Basic Instructions is a very funny Web comic I originally found when Dilbert creator Scott Adams started working with the artist to improve the strip’s commercial appeal. There’s an associated news/updates blog, and today’s entry in Basic Instructions News includes the following:

One advantage to living in Orlando is that there’s an abundance of fireworks. I got to see a display at one of the local theme parks the other night that was a tribute to the cultures of the world and how they interplay with each other. The show began with a mammoth fireball that caused an uncomfortable amount of heat from hundreds of feet away. The grand finale was a giant globe cracking apart and exploding in a shower of sparks.

I don’t think I took away the message that the show’s creators had hoped I would.

I always thought pretty much the same thing.