Comments on: A Brief Moment of Culture, Part 4 https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-4/ By Shaenon K. Garrity Thu, 27 Sep 2018 06:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: David Shaw (tmcgm) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-4/#comment-5973 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:40 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3354#comment-5973 Artie in the last picture…

Awwww!  Cuuuuuuuuuuute!

(Mell’s not too bad, either!)

]]> By: 'Keiya' (keiya) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-4/#comment-5972 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:39 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3354#comment-5972 Um… it’s actually a mapping to plastic type, NOT to how hard it is to recycle. Also, only 1-6 are used for specific plastics, 7 being catchall for everything else. If you use the International Universal Recycling Codes (which are a superset that covers things other than plastics) rather than the SPI resin identification coding system. 17 is unused, but would most likely be a type of battery.I am forced to conclude that there are more types of plastics in the Narboniverse than in our own world (probably due to mad scientists occasionally creating useful things on accident), a number of which are common enough to get their own codes, and that Artie is simplifying for Mell’s benefit.Or, you know, it’s just funny this way.

]]> By: Elaine Corvidae (elaine_corvidae) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-4/#comment-5971 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:38 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3354#comment-5971 @So It Begins Alas, our pick-up recycling still only accepts 1&2 plastics. To recycle anything else, you have to drive it to a county facility that is only open the 2nd Tuesday and 3rd Saturday of every month. I only wish I were making this up.

]]> By: Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-4/#comment-5970 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:37 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3354#comment-5970 Jeffrey, the only way Billina could be more ideally your character would be if, at some point in the Oz books, she wore a little hat.

And no, you may not destroy Ed. We need the fan art.

]]> By: Jeffrey Channing Wells (channing) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-4/#comment-5969 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:36 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3354#comment-5969 Shaenon, may I destroy Ed? Please?

]]> By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-4/#comment-5968 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:35 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3354#comment-5968 The Final Jeopardy Answer ™ is “Yogurt”.

The question is, “What would Hamlet call his mother if he were played by Sylvester Stallone?”

]]> By: Jeffrey Channing Wells (channing) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-4/#comment-5967 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:34 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3354#comment-5967 I don’t quite know, but I think she thinks it has the same root word as “Skull”.

]]> By: Jon W. (kd7sov) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-4/#comment-5966 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:33 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3354#comment-5966 “As though that’s any sort of job for a scullion!” may be my favorite line from this whole story.

So, Jeffrey, what does Mell think a scullion is?

]]> By: Jeffrey Channing Wells (channing) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-4/#comment-5965 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:32 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3354#comment-5965 Ah, the times, they are a-changin’.Shaenon, it should come as no surprise to you that Billina is basically my favorite Oz character.

]]> By: So It Begins (soitbegins) https://narbonic.com/comic/a-brief-moment-of-culture-part-4/#comment-5964 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:07:31 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3354#comment-5964 Most recyclers can handle one through five nowadays.

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