Talk:2498: Forest Walk

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Have just added a transcript. Hope I did good! :) -Lance (172.70.126.211 02:40, 5 August 2021 (UTC))

Wonder what Beret Guy would do if Cooper said, "I don't have it any more," since some of the money was discovered, badly deteriorated and partially buried, along the banks of the Columbia River back in 1980, as verified by serial numbers on the found currency.  Given the absence of any other evidence, it was assumed that the hijacker had gotten separated from the money either during or right after the jump, the found currency had been deposited as flotsam at its discovery point through the actions of the river itself, and the rest of the money was still somewhere in the Pacific Northwest awaiting similar discovery, RAGBRAIvet (talk) 04:23, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

If it can be considered that the comic is a reference to random walk (in a forest), can it also be considered a reference to random forests ? 141.101.68.73 07:14, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

I don't get why the comic is supposed to be a reference to random walks or to random forests. Nothing points to that. Real forests exists, and people walk in them. The only peculiarity of this particular forest is that D.B. Cooper hangs in one of its trees. --188.114.103.244 08:20, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

I feel like there should be a D.B. Cooper category at this point. --141.101.104.52 07:51, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Hey there, I think the alt text is also a reference to https://xkcd.com/2390/ ? Kind regards :) 162.158.89.61 08:13, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Typo: "he might have simply inherited it form his mom". --162.158.255.39 12:40, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Done, now. I'd seen it, but apparently missed it, in preparing for my first big corrective edit of the day (little tyops, a lot less awful than ones I have previously left for others to correct). Or maybe I thought I should leave it suspended from the tree until some other issue had been resolved. :P 162.158.158.105 12:53, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Not to question the artistic representation, but rather than Forest (tree canopy and dense undergrowth), I'd say that was more Woodland Savanna (individual tree growth smattered around grass/shrubland at most). Or maybe we just can't properly see the woods for the trees... (Or the action is set at the edge of a clearing, of course!) 141.101.98.184 13:32, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Doesn't it seem likely, that White Beret's tree has a soup outlet on it? Like his Business does?(gilbar)