In the old Skylab space station they needed a way to separate liquid waste from solid waste in zero g for recycling. The method they came up with was to vacuum it through a chamber with a spinning propeler. Solid waste would hit the propeler and be flung out to a collection chamber, the liquid waste would pass through untouched to the recycler.
There was a blueprint of the system circulating with a note written on it that said ‘so the shit is SUPPOSED to hit the fan.’
think she’s learning that its best to be honest up front with the people who can best help you… if this were a sitcom, we’d have a half an hour of wacky hijinks when the lie unravels and she tries everything to keep it from getting out and in the end it all comes crashing down and as they survey the smoking ruins of the univers, Bud says, See, if you had just told me the truth in the first place we could have prevented this!
Ed, what you’ve said here is an accurate assessment, and proof of just why kids ought to watch at least some situation comedies when they’re growing up, even if they loathe the genre. It’s too important a life lesson to omit. Lies are a lot of work to keep up (it’s not the investment, it’s the maintenance), and they usually fall apart in the end, and hit you in the head.
When things like this happen, I just remember the famous words of Benjamin Franklin: “When in doubt, tell the truth. It will amaze your friends and confound your enemies.” And regarding keeping things secret: “Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
That’s a heck of a thing for someone who – no matter what powers or strengths she may have, is still, in the last analysis, only a teenage girl – to realise is her responsibility.
If she is the whole and not a part or clipping, then how was she able to keep worlds apart when she was first found?
Something tells me she was a part but is now the whole…
yeah it sounds kind of like a hive mind type thing. each “body” does have a personality but they are all connected to the whole when they need to tap into full power.
And 3..2…1… Bud’s mind blows up. (calls repair dept of MIB.) ‘ring ring!” voice: “MIB covert clean up and repair dept. ! ” Yes this is Ms. Alger of the paranormal high school. I am using Bud’s phone she’s one of the ancient construct beings who are members of your organization. ” Well she just learned some information that has totally melted her central CPU or what ever she has for a brain. and is kind of standing here with smoke pouring out her ears..” you will send a team? when? on there way now? thank you.”
Just one? I imagine there are a dozen at least – you’ve opened up a fertile area for research!
Let’s see… for starters, we can say that Castela is Schrödinger’s catastrophy (Dave places a box containing something into the Pun Jar).
The more she learns about who she is, the less she knows about what she’s about to do.
And, of course, it’s all quite appropriate: she’s a Blackthorn, her body is composed of vines and tendrils, and so naturally she’s entangled with everything!
“It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.”
The fertileizer has impacted the oscillator and is dispersing rapidly . . .
In the old Skylab space station they needed a way to separate liquid waste from solid waste in zero g for recycling. The method they came up with was to vacuum it through a chamber with a spinning propeler. Solid waste would hit the propeler and be flung out to a collection chamber, the liquid waste would pass through untouched to the recycler.
There was a blueprint of the system circulating with a note written on it that said ‘so the shit is SUPPOSED to hit the fan.’
I’m confused. So, now the shit hitting the fan is a good thing?
Progenitor, facilitate the movement of litigators, projectile dispensers, and tokens of credit.
Fertilizer is good for most plants.
She’s an honest little stinkweed, our Pickle!
think she’s learning that its best to be honest up front with the people who can best help you… if this were a sitcom, we’d have a half an hour of wacky hijinks when the lie unravels and she tries everything to keep it from getting out and in the end it all comes crashing down and as they survey the smoking ruins of the univers, Bud says, See, if you had just told me the truth in the first place we could have prevented this!
Ed, what you’ve said here is an accurate assessment, and proof of just why kids ought to watch at least some situation comedies when they’re growing up, even if they loathe the genre. It’s too important a life lesson to omit. Lies are a lot of work to keep up (it’s not the investment, it’s the maintenance), and they usually fall apart in the end, and hit you in the head.
I used to tell people that lying was too much work . . . trying to keep the lies straight.
When you bend the truth it’s hard to keep it straight!!!
Telling the truth has the great advantage of never having to remember what you said.
Sooooo…Is that to say that when there’s a hole in the fabric of reality there needs to be a Pickle to plug it up?
Telling a lie is like shitting out a snake: once it gets out far enough, it’ll turn around and bite you on the arse
When things like this happen, I just remember the famous words of Benjamin Franklin: “When in doubt, tell the truth. It will amaze your friends and confound your enemies.” And regarding keeping things secret: “Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
THOOOOOM!
That’s a heck of a thing for someone who – no matter what powers or strengths she may have, is still, in the last analysis, only a teenage girl – to realise is her responsibility.
Is the whole more or less than the sum of the parts?
Bud.exe has crashed it looks like in that last panel
but she should have ‘TILT’ signs or a massive blue screen..
American Hogwarts rocks!
Bud has just gotten her lifetime-biggest dose of “Be careful what questions you ask, as you may not like the answers.”
And, considering her age, that’s saying something.
That look on Bud’s face screams her thinking “Oh ffs, we are so screwed…”
If she is the whole and not a part or clipping, then how was she able to keep worlds apart when she was first found?
Something tells me she was a part but is now the whole…
I think it’s more like she’s reintegrated into the whole…
yeah it sounds kind of like a hive mind type thing. each “body” does have a personality but they are all connected to the whole when they need to tap into full power.
Bud shits a brick. Or as my dad once said, Bud “shit[s] a squealing worm forty feet long.”
Quick! Call a stonemason, we’re going to have enough bricks shit to build a house!
Cue Nine Inch Nails’ “The Great Destroyer” playing in the background…
“I’m fixing a hole where the chaos gets in,
and stops my mind from wandering . . where it will go”
And 3..2…1… Bud’s mind blows up. (calls repair dept of MIB.) ‘ring ring!” voice: “MIB covert clean up and repair dept. ! ” Yes this is Ms. Alger of the paranormal high school. I am using Bud’s phone she’s one of the ancient construct beings who are members of your organization. ” Well she just learned some information that has totally melted her central CPU or what ever she has for a brain. and is kind of standing here with smoke pouring out her ears..” you will send a team? when? on there way now? thank you.”
Cas ‘Also… it was me that ate all the ice cream last Sunday”
at least it wasn’t the EPA this time….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Uy9wsfkok
Second time in as many days that Bud needs a reboot…
So the dimensional security and dimensional liability is the same person. There is a quantum physics joke in there somewhere.
Just one? I imagine there are a dozen at least – you’ve opened up a fertile area for research!
Let’s see… for starters, we can say that Castela is Schrödinger’s catastrophy (Dave places a box containing something into the Pun Jar).
The more she learns about who she is, the less she knows about what she’s about to do.
And, of course, it’s all quite appropriate: she’s a Blackthorn, her body is composed of vines and tendrils, and so naturally she’s entangled with everything!
CASStastrophy. FTFY
“Wha- Buh- You all don’t have clearance to know that! *I* don’t have clearance to know that!”
“It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.”
from Time Enough For Love, Robert Heinlein
^^This!^^
“The est way to lie is to tell the truth – badly.” MIB, New Orleans office, describing the Truth-Teller
Ah, the “button eyes” of pure shock. Her eyeballs done blunked out…
Stinkweed is Yukari Yakumo, just lots younger.
And simultaneously older.
Awwww…Pickle broke Bud.
Ok, NOW Ms. Budar.exe has stopped working.