Comments on: Weighty Matters http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/ JFK: ''we choose to go to the ...'' Thu, 17 May 2012 21:20:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Derek http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2625 Derek Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:04:18 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2625 Do "Speak Your Weight" machines actually exist outside the comics? I don't get it either but at least the punchline wasn't "One at a time please" or "Ouch!" Do “Speak Your Weight” machines actually exist outside the comics?

I don’t get it either but at least the punchline wasn’t “One at a time please” or “Ouch!”

]]> By: Pete http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2519 Pete Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:59:31 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2519 File this one under Just Not Funny. File this one under Just Not Funny.

]]> By: Norm http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2515 Norm Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:13:17 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2515 She's standing on the scale. The sign says the same thing on both sides. Keera has it right. She’s standing on the scale. The sign says the same thing on both sides. Keera has it right.

]]> By: Howabominable (aka Lindsey ^_^) http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2513 Howabominable (aka Lindsey ^_^) Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:54:23 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2513 I didn't think she was standing on the scale, because wouldn't the sign and the speaker be facing her, and not away? I don't get this comic at all. I didn’t think she was standing on the scale, because wouldn’t the sign and the speaker be facing her, and not away? I don’t get this comic at all.

]]> By: Morris Keesan http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2511 Morris Keesan Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:40:11 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2511 It doesn't look to me like she's even standing on the scale. I think the machine is just taking random guesses, hoping someone is nearby to hear it. It doesn’t look to me like she’s even standing on the scale. I think the machine is just taking random guesses, hoping someone is nearby to hear it.

]]> By: Winter Wallaby http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2510 Winter Wallaby Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:31:25 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2510 Keera's explanation makes the most sense to me. You have to forget how scales actually work, and imagine her dismay as the reading goes up and up (while sitcom-style sound effects occur in the background). Elliott, I've never seen the ;{) emoticon before. What does it signify? A man with a mustache winking while he smiles? A person with a facial tic, eating a pie? Keera’s explanation makes the most sense to me. You have to forget how scales actually work, and imagine her dismay as the reading goes up and up (while sitcom-style sound effects occur in the background).

Elliott, I’ve never seen the ;{) emoticon before. What does it signify? A man with a mustache winking while he smiles? A person with a facial tic, eating a pie?

]]> By: Andrew http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2509 Andrew Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:03:46 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2509 Maybe the machine is not a scale, but a video camera that lets people see her and guess her weight like those "guess the weight of the cake to win it" competitions at fairs. The compitetiors aren't guessing correctly, and are guessing increasingly large weights, which is annoying her? Ok, I don't get this one either. Maybe the machine is not a scale, but a video camera that lets people see her and guess her weight like those “guess the weight of the cake to win it” competitions at fairs. The compitetiors aren’t guessing correctly, and are guessing increasingly large weights, which is annoying her? Ok, I don’t get this one either.

]]> By: spiritcatcher http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2508 spiritcatcher Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:30:35 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2508 i can't help to notice the big jump in numbers at the end and the fact that she's standing *behind* the apparatus ... i can’t help to notice the big jump in numbers at the end and the fact that she’s standing *behind* the apparatus …

]]> By: Elliott http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2507 Elliott Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:36:01 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2507 Well, I guess the sign really says "speak your weight," so whatever. Well, I guess the sign really says “speak your weight,” so whatever.

]]> By: Elliott http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2506 Elliott Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:35:15 +0000 http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/03/30/weighty-matters/#comment-2506 the scale is prompting her. The sign clearly says "say your weight," and she refuses to say anything. The scale is simply offering suggestions of a weight she might say. I mean really, how hard was that to figure out ;{) the scale is prompting her. The sign clearly says “say your weight,” and she refuses to say anything. The scale is simply offering suggestions of a weight she might say.

I mean really, how hard was that to figure out ;{)

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