Sunday Funnies: LOL-February 14

Cidu Bill on Feb 14th 2010

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Nicole:
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(If you can’t read what’s on the toast, click the comic)

Winter Wallaby:
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19 Responses to “Sunday Funnies: LOL-February 14”

  1. Keera Feb 14th 2010 at 05:14 am 1

    Several goodies in this offering! Basketcase was perfectly dark humor. Love it! But xkcd was a CIDU for me - or is Batman just a non sequitur?

  2. HnrSpk Feb 14th 2010 at 05:37 am 2

    It’s Batman thinking that he’s attacking Two-Face - with the half deformed face and flipping the coin.

  3. Keera Feb 14th 2010 at 05:38 am 3

    Thanks, HnrSpk. I’m just not up on Batman villains.

  4. George P Feb 14th 2010 at 07:43 am 4

    That’s how I thought that comic would play out; you either know Two-Face, or you don’t. The setup was sneaky.

  5. Louis Feb 14th 2010 at 07:51 am 5

    Funny, the XKCD was a bit of a CIDU for me - I thought the joke was something to do with an “acid test” I didn’t even think about two-face and the coin and acid. But that’s why I love XKCD

  6. Cynthia Feb 14th 2010 at 11:16 am 6

    I don’t get the entropy one….

  7. John DiFool Feb 14th 2010 at 12:00 pm 7

    If you ever find yourself on the Washington Mall, you might run into the Guy With The Cross. Nice guy I guess-all he did is hand me some of the standard fundamentalist fliers, but didn’t try to belabor his faith to me.

  8. Steve Feb 14th 2010 at 01:07 pm 8

    I think I figured out the entropy one: a fundamentalist argument against evolution is that it violates the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (entropy never decreases) and panel four shows a sharp drop in entropy. That leads to the human city in the sixth panel. Not to get into why this is stupid, but I wonder if the artist is sincere or is trying to paint fundamentalists as unable to spell “billions”?

  9. Soup Dragon Feb 14th 2010 at 01:27 pm 9

    From the laws of thermodynamics, it can be shown that the entropy (a measure for disorder) in the universe will never decrease. But as god fell asleep on his watch, it dropped anyway, and human civilization happened because of that. Of course, the graph shows the entropy bobbing up and down before and after that too, so the point is pretty much ruined for me, anyway. Also, human civilization is not happening in discord with the laws of thermodynamics, so there was hardly a point there in the first place.

  10. mkilby Feb 14th 2010 at 02:14 pm 10

    I think I remember reading a reference (in science fiction, or elsewhere) to “all life on Earth” being a “bubble of reduced (or negative) entropy”, the idea being that it was merely an accident that produced so much “order” out of “chaos”. (In any case, the thermodynamic law only applies to the entire system as a whole, there is nothing that prohibits pockets of reduced entropy.)

  11. Winter Wallaby Feb 14th 2010 at 02:32 pm 11

    I sent in the entropy one, so I guess it’s my job to defend the artist. From the alt-text: “Once again, I must ask that you refrain from emailing me about the scientific inaccuracy of this comic. I know what I did, dammit.”

    So, yes, the inaccuracy is intentional, not out of stupidity.

  12. mitch-4 Feb 14th 2010 at 02:46 pm 12

    And the “billyuns” spelling likely is a direct echo of how it has been written by those making fun of Carl Sagan for (supposedly) overusing the phrase “billions and billions” [of years ago, years from now, miles from here, stars in the universe,..] in his narrations.

  13. CaroZ Feb 14th 2010 at 03:06 pm 13

    Shouldn’t the diploma-forgery diploma be first?

  14. Lola Feb 14th 2010 at 03:41 pm 14

    CarolZ at 13

    I think the ones before are part of his classwork/homework needed to get the diploma.

  15. tdcjames Feb 14th 2010 at 04:24 pm 15

    How did the astronauts decompose in a vacuum?

  16. Jeff S. Feb 14th 2010 at 04:31 pm 16

    The diploma-forgery diploma is a forgery.

  17. chuckers Feb 15th 2010 at 04:30 am 17

    I am glad I wasn’t the only one that thought xkcd was a CIDU. But I did have a flash of inspiration and realise what it was on about about 5 minutes after I submitted it.

  18. firedmyass Feb 15th 2010 at 03:43 pm 18

    tdcjames #15:

    They were losing oxygen — there could still be a pressurized atmosphere in the ship, just not one than can support human life.

  19. Steffen Feb 16th 2010 at 12:30 am 19

    tdcjames, their suits aren’t vacuums.

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