227: Color Codes

Color Codes

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Title text: It's the TMBG Dial-a-Song line, to save you some time.

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Explanation

Resistors are an electronic component carrying color-coded bands indicating their value (measured in Ohms) and tolerance (e.g. 5%).

TMBG are "They Might Be Giants" popular beat combo responsible for toe-tapping chart-topping "Birdhouse In Your Soul".

Transcript

[Cueball talks to a friend at a desk littered with objects]

Cueball: Hey, what's your cell number?

Friend: (Violet Brown Gray) - Uh, I mean, (718)-387-6962.

Cueball: Okay, you are putting down those resistors and going outside for a while.

Friend: That's probably a good idea.

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Discussion

Interestingly enough, violet brown grey corresponds to 710,000,000 ohms. BlueRoll18 (talk) 02:39, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Which part of that fact is interesting? 108.162.219.223 20:28, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

It's 71*10^8, the first digits of the phone number. Compro01 (talk) 19:31, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

isn't that the joke in the first place? Just some random derp 18:32, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

That's interesting because that's the beginning of the phone number 108.162.228.29 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

There has been a community portal discussion of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the new Category:Multiple Cueballs. I have also changed the explanation and transcript so Cueball is the interesting person of this comic - i.e. the one who talks in color codes. And then made a note that the other guy also looks like Cueball. --Kynde (talk) 12:01, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Any idea if there is any significance to the phone number? 172.69.35.5 19:05, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

It's in the title text *and* in the explanation, good grief.--The Cat Lady (talk) 10:23, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
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