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[[Cueball]] and [[Beret Guy]] are on a mission, intending to destroy whatever machine they are in. Except that [[Beret Guy]] tends to be a bit surreal and brought a bag for holding pastries instead of explosive charges. | [[Cueball]] and [[Beret Guy]] are on a mission, intending to destroy whatever machine they are in. Except that [[Beret Guy]] tends to be a bit surreal and brought a bag for holding pastries instead of explosive charges. | ||
| − | This is | + | This is not the first time he's mistaken a mission for a trip to a bakery; see [[434: xkcd Goes to the Airport]]. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
Revision as of 04:38, 12 August 2013
| Mission |
 Title text: Don't you know? The chances of a random object being a scone are about one in six. |
Explanation
Cueball and Beret Guy are on a mission, intending to destroy whatever machine they are in. Except that Beret Guy tends to be a bit surreal and brought a bag for holding pastries instead of explosive charges.
This is not the first time he's mistaken a mission for a trip to a bakery; see 434: xkcd Goes to the Airport.
Transcript
- [Beret Guy and Cueball are rappelling down separate ropes into the interior workings of a large machine]
- Cueball: Okay, we're in the belly of the machine. You got the charges?
- Beret Guy (with beret): The what?
- [The two are standing next to some large pieces of machinery]
- Cueball [gesturing]: The explosive charges!
- Beret Guy [pulling out a bag]: I just brought this bag for pastries.
- Cueball: The hell? We're on a mission here!
- Beret Guy [looking around]: This isn't a bakery?
- Cueball [head in hand]: Oh, Christ, not this shit again.
- Beret Guy [crouching by some lug nuts lying on a piece of machinery]: What about these scones?
- Cueball: Those are lug nuts.
- Beret Guy [stuffing them in his mouth]: ...Maybe SOME of them aren't. crunch Ow! crunch
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maybe it got something to do with the saying, "oh this (heist/mission) will be a piece of cake. one could easily misunderstand that
so "highly likely" means "1 time out of 6" for some people :D 141.101.97.215 12:27, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Nope, highly likely means (about) two out of three for these people. 141.101.92.221 11:10, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
The title text could also potentially count as a sort of NetHack reference. 173.245.52.138 00:11, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Reminds me of the "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" improv game "Improbable Mission". 141.101.75.149 01:38, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
"a hypothesis easily disprovable by looking around any room which isn't a bakery", actually it's not that easy to disprove. Maybe the earth is just in a local irregularity inside a universe full of scones. Except the bakeries of course, centers of universal equilibrium. 162.158.88.110 16:20, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
The idea of eating lugnuts may have come from this comic: http://www.buttercupfestival.com/111vol3.htm. 172.68.206.52 04:54, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
