At a guess…he had a (theoretical) date with the Cute Chick…she broke it off because he’s too old for her, and now he’s attempting to (BADLY mis)apply the Theory of Relativity to have her catch up to him.
I was thinking it was the contrast between being able to understand Einstein’s theories but _not_ being able to understand women.
I recall when Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) was the hot new diagnostic imaging tool. There was talk that the word “Nuclear” was going to slow its acceptance with the general public (along with the rigors of getting the image image in the terrifying rotating magnets).
So a few years later when everybody talked about Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), I figured it was basically the same technology but with the name refactored for PR reasons. Well, not exactly the same technology, as they no longer had the imaging suite in a truck trailer backed up in the parking lot to a coupling on the wall of the main building.. But it might be that there were enough changes to demand / justify a name change. I still thought there must be some measure of “people are scared of ‘nuclear'”/
He’s just trying to BS his way out of explaining that he’s been stood up, but Curls is the exact wrong guy to try that with.
And relatively speaking, he is not shown ingesting vast amounts of food to give the energy to vibrate at relativistic velocities, and is not shown sinking into the ground as his mass increases.
So, yeah, lame excuse.
He’s clearly trying to absorb radiant energy. Chemistry (food) isn’t going to give him enough energy for relativistic effects.
Kamino Neko’s response makes some sense to me, but what I still don’t get is that he got stood up “again,” as if this wasn’t the first time it happened.
And if he knows that she thinks that he’s too old for him, why doesn’t he “get” her?
I just don’t get it.
@ J-L – In this case the word “get” is not slang for “understand”. Peter is simply stating the fact that he “just doesn’t get [anything from] her”..
” if he knows that she thinks that he’s too old for him, why doesn’t he ‘get’ her?”
Knowing what someone thinks doesn’t mean you understand why they think that.
Would have been funnier if Curls had said, “Who’s Einstein” in the pause panel. This is BC after all, quite a few years BE….
“Would have been funnier if Curls had said, “Who’s Einstein” in the pause panel.”
Would have been funnier if a truck ran over his foot.
Would have been funnier if Curls had quoted a New Testament verse. But lets not put ideas in anyone’s head.
I think she agrees to go out with him to make him stop pestering her for a while….until the next time he sees her and starts up again. But yeah, he wants time to slow/stop for him so she’ll get older. Wouldn’t matter even if he could pull it off, she’d still be put off.
My thought is that you all are overthinking this. His fancy speech is just an attempt to divert attention away from the fact that he got ditched. It could have been about any subject. The other guy is not fooled.
I wish I could vibrate my own inner molecular resonance to make myself more attractive to young ladies.
Oddly, that sounds something a New-Agey Californian might say.
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At a guess…he had a (theoretical) date with the Cute Chick…she broke it off because he’s too old for her, and now he’s attempting to (BADLY mis)apply the Theory of Relativity to have her catch up to him.
I was thinking it was the contrast between being able to understand Einstein’s theories but _not_ being able to understand women.
I recall when Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) was the hot new diagnostic imaging tool. There was talk that the word “Nuclear” was going to slow its acceptance with the general public (along with the rigors of getting the image image in the terrifying rotating magnets).
So a few years later when everybody talked about Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), I figured it was basically the same technology but with the name refactored for PR reasons. Well, not exactly the same technology, as they no longer had the imaging suite in a truck trailer backed up in the parking lot to a coupling on the wall of the main building.. But it might be that there were enough changes to demand / justify a name change. I still thought there must be some measure of “people are scared of ‘nuclear'”/
He’s just trying to BS his way out of explaining that he’s been stood up, but Curls is the exact wrong guy to try that with.
And relatively speaking, he is not shown ingesting vast amounts of food to give the energy to vibrate at relativistic velocities, and is not shown sinking into the ground as his mass increases.
So, yeah, lame excuse.
He’s clearly trying to absorb radiant energy. Chemistry (food) isn’t going to give him enough energy for relativistic effects.
Kamino Neko’s response makes some sense to me, but what I still don’t get is that he got stood up “again,” as if this wasn’t the first time it happened.
And if he knows that she thinks that he’s too old for him, why doesn’t he “get” her?
I just don’t get it.
@ J-L – In this case the word “get” is not slang for “understand”. Peter is simply stating the fact that he “just doesn’t get [anything from] her”..
” if he knows that she thinks that he’s too old for him, why doesn’t he ‘get’ her?”
Knowing what someone thinks doesn’t mean you understand why they think that.
Would have been funnier if Curls had said, “Who’s Einstein” in the pause panel. This is BC after all, quite a few years BE….
“Would have been funnier if Curls had said, “Who’s Einstein” in the pause panel.”
Would have been funnier if a truck ran over his foot.
Would have been funnier if Curls had quoted a New Testament verse. But lets not put ideas in anyone’s head.
I think she agrees to go out with him to make him stop pestering her for a while….until the next time he sees her and starts up again. But yeah, he wants time to slow/stop for him so she’ll get older. Wouldn’t matter even if he could pull it off, she’d still be put off.
My thought is that you all are overthinking this. His fancy speech is just an attempt to divert attention away from the fact that he got ditched. It could have been about any subject. The other guy is not fooled.
I wish I could vibrate my own inner molecular resonance to make myself more attractive to young ladies.
Oddly, that sounds something a New-Agey Californian might say.