Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for January 18, 2025

What movie?

Notheengs is permanent. Not even earth. Not even sun. Not even universe. For it all just a temporary state of existence, some of the several forms of that which is permanent.

Bladerunner, look up tears in the rain

I’ve seen things you muts wouldn’t believe. Attack dogs on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched hydrants glitter in the dark while I peed on the Tannhauser gate…

Perhaps rain is tears.

Kinda like ♪ “All we are is dust in the wind” ♪ .

It does get kind of monotonous.

“Weimaraner,” a film about a dog who hunts down robot dogs but unknowingly is one itself. Or is it?

“Vanish like a fart in the wind” not sure if that is the exact quote from The Shawshank Redemption but I think it fits this comic.

And I’m getting really tired of you inviting me to go without to pee on the Tannhäuser Gate. I bet you don’t even know where that is.

Sounds like a quote from a Homeward Bound movie.

I close my eyes

Only for a moment, and the moment’s gone

All my dreams

Pass before my eyes, a curiosity

Pee in the rain

All they are is Pee in the rain

Same old song

Just a drop of water in an endless sea

All we do

Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Pee in the rain

All we are is Pee in the rain

Now don’t hang on

Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky

It slips away

And all your money won’t another minute buy

Pee in the rain

All we are is Pee in the rain

(All we are is Pee in the rain)

Pee in the rain

(Everything is Pee in the rain)

Everything is Pee in the rain

(In the rain)

Like whiz on a bush in a rainstorm, so go the Days of Our Lives.

Now we have to stop again because you keep talking about rain and it already!

I don’t think that there ever was a P in “the rain”. :)

BUT IT’S SO GOOD! And did you know Rutger Hauer mostly improvised it? SO good.

Pee Runner.

God, I laughed so hard at this one!

One of my favorite lines…funny thing I always mentally add “the” when it was actually “like tears in rain.”

Is that dog Batty?

Cool, more dog philosophy! ;-)

What confused me for some time when the movie “Bladerunner” came out was that I had read the story “Bladerunner” by Alan E. Nourse, which is a completely different plot. Nourse (who was a doctor) wrote about a future where worthy people could live indefinitely by means of organ transplants, with organs provided by “organ banks” of organs taken from unworthy people. When I saw the movie, I wondered how they managed to get the title from one sci-fi story stuck on the plot from a different sci-fi story.

Turned out to be simple…the director (or whoever made those decisions) wanted a pithy title and “transplanted” Nourse’s title onto Dick’s story…

When I was a boy outside on a hot summer day we’re in our bathing suits, Mom locked us out the floor was drying.

“I’m p-in’ in the rain, just p-in’ in the rainWhat a glorious feelin’, just p-in’ in the rain