There was a comment last time that I didn’t really understand. Perhaps the person who wrote it, or others who understood, can help.
The comment as best I recall suggested that something about the story would work better if the piper was shown leading the expansion of pi not from the head but from the tail — which of course is impossible, as it is a non-terminating (and non-periodic) decimal. The commenter, as I recall, did remark on the impossibility, but somehow took that into account.
I would have enjoyed this cartoon even more if the digits had appeared in black and white (either alternating, or each digit with spots of both), but I’m sure that the original meaning of “pied” (as in the “Pied Piper”) is way beyond “geezer”, and would be better described as “archaic”.
P.S. The title of the original German version does not refer to the piper’s external appearance (as described in the story), it just calls him the “Rat Catcher“.
Speaking of pipers –
The restoration village running the Candlelight nights event decided to have a scavenger hunt this year. They did not tell us about it or what we had in our building. I had seen the paper about it and looked and at a quick glance had not seen our building listed, so I had some idea when people started asking us what we had in our building (which we would not tell them of course – they were suppose to find it). The theme was the 12 days of Christmas. The house has a large rack holding pipes for smoking (the long white clay ones of the 1700s) on the wall. It is one of the many items which should not be in the house as one would not have one in a home – it would be found in a tavern. Our of our musicians took out a musical pipe to play and it clicked – so we were standing there counting and recounting the pipes on the wall – 7 of them, rats, oh wait, we have 2 musical pipes with us….. no, they would not have known that.
We later found out (husband in the back room knew as he saw a couple of children find it) that there was a picture of a partridge in a pear tree in front hall. After that we figured out a couple of clues to offer. We also wondered, since we were the first house that people would come to, if they were in the houses in the order of the song.
Did you know that the golden rings are not rings but birds from the original 7 days of Christmas version – which is all birds?
Comics I Don't Understand 
There was a comment last time that I didn’t really understand. Perhaps the person who wrote it, or others who understood, can help.
The comment as best I recall suggested that something about the story would work better if the piper was shown leading the expansion of pi not from the head but from the tail — which of course is impossible, as it is a non-terminating (and non-periodic) decimal. The commenter, as I recall, did remark on the impossibility, but somehow took that into account.
I would have enjoyed this cartoon even more if the digits had appeared in black and white (either alternating, or each digit with spots of both), but I’m sure that the original meaning of “pied” (as in the “Pied Piper”) is way beyond “geezer”, and would be better described as “archaic”.
P.S. The title of the original German version does not refer to the piper’s external appearance (as described in the story), it just calls him the “Rat Catcher“.
Speaking of pipers –
The restoration village running the Candlelight nights event decided to have a scavenger hunt this year. They did not tell us about it or what we had in our building. I had seen the paper about it and looked and at a quick glance had not seen our building listed, so I had some idea when people started asking us what we had in our building (which we would not tell them of course – they were suppose to find it). The theme was the 12 days of Christmas. The house has a large rack holding pipes for smoking (the long white clay ones of the 1700s) on the wall. It is one of the many items which should not be in the house as one would not have one in a home – it would be found in a tavern. Our of our musicians took out a musical pipe to play and it clicked – so we were standing there counting and recounting the pipes on the wall – 7 of them, rats, oh wait, we have 2 musical pipes with us….. no, they would not have known that.
We later found out (husband in the back room knew as he saw a couple of children find it) that there was a picture of a partridge in a pear tree in front hall. After that we figured out a couple of clues to offer. We also wondered, since we were the first house that people would come to, if they were in the houses in the order of the song.
Did you know that the golden rings are not rings but birds from the original 7 days of Christmas version – which is all birds?