Situation Purple

It could be worse, we could have ended up keeping the spelling and regularising the pronunciation. Although actually, "code fucksya" sounds pretty dramatic.

Someonelse

I'll be honest; After reading the comic for years I finally just started donating to point out the morally (if not technically, language being somewhat fluid) wrong spelling of fuchsia. Also, fuchsia is an experimental new google OS.

Philip Lautin Jackson

okay Bubbles, what about the 'atypical' situations?

jimbo

I'd like to think that, in a real red alert type situation, Bubbles would just pick up the phone and make old-fashioned modem noises into it.

Thomas A. Dennis

As a former machine shop intern, the amount of FNG abuse here is extremely relatable and giggle-inducing for me. Well played, Mr. Jacques.

Now they're just rubbing it in...

Ben C

Old American traditions include sending the newbies to search for a "left-handed monkey wrench" and "elbow grease" in apprenticeships, and "tent stretcher" (in the Boy Scouts.)

Clifton Royston

it's a very common alternative spelling at this point. https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ (about 1/3rd of the way down.)

Diana

If the codename is named after the color, it should be "Fuchsia" :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(color)

Danilo B.

you beat me to it!!

Phaye

"resentful sweeping" = me, an adult, cleaning my floors at home. I hate it.

Next they'll send Sam out for some striped paint and a left-handed screwdriver.

Dean Reilly

Typically.

Frederick Ohlmann

i cant wait for them to send her to get air-hooks or watever is the equivalent in america to mess with the new kid XD

Grumpulum

I love the way Faye and Bubbles are so in tune with each other. backing up each others' jokes, not spoiling each others' jokes, and so forth.

Ack

Yeah, Sam's dignity.

Ack

That bracket was holding up something important, wasn't it?

Dylan T

I dunno, that a shelf holding heavy or expensive tools or parts is down a bracket might indeed be important.

Matthew Foweraker

Dog was actually a hellhound accompanying the antichrist.

Thisguy

And I could totally go with that. ;)

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

ah, tactical codename humour. Very droll.

Bagge

C'mon, Sam certainly can recognize a common shelf bracket. SHE's fuckin' with them.

OldGoat

There exist extra shelf brackets which are not currently in use, as well as redundant shelf brackets. Just because one bracket was found free range does not mean a shelf is necessarily about to collapse. Shelf brackets are cheap enough that even companies struggling as much as Union Robotics will usually have times when they have extra shelf brackets. Especially when you consider that Bubbles can probably cut, shape, and drill them as needed. (That said, mass produced shelf brackets will probably be cheaper than Bubbles' time to make them, so she'd probably only be making shelf brackets if they had a shelf bracket emergency. Which this isn't.)

Some Ed

An easy way to remember it is that the flower is named in honor of Leonhart Fuchs (a botanist who wrote a notable early catalogue of plants). And the color is very indirectly named for him; it's named for the dye fuchsine, which was named that because the plant was becoming popular and the makers wanted to capitalize on that (and, oddly, not because of the color of the fuchsia flowers). Anyway, I had to look most of that up, but at least remembering that some guy named Fuchs was involved is enough to get the spelling right.

Brooks Moses

So what's on the shelf that bracket was holding up and is it going to explode when it falls to the floor?

Purple alert. Not as bad as a red alert but a bit worse than a blue alert, but you don’t want to say mauve alert.

Summer Sudbrink

Bubs in panel 5 is new best Bubs. Fite me.

Gary Walker

I sense an epic fight on the way

Tachpmg

I still get a chuckle when we get an MT move (taking an empty trailer from point a to point b), and I tell my current student we're going to pickup Sailboat Fuel. Ah, the looks on thier faces even for the ones who get the joke quickly. :D

Joshua Brumley

Note that we've gone from May's Teen Broom to Sullen Teen with Broom.

Emma Humphries

*Fuchsia Not Fuschia

Studio Errilhl

Don't forget piston return springs! Very important.

Michael Boettger

There is a difference. A labradoodle (lab poodle crossbreed) is not likely to be aggressive. A chihuahua now? Ready the anti chihuahua BASSELOPE missile!

Joseph Bonnar

Wouldn’t it be adoraBubbles?

Daniel Burnett

Isn’t she like 15-16 now?

Daniel Burnett

It does depend on *which* dog is loose in the mess hall.

Kevin Hicks

I feel like they're just standing around waiting for ways to fuck with her. LoL

J.R. Murdock

What does he mean: "Except that ONE time"?!? 0_o

Nemo of Utopia

And a fluorescent lightbulb cutter?

VC

I need you to go to supply and get me a yard of flight-line. Yes, one yard.

Bryan Stopp

Keep it up and she’ll bake you a Chaos Loaf!

Matt Grayson

There had better be war ladle 2.0 as compensation for that joke.

Miyaa

(flashback to the Chaos Pupper)

Magic Chopstick Games

Ah the time honored past time of f*cking with the newbies. Next be sending in the back for a can of A.I.R. and maybe some good old ID10T grease lol

James Cooper

and the album title

SpookyPenguin

... is the name of my Prince cover band.

Criss Invid

All right you two! Be nice! Sam is a good kid and while a little hazing is to be expected, you need to buy her lunch now. A yummy lunch.

Michael Boettger

Did Bubbles just get more adorable? I didn't think that was possible. We've passed a new level of Bubdorable.

Joel Bateman

Code brown is the one where you have to watch where you're stepping.

J.E. Melton

The BEST couple

Thomas Halpin

Bubs in panel 5 reminds me of Maxim 20 from Schlock Mercenary: If you're not willing to shell your own position, you're not willing to win.

Adam Friedlander

Has Faye swore in front of Sam before? If not...I think I smell a storyline

Dammit, Faye! You too, Bubbles! Sam is too young to know you're fucking with her!

Grace Kieser

I love the Faye-Bubbles dynamic. Neither of them miss a beat.

Tim Eldred

It really says something about how close Faye and Bubbles have gotten that Bubbles picked up on the joke and ran with it, after Faye started it. They really are good for each other.

John Fiala

Faye's face in panel five is amazing

Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns

Poor kid

Brian