A while back I found a site called The Hembeck Files, which reprints old DC-themed comic strips by cartoonist Fred Hembeck alongside related essays about comics. I just found one I hadn’t seen before, dealing with Zatanna and Professor Zoom. Zatanna performs magic by saying the words of her spells backward… and the accompanying essay is written in an appropriate format. (Ugh!)
Category: Entertainment
Mailer-Daemon’s Aunt Edna
Here’s a gem from today’s postmaster mail:
Mailer-daemon, You’ve received a postcard!
You have just received a virtual postcard from Aunt Edna!
Uh huh. I know some software projects have enough history to have family trees, but this seems just a bit too unlikely!
Identity Crisis Conclusion (spoilers)
I went out at lunch and picked up Identity Crisis #7. Looking back at the series, it was very satisfying dramatically, though of course there were many things happening in it that I didn’t like. Even the revelation of the killer’s ID didn’t feel like a cheat. There was no sense of an Armageddon 2001-style last-minute change, and no one showed up out of left field in the final chapter.
On to specifics. Spoilers abound! Continue reading
Recursive directions
From a medication insert:
But if you need instructions on how to use instructions, how are you going to follow the instructions for the instructions?
Working around the censors
I saw a truck this morning with a license plate that read:
After I tried to puzzle it out for a bit, I suddenly realized…
It’s pig latin.
I had a good laugh after that!
Proto-Autobots
I found this ad from 1972 while looking through old comic books. At first I just found it interesting in a proto-Transformers sort of way, but then I looked more closely at it:
It actually uses the phrasing, “more (car) than meets the eye!”
A little scripting humor
After updating some links, the following dialogue occurred to me:
Sallah: Indy, why does the web… move?
Indiana: Give me the URL.
(The location looks like a Python script)
Indiana: Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?
Sallah. ASP. Very dangerous. You go first.
(Actually, I have to credit Katie for the Python reference. The first and last lines just popped into my head, though.)