Comic for Friday, May 18th, 2007

Posted: 7:18 am, Friday, May 18th

You knew it had to come to this, right? The DelGadOH thing is based off the lament 2.0 and I for whenever Mariano Rivera blows a save. "MariaNOOOOOOO." Seriously, try it, you'll like it. You'll have plenty of chances this season. ZING!

We saw 28 Weeks Later last night. Holy intense, Batman. 2.0's still freaked out.

Special(ish) treat for you today, crowd! I didn't remember this 'til I took the Papi picture for yesterday's site, but I apparently took a lot of pictures of my room when I home. Unfortunately, my parents have stripped the walls a lot in the last year or two, so it's not much like when I was a kid, but a lot of my knickknacks are still sittin' 'round. So, consider this a bit of my origin story, I guess. Here's some shots of the Five Bucks Satellite Office.

I just noticed I didn't bother to take an establishing shot. So we'll use this as the frame:

This is a picture that my parents have always had hanging up around the joint. There porch on the right doesn't exist anymore - we've since expanded on that end of the house. Also, there have never been bushes in front of the house. Just cement walls. But, otherwise, that's pretty much the house. Hell yes, Rural America. My parents are so weird.

This is the shot out of the dining room window. That's our pond, and a turkey.

There's the turkey, in case you didn't see him at first. Just strollin' around. There were some bucks earlier, but I didn't have the camera handy.

This is the wallpaper in my bedroom. We got it when I was in third grade. I wanted the Peanuts wallpaper, but my dad told me that I should get something that I'll like my whole life and not outgrow. So we went with antique pistols. I now think that guns are completely retarded, and have the release schedule for the Fantagraphics Peanuts collections memorized.

From 1993.

Check me out, man. Trophies galore.

Oh, yeah, I was a superstar. To this day, the worst anyone's ever spelled my name, and this includes my moran next-door neighbor who spelled my name with a G.

Random crap! The Free Truman pin is from skt. I really liked that movie. The dinosaurs were kits from the Smithsonian, I think. (Well, dinosaur singular and mastodon.) A bunch of us stopped at my parents' house on our way to a ski trip for spring break one year, and one of my buddies touched the T-Rex and broke it, instantly. Within minutes of setting foot in my house, he was breaking crap I did as a child. We all found this quite funny.

Yeah, I saved an empty of Crystal Pepsi. I have no idea why. I saved the Roger Rabbit one because I really liked Roger Rabbit, too.

And obviously from later in the evolution. Noel is from Montreal - whoa, 8.8%. Yikes. The Barking Frog, someone gave me - I didn't actually have that myself, thank God. Bad Frog is an old malt liquor I used to just love but haven't seen in years, and Orbitz is this weird drink with kind of candy bubbles floating it in. And don't miss the Childcraft kiddie encyclopedias in the background. I forget what they were called. Honestly, the only ones I read over and over again were the dinosaur and the space ones.

Anyway, that's all the good stuff I found to take pictures of. So there's my childhood room.

bullfrog

Dan -- Friday, May 18 2007, 07:47 am

So you liked 28 Weeks Later, then? Bah.

Did you see the XE article on discontinued sody pop? http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0961/ Maybe I got it from you in the first place.

And: A mastodon isn't a dino?

i think one's a mammal and one isn't.

I thought it was pretty rockin', yeah. The first one had a little something this one didn't, but for a rather unnecessary sequel, it was awesome.

And a mastodon is kind of like a woolly mammoth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth

Apparently, the difference is this:

While mastodons were furry like woolly mammoths, and similar in height at roughly three meters at the shoulder, the resemblance was superficial. They differed from mammoths primarily in the blunt, conical shape of their teeth, which were more suited to chewing leaves than the high-crowned teeth mammoths used for grazing; the name mastodon (or mastodont) means mastoid teeth (Greek μαστός and οδούς "nipple tooth"), and is also an obsolete name for their genus. Their skulls were larger and flatter than those of mammoths, while their skeleton was stockier and more robust. Mastodons also seem to have lacked the undercoat characteristic of mammoths.

I thought the question was: Is a mastodon a dinosaur? Not what is a Mastodon? I agree with Grafe.

And also, I am scared to go outside.

My goal today will be to call someone "nipple tooth"...

Happy Friday!

Yeah, the nipple tooth thing... Wow.

Fred Phelps is at it again! Instead of picketing soldiers' funerals now, he's, uh.. picketing Falwell's funeral. I have no idea.

http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/may2007/20070515_jerry-falwell-funeral.pdf

2.0: Go watch Shaun of the Dead. Then you'll be wanting your own pet zombie. (I'd also recommend the movie, Hot Fuzz, made by the same guys who made Shaun. Freaking hilarious.)
Re: MastodonThey're mammals, they weren't even there when the dinosaurs were there. Humans were around when Mastadons and Mammoths were around. Basically, aren't they hairy elephants?

i'm surprised the volume entitled "how we get things" is such a tome - doesn't it pretty much say eat a spicy chicken sandwich?

I like that "Look and Learn" is immediately followed by "Look Again". Apparently, ChildCraft knows the attention span of their audience. I'll have to take us on a stroll through those books next time I go home.

I love Shawn of the Dead, and yes, I think that would help. Thanks Miyaa.

What's really calming me down: the ID scanner, drop down gate, and doorman between me and all the potential infected. Not only that, we have a weeks worth of food in the fridge at least!

Could someone please tell Jason Giambi to just shut up?

How good is that Big Papi salsa?

It's not bad, actually. We had it on fajitas, though, and not chips, so we didn't get the full brunt of its taste.

Wow! Real life echoes Five Bucks... weird.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070518/ap_on_re_eu/escaped_gorilla

That is crazy.