About one arcminute, with my glasses on.
[This was from last year, but what the heck.]
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January 2nd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
The old ones are the best ones.
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:31 pm
OMG GROAN!
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:38 pm
That was terrible and you should feel terrible.
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:39 pm
*screams in horror*
Though I’m not sure what’s scarier… the joke, or the fact that I actually got it.
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:41 pm
har har har …*groan*
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Darn I was hoping for a new pun this year.
And don’t feel bad Chris, I got it too.
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Ha! I actually found groan-free funny! Plus, if you (I) haven’t seen it, it’s new to you (me)!
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 pm
I can’t believe it took me so long to get it. Brilliant!
I will have to steal it and use it myself.
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
You should get LASIK.
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:31 pm
I loved Asimov’s monthly science column in SF&F. I’ve come to view your blog as somewhat of the same. So, it’s good to know that I will still be inundated with bad puns and jokes here, also.
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Maybe your glasses need some adaptive optics…
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Took me a minute to get that…….Bad Bad Astronomer!
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Yes, but can you make the Kessel run in less that twelve parsecs?
J/P=?
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:21 pm
The December 21, 2012 ad is funnier!
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:31 pm
My new year’s resolution is more cowbell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pwnl5358q8
No, wait that was my last year’s resolution. But I totally kept it.
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Last year my new year’s resolution was 1280×1024. (I got a new computer monitor.)
This year, with digital TV, is it 1920×1080? Aye.
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Ha! I remember that from last year, but I’d forgotten about it so I laughed again. Very goood!
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I’ve just been over to Sid Plait’s (Phil’s big brother) blog at Computer Support (link in the blog-roll to the right of the screen) and I have observed that, so far, only one person has commented to wish him a Happy New Year — Me!
What’s the matter with you people? Get over there, you lazy bastards, and greet him with a “Happy New Year” so that he doesn’t feel all alone in cyberspace!
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Resolution:
Buy DEATH FROM THE SKIES.
Hey, even the Science Fiction Book Club has it!
J/P=?
Picture width fixed to be 600 pixels so it would fit here by The BA.
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:48 pm
I don’t believe in New Year’s Resolutions…those are for people with flaws
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Bloody hell, John Paradox! Couldn’t you have re-sized that image?
Hey, Phil, I thought there was supposed to be a 600 pixels width limit for posting images here?
January 3rd, 2009 at 12:51 am
It took me a minute to get it… then I was like: Ah hah! Astronomy joke.
Obviously.
It was funny.
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:17 am
@ IVAN3MAN: Death From The Skies! will be unexpected and BIG!
January 3rd, 2009 at 3:07 am
Another pun like that Phil, and I will have the FUZZ come around to your place, and on a night near the New Moon!
Ivan.
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:28 am
My New Year’s resolution:
The butler did it, and Penelope and Charles end up getting married after all. Percy’s aunt dies, leaving him a vast fortune and enabling him to pay for little Timmy’s operation.
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:22 am
Oh dear god. Realisation sets in. 24 comments I’m without a clue. Duh, I don’t get it. Am I just thick? Then. Baddabing. Everything resolves.
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:46 am
I must admit I didn’t get it. I get the term, but I might be missing some meaning of the word resolution (I blame my Norwegian-ness. Yeah, that’s a word… now). Can someone completely ruin the joke for everyone else and explain it to me?
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:51 am
Clue for the clueless: look for “angular resolution” at the Wikipedia, then refrain yourselves from banging Phil’s head with a telescope.
January 3rd, 2009 at 7:38 am
Does that explain why you couldn’t see the humor in Marketplace’s astrology piece?
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:26 am
Hahaha – I <3 puns.
Happy new year!
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:50 am
“# Ken_g6 Says:
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Last year my new year’s resolution was 1280×1024. (I got a new computer monitor.)
This year, with digital TV, is it 1920×1080? Aye.”
Oh, I *see*… RESOLUTION. Ahahahahaahaa… ha.
Honestly, Phil! You should be ashamed!
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:59 am
I think I win for slow on this one, took me a good 12 hours.
January 3rd, 2009 at 11:34 am
Sorry about forgetting to re-size…. actually the physical original was even smaller than the limit… apparently it scanned in at a higher rez…..
J/P=?
mea culpa
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:20 pm
LISA SIMPSON: Only one person in a million would get that joke!
COMIC BOOK GUY: Yes, we call that the “Dennis Miller Quotient”.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:40 am
Had to read that over a couple times, but I got it!
Pretty good, and yet also cheesy at the same time.
I suppose that’s a “not-quite-a-paradox”.