Re: Go

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Umm, what bit cracked you up? I don't get it . . .


Posted by: Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 03-23-04 1:07 PM
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I mean, I clicked on the period as hard as I could, but nothing happened . . .


Posted by: Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 03-23-04 1:08 PM
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I clicked the link again, Mitch, and again, I laughed like a fool. I don't think an explanation is likely to make you laugh, but a simple chart with x and y would have been funny enough, because of the implied violence against gophers, but including the z instructions in the pie chart is inspired goofiness--interpretations may differ on that last bit, but it called to mind little boys taking great care to make complex rules for violent little games--the confusion about "z" struck me as perfect mocking.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 03-23-04 1:25 PM
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Oh, so Mr Nice wasn't highbrow enough for you, but gophers are?

Actually, that's pretty funny.


Posted by: Fontana Labs | Link to this comment | 03-23-04 1:57 PM
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Still stinging from the Mr. Nice episode, eh?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 03-23-04 2:35 PM
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Oh, I got the joke (honest, I did!), I was just pretending I couldn't find the link, as with my brilliant performance in Fontana's last post.

And yeah, I think it's funny. Much funnier than Mr. Nice.


Posted by: Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 03-23-04 3:25 PM
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Ok, everyone's a joker.

Much much funnier than Mr. Nice.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 03-23-04 3:26 PM
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On the scale from not funny at all to absolutley and completely funny Mr. Nice can't even see that gopher chart.


Posted by: Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 03-23-04 4:30 PM
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If the gopher chart were on Earth, and Mr. Nice on Sedna, Mr. Nice would be closer to gopher chart funny than he is now.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 03-23-04 4:33 PM
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Look, you jerks, Mr Nice doesn't even work anymore. I hope you're happy.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 03-23-04 4:55 PM
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handless, armless, and out of a job....how tragic. Damn you George Bush!!


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 03-23-04 6:03 PM
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He doesn't work anymore? I guess it's no more Mr. Nice guy, huh?

Sorry.


Posted by: Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 03-23-04 10:31 PM
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This cartoon may be one of those "you had to be there" things.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 03-23-04 11:17 PM
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Well, Ogged, you seem to have maximized the comments-to-post-length ratio.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 03-24-04 9:33 AM
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Thanks to (the late lamented) Mr. Nice.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 03-24-04 9:35 AM
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Sorry, I completely don't get it. Is it a golf thing, like Caddyshack? And why are players' and gophers' (and I'm not even bringing up the any-questions) fractions being represented as if they added up to some whole? Are their respective portions of the player-plus-gopher population (or is it their mass?) relevant to something funny? I don't mean to over-nerd it, but some nerdiness seems appropriate to a cartoon that's obviously supposed to be at least somewhat abstract.

I go away for a while and all of a sudden everyone's speaking Martian.


Posted by: Bob | Link to this comment | 03-24-04 11:12 AM
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