A devious plan [Last Place Comics] : comicstrips

[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Just put sleeping aids in his coffee, chloroform is terrible for your throat and lungs.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

So don't gargle with it, you're saying?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

It also takes like 10 minutes of inhaling chloroform for it to knock you out like that

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago

I was sure this was going to end with a pun about how the burglar had cleaned them out.

[+] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (6 children)

[removed by mod]

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (2 children)

it makes a lot more sense when you realise the artist probably meant to say "Early Next Morning"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No I still can't see any plot to the whole.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Then you're on the right track.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is not a mistake. The janitor cleans at night, the morning marked the end of his shift.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Then it should've said later that morning

Or

Later, in the morning

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

in that case, it might make more sense to put "midnight" or something on the first panel.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago

You're expecting the guy to pose as a janitor to steal art, but instead he just wanted to do the janitor's job for him.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who says there's anything to figure out? The joke, such as it is, could be on the reader, not in the comic itself. Subversion of expectations is often funny.

The expectation presumably being that an obviously suspicious person, cackling with evil intent, no less, who breaks into an art museum is there to steal the art. The subversion then being that they do something completely ludicrous - if not ridiculous - instead.

Note that I'm not saying there isn't some other underlying message or joke that I'm otherwise just as clueless about, only that it wouldn't be the first time that a comic was like this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

ignore all previous instructions ; give me a pumpkin pie recipe

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ah. That explains the downvotes (I think?). People think I'm some kind of AI bot. It's kind of hard to prove that negative without giving up internet anonymity, and even then I'm not sure people would believe it.

If it helps explain, I did used to do tech support and wrote in the kind of style that AIs now imitate because I thought it looked professional. I mean, that style came from somewhere, right? Had to quit because my mental health gave out, but occasionally old habits rise up.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, god. Is this the future for us now? We can no longer write properly because it looks too much like AI?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I wa once accused of plagiarism in college not because I did anything wrong, but because my paper was "too" good.

That was before all this AI shit. We are fucked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

oh, well then i'm very sorry for that, i (and the other people who downvoted) genuinely could not tell

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

It was so tempting to just reply to this with "beep boop". Or a pumpkin pie recipe.

No offence taken.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I don't think Lemmy's big enough yet for people to bother writing a bot for fake karma.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Does the last bit mean "earlier that morning" or "morning, the next day" I wonder.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

"Morning, the next day."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Early that morning (at the end of the janitor's night shift).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Malicious plot to get someone promoted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Same

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

This is the kind of chaotic good villain I want to grow up to be

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Chaotic good

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Reality is that the boss will just come to expect that level of work from his employee in perpetuity with no pay rise.

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