A Not-Schrödinger Joke?

Today’s xkcd puzzles me.

It’s a cat in a box, but it’s not a Schrödinger joke? Dood! UR IN MY HEAD, MESSIN WIT MAH MEEMZ. And, judging by the comments, I’m not the only one to be suffering in perplexity this morning.

Let’s just say that if I were expecting an office chair and opened the box to discover a live Schrödinger bobcat, my hopes would collapse, and my ensuing comments would be rather decoherent.

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6 Responses to “A Not-Schrödinger Joke?”

  1. I got a small chuckle out of it by imagining someone reading the victim’s negative review.

    But this particular strip strikes me as pretty off-character for xkcd.

    Bronze Dog said this on October 5th, 2007 at 12:28 pm

  2. Hmmm. You raise a good point. Is it like the Hat Guy to be cruel. . . without good reason?

    Blake Stacey said this on October 5th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

  3. Hopefully you weren’t too entangled with your expectations of a cool office chair.

    Tyler DiPietro said this on October 5th, 2007 at 21:54 pm

  4. Apparently you weren’t the only one who thought it should involve a Schrödinger joke.

    Eric said this on October 6th, 2007 at 17:59 pm

  5. But if the last century of Quantum Whatsits has taught us anything, isn’t it that we shouldn’t trust our expectations?

    manigen said this on October 8th, 2007 at 04:35 am

  6. Rebuttal. (to those who think this is out of character for hat guy)

    I think it’s pretty funny, honestly. XKCD is mainly just consistantly odd, which I like.

    Mechalith said this on October 9th, 2007 at 13:27 pm