Random Fiver Option?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Well, a secondary reason is to get rid of all of those II jokes.

I don't understand why you didn't want to be I^2. It's current squared.

Mmmm, currant squares.

[Zeke]

And with that post -- to be known to future historians as "The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back" -- the Chasmatic One finally exceeded the resistance of those around him, and was never seen again.

Sic transit V=IR.

[Nate the Great]

I^2 wouldn't have been that bad, but it's a moot point now.

Thanks Z, if I'd known it'd be that easy I would've asked earlier.

[AKAArzosah]

I was really Infinite Improbability, at a Nate the Greatness factor of pi with ice cream!

LOL

Can I call you InfiNate? It's like great, only bigger.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Originally Posted by Zeke

And with that post -- to be known to future historians as "The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back" -- the Chasmatic One finally exceeded the resistance of those around him, and was never seen again.

Sic transit V=IR.

And I actually remember what that means, too. Seems those years of physics wasn't totally wasted then.

[Nate the Great]

Thanks Arzosah. I just figured that at least for a week or so, I should use my sig to tip off some of the less diligent forumgoers as to the change.

InfiNate? Never thought of that one. It never even sunk in that "nate" is a part of "infinate." Never ever.

[ijdgaf]

Screw that. But thanks for inspiring the portmanteau "Infigreat". I shall use it in all conversations henceforth.

[Zeke]

Suuuure. You watch, this'll turn out just like the time he was going to solve all the problems.

[Nate the Great]

Who was going to solve what problems?

Yeah, infinite, infinate, what's the diff? (And where's the beef? And who's the clown? And when's the party? And how's the veal? And....)

[catalina_marina]

Originally Posted by Zeke

By the way, my "awkward" joke was apparently based on misreading Cat. I thought she didn't remember who Arzosah was.

Ahh, that makes sense.

Originally Posted by Sa'ar Chasm

I don't understand why you didn't want to be I^2.

Sure, but I'd start calling him -1.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

I said I, not i.

And just for Zeke, because he liked my currant squares so much...

= <-- in chemistry, this is a double bond, which consists of a sigma bond and a pi bond.

Mmmm, pie bondage.

[Zeke]

No groan for my fiendishly brilliant chemistry/B5 crossover joke? Alas. I'm familiar with sigma and pi bonds (so named because they involve s and p orbitals respectively), but to my amazement, I realize now that I never considered the pun potential. Too many already in math, I guess.

Nate: What to do about crackers.

[Nate the Great]

Uh, yeah...

Stuff like that is precisely why I prefer Bob and George for my webcomic needs. Do people really tune in everyday to watch cut-and-pasted dinosaurs spout nonsense?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

No groan for my fiendishly brilliant chemistry/B5 crossover joke? Alas.

That wasn't chemistry, that was physics. Well, OK, electrochemistry, but the one or two labs I did on it were more concerned with cell potential than current.

I did get it, though (for once). I was too impressed by all the levels (most of which have already been explored elsewhere, but never mind) to throw things at you.

[ijdgaf]

Dinosaur Comics is pretty much the most intellectual webcomic I can think of. Sometimes the jokes are off the wall and non sequitur. Usually, the comic speaks of all sorts of philosophical and scientific topics that you will pretty much never see references in any piece of humor anywhere else. Yet are infinitely interesting.

Generally, it's a mix of the two.