Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 19, 2015
Transcript:
Alice: Look, a rainbow! Dill: Ooh! Dad: Sir Issac Newton believed the rainbow divided light into seven colors, analogous to the seven notes of the diatonic scale. Alice: Mom says he has paternal explanatory syndrome, or drivelalia factosis, caused by a buildup of useless information in the brain. Dill: "Drivelalia factosis"! Ha! I'll remember that!
Templo S.U.D. over 9 years ago
Even in summer vacation, you learn something. (“Was Isaac Newton also famous for those fig-flavored cookies,” Alice and Dil ask.)
Linux0s over 9 years ago
And so it begins…
Sisyphos over 9 years ago
Yes, Newton loved his mathematical universe.And I, too, will try to remember drivelalia factosis, Dill and Alice, ’cause I also have got a lot of useless information in my brain….
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 9 years ago
Atta boy, Dill. The drivelalia factosis is strong in this one.
Pithy (yeah, right) over 9 years ago
Actually, a prism spreads out all of the colors in the light that enters it, bending each one differently according to its frequency. Pure white light contains a complete (and continuous) range of the visible colors, so the resulting array will also be continuous. Our brain, however, tends to see the array as consisting of certain distinct colors (each actually consisting of a range of colors).
GROG Premium Member over 9 years ago
I want to remember that, but I probably won’t.
cgrantt57 Premium Member over 9 years ago
Damn…I’ve got that! I think I inherited it from my father.
It’s gotta be genetic, right?
TrixieinDixie Premium Member over 9 years ago
Ugh, I have this problem. But surely people want to know these fascinating things that I have stored in my brain? Right?? Hmm. Perhaps not…
IQTech61 over 9 years ago
Drivelalia Factosis – an idea made up by people living with Idioticus Absolutum. In acute cases, Idioticus Absolutum can cause Cranio-Rectal Inversion.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 9 years ago
Thats me!A vast storehouse of useless information.
Peam Premium Member over 9 years ago
I can remember “drivelalia factosis” (from which I suffer), but couldn’t place it in this particular strip, which first appeared July 18, 2010. Have I really been reading Cul de Sac on a regular basis that long?
Saucy1121 Premium Member over 9 years ago
So, that’s what’s wrong with me!
Arianne over 9 years ago
In later years, when the buildup of useless information gets too great, drivelalia factosis may also be accompanied by brain farts.
Goblinopolis over 9 years ago
My ex-girlfriend called it “Male Answer Syndrome,” although that was actually the tendency of men to make up some semi-plausible sounding answer when they don’t know the real one. It certainly prepares one for a life in politics, however.