This joke is so good. Like, it may not be laugh out loud funny, or whatever, but to me this is peak comedy. I love this kind of wordplay so much. Stuff like this is what keeps me in the game. Even if no one else gets it, or thinks it’s funny, this is beautiful to me. I love reading things like it. This is the kind of thing I seek out in other people’s work.

A lot of the lines in the comics are things I could come up with on the fly in conversation, but this one isn’t. The reason isn’t that I couldn’t think of the premise in the seconds you have in a conversation, it’s that I can’t translate numbers to words in my head very fast. 80085 takes me several moments to work out how to say as words. I’ve always had a problem with translating numerical concepts into verbal ones. In any other area I’m pretty quick on the draw and in primary school scored above average, but I had to have special homework for maths. And the thing is it’s not that I can’t do it it’s that people teach math according to how their brain procceses math, so the standard methods don’t work for me because my brain doesn’t naturally understand why you would work things out in the accepted order. For years I struggled to count back change at work, until an older guy told me how to do it the way he did it and suddenly it was like everything fell into place. All the problem came down to was people always telling me to do it in a way that ran counter to how my brain works.

Speaking of numbers I need more of them in my bank account. So please support my work via the links above. In addition to the struggling economy Patreon has been doing shady shit that made payment processors screw up payments for people, so I’m going to need ever more help. Guh.

Anyway, I don’t have anything particularly interesting to report in my regular life, so I’ll leave you to pursue your own dreams till next we meet. Farewell wherever you fare.

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