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m_f@discuss.online Joined: 2024-12-11

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/10/10/1

Caption:

Fumbling for his recline button, Ted unwittingly instigates a disaster.

Alt text:

Wings stay on / Wings stay off

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PrimeErective@startrek.website Joined: 2023-08-25

Went do we even HAVE that switch

ArfArfWoof@europe.pub Joined: 2025-12-27

dont fuck with me, else i press the man button

tyranny@crazypeople.online Joined: 2026-06-11

'wings fall off' is so much funnier than 'switch off engine' or even 'self destruct'. great cartoon

m_f@discuss.online Joined: 2024-12-11

Reminds me of Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off

Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone Joined: 2023-12-12

I wonder what the button with the charicatute of a human does

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org Joined: 2024-06-23

I remember Randall Munroe referencing this. I can't find the xkcd comic, maybe it's in one of the What If? books. His version had the switch in the cockpit though.

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