Positive One

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Like your imaginary friends, you can be the positive one.

Now, I know the value of i, but what do we know about all those b g's?

If you're wondering why I didn't do a "four i" joke, well, because I did one a looooong time ago, in January 2011.

This wasn't a good "Mike" comic and definitely not a student comic, so I fell back on the tried and true stick figures.

A little trivia: I've lived a good part of the past three decades only a few blocks from that famous street walk from Saturday Night Fever. The famed Lenny's Pizza just closed its doors recently after all those years.

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(x, why?) Mini: Halfway

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I would guess that he's a teacher.

I briefly flirted with the idea of using C, J, and B for the points, but that might've been confusing.

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Sentenced to Prism

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I deserve a cone!

Prism is one of those words that you don't hear correctly the first time in my class. A prism's just a box. But, ironically, (or is it "coincidentally"?), a prison cell is usually in the shape of a prism.

But why does it have to be?

Probably for stacking reasons. And being able to first more cells into a block.

On the other hand, "Prismatic" usually means "colorful" with many varied and bright colors. Prisons are usually dull and muted in color, except, perhaps, for orange jumpsuits.

Math note: this started as a "Volume" comic even though it never got there.

The final comment will be "period" because it will come at the end of this sentence.

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Long Lay The World...

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Pining for the fjords. Or for presents. Or something.

My apologies if I've done this one before. I know I've thought it before.

It's a crazy time. I've come up with a couple of good ones, but the fact that I don't remember them a day later tells me that they weren't that memorable. I've been listening to Christmas music radio, so anything inspired by a song would reoccur to me should I hear it again. Much like the above comic.

I do have one more comic that I might start for next year because it'll take time that I don't have. Plus I have a couple other thoughts that I need to use this year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season and a Happy New Year to everyone out there who has kept me going. I plan on updating again before Sunday, but if I don't make it, I want it printed now.

Thank you everyone. I appreciate you whether you post or not. Especially those who post when I don't make math errors, but when I do, too.

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Through the Years

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Hitting new heights since way too long ago.

Possibly based on a true story. Well you know that it's happening somewhere, right?

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Math Cafe

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All natural is healthier, right?

I can blame-- er, credit Dr. Jim Preggo with telling me this a few days ago when he found out about my blog. Normally, I wouldn't use one of the basic math puns, but then the needed imagery came to me, so I went with it. Of course, it has stick figures though.

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Free Buffet

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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. But a free punch in the face? Maybe.

Be sure to clarify which it is.

If anime and manga, characters have a tendency to scream out the ultimate moves they are about to make. When the word "buffet" comes along, it can be a little confusing at first. It doesn't mean, "eat my fists"!

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The Battle of Two Points

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Doesn't everyone?

I realize now, several hours after creating the image, seeing anything may prove difficult since neither stick figure has eyes (that we can see). But I liked how the bandana and the facial hair came out. The swords wasn't too bad either.

Suggested when I politely corrected someone who was trying to self-correct but ended on "fo-KYE".

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The First Guy Asked for H20...

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Get the second guy some hydrogren peroxide already! Water alone isn't going to clean that cut properly.

This is a callback to A Guy Walks Into a Bar just because I felt like revisiting that old comic with this new one. That comic was so old, it was saved at a Bitmap file. I thought I'd been using .jpg or .gif ("Jif") files before moving on the .png.

As noted recently, Ken is otherwise occupied at the moment.

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Lips and Lies

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Three chances out of four that's true.

But truth tables mean little to nothing to some people.

For the sake of argument: some ventriloquists lie a lot without moving their lips.

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New Improbolympic Events

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It can add a new dimension to the games ... or take one away.

I don't think I could've done better with those hurdles, even with infinite time.

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Why Did I -- ?

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Neither one was me this morning, but I was closer to the second guy.

I don't know what possesses people to stop in doorways and at the tops and bottoms of escalators, thinking that these are the best places to evaluate their surroundings.

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BOGO

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I mean, shouldn't it be B1G1?

That would also make it easier to play around with the pricing, according to what the market brings: B2G1, B3G3, etc.

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On The Strip

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The real twist is watching the ladies of Mobius Strip. There's no corner to stand on.

There used to be a hotel in Rye that was laid out like a Mobius strip, possibly designed by Escher. First timers could get lost following the map, so someone constructed a 3-D model to people orient themselves.

Now I'm thinking that I should update this comic to include buildings, but I don't think I allowed enough room for that.

ObMath: A Mobius strip is actually a one-sided surface and it you walk far enough, you'll go double the length of a non-twisted loop before you return to your starting point.

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