Prickly City by Scott Stantis for November 04, 2023

Wile E. did it.

I think it matters how they landed.

It’s not the fall that kills you. It’s the extreme, sudden deceleration.

Don’t fly to close to the sun.

Jack Benny still lives.

Winslow is a Democrat, they do that all the time

Parent: If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?

Cueball: Oh, jeez. Probably.

Parent: What!? Why!?

Cueball: Because all my friends did.

Cueball: Think about it — which scenario is more likely:

Cueball: Every single person I know, many of them levelheaded and afraid of heights, abruptly went crazy at exactly the same time…

Cueball: …or the bridge is on fire?

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Title text: And it says a lot about you that when your friends jump off a bridge en masse, your first thought is apparently ‘my friends are all foolish and I won’t be like them’ and not ‘are my friends ok?’.

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Explain XKCD

1170: Bridge

“…ALL my friends?”

“Uh, yeah.”

“…They ALL killed themselves?”

“Yes.”

“I might.”

This wasn’t wisdom, when my parents said this stuff 55 years ago.

Since you seem to be his only friend………..