Clearly, some subset of the proles think of it that way, so including it will help them, meanwhile harm nobody else. But I still think it wouldn't hurt to have it in that category, for inclusiveness. I agree with the disagreement, it's clearly not a My Hobby entry.
#Tiny piano gif series
Any person searching for a comic in the "my hobby" series would be pretty surprised to find this one. It might meet the letter, but misses the spirit of the "my hobby" rubric. Here, Cueball's hobby is not the subject and punchline of the comic, but rather the set-up for the joke about the size of his erm. They all begin vey clearly with the phrase "My hobby:" in superscript before describing that hobby for comedic effect. The "my hobby" comics are about Randall's, and not Cueball's (albeit his alter-ego) hobbies. The ensuing panels of discussion doesn't fit the pattern either. This is just a guy making miniatures, a much more normal hobby. It has nothing to do with the other "my hobby" comics, which all describes some weird trolling activity.
The first two words from Cueball are: "My hobby.". Should it be removed from the list? Sciepsilon ( talk) 22:19, 5 October 2013 (UTC) It's not phrased as if this is Randall's hobby, it's more situation-specific than the other My Hobby comics, and the title doesn't start with "My Hobby:". 108.162.219.223Ĭurrently, this comic is listed as being in the "My Hobby" series, but it doesn't fit the series description. Occam's Razor and Megan's response support this view. Alternatively, the title text might have been saying "Good thing didn't make smaller, or need someone three inches tall to play it." Tryc ( talk) 15:20, 28 June 2013 (UTC) The extremely clear implication is that he asked for a 12-inch pianist, echoing the original joke. In 526: Converting to Metric, 14 cm is labeled "penis", and according to the Kinsey Institute, the largest medically recorded was 13.5 inches (34 cm).
#Tiny piano gif plus
The average length of a 1.7 m tall person's forearm plus hand is about 47 cm, so the pianist would need to be about 40 cm. Considering how the average male human is slightly shorter in height (1.7 m) than a grand piano is long (2 m), a to-scale pianist would be slightly shorter than Cueball's forearm. Athang ( talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~) If you look at the piano compared to Cueball's forearm plus hand, they are approximately the same length. Maybe I'm wrong here, but by looking at the size of the piano compared with Cueball and having read the title text, I wonder if the joke might be that he wished for a 4-5 inch penis instead? I wasn't sure enoough to go ahead an change it though. The vagaries of the English language.Īdd a comment! ⋅ add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅ refresh comments! Discussion This is because pianist has a different stress pattern than piano /pi'æno/. are you doing anything later? Trivia įor the record, pianist /'piənɪst/ and penis /'pinɪs/ are near homophones in English. Cueball: I once asked a genie for someone who could play it for me, but I think he misheard. Cueball: Sadly, I've never heard what proper music sounds like on it-the keys are too small to play. Check this out - it's a fully-functional grand piano. Transcript Cueball: My hobby is making miniatures. Genies (or the magic lamps containing them) are mentioned in at least four other comics: The title text suggests that if Cueball had made a smaller piano – and had thus wished for a smaller pianist – he would have instead received a smaller penis, making him less desirable according to the stereotype. In this comic, the opposite happens: Cueball wished for a "twelve inch pianist" to play his miniature piano, but was misheard by the genie, implying that the genie instead granted him a "twelve inch penis." Megan has understood this implication, and therefore wants to have sex with Cueball (in accordance with the aforementioned stereotype). In the original joke, a man found a genie in a bottle, and it is implied that he wished for a "twelve inch penis," but the genie misheard him and instead granted him a "twelve inch pianist." The crux is that the word pianist sounds similar to the word penis the joke also relies on the common trope of genies granting wishes (as in the tale of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp), and the common stereotype that larger penises are more desirable. This comic is the reverse of the "twelve inch pianist" joke that appeared in the Usenet newsgroup. Title text: Good thing he didn't make it smaller, or it'd need someone three inches tall to play it.