Dragon breath

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Wed Feb 07, 2001 9:55 am

It has come to my attention that The Far Side had a comic in which one dragon is saying to her husband, "I'm sorry, Erwin, it's... it's your breath. It's... fresh and minty."

This came to my attention because I thought I remembered something about mint and dragons' breath, so I searched through my Far Side collections this morning until I found it. I don't know if I completely ripped off the idea via my subconscious, or if I merely suffered from parallel evolution of thought (or is that convergent evolution? I can't get those straight, it seems), but in either case I have to apologize.

Not to the whole world, naturally-- just to those of you that would care enough about comics and stuff to read a discussion board based on the same. I don't think most people have a running index of Far Side humor in their heads like I do, but if anybody does, I think they would be you people.

Which brings me to the idea I had: why isn't there a Far Side index online, where you could type in as much of the joke as you could remember, and it would search a database and call up the one you're thinking of? Or do a loose search on "single-cell" and get all his amoeba jokes. I think that would rock.

Lesterman · Post by **Lesterman** » Fri Feb 09, 2001 9:00 am

Which brings me to the idea I had: why isn't there a [Randym Thoughts] index online, where you could type in as much of the joke as you could remember, and it would search a database and call up the one you're thinking of? Or do a loose search on "single-cell" and get all his amoeba jokes. I think that would rock.
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Randy · Post by **Randy** » Fri Feb 09, 2001 9:31 am

Ooh.

Again, ooh.

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Sun Feb 11, 2001 3:24 am

By the way, Randy, Parallel and convergent evolution are pretty much the same thing. Except in one, two indepent species develop the same trait by the same evolutionary path (ie both species show the same selection history wherer flippers become fingers become hands become arms...) In the other, one species will go from boney nubs to spikes to hands to arms and the other species will go from lose hanging flaps of skin to muscular flaps of skin to claws to hands to arms...--Prof chuck

ZOMBIE USER 197 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 197** » Sun Feb 11, 2001 5:48 am

And then there is Star Trek convergent evolution, where different evolutionary systems on different planets in different star systems evolve intelligent life that is able to interbreed with other intelligent life, apparently anywhere in the galaxy. Bleah.--Howard

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Sun Feb 11, 2001 7:14 am

I think Howard was referring not to the species, but the screenwriters, who started in a hundred different locations with ideas about species across the quadrant, and finally had to justify why they could interbreed, and why everything looked like a human with plastic on its face, and so they finally converged on The Chase's silly premise about the father race.

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