The Prophetic Art of The Maitre d'
Today I went through my filing boxes, organizing what needed to be organized, and discarding what was no longer needed. It was during this process that I happened upon a curious artifact... a curious artifact that has interesting implications in the history of Chainsaw Buffet. It would seem that the creative force that helped form the Buffet was at work years ago.
It might not be surprising that my find will dredge up other memories from my colleagues, and they, too, will discover that their fates were intertwined with the legendary Chainsaw Buffet well before we ever conceived of this great site. As Tenacious D was destined to become the greatest band ever, were we too destined for greatness?
Coincidence? Well, let me tell you my story. Then, you may decide.
A number of years ago, I remember having a discussion with the Busboy about ineffective superheroes. While the details of this conversation are lost to the mists of time, one scrap survived:
The Baker. An ineffective superhero? Yes. But look more closely.
First, his resemblance to The Chef is uncanny. OK, well, that's because I drew them both. But it is uncanny that over the years, such a similar character design resurfaced seemingly at random. Once I drew the picture, I gradually forgot of The Baker's existence. Until now, that is.
Second, the character's name is "The Baker." Now, granted, our propensity for naming characters based on jobs in a restaurant is equal parts pseudo-anonymity and hilarity. However, The Baker is clearly the only name for a superhero whose main power is being a baker. Yet, there it is--a character named with the same naming convention the Buffet would later adopt.
Speaking of which, my memory is fuzzy on what The Baker's powers actually were. I'm not sure he had any. As I said, I believe the discussion that prompted this sketch was about ineffective superheroes.
Third... well, OK, I think those two items cover all the interesting coincidences--but they are coincidences you cannot deny! So, was the founding of the Buffet foreordained? I do not know. All I know, is that one day, many years ago, there emerged... THE BAKER.
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The Maitre d'
For my next trick...
The Chef
It is predestined.
The Maitre d'
So say we all!
The Maitre d'
"All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again."
The Chef
I don't think that's in the Book of Pythia.
"And the Lords anointed a leader to guide the caravan of the heavens to their new homeland. And unto the leader, they gave a vision of serpents, numbering two and ten, as a sign of things to come."
I hereby proclaim that leader to be the Great Reagan, not your "Gavin".
The Maitre d'
Book of Pythia
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
- The Zen of Python
The Chef
Yes, PythIA, not Python.
The Chef
Oh, and...
The Maitre d'
Etc.
I wasn't mixing tWoT with BSG, I was mixing it with Roboreaganology.
The Chef
It was both.
reaperman
tWoT
The Maitre d'
Crap.
reaperman
The Chef
He did.