­xkcd thread

Thank you for this nostalgic Grandma fridge magnet moment. Not that hers said Godel.

He has a very good point. Have seen a Pygmy rabbit?

Per wiki they are damn cute harmless little woodland creatures.

That’s what they want you think…

…but by night… when the moon is full… they transform into fearsome were-rabbits!

He’ll do you up a treat, mate…. He’s got huge, sharp— he can leap about— look at the bones!

Glad somebody got it.

Sadly the clips I could find on YouTube were cut to start too late and that line is nowhere to be heard. Else it’d be linked right here.

All they need is a little genetic engineering…

The book was much, much better.

ObAnya:
Bunnies aren’t just cute like everybody supposes,
They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.
And what’s with all the carrots?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies.

Brian
(Or maybe midgets)

On the shores of Gitchee Goomee,
By the shining big sea water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
And the little Hiawatha.

Hiawatha, he went hunting,
Went to hunt a bunny rabbit,
Had to make a pair of mittens
From the bunny rabbit’s fur.

Oh he hunted over ridge,
He hunted over dell,
He hunted all about,
Where the bunny rabbits dwe-e-e-e-e-ell.

He hunted all the day,
He hunted all the night,
At last he found a rabbit
With the fur just ri-i-i-i-i-ight.

Now the fur upon the rabbit,
Has the warm side fur side outside,
Hiawatha found that rabbits
Have the inside skin side inside.

So to keep the cold air outside,
He put the inside skin side outside,
And to keep the warm air inside,
He put the skin side inside outside.

That is why to keep the warm side,
He put the warm side fur side outside,
And the skin side inside-out side,
And turned them inside outside.

You do you, BHG.

No complaint about the muon symbol getting mistaken for an up quark?

Having worked for the guy who discovered the tau lepton, I strenuously object to discarding it!

Having ridden my bike through a massive, invisible cloud of gnats yesterday morning, I fully endorse the inclusion of Very Small Bugs.

Hey, we can incrementalize that! Start by replacing ‘watery’ with ‘moist’, and ‘guzzle’ with ‘slurp down’.

For what it’s worth, the s quark originally stood for “sideways”, until the c was discovered.

And I still refer to t and b as “truth” and “beauty”, instead of “top” and “bottom”

I’m kind of disappointed with the synonym girl, too. ‘dress’? ‘tea’? Come on, you can do better than that.

[Also, is it just me, or does anyone else find “let me slither into something more comfortable”, kind of, um, ‘ooh-yeah, baby’]

I’m surprised she didn’t find a synonym for ‘comfortable’.