Sunday Funnies: LOL-April 25
Cidu Bill on Apr 25th 2010
Igelino:
Chuck Douglas:
Jon Delfin:
Morris Keesan:
Nicole:
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Keera Apr 25th 2010 at 03:42 am 1
I’m with the ghost in the ghost story.
Could somebody explain the metatext for the xkcd one? (BTW, Bill, I think you forgot a tag.)
Keera Apr 25th 2010 at 03:45 am 2
Sorry, helps to say what xkcd’s metatext said: “It’s a lasing cat-vity!”
Oh, and I loved the Guy & Rodd comic. Now, why didn’t they actually think of that at the time?
jjmcgaffey Apr 25th 2010 at 04:20 am 3
Cavity lasers are the latest(?) kind - they have a ‘lasing cavity’ that increases the output. So lasing cat-vity.
Keera Apr 25th 2010 at 04:22 am 4
Thanks, McGaffey. I didn’t know lasers had cavities.
Tullia Apr 25th 2010 at 04:27 am 5
Keera, it’s another XKCD geek joke. According to Wikipedia, which is right on this for all I know: “The lasing threshold is reached when the optical gain of the laser medium is exactly balanced by the sum of all the losses experienced by light in one round trip of the laser’s optical cavity.” And the optical cavity? It goes on to say, “An optical cavity or optical resonator is an arrangement of mirrors that forms a standing wave cavity resonator for light waves.” My brain wants to say that that means that that is the point at which the laser works. So there you go: lasing, cavity, and laser pointer go. Cat-vity? Ha?
I like the shrimp one, especially the guy hiding behind the table. I’d hide, too. Shrimp are freaky, freaky creatures when alive. I had no idea they were so active and animated until I paid attention at the aquarium.
Esteban Apr 25th 2010 at 06:50 am 6
The Guy & Rodd comic is hilarious, but I have to complain about anachronisms. The soldiers are dressed up in 19th century garb, but they’re using medieval trebuchets. Then again, soldiers from either era didn’t use giant tennis rackets.
It’s funny how the suspension of disbelief works. It’s like people who watch “LOST” and complain that Hurley (the fat guy), never loses any weight on-island, but have no problem with the fact that a cloud of black smoke is one of the main characters.
mitch4 Apr 25th 2010 at 08:41 am 7
I was quite amused by the Scott Hilbrun one when I first ran across it — but baffled by the final sub-panel. What’s the joke there? Maybe I should have sent it in but as a CIDU.
plainwater Apr 25th 2010 at 11:38 am 8
mitch4 — I think it’s just there as a non sequitur. It reminds me of that cartoon 3-2-1 Penguins, in which the main characters are called Zidgel, Midgel, Fidgel, and Kevin.
Jeff S. Apr 25th 2010 at 11:45 am 9
Or Pacman, where the ghosts are called Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde.
Ray Brady Apr 25th 2010 at 12:11 pm 10
“Love child”? I call Geezer alert!
Mark in Boston Apr 25th 2010 at 12:35 pm 11
XKCD: People use laser pointers to play with cats. The cats chase the red dot and never catch it. If you don’t have a cat you may not know about that, and you probably have to know about it to understand what’s going on here.
Kate C Apr 25th 2010 at 02:11 pm 12
Ray Brady—
As a tacky young person, I am familar with the phrase “love child,” but I just realized that I always only ever hear it in a context like the strip, never in the Cher sense. Something like, “he looks like the love child of Ryan Seacrest and a ventriloquist dummy.”
Michael Apr 25th 2010 at 07:16 pm 13
I’m surprised there was a cat comic that Bill put in the LOL category instead of posting it as a CIDU.
george Apr 26th 2010 at 12:34 am 14
Re: Kick Ass
Interesting movie, although I think “Hit Girl” makes the whole thing. Weird mix of comic-book seriousness and silliness.
Is Kick Ass supposed to look so much like “Ambush Bug”?
Araxie May 23rd 2010 at 01:50 am 15
Actually, Jeremy pulled the “why are you picking on me?” in another earlier strip, when Walt was confronting him on him not taking good phone messages for them. Sitll funny.
And, for the record, I don’t understand how that Kick Ass kid is supposed to look any different from the guy in the movie at all. Because he doesn’t. He looks like a kid in a green suit. ‘S all I’m saying.