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i used "hakeem" so that all the hakeems in the audience will be startled!! T-Rex: Animals sometimes have names that share the first letter of their species. Tony the Tiger, Katy the Kangaroo, Ernie the Elephant, and so on. Ridiculous! But just as ridiculous... / T-Rex: ...as every human being who has a name that starts with "H"!! / T-Rex: I had this realization just now so...
we say "let's party!!" all the time, it is time to admit it T-Rex: We say "Let's Party!!" all the time, but when we say "Let us Party!!" it sounds hella formal! / T-Rex: "Let's" is a crazy contraction, you guys! / T-Rex: Other contractions sound a little formal when uncontracted ("You will definitely love this" versus, "You'll definitely love this"), but "let's"...
thank you, 19-minute version of "lady madonna" by the rose hill junior high school jazz ensemble, for ... T-Rex: It's safe to eat chalk, right? Probably? / T-Rex: Probably it's safe to eat chalk? / T-Rex: Let us totally assume that it's safe to eat chalk!! / T-Rex: And seriously, if it's not safe to eat chalk then it's DEFINITELY safe to eat sawdust. And even if it's not, there's got to be things that'll...
how could i mention "teri hatcher" and not mention dean "sugar" cain, who starred as superman? um obviously ... T-Rex: Hey, you graduated high school! Super. / T-Rex: Why haven't you got a university degree yet? / T-Rex: You say you've got several, all the way up to a PhD? Neat! Only, how come you haven't published more papers? You have? How come you don't have honourary degrees? You do! But how come yours...
i can hear jenn is downstairs watching a morning show on tv and i'll tell you this: i could do a better ... T-Rex: People's last words are sometimes awesome. It's a thing: if they get the chance to, folks choose them carefully! In contrast, people's first words are usually boring, similar AND similarly boring! / T-Rex: We need to start recording people's middle words! / T-Rex: I'd love to know what my middle...
 
by my calculations, even a randomly-chosen predictive bet is 99.999% more likely to turn out to be true ... T-Rex: Sometimes people who disagree on the future will make a public bet: I bet the ice caps will melt in 10 years, you disagree, and we go public, each betting $1000 on the outcome! / T-Rex: This, my friends, is awesome! / T-Rex: One of us will win not only $1000 dollars of PURE PROFIT, but also...
you may not like this comic, but your kids are gonna love it. IF YOU BRING THEM UP RIGHT T-Rex: If I get married, we have to play "Earth Angel" as the first dance, okay? / T-Rex: You guys! It'll be amazing!! / Dromiceiomimus: That's that climactic slow dance from Back to the Future, right? Why do you like it? / T-Rex: Oh! It's - romantic? I, um - I like how he says he will love the eponymous...
they are the wipes that mime the hand of a clock passing a full cycle. they're - they're the best wipe. ... T-Rex: I am a sensible guy who does sensible things. My favourite expression is "Fellows! Let us be SENSIBLE." However! / T-Rex: I am not all guys! / T-Rex: Some guys wake up in the morning, and they're crazy. They don't know how many men they'll punch that day. They write in their diary and say,...
three worse reasons for donating sperm than the sense of mystery: "i was told there would be pizza", ... T-Rex: Guys, it's not hard to stay fully unknowable even to yourself. There's an easy way to go through life and still have mysteries. All you have to do is... / T-Rex: ...donate some friggin' sperm! / T-Rex: Find a program where they don't inform you when your sperm is used, and you're done! From...
followers on my ryanqnorth twitter account already know that i would buy "horse game 64"; now they know ... T-Rex: Why do we say "rest in peace"? Is it just for the "rest in pieces" pun we can make when we explode someone? / T-Rex: Because if so, I approve 100%! / Narrator: THE END / Narrator: ALTERNATE ENDING / T-Rex: Why do we say "rest in peace"? Is it just- / Utahraptor: It comes from Latin! / Utahraptor:...
 
this comic allows you to almost pinpoint the point where the "let us" experiment ended for t-rex God: HEY T-REX DO YOU BELIEVE MONEY MAKES PEOPLE HAPPIER / T-Rex: Let's discuss! / T-Rex: I think it's clear that at some income levels, money DOES buy happiness! / T-Rex: If you can't afford to eat or buy diapers for your child and then you can, that money will make you happy and have obviously bought...
this is also my theory on webcomics: webcomics help to show people who don't like comics that the medium ... Devil: MMM GREETINGS T-REX WHAT ARE YOUR OPINIONS ON THE RISE OF CASUAL GAMING / T-Rex: Nobody should be excluded from games just because they can't afford a cummerbund, top hat, and pince-nez! / Devil: I WAS CLEARLY REFERRING TO SIMPLER VIDEO GAMES BUILT FOR A CASUAL AUDIENCE / T-Rex: Ah! / Devil: ON...
LET'S GO HAVE SOME INTELLIGENT FRIGGIN' BABIES! LATER ON ONE OF THEM MIGHT BLOW UP A ROCK IN SPACE T-Rex: Guys! There's a VOLUNTARY EXTINCTION movement. If we can decide to all stop havin' babies, then we can choose to go extinct!! / T-Rex: It probably sounded like a good idea at the time? / T-Rex: Then again, our actions, as a people, HAVE been responsible for untold thousands of involuntary...
i got opinions, i still got opinions T-Rex: Some words are special, reserved for only the worst situations, and as such carry weight when we dare to use them! / T-Rex: Some words have MEANING, cats and kittens! / T-Rex: And because of this I cringe when someone says a test RAPED them, or that a movie was so terrible it RAPED the excellent...
this hypothetical book of quotations only serves to underline the importance of a trained and qualified ... T-Rex: Okay, time to get myself into some of them books of quotations! / T-Rex: Hah! I mean, "some of THOSE books of quotations"! / T-Rex: So here's some quotable quotes for you, Dromiceiomimus! "Failure is just success rounded down", "I enjoy friendly good times", and "Whom is responsible for all...
 
a better example would be the rollover from 1999 to 2000 but people got worked up about that one too, ... T-Rex: According to the Mayan calendar, the world will end in 2012! / T-Rex: The Mayans tried to warn us!! / T-Rex: Oh SHIIII- / Dromiceiomimus: According to the calendar in my computer, the world began on January 1st, 1970 at very the stroke of midnight!! It's impossible to make it go back earlier,...
if you re-read the comic again with "girlfriend" you will see that t-rex has had a great dating history. ... T-Rex: I will, one day, have the best breakfast of my entire life. / T-Rex: It is inarguably so! / T-Rex: Arrange all of my breakfasts from worst to best, and one's going to come out on top. I believe there are easily enough variables involved in breakfast that if you look closely enough, you can...
if by "kinda sucky at the best of times" t-rex means "kinda sensual under very particular, controlled ... T-Rex: Going to the dentist means lying down and baring your teeth and paying a stranger to scrape at them: kinda sucky at the best of times. But then I realized! / T-Rex: Dentists are totally CYBERNETICISTS. / T-Rex: I know, Dromiceiomimus, I was skeptical of myself too! But teeth naturally accumulate...
This theory is called "panspermia"! T-Rex: Certain bacteria may be able to survive a long trip in space, and there's a theory that life on OUR VERY PLANET was seeded by such space-born organic materials. / T-Rex: This theory is called "panspermia"! / T-Rex: HILARIOUS. / Dromiceiomimus: Undermining serious work into the origins of life...
utahraptor is assuming t-rex may occasionally think of him as "an orange man"; it seems a fair assump... Narrator: EPISTEMOLOGY COMICS / T-Rex: If I say "Guys, I know I'm rad", what am I saying? What does it actually mean to KNOW something? Philosophers have struggled with this for ages! / T-Rex: Luckily, the answer is super easy and they should have come up with it sooner! / T-Rex: Knowledge of anything,...
 
just ran all these queries and am now relieved to be so innocent T-Rex: A person's activity is often used by law enforcement when pursuing a conviction! Facebook posts, Twitter updates and Google searches for "how to murder the sucky neighbour" have all been used as evidence of intentful wrongdoing. / T-Rex: I can totally use this to my advantage! / T-Rex: AS SUCH,...
Here Lies T-Rex: He's Dead, But That Doesn't Mean You Should Make Fun Of Him. T-Rex: Time for some more epitaphs, bitches! / God: I'M NOT BITCHES / T-Rex: Time for some more epitaphs, everyone!! / T-Rex: Here Lies T-Rex: Hey I Bet He's Still Wicked Handsome! / God: HERE LIES T-REX HE WAS MORTAL SO THEN HE DIED / T-Rex: Depressing! / Dromiceiomimus: "Here Lies T-Rex: He Never Stopped...
if ANY ONE of these predictions fails to come true before the final heat death of the universe, i will ... T-Rex: Guys, it's totally easy to predict the future. Observe: IN THE FUTURE, the general public will be given ample opportunities to purchase the solid gold hits of this, our current decade! / Narrator: THE FUTURE, YOU GUYS / Dromiceiomimus: IN THE FUTURE, portrayals by others of our shared past will...
half-way through writing this comic, I realized that if dame judy dench reads my comic then t-rex WOULD, ... T-Rex: My life - ALL LIVES, in fact - would be measurably improved if I had a sweet accent! FACT. / T-Rex: And it totally doesn't count to say I already have an accent! / T-Rex: We're being relative here; it has to be different from everyone else around me. Wouldn't it be great if I sounded like Dame...
i always felt bad for the kids who'd respond with "thank you" to an insult, as if that diffused it. ... Narrator: INTERNET ARGUMENT COMICS / Narrator: NAZI ACCUSATIONS / T-Rex" Can we accept that everyone on the internet is PROBABLY a Nazi, and move on?? / Narrator: YOU'RE BEING PRESCRIPTIVIST ABOUT LANGUAGE AND KEEP TELLING EVERYONE ELSE HOW TO TYPE / T-Rex: Keep up the good work! / Narrator: NO THE PROBLEM...
 
i wrote this comic while listening the TWO separate albums called "the ocarina of rhyme". i know mc ... Narrator: COMPRESSED ORIGIN STORY COMICS / Today's origin story: ALL LIFE (in the Judeo-Christian tradition) / T-Rex: I'm God and I'm going to create life! / God: INTERESTING / T-Rex: Okay so first off I'm going to invent the week! Monday's for inventing light, Tuesday's for inventing sky, Wednesday's...
Someone must have gotten it right by now! T-Rex: People are predicting the future all the time. All the time, you guys! / T-Rex: Someone must have gotten it right by now! / T-Rex: So I'm going to go back and read tons of "Life in the World of Tomorrow" articles from centuries past, and find the one dude who was the closest to being accurate. / Dromiceiomimus:...
the wikipedia page on pedigree collapse writes about "the common historical tendency to marry those within ... T-Rex: Let us assume that everyone alive today has two biological parents, a mother and a father. I will call this the "No Cloned Chicks" hypothesis! / T-Rex: And let us further assume that everyone's parents had a biological mother and father too! / T-Rex: This seems pretty reasonable. But it...
let's say you have a giant heap of sand. God: T-REX LET'S SAY YOU HAVE A GIANT HEAP OF SAND AND I REMOVE ONE GRAIN AT A TIME / T-Rex: Ooh, let's!! / God: CLEARLY WHEN THERE'S ONLY ONE GRAIN OF SAND LEFT IT'S NOT A HEAP ANYMORE / T-Rex: Clearly! / God: AHA MY FRIEND BUT WHEN PRECISELY DID IT SWITCH FROM HEAP TO NON-HEAP / T-Rex: I dunno!...
if you think either t-rex or utahraptor is being unreasonable, just adjust the amount of money owed up ... Narrator: COMICS IN WHICH T-REX OWES UTAHRAPTOR FIFTY BUCKS / T-Rex: Hah hah! Yep! / T-Rex: And I TOTALLY haven't paid it back yet, either! / Dromiceiomimus: What? Are you talking about your $50 debt to Utahraptor? / T-Rex: He told you about that? / Dromiceiomimus: T-Rex, he told me because he'd lent...
 

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