This is a different universe. They may teleport in the opposite direction in order to have wacky adventures together afterwards. Sort of a romantic comedy in reverse.
It’s a euphemism for being able to take a marachino cherry from a cocktail, put the stem in your mouth and tie it in a knot with your tongue.
I always assumed it predated “twin peaks”.
I met someone who could do it. It’s apparently not all that hard and it’s surprisingly unsexy. It basically looks like you are chewing a wad of gum while constipated and it ends with you spitting out a saliva coated loop of fiber much as a cat spits up failed hairball swimming in bile.
Trust me it predates Twin Peaks by quite a few decades. I’m 54 and I remember hearing a joke about it as a kid and being too young to understand why it was supposed to be funny. That being said, I once kissed a guy who I saw *double-knot* a cherry stem and it was pretty damn memorable. **grin** Sometimes cliches tell the truth.
No, but being part cat, I can lick the insides of my own thighs, nyao. (Really great icebreaker at parties, might I add…) Did you know that cats have several more vertebrae than humans do? >-_^<
I vaguely recall that moment in Twin Peaks. The big exchange that sticks in my mind is “Do you have any idea what a combination of sexual maturity and superhuman strength can result in?” … in regards to funny parts, not sexy parts.
Never could do the cherry stem thing. Otherwise I’m pretty good with my tongue. I can touch my nose with it, I can roll it turn it upside down (well, the front part at least) make a wide variety of sounds and rhythms. But the cherry stem thing has always eluded me. 🙁
Props on making a not-stupid quantum physics joke! Not that I’m qualified to judge, but if you accept the magic of the gate (which is pretty magical, but still a staple of fiction because it’s fun), then some weird kind of entanglement is presumably what’s going on. And also thanks for avoiding my pet peeve, which is treating the waveform collapse as scientific fact as opposed to a metaphysical phenomenon posited by the decreasingly popular Copenhagen Interpretation. (I think the CI is peculiar and solipsistic, in that the part of the waveform that disappears in the collapse is essentially defined to be that part which is no longer observable from a given perspective, even though being observable or not is a complex question and it’s strange to think that fundamental properties like existence should not depend on complex emergent ones — to me it’s almost like saying all the people I’ll never meet again do not exist.)
well then
Smoooth.
Is Rebecca’s mojo as powerful as that of Dennis? They may be in California before the morning if it is.
This is a different universe. They may teleport in the opposite direction in order to have wacky adventures together afterwards. Sort of a romantic comedy in reverse.
Oh great, now I’m getting Twin Peaks flashbacks…
“Cherry stem?” Is that an euphemism for something? And did he admit he’s not a virgin?
It’s an actual thing. Supposedly the logic goes that you’re skilled with your tongue if you make a cherry stem into a knot. Draw your own conclusions.
It’s real. Laura Flynn Boyle did it during her Twin Peaks audition (in fact, that;s how she got the job).
I’ve never tried it myself (the little papillae on my tongue get in the way), but I’m told that it takes practice.
“Twin Peaks” reference. This girl was interviewing at a bordello….
It’s a euphemism for being able to take a marachino cherry from a cocktail, put the stem in your mouth and tie it in a knot with your tongue.
I always assumed it predated “twin peaks”.
I met someone who could do it. It’s apparently not all that hard and it’s surprisingly unsexy. It basically looks like you are chewing a wad of gum while constipated and it ends with you spitting out a saliva coated loop of fiber much as a cat spits up failed hairball swimming in bile.
I can do it and it is super sexy.
Ew.
Well, if *you* do it, it would be, wouldn’t it?
I wanna see video, nyao!
Trust me it predates Twin Peaks by quite a few decades. I’m 54 and I remember hearing a joke about it as a kid and being too young to understand why it was supposed to be funny. That being said, I once kissed a guy who I saw *double-knot* a cherry stem and it was pretty damn memorable. **grin** Sometimes cliches tell the truth.
Ever since that “Twin Peaks” episode…
No, but I can do push-ups with it…
Piker….
Can you lick clean your eyebrows, triple-tongue a cornet, and fire watermelon seeds for both distance and accuracy?
3:)
No, but being part cat, I can lick the insides of my own thighs, nyao. (Really great icebreaker at parties, might I add…) Did you know that cats have several more vertebrae than humans do? >-_^<
That reminds me of an old Red Skelton bit on a video I used to have. When asked to stick out his tongue, he replies, “I do not do windows.”
nice sunset!
Considering it was night in the previous strip, this is probably sunrise.
…but yeah. Nice.
“Spooky action at a distance,” eh? Kinky.
So the physicist asks, ‘Are you a top or bottom’…
reply you’re charmed but strange…
Dammit. I wish like buttons were easier to implement in WordPress.
I vaguely recall that moment in Twin Peaks. The big exchange that sticks in my mind is “Do you have any idea what a combination of sexual maturity and superhuman strength can result in?” … in regards to funny parts, not sexy parts.
That sounds like a reference to Larry Niven’s article “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex (Or, why can’t Superman get a date)”.
Never could do the cherry stem thing. Otherwise I’m pretty good with my tongue. I can touch my nose with it, I can roll it turn it upside down (well, the front part at least) make a wide variety of sounds and rhythms. But the cherry stem thing has always eluded me. 🙁
The trick is that you use your teeth.
http://www.wikihow.com/Tie-a-Knot-in-a-Cherry-Stem-With-Your-Tongue
Props on making a not-stupid quantum physics joke! Not that I’m qualified to judge, but if you accept the magic of the gate (which is pretty magical, but still a staple of fiction because it’s fun), then some weird kind of entanglement is presumably what’s going on. And also thanks for avoiding my pet peeve, which is treating the waveform collapse as scientific fact as opposed to a metaphysical phenomenon posited by the decreasingly popular Copenhagen Interpretation. (I think the CI is peculiar and solipsistic, in that the part of the waveform that disappears in the collapse is essentially defined to be that part which is no longer observable from a given perspective, even though being observable or not is a complex question and it’s strange to think that fundamental properties like existence should not depend on complex emergent ones — to me it’s almost like saying all the people I’ll never meet again do not exist.)
I see that this no longer updates at 8:01 sharp in my area, what time does it update now?
I so wanna use Artie’s comment in panel four on someone who would get the reference now!
I feel like Shaenon already used the quantum entanglement joke in Narbonic one time.