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The Funny Pages Mortal Combat Death Race Thingie! With plants.
The Exciting Conclusion!
Well, it's been a few weeks since the last Mortal Combat Death Race Thingie, and I thought I'd fill you in on what's happened since then. You see, I discovered some very important facts from conducting this experiment. Namely, if you water a plant with a beverage like soda and then let it set there for several weeks, it gets stinky.
Really stinky.
Like, "Is there a decomposing animal somewhere in the air vents?" kind of stinky.
It was so bad, you could actually see the stink lines floating up from the plants. Seriously. I mean, take a look at this completely undoctored photo.
Notice the stinklines rising up from this plant. Just like in the comics!
And for the plants that drank alcohol, you could see stink lines and alcohol bubbles.
I'm surprised more Highway Patrol Officers don't incorporate booze bubbles into their field sobriety tests.
Anyway, it quickly got to the point that the plants, which were sitting near my desk, got to smell so bad, that it was hard to concentrate. Luckily, I came upon what seemed like the perfect solution: Just move the plants near somebody else's desk.
Sadly, my co-workers didn't seem to think my plan was as brilliant as I did. And, using some very well-reasoned and well-articulated points of discussion (see below), they explained their point of view to me.
Rich, a Pogo employee explains in logical terms why my "Put the plant near Rich's desk" plan may not be the best course of action.
Eventually, I had to concede that their "smack you in the head" arguments made a lot of sense, and after doing the photo shoot for The Real Death Race, I double-bagged the things in big garbage bags, and got rid of them.
But before I did that, I did take some time to capture a few photos of the plants at the beginning and end of the contest. The results are on the next page...
Check out the results...
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