0068: "Five Thirty"

[Minerva]

Apologies if there's already a thread for this one, I couldn't find it.

Yes, I know it's an old one. But i'll get to the point in a moment.

http://xkcd.com/c68.html

So, I discovered this in a bathroom in the Physics department today:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/ ... G_0876.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/ ... G_0881.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/ ... G_0877.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/ ... G_0880.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/ ... G_0878.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/ ... G_0879.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/ ... G_0875.jpg

I nearly burst out laughing.

I wonder if there's some sort of bathroom-wall metric of how entrenched a webcomic - or whatever - is in the popular conciousness?

[Ashbash]

http://xkcd.com/68/

alt text: The 8th panel is my favourite

Searched, and quite surprised to find that no one had made a thread for this yet. It's just chock a block full of surrealist awesome! And it's true, things just become that much more funny late at night when you're tired - I get my best ideas then. Well at least I think I do, they look crap in the morning.

5 and 6 are my favs, the guy of the left in five looks like he's dancing. Perfectly appropriate

['; DROP DATABASE;--]

I love the last one. Should make a sign of it and put it on my wall.

[Althizor]

My favorite is the seventh. I know what I will be saying next time a cosine comes up in my study group.

[Psuedo_Bob]

I liked this one because any actual jokes I don't understand I just pass off as random humor.

[Cheese!]

I like how the guy in the third panel draws his sword as he admits to crashing the other guy's helicopter. It's as if he's daring the other guy to make a big deal about it.

[jhlipton]

I like how the guy in the third panel draws his sword as he admits to crashing the other guy's helicopter. It's as if he's daring the other guy to make a big deal about it.

I thought he USED the sword to crash the helicopter. That would be even more awesome.

[sje46]

Haha, I was just about to make this thread, but this was only made a couple of days ago.

I love the bsrbershop. I think overreactions are funny.

I tend to find surreal things annoying, but not this.

Spread the word! Tuesday is a lie!

[Soft Hyphen]

This strip reminds me of Don Hertzfeldt's work. (Search the name on Youtube and you'll see what I mean.)

[Ashbash]

Oh dear God yes! That man is amazing! Anyone see rejected before it got pulled down from youtube (unless someone put it back up there, haven't checked recently). It's become about stale now from monty-pythonesque-repetition, but that's the trouble with surrealist humour, unfortunately. Still, if you haven't seen any of his videos, you must go do it NOW!

[i.t.homp]

my personal favourite is 10, because its so damn random. "my hair is bleeding" "root 3!". if someone asks me a stupid question is say my hair's bleeding, and if they make a dumb statment is say root3. its great.

[EtzHadaat]

My favorite is 6 because there are so many stories that could be associated with and none of them make any sense.

[Ptolom]

i love these. The perfect things to draw on desks when bored I like Fuck the cosine and stretchy death best
"what if the bungie cord slips? Don't worry they can't sue they've already been warned

[sje46]

Oh dear God yes! That man is amazing! Anyone see rejected before it got pulled down from youtube (unless someone put it back up there, haven't checked recently). It's become about stale now from monty-pythonesque-repetition, but that's the trouble with surrealist humour, unfortunately. Still, if you haven't seen any of his videos, you must go do it NOW!

I just checked out a few of his videos on youtube. But do you know how I can watch his "Everything Will Be Okay" on the internet for free? Or "Meaning of Life"? I want to see those films in particular.

[Redshorts]

I laugh every time I read this comic

[Dipsy]

I like the 6th panel the most, 'cause it's fun to say

their faces are cool.

[theta4]

This strip reminds me of Don Hertzfeldt's work. (Search the name on Youtube and you'll see what I mean.)

To be helpful, I'll provide a link to the search results page for Don Hertzfeldt on YouTube.

[yves]

I don't understand 10 (bleeding hair) or 12 (the last: stretchy death). Explanation?

[qazadex]

Is there some profound explanation for "fuck the cosine"? Or is that people just don't like evaluating cos?

[merrak]

This has bugged me for a while: does anyone know what "You're out of ointment and out of time" refers to?

[WarnedOfStretchyDeath314]

I am now warned of stretchy death...

[madaco]

Is there some profound explanation for "fuck the cosine"? Or is that people just don't like evaluating cos?

I think its because the adjacent side to theta isn't as well defined (its a little squiggly)
so you probably wont get the length of it exacly because it wont factor in the squiggle
or something.

maybe I am over-thinking this, but if i am, I'm guessing you are too?

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Does anyone know what "you're out of ointment and out of time" means?

I might be wrong, but I think I have a vague memory of playing a weird game when I was a kid, where you have to pilot a plane around the USA. There were various games, I believe, and one was states and capitals I think, and another game I don't remember at all, but you were supposed to fly around, I think, and I think two weird-looking guys explained how to play it, and if you lost, they would say in a funny voice, "You're out of fuel and out of time!!"

I have thought many times that this was a reference to that, but I have no idea what that game was. I've looked for explanations many times, but no one has ever said this. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe that's not even what happens in that game...but I think it was.