Current Dinosaur Comics Discussion: SPOOKS!

[Nimz]

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After reading today's mailto text, I can't not read the comic without swapping every instance of 'reading' with every instance of 'kissing' or 'making out'. "Thanks for kissing my dating site profile..."

[Meserach]

I actually couldn't identify the quotes from panels 4 and 6 of this one. Anyone?

[Nimz]

Panel 6 is the road less travelled. Wait, is T-Rex taking the road less travelled by not misunderstanding that quote? Re: panel 5, I'm guessing the gang aft agley thing is part of the Of Mice and Men thing? I've not read that book, but I am familiar with the phrase, the best-laid plans of mice. I, too, have no clue about panel 4.

[lizard-socks]

5: "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough"
It's written in Scots!

[tastySalamanders]

Does Ryan regularly check the forum because the latest comic gives the impression he has been reading the MSPA Comic Discussion thread, or maybe it is just a coincidence.

[Nimz]

So Ryan has been leaving a link to a game based on Adventue Time and an idea mentioned in comic a little while ago, and, well, this is just two gross.

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Gross in the sense of a dozen dozen. So it kinda dovetails into the speaking with numbers thing T-Rex was going on about recently, too...

Also, pumpkin pie?

[InfiniteNutshell]

Nimz you win the internet

Also I am disappointed with that game; I want to press x to eat a BIG pie and those pies aren't big at all

[Dentrala]

Our bodies are just large sacks of blood under tremendous pressure.


accurate.

[Nimz]

Not sure how I missed this earlier, but at the bottom of today's newspost there is a picture a reader drew of the legendary dino-taurs etc. from yesterday's comic:

I must say, that Dromiceiomermus is exceptionally pulchritudinous here. Tyranacentaurus Rex also looks quite excellent, though Utauraptor seems cheesed about something.

[Darlos9D]

Somebody either likes the SCP Foundation or doesn't like the SCP Foundation.

[TheGunheart]

Somebody either likes the SCP Foundation or doesn't like the SCP Foundation.

Either way, we win!

[Nimz]

Somebody either likes the SCP Foundation or doesn't like the SCP Foundation.

It would seem the 'likes' have it.

I should probably finish writing my letter to Case #1023.

Edit: Oh man. Oh man. I finally got around to seeing yesterday's comic (the one for 14 December 2012). At first I was wondering where to go, since Panel 1 did not have any instructions for me, but then... something happened!

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The animation is a lot smoother at the actual comic. ¯\(o.°)/¯

[Avi]

Most fiction authors (aka experts on the supernatural) agree, only living beings that are very strong and energetic become ghosts.
I think we can postulate that there is some energy threshold which small animals and insects would never be able to meet. Also we have to take into account entropy. No transformation of energy is ever lossless. Humans probably lose a great deal of energy in process of becoming ghosts, which is why ghosts are so weak and insubstantial. So if that loss is greater than the total energy you had while alive, you couldn’t become a ghost.

The question then for today’s comic is how energy do ghosts expend in ghost-murder. If it was too much, all ghosts would be stuck in a sort of eternal Cold War.
Alternatively, if ghosts can leech the energy of other ghosts, T-Rex would be correct and ghosts would indeed be able to “level up.”

[Tormuse]

Regarding the comic that's up right now, I have to say that a cooking show called "Let's Make a Food" could catch on in a big way if marketed correctly. I can just picture a guy hilariously misunderstanding the principles of cooking, talking in a foreign accent in broken English. Viewers would tune in each week just to find out what hilarious thing he'll say next.

[InfiniteNutshell]

"Making a food" was already in my idiolect, and that of some of my friends. Probably we picked it up from playing too much Agricola.

It was fun to see T-Rex say it though

[Avi]

Haha, this is basically how I feel about alcohol. "Tonight we are going to gradually poison ourselves until we impair ourselves to the point of unconsciousness, risking death. We will wake up with a blinding headache, which is how you know the night was a smashing success."

[Avi]

Hehehe, I wonder if Ryan's been reading the Phantom Tollbooth recently.