I've often wondered how those little plastic/rubber cones can suddenly, and without question, re-route many lanes of traffic at a whim. No one even questions where they are being re-routed. If the traffic cones ever got together and formed some kind of group sentience, we would all be in trouble.
WAIT! This is modern grammar – when I was a young lad, the English Education system used "It's" as a possessive as well – that is, belonging to it. Modern grammar seems to have forgotten that, so, Adam, you were really correct.
Damn "know-all" teachers…the worst of it is, they correct students' poetry. How dare they? One of my daughter's teachers hadn't read any Walt Whitman, and English wasn't even the teacher's first language!
A while back, we found that a single traffic cone had been placed on the edge of our street. For weeks it sat there without anybody moving it or questioning its purpose. Then one day I lifted it up and found that it was covering a 2-inch hole in the asphalt. Frankly, I think the cone itself was more obstructive than that little hole.
I'm not sure if this is still up for discussion, but these days they teach "it's" is a contraction for "it is," and "its" is the possessive. So I vote to fix it as "its" instead for the sake of pretentious English majors everywhere who love amazing webcomics like this and love them even more if they're grammatically beautiful. 😀
Hahaha, love this one. Me and my friends go "coning" where we snag cones from roads and put them in random streets with caution tape around them….it's hilarious to see what people do.
''Strobile''… had to look that one up, and I'm glad I did.
I'm going to try and work it into my non-strobile-related essay
You know, "butt megaphone" is not what I thought was happening there.
I agree
Sometimes I harness the power of the cone when I want to be left alone by placing one on my head. It works.
If the cone was my boss, I'd just put him behind my driveway and then he couldn't yell at me for missing work. Problem solved!
I've seen spiders nest in those things before.
Oh jeepers. Now I am never touching a traffic cone.
I am awed by your ability to notice a minor marginal detail in our everyday life and turn it into an epic saga of Monty-Python proportions!!!
From all the webcomics I follow, this is THE ONE. Every single strip is brilliant. Sir, keep up with the awesome work.
Wow. Thanks!
Love this 😀
I think I'm going to try that last one.
I actually reserved myself a spot at school for a couple weeks with an old cone I found!…. Until security removed it.
I've often wondered how those little plastic/rubber cones can suddenly, and without question, re-route many lanes of traffic at a whim. No one even questions where they are being re-routed. If the traffic cones ever got together and formed some kind of group sentience, we would all be in trouble.
It's "its".
Expand your contraction: "We surrender to it is dominance"
Sorry about that. I will fix. Thanks for the catch.
I keep forgetting how possessive apostrophes don't apply to the word "its".
WAIT! This is modern grammar – when I was a young lad, the English Education system used "It's" as a possessive as well – that is, belonging to it. Modern grammar seems to have forgotten that, so, Adam, you were really correct.
Excellent! I should tell that to my girlfriend, she's on me about "its" vs "it's" all the time!
I should tell some of my teachers. they're always "correcting" my essays because of it.
Damn "know-all" teachers…the worst of it is, they correct students' poetry. How dare they? One of my daughter's teachers hadn't read any Walt Whitman, and English wasn't even the teacher's first language!
WE CAN'T STOP SAYING IT! AH I'VE SAID IT AGAIN! AHHH
I was once beaten up by a couple of ice cream cones, so be careful
Always reminds me of the VLC logo…
Butt Megaphones are dangerous…
Brilliance once again adam YOU ROCK!!!
Hahah. All too true. Another great strip!
Hehe! 🙂
I actually pulled a pnael 4 on a friend of mine before. i had to tell him it was a joke or he might have starved.
A while back, we found that a single traffic cone had been placed on the edge of our street. For weeks it sat there without anybody moving it or questioning its purpose. Then one day I lifted it up and found that it was covering a 2-inch hole in the asphalt. Frankly, I think the cone itself was more obstructive than that little hole.
its funny when you do this on april fools with random traffic cones all over your schools parking lot
Love it!!!
Dammit, I only have 2.4-ish months to get some traffic cones.
Mind if I borrow yours… ?
I just found your comic, and I am a fan!
I'm not sure if this is still up for discussion, but these days they teach "it's" is a contraction for "it is," and "its" is the possessive. So I vote to fix it as "its" instead for the sake of pretentious English majors everywhere who love amazing webcomics like this and love them even more if they're grammatically beautiful. 😀
Hahaha, love this one. Me and my friends go "coning" where we snag cones from roads and put them in random streets with caution tape around them….it's hilarious to see what people do.
It's dominance?
You have obviously never played Halo 3. Dem traffic cones are scary.