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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2009-05-07 10:07 am
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I have seen this webcomic starting to sprout up on my f-list, and finally got a chance to check it out: 2D Goggles. The continuing adventures of Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage.

[identity profile] longshot14.livejournal.com 2009-05-07 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"This must be twittered. Wait. This is a fan."

GOLD!

*adds to blogroll*

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2009-05-07 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
That was the point at which I had to stuff my fist in my mouth to keep from bothering my co-workers with the laughing. XD

Well, that and the thought of Isambard Kingdom Brunel as the Victorian Wolverine. XD
Edited 2009-05-07 15:33 (UTC)

[identity profile] ebony14.livejournal.com 2009-05-07 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I was sold the minute His Grace, the Duke of Wellington, rode into the room. Although I still see Wellington as portrayed by Stephen Fry in "Blackadder the Third."

Blackadder (masquerading as Prince George, discussing the War with France with Lord Wellington): "And where have you stationed Lord Nelson?"

Wellingston (spins globe): "Antarctica! In case old Boney tries coming at us across the South Pole!"

[identity profile] seawolf10.livejournal.com 2009-05-07 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Our kingdom is ruled by a mad Kraut sausage-sucker...and a son who can't keep his sausage to himself."

Oh yeah. Ever since seeing that, I have never been able to think of Wellington and NOT make that association. (I have to say, it made reading Naomi Novik's Victory of Eagles...interesting.)

[identity profile] movingfinger.livejournal.com 2009-05-07 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel as the Victorian Wolverine.

As a huge Brunel fan, I am waiting very eagerly to see what happens with that idea. It seems... well, not reasonable exactly... fitting?

[identity profile] longshot14.livejournal.com 2009-05-07 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that and the thought of Isambard Kingdom Brunel as the Victorian Wolverine. XD

I have to say, from that photograph? UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE.

[identity profile] ebony14.livejournal.com 2009-05-07 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Brunel's the best at what he did, bub.

EDIT: From the Wikipedia entry on Brunel

In 1843, while performing a conjuring trick for the amusement of his children, Brunel accidentally inhaled a half-sovereign coin, which became lodged in his windpipe. A special pair of forceps failed to remove it, as did a machine devised by Brunel himself to shake it loose.

Half-sovereign coins are listed as being 19.30 mm in diameter, which is roughly 3/4 of an inch. Clearly, Brunel was so tough he could snort coin of the Realm like they were cocaine.

Edited 2009-05-07 16:51 (UTC)

[identity profile] longshot14.livejournal.com 2009-05-07 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Scholarly friends FTW.

[identity profile] lady-ganesh.livejournal.com 2009-05-08 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Ada Lovelace!