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(I like this bakery!)
 
(Explanation: Corrected explanation. Beret Guy did not intend to bring pastries to a bakery. He brought a bag FOR pastries.)
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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
[[Cueball]] and [[Beret Guy]] are on a mission, intending to destroy whatever machine they are in.  Except that [[Beret Guy]] tends to be a bit surreal, and brought pastries instead of explosive charges.
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[[Cueball]] and [[Beret Guy]] are on a mission, intending to destroy whatever machine they are in.  Except that [[Beret Guy]] tends to be a bit surreal and brought a bag for holding pastries instead of explosive charges.
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This is apparently not the first time he's done something like this, mistaking a mission for a trip to a bakery.
  
This is apparently not the first time he's done something like this, mistaking a mission for a trip to a bakery.  Why one would bring pastries to a bakery is just one of the Beret Guy's mysteries.
 
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
 
[Two figures, one in a beret, are rappelling down separate ropes into the interior workings of a large machine]
 
[Two figures, one in a beret, are rappelling down separate ropes into the interior workings of a large machine]

Revision as of 15:36, 11 September 2012

Mission
Don't you know? The chances of a random object being a scone are about one in six.
Title text: Don't you know? The chances of a random object being a scone are about one in six.

Explanation

Cueball and Beret Guy are on a mission, intending to destroy whatever machine they are in. Except that Beret Guy tends to be a bit surreal and brought a bag for holding pastries instead of explosive charges.

This is apparently not the first time he's done something like this, mistaking a mission for a trip to a bakery.

Transcript

[Two figures, one in a beret, are rappelling down separate ropes into the interior workings of a large machine]

Man 1: Okay, we're in the belly of the machine. You got the charges?

Man 2 (with beret): The what?

[The two are standing next to some large pieces of machinery]]

Man 1 [gesturing]: The explosive charges!

Man 2 [pulling out a bag]: I just brought this bag for pastries.

Man 1: The hell? We're on a mission here!

Man 2 [looking around]: This isn't a bakery?

Man 1 [head in hand]: Oh, Christ, not this shit again.

Man 2 [crouching by some lug nuts lying on a piece of machinery]: What about these scones?

Man 1: Those are lug nuts.

Man 2 [stuffing them in his mouth]: ...Maybe SOME of them aren't. <<crunch>> Ow! <<crunch>>


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Discussion

maybe it got something to do with the saying, "oh this (heist/mission) will be a piece of cake. one could easily misunderstand that

so "highly likely" means "1 time out of 6" for some people :D 141.101.97.215 12:27, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Nope, highly likely means (about) two out of three for these people. 141.101.92.221 11:10, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

The title text could also potentially count as a sort of NetHack reference. 173.245.52.138 00:11, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Reminds me of the "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" improv game "Improbable Mission". 141.101.75.149 01:38, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

"a hypothesis easily disprovable by looking around any room which isn't a bakery", actually it's not that easy to disprove. Maybe the earth is just in a local irregularity inside a universe full of scones. Except the bakeries of course, centers of universal equilibrium. 162.158.88.110 16:20, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

The idea of eating lugnuts may have come from this comic: http://www.buttercupfestival.com/111vol3.htm. 172.68.206.52 04:54, 29 July 2017 (UTC)