599: Apocalypse - Revision history

FaviFake: Per the discussion at the community portal, Blondie and Miss Lenhart are being merged, just like Cutie and Megan

2026-05-09T15:09:45Z

Per the discussion at the community portal, Blondie and Miss Lenhart are being merged, just like Cutie and Megan

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2025-08-20T16:54:06Z

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2024-11-14T11:13:48Z

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172.69.79.182: Undo revision 355288 by 172.71.102.52 (talk) No such category

2024-11-01T21:42:54Z

Undo revision 355288 by 172.71.102.52 (talk) No such category

172.71.102.52: Category: Infernal comics

2024-11-01T18:47:22Z

Category: Infernal comics

Erlandyt at 20:59, 5 October 2023

2023-10-05T20:59:00Z

172.71.242.202: /* Explanation */ Spelling/linking corrected. I hope you get your User Talk page soon, GetPunnedOn, you need somewhere you might spot any markup advice from others....

2023-05-22T09:03:45Z

‎Explanation: Spelling/linking corrected. I hope you get your User Talk page soon, GetPunnedOn, you need somewhere you might spot any markup advice from others....

GetPunnedOn at 23:50, 21 May 2023

2023-05-21T23:50:36Z

GetPunnedOn at 23:48, 21 May 2023

2023-05-21T23:48:36Z

GetPunnedOn at 23:47, 21 May 2023

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 :Cueball: Everyone, quick, get your names on here!
-:[Cueball stand on the left side of a table looking left over his shoulder. Five people are lining up to sign the paper lying on the right side of the table. The first who signs with a pen is Blondie, then in line follows Megan, a Cueball-like guy, Ponytail and another Cueball-like guy who stand with one hand to his chin looking right, away from the other.]
+:[Cueball stand on the left side of a table looking left over his shoulder. Five people are lining up to sign the paper lying on the right side of the table. The first who signs with a pen is Miss Lenhart, then in line follows Megan, a Cueball-like guy, Ponytail and another Cueball-like guy who stand with one hand to his chin looking right, away from the other.]
-:Blondie: At last!
+:Miss Lenhart: At last!
 :Guy looking right: I hope there's time!
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 :Erdős: Yes?
 :Cueball: We need you to sign this.
 {{Comic discussion}}
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 [[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]]
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-[[Category:Comics featuring Blondie]]
+[[Category:Comics featuring Miss Lenhart]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]

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 After Beret Guy has announced this, he runs into [[Cueball]] who has heard part of this, but he is only interested in the last part and asks to check if he understood correctly that the dead will walk the earth. When this is confirmed Cueball becomes very busy.
-He runs to his office and quickly writes a scientific math paper, then runs as fast as he can to the math department and get his colleagues to sign it. Then he runs to a cemetery where the dead are rising, finds the one he searched for, and asks the resurrected {{w|zombie}} if he is Erdős. When confirmed that he is indeed Erdős, Cueball asks him to sign the math paper.
+He runs to his office and quickly writes a scientific math paper, then runs as fast as he can to the math department and gets his colleagues to sign it. Then he runs to a cemetery where the dead are rising, finds the one he searched for, and asks the resurrected {{w|zombie}} if he is Erdős. When confirmed that he is indeed Erdős, Cueball asks him to sign the math paper.
 {{w|Paul Erdős}} (26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician who (according to Wikipedia) published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. His grave is in the Kozma Street Cemetery in Budapest.

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 By this trick Cueball thinks that he and his colleagues will now all have an Erdős number of 1. The joke is that he would be using his last few hours in this life to write a math paper just to improve his and his friends' Erdős numbers.
-There are, however, many problems with his idea, even assuming the dead will walk the earth on that day. First of all, just having your name on a piece of paper with Erdős's signature does nothing for your Erdős number. It needs to be a {{w|Scientific_literature#Scientific_article|scientifically valid paper}}, published in a {{w|peer reviewed}} {{w|scientific journal}}. And given that the apocalypse is happening, there seems no time, chance or reason to publish any more math papers.{{Citation needed}}
+There are, however, many problems with his idea, even assuming the dead will walk the earth on that day. First of all, just having your name on a piece of paper with Erdős's signature does nothing for your Erdős number. It needs to be a {{w|Scientific_literature#Scientific_article|scientifically valid paper}}, published in a {{w|peer reviewed}} {{w|scientific journal}}. And given that the apocalypse is happening, there seems no time, chance or reason to publish any more math papers.{{cn}}
 Even if there were time, it would not count for much to have someone sign a math paper they haven't even read, let alone had anything to do with the actual writing and research. The same would be true for the other five mathematicians who signed it. But of course many papers have coauthors who did not do much more than work in the same department as the person who actually wrote the paper (a sad but true fact). Presumably Cueball's friends assume that nobody will investigate whether they, or Erdős, truly participated in the writing and research of Cueball's paper.

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 [[Category:Comics featuring real people]]
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 [[Category:Zombies]]
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 [[Category:Comics featuring real people]]
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 Even if there were time, it would not count for much to have someone sign a math paper they haven't even read, let alone had anything to do with the actual writing and research. The same would be true for the other five mathematicians who signed it. But of course many papers have coauthors who did not do much more than work in the same department as the person who actually wrote the paper (a sad but true fact). Presumably Cueball's friends assume that nobody will investigate whether they, or Erdős, truly participated in the writing and research of Cueball's paper.
-Furthermore, even if it did count, they will not be able to take the paper with them into the afterlife (although pepole can come back to life after being clinically [https://www.healthline.com/health/lazarus-syndrome#:~:text=The%20bottom%20line,happens%20after%20CPR%20is%20performed.|clinically dead] they don't expirience the afterlife), and thus since no one would have had time to read the paper, no one would know they had an Erdős number of 1. In the afterlife they could all say that they had such a number, but then again everyone else with such an interest could do the same, since no one could prove otherwise. Of course if you end up in the same part ({{w|Heaven}} or {{w|Hell}}) of the {{w|afterlife}} as Erdős he could confirm or deny the claim, but that would probably not help Cueball and his friends, since he could tell the truth about their paper. (Erdős was known for using an idiosyncratic set of slang terms, in which he described people who had stopped doing mathematics as having "died", whereas people who had died had "left".)
+Furthermore, even if it did count, they will not be able to take the paper with them into the afterlife (although people can come back to life after being [https://www.healthline.com/health/lazarus-syndrome clinically dead] they don't experience the afterlife), and thus since no one would have had time to read the paper, no one would know they had an Erdős number of 1. In the afterlife they could all say that they had such a number, but then again everyone else with such an interest could do the same, since no one could prove otherwise. Of course if you end up in the same part ({{w|Heaven}} or {{w|Hell}}) of the {{w|afterlife}} as Erdős he could confirm or deny the claim, but that would probably not help Cueball and his friends, since he could tell the truth about their paper. (Erdős was known for using an idiosyncratic set of slang terms, in which he described people who had stopped doing mathematics as having "died", whereas people who had died had "left".)
 That the whole comic is about the Erdős number, and not just Erdős signature, is made clear in the title text which refers to a similar (and less esoteric) meme called "{{w|Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon}}", or simply Bacon numbers. This time, the chain's center is actor {{w|Kevin Bacon}}, and the links are formed by two people appearing in the same movie. Unlike Erdős, Kevin Bacon is not dead yet, so those of you wishing to get a Bacon number of 1 still have a chance.