(The other one got a bit sad, and it didn't feel right posting something funny after a discussion about the plight of the Tazmanian Devils)

is that guy a more evolved Zoloft-depression-stone?

(I'm not smart enough to figure out if the resemblance is intentional or not)

hahahaha I have no idea! I think the Vimrod one is more cute tho

Not sure where the cartoonists are based

Slippers don't have laces, surely?

hahahaha Nice one Bric.... I like how you think

Why this one speaks to me. (No, I don't eat ants)

My standard response to 'Where is' and 'what happened to' questions used to be - "I ate it."

I'd forgotten all abt it till I saw this today.

I got my standard response back! Rejoice fair people of Tanglerland!

Where is Tanglerland?

Right here baybeh! <-- to be read in an Elvis type voice

heh, I was wondering if I'd get the "I ate it" answer, but that makes a lot more sense 

hahahaha 'I ate it' answer makes for sense for stuff.... Eating land is beyond me! Pens, keys, cars on the other hand....

hmmm that gives new meaning to "She can't find her keys"... no wonder you have to have a key fob big enough to act as a boat anchor...

What's a fob?

And hey, it's not me who loses things!

(really, I've only ever 'lost' one thing {apart from my mind} - a wallet. But it was more stolen than lost)

Fob: goes back to the days of pocket watches:

fob - an adornment of color or interest added to relieve plainness that hangs from a watch chain

now its used for the leather bit that holds ring that your keys go on (or any other decorative/functional piece you use as a handle for the key ring - pen, small flashlight, Transformer Toy - whatever...

As for not losing things....I apolgize then, I thought you indicated you had in the past...  somewhere here there's a photo of your keys and as I recall the 'fob' was big enough to ensure you didn't eat them or lose the keys!

Ahhhh.... yesh, I gets it.

Regarding my keys - there's method to the madness. (And no, I've never ever lost a set)

My keys are ALWAYS in my pocket. Left pocket, with the 'snooker ball' and car remote hanging out of the top of the pocket, so that I can just pull em out whenever I need em (I favour the right arm/shoulder when carrying stuff). Everything else in in the pocket.

Keys are ordered and put on ring facing the correct 'direction', so I can access any of the locks I come across in light or dark using a blend of touch and order.

two tasmanian devils... when just one won't do

Use to be 3....

the passage to time got to it

Just realised I'm wearing my Taz T-shirt today too!

I did you look very lovely miss dek

when I was really young my favourite t-shirt was a Wile E. Coyote shirt from Knott's Berry Farm

hehehe Fanks!

I liked him too!!

And one of my fav shirts is of him... and a dynamite blowing up

lol, he just can't catch a break

hehe yeah. Poor fella

have you ever seen the clip where he finally catches the Road Runner?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Excellent!! Those signs are priceless!

I'd never seen it

well, now you've seen everything

Hmmmm.... I'm suddenly tempted to go look for a dvd collection. That I would buy

I still enjoy those old animations, they were really spectacular back then.  Very clever, some of them.

haha poor guy!!!!  I love it though my favorite cartoon as a kid!

If you've never seen it, I highly recommend The Iron Giant from a few years ago.  It's really great in the same way the classic animations were

Yeah, Iron Giant was okay...

Not nearly as enjoyable as Road runner and some others

yeah I agree with dek I wasn't really a fan of the Iron Giant, maybe I was too old to see it

<shrug> oh well

hey buddy whatever float your boat

Just gimme all out chase and crash-boom-bang cartoons.

Till this day, when I see people painting road lines, I think of dear Mr Coyote

Here's a real Wile Coyote and Road Runner from Reality cartoons at Worth 1000

some of them are slightly disturbing.

There's also this one of OPTIMUS PRIME

I was wondering the other day where all the 9/11 jokes were. Six years on, surely the gloves can come off. Plus to have to endure an annual memorial for eternity surely grants the right to take the piss. So here we go then (none of these are mine so don't shoot the messenger or fly planes into this building for that matter) ...

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's .... oh shit. It's a plane.

Q. What was the last thing that went through Mr Bloomstein's mind when he was working on the 90th floor of the WTC?

A. The 91st floor.

Q. How long does it take to fall from a 107 storey building?

A. The rest of your life.

Q. What's the difference between the Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11?

A. Once again, foreigners prove they can do it better and more efficiently.

hahaha Oh dear!!

In a similar vein to the Mr Bloomstein one (but not 9/11-y)

Q. What's the last thing to go through a fly's head when it gets hit by a car windscreen?

A. Its anus

Who is Bloomstein?

Who is Bloomstein?

The first Jewish name that springs to mind

Sun's updated strategy

Hahaha.

You really should post that in here they seem to have so little going on in there.

hahaha after you

Anyone want to try this out??

That "faith in Jesus group" is veeeery empty - 0 topics and 1 subscriber

I think if you create a group its incumbent on you to start at least one topic, preferably several to get different areas of the discussion going - people tend to post into existing topics more easily then creating new ones

Yeah... but a lot of those are people still finding their way around and trying things out... that's okay

Yeah,  they've only been with us for a couple of days.

I guess... but still, phrased from the opposite direction, it doesn't show a lot of dedication to let your group just sit there, empty, for days after its creation

yeah... it's a process

Dek LOVES it!

lol

I realised in the process of uploading that image that I can't read 'pirate' very well....

Went thru the process by memory!

arrrr!

Iloveit!

From againwiththecomics

Related to previous discussion about Road Runner:

Now this is a roadrunner:

If you caught one that big at least there would be enough meat on the beast for a real meal.... not like the scrawny, bony things I saw in the desert...

I'll have some white meat please. Thank you.

Not a leg man then?
 

Oh

GAH!!!

Hmmm... I'm hungry....

ewwww there goes my hunger for a mid morning snack

Chicken Feet are actually very tasty... just far, far, far too much work to eat.... much better to go for the sui mai or har gau

Yeah, I agree

Me thinks it's time for Yum Cha soon

You say Yum Cha

I say Dim Sum

(Isn't there a song about that????)

Is there?!?!

But one describes the type of meal, and the other just the type of dumpling!

Yum Cha = eat tea (literally)

well drinking tea at any rate

Here, the name Dim Sum has caught on for the type of  restaurant not just the food, and most people refer to going to dim sum rather than Yum Cha...  (or perhaps they just don't let us non Chinese in on the right words )

One of the things I noted in Australia (Melbourne in particular) was all the restaurant signs are for Yum Cha and not Dim Sum as is the case in British Columbia!

Yeah, same here....

Wonder how it evolved to 'Dim Sum' over there

That pic looks sooooo inviting!

*off to heat lunch*

I've only got 75 Dim Sum restaurants to choose from when I get off my diet...of course I do have 2 or 3 favs....

Bric, we so need to get ourselves in the same city!

I would dearly like that. food, learn, food, learn, food well ok sleep food,,,,

*ahem*

Tangle!!

Ahh but you forget... I let you use your definition of slippers... and I get to use my definition of learn

to Tangle is to learn !

Ok, done!

*shakes hands*

but if you insist... food, Tangle,food, Tangle, food well ok sleep Tangle,...

my typing slows down at this time of the morning

With a few drives thrown in!!

-paradise-

hahaha no worries

RIght .. you are... I went for a short one today... just a few miles in to the country side here.... so beautiful in the fall with the light angles making all the colours so much more intense than in the summer.... should have had my camera.... sigh

Yeah, i've been itching for one too....

wooo! go PHD

I wanna be a bear! A Female Bear.

If you're a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing but

sleep for six months. I could deal with that. Before you

hibernate, you're supposed to eat yourself stupid. I could

deal with that, too. If you're a mama bear, everyone knows

you mean business. You swat anyone who bothers your cubs. If

your cubs get out of line, you swat them, too. I could deal

with that. If you're a bear, your mate EXPECTS you to wake

up growling. He EXPECTS that you will have hairy legs and

excess body fat.

I wanna be a bear.

in Pink?

Pink is acceptable for girlies.  Blokes prefer to call it "light red"

ewwww @ pink

The bear life sounds really sweet!  Sign me up!

slightly profound too ^^

Hmmm. Dek gets a daily dose of vimrod too??

Mais oui!!

I love it!

I've only recently subscribed so i'll have to trawl through the archives and see what i've missed.

I haven't managed to get thru all of it either.

The Rugby Heaven site after the All Black's loss:

believe it or not - I understand that!! ^^

I understand it too. I've seen it posted in a few places now. It is genius.

You can't miss the extra comment they add to the comic though: Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory 

hahaha yeah!

The mouse-over text to XKCD is always good 

Little kids that act like they're older piss me off. Doesn't matter if they're acting like attitude-y mini-teens or pretentious mini-adults, it just looks and sounds wrong when its coming from an 8-10 year old.

There was something I saw on TV about how such kids are a growing group, especially in the kids of well-off folks - they pick up from their parents all kinds of stuff like drinking coffee from fancy coffee places or "having" to wear makeup when they go out, or being hung up on brand names of stuff, or having moules (that was what one actual kid named) or other similarly fancy-sounding stuff as their favourite food (whats wrong with chocolate, or donuts, or cake?!)

Seriously, next 10 year old I meet who's acting like they're 16, or 30, will be treated with the kind of scorn and ridicule that only a real teenager can produce

It's hardly their fault is it?

Seriously, next 10 year old I meet who's acting like they're 16, or 30, will be treated with the kind of scorn and ridicule that only a real teenager can produce

LOL

Hahahahahahahaha
 

That's the spirit SK!! Keep the (teen) flags flying. 

Dek, I'm not blaming them per se, I'd just be trying to slightly dislodge the idea that the way they're acting is normal, via the medium of a heaping of sarcasm.

JR, Damn straight  

I have to agree with SK precocious TV children piss me off - all "doing it for mummy".

There is a TV quiz show on at the moment in Australia called Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader. It has a permanent panel of five 5th graders, who play with the adult contestants.....Right there! Right there! ... are five counts of murder I defyany court in the world to convict me of.

I think I've seen something similar being advertised for our TV.. or in the TV guide maybe, but I think it was "Are you smarter than a 10 year old" (Is 5th grade age 10?)

My reaction was "I would hope that I'm smarter now than when I was 10, and when I was 10 I was smarter than all the other 10 year olds therefore yes, I believe I am smarter than the average 10 year old."

Really, if you can't beat a 10 year old in a battle of wits, you should be ashamed, unless the whole thing is rigged in their favour as I imagine it would be for TV purposes
 

Exactly.... I remember sending out a Twitter message abt the Aussie one - What kind of adult would think: Yes! Finally a game show I can go on!!

Honestly, I'd be embarrased

The trick to the game is that kids are closer (in time) to the information and learning that the questions require answers to.

So questions along the lines of "Which pokemon would be best in a battle against a Leafeon?" then.. or other obscure 10-year old knowledge.

If I was on it and got sprung like that, I'd ignore the host and start grilling them on advanced maths and science, or something literary (preferably something long but not popular enough to have a movie made that they could have seen) like the Dune series, or War and Peace (if I had read War and Peace)

If you're wondering, that's an actual pokemon name. I found it on wikipedia and thought it was a particular example of the stunning creativity they're putting into the monsters these days. It's essentially a cat/fox thing with leaves growing on it.

hmm.. there are a fucking lot of Pokemon know. The set task of catching them all is getting pretty implausible, especially as (from what I see on Wikipedia) there seem to be a lot of obscure evolutions to contend with

e.g. Having to level them at a certain place and/or time, with a certain item, trade them for something else (possibly also with an item), do stuff to affect hidden stats like happiness, crossbreed them, somehow get multiple copies of a one-of-a-kind pokemon that has multiple evolutions (or get the other ones from situations where you have to choose between 2 or more similar ones) all kinds of weird crap.

In the original games the 150 was kind of attainable, even in Gold and Silver 250 was possible, but now they're pushing 500 of the things, no-one's ever going to get all of them without cheating or being a total nerd for a decade or 2.

*scratching head*

Pokemon????
 

yes, pokemon, the crazy-craze that somehow keeps on going despite it seeming to have died.. I think it's become a mainly Japanese thing - they've had 9 movies based on it over there

Holy crappola...

and all this time I thought it had died out
 

That's what I thought too, and yet I still see the trading cards behind tills in shops occasionally, and occasionally I notice there's an episode of the tv show on Cartoon Network or in amongst some other cartoons on Sky One in the morning, and it has a new set of weird add-ons after "pokemon" e.g. "pokemon battle advanced gx: the violet islands" (that's a composite of several different ones)

Sigh...

Somethings just won't die...
 

Oh bugger.... SK, I just realised I forgot to click on 'End your turn' for our game.

oops
 

Sowweee

never even noticed 

I just took my turn though

Okay

Pokemon sounds to me like some crap gift that MacDonalds would give away in one of those "Guaranteed Future Heart Attack" meals for kids...

It has probably fulfilled that role in its lifetime, I'm sure

Note the Pikachu in the background

There you go

Remind me to tell you all about the Hello Kitty madness in Singapore one day

oh do tell!!!

Feeling suicidal?

Link

haha great image!!!

You have to check out the comments that go with it. A few absolute classics there!

hahaha!  So I guess the dog is lost even though he said that in the back yard....wait... I mean his huge ass back yard is where he is.

No no, it's not lost.... it's a play on the lost notices we see all the time

duh!  Sometimes I wonder if I am losing my marbles....

From FSJ's blog

I thought this was funny ...

HAHAHAHA

Good one!
 

A ha! That's why they have em....

haha and that is how the world turns

haul ass little fella!!

LOL!

hehe, nothing changes

HAHAHAHA That's a good one!

Go to the site for the hover: http://xkcd.com/340/
 

This made me LOL - literally!

Heathrow Airport's parking garage to get automated tracking system
 

Link
 

LOVE that one!

I've looked at the following image at least once every day, and it still cracks me up:

Link
 

Geeky coverage of a sinking ship:

Word is that Access is limited for rescuers - the ice gives them limited Windows of opportunity. Let’s hope everything Works out and the passengers are Zune brought to safety. Glad this didn’t happen to ME and my Entourage!