Cubetown Gossip

Indeed it would!

Guilherme Monteiro

Sounds like Tamamtha is the one most likely to create the first pink LED.

Baltakatei

"Lukewarm Fusion" is sending me!

Amanda L

perhaps your subconscious is trying to tell you that you need asses.

Mad Marie

^ The plumbing for the substances formerly known as “food”. Lubrication of the other plumbing would certainly be an unexpected turn of events!

Mad Marie

Anyone else think Jeph should throw in a Girl Genius cameo or two at Cubetown?

Daryl Sawyer

First couple times I read this, I thought the janitor was a bit of a sleeze bag. On the third read through, I realized he said "Lovely Lass", not "Lovely @$$". I need glasses.

Without wanting to intrude too much, I simply must ask if you mean food plumbing or sexy plumbing. Due to the context of the discussion, I'm inclined to assume the former, but one never knows.

Guilherme Monteiro

For non-Americans, "Fairy liquid" is a close equivalent to Dawn :)

Stephen Wells

Aha, already the Cubetown-Northampton links are multiplying :D

enchantedsleeper

I feel like if she'd accepted some of those early social invites, she would have found that out from the beginning and a lot of this could have been avoided 😅

enchantedsleeper

Long ago I did firefighter training…they had a smoke machine that used mineral oil. I was advised that if I spent enough time in its presence, the aerosolized oil would do wonders for lubricating my own “personal plumbing”.

Mad Marie

Desiccated, no. Obviously this all varies, but basins can take almost a year to dry out naturally. The contents would take even longer, and would probably turn more like mud bricks than... powdered natural fertilizer. Often times time helps soften things, but sometimes you're 2 months in and things need to just move. Dawn dish soap is usually really good at helping things move along. The first time I tried it with low expectations, I was 3 steps towards putting the soap back when I heard things clear of their own accord.

@L Google "intermediate temperature fusion"

Opus the Poet

And this is what we like about the Questionable Content comments: you can count on a good solid discussion of drains maintenance every now and then. This is stuff that everyone should know.

Ursus Ridens

@Charles: Pouring-in a bit of dilute NaOCl every few months was SOP for floor drains at the commercial facility where I used to work…one could easily tell when they’d missed one.

Mad Marie

TOO SOON (it has been a century)

Stephen Wells

Water finds a way, no matter how clogged it is, water would still saturate the basin's contents. It could deflate significantly though.

[Context -Amateur Dramatics] One of the backstage areas that we used once a year (in a hired theatre) had a shower that no-one used. When we came in, the first thing that we did was put a bucket of water down the shower as the S-bend [S-curve?] would have dried out (since last year) and the smell from the sewer was terrible!

Charles Hirst

If the toilet has been left undisturbed for months and months, would the basin contents be fully dessicated by now? Asking for a friend.

Mad Marie

“She chose…poorly.”

Mad Marie

And yeah, I can imagine that it tends to wander, because everybody needs models to see how things may or may now work or fit together. If I had to guess, the chemistry and chem. eng. Was probably having you build models of chemical molecules, biology had you building cell structures to examine, aaaaaaaand God alone knows what the physics people needed. Lmao 🤣

Lex

That's REALLY cool! ^_^ Thank you for sharing! :D

Lex

I do computational modelling and tend to wander across fields as a result. At my current university I've worked in, in order: Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, now Chemistry again.

Stephen Wells

Gremlizabeth's place looks awfully clean for one that's been uninhabited and had a clogged toilet for months... ah, 2 strips ago she doesn't actually say how long ago that was. I just assumed that it was some time ago.

Mark

I know some basic science, but don't have the mental ability to BE a scientist. Lol but I would say that I'm a science-ophile, because I love to learn about it, even if I only partly understand it. Can I ask what your field is?

Lex

As a scientist I'm very impressed with Jeph's research; every Cubetown science reference is something that I can immediately see the ridiculous movie-screenplay bad science version of, and how to make it sound totally plausible :) it's a delight.

Stephen Wells

To be fair, Marie Curie had a very similar issue, unfortunately she wasn't an AI so it ended poorly.

Stephen Wells

"Lukewarm Fusion" cracked me up more than it should've. Lol

Lex

Perspective can be a life saver.

Ted Van Roekel

Oh, she has, but she hasn't flushed it.

Wayne Farmer

Hard same Liz.

Gary Walker

In which Gremlin Liz discovers that basically everyone here is disfunctional.

Chris Crowther

gremlin's looking awfully emmett today

SpookyPenguin

Liz hasn't pooped for 3 weeks

Charlie Rose

Shitty Dan's cousin joined Cubetown for a job in fluid dynamics.

Cass