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That was indeed a homage to Quino, I am a big Quino fan and I could totally get the vibe before reading the explanation at the bottom.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2447
For a minute I thought I was reading Spud Comics, and that they suddenly turned clever.
Youkai Serious
"People LOVE graph jokes, not a vegetable."
Dreamworks
But the tomato is a fruit! A berry, even!
There is no clear-cut biological definition of a vegetable though. You could define vegetable as edible plant matter, but then edible fruits would be a subset.
Eh, from what I remember "biological fruit" = ripened ovary, anything else that you eat = vegetable.
Of course, the colloquial definition for plants is, as far as I can tell, "tastes sweet = fruit, anything else = vegetable", which is why tomatoes as fruit sounds odd to a lot of people.
Not Actually Indie
Lots of "vegetables" are fruits. Cucumbers, every type of squash, peppers, eggplant, any sort of legumes in the pod....
For what it's worth, Wikipedia says of vegetables
If it's a sweet edible botanical fruit, then it's a culinary fruit. If it's an unsweet edible botanical fruit, it's a culinary vegetable.
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
94. Grandmaster of Shark
Way to miss the point of the strip, guys.
But I'm an engineer! I get my humor by taking everything way too seriously until the original joke begs for mercy!
This strip wins in so many ways.
I would have preferred it didn't include the last panel though.
It's easy, mmkay?
They should have replaced the last panel with the bonus panel, and come up with a new bonus panel.
At first I didn't realize I needed all this stuff...
Angry Moth
I would've preferred it if he left out the last two panels. Still funny.
Who's an angry moth? You are! Yes you are! You're the fuzziest and angriest moth! Original pic.
Jokes like "Isn't tomato paste smoothie" make zero sense, obviously, and I kind of want to punch people who correct me when I say "tomatoes and other vegetables" in the testicles and / or ovaries.
Fun fact: Tomatoes are vegetables in Russian and likely other Slavic languages. Any kind of berry isn't a fruit either.
edited 1st Jan '12 9:35:21 PM by thefran
STEALTH!!!
hnnnng
I like how the "blocked" homepage links to the also-"blocked" Wikipedia.
cum
I'm glasses.
Can we change the unbelievably grating typo in this thread title already?
Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember them, you are not alone.
kingslayer
NEVER
"Teebs is a total grump, but he's usually right." - NLK
This comic bothers me, mainly because we've used pieces of string to the same effect long before laser pointers.
Angry Moth
Dog are still our friends tho. Wait, missread that, derp.
edited 25th Feb '12 7:41:00 PM by MisterC
Who's an angry moth? You are! Yes you are! You're the fuzziest and angriest moth! Original pic.
Lasers still are worse than strings, because before at least the cat was actually chasing something solid. It is much easier to screw with its mind by making the laser disappear and appear randomly. And you can do it at enough distance that the cat reacting aggressively stops being a risk. Yeah, I am overthinking a web comic.
Not An Avatar
Are those supposed to be blank, or is it just because I'm using Firefox with NoScript?
They're supposed to be visible alright.
