(To the tune of “if you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.”)
If it’s longer than it’s wide, then it’s phallic.
If it’s longer than it’s wide, then it’s phallic.
If it’s shorter than it’s wide,
Then you turn it on it’s side,
Now it’s longer than it’s wide, and it’s phallic.
Indulgences must be purchased.
I got mine cheap on Black Friday.
‘Course, I had to use ‘em all on the murders committed getting to the front of the line, but whaddayagonnado.
Actually, if Bandit’s theory proves true, marine biology is what gnomes are all about.
More specifically, Rendar’s adopted brother:
Squidfuckdar the Marine Biologist.
Hang on, from inside the tower those are concave lenses pointing into space. That’s the exact opposite of what you need to focus a laser. And from the angles of the telescopes and lenses, it looks more like they’re end up setting the top half of the tower on fire.
Am I reading too much into the architecture, or does it appear that you enter that tower via the back porch. so to speak? The doorway seems to portray a gnome… bending over?
Even that one is actually just pointed towards an orbital mirror, which points right back down to the ground. That way they can spy on the cities that have mountains in the way.
The location of an observatory is also dictated by the location of rich, foolish people with lots of excess money that may be donated to universities. Ideally, it would be better to build an observatory on a hill far away from any source of light pollution. However, if the only places with money are big cities on plains, the observatories will still be obliged to follow the money.
That 3 meter increase really took that tower to the next level.
Imagine if they coulda gotten ten!
It would have REALLY looked like a mushroom?
Yeah, a mushroom.
Bigger isn’t always better.
Right, guys?
Guys?
(To the tune of “if you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.”)
If it’s longer than it’s wide, then it’s phallic.
If it’s longer than it’s wide, then it’s phallic.
If it’s shorter than it’s wide,
Then you turn it on it’s side,
Now it’s longer than it’s wide, and it’s phallic.
And so, the square was left all alone, mocked for it’s phallic inability…
They have pills for that, now.
Every tower is phallic, but this tower has a mushroom tip on it. The only way it could be worse is if it had two domed structures at its base.
The One Where They Kill All The Gnomes.
Oh, we don’t gnome that yet.
Their on the look out for Frigg with a chess board.
Nice twist (heh) on the Spiral Minaret.
Something tells me that phallic tower is made to screw all of Gastonia.
… But not literally, hopefully. I don’t want to see and Building-to-Tower action.
The Tower of Paranoia.
Close, it’s actually the “Tower of Tourettes”, otherwise known as the “Mighty SHITFUCK Tower DAMNASSDUCKS.”
You seem to gnome so much. I thought only castles had tourettes.
Airships have gun tourettes.
That’s impressive, they can see the sky through all the smog around them!
What smog? Gastonia is not industrialized enough to make smog.
Best source of smog is a few thousand woodfires. You don’t need industry for smog.
Ah, so we get Gnome for the holidays….
Yes, well, let’s hope the next comic doesn’t come up short of our expectations. Gnomes rarely can reach my high expectations.
That tower has the backing of gnomes.
I’m not sure I’m feeling it. Needs more telescopes.
It’s a new UK political watchdog scheme.
No-one?
Observe-a-tory.
You’re awful.
Tiny men, creating an all seeing phallic tower. Sounds about right. Little man syndrome all over the place.
I spy with my little eye…
“…where secrets become unburied.”
Oh-ho, I see what you did there.
I can see Payet Best from here!
Or at least one of his alts.
what we have here is an intellectual rust bucket
I don’t know, there didn’t seem to be any failure to communicate between frigg and the gnomes.
I just these gnomes seem like Short steam punk dutch at the moment.
Grammar seems to have failed me today. I beg your indulgence on this.
Indulgences must be purchased.
I got mine cheap on Black Friday.
‘Course, I had to use ‘em all on the murders committed getting to the front of the line, but whaddayagonnado.
You should get a tab.
Yes! This comic needed more gnomes!=D
Also, I can’t stop thinking about Daleks when I look to that building…
Those are not telescopes. Those are lasers!
Doomsday machine are what gnomes are all about!
Actually, if Bandit’s theory proves true, marine biology is what gnomes are all about.
More specifically, Rendar’s adopted brother:
Squidfuckdar the Marine Biologist.
Hang on, from inside the tower those are concave lenses pointing into space. That’s the exact opposite of what you need to focus a laser. And from the angles of the telescopes and lenses, it looks more like they’re end up setting the top half of the tower on fire.
My god…it’s not a laser tower. It’s a bomb!
Am I reading too much into the architecture, or does it appear that you enter that tower via the back porch. so to speak? The doorway seems to portray a gnome… bending over?
What? That’s just…
…
…
O_O
I see it too. It was only then that I also noticed all the carved happy people {gnomes?} holding up the stairs.
I now cannot unsee that.
Am I the only one going like “A city is the worst place ever to put an observatory”?
Probably… everyone’s too busy trying to ‘out pun’ each other. As usual.
As to your point, normally you’d be right, but then you have to ask the follow-up question… so what are they trying to ‘observe’?
Only the top-most turret seems to be specifically for ‘star-gazing’.
Even that one is actually just pointed towards an orbital mirror, which points right back down to the ground. That way they can spy on the cities that have mountains in the way.
The location of an observatory is also dictated by the location of rich, foolish people with lots of excess money that may be donated to universities. Ideally, it would be better to build an observatory on a hill far away from any source of light pollution. However, if the only places with money are big cities on plains, the observatories will still be obliged to follow the money.
Best is going to make his triumphant return, isn’t he?
No! no he is not. don’t mention him..ever.
He is dead and should stay this way.
(and no not even coming back as a really annoying ghost.)
How many sexual innuendo do you think Frigg would make if she could see this very phallic tower?
One good one should cover it.
Oh come on! She wouldn’t stop at one.
I’m pretty sure she’d give you one, before deciding to do something else.
Those “telescopes” are all fitted with Geissman Lenses. The gnomes’ secret plan… is to write their names on every moon in the solar system.
Gnome astronomers are watching you masturbate.
Is there one staircase or two? That’s the question.
How did they get a permit to run those pipes down into neighboring buildings? Where was chessmaster Frigg when that happened?