The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for August 30, 2013
August 29, 2013
August 31, 2013
Transcript:
Brutus: I'm conducting a little experiment regarding perceptions.
Brutus: Do you see this glass as half full or half empty?
Hurricane Hattie O'Hara: Both...
Hurricane Hattie O'Hara: The bottom half is full and the top half is empty!
Actually, the glass appears to be half-emptied. It looks like it is being consumed, or is evaporating, and thus becoming empty. If more were being poured in, it would be half-filled. Full and empty are like a vacuum or pregnancy — there is no “half.”
Ollie: Go ahead and drink your half(Stan drinks the sassafras and coughs)Ollie: Do you know what you’ve done? (Stan nods) What made you do it?Stan: (gets upset) I couldn’t help itOllie: Why?Stan: My half was on the bottom! (cries)
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member about 11 years ago
That’s even better than “The engineer sees it as the glass is too large”.
Harry Grapjas about 11 years ago
I have a friend who always says: it’s better when the glass is half empty, so you can re-fill it, which you cannot with a half full glass.
Francis Lapeyre Premium Member about 11 years ago
And while the optimist and the pessimist argue over whether the glass is half-empty or half-full, the opportunist drinks the contents.
Marc Forester about 11 years ago
The glass is completely full. Half with liquid half with air.
DagNabIt! about 11 years ago
Better than top half full and bottom half empty
le-roy about 11 years ago
Actually, the glass appears to be half-emptied. It looks like it is being consumed, or is evaporating, and thus becoming empty. If more were being poured in, it would be half-filled. Full and empty are like a vacuum or pregnancy — there is no “half.”
ChessPirate about 11 years ago
Ollie: Go ahead and drink your half(Stan drinks the sassafras and coughs)Ollie: Do you know what you’ve done? (Stan nods) What made you do it?Stan: (gets upset) I couldn’t help itOllie: Why?Stan: My half was on the bottom! (cries)
danlarios about 11 years ago
good eye
sky4forums about 11 years ago
I have a friend that claims the right course of action is to dump the water out of the glass and fill it with beer.