The Staple Madness
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Image Text: Staple guns: because duct tape can't make that 'kaCHUNK' noise.
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This comic is a pure slapstick adventure as Beret finds a staple gun and uses it on everything in sight (including trying to install Debian software onto a laptop). When Megan comes home and asks if he's been using her gun, he denies it. Someone possibly stapled to the ceiling says that he has.
In the source of the comic, the transcript offers an alternate interpretation of the final panal.
God: [[outside of scene, as voice from above]] YES!
The image text makes a reference to duct tape being used for anything and everything, and implies that staple guns can be used as a funner substitute.
December 30th, 2011
I interpreted the “YES!” as coming from Cueball, who was stapled to the ceiling. Anyone else?
December 31st, 2011
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
January 2nd, 2012
Heh, when I looked over the explanation, I was going to comment the same. Then I read the whole thing.
Funny that Randall would write that in the transcript, since apparently everyone assumes it’s someone stapled to the ceiling…
December 31st, 2011
As for Debian, there is a quote somewhere, asserting even a hen could install it, if there are enough grains on the enter key. In fact, googling “even a hen could install debian” reveals several similiar quotes. So it should be possible using a staple gun.
January 2nd, 2012
“Funner”? Ewww…
January 4th, 2012
What’s wrong with that? I am a fan of grammatically correct sentences, but even I can see stepping outside of certain rules can be funner
Unless it comes to spelling – their is no whey I can tolarate pour speeling.
*shudder*
February 13th, 2012
Just for the record, there are only two misspelled words in that last sentence.
February 14th, 2012
…though then it would be grammatically wrong, because pour is not an adjective…
February 14th, 2012
On a related note, I can’t believe no one noticed they misspelled “panel”
March 22nd, 2012
Not God saying yes.
It’s the character from the first frame stapled to the ceiling.