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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

100 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    New troll level unlocked – get Taylor Switch to write a nasty song about you after you called her Slim Pickens.

    • Brochettaward

      I used to joke that the point of the Twatter’s was to yell at athletes when they lost you money and wish cancer upon them.

      But really it’s potential is so much greater than that. You can mock world leaders, billionaires, and any celebrity you want. Even if they don’t respond, their petty egos will demand that they read it and they will let it consume them and drive their decision making.

      • Brochettaward

        I second in your general direction.

      • Threedoor

        I’ve had a couple answer a random question which was cool.

  2. Pat

    Ornithologists, koala, and kangaroo, WTF.

    • Pat

      That’s ornithorhynchus, autocorrect.

    • rhywun

      Oh my!

  3. Pat

    Because of the pagination, that last one reads as Thou Not Shalt Kill. Which I guess is fine, since it doesn’t change the meaning.

    • Evan from Evansville

      “since it doesn’t change the meaning.” I believe that was the point.

  4. Aloysious: Evil Dark Lord of Wonderful Smooches

    You put RJ in the second toon?

    • Threedoor

      RJ said that the Greys were well known assholes in the circles he travels.

      • R.J.

        They are known as the Buttfuckians from Uranus. And they are little naked assholes.

        And yes, my résumé is damned impressive.

      • Evan from Evansville

        If your resume includes “Talent Acquisition” to find me mates, well. You should take that part off. You’ve not delivered anything, frankly.

        (My girded loins are good for gals and greys, dont’cha know. Sorry, dudes. I’m just too impressive.)

  5. J. Frank Parnell

    So it looks like Laughing Cow has not yet revealed why the cow is not laughing.
    (in case you missed it: https://finance.yahoo.com/media-advertising/articles/more-100-years-laughing-cow-153800619.html )

    We should take bets on why the cow is not laughing.

    Here’s some possibilities, ranked (by me) as most to least likely:

    * Voting is important, democracy is under attack (by Trump/Republicans) and it is your civic duty to vote (for Democrats)
    * Climate change
    * Nothing political, it’s some stupid marketing stunt.
    * Immigrants built this country so stop being mean to them
    * Gaza

    I’m betting it’s voting, based on the fact that they’re doing this right before The Most Important Election In History.

    Also, I predict that the Muh Palestinians crowd will throw a shitfit if it isn’t Gaza.

    • Rat on a train

      Please include something about going vegan.

      • R.J.

        Turning Veganese, I think I’m turning Veganese
        I really think so

      • Plinker762

        RJ gets a LOL for a joke I was not expecting

    • Gender Traitor

      Mourning the disappearance of the Land O’ Lakes Indian chick?

      • Chafed

        Let’s not forget Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben.

    • Threedoor

      I guessed illegal aliens the other day when it was announced.

      Those poor hardworking ‘immigrants’ make up the bulk of the workforce in the dairies, this is the line the southern Idaho dairy men use to justify their hiring of border jumpers.

  6. Rat on a train

    I will take a vegan MRE over ham slice.

    • Threedoor

      Yeah the ham was bad.

      • dbleagle

        I guess you are too youbg the remember the 1st generation MRE horror show known as “Ham and Chicken Loaf”. There wasn’t enough privately purchased Tabasco to cover up that foul taste and texture.

      • Threedoor

        We found some as a kid and ate a few cases of the ones in dark green bags with the freeze dried fruit and ice cream in them. I’m guessing from the late 80s as we found them in 94/95.

      • Threedoor

        Most of the meals on them were bad.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Dark brown wrappers (up to mid 90’s, last one I had was issued around 1999 or 2000) were the best. Freeze dried fruit blocks were awesome. Came from Oregon Freeze Dry just up the road (they also make the arctic and long range freeze dried components as well as the commercial Mountain House brand).

    • Evan from Evansville

      Ham is gross. (Not gross, gross. But unless there’s nothing else, why?)

    • Gustave Lytton

      I’d take the vomlette over a vegan mre.

      Ham slice was good. The veggie mre that came out at the end of my time was utter shit. The current menus, I can’t even. Let’s build our own tacos in the field!

      • Derpetologist

        The Chinese did some large-scale military exercises to prepare for their failed 1979 war with Vietnam. Part of it was given every soldier a 5-pound bag of flour and telling them to make sun-baked crackers with it in the field. And the soldiers were so overloaded that it was expected they’d discard half their gear before on the way to battle.

        These are the people we’re supposed to be afraid of and at great expense. Maybe the Chinese just should have flown a balloon over them instead.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War

        There was a Disney cartoon called Tailspin. It had an episode where the mock Chinese attack with airships.

        The show’s burlesque of the USSR was Thembria and their Glorious People’s Air Force.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A9qFzFVVjw

      • Threedoor

        Tailspin is awesome.

  7. Grumbletarian

    That last one should be “Thou Shalt Not Kill Switch”

    • R.J.

      Agreed!

  8. rhywun

    #1 might be the only viable way out of that sorry mess.

  9. Derpetologist

    I was on the fence about putting in the alien one until I went to a comedy show on Friday featuring Jonnie W. He’s a “clean comic” so you can guess what that means. Many jokes that I think are lazy, bad, or corny get laughs, so why not try some myself?

    The comedy show was in a Baptist church, and they were knives and crossbows for sale in the lobby. Really. It was a fundraiser for a charity that takes in girls from abusive homes.

    The best joke he had that night was “if you can’t think of something nice to say, write it down and save it for later.”

    • Threedoor

      Sell the crossbows after the show.

      Not before.

      Unless it was both encouragement and a threat for the comedian.

      • Threedoor

        We watch se of the Drybar stuff form time to time. He’s familiar. Not one I’ve watched an entire act though.

    • rhywun

      I’m not a comedy aficionado but Bob Newhart was “clean” and one of the funniest motherfuckers I can remember.

      I haven’t seen a show since Eddie Izzard was just a transvestite.

      • Threedoor

        Eddie went down hard.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Seinfeld’s clean as well.

        The family’s doing a Talent Show this Friday, in part for Dad’s bday. (The porta-potty the boys made will be first displayed.) I’m thinking of a clean bit I can do in the couple minutes I have. Will likely be about the 30 v 60min lunch time debate. That’ll make sense for the kids and easily clean.

        I’m not at all anti-filth in comedy and it’s often essential. But I do like leaning away from their use, just to emphasize the actual written/spoken joke ya made. “Fuck” is cheap. (inb4 $20)

      • Derpetologist

        I like Dmitri Martin, Mitch Hedberg, and Steven Wright. None of those guys swear much. A great joke is still funny even if you just read it.

      • rhywun

        The pronoun play in his Wikipedia article is amusing. He’s all over the map but the article is defiantly “she” because, well… whatever. It all feels like part of his act to me.

      • Pat

        Depends on the comic and their style. Like Louis Black, Sam Kinnison, Andrew Dice Clay, or Chris Rock… take away the raunch and the whole shtick falls apart. Then there’s just certain jokes that land better with a naughty word. A good example would be Ron White in his stand up specials vs. the sanitized versions for the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. Acts like Emo Phillips or Steven Wright can get by without any profanity or vulgarity at all.

      • rhywun

        Kinison is another one of the most humorous gentlemen ever, and I’ve seen him live too.

      • Gender Traitor

        I like Ron White best of the Blue Collar guys, though Foxworthy and Larry were/are funny too. (I found Engvall just OK.) Also like Steven Wright (“My neighbor has a circular driveway. He can’t get out.”) But the only comic (or if you prefer, “comic performer”) that I’ve ever paid (or would pay) to see is Jeff Dunham.

        Going back in time, early Steve Martin stand-up made young GT totally lose it.

      • Gender Traitor

        And just to prove I’m not a TOTAL traitor, I’ll give a shout-out to Judy Tenuta, Rita Rudner, and Ellen’s stand-up (sadly, now spoiled for me since she was outed as a bitch boss from Hell.)

      • rhywun

        I found Ellen rather funny before she disappeared up her own asshole.

      • rhywun

        Oh yeah I remember Rita Rudner now. She was very funny too.

  10. rhywun

    Slain New York Times exec was in vicious fight with in-laws over being trans, wife tried to pull medical tubes out of his body: court docs

    Oh mercy… another story just gets more and more batshit insane. Sign of the times, I guess.

    He also claimed in the same filing that his mother-in-law branded him a “disgusting queer” and a “pervert” after falling out with him over one of their children’s choice of clothing.

    I stopped there because it’s all just so ridiculous and tiresome and IDGAF.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Tried to pull medical tubes out of ‘them?’ Uh, in a hospital? Cuz that’s crossed into some odd criminal territory. Far too batshit, and ‘trans’ anything was just the final straw on that camel’s non-binary back.

      And ya know what? I don’t know, but maybe he WAS a disgusting, queer pervert. *shrug*

      • rhywun

        Well, apparently they (both?) killed him because he was abusing his kid(s?) in some manner I don’t care to research any further even though it’s going to be top of the page fodder for the next week or two now.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Huh.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Wait, wuh? I still don’t get it, “[The victim and] former executive transitioned from female to male in 2010 and got married to Jang in 2011. The estranged couple were set to be in court over the issue of custody this Friday prior to the shooting.”

      Uh. That’s a FEmale to male?! Uh. Call those docs, cuz damn. That’s a man, man. Arm hair and stout build? Something ain’t clicin’ here, and it ain’t just me.

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      Another case of trans genocide.

      *Massive eyeroll*

      Also, shocking that a lesbian couple had history of domestic abuse.

  11. Evan from Evansville

    Ya see, when you’re taught to see racism everywhere, and you’re a good student, well…

    “The BBC is catching heat for an article claiming that the trend of leaving fingernails unpainted is a racist way of pushing “white supremacist standards of beauty.”

    The national broadcaster interviewed Paloma Buddemeier, a London nail salon owner, who shared that more and more customers are asking to skip the nail polish after their manicures, a fashion trend synonymous with “quiet luxury.”

    But the BBC claimed that nail art is “linked back to black, Latino and Asian communities,” and the viral “bare” look could “stigmatize bold manicures.”’

    • Evan from Evansville

      Oh, wow. It just keeps going. And WTmotherfuck is a “beauty journalist?” But! Get your bingo cards out!

      “The outlet spoke to beauty journalist Kristina Rodulfo, who had no trouble connecting the seemingly innocuous beauty choice into a malicious act targeting communities of color. Bare nails, Rodulfo bafflingly claimed, “really promotes blankness and this kind of sameness and erasure of culture and identity that is so important to black and brown communities.”

      “They are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty,” she continued. Rodulfo pointed the finger at “white women or celebrities” for perpetuating the fad, claiming they “often conflate class and taste with that bareness.”

      Riddle me this: Today, with phones everywhere, how the fuck is anyone’s culture or ‘identity’ being “erased?” It’s impossible to slap any sense-stick on that bullshit, so they just add more buzz words. It’s rather frustrating.

      • rhywun

        how the fuck is anyone’s culture or ‘identity’ being “erased?”

        Anything that doesn’t celebrate whatever more authentic cultures are doing is erasure. Surely you know how this works by now.

      • Trigger Hippie

        And if white women were using nail polish she would be calling it cultural appropriation.

        Blah, blah, this isn’t a serious person. She just needs to justify a useless job with useless blather.

      • rhywun

        You get it: you can’t win.

      • Derpetologist

        If white people move out, it’s white flight.
        If they move in, it’s gentrification.
        If they stay put, they’re racist.

        Driving faster than the speed limit is speeding.
        Driving slower than the speed limit is impeding traffic.
        Driving exactly the speed limit is suspicious behavior.

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      What happened to her body her choice?

      These people are demented.

    • creech

      Thanks. Beats watching anymore of the Eagles dogshit performance tonight.

    • Chafed

      It was worth wading through the captcha.

    • Evan from Evansville

      First comment. I don’t like this person:
      I’m a 911 dispatcher, and I can honestly say this isn’t even close to the wildest call I’ve ever taken 🤣

    • Aloysious: Evil Dark Lord of Wonderful Smooches

      Nuts to that.

      • cyto

        Well played

    • Ted S.

      Why do all of the web searches for this only yield a 2016 incident from Norway?

  12. Evan from Evansville

    On the other hand, I like this person. She coulda maybe done it differently, but that’s rather touching. And, uh. Would. I’ve got lots of leukemia.
    “Married blonde psychiatrist’s sessions with teen patient ended in forbidden sex: Naked selfies, explicit messages… and how she showered him with gifts right under lawyer husband’s nose

    She was the trusted psychiatrist treating a teenage cancer survivor for crippling anxiety. He was a vulnerable 17-year-old high school senior who had survived leukemia.”
    https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16157789/psychiatrist-patient-sexual-misconduct-philadelphia.html

  13. Derpetologist

    I hate The Big Bang Theory show, but they made a good point about Raiders of the Lost Ark. With or without Indy, the Nazis find the ark, open it, and die.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWE6M-rhh2U

    8-year-old me did not think about these things while enjoying the movie.

    Same deal for Last Crusade. Even if the Nazis got the grail, they couldn’t take it with them.

    • rhywun

      I’m nerdish and never cared for that franchise enough to rewatch. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      Blade Runner and even the various Star Warses he appeared in are so superior it’s ridiculous.

  14. Aloysious: Evil Dark Lord of Wonderful Smooches

    69th.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Sleepieth.

    • Chafed

      You win.

    • UnCivilServant

      Cocaine Smuggler Day you mean,

    • Ted S.

      There’s nothing filthy about the caffeine from black coffee.

      The other methods of ingesting caffeine, however, are just freaky.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean, U, Ted’S., and homey!

      • UnCivilServant

        Morning.

        by no metric am I tired, but I just want to go back to bed and hide from the day.

      • Gender Traitor

        Well, you survived your first day back to work after vacation. Was it rougher than you expected?

      • UnCivilServant

        No. Work isn’t an issue.

      • Gender Traitor

        Whatever is making you want to hide, I hope it gets better. 😟️

    • rhywun

      You just linked those kids the other day. 🎶

      That’s OK I like it. I like this one too.

      • Sean

        Hmmm. Perhaps a copy and paste #fail.

    • rhywun

      I’m not enjoying coffee lately. 🫤

      Maybe I need to switch my brand or something.

      • Gender Traitor

        Maybe you’d like this brand. ☕️

      • Ted S.

        I was expecting this.

  15. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    what’s goody

    • Rat on a train

      my two shoes?

      • Tres Cool

        + Adam Ant

  16. Beau Knott

    Mornin’ all!
    Finally got my ‘2 week follow-up’ with the surgeon. 1 day shy of 3 weeks, but so it goes.
    The news is all good. Heart is in good shape, perforation all healed up. I’m cleared to resume the rest of my meds and ‘normal life’, whatever the heck that is lol.
    One or two people were asking which ablation method was used — electrical burn.
    The surgeon has done 1600 ablations over the past 2 years. This was only the second perforation. The standard is 1%, so…
    I see him again right after New Year’s, when we’ll decide on reducing or eliminating the arrhythmia drug. If I stay out of a fib after that, no need for him to back in and do the other half of the procedure that the perforation interrupted. Hopefully that can be avoided, but if not, I have great confidence in the surgeon and hospital,
    I feel great, much better than prior to the surgery, so I’m going with ‘so far so good’ 😉

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Beau! Delighted to hear that all indications are positive and, most of all, that you’re feeling so good! 😃️👍️

    • rhywun

      🤘🤘

    • Beau Knott

      Thanks GT & rhy!
      (And others I may miss later)

    • slumbrew

      Good news!

    • Sean

      Good news.