Link to example?
No, I meant that particular one. Previous posters were comparing two cartoons that appeared on the same day. I offered a purely subjective literary critique of the two.
Um, I think that’s called a “whoosh.”
And it’s totally made of win, because it’s not just a pun, it’s a really geeky literary reference, too!
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[embarrassed low voice]I don’t get it. I never read Ender’s Game. (But I read the Wikipedia article.) Where’s the pun?[/elv]
Gah! Sorry. I was just hoping for more puns.
One of Ender’s strategic masterstrokes is giving his team a common orientation in zero-g combat; the enemy’s gate was defined as “down” so they could execute maneuvers with better coordination.
Thanks for the explanation!
I used that xkcd pun the other day, and built on it a little. A friend of mine is from Switzerland, so I asked him if the trains in Basle run on Thyme. He wasn’t amused. Mostly because he didn’t get it, and after I had painstakingly explained, there wasn’t much left to be amused by.