Crazy numbers

It's the final week of Destroy History. Apparently I decided to celebrate this with some very sharp outfits for Sid and Shelley.


25 comments on “Crazy numbers

  1. Whoah! Sid is a very passionate man. I like him! They have to save The Beatles!!!!

  2. I think the title of today’s strip should have been “Big Stupid Face”.

  3. Sid! Your 240-euro investment in the “Love Me Do” 45-RPM artifact is endangered if you help the Beatles get famous! After all, arguments necessary can begin with whole results expected for any return.

    1. Or it could be worth more?

      1. This question is answered in the most annoying way possible on Wednesday.

  4. Hold onto him, Shelley! You’re never going to find another man who shares your deep enmity with the Moon!

  5. Definitely loving Sid and Shelley’s tresses in this strip. Maybe the solution to the Beatles involves going further back, like to their Hamburg years?

  6. Really wondering how this can get resolved in four strips or so

    1. Two.

      1. Wouldn’t it be three? Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday? Although, there’s probably one more page after the resolution, so, yeah, probably two.

  7. Yes! Screw the moon! I have it on good authority that that astronomical pervert watches us through our windows at night when we’re changing.

    1. Curtains. Your neighbours have asked if you would consider installing curtains.

      1. What, and raise their property values? Never!

  8. > An accumulator is a bet that combines four or more selections into a single wager that gains a return only when all parts win.

    “Four or more”, nice.

  9. So is “De Plane!” a novelisation of the “Fantasy Island” television series? Or a computer game in which the goal is to empty your aircraft of its passengers in the shortest amount of time?

    1. Related questions: Whose photo is on Sid’s desk (I’m guessing his mom)? And why are all the other desks (or at least the two adjacent to Sid) empty? Layoffs? Budget cuts?

      1. Their other co-workers all accidentally created grandfather paradoxes, and ceased to exist. It’s an occupational hazard.

      2. According to Mr. Allison in the comments of the June 22 strip, the Ministry of History uses “hotdesking”, so it’s probably just that there’s no one at those particular desks today. (Shelley and Sid’s desks have next to nothing in the way of personal effects on display as well, and would probably appear empty and unused were they not there at this particular moment.)

    2. There appears to be a dotted trail leading away from the plane – I’m guessing somebody deplaned.

  10. Big, stupid face. Inspired by The Face from Vance’s Demon Princes series?

    1. The Face of Bo, I’m thinking.

    2. Probably not, but I always love a good Vance reference.

  11. Also why is Nemulon Sid’s computer?

    1. I think all of the Ministry’s computers either are Nemulons, or have cases that are inspired by Nemulon. I’m not sure which, actually. But we’ve seen Shelley with a different Nemulonesque computer as well.

    2. Just like most other companies/organizations, the Ministry’s computers — including, I assume, Nemulon — are all connected and use the same operating system for consistency’s sake. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if Braun and Nemulon were products of the same manufacturer and they got a discount for buying them as a package.

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