I had made what I thought was a pretty good gag about the absence of galactic spam about making financial wherewithal on your home planet, but it didn't post — I have a feeling that I made it so realistic it got caught by the spam filter.
Probably there's room for some kind of follow-up xkcd about gravity wave spam filters accidentally causing a cure for cancer to be held up for 50 years.
bratschegirl said,
February 12, 2016 @ 12:03 pm
Oh, snap. Nailed it!
Jeff Carney said,
February 12, 2016 @ 1:54 pm
No Amazon Prime events? Clearly Randall and I live in different universes.
ardj said,
February 12, 2016 @ 2:30 pm
are you sure it wasn't the earth moving for you ?
Rube said,
February 12, 2016 @ 2:50 pm
I had made what I thought was a pretty good gag about the absence of galactic spam about making financial wherewithal on your home planet, but it didn't post — I have a feeling that I made it so realistic it got caught by the spam filter.
Probably there's room for some kind of follow-up xkcd about gravity wave spam filters accidentally causing a cure for cancer to be held up for 50 years.
gribley said,
February 12, 2016 @ 3:13 pm
A tenuous connection perhaps, but this reminds me of the excellent "universal New Yorker cartoon caption".
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/09/23/universal_new_yorker_cartoon_captions_hi_i_d_like_to_add_you_to_my_professional.html
and many more at
https://goo.gl/z4mZIo
D.O. said,
February 12, 2016 @ 9:51 pm
Why are they doing it on what seems like ancient (1950s?) terminal?
James Wimberley said,
February 14, 2016 @ 6:29 am
Rube: I tried a joke about products for BEM erectile dysfunction, but that seems to have been trapped too.
Terry Hunt said,
February 15, 2016 @ 1:08 pm
@ D.O. – Linguist aren't the only scientists who find it hard to scrape up grants for new equipment.
Terry Hunt said,
February 15, 2016 @ 1:08 pm
Kindly insert missing 's' in obvious place above.