People, people, people! Hasn't science taught us anything??? Can't we say conclusively that a North American lizard weighs exactly 2.4 Central American bananas?
(Also, I think it's fair to say the bananas were sittin' still, while Flaco was his typical jiggly self.)
give me a break. Who cares about bananas and lizards... I love the last panel. GLUB GLUB GLUB. Quick question, if this is today's comic, how did someone already purchase the original art??? That's quick!!
Flaco could very easily weigh more than two bananas if he had just finished eating them. Flaco's a big boy, for a lizard.
With a talking duck who walks on water and an Ian Fleming-like lizard, the weight of lizards is a null issue.
Probably something heavy he was carrying in his pockets.
We're forgetting the fundamentals of cartoon physics.
It really has nothing to do with the physical weight of the lizard or the bananas. It works on the same principal that keeps a character suspended in space until the second it observes that he's run out of ground, and even then his hat will remain spinning, suspended in the air long after said character has plunged off a cliff into the gorge below.
This principal suggests that "funny" outweighs "awesome" by approximately 3.14 (or pi, preferably banana cream if you've got it).
The equation looks like this:
Weight of Arthur(x), Weight of banana(Y), weight of funny(z), surface tension of the water(a)
(x + 2y) = x2y
x2y x z = 3.14xy
3.14xy / a = Awesome
Same equation but substituting Weight of bananas for weight of lizard(b)
(x + b) = xb
xb x z = 3.14xb
3.14xb / a = Glub
So if one subject outweighs another in funny, (in this case the lizard is clearly more funny than 2 bananas) the principal applies and the result is "Glub".
When you say "lots" of people, are there really hoardes of people who are humorous enough to enjoy your strip daily, but unfunny enough to expect physics to apply to cartoons? Should Arthur have balanced a banana and 11 grapes, or a staple remover and a bag of microwave popcorn, or a pair of beanbags from one of those weird cornhole games? (If you are from somewhere that does not sell cornhole games or cornhole game building wood kits complete with college basketball team bags, thank your lucky stars.)
You would be amazed at the e-mails I get, sometimes. :)
Knowing humanity, no, I wouldn't.
When I first read the title of this thread, I was envisioning some kind of epic sci-fi space battle: Bananas vs. Lizards.
The odd juxtaposition of the terms stuck with me through a wedding I attended this weekend. The music was very loud, and someone tried to tell me something and I couldn't hear him and I yelled at him "I can't hear you, I have a lizard stuck in my ear" -- and he actually got the banana reference.
It's a strange world we live in, and this comic is doing its part to make sure it stays that way...
I've been trying to get my cousin to check out the strip, so I sent her that cool math problem, and I think she's gonna finally listen to me.
hey, corn hole's a really fun game! it's especially fun playing with a three-year-old! it was acctually part of my gym class a few times. I'm sorry, once more I'm completely off topic. I bet it would be fun to see arthur, flaco, and gramp trying to play corn hole, "I cwan't trow dis wit my mought", then flaco useing some rocket powered cannon to lanch himself carrieing the bag then dropping it at just the right time to land in the hole, then landing three feet farther perfectly, followed by gramp thinking about "tecnique", then throwing it onto the roof by accident, while sheldon is inside doing advanced calcuis or somthing. And this converstion strarted with arthur walking on water with bannanas.
