Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for March 28, 2014
March 27, 2014
April 03, 2014
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug's Super-Fun-Pak Comix Edited by Ruben Bolling Quantum Mechanic Man: Is my car ready? Clerk: Maybe. Man: Well, where is it? Clerk: I don't know. Man: Why not? Clerk: Because I just weighed it. Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time Traveler From 1909 Percival: I've come from the future to save your life! Percival: I'VE come from FURTHER in my future to tell myself not to bother. Percival: Why not? Percival: You're going to be distracted by a fancy car driving by, and FAIL. Percival: Sounds plausible. Woman: Um, hello? Marital Mirth Man: What's the difference between a wife and a dishwasher? Husband: My wife is a black hole that sucks all joy and light from my life. Husband: And a dishwasher is an appliance. Darthfield Without Darthfield, Or Anything Else Phil-Collins-Man Woman: You're a drummer, a singer of power ballads and a philanthropist. Woman: How did you gain those abilities? Man: I was attending a science demonstration... Man: ...and I was bitten by a radioactive Phil Collins. Phil Collins: Sorry. Uncle Cap'n's Puzzle Pontoon Hey, kids! Can you solve this head-scratcher??? Polly wants to find a sequence of data that produces a unique, unused pattern when the hash function double sha-256 is applied to that data. Uncle Cap'n: Send yer answers to ME at unclecapn@silkroad.ne and Polly will be happy! Boy: Uncle Cap'n, this is nothing but a clumsy, ill-informed attempt to get kids to mine BITCOINS for you! Boy: Uncle Cap'n?
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kapock about 10 years ago
Wow, we finally learn the GENESIS of Phil-Collins-Man! Hi-yooo!
Steve Bartholomew about 10 years ago
For the benefit of any non-nerds in the audience: The quantum mechanic doesn’t know where the car is because he just weighed it. According to Heisenberg, we can know the mass of a particle or its location, but not both.
Michael Ventrella almost 10 years ago
Wait — is that Sam and Silo?
Gokie5 almost 10 years ago
“Bitten past tense of bite”
Nobody but me will likely ever see this, but the past tense of the verb “to bite” is “bit,.” as in “My dog bit me yesterday.”“Bitten” is the participial form of the verb “to bite.” Present participle form is “has bitten,” “My dog has bitten me every day for as long as I can remember.” Past participle: “My dog had bitten me daily even before his traumatic brain injury.”#poorme
Gokie5 almost 10 years ago
Oh, just noticed that the form in the strip was was bitten. In this case, of course, we’re still dealing with the present participle (maybe), but “was bitten” indicates the passive voice, rather than the active voice. So I guess that after all that thrashing about, I have to admit that “was bitten” is the past tense of “to bite,” but only in the passive voice. Have wasted too much time on this and don’t have time to research more. Hey, I haven’t taught English for about forty-eight years! (Guess it’s good that nobody but me will see this.)