Comments on: Weapon Brown 153

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:31:24 +0000

Something tells me that a weaponized Joel might be pretty formidable. Unless Rufus waited for him to fall asleep and chopped him into cat food.

By: MH

MH — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:04:12 +0000

there was a kudzu in the old sonic the hedgehog comics hehe

By: pakopako

pakopako — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:06:39 +0000

I wouldn’t say that was totally Non-Seq; it is related to naturally artificial invasive plants.

Well, naturally in that they weren’t engineered, but artificially transported to a far-off ecosystem. Kudzu and various thistle clog up fields in the southern USA and are difficult to remove as they must be uprooted by hand-tools instead of with mechanical or chemical means. (Or by an unnaturally cold snap.)

At least many of these invasive plants can be turned to food or scraps.

wesley the

By: D_SL

D_SL — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:24:02 +0000

And Baughbe has provided us with the \Non Sequitur.\

By: lkjlkjsdjkhk

lkjlkjsdjkhk — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:58:06 +0000

Annie is going to show Chuck the arms facility. Awesome!! Bet they have weapons Chuck has only dreamed of! Go Snoop! Go Chuck!

By: ForestFire0

ForestFire0 — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:07:45 +0000

“But it’s only dangerous when it hasn’t eaten.”

Well, that’s ominous.

captcha is Ernie after a fight: avoids Bert

By: BrainyBear

BrainyBear — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:57:31 +0000

And the “Zinger” reference is related to Dolly Madison’s Zingers snack cakes, which were advertised using the Peanuts characters. Delicious history.

By: Baughbe

Baughbe — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:47:49 +0000

Being from the ‘South’ I know all about the kudzu story. Another fine example when political expediency oversteps scientific method. Hmm lets see how that went: Got problems with erosion and soil fixing? Have a foreign plant that might fix that. Hey, we have a problem that needs a solution now, skip testing and put it in the fields NOW. O M G no natural predators or diseases here, takes off like a shot, almost uncontrollable. Well guess we’ll have to blame the agricultural scientists who didn’t lose their jobs for doing what the politicians told them to do when told to do it or get fired. Yeah, a lot of southerners are more than slightly bitter about it, the southern agricultural agents even more so.
Remember, you can trust the government. Just ask any Indian.
And don’t get me started on the circumstances that resulted in the Challenger shuttle disaster…(the engineers told them time and time again, but would management listen? Noooo……)

By: pakopako

pakopako — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:19:12 +0000

Kudzu — both a comic strip (and as I’ve just learned) a plant. Genius!

And next: the Circle of Life!

And today’s capcha is a shifty epiphany:
strabo breakthrough

By: Sherlock_Watson

Sherlock_Watson — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:46:43 +0000

@rasmodeus: That’s Rufus, from “Gasoline Alley.” In the strip he was always carrying a kitten; here, he seems to be infested with them.

The carnivorous plants, which are obviously named after the comic “Kudzu,” are actually reminiscent of what happened when Japanese kudzu was introduced to the US; people tried to cultivate this all-purpose plant because they thought it would make farming a lot better, but once the stuff took root it grew out of control and took over, and it’s a bane to agriculture even today. It’s like something out of a monster movie.

– Captcha is getting vain: But esthetic.