8th February 2004, 5:37 PM
65 - Plan B From Outer-Space
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
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12th February 2004, 1:15 PM
As he said in the comics thread, if you don't know you don't deserve to. It's the Monolith from 2001 and it has .. I don't know, I didn't see the movie... but supposedly its impossible to get the joke unless you've seen it.
12th February 2004, 2:40 PM
I've seen the movie a billion times but I'm still confused...
And you haven't seen 2001?? What's wrong with you, boy??
12th February 2004, 2:58 PM
Never got around to it...
12th February 2004, 4:14 PM
I didn't see the movie, but I read the book several times and I don't get it either.
YOU CANNOT HIDE FOREVER
WE STAND AT THE DOOR
12th February 2004, 6:28 PM
Alright, if I have to do it I have to do it. I'll explain the joke. Okay here's how it goes: In the movie 2001 the apes find the monolith [or it finds them] and because of their contact with it they evovle. Now, supposedly we SHOULD notice it and take an interest in it and because of our contact with it we would also evovle [into the star-child or whatever]. Instead we completely fail to notice it at all and in the end it gets thrown out with the trash. The characters are SO STUPID that they completely fail to notice a giant black monolith sitting in the middle of the living room and, somehow, throw it out without ever ONCE becoming curious about it. There.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
12th February 2004, 7:57 PM
That makes sense... the comic did not express it very well, though. :)
12th February 2004, 8:09 PM
It actually very much conveys that we ARE in fact paying attention to it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
12th February 2004, 8:17 PM
All the characters are doing something other than taking an interest in it...
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
12th February 2004, 8:43 PM
Um, I couldn't tell that... actually I didn't notice the Monolith in the room until you posted your explanation. I just saw the door (I know it's a window but I saw a door)... didn't notice the Monolith in front of it. :) And yeah, all the people are in the room doing things... it is not clear at all that they aren't paying attention. And it also isn't clear that it was thrown out... suddenly it's outside (I couldn't tell that that was a trash can until you told me so)? Huh?
13th February 2004, 2:36 PM
It needed to be clearer in the strip though. :)
25th February 2004, 10:52 AM
What were we talking about, again? I'm too lazy to scroll up.
25th February 2004, 1:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 25th February 2004, 1:25 PM by Great Rumbler.)
I can't remember.
Edit: Another delete post...for the preservation of "The Order".
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
25th February 2004, 2:32 PM
Oh yeah?! Well your face sucks!! Haha...ha...hmm...
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
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