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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

86 Comments

  1. Sensei

    I’ll plug one of my favorite books that uses nothing but cartoons to teach everyday grammar in Japanese.

    It’s got lots of language you don’t learn from most textbooks.

    • Threedoor

      Negotiations with Tekeshi’s mom?

  2. Fourscore

    About 60 years ago, VN era, I started saving cartoons from the Army times, Army oriented humor, I assembled a loose leaf binder of them. I’ll try to remember to bring it out for HH, the ex military guys, particularly army, may enjoy the nonsense we laughed at back in the old days.

      • dbleagle

        I miss the old Connie and Bonnie. Siiigghhh.

      • Fourscore

        At the time I was in a joint office and we didn’t get PS Mag.

      • Fourscore

        Connie/Bonnie must have been after my time…

      • Fourscore

        Oh yeah, now I remember Connie, I’d forgotten her name but not her other assets.

    • Threedoor

      The green machine hasent changed much.

      • Threedoor

        The big green wenie, my bad.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Fun, travel, and adventure.

      • Threedoor

        6 years at fort Campbell not as bad as being say stuck at Ft Jackson (the armpit of the U.S.) but pretty close.

      • dbleagle

        Ft Jackson sucks, but not like the suck of Ft Polk. That place makes Ft Irwin seem wonderful.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Ahh! Only got to visit for one rotation. Record setting heat and safety stand downs, but not for us in the field.

        I have a picture of our platoon filing by a sign that said “Snake Area – Keep Out”.

        And then afterwards the fine wooden barracks for transient units.

      • Threedoor

        Polk sucks.
        Some jackass took a crap in our water buffalo.

        Being at Polk and playing like we were in the field for two weeks was way better than garrison at Campbell.

        I wanted to open everyone’s veins at Campbell.

  3. Evan from Evansville

    Not bad and a fun outlet to pick up. anti- Did you use ai drawing, tell it what you want, then edit the pics by specifying what works and telling it what to get rid of/ downplay?

  4. The Hyperbole

    I don’t get 1 and 2, 3 is good , 4 I get but it’s a meh, if I’m being honest.

    • rhywun

      3 is the best. I don’t get 4 either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • Evan from Evansville

      I think I reversed 4 into a joke, perhaps as intended. “This is a Wendy’s” is the joke that didn’t require a punchline, because Wendy’s sucks.
      (I actually like Wendy’s, so YMMV. Spicy chicken and their chili. Was once ~once a week when at Walmart, fucking bacon cheeseburger with a fried egg for fucking $5?! Damn. And Carmel’s fancy so even fast food is good. *chefs kiss* )

      3 is the best but I think I’ve seen the joke before.

      • rhywun

        Wendy’s is >> those other two. And yes, the spicy chicken.

      • Plinker762

        Wendy’s went downhill after Dave died.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Before. Dave gave up control before he returned as a spokesman. Yellow Wendy’s was the best.

  5. creech

    I didn’t realize, until I watched the French soçcer team on tv, that France is apparently a Sub-Sahara African nation.

    • rhywun

      The Scramble for Africa paid off, didn’t it.

    • rhywun

      More amusingly, a lot of the tiny countries field teams where no player lives there, plays there, or was even born there.

      • Raven Nation

        I’m not much of a fan of Harling but, give the man credit, he’s a beast in front of goal.

      • rhywun

        I have not been either entirely because of his club that I hate, but watching him tonight, he’s a goofy goon.

      • rhywun

        PS the Brooklyn neighborhood I lived in for 16 years was largely Norwegian before all of them moved to LI and NJ and were replaced by Arabs and Chinese.

        So every year I would watch the Norwegian parade pass by my house to the bemusement of all the vibrant newcomers.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I hope they brought lefske and lutefisk for everyone.

    • Plinker762

      The Algerian troops in France in 1940 fought harder than the native Frenchies.

      • JaimeRoberto feckful & gruntled

        There’s a lot of Algerians buried at Verdun as well.

      • dbleagle

        Don’t forget their contributions to the French defense at Dien Bien Phu.

  6. The Hyperbole

    Another thing wrong with Comic 1, Bobby and the old man aren’t looking at the robot. The old man may be looking downward and to the right at the robots right foot , but Bobby is definitely looking up and at something in front of him and the Robot is directly to his right.

    • Threedoor

      I think that’s referencing the robot that kicked the kid in China.

    • rhywun

      Pass.

      Since my last PC bricked itself I make do with a Mac and a Switch that I recently obtained. Meets all of my gaming needs minus one or two games I miss but there are so many others on the back burner.

      • Sean

        FWIW, gaming on Amazon Luna has been good.

        I can run it on my tv or my iPad.

    • Sean

      Lemme know when they get to $800. Otherwise, I’m not terribly interested.

      • R.J.

        Right now even the Steam Deck is touching $800. The RAMpocalypse is killing pricing.

    • Brochettaward

      I think once we start getting into four figures, just build your own PC that lets you do everything a PC does. I’m not some big gamer so hell if I know, but even when I did game on the PC my thing was modding it. Which you can’t really do on your own with this.

      And think how pissed you’ll be if you buy a game at some point and that thing can’t play it at peak performance. Console games are designed for a standard console experience (and still often broken). How long until games are coming out that the hardware of this won’t be able to handle it?

      I guess you sell this as some sort of thing for newbs into PC gaming, but that’s a hefty price tag for those kinds of people. If you aren’t already into PC games are you going to really be able to justify something like this? Because a P

      It’ll become more palpable I suspect with the next Playstation, but for now I just think it’s so niche and it’s still competing against the latest consoles while the top end version is nearly 3x what they cost or more.

      • rhywun

        Part of it is the huge and growing demands of AAA over “lesser” games.

        It used to be everyone could play any game out there. Now it’s a matter of chasing the latest specs that add little or nothing to the actual enjoyment of a game. I’m not going to play along with that nonsense.

      • Brochettaward

        I get that, but it’s also another point against it because in a few years games are going to surpass this thing as it currently goes. You can’t upgrade this like you would a PC to extent it’s life.

        It’s possible that if it’s a success that games are designed with it in mind to prevent that, but then you’re also holding back the game development to some extent.

        I could also just be ignorant and not know what the fuck I’m talking about. I am just an asshole on the internet.

      • rhywun

        The target audience seems to be “serious” gamers who don’t already own a PC. A tiny bunch it would seem to me but yeah, WTF do I know.

  7. Evan from Evansville

    Catching the last half of ‘Some Like It Hot’ on TV. Marilyn Monroe is being very reasonable while trying to seduce a gay-but- don’t-say-that dude on ‘his’ boat.

    “It’s like smoking without inhaling” he says after she kisses him deeply. (Oh, she may have turned him, at least for the night?) I’m positive George McFly didn’t see this flick before he met Marty. I believe it’s highly regarded and I can see why. Very out-there comedy for the day. (I’m just seeing it seems she was sexually extorting him and did a very good job of that, as well. And the other dude in drag was proposed by another wealthy gentleman.)

    “Why would a guy marry another guy?!”
    “Security!”

    I get the sense this film wouldn’t be allowed today. All the drag and sexifying to turn gay folk NOT gay to financially dupe them?!
    Oh, well, I NEVER!!

    • creech

      Uh, they weren’t gay.

      • Evan from Evansville

        I’m not talking about Lemmon and Curtis as the girls. After reading on wiki, see the dude on the boat really was impotent because of the death of his previous lover. Not gay, but that seems the obvious ‘hidden’ connotation. Especially with his effete qualities. Don’t know why *now* wiki-woke folx would further praise the film for that. Strange. I really don’t think that was Lemmon or Curtis NOT in drag. I didn’t see the first hour+ of the flick so I’m not sure.

        Now this may be news to the masses, but Monroe had a really nice rack. Like a full handshake, all there, but not jumbo-tron.

  8. Aloysious

    Uwe Boll has a new movie out.

    Citizen Vigilante.

    I’m sure it will put a smile on my face.

    • dbleagle

      Will he fix the cable?

      • slumbrew

        Don’t be fatuous, Double E.

  9. Plinker762

    I brought home a dynamic tire balancer from Marketplace today. So now I’m back to doing all of my own tire service, lol.

    • Threedoor

      Nice.
      Last thing I got off of marketplace before my ban was a newer machine. Beats my old atlas (coasts 1010 copy). I dont ballence my trailer tires and can’t justify the space a ball ever takes up. But for the price anymore it’s not a bad idea to do your own. Save $500 or more buying from online and doing the work every set.

      • Plinker762

        My friend and I picked up a touchless tire machine at a Harbor Freight parking lot sale. It has worked great for smaller trailer tires up to the 35s on my truck.

      • Threedoor

        My newer one is a modern style Coated machine, stand up bead breaker and the arm, sadly not the version that has the power down arm. It won’t handle the front tires on my backhoe or skidsteer.

      • Plinker762

        The backhoe has a built-in bead breaker.

      • Threedoor

        Coates

      • Threedoor

        The backhoe breaks beads. A can’t get the dang things back on though! Even with 16.5s they are stiff!

      • Plinker762

        Yeah, I took the pneumatic tire on the 8k forklift to Les Schwab, lol.

      • Threedoor

        I dread the day I have to take my loader in. One of the fronts has a bead leak. It loses about 10psi a month.

        Going to be $$$$

      • Plinker762

        My brain automatically translated all of those to Coates.

      • Evan from Evansville

        This reads like a pneumatic machine talking to his doctor about erectile difficulties and dysfunction.

      • Threedoor

        Evan.
        The rim clamp cylinder was bad when I bought it, pneumatic. Bought the parts to fix it (from Hawaii of all places) and now the bead breaker cylinder is bad. Always maintenance when you buy used stuff.

        More expensive maintenance when you buy new.

      • Threedoor

        And when you get a load on the loader (technically icky a forklift) the bead leak is slight but audible. But mostly they are round, plump, black and full of air.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Yes, a nice, tight rim clamp cylinder helps the big thing that goes up go up, stay straight, firm. Never lose pressure. Covered by insurance.

        *Erector foreman sagely nods*

      • Plinker762

        Evan, real men change the tire on the rim.

        Threedoor, when you have spare time around Spokane area, I can show you what all the doodads on a Bridgeport do.

    • Plinker762

      “Holy Fuck” indeed. At least they remembered to take some pictures of the lava rain.

    • Threedoor

      Retards with money.

      • dbleagle

        “Explosive eruptions every 15-20 minutes? Sure, I’ll take my chances that I won’t win a Darwin Award.” said no Glib ever.

      • Threedoor

        I’ve done some dumb stuff but only that which would have killed me by my own direct action or inaction.

  10. Brochettaward

    Actual quote from The Guardian USA’s Facebook:
    Access to power over other racial groups is their preferred political currency (on an article on how the white working class knows America’s system is failing, but doesn’t care).

    Do you want to know more?

    • Chafed

      I think that’s enough.

    • Threedoor

      Looks like 3-4 acre subdivision to the north.

      Some developer is going to make a killing on this place.

      • Plinker762

        I drove by there to get my balancer. Rathdrum prairie is so sad now. In ’89 they were complaining about smoke from burning the grass seed fields. Well, there are no grass field fires now.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Shut up citizen and accept your police betters.

      • Plinker762

        If only the chick had a bolty instead of the cell phone.

  11. Ownbestenemy

    Seem to be a lot of foreign born persons occupying judgeships nowadays. Im sure that is healthy.

    • UnCivilServant

      Am I the only one who thinks foreign born persons should not hold positions of authority in a country?

      • Plinker762

        BUT WE ARE A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Melting pot…lie…destruction of culture….shut up and accept it.

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