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Wednesday, 4 April, 2007

by Slowpoke

------------ \|..........\| ##..@..$&....\| # \|.d........\| #### \|..........+ \|..........\| ------------ @ "OK, Yeldud, I admit you've got some advantages. But you're wielding a tin"You know salmon, Sarge," said Nobby. "It is a fish of which I am aware, yes." "You know they sell kind of slices of it in tins..." "So I am given to understand, yes." "Weell...how come all the tins are the same size? Salmon gets thinner at both ends." "Interesting point, Nobby. I think-" [ Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. whistle?!?"	------------ \|..........\| ##.d@..@.&...\| # \|..........\| #### \|..........+ \|..........\| ------------ @ "Erm, it's a bit embarrassing, really. I'm hoping to run across a nice pick-axeThe mine is full of holes; With the wound of pickaxes. But look at the goldsmith's store. There, there is gold everywhere. [ Divan-i Kebir Meter 2, by Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. real soon now.	------------ \|.....&....\| ##..@..$.....\| # \|d.........\| #### \|..........+ \|..........\| ------------ @ "A tool instead of... Oh you're evil, I can see, but not in the way you might suppose."
------------ \|..........\| ##..@..$&....\| # \|.d........\| #### \|..........+ \|..........\| ------------ @ "Now begone, my backward and ultimately corny evil twin!"	------------ \|..........\| ##.d@..@.....\| # \|.....&....\| #### \|..........+ \|..........\| ------------ @ "No, it is I, Yeldud, who will punish YOU!" You feel foolish.	------------ \|d.........\| ##..@..$.....\| # \|....&.....\| #### \|..........+ \|..........\| ------------ @ groan "Oh, you're killing me, all right. One wisdom point at a time."
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Grognor	April 4, 2007 11:35
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
It's bad. Also, Dudley's Dungeon has a new reader. I'm gonna go ahead and post comments on every single back strip from and all in the future, though I could've done that the first time I went through them. But I didn't.
SomeoneElse	April 4, 2007 15:23
First comment: 11 September, 2006	143 comments written
This one makes no sense.
SQLGuru	April 4, 2007 15:32
First comment: 23 October, 2006	77 comments written
"Lucy, you've got some 'splainin' to do." I don't get it. (Maybe tomorrow?) [I do get the scrollAnd I was gazing on the surges prone, With many a scalding tear and many a groan, When at my feet emerg'd an old man's hand, Grasping this scroll, and this same slender wand. I knelt with pain--reached out my hand--had grasp'd Those treasures--touch'd the knuckles--they unclasp'd-- I caught a finger: but the downward weight O'erpowered me--it sank. Then 'gan abate The storm, and through chill aguish gloom outburst The comfortable sun. I was athirst To search the book, and in the warming air Parted its dripping leaves with eager care. Strange matters did it treat of, and drew on My soul page after page, till well-nigh won Into forgetfulness; when, stupefied, I read these words, and read again, and tried My eyes against the heavens, and read again. [ Endymion, by John Keats ] 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. of punishment / loss of wisdom....just not the comic.] Layne
Matt B	April 4, 2007 16:26
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1 comments written
Is this a Russian Reversal joke? Because I don't get it.
Kernigh	April 4, 2007 16:45
First comment: 6 April, 2005	349 comments written
Yeldud wields ( not ). Yeldud also had a b for a pet, but it was too slow.
Slowpoke	April 4, 2007 17:32
First comment: 27 February, 2007	239 comments written
"Lucy, you've got some 'splainin' to do." -- indeed. A typo seems to have been introduced into this comic somewhere along the line - the word "punish" was intended to be misspelled "punnish", and the "You feel foolish" was meant as a newline to be at the top of the final frame as game output rather than part of the dialog in frame 5. The humor may not have been stellar - basically Dudley is coming to the dawning realization that Yeldud is nothing more than a sequence of visual and verbal puns which are starting to abuse his wisdom - and explaining a joke is always the death[Pestilence:] And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. [War:] And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. [Famine:] And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. [Death:] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. [ Revelations of John, 6:1-8 ] 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. of any remaining humor - but the typo kind of killed any chance of figuring that out for oneself. Oh well, it's only a cartoon.
Nesman	April 4, 2007 19:09
First comment: 4 January, 2005	112 comments written
So, does Yeldud swap "loot" and "tool"?
Fathead	April 17, 2007 02:42
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
Uh, okay.
Grognor	April 22, 2007 10:15
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
Yeldud zaps an opulent throneMethought I saw the footsteps of a throne Which mists and vapours from mine eyes did shroud-- Nor view of who might sit thereon allowed; But all the steps and ground about were strown With sights the ruefullest that flesh and bone Ever put on; a miserable crowd, Sick, hale, old, young, who cried before that cloud, "Thou art our king, O Death! to thee we groan." Those steps I clomb; the mists before me gave Smooth way; and I beheld the face of one Sleeping alone within a mossy cave, With her face up to heaven; that seemed to have Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone; A lovely Beauty in a summer grave! [ Sonnet, by William Wordsworth ] 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.! Yeldud seems to be moving faster.

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