Comments on: A Skim-Scam

By: Morris Keesan

Morris Keesan — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:06:56 +0000

My mistake. I somehow missed noticing Scurvy Dog’s first comment, with the link to the Wikipedia page about ‘¥’, and I was looking at this page instead, and also didn’t read far enough down the page.

By: Hunt

Hunt — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:08:05 +0000

If this guy can skip a rock all the way to China, why should anybody be surprised that he can make it go around little obstacles like Japan?

By: Trish

Trish — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:56:56 +0000

Since we seem to have identified this as San Fransisco, maybe the rock hit a window in Chinatown?

By: enfueago

enfueago — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:54:44 +0000

The Beijing Glass Group Company is china’s largest manufacturer of laboratory glassware. Thus the rock probably broke many test tubes when it came through the window and, having lots of lab equipment on hand, the company was well equipped to track down the miscreant. Its funny because of how common all the CSI stuff has become.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:39:10 +0000

Sorry, a computer malfunction cut and pasted a word out of sequence from my response above, hopefully you can all still understand what I was saying; just take out the word “comic” and it will make sense.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:37:40 +0000

Reminds me of a “Foxtrot” a few years ago where Jason and his buddy marvel at the range of the new-model squirt guns; Jason then fires his straigh ahead of comic him and a voice balloon from off-screen announces “Achtung.”

By: Arvy

Arvy — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:37:13 +0000

It’s hard to make out the text under the handwritten note, but if my rough translation is correct, the bill is for the broken porthole on a Japanese freighter that was docked in Oakland Harbor. And, as everyone knows, the only vendor that can produce replacement portholes on demand is in China.

By: heather

heather — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:47:20 +0000

Ahh… I just looked at the map to see where the bridge is and I gotcha. (Hey I’m not American, I’m impressed enough with myself that I got the bridge right heh)

Maybe in the first panel, he’s throwing it at an angle, a bit towards the bridge, so that it will actually pass under the bridge and head out across the Pacific.

Of course, it would STILL run into Japan first…

By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:21:15 +0000

Heather, even if it was the Golden Gate Bridge the guy still wouldn’t be sending it to China. No matter which way you orient this comic if that is indeed San Francisco (looks it to me) the best he could hope for would be the Marin headlands or somewhere across the bay.

By: brien

brien — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:14:25 +0000

All them foreign currencies look alike.

… and yes, that does look like the Golden Gate Bridge. If it is, this vantage point cannot exist.

If the cartoonist drew the Golden Gate Bridge where the Bay Bridge should be, though, it’s more plausible - but then, as waferthinmint points out, he’s throwing the rock east across the bay (I’d say at Alameda).