Dammit, I’m “well actually”-ing people with a friggin’ Mary avatar? Karma sucks.
Ancestral Hamster
Might I suggest you sign up for gravatar so you can upload a avatar of your own choosing? Unless, of course, you’re an “M” and LIKE being Mary.
Captain Button
Huh? Do commenters without official gravatars get random ones or something?
a snow ʍousɐ
Sort of. Each email account gets assigned a random DoA gravatar. We’re stuck using that gravatar until Willis updates the gravatars, at which point we get assigned a different random gravatar. I used to be Mary, now I’m Jocelyn.
(speaking of which, I hear from Willis’ twitter Joc is coming back into the story soon? that should be fun)
HeySo
Of course, you can always..
HeySo
..swap your e-mail for a moment. 😛
There’s that reconfirmation delay to wait on, though. :X
HeySo
Actually, no, that avatar is awesome, I’m keeping this setting :’P
Rowen Morland
Did Willis update the gravatars?
Commodore Jeep-Eep
In the Dwarf Fortress sense, maybe.
Kol
Is it a bad thing that I got confused and thought you made a mistake with “Jocelyn” for a second there?
It’s actually kinda a problem with my few trans friends >.< it's really hard to use the right pronouns and such, especially when sometimes their D&D characters are of varying genders 😛
TParadox
You get one randomly assigned to you on every page you comment on.
I thought it was per page. I guess wWillis updates more frequently than I post.
i know other Gravatar systems randomly gemerate a pattern avatar based on your email or IP.
Lord Stoneheart
It’s random, and it only changes when Willis changes the pool of random gravatars to choose from. I’m not sure how often that happens.
Using a different email would give you a different gravatar though. It would count as a new account I think?
DarkVeghetta
^ correct.
Also: Merry Christmas everyone!
Screwball
Enjoyable Earth Christmas Celebrations for all. Wait, did I do that right…?
Ancestral Hamster
Yes. However, if you use the “Get a Gravatar” link next ot the comment box, you can sign up and then upload avatars of your own choice. Plasma Mongoose makes much use of this feature as he changes his avatars to fit his mood or the story line’s.
Adj
Such is why I control my own Foo Foo Cuddly Poops destiny!
No, its okay. Its only a problem because Mary works really hard at being as OBNOXIOUS as possible with imparting information (if not necessarily knowledge in her case)
Emu and ostrich meat is very popular in BC, Canada; if you’re in the Lower Mainland you should be able to get meat directly from the farmers. And then make your own dinosaur nuggets, which would be awesome.
Betty Anne
You can get it some places in the U.S., too. My parents raised an emu they got from a local emu farmer in Wisconsin (they were going to get a breeding pair, but the male freaked out and died when the farmer was rounding them up). They were going to keep her until she died of old age, but then their neighbors started freaking out about her (they had never seen an emu and didn’t know what she was, so when she escaped her fence and went on walkabouts, they panicked). One neighbor gal said she was going to call the cops because she was so scared when my dad went to walk the emu home, so they decided to have emu for dinner rather than trouble with the cops. 🙁 It was good, though!
No. Ramadan is a month in the Islamic lunar calendar, which only has 354 days per year. So from the standpoint of the Gregorian calendar (the one most people in the West use) Ramadan comes a little earlier every year until it wraps around. Next Ramadan starts on 6 June 2016, and the one after that starts on 24 May 2017.
Hanukkah uses the Hebrew calendar which has a similar drift relative to the Gregorian calendar, but an extra month is added every few years to compensate. Last Hanukkah actually was 6-14 December 2015, and next one starts 24 December 2016.
Emma
It sometimes falls in the winter though, but it doesn’t count as a winter holiday this year.
(also yours is a name i recognize from ancient times, back when scans_daily still reigned on livejournal)
Kryss LaBryn
One time I went to Mexico, and went on an outing where they promised us barbecued iguana. I think I was the only one who was disappointed when it was actually chicken. :/
Well, that’s enough to make me reconsider the extra pickles on my usual at Chick Fil-A.
Not enough to make me decide to skip them though. Devouring homophobia is as good a plan of attack as any? No, that doesn’t work…
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Kat
Now if only there were dinosaur nuggets!
garaden
There are. Chicken are dinosaurs 🙂
garaden
Dammit, I’m “well actually”-ing people with a friggin’ Mary avatar? Karma sucks.
Ancestral Hamster
Might I suggest you sign up for gravatar so you can upload a avatar of your own choosing? Unless, of course, you’re an “M” and LIKE being Mary.
Captain Button
Huh? Do commenters without official gravatars get random ones or something?
a snow ʍousɐ
Sort of. Each email account gets assigned a random DoA gravatar. We’re stuck using that gravatar until Willis updates the gravatars, at which point we get assigned a different random gravatar. I used to be Mary, now I’m Jocelyn.
(speaking of which, I hear from Willis’ twitter Joc is coming back into the story soon? that should be fun)
HeySo
Of course, you can always..
HeySo
..swap your e-mail for a moment. 😛
There’s that reconfirmation delay to wait on, though. :X
HeySo
Actually, no, that avatar is awesome, I’m keeping this setting :’P
Rowen Morland
Did Willis update the gravatars?
Commodore Jeep-Eep
In the Dwarf Fortress sense, maybe.
Kol
Is it a bad thing that I got confused and thought you made a mistake with “Jocelyn” for a second there?
It’s actually kinda a problem with my few trans friends >.< it's really hard to use the right pronouns and such, especially when sometimes their D&D characters are of varying genders 😛
TParadox
You get one randomly assigned to you on every page you comment on.
TParadox
I thought it was per page. I guess wWillis updates more frequently than I post.
i know other Gravatar systems randomly gemerate a pattern avatar based on your email or IP.
Lord Stoneheart
It’s random, and it only changes when Willis changes the pool of random gravatars to choose from. I’m not sure how often that happens.
Using a different email would give you a different gravatar though. It would count as a new account I think?
DarkVeghetta
^ correct.
Also: Merry Christmas everyone!
Screwball
Enjoyable Earth Christmas Celebrations for all. Wait, did I do that right…?
Ancestral Hamster
Yes. However, if you use the “Get a Gravatar” link next ot the comment box, you can sign up and then upload avatars of your own choice. Plasma Mongoose makes much use of this feature as he changes his avatars to fit his mood or the story line’s.
Adj
Such is why I control my own Foo Foo Cuddly Poops destiny!
Proper Dave
Like this!
Rheios
No, its okay. Its only a problem because Mary works really hard at being as OBNOXIOUS as possible with imparting information (if not necessarily knowledge in her case)
LeslieBean4Shizzle
They are. What do you think Chickens are?
Lia47
those fat little guys that live in cages? dinosaurs are the big bony guys what with the teeth
Kelly
They are both dinosaurs.Just as humans are apes, and all land vertebrates are fish*.
* – well, Sarcopterygii, since fish has no real meaning.
Bruceski
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/i-didnt-even-have-a-joke-for-this-week
Here, have some raptors.
Disloyal Subject
Turkeys are a little more rippy, but if you want to approximate a Utahraptor, I recommend Cassowaries. Vicious bastards, them, and gorgeous too.
Dean
I don’t even know where you’d go to get cassowary nuggets. And I live in Australia!
JTSE
Cairns, probably.
John
Soviet Russia? Everywhere else, cassowary eats you.
Kryss LaBryn
Emu and ostrich meat is very popular in BC, Canada; if you’re in the Lower Mainland you should be able to get meat directly from the farmers. And then make your own dinosaur nuggets, which would be awesome.
Betty Anne
You can get it some places in the U.S., too. My parents raised an emu they got from a local emu farmer in Wisconsin (they were going to get a breeding pair, but the male freaked out and died when the farmer was rounding them up). They were going to keep her until she died of old age, but then their neighbors started freaking out about her (they had never seen an emu and didn’t know what she was, so when she escaped her fence and went on walkabouts, they panicked). One neighbor gal said she was going to call the cops because she was so scared when my dad went to walk the emu home, so they decided to have emu for dinner rather than trouble with the cops. 🙁 It was good, though!
Amazi-Stool
Never before has an obligatory xkcd been more obligatory than today!
Commodore Jeep-Eep
Try attaching a pole to a chicken’s backside. You’ll see the resemblance sharpish.
Doctor_Who
There were those Kid Cuisine meals in the 90s that had them.
Toad
Holy nugget, so tender and mild.
Willoughby Chase
Crunchy and crispy with her——rbs!
inqntrol
Eat the dinosaur! Become one with the dinosaur!
inqntrol
Oh, also I wish you all folks a Merry Christmas! Have a pleasant day!
Clif
Righto. Merry Christmas everyone, happy holidays, and may the coal Santa brings you keep you warm and toasty through the new year.
dmaxx
Uh, here in skandinavia we had our x-mas yesterday on the 24 so is long over for me long time ago:-P
Ana Chronistic
“but they don’t taste anything like Cocoa Puffs”
“WHAT KIND OF DINOSAUR ARE YOU”
“one that eats Cocoa Puffs with Mountain Dew?”
“…dang, that sounds awesome, actually”
Ragnal
Don’t. Tempt. Me. >_>
Betty Anne
It’s all right, but the Mountain Dew has kind of a weird syrupy taste (moreso than usual) when mixed with the Cocoa Puffs. :/
Needfuldoer
Good! Good! Devour the chicken of intolerance! Let the hate flow through you!
JustCheetoDust
You’d think marketing would want to get that message to kids through advertising.
Captain Button
Pickled dinosaurs?
Kraken
This seems more like the dinosaur eating the meteor.
TheLurkerAbove
The mighty T-Rex is a carnivore! Do it Dina!
Disloyal Subject
As is the cunning raptor!
gkheyf
all principles lie abandoned when there be chicken!
Mr. Random
Walky is a good kind of friend.
MERRY
MERRY CHRISTMAS ERRYBODY
newllend(henryvolt)
Merry Christmas and Happy new year, and happy Hanukkah, and happy Kwanzaa….am I missing anything ?
electromikey
a Festivus for the rest of us!
Kryss LaBryn
Happy Yule/Solstice (belatedly)! 🙂
Kryss LaBryn
Ooh, and I think Happy Ramadan?
Captain Button
No. Ramadan is a month in the Islamic lunar calendar, which only has 354 days per year. So from the standpoint of the Gregorian calendar (the one most people in the West use) Ramadan comes a little earlier every year until it wraps around. Next Ramadan starts on 6 June 2016, and the one after that starts on 24 May 2017.
Hanukkah uses the Hebrew calendar which has a similar drift relative to the Gregorian calendar, but an extra month is added every few years to compensate. Last Hanukkah actually was 6-14 December 2015, and next one starts 24 December 2016.
Emma
It sometimes falls in the winter though, but it doesn’t count as a winter holiday this year.
Screwball
Festive Greetings to all.
Wait, that’s not right either, is it? Scraplets…
Bicycle Bill
I hope everybody enjoyed a very festive Federal Holiday.
There, I think that covers it.
merbrat
TGIF!
Captain Button
In Mesozoic Gondwanaland, dinosaur eats YOU!
inqntrol
Meanwhile in Soviet Russia…
JustCheetoDust
Meanwhile in
Soviet Russia…Mesozoic Laurasia…Stephen R. Bierce
I wish I was in Tijuana/Eating barbecued Iguana…
(Wall of Voodoo–“Mexican Radio”)
Foxhack
Fun fact: That iguana was probably a dog once.
… I’m from Mexicali. Tijuana sucks. 😛
PrincessPoeDameron
But does it still taste like iguana?
(also yours is a name i recognize from ancient times, back when scans_daily still reigned on livejournal)Kryss LaBryn
One time I went to Mexico, and went on an outing where they promised us barbecued iguana. I think I was the only one who was disappointed when it was actually chicken. :/
Mr. Mendo
Hey, you can’t taste homophobia. 🙂
brionl
Yes you can, it tastes like chicken. :b
DinaWho
Or in this case, pickles 😛
Disloyal Subject
Well, that’s enough to make me reconsider the extra pickles on my usual at Chick Fil-A.
Not enough to make me decide to skip them though. Devouring homophobia is as good a plan of attack as any? No, that doesn’t work…