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| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Len: Come on in.
/ Rachel: Have you got biscuits? You gots to have biscuits. I'm starving. / Len: Rachel, you are dangerously close to being thrown off this course.
/ Rachel: What? Why? / Len: Let's have a look in the file of all the work you've handed in during this semester.
/ Rachel: Yes, lets! / Len: Oh look, it's empty. There's a spider in it.
/ Rachel: I'm honing it, Professor Pickering. I'm an artist. I can't let you see it until it's perfect. / Len: And let me guess, it's in your head. Because you're a conceptual artist.
/ Rachel: It's a happy spider! Surely that counts for something? http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020604 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Len: Come on in.
/ Rachel: Have you got biscuits? You gots to have biscuits. I'm starving. / Len: Rachel, you are dangerously close to being thrown off this course.
/ Rachel: What? Why? / Len: Let's have a look in the file of all the work you've handed in during this semester.
/ Rachel: Yes, LET'S! / Len: Oh look, it's empty. There's a spider in it.
/ Rachel: I'm honing it, Professor Pickering. I'm an artist. I can't let you see it until it's perfect. / Len: And let me guess, it's in your head, because you're a conceptual artist.
/ Rachel: It's a happy spider! Surely that counts for something? http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020604 |
| Rachel: How can I not get kicked off the course? There's no way I can make up all that work. / Len: Rachel, I like you. You're small enough that I could take you in a fight even with a bad case of flu. And I've thought about this very hard. / Len: This is a journalism course. And you haven't journalised enough. So you must journalise more. / Rachel: Okay. / Len: You just became editor of the Tackleford University Clarion. / Rachel: What? No! How can I do that? I can't put out a paper! What if I do it wrong? What if I fail? / Len: If you fail, you get to work in a meat-packing plant. For the rest of your life! / Rachel: I'll just go and edit a paper then. / [[Len picks up and addresses a guinea pig.]] / Len: Cecil, what do you mean I should have asked her to swap her young body for course credit? Bad, dirty guinea pig! / Cecil: Eep. | |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Rachel is in Professor Len's office. He has informed her that she is "dangerously close to getting kicked off [his] course."]]
/ Rachel: How can I not get kicked off the course? There's no way I can make up all that work. / Professor Len: Rachel, I like you. You're small enough that I could take you in a fight even with a bad case of flu. And I've thought about this very hard. / Professor Len: This is a journalism course. And you haven't journalised enough. So you must journalise more.
/ Rachel [[not sure where this is going]]: Okay. / Professor Len: You just became editor of the Tackleford University Clarion.
/ Rachel: What? No! How can I do that? I can't put out a paper! What if I do it wrong? What if I fail? / Professor Len [[Escorting Rachel out the door]] : If you fail, you get to work in a meat-packing plant, for the rest of your life!
/ Rachel: I'll just go and edit a paper then. / Professor Len [[Holding Cecil, his Guinea Pig]]: Cecil, what do you mean I should have asked her to swap her young body for course credit? Bad, dirty Guinea Pig.
/ Cecil: < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020606 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Tessa: So did he boot you off the course, Rachel?
/ Rachel: No, Tessa, he did not. / Rachel: Professor Len realises that I have a rare talent that has to be nurtured.
/ Tessa: Pffffrt! / Rachel: Stop laughing!
/ Tessa: I'm not laughing at -pff- you, I'm thinking of... a baboon's big pink bottom... / Rachel: He's made me editor of the university paper.
/ Tessa: There isn't a university paper. I don't think there's been one for years. / Rachel: Well, I have the key to its nonexistant office, yo.
/ Tessa: Let's go look. I love the smell of musty air! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020611 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Tessa is near the far left of the panel. She's facing the left, but she's talking over her shoulder to Rachel, who is entering the scene from the far right. There are trees framing them, and buildings in the background.]]
/ Tessa: SO DID HE BOOT YOU OFF THE COURSE, RACHEL?
/ Rachel: NO, {{i}TESSA{{/i}}, HE DID NOT. / [[Close in on Rachel and Tessa, who have switched sides. Same scene. Tessa is snickering.]]
/ Rachel: PROFESSOR LEN REALISES I HAVE A RARE TALENT THAT HAS TO BE NURTURED.
/ Tessa: PFFFFRT! / [[Same scene. Tessa and Rachel seem to be walking.]]
/ Rachel: STOP LAUGHING!
/ Tessa: I'M NOT LAUGHING AT -PFF- YOU, I'M THINKING OF.. A BABOON'S PINK BOTTOM... / [[Rachel and Tessa are sitting on a park bench. Tessa is tying her shoe.]]
/ Rachel: HE'S MADE ME EDITOR OF THE UNIVERSITY PAPER.
/ Tessa: THERE ISN'T A UNIVERSITY PAPER. I DON'T THINK THERE'S BEEN ONE FOR YEARS. / [[Tessa is still sitting on the bench. Rachel is standing and dangling a key in front of her; she has her back to us.]]
/ Rachel: WELL, I HAVE THE KEY TO ITS NONEXISTANT OFFICE, YO.
/ Tessa: LET'S GO LOOK. I LOVE THE SMELL OF MUSTY AIR! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020611 |
| Scary Go Round 20020613 | Tessa: Where's the office?
/ Rachel: Right at the top of University House, which means we get to live out a life long ambition and use the creepy little lift! / Rachel: Top floor please. / Ralph: I almost killed a man once. He took my umbrella, and it was pouring with rain. I just couldn't stop hitting him. Then the police came. Top floor. / Tessa: How are we going to get in? The door is boarded up. / Rachel: Use your freakish man-like strength, Tessa!
/ Tessa: For every nail I break, I want a pound. / {{elevator, lifelong}} http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020613 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[At the University. Tessa and Rachel are heading to look at the office of the school paper]]
/ Tessa: Where's the office.
/ Rachel: Right at the top of the University House, which means we get to live out a life long ambition and use the creepy little lift! / [[There is a lift operator in the elevator]]
/ Rachel: Top floor please. / Lift operator: I almost killed a man once. He took my umbrella, and it was pouring with rain. I just couldn't stop hitting him. Then the police came. Top floor. / Tessa: How are we going to get in? The door is boarded up. / Rachel: Use your freakish man-like strength, Tessa!
/ Tessa: For every nail I break, I want a pound. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020613 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[At the office of the University paper]]
/ Rachel: Hello? Hello! What am I doing? Tessa's kicking a door down. No, she's not sweating. She looks quite composed. / Tessa: Stop your waffling and give me the key.
/ Rachel: "Mnyeh mnyeh mnyeh give me the key mnyeh." / [[Inside the office]]
/ Tessa: Look at this place. It's untouched! There are still coffe cups left out by the paper's staff.
/ Rachel: This one has a tree in it! I think it's a larch! / Rachel [[picking up some papers]]: This proof says March 1992. There hasn't been a college paper in ten years.
/ Tessa: Why do you think it stopped? / Rachel: Perhaps the entire staff formed a doomsday cult.
/ Tessa: Maybe they spent the printing budget on chocolate, then felt ashamed and hid. In Wales. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020618 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Rachel: Hello? Hello! What am I doing? Tessa's kicking a door down. No, she's not sweating, she looks quite composed / Tessa: Stop your waffling and give me the key.
/ Rachel: "Mnyeh mnyeh mnyeh give me the key mnyeh" / Tessa: Look at this place, it's untouched! There are still cofee cups left out by the paper's staff.
/ Rachel: This one has a tree in it! I think it's a larch! / Rachel: This proof says March 1992. There hasn't been a college paper in ten years.
/ Tessa: Why do you think it stopped? / Rachel: Perhaps the entire staff formed a doomsday cult.
/ Tessa: Maybe they spent the printing budget on chocolate, then felt ashamed and hid. In Wales. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020618 |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020619">http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020619 | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In the college paper office]]
/ Tessa: Look at the old computers! From back in 1992 when computers were new and cost a million pounds! / Rachel: A million AT LEAST.
/ Tessa: Come on, let's jemmy this cupboard open and steal some pens. / Rachel: I don't think you should open it, Tessa. My Rachel-sense is tingling!
/ Tessa: Rachel, what's the worst thing that could possibly be in there? / [[Tessa opens the cupboard door]]
/ Rachel: The h-h-hideous rotting sk-skeletons of the newspaper's former s-staff?
/ Tessa: By keeping my eyes closed, I can pretent it contains a very pungent ring b-b-b-binder. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020620 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Tessa: LOOK AT THE OLD COMPUTERS! FROM BACK IN 1992 WHEN COMPUTERS WERE NEW AND COST A MILLION POUNDS! / Rachel: A MILLION AT LEAST
/ Tessa: COME ON, LET'S JEMMY THIS CUPBOARD OPEN AND STEAL SOME PENS. / Rachel: I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD OPEN IT, TESSA. MY RACHEL-SENSE IS TINGLING!
/ Tessa: RACHEL, WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE IN THERE? / Rachel: THE H-H-HIDEOUS ROTTING SK-SKELETONS OF THE NEWSPAPER'S FORMER S-STAFF?
/ Tessa: BY KEEPING MY EYES CLOSED, I CAN PRETEND IT CONTAINS A VERY PUNGENT RING B-B-B-BINDER! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020620 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Tessa is riding on the back of Ryan's motorcycle]]
/ Tessa: ...so I opened up the cupboard and four skeletons fell out.
/ Ryan: Skeletons? Man, no! Had you ever seen a dead body before? I mean, up close? / Tessa: Urgh, no, never.
/ Ryan: I found my Grandma when she died, but I wasn't scared or freaked out or anything. / Ryan: She was starting to go kind of mad. You'd go to the toilet in the night and find her standing there naked, holding a flannel. / Ryan: So when she died it was like, sure, oh no, Granny died, but cool, she's no going to take her clothes off any time soon. / Ryan: I mean, she's been a good looking girl in her youth but time ain't always so kind and-
/ Tessa: Stop talking, Ryan! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020625 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Tessa: ...SO I OPENED UP THE CUPBOARD AND FOUR SKELETONS FELL OUT.
/ Ryan: SKELETONS? MAN, NO! HAD YOU EVER SEEN A DEAD BODY BEFORE? I MEAN, CLOSE UP? / Tessa: URGH, NO, NEVER.
/ Ryan: I FOUND MY GRANDMA WHEN SHE DIED, BUT I WASN'T SCARED OR FREAKED OUT OR ANYTHING. / Ryan: SHE WAS STARTING TO GO KIND OF MAD. YOU'D GO TO THE TOILET IN THE NIGHT AND FIND HER STANDING THERE NAKED, HOLDING A FLANNEL. / Ryan: SO WHEN SHE DIED IT WAS LIKE, SURE, OH NO, GRANNY DIED, BUT, COOL, SHE'S NOT GOING TO TAKE HER CLOTHES OFF ANY TIME SOON. / Ryan: I MEAN, SHE'D BEEN A GOOD LOOKING GIRL IN HER YOUTH BUT TIME AIN'T ALWAYS SO KIND AND-
/ Tessa: STOP TALKING, RYAN! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020625 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Tessa: TRY TO BE GOOD!
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020627 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Tessa: Try to be good!
/ [[Ryan drives off on his bike, honking the horn]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020627 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[At the library]]
/ Tessa: It's important, I'm trying to work out why the college paper staff all wound up dead in a cupboard. / Tessa: The old papers might contain clues why.
/ William: Just take what you need and go, before anyone sees you down here. / William: This is the last paper.
/ Tessa: "Bicycle Thief Upsets Attractive Student Nurse". I can feel myself hot on the trail already. / Tessa: I really appreciate this William.
/ William: Appreciate it enough to, um...
/ Tessa: What?
/ William: To, uh, um, uhh... / Tessa: You work on that one for a while, Book Boy, I'll see you soon.
/ William: Grah! / [[Tessa leaves, and William talks to himself]]
/ William: Whew, good thing you didnt' ask her out. Your lower jaw might have fallen off from the talking. You ass!
/ [[Curls of gas come toward William as he talks]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020702 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Tessa: IT'S IMPORTANT, I'M TRYING TO WORK OUT WHY THE COLLEGE PAPER STAFF ALL WOUND UP DEAD IN A CUPBOARD. / Tessa: THE OLD PAPERS MIGHT CONTAIN CLUES WHY.
/ William: JUST TAKE WHAT YOU NEED AND GO, BEFORE ANYONE SEES YOU DOWN HERE. / William: THIS IS THE LAST PAPER.
/ Tessa: "BICYCLE THIEF UPSETS ATTRACTIVE STUDENT NURSE". I CAN FEEL MYSELF HOT ON THE TRAIL ALREADY. / Tessa: I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS, WILLIAM.
/ William: APPRECIATE IT ENOUGH TO, UM...
/ Tessa: WHAT?
/ William: TO, UH, UM, UHH... / Tessa: YOU WORK ON THAT ONE FOR A WHILE, BOOK BOY, I'LL SEE YOU SOON.
/ William: GRAH! / William: WHEW, GOOD THING YOU DIDN'T ASK HER OUT. YOUR LOWER JAW MIGHT HAVE FALLEN OFF FROM THE TALKING. YOU ASS!
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020702 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In the library, a gas has surounded William]]
/ William: < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020704 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | William: GAS!
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020704 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Tessa heads back into the library to get her bag]]
/ Tessa: I left my bag, William. I hope you're not going through it looking for the secrets that women have been hiding from you... [[she spots William collapsed on the floor]] all these years. / Tessa: If by some chance you're not dead, put your fingers in your ears. / [[Heard outside the library, where Ryan and Shelley are talking]]
/ Tessa: AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE / [[In the college paper's office, Tessa and Rachel are talking]]
/ Rachel: You found the lad in the library GASSED? Was he dead?
/ Tessa: No, but he sure as hell wasn't dancing. / Tessa: What kind of gas leak puts people in the hospital after 5 minutes, then disappears?
/ Rachel: I know...
/ Tessa: Comments about bottom gasses win bonus punches. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020709 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Tessa: I LEFT MY BAG, WILLIAM. I HOPE YOU'RE NOT GOING THOUGH IT LOOKING FOR THE SECRETS THAT WOMEN HAVE BEEN HIDING FROM YOU...ALL THESE YEARS. / Tessa: IF BY SOME CHANCE YOU'RE NOT DEAD, PUT YOUR FINGERS IN YOUR EARS. / Tessa: AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE / Rachel: YOU FOUND THE LAD IN THE LIBRARY GASSED? WAS HE DEAD?
/ Tessa: NO, BUT HE SURE AS HELL WASN'T DANCING. / Tessa: WHAT KIND OF GAS LEAK PUTS PEOPLE IN HOSPITAL AFTER 5 MINUTES, THEN DISAPPEARS?
/ Rachel: I KNOW...
/ Tessa: COMMENTS ABOUT BOTTOM GAS WIN BONUS PUNCHES. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020709 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In the college paper office]]
/ Rachel: I believe all the death and destruction we have seen today to be the work of Krakkagar!
/ Tessa: Krakkagar?
/ Rachel: Krakkagar! / Rachel: He is glossy and black, and has horns, and skips from rooftop to rooftop looking for people to skin!
/ Rachel: Sometimes in the dead of night, you'll see his red eyes glowin gin the dark. You must lay still so he doesn't spot you! / Rachel: He has six legs, and is like a beetle, but fatter! One day he will eat me, I know he will! His only weakness is sugar, it makes him sleepy and...
/ Tessa: Let me put forward a theory, just a shot in the dark. IT'S NOT A GIANT BLACK BUG YOU MADE UP.
/ Rachel: Prove it. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020711 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Rachel and Tessa are standing in a hallway as Rachel spins a vision of the evil black Krakkagar.]] / Rachel: I believe all the death and destruction we have seen today to be the work of Krakkagar! / Tessa: Krakkagar? / Rachel: KRAKKAGAR! He is glossy and black, and has horns, and skips from rooftop to rooftop looking for people to skin! Sometimes in the dead of night, you'll see his red eyes glowing in the dark. You must lay still so he doesn't spot you! He has six legs, and is like a beetle, but fatter! One day he will eat me, I know he will! His only weakness is sugar, it makes him sleepy and... / Tessa: Let me put forward a theory, just a shot in the dark. /IT'S NOT A GIANT BLACK BUG YOU MADE UP/. / Rachel: Prove it http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020711 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[At the office of the college paper]]
/ Rachel: The last few college newspapers before it stopped are full og investigations into what happened to the chemistry society. / Tessa: What happened to them?
/ Rachel: Their mini-bus ploughed over a bridge on a trip to visit an iodine factory! / Tessa: "Ploughed", I like that, that really makes it real for me.
/ Rachel: Yeah. Kind of "Skreee splang splosh glub glub urk". / Tessa: Damn. They missed out on all that lovely... iodine.
/ Rachel: The final issue promises that the next copy will have the full story. / [[Rachel and Tessa head down the stairs to leave the building]]
/ Rachel: Do you think library boy being gassed was a warning to keep our noses out of this?
/ Tessa: Well, Rachel / [[Outside the building]]
/ Tessa: If someone tells Tessa Davies to keep her nose out, she sticks it right in. Even if the area she is sticking it into smells particularly bad!
/ Rachel: Steady! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020716 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Rachel: The last few college newspapers before it stopped are full of investigations into what happened to the chemistry society. / Tessa: What happened to them?
/ Rachel: Their mini-bus ploughed over a bridge on a trip to visit an iodine factory! / Tessa: "Ploughed", I like that, that really makes it real for me.
/ Rachel: Yeah. Kind of "skree splang splosh glub glub urk". / Tessa: Damn. They missed out on all that lovely... iodine.
/ Rachel: The final issue promises that the next copy will have the full story. / Rachel: Do you think library boy being gassed was a warning to keep our noses our of this?
/ Tessa: Well, Rachel. / Tessa: If someone tells Tessa Davies to keep her nose out, she sticks it right in. Even if the area she is sticking it inot smells particularly bad!
/ Rachel: Steady! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020716 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Outside Tessa and Rachel's rooms]]
/ Rachel: We have stumbled into the belly of the whale and soon we will be whale poopy!
/ Tessa: Calm down Rachel! / [[Inside]]
/ Tessa: It says here that one of the chemistry society survived. He didn't make the trip.
/ Rachel: We'll beat the answers out of him! / Tessa: Or ask him politely.
/ Rachel: Yeah, maybe. / Rachel: The alumni website says he's still at the university.
/ Tessa: He's an eternal student. He can't deal with a world where girls aren't 19. / Rachel: I bet he's never kissed a girl. He's probably all twisted up inside.
/ Tessa: Email him, we'll meet him and give him a thrill. / Rachel [[typing on the computer]]: "Dear Dr Proops. We are periodic table of elements enthusiasts who want to know much, MUCH more."
/ Tessa: We're going to hell. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020718 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Rachel: WE HAVE STUMBLED INTO THE BELLY OF THE WHALE AND SOON WE WILL BE WHALE POOPY!
/ Tessa: CALM DOWN RACHEL! / Tessa: IT SAYS HERE THAT ONE OF THE CHEMISTRY SOCIETY SURVIVED. HE DIDN'T MAKE THE TRIP.
/ Rachel: WE'LL BEAT THE ANSWERS OUT OF HIM! / Tessa: OR ASK HIM POLITELY.
/ Rachel: YEAH, MAYBE. / Rachel: THE ALUMNI WEBSITE SAYS HE'S STILL AT THE UNIVERSITY.
/ Tessa: HE'S AN ETERNAL STUDENT. HE CAN'T DEAL WITH A WORLD WHERE GIRLS AREN'T 19. / Rachel: I BET HE'S NEVER KISSED A GIRL. HE'S PROBABLY ALL TWISTED UP INSIDE.
/ Tessa: EMAIL HIM, WE'LL MEET HIM AND GIVE HIM A THRILL. / Rachel: "DEAR DR PROOPS. WE ARE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS ENTHUSIASTS WHO WANT TO KNOW MUCH, MUCH MORE."
/ Tessa: WE'RE GOING TO HELL. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020718 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[At Dr Proops' place]]
/ Dr Proops: You must be Tessa and Rachel. Give me a second, I have something urgent to finish up here.
/ Tessa: Okay, Dr Proops. / [[Dr Proops leaves Tessa and Rachel]]
/ Tessa: Wow, look at all these Pink Floyd albums. He's even got 'Umblergumbler'.
/ Rachel: I bet this guy's making drugs! He's a BAD scientist! / Tessa: Rachel, that's rather a leap of
/ [[Rachel holds up a book entitled 'How to Make Drugs']]
/ Tessa: Oh I see. / [[Dr Proops comes back into the room. Tessa and Rachel speak aside to each other]]
/ Rachel: Let's good cop -bad cop him. I vote to be bad cop this time.
/ Tessa: Nice. The threat of violence with no actual physical strength to back it up. / Dr Proops: Would you like a cup of tea?
/ Rachel: Quit making the drugs and start whistling, pigeon! / Dr Proops: You're... you're one of those vicious girl gangs!
/ Rachel: Yes, we're unruly!
/ Tessa: We skateboard in prohibited areas! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020723 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Dr. Proops: YOU MUST BE TESSA AND RACHEL. GIVE ME A SECOND, I HAVE SOMETHING URGENT TO FINISH UP HERE.
/ Tessa: OKAY, DR. PROOPS. / Tessa: WOW, LOOK AT ALL THESE PINK FLOYD ALBUMS. HE'S EVEN GOT 'UMBLERGUMBLER'.
/ Rachel: I BET THIS GUY'S MAKING DRUGS! HE'S A BAD SCIENTIST! / Tessa: RACHEL, THAT'S RATHER A LEAP OF OH I SEE.
/ [[Rachel holds book entitled "HOW TO MAKE DRUGS"]] / Rachel: LET'S GOOD COP - BAD COP HIM. I VOTE TO BE BAD COP THIS TIME.
/ Tessa: NICE. THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE WITH NO ACTUAL PHYSICAL STRENGTH TO BACK IT UP. / Dr. Proops: WOULD YOU LIKE A CUP OF TEA?
/ Rachel: QUIT MAKING THE DRUGS AND START WHISTLING, PIGEON! / Dr. Proops: YOU'RE...YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE VICIOUS GIRL GANGS!
/ Rachel: YES, WE'RE UNRULY!
/ Tessa: WE SKATEBOARD IN PROHIBITED AREAS! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020723 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[At Dr Proops' place. Rachel grabs the front of Dr Proops' shirt]]
/ Rachel: Why wouldn't they let you go to the iodine factory, Stoolie? Worried you'd try to smoke it through your eye?
/ Dr Proops: Please... let go! / [[Tessa pulls Rachel away]]
/ Tessa: Rachel, we must show understanding! Rehabilitate!
/ Rachel: Red mist! Red mist!
/ Dr Proops: I'll talk! I'll talk! / [[Flashback]]
/ Dr Proops [[narrating]]: There were five of us in Chemistry Society who always stayed together. People used to call us the 'Five Musketeers', at least we imagined they did because they never actually said it out loud. Froggy, Bad Larry, Lupus Crane, me, Barry Proops. / Dr Proops [[narrating]]: And Stevie Sprake. We always had a bit of fun with Stevie. There's always one, isn't there?
/ Bad Larry: Hey, Stevie, is that an isotope of buckminsterfullerene?
/ Stevie: Well... / Stevie: Ah. You sprayed deionized water on my trousers, giving the impression that I have wet myself. Ha. Ha.
/ Froggy: Hurrrr!
/ Dr Proops [[narrating]]: Although he sometimes cried openly, you could tell he loved it. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020725 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Rachel: WHY WOULDN'T THEY LET YOU GO TO THE IODINE FACTORY, STOOLIE? WORRIED YOU'D TRY TO SMOKE IT THROUGH YOUR EYE?
/ Dr. Proops: PLEASE...LET GO! / Tessa: RACHEL, WE MUST SHOW UNDERSTANDING! REHABILITATE!
/ Rachel: RED MIST! RED MIST!
/ Dr. Proops: I'LL TALK! I'LL TALK! / Dr. Proops (narrating): THERE WERE FIVE OF US IN CHEMISTRY SOCIETY WHO ALWAYS STAYED TOGETHER. PEOPLE USED TO CALL US THE 'FIVE MUSKETEERS', AT LEAST WE IMAGINED THEY DID BECAUSE THEY NEVER ACTUALLY SAID IT OUT LOUD.
/ Dr. Proops (narrating): FROGGY
/ Dr. Proops (narrating): BAD LARRY
/ Dr. Proops (narrating): LUPUS CRANE
/ Dr. Proops (narrating): ME, BARRY PROOPS / Dr. Proops (narrating): AND STEVIE SPRAKE. WE ALWAYS HAD A BIT OF FUN WITH STEVIE. THERE'S ALWAYS ONE, ISN'T THERE?
/ Bad Larry: HEY STEVIE, IS THAT AN ISOTOPE OF BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE?
/ Stevie: WELL... / Stevie: AH. YOU SPRAYED DEIONIZED WATER ON MY TROUSERS, GIVING THE IMPRESSION THAT I HAVE WET MYSELF. HA. HA.
/ Froggy: HURRRR! / Dr. Proops (narrating): ALTHOUGH HE SOMETIMES CRIED OPENLY, YOU COULD TELL HE LOVED IT. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020725 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Flash back to the Chemistry Society]]
/ Dr Proops [[narrating]]: Lupus always pushed it too far though. One day he and the lads threw Stevie into the fume cabinet. / Dr Proops [[narrating]]: Somehow some highly volatile compounds were thrown in there with him. A tragic, one in a million chance. / Dr Proops [[narrating]]: The mixture of the spilled chemicals and the powerful winds of the fume cabinet vapourised his skinny body before we could get him out. / [[Flashback to a bus driving off a cliff]]
/ Dr Proops: We wrote a note from Stevie saying he'd run away to join a cult who worship benzene rings. But within a week the rest of a society had died in the bus accident. / [[Back in Dr Proops' rooms]]
/ Dr Proops: I wasn't on the trip, I was in the hospital after... trying to smoke an iodine cigarette through my ear.
/ Rachel: PAH! / Rachel: Let's go. Something smells in here. Maybe it's the smell of treachery or cowardice, I don't know.
/ Tessa: It's my egg sandwich. Sorry. I was hungry! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020730 |
| Scary Go Round 20020730 | [[Narration]]
/ Dr Proops: Lupus always pushed it too far though.
/ One day he and the lads threw Stevie into the fume cabinet. / Dr Proops: Somehow some highly volatile compounds were thrown in there with him.
/ A tragic, one in a million chance. / Dr Proops: The mixture of the spilled chemicals and the powerful winds of the fume cabinet vapourised his skinny body before we could get him out. / Dr Proops: We wrote a note from Stevie saying he'd run away to join a cult who worship benzene rings. But within a week the rest of the society had died in the bus accident. / Dr Proops: I wasn't on the trip.
/ I was in hospital after... trying to smoke an iodine cigarette, through my ear. / Rachel: PAH! / Rachel: Let's go.
/ Something smells in here.
/ Maybe it's the smell of treachery or cowardice, I don't know.
/ Tessa: It's my egg sandwich.
/ Sorry.
/ I was hungry! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020730 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In Dr Proops' rooms. A gas fills the room]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020801 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Dr. Proops: WELL, DID I DO ALL RIGHT, STEVIE? I DIDN'T TELL THEM ANYTHING. AND THE LITTLE ONE, SHE COULD HAVE DONOE ANYTHING, EH?
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020801 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In the hall outside of Dr Proops' rooms, the gas is following Tessa and Rachel]]
/ Tessa: You know, this sandwich does smell bad. I didn't notice it before but-
/ Rachel: Tessa, there's a large cloud of gas forming behind us. I think the thing to do would be to run really really fast. / Tessa: I think the gas IS Stevie Sprake! Those chemicals they poured on him didn't vapourise him, they turned him into a sort of, I don't know... sentient gas!
/ Rachel: He's gaining! More of the running, less of the thinking! / Tessa: We've got to get out on the street, he surely can't come out where it's windy.
/ Rachel: Oh yes, "I'm a sentient gas, I follow so closely all the laws of science-" Argh cramp cramp cramp cramp cramp cramp cramp cramp cramp cramp cramp cramp- http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020805 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Tessa: YOU KNOW, THIS SANDWICH DOES SMELL BAD. I DIDN'T NOTICE IT BEFORE BUT-
/ Rachel: TESSA, THERE'S A LARGE CLOUD OF GAS FORMING BEHIND US. I THINK THE THING TO DO WOULD BE TO RUN REALLY FAST. / Tessa: I THINK THE GAS IS STEVIE SPRAKE! THOSE CHEMICALS THEY POURED ON HIM DIDN'T VAPOURISE HIM, THEY TURNED HIM INTO A SORT OF, I DON'T KNOWO...SENTIENT GAS!
/ Rachel: HE'S GAINING! MORE OF THE RUNNING, LESS OF THE THINKING! / Tessa: WE'VE GOT TO GET OUT ON THE STREET, HE SURELY CAN'T COME OUT WHERE IT'S WINDY.
/ Rachel: OH YES, "I'M A SENTIENT GAS, I FOLLOW SO CLOSELY ALL THE LAWS OF SCIENCE- ARGH CRAMP CRAMP CRAMP CRAMP CRAMP CRAMP CRAMP CRAMP CRAMP CRAMP CRAMP CRAMP- http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020805 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Tessa and Rachel are running away from the Stevie Sprake gas]]
/ Tessa: Caretaker's cupboard, go go go GO GO!
/ Rachel: MNYAH! / Tessa: Be quiet and take shallow breaths, Rachel.
/ Rachel [[muttering quietly]]: mumble mumble umblergumbler / Tessa: Stop whimpering!
/ Rachel: I am merely concentrating my fear on the outside of my body, where it dissipates harmlessly as pathetic babyish gurgling. / Tessa: Dissipate... this Stevie guy is like a big cloud of gas, held together by force of will, right?
/ Rachel: Bad, angry gas! / Tessa: Well, if we could hit him with a big dense cloud of another gas, we could weaken him...
/ Rachel: Long enough to assume false identities and move to Swansea! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020807 |
| Scary Go Round 2002.08.07 | Tessa: Caretaker's cupboard, go go go GO GO!
/ Rachel: MNYAH! / Tessa: Be quiet and take shallow breaths, Rachel.
/ Rachel: mubble mubble umblergumbler / Tessa: Stop whimpering!
/ Rachel: I am merely concentrating my fear on the outside of my body, where it dissipates harmlessly as pathetic babyish gurgling. / Tessa: Dissipate... This Stevie guy is like a big cloud of gas, held together by force of will, right?
/ Rachel: Bad, angry gas! / Tessa: Well, if we could hit him with a big dense cloud of another gas, we could weaken him...
/ Rachel: Long enough to assume false identities and move to Swansea! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020807 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In the caretaker's cupboard]]
/ Tessa: I have a better idea. On the count of three, kick open the door. 1... 2... / Tessa: 3!
/ Rachel: FOOM!
/ [[Rachel kicks open the door and Tessa switches on the vacuum she's found]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020813 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Tessa: I have a better idea. On the count of three, kick open the door. 1...2... / Tessa: 3!
/ Rachel: Foom! / Tessa: So what did you think of that?
/ Rachel: Tessa, you totally suck.
/ Tessa: Don't get smart. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020813 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Tessa is holding a jar which contains Stevie]]
/ Tessa: So why did you kill all those people, Stevie?
/ Stevie: I could not be discovered! I had to stay a secret! / Stevie: As a solid, beautiful ladies were out of my reach. But as a gas, I could drift into the changing rooms and look at them in the nudey. / Stevie: I could also see movies for free and explore chimneys.
/ Rachel: You sad, sick gaseous freak. / [[Rachel is speaking to the policeman who has arrived]]
/ Rachel: Pretty bizarre, eh officer?
/ Policeman: Actually, it happens a lot more than you'd think, miss. / [[Rachel takes a picture of the policeman holding the jar which holds Stevie]]
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020815 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Tessa is holding a big jar filled with a swirling gas.]]
/ Tessa: So why did you kill all those people, Stevie?
/ Stevie (the gas): I could not be discovered! I had to stay a secret! / [[Rachel takes notes as Stevie the gas continues to speak.]]
/ Stevie: As a solid, beautiful ladies were out of my reach. But as a gas, I could drift into changing rooms and look at them in the nudey. / Stevie: I could also see movies for free. And explore chimneys.
/ Rachel: You sad, sick gaseous freak. / Rachel: Pretty bizarre, eh Officer?
/ Detective: Actually, it happens a lot more than you'd think, Miss. / [[The detective holds the jar of gas as Rachel takes a photograph.]]
/ Detective: We'll just condense Stevie in the police lab, then bring the full weight of the law to bear on him.
/ < http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020815 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In Professor Len's office. He's reading the college paper Clarion with the headline "Campus Gas Boy Kills 16"]]
/ Len: Well, Rachel, you put a college paper out. With a sensational cover story. Well done. / Rachel: Does it make up for the coursework I kind of managed not to do? Will I get an okay mark? / Len: You are assured a good mark, Miss Dukakis-Monteforte. Because this piece is very good. / Len: So good, in fact, that I'll ignore the fact that that the other 14 pages of the paper are an interview with creepy little lift operator Ralph.
/ Rachel: Ralph rocks! / Len: An interview entitled "I Can See Those Filthy Deviants Everywhere".
/ Rachel: It's a very INTOLERANT rocking that Ralph does. / Rachel: Professor Len, why is Cecil wearing a little policeman's outfit?
/ Len [[holding up Cecil the guinea pig]]: I think he just has a very strong social conscience. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020820 |
| Scary Go Round 2002.08.20 | Len: Well, Rachel, you put a college paper out, with a sensational cover story. Well done.
/ [[Newspaper text: CLARION - Campus Gas Boy Kills 16]] / Rachel: Does it make up for the cousework I kind of managed not to do? Will I get an okay mark? / Len: You are assured a good mark, Miss Dukakis-Monteforte, because this piece is very good. / Len: So good, in fact, that I'll ignore the fact that the other 14 pages of the paper are an interview with creepy little lift operator Ralph.
/ Rachel: Ralph rocks! / Len: An interview entitled "I Can See Those Filthy Deviants Everywhere."
/ Rachel: It's a very intolerant rocking that Ralph does. / Rachel: Professor Len, why is Cecil wearing a little policeman's outfit?
/ Len: I think he just has a very strong social conscience. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020820 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Rachel: Tessa, when we were being chased down a corridor by a psychotic gas beast boy, was there ever a point you thought "we're not going to make it"? / Tessa: Only all the time!
/ Rachel: I think we should avoid chains of events which involve death and fear in future. / Tessa: Deal. Anyway, we survived, and here is a lollipop to celebrate.
/ Rachel: Hurray! / Tessa: Do you want to come to the pub?
/ Rachel: No, I'll get a cab home. See you tomorrow. / [[Krakkagar driving cab]]
/ Krakkagar: Where to, love?
/ Rachel: Oh bollocks. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020822 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | RACHEL: TESSA, WHEN WE WERE BEING CHASED DOWN A CORRIDOR BY A PSYCHOTIC GAS BEAST BOY, WAS THERE EVER A POINT YOU THOUGHT "WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT"? / TESSA: ONLY ALL THE TIME!
/ RACHEL: I THINK WE SHOULD AVOID CHAINS OF EVENTS WHICH INVOLVE DEATH AND FEAR IN FUTURE. / TESSA: DEAL. ANYWAY, WE SURVIVED, AND HERE IS A LOLLIPOP TO CELEBRATE.
/ RACHEL: HURRAY! / TESSA: DO YOU WANT TO COME TO THE PUB?
/ RACHEL: NO, I'LL GET A CAB HOME. SEE YOU TOMORROW. / KRAKKAGAR [[DRIVING THE CAB]]: WHERE TO, LOVE?
/ RACHEL: OH, BOLLOCKS. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020822 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ryan: Ladies! Dishwater hands getting you down? Apply Dr. Ryan's nerve tonic for baby soft paws! Gents! All out of bedroom zing at the end of the working week? Splash on a little nerve tonic... ba-da bing boom baff! / Ryan: Who would have thought that toothpaste, water, and gin would be such a powerful cure-all. I'll be rich! Rich! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! / Ryan: [[dreaming]] hahahahahaha
/ Shelly: Mr. Wooden Spoon says "wake up, Ryan" even though dreams can be funny! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020827 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[Ryan dressed as sideshow barker with display of bottles]]
/ Ryan: Ladies! Dishwater hands getting you down? Apply Dr. Ryan's nerve tonic for baby soft paws!
/ Ryan: Gents! All out of bedroom zing at the end of the working week? Splash on a little nerve tonic… Ba-da bing boom baff! / Ryan: Who would have thought that toothpaste, water and gin would be such a powerful cure-all… I'll be rich! Rich! Hahahhahahah! / [[Ryan asleep in bed. Shelley is about to wake him with a wooden spoon.]]
/ Ryan: Hahahah
/ Ryan: Haaha
/ Shelley: Mr Wooden Spoon says "Wake up Ryan" even though dreams can be funny! http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020827 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Ryan: Shelley, what are you doing here?
/ Shelley: Waking you up! / Ryan: Couldn't you just have knocked on the door?
/ Shelley: You don't have a door. I tried rattling these streamers but they weren't rattley enough. / Ryan: I was naked! You could've been offended.
/ Shelley: Nakedness does not offend me. / Shelley: If you were naked and jumping around, that would have been offensive. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020828 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In Ryan's apartment]]
/ Ryan: Shelley, what are you doing here?
/ Shelley: Waking you up! / Ryan: Couldn't you just have knocked on the door?
/ Shelley: You don't have a door. I tried rattling these streamers but they weren't rattley enough. / [[In the bathroom, Ryan brushing his teeth]]
/ Ryan: I was naked! You could've been offended.
/ Shelley: Nakedness does not offend me. / [[Heading down the stairs]]
/ Shelley: If you were naked and jumping around, that would have been offensive. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020828 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | Shelley: Anyway, come on. We have to go and help Tim on his table at the Tackleford Science Fair.
/ Ryan: Of course the fair! / Shelley: Tim has to win first prize this year. Even though he wouldn't tell me what his invention is.
/ Ryan: It's fricking awesome. / Shelley: Tell me what it is!
/ Ryan: It's the sort of thing that could change society for the better.
/ Shelley: WOW!
/ Ryan: Admittedly, not by much. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020829 |
| Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison | [[In Ryan's kitchen]]
/ Shelley: Anyway, come on, we have to go and help Tim on his table at the Tackleford Science Fair.
/ Ryan: Of course the fair! / [[Outside]]
/ Shelley: Tim has to win first prize this year. Even though he wouldn't tell me what his invention is.
/ Ryan: It's fricking awesome. / [[Ryan lighting a cigarette as he and Shelley walk]]
/ Shelley: Tell me what it is!
/ Ryan: It's the sort of thing that could change society for the better.
/ Shelley: Wow!
/ Ryan: Admittedly, not by much. http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20020829 |
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