Tuesday, November 6, 2007: Scoring serenity

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Tuesday, November 6, 2007: Scoring serenity

Postby Kyler Thatch » Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:36 am

(edit) http://www.ozyandmillie.org/d/20071106.html (end edit)

"Quantum Zen". The concept amuses me to no end.
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Postby Svix » Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:39 am

What are the dimensions of serenity?
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Postby Trance » Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:54 am

Oh man did that one make me lol.
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Re: Tuesday, November 6, 2007: Scoring serenity

Postby Richard K Niner » Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:29 pm

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Postby Llewthepoet » Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:42 pm

I'm glad Ozy has achieved quantum zen. His zen has certainly taken a quantum leap. 8)
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Postby Doc Sigma » Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:51 pm

So, Heisenberg applies to zen... freaky.
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Postby Steve the Pocket » Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:05 pm

WAIT WAIT WAIT. Did DCS just juxtapose Zen with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? By Jove, I didn't think this strip could get any weirder.

Llewellyn is way wrong about this being any great achievement though; anyone's performance would be affected by knowing they're being measured. Being able to be unaffected would be a true measure of serenity. Not just in meditation; in anything, really.
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Postby Doc Sigma » Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:08 pm

What if they're being measured but don't know it? Heisenberg says they'd still be affected.

...holy crap this strip just became 1000 times deeper.
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Re: Tuesday, November 6, 2007: Scoring serenity

Postby gforce422 » Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:25 pm

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Postby BladeRaptor » Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:41 pm

It's not too often something makes me laugh out loud, but this strip did it. Good job!

When I got to the middle panel, I was thinking more along the lines of the Hawthorne Effect, but the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle made for a great punchline.

And there are probably few other comics where what I just said would come up in a conversation about it.
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Postby Mista_B » Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:49 pm

Being able to be unaffected would be a true measure of serenity.
Thus the 4.7 :-P
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Postby NHJ BV » Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:06 pm

Being able to be unaffected would be a true measure of serenity.
Thus the 4.7 :-P
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Postby superFRO! » Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:14 pm

Llewellyn looks... something... in the third panel. And I'm not sure about serener. Isn't it more serene?

Plus Ozy's expression in panel 4 is quite awesome!
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Re: Tuesday, November 6, 2007: Scoring serenity

Postby Kyler Thatch » Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:17 pm

Dang, I figured I'd manage to mess it up eventually. Fixed now.
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Postby Tom Flapwell » Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:51 pm

This was almost too high-brow for me to get.

A lesser cartoonist would have ended the strip at either the second panel or the left half of the third.
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