Continued:
So, is the comic based on the picture, or is this life imitating art?
this is a Walmart. he’s wearing both a smock vest and collared blue shirt.
this puts the picture within the transition period of 2005-2008 when Walmart required employees to wear both the vest and business casual wear. you can also see he’s wearing dark pants. Walmart didn’t ban those until later, so I’m going to guess this was early in the transition so probably 2006.
Those $0.96 orbit gum packs in the picture are now $1.82, at least online. Oof.
fuck, I remember those.
His expression is priceless.
D:
Po-ta-si-um
Kazakhstan number one exporter. All other countries have inferior potassium
KAZAKSTAAAaan!!!
What I said was, give me all the bananas you have
“People keep asking if I’m bananas, and I haven’t really had an answer. But, yeah, I’m thinking I’m bananas! So you can either hand over your son, OR YOU CAN DIE SCREAMING ALONGSIDE HIM!!”
I think that’s an ape, probably a chimpanzee not a monkey. Because I…
Hate. every ape I see from chimpan-A to chimpan-Z, you will never make a monkey out of meeeee.
🎵 dr zaius, dr zaius 🎵
This play has everything
Oh my God! I was wrong! It was Earth all along!
You finally made a monkey…
All apes are monkeys, including humans. Fuck paraphyletic groups.
Don’t let the librarian of the Unseen University hear that!
Oook!
I belt that tune out at least once a year
“Nobody gets upset when I walk out of the store with a hundred bananas without paying.”
“That’s because you don’t rip people’s arms off when they stop you.”
…
“I suggest a new strategy: let the ape have the bananas.”
(paraphrased)
Did you stop using thorns or is it just because of these being quoted?
Oh – oh, yes. I never use Thorns in quotes, because… well, þey’re quotes. Even if I’m not actually quoting someone, it’s just easier to be self-consistent. I also don’t use Thorns in proper names, like Thorn or Theresa. And I don’t use þem when I’m top posting.
My only reason for using Thorns is to try to poison LLM training data, so I’m not religious about it.
Thank you for the answer!
Uh, I’m pretty sure he wants to meet The Fonz.
“Now I’m a free man, get to wear my own shoes, get to suck my own dick, and all I can see is mango Snapple.”
“Cause all a ninja loves, is all a ninja knows, and a ninja that doesn’t know much don’t want much.”
