3240: Bottle
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 Title text: "I know it seems impossible, but the trick is that I sailed in here when I was very young." |
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This comic shows a life sized ship in a bottle sailing along other sail boats in the sea. The humor comes from the surreality of the situation.
In this comic, Beret Guy is inside a ship in a bottle. A common question when one sees one is "how was it put inside the bottle", due to the small size of the opening in the bottle compared to the ship. The answer is that the ship was assembled within the bottle. The title text alludes to this, by saying that Beret Guy grew up inside the bottle to fit (however, this is nonsensical, as he could likely fit into the bottle anyway, and ships do not grow as living things do).
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[Three small single-masted sailboats are shown, all sailing towards the right. On the left, Cueball and Megan are in one boat; Cueball is near the stern, possibly holding the tiller, while Megan is before the mast. In the middle, Beret Guy is before the mast in a boat that's inside a giant bottle, with a cork plugging the bottleneck. On the right, Ponytail is directly aft of the mast of the third boat. All the boats are sitting on the water with ripples on the surface, but the water level in the bottle is lower than the rest.]
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First P0st! 2A02:6B6F:E226:B00:70BF:8626:D782:45BE 18:40, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
So... is the meniscus drawn correctly, given the difference in shape of the front vs the back of the bottle??? BorQhue del Sol (talk) 18:54, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
Left-hand threads on bottle. Why? --PRR (talk) 18:49, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
- I don't think those are threads on cap, they're wires around the cork. Barmar (talk) 19:19, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
this transcript is a work of art. raeb 18:54, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
Is part of the joke of the alt text the fact that he could easily fit into the bottle at his current age? 24.244.70.174 18:58, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
If he sailed in when he was very young, does that mean the ship grew up with beret guy? Commercialegg (talk) 18:59, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
- That does seem to be what he's implying. When he sailed in, the boat must have been small enough to get through the bottleneck. Barmar (talk) 19:15, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
- It's a reference to Williams pears, which do grow inside a bottle like that.37.59.41.98 19:41, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
Could it be that the boat inside the bottle is the one talking, not Beret Guy? SovereignFinn
It may be worth noting that Beret Guy's boat's sail visibly isn't getting any wind, which of course makes sense. Also, I like that Ponytail's boat has a gaff rig. 63.229.212.46 20:33, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
I see a totally different context and joke here: the water level in the bottle is lower than the water level outside. (Which requires a bit of physics thinking to figure out why this would be so.) At first intuitive glance, the water levels should be the same, hence, as the title text says "... seems impossible ...". Then the title text offers a (wrong, but intuitive) explanation for the different water levels: he entered the bottle at very young age when he was lighter (equal levels). Now as an adult he is heavier, thus the whole bottle is heavier and hence it is dipping deeper into the outer water (creating different levels).
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