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by Sprocket » Fri Feb 24, 2012 3:44 pm UTC
<3
Beautiful
"She’s a free spirit, a wind-rider, she’s at one with nature, and walks with the kodama eidolons”

Will wrote:If we stop eating soup, THE TERRORISTS WIN
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by junx » Fri Feb 24, 2012 3:45 pm UTC
Wonderful comic!
I perceived it as a statement on how often we, as humans, try to sell things that we don't actually have any right to own in the first place. Like seagulls. Or land, or people from Africa. What is wrong with us?
And, thus, the couple run across the sign on their romantic walk down the beach, and it puzzles them and makes them sad and ruins their whole morning. Crap.
I'm assuming for the sake of beret guy's integrity that he put up the sign just to make the point.

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by ivvvvvvvi » Fri Feb 24, 2012 3:46 pm UTC
That actually happened.
Search "VENDEDOR DE PALOMAS VERSION EXTENDIDA" on YouTube, it's a video from 2 years ago of a chilean hobo selling doves.
(I've tried to post the link, but as a new member I'm not allowed to do that).
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by PaLaDiN-X » Fri Feb 24, 2012 3:48 pm UTC
I has already done, there is a video on youtube of a man selling pidgeons, sadly, they dont let me put links but you can search it:
"vendiendo palomas" which means selling pidgeons.
its ~1 dollar each if someone is interested.
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by cellocgw » Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:45 pm UTC
rhomboidal wrote:Their main form of payment is beach coins found with a metal detector while wearing blacks socks and white tennis shoes.
What's the exchange rate for BeachCoins to BitCoins?
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by osito2dancer » Fri Feb 24, 2012 5:20 pm UTC
You got beaten up by 2-3 years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LZppyIdnhw
Pidgeon Seller in Santiago, Chile.
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by bmonk » Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:26 pm UTC
"Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again." (Eccl. 11:1)
Down with categorical imperatives.
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by Rai » Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:30 pm UTC
PigeonBrain wrote:The Moomin wrote:You'd have to be gullible to fall for that.
Phooey. That was
my joke. But you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary, don't you?
Wait, it isn't?
*Checks dictionary*
Huh. Turns out it really isn't.
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by phillipsjk » Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:50 pm UTC
Fire Brns wrote:This is wholeheartedly wrong, I don't know how many of you have firsthand experience with seagulls but if you throw food -even one moldy french fry- 50 to a 100 will show up and they will fight each other (to the death) over every molecule of it before flying off. It is possible that the seagulls ate untill they were full and can't fly from weight but I have never seen a seagull that has "eaten enough".
That is not my experience, though the flocks tend to be smaller here. I have never seen gulls fight to the death over food. In fact, when one gull spots a sufficient quantity of food (more than they want to eat?), they will call other seagulls over.
Did you get the number on that truck?
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by don't read this » Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:24 pm UTC
That is not my experience, though the flocks tend to be smaller here. I have never seen gulls fight to the death over food. In fact, when one gull spots a sufficient quantity of food (more than they want to eat?), they will call other seagulls over.
Yes, but those are Canadian seagulls!
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by webdude » Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:05 am UTC
pkcommando wrote:Oddly, if you came back a few hours later you'd probably find money in the jar and few loose feathers on the ground. Hmm, summer's coming, maybe a trip to Revere Beach is in order.......
I still remember my visit to Pike's Market in Seattle. We didn't have time to actually go in, but while waiting to meet someone there, I wandered around the front a bit. It didn't take a forensic analyst to figure out from the feathers, bones and charred paper around a couple of trash cans that one very hungry homeless person, or a gaggle of them, had eschewed the fish and gone after the pigeons. I wonder how they taste barbequed, cf seagulls?
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by Fire Brns » Sat Feb 25, 2012 3:19 am UTC
phillipsjk wrote:Fire Brns wrote:This is wholeheartedly wrong, I don't know how many of you have firsthand experience with seagulls but if you throw food -even one moldy french fry- 50 to a 100 will show up and they will fight each other (to the death) over every molecule of it before flying off. It is possible that the seagulls ate untill they were full and can't fly from weight but I have never seen a seagull that has "eaten enough".
That is not my experience, though the flocks tend to be smaller here. I have never seen gulls fight to the death over food. In fact, when one gull spots a sufficient quantity of food (more than they want to eat?), they will call other seagulls over.
It will scream because yes food, but once the others show up they are grabbing food from each other's mouths. Evolutionally birds need to share food to survive, from seagulls, to vultures, to mama bird vomit but that doesn't mean they like it and they don't -to my main point- leave any on the ground. To clarify the to the death comment: I've never seen a seagull die over this but I have seen one bleed. But then again Florida is stereotypically seagully.
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by Rosstin » Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:49 am UTC
Best comic in a long time.
^_^
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by Icalasari » Sat Feb 25, 2012 5:34 am UTC
...Yep, this pretty much covers what some of my major is going to
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by Djehutynakht » Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:28 am UTC
pkcommando wrote:Oddly, if you came back a few hours later you'd probably find money in the jar and few loose feathers on the ground. Hmm, summer's coming, maybe a trip to Revere Beach is in order.......
YES.
You know, the funniest thing is to throw a the leftover's from a Thanksgiving turkey on the beach to them. They
swarm. Especially when the business from Kelly's dies down more.
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by Coyne » Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:48 am UTC
Rai wrote:PigeonBrain wrote:The Moomin wrote:You'd have to be gullible to fall for that.
Phooey. That was
my joke. But you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary, don't you?
Wait, it isn't?
*Checks dictionary*
Huh. Turns out it really isn't.
Odd. It's in mine: Right between "gulley
2" and "
Gulliver's Travels".
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by greenba » Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:32 am UTC
Note the representation of the ocean -- wonderfully realistic. Nice work!
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by pueben » Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:03 am UTC
My immediate response:

I'LL TAKE EIGHT!
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by warbaker » Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:58 pm UTC
I liked it, but the mouseover text was a bit much, moving the tone from zen to zany.
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by xaqrox » Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:26 pm UTC
Paranoia wrote:Seems like the Facebook business plan. That works pretty well.
Lure in the users then leave it to the advertisers to catch them.
This is right.
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by Nyktos » Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:32 am UTC
I laughed out loud and I don't know why.
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by nmccrin1 » Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:54 am UTC
Coyne wrote:Rai wrote:PigeonBrain wrote:The Moomin wrote:You'd have to be gullible to fall for that.
Phooey. That was
my joke. But you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary, don't you?
Wait, it isn't?
*Checks dictionary*
Huh. Turns out it really isn't.
Odd. It's in mine: Right between "gulley
2" and "
Gulliver's Travels".
*woosh*
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by bmonk » Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:26 am UTC
don't read this wrote:That is not my experience, though the flocks tend to be smaller here. I have never seen gulls fight to the death over food. In fact, when one gull spots a sufficient quantity of food (more than they want to eat?), they will call other seagulls over.
Yes, but those are Canadian seagulls!
They are, aren't they, eh?
Down with categorical imperatives.
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by Eternal Density » Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:52 am UTC
Coyne wrote:Rai wrote:PigeonBrain wrote:The Moomin wrote:You'd have to be gullible to fall for that.
Phooey. That was
my joke. But you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary, don't you?
Wait, it isn't?
*Checks dictionary*
Huh. Turns out it really isn't.
Odd. It's in mine: Right between "gulley
2" and "
Gulliver's Travels".
Try a Swedish dictionary.
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by madjo » Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:47 pm UTC
Well beret guy, who is a recurring character, likes the obscure and abstract. His sense of humor is not what we'd call 'normal'. He's quite out there.
I loved this one, and if I had time I might even try something like this.
:)
You are carrying:
- a slightly paranoid Android
- two left feet (not my own)
- a still unfed and very hungry hippo
- broadsword of +5 ridiculousness stained with the blood of the undead souls
- a stetson Resistol, cuz stetson Resistols are cool.
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by Annihilist » Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:15 am UTC
The Moomin wrote:You'd have to be gullible to fall for that.
...I see what you did there -_-
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