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Timeless (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Gullible@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

[panel 1: a large dodo approaches a clean, well dressed vagrant youth sat beside a well fashioned wood and stone building. The youth warily guards a bag holding their belongings and the stick they use to travel with it. The dodo asks “Pardon me, do you have the time?” and the youth replies “yes, it’s -“]

[panel 2: the dodo exclaims “You have the time!”]

[panel 3: a quartet of dodos appear and excitedly chatter over one another: “He has the time.” “The time! he has it!” “At long last! Our desperate search is at an end! The time has been found!”]

[panel 4: they lean in amongst one another and whisper “PSSHHWSSSSPTT SSHSSHHPSSTT”]

[panel 5: the group approaches the youth and asks “Will you… give us the time?” And the youth replies “It’s nine fifteen.” The dodos exclaim “AAAAAHHH! NOW WE HAVE THE TIME!”]

Wondermark by David Malki

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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago
[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

It reminded me of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I never noticed the Dodo's human hands in the picture before. Eww!

[-] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Lol, he even has a sleeve on one

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

This is so dumb. I LOVE IT.

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

It reminds me of late 2000's humor, but slightly more refined. 10/10

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The joke is so simple and yet it made me laugh uproariously.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

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.)

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 17 points 1 year ago

Supposedly dodo was actually horrible. They found journals of people bitching about it

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

then why are they trying to bring it back along with the mammoth?

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

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)

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 7 points 1 year ago
[-] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Looney tunes needs live ones to train its new AI character

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they had tasted good, they'd still be alive today in cages, waiting to be slaughtered.

...maybe we did them a favor.

[-] JoseALerma@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 3 points 1 year ago

The best thing for a species survival in this world is for it to taste good to us.

Plant, animal, fungi, whatever

[-] CassowaryTom@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago

Good synopsis. Well written.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

If folks with disabilities can’t laugh along, I’m doing lemmy wrong. Thank you for the compliment. ❤️

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Oh shit, when did Wondermark get color?

[-] Fisk400@feddit.nu 20 points 1 year ago
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Fisk400@feddit.nu 8 points 1 year ago

Yes, one of those

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I don't bloody— AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA^AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[-] UNY0N@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] UNY0N@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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.

https://wondermark.com/

[-] RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. I enjoyed it, but I was high enough. If I was sober I probably would’ve thought it was ok.

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Clearly you don't have the time

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Or the drugs.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago
[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, Wondermark is still going!!! I used to read this over a decade ago. Glad to see it's still going strong!

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
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