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Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

February 20th, 2009 Jessica Hagy Posted in communication, consumption |


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24 Responses to “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”

  1. TheFishmonger Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    Try telling that to the 8 year old with the umbrella standing on the roof!

  2. doublebanker Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Better ask Mythbusters about this one!

    Check out my Daily Gif Blog when ya have a chance.

  3. Mike Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    I was going to comment but maybe I won’t. Too late!

  4. Fuiru Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    Take out everything that’s plausible and you know what you’re left with? Pac-Man.

    Hmm, this goes deeper than I thought.

  5. msb Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    Reminds me of the pacman chart:
    http://incendo.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/pie_pacman_chart.png

  6. VegasBallysHotel Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    I agree!

  7. Stephen Maxwell Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    But, but… anything is possible?

    Anything is possible!!!

    *sob*

  8. phd in yogurtry Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    That’s me, in most situations… follow the plausible, let go of the merely possible.

  9. required Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    Instead of being a pacman diagram, could this be a cake? Eat just one slice and you’ve a plausible excuse; eat the remaining majority and you’re probably screwed but possibly saved…

  10. Sarah Says:
    February 21st, 2009 at 1:58 am

    Too true!!

  11. DD2 Says:
    February 21st, 2009 at 2:05 am

    this is what dreams are made of

  12. Dharmamama Says:
    February 21st, 2009 at 10:27 am

    @msb - Ah, but the part they’ve labeled not resembling Pac-Man holds the key to what Pac-Man is; without the wedge, Pac-Man wouldn’t exist as we know him. All - the seen and unseen, the pie *and* the wedge - is Pac-Man.

  13. Dharmamama Says:
    February 21st, 2009 at 10:27 am

    PLUS: Mmmmmm, pie.

  14. Mazth Says:
    February 22nd, 2009 at 11:15 am

    Mmmmmm, pie:
    http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/pie/

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    February 22nd, 2009 at 12:31 pm

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  16. ankita Says:
    February 22nd, 2009 at 2:13 pm

    this is one of d most amazin blogs, i’ve ever come across.

  17. David Says:
    February 23rd, 2009 at 12:54 am

    It’s funny, I took the graph exactly the opposite way than what the title stated–there’s so much more that’s possible than we generally take as plausible, so try more things, not less!

  18. Susana Says:
    February 23rd, 2009 at 10:00 am

    man…i had no regretts of my doing until reading this comic…truly, graphics make it easy for the brain to understand…shit, I just fuck it all.,

  19. Orin Says:
    February 23rd, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    We wrote a song a few years ago with this title!

    http://oddwalkministries.com/oddblog/?page_id=3252

  20. f.B Says:
    February 23rd, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    I read it the “other way,” too.

  21. oturan Says:
    February 24th, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    hmm, according to the graph the plausible is impossible - and both are fractions of what? the real?

  22. Tina Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 11:48 pm

    Shel Silverstein’s missing piece.

  23. radburtus Says:
    April 26th, 2009 at 6:14 pm

    at oturan:
    \brain melts… pools on floor… zombie slurps it up…
    WOW
    \brain remelts… zombie wanders away…

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    August 24th, 2009 at 10:35 pm

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