An old mathematician joke:
“There is an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician each standing before a room that contains a fire, a bucket of water, and a bucket of sand. The engineer goes in, and puts the fire out by smothering it with sand. The physicist goes in to his room, and puts the fire out by pouring the bucket of water on it. The mathematician goes in, looks at the situation, declares “A Solution Exists”, and leaves.”
So, Newton might not be the best guy to handle surgery, is what I guess I’m saying.
In further defense of the lack of colors on today’s episode, I should mention that Rock Band 2 DID come out on Sunday, and with such a release come certain obligations of a thrashalogical nature…
– Count Dolby von Luckner
Archival Items!
The Dirty Charlemagne
Frederick Takes a Week
Frederick Dislikes Poe
http://www.ftg-comic.com/2008/09/16/index.php
Mathematicians are not, generally, particularly good surgeons. It’s enough to prove that a function is integrable; as to actually doing it, leave that to some poor bastard engineer. All the same, Newton has got to make himself a monster out of Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne as best he can. Will genius rise above skill, or shall we toss some more gilded names upon the burn pile? Answers await in Episode 155: Bonesaw Complications!!
– Geoff and The Count
Well, I wasn’t able to get colors done quite yet. I was busy watching the Eagles-Cowboys game tonight.
I should be heartened that the Birds look like they are good this year, but they went ahead lost. To the Cowboys.
Sometimes, when things aren’t going too well, I remember that one day the Reaper will come for Jerry Jones. That usually brings a smile to my face.
–Geoff
http://www.ftg-comic.com/2008/09/11/index.php
Frederick and Newton are off to acquire Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in a desperate last effort to counteract the ravages of the Thoremerson. Melville. Hawthorne. What else need you know? It’s episode 154: Bagging the Scarlet Whale, and it’s on tap RIGHT NOW!!
– The Count and Geoff