Comics I Don’t Understand

Maybe He Was At His Friend m’s House

Cidu Bill on Feb 27th 2009

Filed in Basketcase Comix, Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 29 responses so far

29 Responses to “Maybe He Was At His Friend m’s House”

Arthur Feb 27th 2009 at 12:07 am 1

Quantum physics tells us that you can never be sure where an electron is; you can get only a probability of its location.
Steven Hunter Feb 27th 2009 at 12:18 am 2

This was actually an LOL for me (and Arthur is right.)
Rasheed Feb 27th 2009 at 12:24 am 3

Mrs. Smith was my high school chem teacher. I would hope she would be proud I remembered this stuff (although pretty much limited to what Arthur said). I remember something about S-spheres and covalence bonds but now I’m mixing metaphors and rambling. Nobody tell Mrs. Smith.
Feynmann Wannabe Feb 27th 2009 at 12:34 am 4

Arthur is right, except that the mom electron is doing a measurement, so soon she’ll collapse his wave function and force him to take a location (either Billy or Suzie’s, as soon as she calls their parents to ask if he was there).
Eric Feb 27th 2009 at 12:38 am 5

This was a major LOL for me. Haha, oh wow.
guy Feb 27th 2009 at 03:50 am 6

I thought this was about the mounting frequency of people spelling their names annoyingly, ala Suze’ and Bile’

Obviously I did not pay attention in school.
Singapore Bill Feb 27th 2009 at 04:56 am 7

Isn’t there something in there about how you can either measure the speed or the location but not both? So, given that he lost track of the speed at which he should have returned home, shouldn’t he know where he was?
furrykef Feb 27th 2009 at 05:27 am 8

Perhaps he’s perfectly aware of the speed at which he should have returned home, and just chose to ignore it.
Catlover Feb 27th 2009 at 07:32 am 9

Singapore Bill - I am pretty sure that’s Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.

I think this cartoon is about the Schrödinger family. Mom is upset because Dad electron left a long time ago. He lost his energy and just got Bohr’ed. She also isn’t sure if her cat is dead or alive. It fell off the roof when it lost its mu.

Mom called the atom where Billy lives and asks if her son recently left there. It said, “I’m positive!”
Mark in Boston Feb 27th 2009 at 10:53 am 10

There’s a family portrait on the wall.
UXO Feb 27th 2009 at 11:41 am 11

This was a LOL for me too. Catlover’s comments, on the other hand, were a major groaner.
Catlover Feb 27th 2009 at 11:47 am 12

Mark in Boston: Are you sure that is a portrait and not a window? They might be valence curtains.

And no jokes about whether an electron wearing a baseball mitt has an energy drink with dinner?

A neutron walks into a bar. “How much is a beer?”
The bartender answers, “For you, no charge!”

I bet mom kept a better ion him after that!
Elyrest Feb 27th 2009 at 12:07 pm 13

Catlover - Major GROAN.

Now I am really Phy-Sick.
Michael Feb 27th 2009 at 03:59 pm 14

C’mon, Bill, I know you went to school when they actually used to teach science.
Cidu Bill Feb 27th 2009 at 05:13 pm 15

True, Michael, but I took as little science as possible. My only college science class was nicknamed “Physics for Poets.” I had actually enrolled in an astronomy class, but transferred out after the first day, when the professor, a barefoot ex-hippie, explained that in science, there weren’t really any “right” or “wrong” answers.

Yes, this was in the early 70s
furrykef Feb 27th 2009 at 05:15 pm 16

Catlover’s jokes make me groan too, but I’m sure he’s a very feyn man. (Or is she a feyn woman?)
assdad Feb 27th 2009 at 05:47 pm 17

An electron might, also, be at both places at the same time, unless it was observed to be at either location. It can travel to those locations but not inhabit the areas between them. Quantum Physics is so completely f-cking nuts that it would confuse Robert Crumb.
Sal Feb 27th 2009 at 06:17 pm 18

Two atoms are talking and the first one says “Hey I think I lost an electron!” the second one says ‘Are you sure?” and the first one says “I’m Positive!”
mike jones Feb 27th 2009 at 06:24 pm 19

I bet the boys at the quuantum physics lab had a rotflmho moment. the rest of us just looked and stared.
tofor Feb 27th 2009 at 07:16 pm 20

Bill-Depending on what your professor meant, he may have been right. Science is about increasing degrees of certainty, not ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers.
Craig Feb 27th 2009 at 07:19 pm 21

This was a big LOL for me. As for the jokes I’m groaning at them.
Mark in Boston Feb 27th 2009 at 10:21 pm 22

In Poetry, there are no right or wrong answers, but you’d better put down the Right Answer on the test! The Right Answer is the one that matches the teacher’s interpretation of the poem.
Arvy Feb 28th 2009 at 09:19 am 23

This is just a statement on the everyday problems of a typical nuclear family.
Stuckfunky Feb 28th 2009 at 02:28 pm 24

Can we infer that anti-bonding explains the absence of a father?
Arvy Feb 28th 2009 at 04:18 pm 25

Maybe he stays away from home because he finds the other members of his family repellent.
Arvy Feb 28th 2009 at 04:19 pm 26

I think there was an old TV show about them. I believe it was called the Atoms family.
Catlover Feb 28th 2009 at 11:31 pm 27

Arvy - it looks like you are in your element here. As Roberto Duran said to the photon, “No mass, no mass!” Your puns came so fast - almost as fast as the speed of light. And we all know a light year has 40% less calories than a normal year. And then there are positrons - but that’s another matter.
Arvy Mar 2nd 2009 at 10:14 am 28

Catlover - I l’d-ol at the Roberto Duran joke, but if we want to keep the electron jokes flowing you need to keep your references more current.
Matthew Mar 2nd 2009 at 02:33 pm 29

Arvy, given today’s financial situation, all references lose currency.