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Sunday Funnies: LOL April 11

Cidu Bill on Apr 11th 2010

Jennifer Williams sent this one in as a LOL:

but honestly it annoyed me when I first read it: usually, Alix displays a lack of sexual knowledge more appropriate for a child even younger than her ten years; what’s she doing making egg jokes now?

Nicole:

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Winter Wallaby:

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30 Responses to “Sunday Funnies: LOL April 11”

Jeff S. Apr 11th 2010 at 12:29 am 1

LOVE the Tetris Hell and the Klingon Gagh ones, but the bottom one is a CIDU. I’ll Google him in a bit so I’ll get it eventually.
Nate Apr 11th 2010 at 12:29 am 2

Because, yes, there are people that read XKCD and have too much time on their hands:
http://www.reddit.com/tb/boo3q
Lihtox Apr 11th 2010 at 12:45 am 3

@Jeff S: The caption of the bottom one is cut off; it was “I love treating epistemological anarchists.” Not sure if that helps.

Here’s the link: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1836#comic
furrykef Apr 11th 2010 at 01:40 am 4

I wonder why people say “you have too much time on your hands” when somebody makes something silly that probably took a day at most and is actually good for a laugh, but if somebody takes a month or more and makes an utter disaster, nobody ever says that?
Keera Apr 11th 2010 at 02:59 am 5

Tetris hell was a definite LOL for me, too.
Keera Apr 11th 2010 at 03:03 am 6

Nate @2, thanks for that link! I am quite grateful somebody ran with their inspiration. That was fun!
Kamino Neko Apr 11th 2010 at 05:14 am 7

Paul Karl Fayerabend is the proponent of Epistemological Anarchism, which basically states that ‘the scientific method isn’t that useful’.
Dave Apr 11th 2010 at 05:30 am 8

Could someone kindly explain the klingon one to me? I don’t get it…probably doesn’t help that the only thing i know about klingons is that they are in star trek.
Kamino Neko Apr 11th 2010 at 05:41 am 9

Gagh is a Klingon food. It’s essentially a plate of live worms. So the dude’s having Star Trek fantasies by imagining his plate of spaghetti (or linguine, or whatever) as gagh, and eating it appropriately. Which presumably grosses out the people at other tables, and clearly annoys his waiter.

Blood Wine is a Klingon drink. It…uh…may or may not be exactly what it says on the tin.
Dave Apr 11th 2010 at 06:26 am 10

Ahhh i see… thanks Kamino. I never would have got that!
George P Apr 11th 2010 at 06:27 am 11

There’s a Trek-themed bar at the Hilton in Las Vegas where one can have a glass of “blood wine”. The compartmented garnish tray at the bar includes not just the normal cherries, olives, and citrus slices but also gummi worms, which I assume are for some Klingon mixed drink.

I had a camera hanging from my wrist on its strap. A Klingon came up to me and asked, “Are you humans born with those attached to your arms?” I laughed and said, “I guess it must seem that way.” He said, as he walked away, “It must be very painful for your mothers.”
Kamino Neko Apr 11th 2010 at 07:24 am 12

He said, as he walked away, “It must be very painful for your mothers.”

Says the dude with the giant ridged forehead.
Powers Apr 11th 2010 at 07:24 am 13

Is that still there, George? I thought it closed with the rest of Star Trek: The Experience.
mitch4 Apr 11th 2010 at 09:23 am 14

Feyerabend indeed challenged a large segment of 20th Century philosophy of science — we might say the whole Popper branch of it — with the idea that there’s no cut-and-dried formula from the philosophers that can let you brand a research programme as science or nonscience [as Popper and his followers very much wanted to be able to do, with the “falsifiability” test], let alone as good or bad science, or as good or bad research results. That’s what the “Anything goes” motto was about.

But he was not on the hook to support any and every crank system that comes along. That’s NOT what “Anything goes” and “epistemological anarchism” mean. He felt entirely free to make judgements of success and failure in specifics, and saw that as holding no contradiction from his principles. But if he chooses chemotherapy over inflatable banana pig, that’s because for now it seems the former works better in the practical sphere, NOT because the research that gave us chemotherapy can be shown to have origins in a better “scientific method” according to some Popper-like rule or system.

P.S. If you’re interested in this but not ready for “Anything goes”, a substantial intermediate figure to look into is Imre Lakatos.
Michael Apr 11th 2010 at 11:18 am 15

Re: “Alix displays a lack of sexual knowledge more appropriate for a child even younger than her ten years; what’s she doing making egg jokes now?” Human women have eggs. Both kids are joking about whether she’s hit menopause yet, that’s what the “Got eggs?” comment is referring to.

They’re not thinking of chicken eggs.
Michael Apr 11th 2010 at 11:25 am 16

Also, anyone else try playing the xkcd tetris game? I thought it might be possible to get a row wedged in level, but the side edges aren’t straight!
Elyrest Apr 11th 2010 at 11:59 am 17

Michael (16) I played and what surprised me is that the pieces kept bouncing around and sliding as they landed. Cute.

Michael (15) I’m pretty sure Cidu Bill wasn’t referring to chicken eggs in his comment, but to the fact that Alex is referring to her mother’s ova. Alex has always been portrayed as being very naive for her age and that comment isn’t naive.
Lihtox Apr 11th 2010 at 12:52 pm 18

@17: Having been a very naive child, I did occasionally tell a “sophisticated” (read “smutty”?) joke which surprised the heck out of my peers (and often got huge laughs because of it). Even naive kids pick up a thing or two, particularly if they’re aware that they’re naive (and desperately trying not to be).

Are we perhaps insisting that the character be a stereotype?
CIDU Bill Apr 11th 2010 at 01:02 pm 19

No, Lihtox, just a wee bit consistent. And it would have been easy enough to give the line to the older girl.
David N Apr 11th 2010 at 02:41 pm 20

Powers, didn’t see it when I was at the Hilton last month. They ripped everything ST out of there.

Will have to show the Tetris Hell one to my wife, she loves that game.
Winter Wallaby Apr 11th 2010 at 03:00 pm 21

Mitch4, Feyerabend didn’t just argue that there’s no clear formula for what constitutes scientific methodology. He argued that there’s no reason to think the reults produced by the methods used by the scientific community are generally any better than that produced by other communities (astrology, alternative medicine, religion, etc. . .). To me, that makes inflatable banana pig a fair rough characterization. Admittedly, two cartoon panels are not the best way to fairly and accurately describe and critique a school of philosophy.
mitch4 Apr 11th 2010 at 04:31 pm 22

Winter, I’ll give you that Feyerabend has characterized his own positions in rather different ways at different times and in different forums. And I may be giving more emphasis to the relatively “conservative” version where you are picking up on the more “radical” version — but I’m fairly confident my version of him has some solid basis, even if he contradicted that in other places. Further, I’m not sure how — taking the more radical versions — you would be able to distinguish genuine attachment to quackery from knowingly provocative stink-bomb pronouncements.

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Weird confluences department … I’m very late doing my taxes, and dealing with the 2009 sale of property my father left to my siblings and me in 1987 which my stepmother has been living in under her lifetime residence option. (Sorry about the TMI! Just saying it’s keeping me on that focus a bit.) But among other memories this is bringing back are times I visited Florida and stayed there — and one time my main poolside reading was in fact “Against Method”, Feyerabend’s big messy tome.
Soup Dragon Apr 11th 2010 at 08:26 pm 23

Bill #19, the point is that the line does come from a presumed innocent. Hence mothers reaction, “we are not having this conversation!!”
Elyrest Apr 11th 2010 at 08:32 pm 24

Soup Dragon (23) I think the Mom would have said that no matter which of her daughters had made the comment about the eggs. The Mom wanted a conversation about relationships - not sex. Parents are often less ready than their children to talk about the “facts of life”.
Skaloop Apr 11th 2010 at 08:51 pm 25

Someone made a game of hell. http://www.swfme.com/view/1046212
John Small Berries Apr 11th 2010 at 09:15 pm 26

Thanks for the link, Nate! This is a good week for bizarre Tetris implementations. A couple of days ago I ran across Magic Eye Tetris, now xkcd’s Hell.
Winter Wallaby Apr 12th 2010 at 12:26 am 27

Mitch4, I’ve not actually read “Against Method,” so I’ll have to defer to you on which positions are his core ones, and which ones are his “stink-bomb” ones. I hope I don’t have to take back my LOL, though. That little banana pig made me LOL so hard.
Naomi Apr 13th 2010 at 05:46 pm 28

The “Brokeback Fountain” one is a CIDU for me - I do have an idea of what the movie “Brokeback Mountain” was about, although I never saw it. I was thinking, maybe it’s too low and hurts your back, but the drawing style leaves that unclear, plus the expression on the cowboy seems to imply a different meaning.
DPWally Apr 14th 2010 at 01:28 pm 29

Elyrest (24) - This conversation goes past both relationships and sex to concepts of age and menopause that should completely foreign to a girl that young, even a sexually precocious one (which she’s not supposed to be, according to comments from people who follow the strip).
Soup Dragon Apr 14th 2010 at 02:36 pm 30

DPWally #29: Well, she could have picked up that phrase somewhere, and thought this was the right time to try it out.

Sometimes, when I was a lad, my mum would be angry at me or my sisters for some reason, and would exclaim “what did I do to get such naughty kids!”, and we would giggle and reply “I know what you did!”. Of course, we didn’t know, but mum laughed, and the situation was defused.