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   somebodyshort said, 2 months ago

   love the sign on the garbage can

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   Superfrog said, 2 months ago

   Ok, space is relative, but why are they called “elevators” if half the time they’re going down?

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   Ira Nayman said, 2 months ago

   The lower you go, the closer you are to starting to rise again.

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   WindSpider said, 2 months ago

   …I suspects its because “Depressors” would just be silly.

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   Wildmustang1262 said, 2 months ago

   No sunrise or sunset!

   Hee hee hee hee heeeee….!

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   Ronshua said, 2 months ago

   Mr. Elevator would Sue you if you changed the name .

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   Leonardeuler said, 2 months ago

   Superfrog said: “OK, space is relative, …….”

   Sure it is: to some people the Hell is positive, Heaven negative.

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   baslim_the_begger said, 2 months ago

   In between rising and falling I am stalling.

   Too bad they didn’t have this in the summer of ‘67. I had a summer job as a janitor and elevator operator in a 3 story building. The elevator had been built in 1907, and I had to learn to stop it just right so that there wasn’t a step up or down.

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   Jedi Skwirlz said, 2 months ago

   “How can you be in two places at once when you’re not anywhere at all?” - The Firesign Theater

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    Hugh B. Hayve said, 2 months ago

    Every time I try to go where I really want to be,
    It’s already where I am, cuz I’m already there!!! - SOAD

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    Gigantor said, 2 months ago

    This is not so far-fetched. I’ve seen quite a few people who would press the “down” button in a building lobby to go up. When asked why, they said it’s because they needed the elevator to come down to them.

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    tree_boar said, 2 months ago

    …..wow… That’s sad.

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    ds133 said, 2 months ago

    I always liked one button elevators (there are some that exist), mainly because you don’t have to decide where you are going until you actually get in the thing. Waiting for the elevator changes from bored fidgeting to contemplating your destination.

    On another note, next time you are waiting for an elevator, think about how odd it would be if it wasn’t the elevator that went up or down, but everything else instead, so that the elevator (and anything in it) was the only thing that didn’t move whenever someone wanted to get to another floor.

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    somebodyshort said, 2 months ago

    ds Have you been reading Heinlein?

15. 

    Lurah said, 2 months ago

    I like this!

16. 

    Wiley said, 2 months ago

    And I like you!

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    ds133 said, 2 months ago

    somebodyshort - not recently, but I have read some of his work in the past (I particularly liked The Cat Who Walks Through Walls).

    And also, good spotting on the trashcan, ‘another man’s treasure’ indeed!

18. 

    ZetaZeta said, 2 months ago

    @Superfrog:
    They elevate in the negative direction.

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    steverino said, 2 months ago

    I saw a comic once, a person standing in front of a map of the campus at the College of Philosophy. The “X” on the map was labeled, “Why are you here?”

20. 

    Allan Claus said, 2 months ago

    if Ella Fitzgerald were to marry Darth Vader … her name would be Ella Vader … ba dum dumb

21. 

    vexatron1984 said, 2 months ago

    So what message would be put up in the restrooms?

22. 

    BC13 said, 2 months ago

    Superfrog
    What goes up, must come down - even elevators.

23. 

    DBjorn said, 2 months ago

    One of the best comics – and discussions – I’ve seen in a long while. Thanks, Wiley!

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    DigitalFrog said, 2 months ago

    Maybe it’s the Heisenberg Hotel.

    Love the slogan on the trash can: “Another man’s treasure”

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    CogentModality said, 2 months ago

    In the construction trade, floors are called elevations. Ergo - - - - - .

26. 

    GrinsToYa said, 2 months ago

    You must realize you know nothing before you will rise to another level.

27. 

    dianecliff said, 2 months ago

    “There is no spoon” - Matrix.

28. 

    the GhostPony said, 2 months ago

    My house is filled with this man’s treasure.

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    Leonardeuler said, 2 months ago

    DigitalFrog: Once I visited Hilbert’s Hotel, but I didn’t know the existence of Heisenberg’s Hotel. Can you send me the coordinates of it ??

30. 

    JanCinVV said, about 1 month ago

    CogentModality: In the construction trade, “elevations” are the views of the front, back and sides of buildings on the blueprints, not the floors.

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    puddleglum1066 said, about 1 month ago

    The philosopher asks, “is the glass half full or half empty?” while the engineer asks, “Why is the glass twice as big as it needs to be?”

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    bmonk said, about 1 month ago

    DigitalFrog said, about 2 uncertainties ago

    “Maybe it’s the Heisenberg Hotel.”

    and Leonardeuler said, 31 metrics ago

    “DigitalFrog: Once I visited Hilbert’s Hotel, but I didn’t know the existence of Heisenberg’s Hotel. Can you send me the coordinates of it ??”

    We can tell you either where it is, or when it will be there, but not both at once.

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    grazer said, about 1 month ago

    Yeah, “Elevator” is only a half-truth.

    I think we should refer to them as “Automated Ascending and Descending Gravitational Closets” from now on.

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    cmugnier said, about 1 month ago

    In Port of Spain, Trinidad they have the “Upside Down Hilton.” Entrance and Reservations are at the top of the mountain, and the “elevators” take you down to your room.

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    yyyguy said, about 1 month ago

    and what about “escalators?” escalate means increase. those things move you up or down, they don’t make you bigger. (okay, the lack of exercise might make you bigger, but it’s so gradual it should not be considered for naming purposes.)

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    cholldekkgher stenst... said, about 1 month ago

    Because if you named them “uppers” or “downers” someone like Joe Allen would take up a lot of space to explain something so technical we would rather not take the time to read it, and Old Hipster would perk up and talk about the time he had lots of uppers and downers.
    Don’t ya know?

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    cavinohio said, about 1 month ago

    whats the trash can say?lol for those of you who dont get the reality of this one. or non reality.get the book a new earth.enjoy!

38. 

    kirbey said, about 1 month ago

    love today’s strip and comments !

39. 

    benbrilling said, about 1 month ago

    It’s 6 floors or less, better take the stairs.

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    treered said, about 1 month ago

    Cavinohio: i need bifocals, written on the trash can is “Another Mans Treasure”… great strip.
    
    ds133: saw that in a POPEYE cartoon, the nephews build a skyscraper to music…

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    Joe Allen Doty said, about 1 month ago

    Why do folks like you make fun of me here, cholldekkgher stenst?

    Are you jealous that I am better educated than you are?

    “Escalator” comes from the stem of the Latin word, “escalade,” which means “climb a wall by a ladder.”

    In Spanish, stairs is “escalera.” By the way, I have known the Spanish word for stairs since I was a sophomore in high school.

    And since I took two Spanish classes in high school and Spanish classes all during my state college years working on 2 degrees, I know lots of Spanish words.

42. 

    Trebor39 said, about 1 month ago

    You reach the heights, then you descend. (And vice versa.)

43. 

    yyyguy said, about 1 month ago

    anywhere you go, there you are!

44. 

    openminded said, about 1 month ago

    Because, Joe Allen, just because.
    No One likes a know it all- even if he is correct. It reminds us we don’t know it all. My know it all grandson will struggle with this till he is your age.

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    DaveLowell said, about 1 month ago

    Classic. Just reminds me of the assignment I should be doing. If it was at the Heisenberg Hotel he would only “probably” be there…

46. 

    Dracip said, about 1 month ago

    steverino, nice…I saw a New Yorker comic once, that was a picture of a fire hydrant on a corner of a street. It was titled:
    The Milky Way Galaxy, (Detail)

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    Lisa Grinning said, about 1 month ago

    You know what they say about engineers… bumble bees can’t fly?