Rating

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Average rating: Excellent
Number of ratings: 36

Comments

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 ]

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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.

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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 ]

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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 ]

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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 ]

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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 ]

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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 ]

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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.

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).

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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