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Damn Those Torpedoes!

Damn Those Torpedoes!

by Adam on October 15, 2013 at 12:00 am
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  1. Minnesota Expat
    Minnesota Expat
    October 15, 2013, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    You need to get involved in good old fashioned tabletop roleplaying. Then you’ll get to yell fun stuff like this all the time!

  2. Dirk
    Dirk
    October 15, 2013, 1:39 am | # | Reply

    You can, if you manage to hire the power boat yourself, say “Full Steam Ahead” and “Best possible speed, helmsman”. I say that all the time on the house-boating trips I organize. I also use “Ramming speed” and ‘Ready the boarding party” if another boat comes within 100 feet (25.7 kilograms for the foreigners) of mine. “Brace for Impact” is also a good one, use that when we land to stake out for the night.

    Second panel should probably be “armed ordinance” or lose the “don’t” unless, of course, you have quietly become a naval officer.

    • Qeruiem
      Qeruiem
      October 15, 2013, 1:43 am | # | Reply

      “100 feet (25.7 kilograms for the foreigners)”

      This concept of distance converted to weight, is this related to Einsteins relativity theory, that weight times velocity square equals energy? If so, at what velocity does 100 feet turn into 25.7 kg?

      • Bjer
        Bjer
        October 15, 2013, 7:37 am | # | Reply

        Perhaps he has in mind rather large centipedes, in which case 100 feet *could* equal 25.7 kg? That could also give him the opportunity to declaim “I, for one, welcome our new centipede overlords!” Btw, Adam, wonderful detail as usual.

    • Rena
      Rena
      October 15, 2013, 2:37 am | # | Reply

      Well no, it has to have ordinance, and it has to be unarmed. You can’t arm it if it’s already armed.

    • Criggie
      Criggie
      October 15, 2013, 4:47 am | # | Reply

      No sorry – “ordnance” really is the correct term for ammunition or weapons. “Ordinance” means a law or bylaw or legal requirement.

      Example “The council issued an ordinance that parking was not permitted near the ordnance depot”

      • Rat
        Rat
        October 15, 2013, 5:43 am | # | Reply

        Ordinance only means by-law in US English, says my dictionary. The more common meaning is ‘religious rite’. Now those can be armed alright.

      • Adam
        Adam
        October 15, 2013, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

        Well said.

  3. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    October 15, 2013, 5:59 am | # | Reply

    The closest I’ll ever get to any of that is by watching The Hunt for Red October, U-571, and Crimson Tide. “We shhail into history!” *In my worst Sean Connery impersonation*

    • qka
      qka
      October 15, 2013, 10:23 am | # | Reply

      What, no “Das Boot”?

    • Adam
      Adam
      October 15, 2013, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

      I love The Hunt for Red October! “Right full rudder! Reverse starboard engine!”

  4. wingspin
    wingspin
    October 15, 2013, 8:18 am | # | Reply

    Adam, you are severely damaged in some way. …a really good way. Great comic!

    • Adam
      Adam
      October 15, 2013, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

      Probably. And thanks!

  5. Dave Dell
    Dave Dell
    October 15, 2013, 8:29 am | # | Reply

    What do they call it when a noun such as “helm” gets changed into a transitive verb “(to) helm”?

    • wetcorps
      wetcorps
      October 15, 2013, 10:33 am | # | Reply

      Maybe they call it “verbing”? 😀

      • Rat
        Rat
        October 15, 2013, 11:18 am | # | Reply

        You’ve read too much Calvin & Hobbes. The word Dave Dell is looking for is ‘verbalize’, and it doesn’t matter whether the verb is transitive or not.

        • Rat
          Rat
          October 15, 2013, 11:24 am | # | Reply

          Although I’m not sure there is such a thing as ‘too much Calvin & Hobbes’.

          • Dave Dell
            Dave Dell
            October 16, 2013, 10:01 pm | #

            C & H is, perhaps, the gold standard of comics. I think some comics are great when first published but suffer as they age in large measure because of their topical nature. I think Bloom County and Boondocks are examples of this. Calvin and Hobbes will be funny as long as children go to grade school and invent their own versions of Calvinball.

        • GuesssWho
          GuesssWho
          December 7, 2013, 2:31 am | # | Reply

          I thought ‘verbalize’ just meant ‘say’

  6. Me
    Me
    October 15, 2013, 8:49 am | # | Reply

    Buy Silent Hunter 5
    Install Speech Recognition Mod
    Rejoice

  7. PJ Day
    PJ Day
    October 15, 2013, 9:20 am | # | Reply

    I harm taquitos all the time… in my belly.

  8. Doomboy911
    Doomboy911
    October 15, 2013, 9:36 am | # | Reply

    For some reason I feel the guy in the third panel is your dad just wondering how you got aboard.

  9. xanthumn
    xanthumn
    October 15, 2013, 10:20 am | # | Reply

    Time for another rewatch of “Down Periscope”

  10. LanceThruster
    LanceThruster
    October 15, 2013, 10:46 am | # | Reply

    It’s all I can do to keep my Heat-Seeking Moisture-Missile from going off half cocked.

  11. Rhea
    Rhea
    October 15, 2013, 11:31 am | # | Reply

    Another strip where I can marvel at the expression you can put into hands with a few strokes. Other cartoonists should take lessons from you, Adam.

  12. Lobuscus
    Lobuscus
    October 15, 2013, 10:44 pm | # | Reply

    If you buy a submarine with torpedoes, I will work for you, and I will do whatever the heck you want me to. *Nothing sexual*

  13. Drunken Oirish Cat
    Drunken Oirish Cat
    October 19, 2013, 10:54 pm | # | Reply

    Hmmm. Maybe you could ‘Parm Tostitos’

    … but that might be too cheesy.

  14. Shannon Love
    Shannon Love
    October 23, 2013, 7:16 am | # | Reply

    The word “torpedeo” originally meant a naval-mine. Since it destroy ships from under neath, it was nicknamed “torpedeo” after the Italin name of a type of ray fish that lays on the bottom and using an electrical jolt to stun prey that swims over it.

    If went to an aquarium with topedoe fish in it, and took along some tuna fish for feed, you could “charm” the torpedeos

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