I’ve never encountered the SI unit of “Mikes”, but I can only assume that it is the natural force required to have sex with your mom for a nickel at Standard Temperature and Pressure. While 680 milliMikes might not seem like a lot, my calculations indicate that at STP, such a person could have sex with your mom for approximately 7.35 cents.
davidbreslin101
The strength of the mike field over distance is a function of whatever you don’t want it to be.
tahrey
Ah, you forgot that it’s a logarithmic scale, though. So by my calculations, that means Ruth would be able to bone someone’s parent for either minus-30 cents, or plus-6.6 cents. I haven’t quite perfected the formula yet.
Jerbon
Actually, that’s an entirely different unit, but it has the same name. The logarithmic scale Mike is based a differential equation with terms for the price of optimal devastation, your mom’s blood alcohol content and Mike’s alcohol content. I have devised a marvelous proof which the comment box is ill-formatted to contain.
Anyway, when the SI unit of “Mike” was adopted, it was decided that that was too complex, accounting for more variables than it really should. Instead, a scale based on a directly reciprocal relationship between Mike-ness and required money was devised, giving us the SI Mike. It’s similar to how the current SI unit of conductance shares a name with a different unit of conductance with a different definition, but that name was eventually co-opted for the SI unit, now defined as an inverse ohm.
I find it ironic so many people strive to keep the rules of a game made up by a militant discordant anarchist whose life goal is to blow the entire world back to the stone age specifically because he doesn’t want to be tied down by rules.
I mean I love Fight Club references and everything, but some of it is pretty weird in context.
Okay, either it’s the R.A. from Roomies!–in which case, alright, mythology gag, neato–or it’s Howard, and the Lessicks run the entire building, which would be AWESOME.
Ruth, you got off to a good start with “Miss Rapture Ready,” but “You’re just stupid” smacks of phoning it in. However, you recovered nicely with the death threat at the end, even if it lacked the specificity of your earlier “femurs” threat. I give it a 7/10.
Maybe Billie can be the new R.A.! I mean, I guarantee no college has an R.A. system where you can just appoint your successor regardless of their qualifications (or lack thereof), but I still want it to happen.
The youngest one that I’ve seen was a second semester sophomore. The jealousy factor (because of dat resume, yo) wasn’t helped by the fact that he had been my roommate in the fall…
Doctor Lantern
At my college we had 1st semester Sophomores who got RA. It was hard to do, but possible.
108 thoughts on “Rapture Ready”
Raine
THAT’S RIGHT JOYCE. Only MIKE gets to be a force of nature.
Jenny Creed
“Force of personality” sounds like a mix of forceful personality and force of nature. Maybe she’d rate like 680 milliMikes?
Jerbon
I’ve never encountered the SI unit of “Mikes”, but I can only assume that it is the natural force required to have sex with your mom for a nickel at Standard Temperature and Pressure. While 680 milliMikes might not seem like a lot, my calculations indicate that at STP, such a person could have sex with your mom for approximately 7.35 cents.
davidbreslin101
The strength of the mike field over distance is a function of whatever you don’t want it to be.
tahrey
Ah, you forgot that it’s a logarithmic scale, though. So by my calculations, that means Ruth would be able to bone someone’s parent for either minus-30 cents, or plus-6.6 cents. I haven’t quite perfected the formula yet.
Jerbon
Actually, that’s an entirely different unit, but it has the same name. The logarithmic scale Mike is based a differential equation with terms for the price of optimal devastation, your mom’s blood alcohol content and Mike’s alcohol content. I have devised a marvelous proof which the comment box is ill-formatted to contain.
Anyway, when the SI unit of “Mike” was adopted, it was decided that that was too complex, accounting for more variables than it really should. Instead, a scale based on a directly reciprocal relationship between Mike-ness and required money was devised, giving us the SI Mike. It’s similar to how the current SI unit of conductance shares a name with a different unit of conductance with a different definition, but that name was eventually co-opted for the SI unit, now defined as an inverse ohm.
TL;DR I like units and their histories.
Geminia999
I should totally say what Ruth said next time someone comments that to me, just less bluntly :3
Ragnal
HE’S BACK.
RUUUUUUUUN! THE TREK MEMES WILL OVERFLOW THE FLOOR!
Mr. Random
I wonder if Howard would try to follow his sister in becoming an RA?
CleverTrousers
I don’t think it’s Howard. I think it’s this dude:
http://www.bringbackroomies.com/comic/make-it-so/
Aras Pabedinskas
Well at least he got the most important rule out there. Well except don’t murder but what can you do.
PetrePan
Yeah, I love RAs like that. We had one in the basement of our first year dorm who let us have our own fight club for a while. He watched.
Yotomoe
You just broke the first rule of Fight Club.
Boom
And the second rule.
Brian Lynch
And, most likely, at least part of the sixth rule.
Jenny Creed
I find it ironic so many people strive to keep the rules of a game made up by a militant discordant anarchist whose life goal is to blow the entire world back to the stone age specifically because he doesn’t want to be tied down by rules.
I mean I love Fight Club references and everything, but some of it is pretty weird in context.
Boom
We’re nerds.
tahrey
“No shirt, no shoes”?
TPman
Was it a SWORDfight club or just the boring kind?
David
Pillow fight.
NightmareWarden
Explosive pillows?
… did they at LEAST have monkey master pillow cases?
Crimson Doom
The kind of fight where you hit people in the FAAAAAAAACE.
tahrey
ROBOT CLUB?
Plasma Mongoose
Who’s the male RA, Rick?
Totz the Plaid
Plausible!
tahrey
Allegedly it’s the guy who was only ever known as “R.A.”
http://www.bringbackroomies.com/comic/make-it-so/
Count Dracula
If Ruth didn’t exist, I’d say Howard.
Yotomoe
Why is Howard’s existence contingent on Ruth NOT existing. They’re siblings.
Boom
Conservation of redheads?
nothri
One of the lesser known laws of thermodynamics. Also why the Doctor has yet to regenerate into a ginger.
Buckybone
However, Amy’s dead in the “current” part of the show. There’s an opening now…
Steven
That would be a Naruto marathon then.
NerdHerder
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the dorm…
Wait, is their RA Howard?
Totz the Plaid
Nah, probably Rick. He loved Trek, too.
Totz the Plaid
…wait, I assumed from Plas’s comment that the R.A. from Roomies was called Rick, but after SpaceInvader42’s comment, I see I assumed wrong.
Maycroft
it could still be the same RA as in Roomies! as well, but I’d like to see howard’s character status ascended.
Taigan
I think Willis has said that he’s sticking with Howard being Ruth’s younger brother. I don’t think he’d be an RA.
The Trekkie RA from Roomies never did get a name, did he?
Boom
Mr. Deckard.
Wack'd
Okay, either it’s the R.A. from Roomies!–in which case, alright, mythology gag, neato–or it’s Howard, and the Lessicks run the entire building, which would be AWESOME.
Yotomoe
This here’s Lessick country.
Wack'd
I’ve never missed a hall meeting yet.
JBO
We can’t stop here! This is Lessick country!
Boom
She mostly comes out at night. Mostly.
Mr. Random
Isn’t the RA from Roomies the CS teacher in the dumbiverse?
Regalli
No, I’m pretty sure that’s Alex. He had an actual character.
Wack'd
Yep. Alex =/= the R.A.
You can tell because one of them has never been seen sitting down and the other has rarely been seen standing up.
That Damn Rat
But have you seen them both sitting/standing at the same time?
David
It wouldn’t be the whole building. The RA is only in charge of one floor.
Wack'd
Dammit, I did that deliberately in the hope that in the course of correcting me you’d inadvertently tell me which option–if either–was the right one!
I could’ve thought this through better.
Boom
Or at all?
spaceinvader42
So the guys’ RA is the same one as in Roomies. I wonder if he’ll get a name this time.
Yotomoe
Check BBR.
xKiv
His name is R-a?
Regalli
But… But if he gets one, then he might actually have something to DO!
alicemacher
Ruth, you got off to a good start with “Miss Rapture Ready,” but “You’re just stupid” smacks of phoning it in. However, you recovered nicely with the death threat at the end, even if it lacked the specificity of your earlier “femurs” threat. I give it a 7/10.
Emoroffle
I imagine Ruth would break 7/10 bones for that remark.
Steven
7 out of 10 bones? We have way more bones than that. Unless you meant 7 out of EVERY 10.
Boom
That wouldn’t work either because the number of bones in the human body isn’t perfectly divisible by ten.
Lazarus
Prediction: Ruth is calling a floor meeting to either:
1. Humiliate Billie in some public way as a “thank you” for recent events.
2. Resign her commission as R.A. due to recent events.
Thor
Why not both?
Lawzlo
Maybe Billie can be the new R.A.! I mean, I guarantee no college has an R.A. system where you can just appoint your successor regardless of their qualifications (or lack thereof), but I still want it to happen.
Steven
Also, college RA’s are usually not freshmen.
Buckybone
The youngest one that I’ve seen was a second semester sophomore. The jealousy factor (because of dat resume, yo) wasn’t helped by the fact that he had been my roommate in the fall…
Doctor Lantern
At my college we had 1st semester Sophomores who got RA. It was hard to do, but possible.
Boom
Maybe she wants to invite everybody to a massive pillow fight/orgy? You ever think of that? Huh? Huh!?
John
“Force of personality” is the polite way to say “Bothriospondylus”, right?
Roomies! RA! Long live the Federation! *does that nerd thing with his hand*
Other than the Star Trek/Roomies! ref, that was pretty much how every floor meeting I ever attended went, too.
Yotomoe
It’s definitely an easier to spell way to say…That.
John
That’s why Joyce usually just says “B-word”.
NeutroBlaster