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Derpetologist

Derpetologist

The world's foremost authority on the science of stupidity, Professor Emeritus at Derpskatonic University, Editor of the Journal of Pure and Theoretical Derp, Chancellor of the Royal Derp Society, and Senior Fellow at The Dipshit Doodlebug Institute for Advanced Idiocy

130 Comments

  1. Evan from Evansville

    Oooh, comrades is funny and the last one is best. Damn. That’s cold. And very, very funny. I like the devil one, but could be better delivered.

    The octopus could be cleverly used.

    • Fourscore

      Back in the old days we had a crank telephone on the wall, the phone company was our township only, To call someone in an adjacent township you had to crank the operator (like dialing zero) and she would connect you and ring it down. Every local call would be heard by everyone in the township. Our number was 15, 1 long, 5 shorts, so you had to listen and count the rings. You could heard more people picking up and listening so classified info was never discussed.

      There was a general call, maybe 5 longs (I don’t remember) in case of a forest fire, weather alert, etc. I think our bill was about 2.50 a month

    • rhywun

      The jelly? That is my 2nd favorite.

  2. rhywun

    LOL well-done, all of these are pretty good. My favorite at first glance is the dino.

    • Evan from Evansville

      That smug bastard! Well. He doesn’t have a club!

      I’d like a world where, when I’m full of impotent rage, I shake my fists at dinosaurs instead of clouds.

  3. rhywun

    So after getting dicked around on the surprisingly elaborate Hudson River ferry system, I managed to make it to my hotel room and only missed 5 minutes of USA! USA!

    Out ten bucks though. 🤬

    • Evan from Evansville

      “Out ten bucks though. 🤬”

      They haven’t lost, yet. I’m sure ya got a friendly Joisey bookie.

      • rhywun

        It feels like home already.

      • rhywun

        I tell you what though, after five minutes I’m never staying in another Manhattan hotel again.

        For the same money I get nice a brand (“Sheraton”), three times the space, a desk and a chair*, a second television, and a little conversation nook that I probably won’t use.

        *To be fair you usually get this in Manhattan but not during my last trip

      • Evan from Evansville

        “and a little conversation nook ”

        *stern stare over resting glasses* Oh, so that’s what we’re calling it now?

      • rhywun

        If you’re implying some sort of other usage for two chairs arranged around a little coffee table, I don’t think that is going to happen.

    • Chafed

      Ten bucks? It’s $20 downtown.

    • Aloysious

      You are doing a funtastic job.

      They brighten my day.

    • DrOtto

      I like the bonus cartoon the best.

  4. Evan from Evansville

    Why does Belgium have fairy blue jerseys with pink bubbles on ’em? Sorry, rhy, but why are they making it as gay as possible?

    David Beckham in a Home Depot commercial. Huh. Well. *shuffles fingers together, indicating money, likely an anti-Jewish ‘slur’ of some sort* It’s there.

    Side note: I think the modern neck-tattoo craze is really fucking dumb. Like, really really fucking dumb. Really. (Fucking. (Dumb.))

      • slumbrew

        Ceci n’est pas une jersey

      • rhywun

        Now I want to smoke a pipe.

      • B.P.

        From a distance I thought it was a Spongebob Squarepants homage.

      • Ted S.

        From a distance the world looks blue and green.

    • Threedoor

      Nothing below the elbow
      Nothing above the collar.

      • Aloysious

        Preach it, Mr. Door.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Amen!

        Long sleeves for life, if you’ve got one on the forearm.

    • rhywun

      Maybe they’re leftover jerseys from June.

      With you on the tatts. It’s so ridiculous overblown, practically a requirement. The profession of “star sports person” attracts a certain kind.

      • Shpip

        With you on the tatts. It’s so ridiculous overblown, practically a requirement.

        Used to be, a bunch of tattoos meant you were either an ex-con or former enlisted man in the military.

        Now it’s a sign that you make a lovely radicchio and arugula salad with a balsamic vinaigrette.

        Then there are the Basic College Girls who get small random tats all up and down their arms and legs. It’s a sure sign that they’re bi, but you don’t know if it’s –sexual or –polar.

        Not sure why it’s so common among the pro athlete set these days. Probably something to do with the Negrofication of the “working class culture” many were brought up with. You’ll know the culture is well and truly lost if you see sleeves of ink showing up on the PGA Tour.

  5. Threedoor

    Teachers and Satan.

    Zing.

  6. Threedoor

    No Brainer is T shirt material.

    • rhywun

      It really is.

      Brevity is the soul of wit. Reader’s Digest taught me that when I was little.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Absolutely. ^^ That’s the context. Would buy, if I didn’t ‘believe’ in having non-identifying clothing. (UCS may be with me on that. I want to make it as hard as possible for people to ‘That guy!’ me in public. (Unless someone thinks I’m cute. But. Trade-offs.))

      • rhywun

        I am also a blend-in type. I refuse to wear a “brand” name for example.

        It felt wrong to attach the Glibs pin to one of my hats.

      • slumbrew

        Same. I’m a no logos guy. Not because I think Naomi Klein is anything but a midwit but because I think it’s gauche.

    • Derpetologist

      Thanks. I’ve always liked nature and the Far Side sense of humor.

      Anybody who wants to be a cartoonist should do stand-up first. If you can’t make people laugh with just words, visual aids will not help.

      I kind of like Gallagher for being a one-of-a-kind performer. Prop comedy is harder than stand-up which is harder than improv.

      Amy Pohler, back when she made me laugh:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgCfynbhGFY

      • rhywun

        Maybe I will watch that later but I still love Parks & Rec. I discovered it long after it ended. I don’t know anything else she did before or after SNL.

      • B.P.

        I’d say the Grim Reaper one is the best and also T-shirt material.

  7. Derpetologist

    If I knew I’d succeed, I’d probably be a cartoonist. That’s a better way of looking at things than asking what to do with a million dollars.

    AI art is just an extension of memes, which is just modifying an existing image. It’s just another form of the knock-knock joke. I don’t consider my work to be intellectual property since the AI does most of the work. Even so, it takes some skill to get the prompt right.

    Heathcliff has been around for 50 years, and the jokes are getting pretty meta.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PbB4s20zmA

    ***
    After taking over authorship, Peter Gallagher introduced recurring elements of surreal humor.[1] A profile in The New York Times identifies a comic published on Oct. 24, 2007 as a turning point toward “surreal, logic-defying” comedy. It depicts the Nutmeg family preparing to eat a ham at the dinner table while Heathcliff wears a helmet labeled with the word “ham” without explanation. The caption reads “Watch out — he’s wearing the helmet.”[7] Subsequently, helmets emblazoned with words such as “meat” and “ham” appeared frequently. Other recurring gags from Peter Gallagher’s era include bubble gum that allows characters to float in the air, Bro Fish (fish who only say “bro”), a fire-breathing Chihuahua, robots, and unauthorized parodic cameo appearances by characters such as Garfield.[10]
    ***

    Tartuffe, the spry wonder dog!

    • Michael Malaise

      I don’t think I ever liked Nancy growing up but I now follow the Nancy X/Twitter account and find most of the older cartoons absolutely transgressive and hilarious.

  8. Evan from Evansville

    This just in: I got the offer and didn’t have to negotiate. $22/hr and Mon-Fri, 9-5. Haven’t looked over bennies, yet, but they’re there. Both this and the Peru Tribune, I didn’t have to ask and was given the top-end pay. And this is $5k/yr more than the Tribune. With regular hours! And less responsibility!

    Start Mon, July 13. Wow. This is a biggun’. Funnily enough, updated 2015 Singapore dollars to 2026 USD, and I make the same ‘now’ as I was making then, which was by far my high-water mark.

    This is a whole new ballpark. Me in an office. Huh. Wow. I had a great answer in the interview about my biggest strength, which ‘is’ my adaptability. I told ’em six months after graduating IU, I was in S Korea teaching English, having never taught nor studied Korean or teaching, or anything. And I got on just fine. See also: Well. The rest of my life. This is kinda what I *do.*

    Hrm. Might take a bit to process. This is quite, quite, quite game changing. I best play well. Better news, I, oddly, was an All-Star catcher and lead-off hitter. Huh. Also oddly, this feels a much bigger shift than moving to Korea+. Hrm.

    Resigned from the Tribune June, ‘23. → Phlebotomy, Walmart, Meijer (starting w gas stn!), with two remote testing contracts in between, along with some after-school day care. It’s been an odd three years. Big jump. Still gotta stick the landing, but wowza.
    Hrm.

    • Derpetologist

      Mazel tov. You’ve come a long way through fire and flames. Treat yourself.

    • Fourscore

      Congrats and keep us posted!

    • R C Dean

      Don’t fuck it up.

      I would suggest treating all females in the office as strictly off limits.

      • R.J.

        Listen to Dean.

      • Threedoor

        They belong to the office managers anyway.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Well now, why would I treat them as anything but such? Feel like I’m gettin’ a bad rap here. Eh. I suppose I did ask out Cutie at Walmart. That I’ve done. IIRC that’s the only time I’ve done such, or even been flirtatious, and we were already friendly. And it was Walmart. Feels different. I’m remarkably well behaved. (Far too many missed opportunities.)

        I freely admit, I have little clue of what I will be doing in real-estate, but I’ll be trained. Verifying ALTAs and Closing Documents. Huh. Another big bonus, this place is only a couple miles away. Such a strange world to paddle into. Hrm.

        (Evan Phillips has been activated after Tommy John for LA. Dammit, Evan.)

      • R C Dean

        Fair enough. I hope it works out for you.

        Getting your notary cert might be something to look into. Could be useful there, and there is a niche freelance notary market.

      • Evan from Evansville

        @Dean: Oooh. That is interesting. Will keep in mind. First things first, obv. It feels strange walking into such an unknown environment. I would like to increase my ways to advance throughout this process.

        Based on the 3.5 I’ve already charmed, I think I’m gonna fit it. (I presume that’s good.)

    • rhywun

      make the same ‘now’ as I was making then

      So do I, or near as. 😡

      Best of luck.

  9. Ted S.

    Lovely goalkeeping.

    The worst thing is that the terminally online left are going to be creaming themselves.

    • rhywun

      I was looking at Glibs and still don’t understand how the hell that fuck up happened. Just shambolic.

      • slumbrew

        Embarrassing. They deserve to lose.

      • R.J.

        Jeez, the Belgians just ran down the field with the ball. Totally unopposed.

      • rhywun

        LOL! They’re almost as bad as the French.

      • creech

        Nation of 12 million is handily beating a nation of 340 million. More kids enrolled in youth soccer than Little League but can’t find enough great players to beat some pissant country?

      • rhywun

        ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        We would kill if baseball, football, and basketball did not exist.

      • rhywun

        And I suspect that “youth soccer” is not taken very seriously – more as a place to park your kids for awhile.

      • B.P.

        Per Rhy, fathers throw baseballs and footballs, and shoot hoops, with their kids. Culture is a thing.

        Tonight, the USMNT’s defense was terrible. Their group was mediocre, so perhaps they were Peter Principled.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Baseball – we went out as kids, unstructured and played stickball.
        Football – you just went out and played.
        Basketball – same thing.

        Hockey – we are making up ground and with some of the high-tech indoor roller hockey floors, kids are just going outside and doing it.

        We don’t do that with soccer. That is why we fail. Most US borne players are brought up through the horribly managed youth soccer leagues about.

      • Threedoor

        Youth scoccer two years ago with the boy.

        The other parents took it seriously and holy cow my boy was massivly outclassed.

        Aparently you have to start them at two and not six.

      • Michael Malaise

        No Aidan Morris on this team is a crime.

    • rhywun

      Was that Freese?

      Of my NYC FC? 😔

      • Ted S.

        Any good US GK ought to be playing in Europe. MLS is a joke.

      • rhywun

        It’s twue.

        I see the other guy got bounced back to MLS too.

  10. R.J.

    Oh Hell. The Sprouts won.

  11. Evan from Evansville

    Ya know, in baseball, you’re *really* not supposed to rub it when you get hit by a pitch. Bad look. It best be unavoidable, if ya do. I don’t care so much about flopping to get a call, but exaggerating the amount of pain you’re in? Or are you really just that much of a bitch? Neither one are good looks, and in this sport, it’s actively encouraged through generations, apparently.

    And damn. So many whistles. It’s a good example of ‘I like the idea of this game, but not how I’d like it played.’
    Ideas, other than turn it into hockey: Well. Pretty much turn it into hockey – way smaller pitch and fewer players, hopefully with handball walls so you can kick the ball and bounce it back in. (Possibly a height on these walls, but a full dome’d also be cool.)

    And fuck it, yeah! Add the culture of fighting over disputes instead of bitching about a poor wittle stubbed toey. Goal/goalie sitch to be determined after pitch size is. I’m kinda on to something, here.

    • rhywun

      it’s actively encouraged through generations

      Because the reward for doing such things is huge.

      It is one of biggest flaws of the game.

      • slumbrew

        Agreed. Low risk, high reward. Of course you should flop.

        Hockey is undefeated for toughness.

      • B.P.

        The refs have done a fair amount of ignoring guys rolling around on the pitch in the games I’ve seen. My favorite is when a player writhes around like he’s been shot in the lower leg and pushed out of a moving car, the medical team comes out and sprays something on the guy’s leg, and the guy is good to go. I need a can of whatever that stuff is.

      • Gender Traitor

        I need a can of whatever that stuff is.

        Some of this stuff?

      • rhywun

        I need a can of whatever that stuff is.

        The “magic spray”. Everyone makes fun of that and everything else they know is wrong with the game but nobody wants to do anything about it.

      • Ted S.

        Hockey is undefeated for toughness.

        There’s never been diving in hockey, of course.

      • slumbrew

        Nobody said that, Teds”

        But the difference between a 2 minute minor and a 5 minute major is “drew blood”.

    • rhywun

      So many whistles

      Is has gotten WAY worse in recent years.

      hopefully with handball walls

      Arena soccer is a thing but hardly anyone plays it outside the US IIRC. In fact, it was the only thing played by American players in the many years we didn’t have a proper league.

      • creech

        It is whistles in basketball that make it mostly unwatchable. And guys running halfway down the court without dribbling.

  12. Tres Cool

    /slight French accent

    “I think that this will be a reality check for the US”

    Was that a dig?

    • rhywun

      Henri?

      It is a bit odd to stock the commentator booths with a bunch of Euros trying to cheer us up. Did they run out of Americans?

      • slumbrew

        Zlatan has been unexpectedly funny and positive towards the US team.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, he’s great.

        Thierry is not as engaging. It’s just random those two showing up.

    • rhywun

      OK enough of this.

      LOL the hotel cable TV guide says “Welcome, _my name_”.

      I’ve worked at hotels where none of the TVs or ACs worked.

      • Tres Cool

        Ive probably stayed in them.

      • Derpetologist

        It’s morning in America, and the VCR is flashing 12:00.

      • rhywun

        Ive probably stayed in them.

        Perhaps. Have you much experience with houses of ill repute located in downtown Buffalo?

      • Evan from Evansville

        Like, they ‘logged you in’ so the TV turns on to welcome you? I don’t find that shit welcoming. It’s just overt ‘WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE’ shit. I just wanna slink in/out.

        Family joke about “Monica’s,” a real shitty hotel near Henderson, KY Dad took us to when we lost power for a few days one summer way back. I was too young to remember. Apparently rats in the walls, Mom complains. It’s become our stand-in joke for such quality.

        I’m struggling to think of the worst hotel I’ve been in. I stayed in a Best Western outside Peru, IN for a week or two. I liked it. Room on the ground floor, motel-style, door opens to the world. I liked that place. The Indian dude up front once called me out for smoking (not tobacco) in the room. I started going out to my car. (This was before I got my vape.)

        $6/night spot in Laos might be the answer, but I only went there after they kicked me out of the airport at midnight. My flight was in like eight hours! Well. They eventually caught me. (I really shouldn’t have done that.) That place was tiny, but meh. I’m a very easy man to please.

      • Chafed

        I’d be surprised if Tres didn’t.

  13. Derpetologist

    Sportsmanship from China:

    https://x.com/Byron_Wan/status/1483666385125654532/photo/1

    ***
    American basketball player Sonny Weems was subjected to racial abuse in China after his team Southern Tigers played against Liaoning Flying Leopards last Thur. In a viral video, fans of Flying Leopards repeatedly shouted the “N” word at Weems as he’s exiting the team bus.
    ***

    I see stupid people…they’re everywhere…some of them don’t even know they’re dumb.

    • rhywun

      Asians have no sense of the third rails posed by American race relations that we are raised with from birth.

      I am 100% they have their own verboten language that would catch English speakers off guard.

    • PieInTheSky

      just shouting it is so backwards. Throw bananas on the court like in civilized Europe.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      The term “na-ge” (那个) is a common Chinese filler word that translates to “that” in English. It is often used in conversation to express hesitation, similar to how English speakers use “um” or “uh.”

  14. Evan from Evansville

    “WASHINGTON — An ex-girlfriend of scandal-scarred Graham Platner alleged that the Maine Senate hopeful broke into her home and raped her almost five years ago.
    Maine resident Jenny Racicot came forward with the accusations to Politico, recalling the alleged rape in graphic detail and providing corroboration.”

    And NOW Dems rescind their support. I sincerely wish Leftoids would get angry they’re being played and realize they’ve BEEN played for quite a while. ‘But the Senate seat was VITAL to defeating Trump’s Fascist takeover!’ And a weird, a probable rapist and pro-Nazi is the best you’ve got to defeat this supposed tyranny? Play anything cuz defeating Trump (in any way) is the most important thing ever?
    See also: The elder abuse rolling Biden out there w fucking Harris as your backup plan.

    Uh. Whoops. Terrible for your brand. The illiterate socialists you’ve graduated and trained are getting a bit nippy, ain’t they?

    • rhywun

      Dems rescind their support

      I did not know – that is shocking.

      She must really be actually believable and who knows what else is lurking in his past.

      • Chafed

        She is believable to the left because she is one of them.

      • Evan from Evansville

        How much does it take for Dems to realize the Senate seat isn’t worth his baggage? I suppose this was the limit.

        Whoops. Now, if only folk’d see how nasty Dems really are. (That won’t happen, the Kirk-assassination celebrators.)

      • Evan from Evansville

        Oddest thing is I think she needed prodding. All of these folk. Why wait five years? Why wait ’til just now? And.. if actually ‘worried,’ esp why do it now when others already have? Methinks the message needed more ‘clarification.’

      • rhywun

        The trash that the DSA is recruiting are all like this. Maybe that is why most of them are female in order to prevent more Platners.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Clearing the decks for someone else or uniparty/deep state wants Collins to be a lock.

    • CPRM

      You mean she raped him, right? Cuz that’s he said he would do if someone broke into his house, rape them. She was just following his advice, obviously. He’s really the victim here.

      • Evan from Evansville

        ^^ Tremendous point, this man here has. And “not in the gay way!”

        They’re vile, vile people. And they don’t care, cuz the Senate seat is more important. Simple as that.
        And he was the best they had. Truly reveals how fucking empty their bench really is.

    • Brochettaward

      Plattner has until only the second Monday of July to withdraw. So literally this was the deadline and she comes out of the woodwork to make sure it gets done.

      I don’t know. Guy sounded sleezy everytime he was mentioned even before I take into account the batshit socialist angle, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the claim is bullshit. The left is just particularly susceptible to that sort of bullshit smear with the caveat of WHEN leadership doesn’t rally around the accused. That’s the big difference. When the party leaders draw a line and say this asshole is staying, the media falls in line and repeats the mantras needed to ward off evil accusations from nearly all of the NPC’s who follow along.

      • Brochettaward

        Funniest part of all of this is that it’s being done to replace Susan fucking Collins.

      • Brochettaward

        And let’s be clear – Politico broke this story. They themselves seem to admit most voters took the news cautiously. The big wigs raced to escape the sinking shape they didn’t want to be on anyway, but the people who supported him throughout this bullshit? Likely saw it as more of the same dirt that’s been hurled his way already.

        He probably could still win an election. We’ve seen Democrats unapologetically shrug off all kinds of accusations, but only when the power players run cover for them. So the entire thing screams political hit job.

      • Brochettaward

        I should add another funny aspect of these sorts of cases. The progs use it to pain themselves as different from the other side. There’s no sense of awareness as to why these accusations fly so readily on their side of the aisle. They certainly aren’t going to ask if a lot of abusers wear the cloak of “ally” and true believer. Nah. What this shows is that they have standards and ethics that they stick to (unless party leadership tells them not to).

      • (((Jarflax

        I’m sticking to my rule of thumb for this. Any rape accusation made more than a year after the fact, with political or financial implications, is bullshit unless proven.

  15. dbleagle

    News is reporting that Iran decided to start Tuesday by shooting at two vessels in the Strait. They hit the engine room of one and the crew is mustered in case they need to abandon ship. No word yet if they hit the LPG tanker. I imagine they didn’t otherwise that entire part of the Gulf would know.

    • PieInTheSky

      you know what fuck it lets just have ww3 and get it done with.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Recruiter’s that way my man.

    • rhywun

      lol Pass

      • PieInTheSky

        this is what you get for calling it soccer.

      • Chafed

        We deserve a lot of things but we didn’t deserve that.

  16. Ted S.

    So I went grocery shopping yesterday, and driving down the main road, I see a bunch of flashing cop car lights off one of the bypass roads. It turns out I was passing this incident:

    TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. — Town police said there is no immediate threat to the public after an assault at the Sunset Motel on Monday that left one victim hospitalized and drew a large multi-agency police presence to the area.

    The Town of Ulster Police said in a social media post Monday, July 6, that they were called to the motel, at 1001 Stoll Court, across the street from Chambers Elementary School at around 12:51 p.m. for reports of a person shot at the motel. Authorities said upon arrival, they did not find anybody shot, but they did find a victim of an assault who was taken to HealthAlliance Hospital in Kingston.

    If you drive past the school mentioned in the article, you’ll see a decrepit sign that’s been in that state of decrepitude for as long as I can remember. It’s the sort of sign you’d see for a no-longer existing business but never gets taken down for reasons. Apparently there is still a trashy motel there.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., Stinky, and Bro!

      • Gender Traitor

        Good morning, U! How are you today?

      • Brochettaward

        You’re god damn right.

      • Sean

        🙂

      • Gender Traitor

        Well, of course I am.

      • Ted S.

        Pie says you’re wrong: it’s the afternoon.

      • UnCivilServant

        If I can trust my scale I’m still trending downward in weight.

        But it’s been unreliable of late, forcing me to do multiple weigh-ins to get it to give me two answers that agree with each other.

      • Gender Traitor

        🙂👍

      • UnCivilServant

        At first I thought you were giving the unreliable scale the thumbs up.

        🙇‍♂️

    • R.J.

      Fantastic. Deserves a medal.

      • R C Dean

        The flags were a nice touch.

      • Ted S.

        To show this isn’t a lefty anti-ice protest?

    • Fourscore

      Did the perp throw them in the ocean?

      • Fourscore

        And a cheery “Good Morning” to each and every Glib, awake or sleeping in. Also to any lurkers, LAW or just plain ol’ folks.

  17. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    /Im hungover

    • rhywun

      #metoo, a little. But I’m off so I don’t give a shit.