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How to Justify Investing in Quality Merchandise
Hey, have I mentioned that the new Basic Instruction paid Android app, which has all of the comics and some cool extra features, is now available?
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Hey, have I mentioned that the new Basic Instruction paid Android app, which has all of the comics and some cool extra features, is now available?
April 18, 2010
Reader Comments (47)
"I'm not qualified to use a ruler" Priceless!
"Accidentally. The edges are sharp."
Yeah, that brings back memories.
Yeah, but can you make a pencil-ruler helicopter out of it? Huh? Huh?
I love how everyone has a different favourite part every time. Mine is: "make sure it's stainless steel, 'cause there will be blood."
Milliscorns? What is it in imperial?
Hmmm, that must be why my computer is stainless steel. you, sir, are a very funny person with a powerful insight into the human psyche.
10,000 milliscorns would only be 10 scorns (perhaps not enough to measure her disapproval).
Married 35 years this June. Everything I buy is stainless steel.
I wonder what the benchmark is for a "scorn". Is one scorn the amount of scorn shown by a female when her partner buys 1 item below $50 which she considers to be pointless? Is there a specific woman to which they calibrate measuring devices around the world, like the standard 1kg lump of platinum-iridium Alloy which is kept in a vault somewhere in France?
Do they keep this woman there?
How much scorn does she show the people who keep her there?
you had me at milliscorns
Don't diss the steel ruler. I have 2 (not sure why) and was using one yesterday. They are great if you want to tear a sheet of paper in half. Lay the ruler on the paper and then..tear the paper in half.
Great comic Scott! Thanx!
Milliscorns are approximately 2.7 per derision.
A full scorn is also equal to just over 12 disdains (a unit almost completely neglected nowadays)
'cause there will be blood. Brilliant! Thankyou!
The last two rulers I've actually gone out and bought (rather than finding them in random places) were stainless steel....
I must say I enjoyed every panel of this one!
All your strips make me smile and laugh on the inside up here at work (sshhh), but the funny in every frame of this one had me holding back, and then in the final frame I could hold it no longer. I laughed out loud in my cubicle.
My favorite of yours in quite some time. Maybe ever.
Brings back childhood memories of rulers and construction paper!
@ MikeB - no one's dissing stainless, but in tearing paper in half, MEASURE the paper first and divide the figure by two if you want equal halves.
my last SS ruler was 1 meter long (or maybe it was 36 inches; i only use it as a straight-edge, never for measuring). Fantastic tool for craft work in the house (even fabric) and for carpentry in the garage/outdoors. SS does clean up easily!
I'm going to get the best Basic Instructions merchandise in the world
Ahhh, good stuff. It's actually good advice too.
I thinkit goes like this:
10,000 milliscorns= 10 scorns= 1 disdain
10 disdains= 1 contempt
the English/metric conversions are still being caulculated. We need a better benchmark.
Of course miliscorns are imperial. Europeans definitely invented scorn.
I love that the device is only as useful as the operator is competent. Make sure you plug your stainless steel computer in before complaining that it won't start :-)