions…she is after a very specific kind of grid anchor trap for them X-based beings.

    So even if it sounds like a techno-babble word soup, at least some of the wording is consistent with the kind of experiment she wants to perform, mathematically speaking.

    Oh, and it looks like she blew right through intern status to full-blown MiB investigator. I just hope that she doesn’t inadvertently release the Kraken

    • Fairportfan
      January 11, 2021, 2:27 pm | # | Reply

      Nah – Stinky would check with Bud before he got frisky.

      • txmystic
        January 11, 2021, 3:41 pm | #

        hehehe that ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  18. Centaur71
    January 11, 2021, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

    What Scarlet is describing sounds like a ‘magical’ ghost trap; why do I get the feeling she’s going to be on the MIB investigation squad soon?

  19. forklifter16
    January 11, 2021, 5:41 pm | # | Reply

    Scarlet must be related to Egon Spengler.

  20. cyberspooked
    January 23, 2021, 3:08 am | # | Reply

    granted a bit late to the party but this scene comes to mind…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx-sdR6Yzk

  21. cyberspooked
    January 23, 2021, 3:09 am | # | Reply

    wrong clip… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5WfxwnLlLU

  22. puzzlemonster
    April 23, 2021, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

    And this is why she’s the tactical director.

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