1746: "Making Friends"

[thunk]

Alt-text: "This seems more like a way to attract turkey vultures." "My mom always told me a turkey vulture is just a friend you haven't met yet, usually because you don't smell enough like decaying meat."

Vultures are endangered (or at least threatened). They need your help; join vulture conservation efforts today and make some fuzzy friends!

[rhomboidal]

This also sounds like NASA's plan to meet aliens.

[ps.02]

Vultures are endangered. They need your help; join vulture conservation efforts today and make some fuzzy friends!

Yes, famously, the California condor. Most other vultures, not so much.

ObComic: Waiting for others to make me the center of attention has never really worked for me. Well, I mean, it works great if the real goal is to avoid undue attention....

[Pfhorrest]

As someone who lives in the heart of California condor territory, it's really weird to hear them called "vultures".

[Soupspoon]

Why, then, if I do smell of rotting meat, do I have no friends?

[cellocgw]

Why, then, if I do smell of rotting meat, do I have no friends?

You need to meet some Labrador retrievers.

[Aiwendil]

Why, then, if I do smell of rotting meat, do I have no friends?

Because your facts about space aren't cool enough.

[DennyMo]

My mom always told me a turkey vulture is just a friend you haven't met yet, usually because you don't smell enough like decaying meat.

I've had some coworkers who were apparently raised by the same mom. Ugh, stay downwind, please...

[Inglonias]

Randall? Real talk - STOP FOLLOWING ME AND LISTENING TO MY CONVERSATIONS This is something I struggle with and announce to my family, who are starting to get annoyed.

Really, I just need a smart wall who is willing to ask me neat prompts when I make conversation talk at it.

[cellocgw]

Really, I just need a smart wall who is willing to ask me neat prompts when I make conversation talk at it.

So what you're admitting to in public, then is that you're a wall-facer ?

[qvxb]

And don't say "Bite me!". It really antagonizes them.

[ps.02]

As someone who lives in the heart of California condor territory, it's really weird to hear them called "vultures".

Yeah, I was surprised to learn that. But, given that apparently their largest threat these days is lead poisoning from bullets in their carrion, it makes sense. (Don't use lead bullets to shoot varmints you don't plan to bring back home with you! Or, for that matter, to shoot game you do plan to bring home with you!)

[rmsgrey]

(... Or, for that matter, to shoot game you do plan to bring home with you!)

Unless, of course, you're hoping to collect a Darwin