A 9 Iron is still mostly iron, though. Carbon steel is more iron than cast iron!
I did learn that sidewalk chalk is usually gypsum, not chalk.
My glasses are made of glass.
I didn’t know that about sidewalk chalk. I wonder about blackboard chalk.
Mine aren’t.
At some redundancy, a pitcher’s rubber isn’t rubber. Neither is a rubber eraser. Sandpaper generally isn’t made with sand. Pencil lead isn’t.
Of course baby oil isn’t made of babies, nor motor oil from motors. But that’s cheating the comic’s theme pretty hard.
I maintain that element Fe is properly named “steel”, and “iron” is a common alloy of steel.
Oh, and Cueball has lost his marbles. Off of his list, that is.
Huh. Never quite connected marbles with marble.
Was never lead, though. Though graphite was mistakenly thought to be lead.
Sort of an interesting philosophical point. In a sense, it was lead, because it was thought to be lead. They had a name that included both the element that we recognize as lead today and graphite, and that name was lead.
You missed the title-text:
“I have to pay with paper money.”
Perhaps yours are, but most are made of acrylic these days. I remember a while back that I wanted glass lenses, but the optometrist said they’d be too heavy.
And spring rolls aren’t made of springs. But the comic did say that it was only for stuff where the product is named for the stuff it’s made of. That doesn’t apply to baby oil, motor oil or spring rolls.
Oh, huh. I thought pencils were actually made with lead once upon a time.
No, most aren’t. I need to go to one of the few places that will do that to get it.
They are heavier. I don’t get huge lenses. I see better, though.
While most externally-worn corrective lenses these days are plastic, I think it’s usually polycarbonate, not acrylic. Acrylic scratches way too easily.
You can get polycarbonate for high-impact “safety glasses”, but it creates even more distortion than whatever the standard plastic is.
Doing a bit of research, there is a low-cost plastic lens material called CR-39.
It’s technically a polycarbonate, but not what most people mean when they use that term. It does scratch more easily than polycarbonate. It’s not an acrylic, so I was wrong there.
At long last I get the double slit experiment:
And phomo is not bad either.
It’s pretty good, aside from rhyming “could” with “could”
That comment might make more sense if you had included the title-text:
I have a feeling that this is another case where Randall worked backward from the pun.
Poorly constructed pun. Worry causes “womo”.
And “I” with “recombined.”
Oh, and in the previous strip, he didn’t have to pay for everything with paper money, though it probably would be more convenient than paying in nickels.
Newish what-if on what would happen if the sun went out, definitely tongue in cheek:
Brian
No, I don’t think nickels qualify. They’re still made of nickel, or at least partially so. I don’t think the percentage has changed since they started making them. Canadian nickels, OTOH, have changed. Originally, they were 100% nickel; now they’re mostly steel with a nickel plating.
“Our anti-de Sitter club is small at the moment, but I’ve started corresponding with the conformal field theory people.”