Dudley's dungeon -- Friday, 19 October, 2007

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Number of ratings: 29

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Skyrock	October 19, 2007 00:04
First comment: 26 July, 2007	41 comments written
I don't like the pun, but it's F because no one has yet thought of working with trees.
Grognor	October 19, 2007 01:04
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
I liked the pun but I detected 203894719014 inaccuracies in this comic and I will now list a few to prove a point. Newton was a quantum mechanicThese creatures are not native to this universe; they seem to have strangely derived powers, and unknown motives. 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. so he clearly should have been represented by a Q, and as everybody knows, he is the only person allowed to sleep under trees. The script didn't show Dudley closing the doorThrough me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon ye who enter here. [ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, translated by H.F. Cary ] 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., and I find this so exceedingly distracting that I cannot rate this comic excellent.
Schlitz	October 19, 2007 01:56
First comment: 19 October, 2007	1 comments written
Cute. "Newton was a quantum mechanicThese creatures are not native to this universe; they seem to have strangely derived powers, and unknown motives. 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."? Are you high?
Grognor	October 19, 2007 02:54
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
Son of a-- I knew this would happen. Somebody finally copied my name. You, impostor, are an egregious popinjay. A pecksniffian charlatan, an obstreperous caitiff. Reveal yourself and flame with honor, or do not apply your ridiculous inaccuracies at all. I rated this excellent comic excellent because it was. Jerk.
Glowaczynski	October 19, 2007 06:02
First comment: 19 October, 2007	1 comments written
After spendig some time on this one, I got it. TreeI think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. [ Trees - Joyce Kilmer ] 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. -> body attracion -> 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.-onian physics. Sure, there is only person with head strong enough to sleep under trees :)
L	October 19, 2007 06:53
First comment: 10 February, 2005	285 comments written
Ecch! Trees are #, you nidderling! (Wow, insulting people on the Internet is more fun than I thought.)
Rapigel	October 19, 2007 06:54
First comment: 19 October, 2007	4 comments written
Impostor Grognor's comment rated excellent for its fine parody
Xilinx	October 19, 2007 08:42
First comment: 19 October, 2007	1 comments written
Body attraction??? An appleNEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when. [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ] 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. with the size of Texas, I'd say...
Dominic	October 19, 2007 08:44
First comment: 19 October, 2007	1 comments written
Grognor, Newton does not appear in the comic, only a treeI think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. [ Trees - Joyce Kilmer ] 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..
Grognor	October 19, 2007 09:01
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
You're both impostors! I'm the real Grognor!
Nameless	October 19, 2007 09:04
First comment: 29 December, 2004	281 comments written
G for the pun and E for 'Grognor's first post.
jukka	October 19, 2007 10:01
First comment: 22 November, 2006	57 comments written
I wouldn't call Newton a quantum mechanicThese creatures are not native to this universe; they seem to have strangely derived powers, and unknown motives. 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., because he lived long before quantum physic was invented. Actually, I didn't get the punchline before reading the comments and remembering the story of the appleNEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when. [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ] 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. falling to Newton's head. First I thought about Rip van Winkle..
Dol	October 19, 2007 11:53
First comment: 27 March, 2007	24 comments written
No, I'm the real Grognor...no, wait... You should be wearing a hard helmet near falling appleNEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when. [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ] 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. traps.
Skyrock	October 19, 2007 15:16
First comment: 26 July, 2007	41 comments written
Am I a bad person if I still have a hard time to recognize the first Grognor post as an impersonation? It reads so... authentic.
zem	October 19, 2007 17:56
First comment: 5 December, 2005	64 comments written
just for the record, newton never solved the treeI think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. [ Trees - Joyce Kilmer ] 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.-body problem :)
Dextery	October 19, 2007 19:16
First comment: 4 October, 2007	6 comments written
G for the comic (newts and physics are a good combination), E++ for zem's comment!
Grognor	October 19, 2007 20:43
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
I hate you. I hope your complete arrogance leads to your inevitable downfall sooner than before, you gangraping assholes!
Spartacus	October 19, 2007 23:08
First comment: 19 October, 2007	1 comments written
No, I'm Grognor!
Zienth	October 19, 2007 23:24
First comment: 8 May, 2007	9 comments written
I'm Grognor!
Trogdor	October 20, 2007 03:51
First comment: 20 October, 2007	1 comments written
Actually, I'm Grognor.
Callie	October 20, 2007 06:46
First comment: 16 July, 2007	31 comments written
What if the first one was real and the SECOND one was an impostor? The world will never know!
Mikoangelo	October 20, 2007 09:31
First comment: 19 October, 2005	82 comments written
So Grognor is a dragonIn the West the dragon was the natural enemy of man. Although preferring to live in bleak and desolate regions, whenever it was seen among men it left in its wake a trail of destruction and disease. Yet any attempt to slay this beast was a perilous undertaking. For the dragon's assailant had to contend not only with clouds of sulphurous fumes pouring from its fire breathing nostrils, but also with the thrashings of its tail, the most deadly part of its serpent-like body. [ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ] "One whom the dragons will speak with," he said, "that is a dragonlord, or at least that is the center of the matter. It's not a trick of mastering the dragons, as most people think. Dragons have no masters. The question is always the same, with a dragon: will he talk to you or will he eat you? If you can count upon his doing the former, and not doing the latter, why then you're a dragonlord." [ The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin ] 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.-man?
Grognor	October 20, 2007 10:09
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
Oh, whatever. In a month none of you will even remember this happened.
Rodan	October 20, 2007 14:30
First comment: 28 March, 2007	15 comments written
Sounds like a challenge to me.
Grognor and Mrs. Grognor	October 20, 2007 14:33
First comment: 20 October, 2007	1 comments written
I'm Grognor and so is my wife!
T.K.	October 20, 2007 18:27
First comment: 14 October, 2007	13 comments written
Cue rimshot! And Jukka is right; Sir Isaac Newton didn't work with quantum mechanics at all; his discoveries pertained to larger bodies. And I don't believe there ever was a Grognor.
Toby Bartels	October 21, 2007 01:47
First comment: 11 August, 2007	83 comments written
Newton didn't know quantum mechanics as we know it today, but he did know something quantum. Newton postulated that lightStrange creatures formed from energy rather than matter, lights are given to self-destructive behavior when battling foes. 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. was composed of fast-moving particles (quanta), but Huygens's wave theory quickly became the favourite, on the grounds that only it could explain diffraction. But in 1905, Einstein used a particle theory to explain the photo-electric effect (it was for this that he won a Nobel prize, by the way), showing that Newton was right about lightStrange creatures formed from energy rather than matter, lights are given to self-destructive behavior when battling foes. 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. all along (10 years before he showed that Newton was wrong about gravity, the subject of this cartoon). And how can diffraction be explained in Newton's particle theory? Because all particles show a wave-like uncertainty --thanks to quantum mechanics.
Fathead	October 22, 2007 18:01
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
They are Â± if you use the "extended" set!
Kerta	December 16, 2007 05:35
First comment: 12 December, 2007	72 comments written
Some of you guys are overly harsh.
Quint Sakugarne	January 4, 2008 05:29
First comment: 1 January, 2008	233 comments written
I was expecting "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.-onion physics", and your name sounds too much like Tornado Tonion anyway. But great concept.

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