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Triangle and Robert #541 That was seriously out of character... I actually used something closely resembling logic. / If I were fully in command of my faculties, I'd have done something with a moose call and cilantro. The cartoonist's insanity must be affecting my mind... and possibly the minds of the entire world. / Nothing interesting is happening. This must be the eye of the storm. I've reached the center of his psyche. Now to get some answers.
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Triangle and Robert #542 ... and here they are! / No! It is a trap! / Thank you, Triangle the Prozac, you saved my life! / That is all in a day's work.
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Triangle and Robert: Euclid's Postulate #1 Hi! It's Euclid's Postulates! / Collect them all! / Let the following be postulated: To draw a straight line from any point to any point. / This is the most elementary straightedge construction. Euclid also uses the assumption that the line this constructed is unique, though he does not explicitly state such.
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Triangle and Robert #544 Cartoonist! Speak! You cannot be silent here! / Hi! I'm Prozac the Bear. / No you're not. / Hi! I am too Prozac the Bear! / Prozac the Bear doesn't draw a comic strip. / Well, I'm Prozac the Bear the Cartoonist!
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Triangle and Robert #545 Not being able to draw is no reason to go insane. / Sure it is. / What did you just say? / Uh... fear my frozen peas, improper mongrel! / No, I'm pretty sure you said "Sure it is." / Ranch ahoy, reel in the squid caddy! / You're faking it, aren't you. / No?
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Triangle and Robert #546 Oh good, the rain of appliances has stopped. (It's a well-known fact that sheep hate having appliances dropped on them.) / The Cartoonist must be recovering his sanity. NOW is the time to STRIKE! / Baa? / I mean in the sense of "to attack", not "to refuse as a group to perform labor". / Baa. / Yeah, I should have been less ambiguous.
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Triangle and Robert #547 Information is power. As you know, Cube seeks a peppermill of great knowledge. We must seize that peppermill. / Baa! / Correct. Which is precisely why we will let Cube reach the cave before we attack. Our air-ground forces will divide into three flocks. Flock A will attack Cube directly. Flock B will secure the surrounding area and prevent aid from reaching Cube. Flock C will enter the cave and acquire the peppermill. / Baa! / No, he can't. Thus, all combat sheep will carry communicators enabling them to narrate the battle. The Cartoonist's laziness will not stop my plan. / Baa! / Baa. / Baa!
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Triangle and Robert #548 Baa! / Telepathy won't work at this range. Engaging translator. / We are over baa! We put Cube's ETA at five days, plus or minus baa! Shall we land? / Negative. Go to hover mode. Establish aerial base formation. Be prepared to drop at any moment. / There's no way he'll get here sooner than baa. We could save fuel baa! / Cube may surprise you. Stay in the air. Establish cloud cover as soon as possible. Make no assumptions.
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Triangle and Robert #549 Yeah, my wound's not pretty, but you should see what I did to the oblong that gave it to me. / I haven't encountered that dragony thing yet. I hope I don't. I saw a flock of flying creatures high in the air yesterday; they're gone now. Hopefully those were our "dragons". / It would have been nice to use some sort of vehicle, but I had to cross the Speckled Barrier at Pedestrians' Crossing. Still, I've hiked further than this.
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Triangle and Robert: Euclid's Postulate #2 Collect them all. / Let the following be postulated: To produce a finite straight line continously in a straight line. / This is another elementary straightedge construction. In modern geometry, what Euclid termed a "finite straight line" is called a segment. Again, Euclid implicity assumes the uniqueness of this construction.
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Triangle and Robert #551 It's hard to believe that terrain so featureless can be so difficult. The path to the cave is getting harder. I keep almost dying. / I think the lonliness might be getting to me. Perhaps I should have taken the rhombus along. The journey is so monotonous. / I'm used to the feeling that I'm being watched. I've had that feeling even before the comic strip. Now, though, I have the feeling that I'm being watched by armed livestock. Odds are it's foreshadowing. I could use the excitement.
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Triangle and Robert #552 Baa nearing drop point. We are ready to baa in baa. Baa for your orders, baa. / Speak more clearly. The translator is having trouble keeping up. / Cube is encamped for the night. He will reach the Cave of Eternal Caveyness in the morning, barring any accidents. / Ensure his safety until he opens the cave. I don't want the somewhat dragon-like entities getting him. / Some of us are nervous. We've seen him fight. / You should be nervous. He's a protagonist. You outnumber him enough, though; the peppermill will be mine.
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Triangle and Robert #553 Baa! Cube has opened the cave. Ironically, the keyword was "baa". / Your job isn't to tell me what's ironic. Narrate the battle. / Flock C has acquired the peppermill! Flock A is fighting Cube to a standoff! Flock B is baa! Did you get that? Baa! / Repeat flock B status. / Flock B has escorted Flock C to the airbase! We have the baa! Repeat, we have the peppermill! / Withdraw flock A and return home. Make sure Cube stays on the ground.
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Triangle and Robert #554 So this is it. The electric peppermill Cube was after. Why? What knowledge can such a thing hold? / I sense thoughts... no, not thoughts. Raw cognition. Sapience without sentience. From a peppermill? What sort of pepper is in this? / Baa. / Yes. Analyze it. / Baa.
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Triangle and Robert #555 Sheep... they rushed me... took the peppermill... jetpacked away... I'm hurt bad.... far from civilization... no transportation... / A wounded polygon, and so alone too. / Wonderful. / I have the power to heal you, and you interest me. Let us play a game. / I can't feel my vertices.
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Triangle and Robert #556 Here is my riddle. Answer it if you can. I lather grain and stomp lattices, I reconstitute ionic compounds and set small chunks of plastic on fire. I whistle as I sing, but am silent as I whistle. / What is my name? / ow... yargh... I'minpainI'minpain I'm in pain... oog... / Your answer, polygon? / OWWWERRRRYARrrrr... / Wow. That... was a really, really good guess.
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Triangle and Robert: Euclid's Postulate #3 Baa / Collect them all! / Let the following be postulated: To construct a circle with any centre and radius. / Euclid's sole elementary compass construction, this postulcate experienced a brief resurgence of popularity in the seventies, hosting a short-lived variety show in the autumn of 1974.
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Triangle and Robert #558 Robert! We're on! / What? What happened with Cube's thing? / I don't know, but now the strip's about us again. / I can't come out now. I'm not decent! / How is that possible? / Please don't ask.
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Triangle and Robert #559 While Robert gets ready in some unexplained fashion, I'm supposed to provide filler. / I guess now would be as good a time as any to demonstrate some of my culinary training in a series of action poses. / You're taunting me. / You bet.
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Triangle and Robert #560 So... filler... filler.. maybe I should recite a recipe. / Sounds good. / Sounds easy to draw, you mean. / Yes. / Triangle's Curly Pentagonal Crisps 4 cups powdered dairy tetrahedron 2.7 rods of grey pixels 1 packet high-viscosity couscous 20° angles, to taste / How the helix are the readers going to get any of this stuff? / That's their problem. Separate pixels into a rectangular saucepan. Steam at low heat until #C0C0C0. Add tetrahedron powder slowly, stirring thoroughly. Once semi-firm, sprinkle couscous around edges. Press. Sprinkle on angles if desired, then chill for 34 minutes (do not expose to light). Cut and serve immediately. Serves 5. / Okay, uh, thanks.
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Triangle and Robert #561 Okay, I'm ready. Sorry about that. I was... busy. / I won't ask. / So. Let's get a plot going. How about some sort of nutty contest? Are there any competitions we can enter? / How should I know? I've just been cooking. / Hey, you made some of those pentagonal things! I bet you could enter these in a contest! They're good. / Well, I guess that brings us to the next story.
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Triangle and Robert #562 Hi. I'd like to enter my Pentagonal Crisps in the dessert category. / And what do they symbolize? / Uh... the speed of cultural change over the last decade, or if that's taken they can symbolize NP-completeness. / Cultural's fine. / I thought you were going to enter them as the difference between antifreeze and an armadillo. / I was about to, but then I remembered that was stupid.
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Triangle and Robert #563 The first entry in the dessert category is this chocolate layer ckae, symbolizing distribution of wealth. Judges? / It would get better marks if these seeds of its own destruction didn't keep getting caught in my teeth. I give it a six. / The system just doesn't work. It's a three, and that's only because of the technological merits of the icing. / Efficient, in a brutal way. The surprising thing about it is its subtlety. An eight. / It tastes really yummy! I give it a ten!
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Triangle and Robert: Euclid's Postulate #4 Ow! / Let the following be postulated: That all right angles equal one another. / ...I need medical attention...
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Triangle and Robert #565 Next: these fortune cookies, symbolizing quantum indeterminacy. / I don't know how many I've eaten, but I know I ate them quickly. They're a ten for me. / I'll give them a nine, even though I'm not sure the fortunes were actually in the cookies before I opened them. / The recipe's a bunch of mystical gobbledygook, but I can't argue with the results. A nine. / Paper tastes funny. I only liked the cookie part. I give it a seven.
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Triangle and Robert #566 Next entry: a gelatin-and-sushi construct symbolizing Pythagoras's later, less mathematical works. / The gelatin makes sense, but to go from there to sushi is a crime against logic. I give it a 2. / I'm not really familiar with Pythagoras, but this does not inspire me to learn more. A four. / Zero. Can I throw up now? / Why isn't the fishie moving?
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Triangle and Robert #567 These curly pentagonal crisps are the next entry in the dessert category. They represent the speed of cultural change over the past decade. / I consumed a lot, but I still feel empty inside. That means plenty of room for more! A nine. / I'm not sure if they're a genuinely new concept or an inevitable incremental improvement, but they're a definite ten. / Distinctly vague, yet with a vague sense of... uh... something distinct... oh, whatever. I enjoyed eating them; they're a ten. / The pointy bits hurt, but they sure are yummy. I'll give this entry a six.
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Triangle and Robert #568 The final dessert entry is this error-diffused circle, representing the difficulty of fairly compensating intellectual and creative work in a capitalist system. / This is the blandest error diffusion I've ever tasted. It's like it was sitting on a shelf for fourteen years. I'm giving it a zero. / It's not a bad dessert, but I don't get the metaphor. What was it supposed to mean again? Something about patent law? I'll give it a five. / It raises interesting questions, but instead of attempting to answer them it just sits in my stomach like a brick. I'll give it a 6. / It's like a Sunday treat on Thursday! Totally a ten.
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Triangle and Robert #569 You're tied for first place with the fortune cookies! Now what happens? / Sudden death round. / Triangle. I knew that we would do battle at some point. I am glad we can do it peacefully, in honest competition. / I thought I recognized your cookies. / You have a great deal of raw talent, but your lack of discipline will downfall you. / Downfall isn't a verb. / And so it begins.
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Triangle and Robert #570 Clotted cream? Ha. You taught me to defend against that yourself. / I'm just warming up. / Peanuts! You are more capable than I had thought. / You'll love my next move. / There won't be a next move. Taste my kung pao! / You call that Szechuan? I've SWEAT spicer sauces, and I don't have any sweat glands. / You're cocky.
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