April 3 (ZZ5MV)

[MaverickZer0]

I have only myself to blame. I clicked the link knowing full well what was under it.

[PointyHairedJedi]

I wish I could dance like that.

*Stares wistfully into the distance*

[Wowbagger]

So I'm all, like, hey, it's late at night, fiveminute.net didn't do an April Fool's Joke, so let's just go read some old--what the frak! In fact, Zeke has taught me an important lesson about April Fool's jokes: they are far more effective and surprising when pulled on days other than April Fool's Day. I did, in fact, jump in my chair. Nicely done, sir.

I'll spare you all the bragging about the April Fool I pulled and cut to the chase, which is: Come now! Half-a-million "brain" jokes and not once does the math PhD or whatever you are manage to make a joke about branes? I'm disappointed.

Amused, yes. Very amused, in fact. But disappointed all the same.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Maybe he just forgot, you p-brane.

[Chancellor Valium]

Brains are also more effective when outbraineous.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Wowbagger

So I'm all, like, hey, it's late at night, fiveminute.net didn't do an April Fool's Joke, so let's just go read some old--what the frak! In fact, Zeke has taught me an important lesson about April Fool's jokes: they are far more effective and surprising when pulled on days other than April Fool's Day. I did, in fact, jump in my chair. Nicely done, sir.

I'd like to take that praise, but as I just noted in Misc, I wasn't lying in the newspost. I did do the ZZ5M.net thing on April 1 (albeit just barely). The newspost was a couple of days late for reasons that are not entirely unzombielike: I kept falling asleep at inappropriate times.

As for branes, I'm all braned out after reading the entire comment thread on xkcd's Zombie Fenyman strip (to see if anyone else had been annoyed about Fenyman's "unscientific darkness" line).* But I must admit I'd never heard of the things before that.

* Nobody had, of course. They really drink the Kool-Aid over there.

[Wowbagger]

Originally Posted by Zeke

* Nobody had, of course. They really drink the Kool-Aid over there.

All the more reason for you to start your own.

Just sayin'.

I went back and looked up the Zombie Feynman cartoon, and am forced to admit that I have no idea what you're talking about. I thought the punchline of that was brilliant, though, because it had both the string theorist snipe and the brane/brain pun. What do you have against Mythbusters?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

...pation!

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Sa'ar Chasm

...pation!

There's the other shoe!

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Wowbagger

All the more reason for you to start your own.

Just sayin'.

Flattering as that is, I would have the minor problem that any xkcd-like comic I created now would be seen, with some justice, as a ripoff. At least with fivers I'm in the opposite position. (grumble grumble movies in fifteen minutes grumble)

I thought the punchline of that was brilliant, though, because it had both the string theorist snipe and the brane/brain pun.

I'm pretty sure he just intended the snipe, not the pun. Something about his phrasing.

What do you have against Mythbusters?

Not a thing. I have something against the idea that we're in the "unscientific darkness" (though it's not out of character for Fenyman to say it).