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September 15, 2006
Re: Solved
Let me tell you what really flummoxes me about the resolution of today's published edition of the daily comic strip "Prickly City." The shirts of the two main characters, Carmen, the 8-year-old neo-con tot who lives in a faith-based homeless shelter, and Winslow, the loveable liberal coyote clown, are imprinted with a message that makes not a whole heckuva lotta sense to my eyes. The message on the shirts of Carmen and Winslow states "9/11 + 5." A couple of points on that, if you will indulge me.
Point 1: Today's date, the date of publication for the daily comic strip "Prickly City," is September 15. The common abbreviation for that would be 9/15. If we are to believe the shirts of the two main characters, Carmen and Winslow, however, it is September 16 (9/11 + 5). Perhaps this strip was published a daily earlier than it should have been, or perhaps this is a foreshadowing of the most fucking awesome goddamn PC strip in the history of the comics pages 3Var!, and it will drop, as the kids say, tomorrow. I look forward to checking in tomorrow with the Furnace to see how we reacts to what promises to be the greatest creation by human hands since Punch and Judy.
Point 2: As a mathematical equation, 9/11 + 5 = 5.818. What is the significance of this number? A cursory Google search reveals that there are approximately 358,000 website references to that number on the internet. There are approximately 206 images that correspond to that number, also. The best that I can tell, however, this mysterious .581 is a nod to the slugging percentage of Roger Maris in 1960 - the year prior to his then record-breaking homerun season.
So, in summary, taking a little from Point 1 and a little from Point 2, adding a dash of Future Goggles, and mixing in a large dollop of talking out of my ass, I believe that tomorrow is the debut of a long stretch of horrible PC comic strips about steroids in sports and the dopers who dope. Oh yeah, and FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE.
Comments
So does "flummoxed" mean KILL OSAMA? Because obviously George W. Bush isn't "resolved" to do that.
Posted by: The Furnace at September 15, 2006 10:50 AM
