Exploit the weakness. Get them talking.
The things you do for love, right? Anyway, the idea for this was might go as far back as The Temple of Duran, and it was definitely meant to be a follow-up to Off On a Tangent, which I didn't get around to doing.
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I was going to use Truth tables and conditionals, but the "leave your friends behind" statement was a dead giveaway.
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That Art! He is the Clipper to the Stars!
Ten years in the making, at least. And I originally wanted to put some familiar head shots in there, like you see on barber walls.
I've had the joke, but not the means to do it. Then, on a whim, I checked the web for 8-bit creators, and found a couple. I created a witch in no time. And then I nearly crashed my iPad when I tried using some of the site's functions to either save or email the picture. Seriously, if was a half-hour or more before my iPad was responding, and I was afraid I would have to do another factory reset.
Luckily, the second site was a little better and PC friendly. I recreated my witch, print-screened and saved it that way. Then I re-colored it to match my original witch, which I liked better. (Which witch? The first one.)
I made the next three in a couple of days, and passed them by the expert: my son. I thought they came out good, but didn't know what was sticking on the side of the second guy's head. I said I was going for "Elf". Oh, well. I changed the coloring a little.
Next problem was that the joke was ALWAYS "Four SHAVES, Four Haircuts". Only one guy had a beard -- and one of the others was female.
First try was to create the pirate, who I thought was "okay" but I wasn't happy with his eyepatch or his hat. Keep in mind, he came before either of the two pirate jokes that I already posted this week. He could've tied them all together very nicely. (He might've been part of the reason I came up with the other two jokes, and well as the play on "Barber".)
But I liked the witch, and I thought that a wizard wouldn't be a difficult transition. So I went that route instead.
For those who are interested, the original artwork is posted below. The knight always had a beard, even before I "remembered" the joke. Witch, elf, barbarian (part satyr?), knight, pirate, wizard.
I hope you like them. I could try to recreate them sometime, but it won't be easy though.
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Sometimes I'm like a dog with a pun, er, bone, and I don't want to let it go.
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Loving would easy if your numbers were like my dreams: fourteen oh three, fourteen oh thre-ee-ee!!
The original truth table for this was going to be way too complicated for this joke.
Oh, and if you're reading this on the blog, this is comic #1403, which just worked out that way. I pretty much just needed a three at the end.
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It was the next big thing after Space Inversions.
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Afterward you can divide. Are you gonna do it?
Feel the Math.
For those who don't know: The Power Station was an 80s band composed of Robert Palmer, John Taylor, Andy Taylor and Tony Thompson (not pictured).
As an element of the set of Real numbers, I know you qualify. Are you gonna do it?
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My other choice: Every Kirk has his Gorn . . .
The more I think about it, I might've gotten enough sci-fi references to fill that in, had I tried, had I tried ... Damn it, Jim!
Meanwhile, 80s Week continues.
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If you quiz them, then you'll test Twobes ...
A little music trivia: this is the kind of song that I enjoy on the radio, but never bought the entire album (which is what they had back then). It's because of this that even though I've heard the song Talk to You Later many, many times over the The Tubes, and this song, have an interesting place in music history. A long time ago, in the early days of MTV -- you know, back when they played Music -- the network didn't air in places like NY or LA. It did, however, air on cable TV in places like Tulsa, OK. By co-incidence, Talk to You Later sold out in Tulsa despite not getting any airplay at all on the radio. MTV took full credit for this and went to music studios and told them that they needed to produce videos to advertise their records ... and give them to MTV.
The rest is History. As in thing that happened in the past because no one makes albums any more, MTV doesn't play music, and videos go straight to YouTube these days. (Or whatever the next thing after that is.)
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