January 10th, 2010
Squidragon Quest part 13
Orange you glad I made this joke? I think I’m going to have to have Christi and Patricia and Boo go on an adventure together at some point, but next week we’ll be back to non-narrative gags. Perhaps one about comparing pets?
January 10th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Please do. You are my monster mashup king.
January 10th, 2010 at 9:30 am
But the comparing thing is not about saying how they’re similar, it’s about saying which one is better.
(For reference, oranges are better than apples, scuba gear is better than oranges, and apples are better than scuba gear. It’s a rock-scissors-paper variant.)
January 10th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Dear Brian,
Science agrees with Patricia:
http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i3/air-1-3-apples.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1120087/
P.S. Your pet puns are terrific.
January 11th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Ilan – I think you’re in luck!
Raven Black – Better at what?
I wonder which came first the term “apples to oranges” or “apples to apples comparison”
Neck BeaRRRRd – Hooray science! And thanks!
January 12th, 2010 at 1:33 am
They both make interesting projectiles (to me anyway)
They are both edible…
Both can be found in supermarkets…
Both are easily destroyed by nuclear weapons…
Both are made up of matter…
Both can be swallowed by black holes…
January 12th, 2010 at 6:16 am
KNO3 – you’re not talking about scuba gear and apples are you? You shouldn’t eat Scuba gear or you’ll end up like Yaphet Kotto in Live and Let Die.
January 12th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
The older iron tank scuba gear is edible. You just gotta process it first. Turn it into rust and use it to enrich the soil. Then eat the plants that absorb the iron. Burn the rubber and use the CO2 to grow plants.
Scuba gear and apples? Can do.
They both make interesting projectiles (to me anyway)
Both are easily destroyed by nuclear weapons…
Both are made up of matter…
Both can be swallowed by black holes…
Both can be used as counterweight in trebuchets.
Both are not legal punkin’ chunkin’ ammunition…
January 13th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Well, “better at what?” is also kind of the point of the “comparing apples and oranges” complaint. Apples are better at not having to be peeled, while oranges are better at not having an unpleasant core.
On a related note, I recommend the boardgame “Apples to Apples”, though I feel obliged to point out that it is not, in truth, a boardgame, as it has no board.
January 13th, 2010 at 10:48 am
Ugh, I found Apples to Apples so frustrating. I think I mentioned this before in a post. I felt so limited by my choices. I prefer Balderdash where you can go hog wild in your definitions/connections.
January 14th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Isn’t Balderdash a small planet in the Vanguard Reaches?
January 15th, 2010 at 7:39 am
Balderdash is an 1800s remedy for hair loss. Anyone else?
May 9th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
A shaved hyphen?
March 3rd, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Balderdash is an old German remedy for rug burn.
May 10th, 2014 at 8:57 pm
USB: It doesn’t need to be shaved, just have less hair that the other hyphens.
No good writer ever uses hyphens because they try to avoid using flat characters.