I hate that, too. I solve this problem by eating _half_ of whatever is left. So, you keep splitting the piece in two until you need an electron microscope to make the cut. You get the comfort of knowing the popcorn still exists, if only on the molecular level.
Hah! Dorothy, I think we commenters, and the net generally, are awfully heavy on math and science. Thank you for being a breath of fresh air to that environment.
Seriously, I don’t know. If I don’t learn these things, I’ll NEVER pass the citizenship test! And Cat and Girl will always be beautifully sad and ambiguous…
It also is a brand of chocolate-covered peanut, a brand of mixed peanut-butter-and-jelly, a character on the Andy Griffith Show, and a derogatory word meaning “idiot” or “scatterbrain.”
You are all wrong and right about goober. Goober was the brand name for a mixture of peanut-butter and jelly that came in the same jar. However, in the context that cat is using it, it has the slang meaning of some sticky gross stuff…like a booger. :)
February 5th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
I hate that, too. I solve this problem by eating _half_ of whatever is left. So, you keep splitting the piece in two until you need an electron microscope to make the cut. You get the comfort of knowing the popcorn still exists, if only on the molecular level.
February 5th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Hah! Dorothy, I think we commenters, and the net generally, are awfully heavy on math and science. Thank you for being a breath of fresh air to that environment.
February 6th, 2009 at 1:56 am
Is goober something good or bad?
Seriously, I don’t know. If I don’t learn these things, I’ll NEVER pass the citizenship test! And Cat and Girl will always be beautifully sad and ambiguous…
February 6th, 2009 at 10:49 am
goober = spit, right?
February 6th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
The phrase “filed under ‘comic’” makes me smile.
February 6th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
time will wear the goober to dust. unless cat changes his mind about it.
(i thought goober was peanut-butter-and-jelly?)
February 6th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Something about Cat always reminds me of Greil Marcus.
February 10th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
a goober is a type of candy, silly people! they usually sell them at movie theatres
February 10th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Goober means peanut.
It also is a brand of chocolate-covered peanut, a brand of mixed peanut-butter-and-jelly, a character on the Andy Griffith Show, and a derogatory word meaning “idiot” or “scatterbrain.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goober
…what did people do before Wikipedia?
April 20th, 2009 at 1:04 am
You are all wrong and right about goober. Goober was the brand name for a mixture of peanut-butter and jelly that came in the same jar. However, in the context that cat is using it, it has the slang meaning of some sticky gross stuff…like a booger. :)