Primate preferences

August 10, 2024 @ 6:43 am · Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

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Today's SMBC:

Mouseover title: "Unprompted, they will walk into a cafe and pretend they have important business to do."

The aftercomic:

August 10, 2024 @ 6:43 am · Filed by under Linguistics in the comics


8 Comments

  1. Laura Morland said,

    August 10, 2024 @ 6:46 am

    Gone mad… out of loneliness?

  2. Nathan said,

    August 10, 2024 @ 12:06 pm

    Free software really is exclusive to humans.

  3. David L said,

    August 10, 2024 @ 9:28 pm

    What sort of elitists like to eat at the Golden Arches? That was my first take. I guess I am not as culturally plugged-in as these gorillas.

  4. Philip Taylor said,

    August 11, 2024 @ 2:19 am

    It is very early in the morning for me, and my brain is probably operating at well below its peak, but for the life of me I cannot see any mention of the Golden Arches other than in David L.'s comment — David, please put me out of my misery and tell me what leads you to believe that the gorillas are dining at the Golden Arches ?

  5. Rodger C said,

    August 11, 2024 @ 10:04 am

    Philip: He's making a pun on "MAC-favoring," abetted by the all-caps font of the cartoon.

  6. Rodger C said,

    August 11, 2024 @ 10:20 am

    Unless I'm imagining that one or the other is normally in all caps … the pun stands, though.

  7. Philip Taylor said,

    August 12, 2024 @ 8:45 am

    Ah, thank you. I have to confess, I had no idea what the "Golden Arches" were/are, and had to look the phrase up before posting, but I was equally fazed by the "MAC-FAVORING ELITISTS" in the original, because "MAC" for me (regardless of case) is an abbreviation of "Macintosh" (i.e., a raincoat) whereas I always think of (and refer to) the computer as an Apple Macintosh ,,,

  8. Rod Johnson said,

    August 13, 2024 @ 12:09 pm

    What would a day be without Philip Taylor professing bafflement about some topic?

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