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Average rating: Excellent
Number of ratings: 22

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Grognor August 22, 2007 00:53
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
After I got the joke my finger pressed excellent automatically.

I'll let the grammar mistake in the last panel slide this time, but don't do it again >:)
Dav August 22, 2007 03:34
First comment: 26 June, 2004 147 comments written
Took me a few seconds to get it, but it was worth it.
1338h4x August 22, 2007 04:58
First comment: 19 September, 2006 102 comments written
Ahahahahaha. Awesome.
flatluigi August 22, 2007 05:16
First comment: 23 November, 2006 28 comments written
I don't get this one, though I like the candleFaustus: Come on Mephistopheles. What shall we do?
Mephistopheles: Nay, I know not. We shall be cursed with bell,
book, and candle.
Faustus: How? Bell, book, and candle, candle, book, and bell,
Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.
Anon you shall hear a hog grunt, a calf bleat, and an ass bray,
Because it is Saint Peter's holy day.
(Enter all the Friars to sing the dirge)
        [ Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, by Christopher Marlowe ]

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appearing over Dudley's head in panel 2.
Antheridium August 22, 2007 05:21
First comment: 17 May, 2007 442 comments written
Is that what that is.

I've heard of a place called The Thought Shop before... any relation? 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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-puddingThese giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing more than
puddles of slime, but they both live and move, feeding on
metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer to
supplement their diet.

But we were not on a station platform. We were on the track ahead
as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed
tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy
speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the
pallid abyss vapor. It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster
than any subway train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic
bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes
forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the
tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic
penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its
kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
        [ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]

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Eskimo August 22, 2007 08:50
First comment: 14 April, 2004 166 comments written
Heh, the candleFaustus: Come on Mephistopheles. What shall we do?
Mephistopheles: Nay, I know not. We shall be cursed with bell,
book, and candle.
Faustus: How? Bell, book, and candle, candle, book, and bell,
Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.
Anon you shall hear a hog grunt, a calf bleat, and an ass bray,
Because it is Saint Peter's holy day.
(Enter all the Friars to sing the dirge)
        [ Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, by Christopher Marlowe ]

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was great. And I really had a blast when I saw the question (hey, this time I can look up the answer):

"Which character represents some other useful object (pick-axeThe mine is full of holes;
With the wound of pickaxes.
But look at the goldsmith's store.
There, there is gold everywhere.
        [ Divan-i Kebir Meter 2, by Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi ]

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, key, lampWhen he came to himself he told his mother what had passed,
and showed her the lamp and the fruits he had gathered in the
garden, which were in reality precious stones. He then asked
for some food.

"Alas! child," she said, "I have nothing in the house, but I
have spun a little cotton and will go and sell it."

Aladdin bade her keep her cotton, for he would sell the lamp
instead. As it was very dirty she began to rub it, that it
might fetch a higher price. Instantly a hideous genie
appeared, and asked what she would have. She fainted away,
but Aladdin, snatching the lamp, said boldly:
"Fetch me something to eat!"
        [ Aladdin, from The Arabian Nights, by Andrew Lang ]

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...)?"
Nameless August 22, 2007 09:08
First comment: 29 December, 2004 281 comments written
LMAO. If anybody even thinks of not rating this excellent, I will be very sad.
Alcari August 22, 2007 14:04
First comment: 11 September, 2006 93 comments written
To quote Mr. Burns:
Eeeeexcellent
Mordae August 22, 2007 14:04
First comment: 11 May, 2007 116 comments written
If only it came that easily to Thomas Edison...
Roger Barnett August 22, 2007 15:44
First comment: 7 April, 2006 143 comments written
Now that's a good one. Though poor IzchakThe shopkeeper of the lighting shop in the town level of the
gnomish mines is a tribute to Izchak Miller, a founding member
of the NetHack development team and a personal friend of a large
number of us. Izchak contributed greatly to the game, coding a
large amount of the shopkeep logic (hence the nature of the tribute)
as well as a good part of the alignment system, the prayer code and
the rewrite of "hell" in the 3.1 release. Izchak was a professor
of Philosophy, who taught at many respected institutions, including
MIT and Stanford, and who also worked, for a period of time, at
Xerox PARC. Izchak was the first "librarian" of the NetHack project,
and was a founding member of the DevTeam, joining in 1986 while he
was working at the University of Pennsylvania (hence our former
mailing list address). Until the 3.1.3 release, Izchak carefully
kept all of the code synchronized and arbitrated disputes between
members of the development teams. Izchak Miller passed away at the
age of 58, in the early morning hours of April 1, 1994 from
complications due to cancer. We then dedicated NetHack 3.2 in his
memory.
                [ Mike Stephenson, for the NetHack DevTeam ]

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, being displaced by Dudley.
Elwin August 22, 2007 15:48
First comment: 22 August, 2007 3 comments written
Very funny. Now we know where IzchakThe shopkeeper of the lighting shop in the town level of the
gnomish mines is a tribute to Izchak Miller, a founding member
of the NetHack development team and a personal friend of a large
number of us. Izchak contributed greatly to the game, coding a
large amount of the shopkeep logic (hence the nature of the tribute)
as well as a good part of the alignment system, the prayer code and
the rewrite of "hell" in the 3.1 release. Izchak was a professor
of Philosophy, who taught at many respected institutions, including
MIT and Stanford, and who also worked, for a period of time, at
Xerox PARC. Izchak was the first "librarian" of the NetHack project,
and was a founding member of the DevTeam, joining in 1986 while he
was working at the University of Pennsylvania (hence our former
mailing list address). Until the 3.1.3 release, Izchak carefully
kept all of the code synchronized and arbitrated disputes between
members of the development teams. Izchak Miller passed away at the
age of 58, in the early morning hours of April 1, 1994 from
complications due to cancer. We then dedicated NetHack 3.2 in his
memory.
                [ Mike Stephenson, for the NetHack DevTeam ]

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gets his wares.
Fathead August 22, 2007 18:10
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Orcs carry candles?

Inspite of peer pressure, I give it a Gee.
Squeegy August 26, 2007 02:38
First comment: 6 August, 2007 17 comments written
No no, he had a bunch of ideas and made a candleFaustus: Come on Mephistopheles. What shall we do?
Mephistopheles: Nay, I know not. We shall be cursed with bell,
book, and candle.
Faustus: How? Bell, book, and candle, candle, book, and bell,
Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.
Anon you shall hear a hog grunt, a calf bleat, and an ass bray,
Because it is Saint Peter's holy day.
(Enter all the Friars to sing the dirge)
        [ Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, by Christopher Marlowe ]

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Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
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store (the cliche lightbulb-over-head, remember?)
ChungPoFat October 21, 2007 11:17
First comment: 5 May, 2007 2 comments written
My first thought was earwax. :)
ilieksoop June 23, 2008 07:50
First comment: 23 June, 2008 2 comments written
I'd love to have my own store.

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