Bob Ball says this one “appears to lack gravitas”.
Mouseover text: “It does come at the cost of some launchpad expansions and increased fuel requirements, but all that comes out of the facilities budget.”
Mitch4 sends this in: “Well, they don’t even try to handle the “intolerance” part, but even so it was a pretty clever pun.”
Mitch4 sends this in: “Because of whose picture is on which denomination.”
B.C. sometimes has Christian themes, and this one is NOT non-denominational, but we’re posting it anyway.
And while we’re on the subject of George Washington:
Mouseover text: “Lander, this is Houston. There’s been a request that you turn clipping back on and instead set the mass to 1kg. The theorists believe that will be pretty funny.”
JMcAndrew sends this in, noting “I understand what the joke is supposed to be but Pringles can’t even legally be called potato chips. they are made from a dough using dehydrated potato flakes combined with corn, rice, and wheat starches. Not sure why but this really bugs me.”
More on the topic of Pringles from comedian (and former P&G salesman) Greg Warren:
Mitch4 sends this in: “Would it have made it better or worse to show that dryer’s load actually bursting into flames?”
Boise Ed sends this in:
Mouseover text: Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will once day complete their orbits and fall back down.
Warning: you may find some of the references here offensive — because they are!
A momentary CIDU, because it’s explained in the mouseover text: ” Borat came out twenty years ago this year–closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today–but it honestly feels like it’s been even longer, somehow.”
But, before mousing over, I was reminded of Henny Youngman: “Take my wife … please.”
And then “My wife, I think I’ll keep her”, a Geritol ad from long ago.
Is it possible for a comic to be able to be both CIDU & LOL? Because while I have less than no understanding of sailing ship rigging, (… which is likely part of the point of this… and several other … XKCD comics…) the hover text, where I don’t understand “yawl” or “ketch”, still had me LOL-ing: “I wanted to make the world’s fastest yawl, so I made the aft sail bigger, but apparently that means it’s not a yawl anymore! It’s a ketch-22.”
travelgirl sends this in: “I understand what a catenary is, but have no idea what that has to do with the punchline… guess my retirement years are catching up to me :) “
Mouseover text: “Some tires are marketed as all-shape tires, but if driven in a climate with both inverted catenary falls and triangle falls they wear out really fast.”
