No, she’s referring to a line, but using a strained description of one (in bad faith) in order to create a distinction between what Sluggo is accusing her of and what she’ll admit to doing.
Specifically, if you were to draw a line on paper and then zoom in on it, it would look like an extremely long, extremely skinny rectangle, except that the two short ends would be rounded rather than straight because your writing tip is round (in the parlance of Microsoft’s Office’s drawing tools, the “endcap” is what terminates a line and can be square or rounded or an arrow pointing either direction).
So to some extent this a nerd joke about how any line in real life isn’t idealized line with only one dimension (length) but is in fact two dimensional (has width as well) and thus requires a two-dimensional descriptor, such as rectangle.
But it’s also a joke about Nancy being Nancy — she knows he’s right, but doesn’t want to admit it so comes up with a technical way to disagree.
Ok, so I’ve caught up on Crabgrass and enjoy the upbeat, friendship vibe.But man, the Jamal cop/dream sequence storyline just gutted me. I was new and read it in one go, and that stuck with me for days. I miss Jamal.
Yep, I think that’s how we found our way to Jim’s Journal. My roommates and I were huge Onion fans in the late 90s. The door to my dorm room was covered in articles of printed off from the computer lab.Those and Red Meat strips clipped out of the Houston Press.
I love APLJ, but this strip didn’t work for me; the gap in the storyline was too long. The last we saw of this story was on March 1 — I had completely forgotten about the football to the face in the interim.
In fact, I barely remembered the incident with Dad. In the moment while reading the strip, I had assumed we were dropped in medias res in a new storyline involving a new Dad visit — and that his Dad gave him the black eye intentionally.
It wasn’t until I read the comments that it all came back to me. I clicked through the old strips, and I see we last saw the black eye on Feb 27.
I’m sure this would work for someone working through the whole archive at once, but I’ve been following daily since early Feb.
Apologies if any of that comes off as rude — just meant as a little constructive criticism.
No, she’s referring to a line, but using a strained description of one (in bad faith) in order to create a distinction between what Sluggo is accusing her of and what she’ll admit to doing.
Specifically, if you were to draw a line on paper and then zoom in on it, it would look like an extremely long, extremely skinny rectangle, except that the two short ends would be rounded rather than straight because your writing tip is round (in the parlance of Microsoft’s Office’s drawing tools, the “endcap” is what terminates a line and can be square or rounded or an arrow pointing either direction).
So to some extent this a nerd joke about how any line in real life isn’t idealized line with only one dimension (length) but is in fact two dimensional (has width as well) and thus requires a two-dimensional descriptor, such as rectangle.
But it’s also a joke about Nancy being Nancy — she knows he’s right, but doesn’t want to admit it so comes up with a technical way to disagree.