I know this to be true because my brother is making a car entirely out of edible goods, and my mom brought home a box of Twinkies. Ergo, either they still exist or they are a mass hallucination.
…You know you just reminded me that the symbol for standard deviation is sigma. The comments have discussed sigma as the symbol for summation, but I don’t believe anyone has commented on it also being a symbol of deviation from normality.
“I mean, I’m walking around and talking to a stuffed alligator in broad daylight, while using a Twinkie as a metaphor. I also usually have a severed autonomous hand on my shoulder and lug around body parts. What about this doesn’t say high baseline of weirdness exactly?”
Imagine there’s a Twinkie,
Cream-filled and so sweet.
No Hostess cupcake,
But a gold-delicious treat.
Imagine all the weirdness just round here today.
Imagine there’s a Twinkie,
It’s simple when you think.
Six inches long or better,
And not about to shrink.
Imagine all the weirdness it must symbolize, you-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo!
You may say he’s a weirdo,
But he’s not out there alone.
Quite a fly in the ointment,
As the strip so far has shown.
Imagine there’s possession,
Purchased at the corner store.
Alligator taken over:
Caveat Emptor!
Imagine all the weirdness spiking to a high, you-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo!
You may say he’s a weirdo,
But he’s not out there alone.
Quite a fly in the ointment,
As the strip so far has shown.
In Panel 1, the spirit that inhabits that crocodile has distorted its body into a hideous, unnatural posture. Which proves that “Godfrey” was actually a tyrannosaur. Specifically, a mid-20th-century tyrannosaur.
Egon: “Let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. According to this morning’s sample, it would be a Twinkie 35 feet long, weighing approximately 600 pounds.”
Here, I’m guessing an increase of 30-50%, which is huge, especially starting from a high baseline.
I wonder what the weirdness-blind see the stuffed alligator as? A dog? Or a little person in a lizard costume? (Not the strangest thing you might see in _our_ New Orleans).
Hmm, that makes me wonder if the rate of reality-blindness is positively or negatively correlated with the weirdness level of a place.
Are people more likely to develop reality blindness as a reaction the more weird things happen (it has been suggested that Bill-from-Narbonic‘s extreme reality blindness might be connected to Dave, although it’s unclear if that was a reaction to weird things happening around Dave or a different expression of Dave’s Mad Genius genes)?
Or are they less likely to with exposure because they get used to them (the reality-blind Whimsy employees from ‘My House Is Me’ lost their reality blindness after their encounter with the field team).
It probably increases up to a certain threshold, so the Whimsy employees eventually broke through. New Orleans’ baseline is probably above that threshold though, so for them it’s more that they’ve seen it before so it doesn’t bother them.
I thought Twinkies had been extirpated.
:Drops a slightly battered, still-smoking GAU-19 onto the work table:
That particular policy directive ended up being… contested.
That’s considered “aggressive negotiation skills”, right? I understand this technique is used extensively in certain circles.
Twinkies and other Hostess brands were purchased in 2013, and Twinkies were put back into production the same year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie
I know this to be true because my brother is making a car entirely out of edible goods, and my mom brought home a box of Twinkies. Ergo, either they still exist or they are a mass hallucination.
Building it one Reese’s Piece at a time, huh?
Hope they weren’t extirpated. I hear that involves walnuts, and that’d ruin their flavor.
Crushed walnut shell powder is used in sandblasting, as it is gentler. I imagine extirpation as involving shellblasting…
Yeeshk.
Flavor?
Somebody needs a normal distribution table and values for mean and standard deviation.
Someone needs to watch the original Ghostbusters again…
…You know you just reminded me that the symbol for standard deviation is sigma. The comments have discussed sigma as the symbol for summation, but I don’t believe anyone has commented on it also being a symbol of deviation from normality.
“I mean, I’m walking around and talking to a stuffed alligator in broad daylight, while using a Twinkie as a metaphor. I also usually have a severed autonomous hand on my shoulder and lug around body parts. What about this doesn’t say high baseline of weirdness exactly?”
‘Normal weirdness’ should have been the title of this webcomic.
A metaphor that has a shelf life of over a thousand years?
According to wikipedia, that’s a myth, the shelflife is actually 45 days. That’s still not bad for baked goods containing cream, of course.
That’s because it’s not cream. It’s beef tallow.
Imagine there’s a Twinkie,
Cream-filled and so sweet.
No Hostess cupcake,
But a gold-delicious treat.
Imagine all the weirdness just round here today.
Imagine there’s a Twinkie,
It’s simple when you think.
Six inches long or better,
And not about to shrink.
Imagine all the weirdness it must symbolize, you-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo!
You may say he’s a weirdo,
But he’s not out there alone.
Quite a fly in the ointment,
As the strip so far has shown.
Imagine there’s possession,
Purchased at the corner store.
Alligator taken over:
Caveat Emptor!
Imagine all the weirdness spiking to a high, you-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo!
You may say he’s a weirdo,
But he’s not out there alone.
Quite a fly in the ointment,
As the strip so far has shown.
—from, well, obviously, “Imagine,” John Lennon.
That rhyme in the 3rd verse is great!
In Panel 1, the spirit that inhabits that crocodile has distorted its body into a hideous, unnatural posture. Which proves that “Godfrey” was actually a tyrannosaur. Specifically, a mid-20th-century tyrannosaur.
I was thinking he was a caiman. Mostly the size.
Anyone else thinking of Ghostbusters with the twinkie analogy?
It’s a great Ghostbusters reference.
Egon: “Let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. According to this morning’s sample, it would be a Twinkie 35 feet long, weighing approximately 600 pounds.”
Here, I’m guessing an increase of 30-50%, which is huge, especially starting from a high baseline.
Loved that scene.
I wonder what the weirdness-blind see the stuffed alligator as? A dog? Or a little person in a lizard costume? (Not the strangest thing you might see in _our_ New Orleans).
Of course we have no idea why Remy was buying the dead alligator carcass in the first place…
Yes we do. He was making a protection charm.
Standard accessory for wizards, according to Terry Pratchett.
Hmm, that makes me wonder if the rate of reality-blindness is positively or negatively correlated with the weirdness level of a place.
Are people more likely to develop reality blindness as a reaction the more weird things happen (it has been suggested that Bill-from-Narbonic‘s extreme reality blindness might be connected to Dave, although it’s unclear if that was a reaction to weird things happening around Dave or a different expression of Dave’s Mad Genius genes)?
Or are they less likely to with exposure because they get used to them (the reality-blind Whimsy employees from ‘My House Is Me’ lost their reality blindness after their encounter with the field team).
It probably increases up to a certain threshold, so the Whimsy employees eventually broke through. New Orleans’ baseline is probably above that threshold though, so for them it’s more that they’ve seen it before so it doesn’t bother them.
That’s a decently oversized Twinkie.
A half foot twinkle is still pretty big