Dudley's dungeon -- Thursday, 4 October, 2007

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Average rating: Excellent
Number of ratings: 36

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Dav	October 4, 2007 02:10
First comment: 26 June, 2004	147 comments written
Brilliant.
Sappho	October 4, 2007 02:15
First comment: 6 September, 2007	15 comments written
Took me a second, but worth the extra thinking power.
Salisian	October 4, 2007 03:59
First comment: 2 April, 2007	8 comments written
Bahahah, one of the best comics ever.
Mordae	October 4, 2007 04:01
First comment: 11 May, 2007	116 comments written
Eye think this is a very good pun indeed.
Mikoangelo	October 4, 2007 08:07
First comment: 19 October, 2005	82 comments written
The pun! It burns my soul! I give it an E+ (can you do that?)
SomeoneElse	October 4, 2007 08:49
First comment: 11 September, 2006	143 comments written
You know, I don't get this one... apparently, it's very funny, so until I get it, I'm not going to rate it.
Eskimo	October 4, 2007 08:51
First comment: 14 April, 2004	166 comments written
Duh? Thinking graphically about an imp ... imps ... little creatures of two feet high that could gambol and jump prodigiously; ... [ The Charwoman's Shadow, by Lord Dunsany ] An 'imp' is an off-shoot or cutting. Thus an 'ymp tree' was a grafted tree, or one grown from a cutting, not from seed. 'Imp' properly means a small devil, an off-shoot of Satan, but the distinction between goblins or bogles and imps from hell is hard to make, and many in the Celtic countries as well as the English Puritans regarded all fairies as devils. The fairies of tradition often hover uneasily between the ghostly and the diabolic state. [ A Dictionary of Fairies, by Katharine Briggs ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. and a floating eyeFloating eyes, not surprisingly, are large, floating eyeballs which drift about the dungeon. Though not dangerous in and of themselves, their power to paralyse those who gaze at their large eye in combat is widely feared. Many are the tales of those who struck a floating eye, were paralysed by its mystic powers, and then nibbled to death by some other creature that lurked around nearby. Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. doesn't ringThree Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. a bell over here. Wrong graphs in my head? Something character based? "You feel stupid"
Feory	October 4, 2007 09:05
First comment: 15 August, 2006	63 comments written
Okay, think what an e is, then what an i with levitation would be.
jukka	October 4, 2007 09:07
First comment: 22 November, 2006	57 comments written
SomeOne Else and Eskimo, remember how "i" is pronounced. And levitating is kind of floating..
SomeoneElse	October 4, 2007 11:36
First comment: 11 September, 2006	143 comments written
Oh! For some reason, I was imagining a gas sporeThe attack by those who want to die -- this is the attack against which you cannot prepare a perfect defense. --Human aphorism [ The Dosadi Experiment, by Frank Herbert ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. or something stupid like that. Thanks.
SQLGuru	October 4, 2007 14:05
First comment: 23 October, 2006	77 comments written
Yep, brilliant once I got it.......Rated E for Everyone. Layne
fubar snafu	October 4, 2007 15:28
First comment: 4 October, 2007	1 comments written
I thought of a homunculusA homunculus is a creature summoned by a mage to perform some particular task. They are particularly good at spying. They are smallish creatures, but very agile. They can put their victims to sleep with a venomous bite, but due to their size, the effect does not last long on humans. "Tothapis cut him off. 'Be still and hearken. You will travel aboard the sacred wingboat. Of it you may not have heard; but it will bear you thither in a night and a day and a night. With you will go a homunculus that can relay your words to me, and mine to you, across the leagues between at the speed of thought.'" [ Conan the Rebel, by Poul Anderson ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. and they already fly. :(
zem	October 4, 2007 18:46
First comment: 5 December, 2005	64 comments written
brilliant :)
Gnuoy	October 4, 2007 20:26
First comment: 4 October, 2007	3 comments written
Took a second to understand :3
Antheridium	October 5, 2007 04:00
First comment: 17 May, 2007	442 comments written
Lovely. If only I wereIn 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province, "notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase." The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears, had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from eating infants on a fast day. [ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. so droll.
Humb	October 5, 2007 08:04
First comment: 5 October, 2007	1 comments written
Don't get it even with the help above.
Grey Knight	October 5, 2007 09:14
First comment: 20 October, 2005	116 comments written
+++SPOILER+++ He's put on his ring ofThree Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. levitation to become a "floating i" (floating eyeFloating eyes, not surprisingly, are large, floating eyeballs which drift about the dungeon. Though not dangerous in and of themselves, their power to paralyse those who gaze at their large eye in combat is widely feared. Many are the tales of those who struck a floating eye, were paralysed by its mystic powers, and then nibbled to death by some other creature that lurked around nearby. Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.). There, now I've gone and spoilt it. +++END SPOILER+++
Fathead	October 5, 2007 20:26
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
Ah, a floating i, how awe-full.
Callie	October 6, 2007 22:33
First comment: 16 July, 2007	31 comments written
Eggscellent.
Grognor	October 8, 2007 23:18
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
If I rated this anything other than excellent I'd have to kill myself, for it would mean I'd have lost my sense of humor forever and always.
Alcari	October 9, 2007 00:08
First comment: 11 September, 2006	93 comments written
Solid win, inlaid with Epic and l33t plated.
RaggedDruid	October 20, 2007 05:19
First comment: 2 September, 2007	2 comments written
I took it as an English joke. I before E, and all that jazz.
Quint Sakugarne	January 3, 2008 22:23
First comment: 1 January, 2008	233 comments written
I thought up several other possibilities before succumbing to reading the answer among the comments. Beautiful one, though.
Toby Bartels	February 5, 2009 05:28
First comment: 11 August, 2007	83 comments written
Grognor, are you telling me that you rated this excellent despite the spelling error in the first panel??? Man, you think you know someone ... (^_^)

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