I don’t think “much” means what you think it means

Posted on August 9, 2011 by | 14 Comments

(From "Fantastic Comics" number 16, 1941.)

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14 Responses to I don’t think “much” means what you think it means

  1. Gero says:
    August 9, 2011 at 8:00 am

    “We’re only a few yards behind them! We should be passing them in about 8 hours at this rate!”

  2. Oquies says:
    August 9, 2011 at 10:05 am

    Oh, snap we have a max speed of 450 mph and they have a max speed of 450.5 mph and we only have 2 more hours of travel time left before we get there!

  3. McKnight57 says:
    August 9, 2011 at 1:28 pm

    Thank you for the Princess Bride near-quote. “i do not think that word means what you think it means.”

  4. Frankie says:
    August 9, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    I guess in 1941 they didn’t quite have a grasp on the concepts of time and velocity.

  5. punkjay says:
    August 9, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    Unless they reach ludicris speed!!!

  6. EnderX says:
    August 9, 2011 at 3:16 pm

    @Frankie:
    Either that, or they had some kind of perspective issues. After all, if that ship they’re chasing were, say, 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than it looks, it might be far enough away for that time constraint.

  7. Myro says:
    August 9, 2011 at 3:43 pm

    I could almost imagine this being Monty Python-esque:

    “Our ship is much faster than theirs! We’ll catch up with them in q few hours!”
    “Seconds, sir.”
    “What was that, pilot?”
    “We’ll catch up with them in a few seconds, sir. You said hours.”
    “I know what I said.”
    “Sir, I’m on their tail now.”
    “Then throttle back, man! We’re not due to intercept them for two hours and fifty-nine minutes!”

  8. Laridian says:
    August 9, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    Maybe that ship in front isn’t the ship they’re chasing. Maybe it’s just a common model and color.

  9. TOOL says:
    August 9, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    They could just open the window and throw rocks at them, their only like 5 feet away LOL

  10. ams says:
    August 9, 2011 at 10:22 pm

    …or until they run out of gas, whichever comes first!

  11. Trekkie says:
    August 10, 2011 at 12:04 am

    Myro- I can almost imagine two of the Pythons doing that as a sketch! (I’m thinking John Cleese and Eric Idle).

  12. Gero says:
    August 10, 2011 at 4:20 pm

    @Punkjay 5: Greatest. Movie. Ever.

  13. knight1192a says:
    August 10, 2011 at 11:08 pm

    Ok, either that ship is several miles in size so that it’s so far ahead but doesn’t really look it or it’s about the same size as the chasing ship and is only a couple dozen or so yards ahead. I’m betting the latter, which means the faster ship is faster by what, a sixteenth of a mile?

  14. punkjay says:
    August 11, 2011 at 4:05 am

    @ Gero: (12) Yeah i’m glad someone got the reference.