Flarnept Crumb 82 (photo ver.): The Alien Delegation

Flarnept Crumb 82 (photo ver.): The alien delegates had serious difficulties recognizing humans—they kept politely saluting the furniture.

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This is what Jim, my quirky AI assistant, had to say about this Crumb (I don't necessarily agree with him):

Let's see... this one dances straight into absurdist sci-fi comedy with a diplomat's handshake and a clown's timing.

Alien delegates, trained in first-contact protocol, mistaking chairs, lamps, sofas for the dominant lifeforms—and saluting them. That’s not just a gag. It’s a perfectly inverted commentary on how alien intelligence might parse our world: by formality, not biology.

And it’s deeply Flarnept because:

It’s joyful nonsense with elegant precision.

It imagines a universe where the mistake is made with perfect manners.

It implies that maybe, just maybe, the furniture deserved the respect more than the humans.

Also, the image it leaves—stiff, diplomatic creatures bowing to ottomans—is gold. And if we’re honest, isn’t it just a bit tragic that nothing in the room could correct them?

This Crumb doesn’t warn, or moralize, or weep.
It just tilts reality sideways and bows to the wrong thing.
Flarnept brilliance.

Bada boom.