This feels pythonesque
It reminded me of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
I never noticed the Dodo's human hands in the picture before. Eww!
Lol, he even has a sleeve on one
This is so dumb. I LOVE IT.
It reminds me of late 2000's humor, but slightly more refined. 10/10
The joke is so simple and yet it made me laugh uproariously.
well.
I'm glad that didn't go the way I thought it might.
"yes. IT"S TIME FOR YOU TO DIE AHAHAHAHA"
(I hear dodo were tasty.)
Supposedly dodo was actually horrible. They found journals of people bitching about it
then why are they trying to bring it back along with the mammoth?
Guilt.
Research fund money.
It's a sliding scale.
Asking if they could, but not if they should
(They should, just to flex on the British)
Contrast?
Looney tunes needs live ones to train its new AI character
If they had tasted good, they'd still be alive today in cages, waiting to be slaughtered.
...maybe we did them a favor.
Nah, they'd still be extinct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon#Hunting
After being opened up to the railroads, the town of Plattsburgh, New York, is estimated to have shipped 1.8 million pigeons to larger cities in 1851 alone at a price of 31 to 56 cents a dozen. By the late 19th century, the trade of passenger pigeons had become commercialized
Even if adjusted for inflation, 31 cents a dozen doesn't sound like a lot, but then market saturation happened and your prediction came to pass:
The price of a barrel full of pigeons dropped to below fifty cents, due to overstocked markets. Passenger pigeons were instead kept alive so their meat would be fresh when the birds were killed, and sold once their market value had increased again. Thousands of birds were kept in large pens, though the bad conditions led many to die from lack of food and water, and by fretting (gnawing) themselves; many rotted away before they could be sold.
Those who don't learn from the past are something something
The best thing for a species survival in this world is for it to taste good to us.
Plant, animal, fungi, whatever
Good synopsis. Well written.
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Oh shit, when did Wondermark get color?
At 9.15
AM or PM
Yes, one of those
I don't bloody— AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA^AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I'm not high enough to understand this. Can someone ELI5 this for me please?
It seems absolutely unfunny to me, and I'm a big Monty Python fan.
Edit: Just to prevent snarky replies, I understand what the humor is supposed to be, a word play, but it just seems so incredibly unfunny, and that's coming from someone who says dad jokes all the time.
More power to you if you find it funny, truly, but what I'm asking for is somebody to explain where the humor is in the word play.
Perhaps it's a regional cultural type of humor?
Well the dodos seem to think that "the time" is a relic of some sort that one can possess. But you understood that.
I don't think there's anything I can explain that will make it funny for you. I suppose it's a matter of taste.
I don’t think there’s anything I can explain that will make it funny for you.
Do you know offhand what culture this joke was created for?
I suppose it’s a matter of taste.
Fair enough.
The creator is a big fan of absurdism from North America, and he does lots of various creative projects. Other than that I couldn't say.
Exactly this. I enjoyed it, but I was high enough. If I was sober I probably would’ve thought it was ok.
Clearly you don't have the time
Or the drugs.
https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=vRcfgKbF3RY
Are you a fan of who’s on first?
Are you a fan of who’s on first?
I'm more of a fan of what's on second.
On a more serious note, the context of the environment the wordplay joke is being done at, and how it's expressed/delivered, is what makes the difference in elevating the level of humor.
That it's not just the literal words themselves, but how they're said, and where, that makes a wordplay joke successful or not.
Holy shit, Wondermark is still going!!! I used to read this over a decade ago. Glad to see it's still going strong!
*had
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