Cicada

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A big hit for the Ram-Ones about 34 years ago.

It's All Good

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For those you think this joke should have ran on 5-5, I hear you loud and clear. Too late to change that now.

If You Want to Get Real About It

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That Mr. 0. Always putting the 'berate' in 'be rational'.

Be as I say not as I am.
(I.e., Rational is a subset of Real.)

Mothers Day 2013: In Geological Terms

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I'm relearning Patience. Which I never mastered in the first place.

You know who has a lot of Patience? The doctor.

Edit:Remember, it isn't Patience = Virtue. It's Patience is an element of Virtue.

Edit 2:As was pointed out to me, besides having a Happy Mothers Day, also have a Happy Pythagorean Triple Day!
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Not Iron

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Along with the third member of the team: Hoff-Man, who can leave them in the Dust!

Alt-alt-text: Rain Man is his liaison with the Thunder God.

Carry On

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A little, light dinner music.

Just another one of those things that gets inside your head and you can't work it out.

Ob-Math: If six buzzards can strip a carcass in 20 minutes, how long ... ah, skip it!

Any Trigonometry Jones Fans?

The top search term that led to my site this week was trigonometry jones. That can't be a co-incidence, unless there's a math character out there that I wasn't aware of when I took a simple joke about "being right" and spun into something I hadn't imagined.

If you were one of those searching for Mr. Jones, let me know. I know that it's been a long time, but I did get bogged down in an actual plot instead of just moving a story along. And like some of the greats (not that I'm putting myself among them, just emulating them), I know the next step and I know how it ends, and it's just a matter of getting there.

And, I will admit, other than getting bogged down in the strip, the other problem was that I actually got a tepid-to-poor review of the comic, which might not have bothered me so much, but it was the only review I'd seen since I'd first started making the comic, so it stung a little. So I moved on from there.

By the way, the top search term last week was about "cinco de mayo" and as a result, temporarily, the Parabola comic has dethroned Coffee Logic as the most-viewed comic of the week.

Mode, Part II

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Where else can private investigators and pirates and picaroons be scooped up with a cherry on top?

I was going to include the Sixes in the gag, but the strip was getting too wide as it was, and I liked the symmetry of having 2, 3, and 4, 5 on either side.

Happy cinco de mayo. Have a parabola.

Long time readers and recent Googlers will understand that the title is a reference to this strip, one the first real-life moments that was recorded in the comic. And it happened before this strip even started! I had to wait about seven months to post it.

Thankfully, the artwork is getting a little better in the comic and people aren't so pale.

May the Fourth Be With You!

It's the unofficial STAR WARS Day in the United States ("The Fourth of May Be With You" just doesn't cut it, OK, U.K.?)

To celebrate, here's a link to three Star Wars-themed comics.

I hope you like them, and if so, let me know so that they'll pop up more frequently than three times in six years.

Mode, Part I

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The most exciting phrase to hear in humor, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'That's funny ...', but 'Eureka!'

And if you hate this comic, remember: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Be competent. Don't hurt me.
And I still can't let you in without a badge.

Average

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Really, I should just let me students write this comic.

But then they might want royalties.

I was tempted to add an extra beat panel between panels five and six and making it an eight-panel comic but then I'd need to finish with a snappy, sarcastic thought bubble, which might be inappropriate if I'm admitting that this situation actually happened nearly verbatim in class. I think nothing but the best of my students, particularly in public.