xkcd #3271: The Princess and the Pea
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Once we’ve fully explored this space, we can start varying the number of princesses.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3271/
I can’t help but think of the time I saw Once Upon a Mattress at our local theater, and the actress playing Fred being just amazing.
(spits out mouthful of water, wet green prop weed in her hair, giant self-satisfied grin) “Nah. I swam the moat!”
Even the 1:1 ratio leaves endless room for variation. 2 mattresses on 2 peas, 7 mattresses on 7 peas, …
And this is just the postivie integers… -i mattresses on -i peas ftw!
And then you’ve got the complex plane and its mattresses…
Isn’t that Interstellar?
A mole of mattresses and a mole of peas.
Forgot the number of princesses per mattress. Maybe some blood sucking bed bugs could be added to the plot?
Potayto, potahto
Peas brother.
Now show me the same for the mattress-to-pee-ratio.
OK, but I’ll need to visit the White House to get a pic.
“You’ll notice a shift in movies starting from just before the 2030s. The movies that were portraying Mexico stopped using a yellow filter to indicate that you were supposedly in Mexico, and switched to portraying the US with a yellow filter. Can anyone tell me why?”
“Was it the pedophilia?”
“No, that was a good guess, but orange didn’t come to represent a country overrun with pedophiles until the late 2030s.”
“Was it because of the videos from 2029 that showed how the walls, floors, and ceiling of the Oval office and Executive Residence were all stained yellow?”
“That’s right Bobby. In 2029 the administration had to move out of the Whitehouse and into T-buildings because the smell of urine had so deeply soaked into the structure of the Whitehouse that no matter what they painted it over with it would develop a yellow tinge within hours.”
