Dudley's dungeon -- Friday, 27 April, 2007

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Average rating: Good
Number of ratings: 15

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Roger Barnett	April 27, 2007 15:29
First comment: 7 April, 2006	143 comments written
Awful, awful pun. More please.
SQLGuru	April 27, 2007 15:37
First comment: 23 October, 2006	77 comments written
This was SOOO not where I was expecting this to go. Which makes it sooo much better.
Wonderer	April 27, 2007 16:49
First comment: 22 March, 2007	106 comments written
:( Storyline repeated from the previous strip and no punchline to speak about. I do watchThese strange creatures live mostly on the surface of the earth, gathering together in societies of various forms, but occasionally a stray will descend into the depths and commit mayhem among the dungeon residents who, naturally, often resent the intrusion of such beasts. They are capable of using weapons and magic, and it is even rumored that the Wizard of Yendor is a member of this species. Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. foreign movies, sure, but do I have to watchThese strange creatures live mostly on the surface of the earth, gathering together in societies of various forms, but occasionally a stray will descend into the depths and commit mayhem among the dungeon residents who, naturally, often resent the intrusion of such beasts. They are capable of using weapons and magic, and it is even rumored that the Wizard of Yendor is a member of this species. Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. foreign ads too to follow a Nethack comic? Oh please. Sorry, but just :( in every sense to me. And too many others.
Slowpoke	April 27, 2007 17:21
First comment: 27 February, 2007	239 comments written
Wonderer has hit on a fundamental challenge of this format. I think up Dudley comics that would be funny only to an American. Or only to someone of my political persuasion. Or only to a mathematician. Or only to a baseball fan. Or only to others with similar senses of humor in the area of sex or scatology. I keep these to myself. And conversely I would have a hard time giving a high rating to a comic that involved a European advert or politician as the punchline. There's no place to publish special-interest Dudley comics except here. There's a certain sense that one must construct comics that "appeal to the lowest common denominator" (putting it uncharitably) or "are of universal appeal" (more positively). To deviate from that earns you a few "NOT FUNNY!" comments and a sprinkling of Poor ratings. And so we play it safe - I only want to read comics I "get", and so does everyone else - and in the worst case we end up with a series of newt(kinds of) small animal, like a lizard, which spends most of its time in the water. [ Oxford's Student's Dictionary of Current English ] "Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble." [ Macbeth, by William Shakespeare ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.-death[Pestilence:] And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. [War:] And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. [Famine:] And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. [Death:] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. [ Revelations of John, 6:1-8 ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. comics. I also think up Dudley comics that would be funny only to myself. :)
Rose	April 27, 2007 18:56
First comment: 3 July, 2006	79 comments written
Aw c'mon! I'd love to see some obscure EuropeanAsianAfrican/Antarctican jokes in here. Are we not geek?
Rose	April 27, 2007 19:00
First comment: 3 July, 2006	79 comments written
oh, and I liked the comic
Rodan	April 27, 2007 21:26
First comment: 28 March, 2007	15 comments written
foreign movie? Isn't this Back to the Future and the Geico GeckoLizards, snakes and the burrowing amphisbaenids make up the order Squamata, meaning the scaly ones. The elongate, slim, long-tailed bodies of lizards have become modified to enable them to live in a wide range of habitats. Lizards can be expert burrowers, runners, swimmers and climbers, and a few can manage crude, short-distance gliding on rib-supported "wings". Most are carnivores, feeding on invertebrate and small vertebrate prey, but others feed on vegetation. [ Macmillan Illustrated Animal Encyclopedia ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.? (how much you wanna bet Dudley was playing as a cavemanNow it was light enough to leave. Moon-Watcher picked up the shriveled corpse and dragged it after him as he bent under the low overhang of the cave. Once outside, he threw the body over his shoulder and stood upright - the only animal in all this world able to do so. Among his kind, Moon-Watcher was almost a giant. He was nearly five feet high, and though badly undernourished weighed over a hundred pounds. His hairy, muscular body was halfway between ape and man, but his head was already much nearer to man than ape. The forehead was low, and there were ridges over the eye sockets, yet he unmistakably held in his genes the promise of humanity. [ 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. this game?)
Oryx	April 27, 2007 21:36
First comment: 27 April, 2007	9 comments written
I'm guessing Wonderer isn't American, and so Back to the Future and Geico are foreign to him. Personally I quite liked this one, especially the unexpected punchline. Gotta love the GeckoLizards, snakes and the burrowing amphisbaenids make up the order Squamata, meaning the scaly ones. The elongate, slim, long-tailed bodies of lizards have become modified to enable them to live in a wide range of habitats. Lizards can be expert burrowers, runners, swimmers and climbers, and a few can manage crude, short-distance gliding on rib-supported "wings". Most are carnivores, feeding on invertebrate and small vertebrate prey, but others feed on vegetation. [ Macmillan Illustrated Animal Encyclopedia ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details..
Bahustard	April 28, 2007 03:21
First comment: 19 April, 2007	2 comments written
Huh. Considering he's only done it once before, I would have figured that Dudley's safety wouldn't have been guaranteed.
Rodan	April 28, 2007 14:17
First comment: 28 March, 2007	15 comments written
Wait a minute... this scene is an ad for a different car insurance... I forget which, but It's exactly the same except with a different company and its an actual ad...
Grognor	May 1, 2007 06:18
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
Come on! There is nothing wrong with a comic being esoteric. Especially if that "outcast" group is more than three hundred million people, one of which is me.
Fathead	May 3, 2007 17:35
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
Great! Now everybody has stolen the punchline!
Falos	May 13, 2007 14:47
First comment: 13 May, 2007	2 comments written
I'd also like to note that many of the highest rated comics(and most of the early ones) are all based on references to obscure things, which is the same thing as basing it on an ad that only certain people will have seen. also i liked it

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