#1337 – Post
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
When I was a kid in school cutting line was an act of war. “Hey! No cutting! Teacher, Jimmy is cutting! Get to the back of the line! I want more pretzels!”
Now as an adult, cutting still happens but the result is usually just people narrowing their eyes at the cutter. Perhaps a few annoyingly loud exhales. Exchanged glances with the others in the room. Eye rolling. The occasional fist fight.
Today’s Maximumble is more than you need.
Tags: bisect, post office, wizard
wizard life week
In Soviet Russia, line cuts YOU!
Damn wizards! Damn wizards using their magic to make terrible puns!
My line-fu is strong. Cut in front me me, earn a casual-but-deliberate cripling misstep to your instep.
Call me a jerk, but I don’t tolerate jerkishness well.
I tend to be apathetic if someone cuts in front of me. Unless they are a jerk, in which case I escalate hostilities. To be fair, a “Hey buddy, the back of the line is THERE,” usually suffices.
To anyone who has used leetspeak, we’ve reached a milestone number. Here’s hoping we get to the ten-thousands. 😛
On topic, is there even a polite way to return a cutter to their proper turn?
I liked Harland Ellison’s solution he had in one of his novels. All members in the line immediately forms a court. Hold Trial. Then execute the offender.
In real life there was a line I was in that almost resulted in a riot. It was an application line for a high paying job with few openings and LOTS of applicants. Later I realized one of the company reps was watching the line. I don’t think any line-cutter got their application read.
Had to post a comment on this elite comic.
and today is 1337, not a bad comic to be leet today!
I’m loving wizard week, esp. this leet entry.
VV007! 1337!
In the third grade, I had a girl quite literally try to strangle me because she thought I was cutting in line. She put her hands around my throat and pressed her thumbs into my windpipe as hard as she could.
That’s not actually Biff. It’s his half-brother…
Biff learns what cutting prices really mean.
Bit in half by a really huge owl?