I know xkcd’s geek cred is already pretty secure but today’s effort was a cut above, I thought.
I’m uncertain on this one, just on principle. Besides, you changed the outcome of the comic when you observed it.
Well, that’s just your opALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD
So I’m driving down the road with Heisenberg and I say “Hey, look, we’re heading due east at 50 mph!” and he says “Great, now we’re lost.”
:golf clap:
Regards,
Shodan
Similarly, Schrodinger is pulled over by a cop, who looks in the trunk and says, “Do you know you have a dead cat in your trunk?” Schrodinger replies, “Well, I know now!”
I don’t know, it got a chuckle out of me, but given XKCD’s readership, it’s not all that obscure.
The one I laughed most at recently was the gut macrofauna one.
Good mouse-over for that one too.
Unfortunately, I missed the joke at first because I was thinking of it as an obscure computer or GPS bug rather than a physics joke. Had I been prompted to think physics, I’d have got it right away, but I don’t always catch their computer jokes.
I dunno, an There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly reference would have been funnier than a suppository joke, IMO.
It’s not a suppository you’re swallowing. More like a ‘used suppository’.
The other, less pleasant, option mentioned in the alt text is a suppository.
I assumed the comic’s alt-text was referring to fecal micro-fauna transplantation. Perhaps a suppository can be used, but I thought capsules or enemas were mainly used.
To paraphrase the alt text: ‘We have to get a wolf into your digestive system, there’s two options, swallow it, or one that’s less pleasant.’
How is that not suggesting shoving a wolf up the patient’s ass?
Today’s got an audible laugh out of me, which is rare. Not that I don’t like them - I usually do. I just hardly ever laugh out loud.