OMG, I just emailed that paper to my dentist last week! (_Rheology_Bulletin_, vol. 83, no. 2, July 2014, “On the rheology of cats”, if anyone else wants to look it up.) It’s been sitting in my iPad for ages (well, at most four years, but whatever), and I’d mentioned it to her at my last appointment.
(Okay, my almost-dentist. I’ve been going to the Pre-Doctoral General Dentistry Clinic at UM. She graduates next year. And if I’d had a dentist like her twenty years ago, I wouldn’t have wound up with so many hangups and fears about dentistry.)
To answer the question, according to my understanding of how reality blindness works[1] no, because lions don’t have goatees and glasses.
[1]My understanding of how reality blindness works is “almost exactly the same as the way nobody can hear Gaspode the Wonder Dog talk, because everyone knows dogs can’t talk.”
I can’t recall seeing it on the stands. What was the release date?
Clearly the book tour was cut short. Perhaps it is still unknown in your area.
Okay, so my question is, can reality-blind people still see that the viscous wild animal has a goatee and is wearing enormous glasses?
Autocorrect almost got it right.
Or Leo resolved the conjecture about felidae other than felis catus in M.A. Fardin, 2014 when he got in the bathtub.
OMG, I just emailed that paper to my dentist last week! (_Rheology_Bulletin_, vol. 83, no. 2, July 2014, “On the rheology of cats”, if anyone else wants to look it up.) It’s been sitting in my iPad for ages (well, at most four years, but whatever), and I’d mentioned it to her at my last appointment.
(Okay, my almost-dentist. I’ve been going to the Pre-Doctoral General Dentistry Clinic at UM. She graduates next year. And if I’d had a dentist like her twenty years ago, I wouldn’t have wound up with so many hangups and fears about dentistry.)
I mean, it’s technically correct. If you lack sufficient viscosity, you’re probably not an animal, wild or otherwise.
Actually that was a combination of manual spell-check and dyslexia. Sorry.
To answer the question, according to my understanding of how reality blindness works[1] no, because lions don’t have goatees and glasses.
[1]My understanding of how reality blindness works is “almost exactly the same as the way nobody can hear Gaspode the Wonder Dog talk, because everyone knows dogs can’t talk.”
And just how much of a wild animal were you with your editor in that hotel room, Leo?
He was just a lion in bed.
Sorry. Leaving now.
Not as much as Harlan Ellison (RIP)
A couple of obits identified him as “Science Fiction Writer Harlan Ellison.” I’m sure it wouldn’t have amused him—but I thought it was funny.
In that last panel, Leo is wearing an expression we’ve seen so many times on Tip!
Well, Tip has been known to be a wild animal in hotel rooms on occasion as well.
Hotel room, apartments, supply closets, unused mad scientist laboratories, . . . not picky about much but fashion, is our Tip.
Not even picky about fashion as of late.
I believe the Rolling Stones had a similar rider.
Wild rider… not to be confused with a Wynona rider
Hmm. Unable to post a comment in TenFourFox but it works in an obsolete version of Safari. Unexpected outcome there.
Leo’s comment in the last panel gave me such a This Is Spinal Tap flashback, I swear…
Now that I look at it, me too!