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Philippe Times Monday Science Section Monday, August 13, 2007 • read strip Viewing 86 comments:

In France it is also considered rude not to look disgusted and spit at the waiter after finishing your meal. They are very serious about good food.

What happens when kids science? (motor)

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All I need is clothing and I'm set!

no sorry philippe this is the scariest motor: https://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8199/diggerwsv3.jpg

good lord, what is that thing?

https://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Trencher.htm

Hell of enormous, yo. You can see it from orbit .

AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

You can also see medium sized shrubs on google maps aerial photos.

oh classic

Dude, Google Maps photos are pretty much all from such as low flying planes. That's about 1/64th of an orbit.
And about 1/256th as cool.

You win this round, Inverse Square Law.

Excellent research trumps the inaccuracy of the claim.

It picked up a fairly large bulldozer without even noticing right away:
https://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/11/biggest-and-hungriest-machines.html
I actually used to work for the company that built this thing, I was an industrial engineer in the machining group.

When the time comes, that is the machine we will use to kill God.

Slap some 22s on that thing, throw in a few cup holders, and watch as the "emotionally-stunted douchebag" demographic trades in its Hummers for a fleet of Chevy Annihilators. "This is ooouuuuurr country..."

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Ohhh shiiiiiiit!

...In Japan's next construction-machine-themed fighting game, of course.
Alternately, it would make a bitchin' Transformer.

And I thought I'd seen the last of the dastardly Bagger 288. Damn you.

But I have to say, that is one Hell of a machine though. IT EATS BULLDOZERS, for Christ's sake.

can we send that to iraq? i have to think that would help turn things around over there.

I don't think they'd even have to really do anything with it. Just have it there with an American flag on it. It'd do the trick just sitting there.

Wow. I remember a garish sci-fi paperback cover, circa the early 60s (I'm guessing), depicting a giant, bladed disk, much like the one on the business end of that digger, tearing through a city.

Mind you, the one in the illustration had a diameter greater than the height of the skyscrapers it was shredding, and gave me nightmares as a kid. Still, having seen that photo, I'm afraid to go to sleep tonight.

In conclusion: Holy fuck.

A quick measurement of that photo (knowing the entire contraption is 95 metres tall) gives that wheel at a whopping 25 metre diameter. That is the height of an eight-storey building.

Nightmares ahoy!

So this is what Beef meant when he was talking about huge apocalyptic machinery.

Gentlemen, we're about to get our shit all mowed down.

exactly what I thought, exactly, surprised no one else said it earlier

Absolutely correct. That machine is fucking terrifying.

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That's why my lady was worshiped at Disney Paris. It all somewhat makes sense now. Still I haven't figured out why a fig is always 5 miles away from you at any point in France. It boggles the minds as such!

My first lame. I need some Marie Callender's before I get mad depressed.

It's cool man, we've all been there....11 months later, did you get the chocolate one with the cookie crust? That is a depression clearer for sure.

Nope, I believe mince meat was my first choice. They had no idea what that was so I settled for banana cream.

I'm going to sound humourless and stuff but... that cliche is so untrue... in France, the women are far more obsessive about armpit hair than any other country I have lived in. If I had gone to high-school with armpit hair, the other girls would have left me shamed and whimpering in the girls' toilets.

HOWEVER, all the other stuff is true. Rudeness, swearing, smoking, ignoring you... spot on.

Is it possible that the obsessive armpit shaving is a reaction to that perception? Like maybe if we keep making fun of the French for those other things, they will become extremely polite, attentive, clean-mouthed and smoke-free.

Non. Ze French are not here to fucking impress you. Zat ees just not French.

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Yeah you also have free dentists. They might not be great but over here in Australia we have to literally thousands of dollars to receive some torturous abuse from a stranger.

You assume I've seen one in the past decade?
My not having fillings might have something to do with that.

I can see Mean Girls on my television. Does that get me a part in BitchSeer2?

only if them hooters can also predict the weather

Real Men of Genius: Mr. Bored-With-Wife-Machine Inventor

Kid Rock's limo is a motorhome. Seems about right.

my neighbors own a motorhome that must have cost double what my house did so don't bag on him just yet

What's sad is that I didn't even realize 'loafs' is misspelled...

The fact that Onstad doesn't acknowledge "baloney" is even better.

A.K.A. balogna

A.A.K.A. bologna

Science Philippe is exceptionally cute.

a hundred times a second?

The science is blowing my god-damned mind!

Phillipe Times on a Monday? What kind of anarchy bullshit is this?

The whole schedule got shifted by a day when they ran the chicken recipe last week.

Yeah. On a Monday? The only thing I could think was "BOO TO THAT." Not really how I wanted to kick off the week.

Thank goodness for title/alt text.

I had thought "loaves" was spelled "loafs" because Onstad isn't a follower of Tolkien.

You should be ashamed of yourself for making that joke.

I myself am now going to castrate myself for getting it.

dont even bother, seems like you wont be needing it anyway

Don't worry, Phillipe. I give up too. I give up too...

I see that even his significantly-improved lot in life hasn't assuaged Beef's long-standing fear of [url=https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/one_strip?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=https%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D05142002]"giant, apocalyptic machinery just mowing us all down."

God damn it.

Let's try that again .

the naked man returns !

i can certainly identify that man, my father is friends with a few of them.

brilliant find. I knew I recognized him, but I lack your gumption and research skills.

I did not mean to mark you as spam! I AM NOT A COCK TO STRANGERS.

W00t!

The Rude Nude Afro Dude!

Making an off-site appearance.

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To be fair, it's just a Fleur-de-lis - it's not specific to the Saints. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur-de-lis

thank you for doing it before i did.

And thanks for doing it before I flipped my lid.

Phillipe has discovered the "Wingdings" font?

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I like how you spazzed about him associating a French symbol with a foreign sports team and then did the EXACT SAME THING. The fleur-de-lis has about as much to do with an American football team as a Welsh rugby team.

Also, the word is fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. Why not just start saying "h-e-double hockey sticks" while you're at it?

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The French also play football. In fact given the demographics of New Orleans I'd say the fleur de lis is more relevant to the Saints than anything to do with Wales. Congratulations on your epic failure of logic.

Dangit. Sorry for the lame, and I ran out of chubbies to offset.

I'm gonna have to guess he's a Peterbilt man.

In France, it is considered rude not to slap ice cream cones from the hands of wheelchair-bound children.

Why is this a 3.1? there's so much great stuff in here. I cannot stop laughing at the BitchSeer.

because I hadn't given it a 4 at the time.

Now that I have, it is at 3.2!

this strip totally abolishes all the pessimism i'd been having about the last few weeks. marvelous. impressively awesome. my hat has exited the vicinity above me head- near my middle, it crumples only slightly as i bow in a courtly manner.

Can anyone identify the man by his motor?

Sorry if this is a double post.

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Tone and grammar lead me to believe that it is Lyle.

SPACE AGE PHILLIPE!, The BitchSeer, and the wife-bored-with machine make this the best ever Friday Facts. And it's on a Monday.

I'd be cautious about discussing Baloney Loaf around Lyle. He might come home with a parents' video called "KITCHEN MONKEY III: Baloney Loaf"

i laugh when i think of that naked man's picture and his words.

Oh my gooooosh dude

Speaking of Kid Rock, today when I was trying to buy Jim Beam at the grocery store, I was thwarted by the fact that each bottle was in a box with Kid Rock on the outside. I share Ray's anger about packages, and wish Kid Rock would go off my liquor and back to his RV.