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Friday, 27 April, 2007 by Edrobot
                    
                    
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@ "All right, I'm in the car. Are you sure this is safe?"
                    
                    
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G "Yeah. I saw it in a movie once."
                    
                    
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@ "What movie?"
                    
                    
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G "I dunno, Back to the Something or other. Something like that."
You zap the car with
1.28 jiggawatts!    
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Dudley suddenly     
disappears!         
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G "Well, I guess that's that."
                    
                    
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G "Oh! I just remembered to tell Dudley something important!"
                    
                    
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d "What? That he shouldn't change the timestream more than necessary?"
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 ]

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hits! Your purse feels lighter! -------- |......| |..<...| |....G:+######## |...d..| ----+--- #
G "No, that I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico!"


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Rating

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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.

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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.

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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 ]

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-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 ]

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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 ]

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Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
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?
(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 ]

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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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