I’d like to thank all those people partnering me on Draw Something – they know who they are – giving me loads and loads of drawing practice every day. I think it is a fabulous game – forcing me to draw things otherwise undrawn. I’ve noticed my skill improving, and also my partners’ skill. To the extent where I can draw without fear, even a naked banana in a bench vise.
I’ve noticed that the merest mention of a banana in a comedy-safe situation is enough to provoke tears of almost hysterical laughter in any reader, owing to this fruit’s extreme comic potential index (CPI) of 10.0. Socks also score a perfect 10.0, but tennis racquets are only about 3.6 and electric sanding discs rate 0.4. Data supplied by the Invisibulian Institute of Statistical Information (who rate themselves at 0.0 CPI ± 0.2).
A little doggerel for you.
Naturally I prefer my definition to any that others may have coined. Thanks to Karen for help with selecting a suitable banana.
Itchy and Knee striving for parity, as always. I note that peas have almost as much comic potential as bananas.
“So, Professor Einstein, will you tell the listeners how you got started in science?”
“Vell, of course at first I vas rather fascinated by the universe, and the vay matter and space and time interacted, and I vas sure there vere some interesting vays in vich it could all be described by some geometrical constructions. But mainly I had seen some scientists playing vith liquid nitrogen, and I vanted to have some fun vith it too.”
Hello, I just listened to a podcast about web comics, and felt all nostalgic for Invisibulia. So I made this one from some scrawlings I found in my notebook.
UPDATE: I can’t see the image — something’s up with wordpress. whoops. working on it now… –A
UPDATE UPDATE: I think it’s all working now.
