The off-the-wall humor of off the mark puts a refreshingly spin on the things we see everyday... from your favorite icons to your least favorite trends, from commercials to pets to computers. Slightly skewed and just a little twisted, off the mark scores a bull’s eye with readers looking for a laugh.
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Nothing is Not Something by Greg Wallace
Ollie and Quentin by Piers Baker
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Linux0s said, 8 months ago
Just wait until you get hauled before Queen Isabella.
Woody 157
said, 8 months ago
In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue,
He jumped into the grass
And tickled his…
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Never mind. Besides, Eric the Red got here first.
chireef said, 8 months ago
@Woody 157
Eric never made it past Greenland… his son Leif seems to have made it along with his sisters. the First Nations beat everyone by at least 15,000 years though. they should call the 12th Invaders Day and try and pass comprehensive immigration reform.
Superfrog said, 8 months ago
@Woody 157
Was Eric the Red a Norse of a different colour?
mrbribery said, 8 months ago
maybe Kennewick Man or the Solutreans got here first…
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 8 months ago
re: chireef
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Actually, the Solutrians of southern Europe (the Clovis Culture) made it before the “First nations”. It’s also of interest that the Clovis disappeared about the time that the American Indians appeared. (Despite my own background including tribes from North Carolina, I’d never presume to call anyone “First Nations” except perhaps the oldest civilizations in the archeological record in the Fertile Crescent.)
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It’s noteworthy that the Norse were the first to Greenland and it was actually green then. The climate is much colder than then, with the remnants of farms from Greenland and Northern Canada. The crops grown from ~1000 to ~1350 indicate the warmer temperatures. The invasion of the Innuit, combined with the start of the Little Ice Age causing crop failure, caused the Norse to leave Greenland. (I get a kick out of “experts” claiming 100,000 years in Greenland ice that didn’t exist 650 years ago.)
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15,000 years? Carbon dating goes back to about 9,500 with tremendous errors starting around 7000. Were it not for bristlecone pines and fungal rings in places like the Mojave giving us a record going back that far, we wouldn’t know about those problems. Anything before 9500 years is literally anyone’s guess as nothing exists as a reference and given the problems that start around 7000 years, a 15,000 year reading could easily 10,000 or 20,000. The accuracy just isn’t there and the remnant C14 is so small as to invite error.
dbethke_1959
said, 8 months ago
Meanwhile, congratulation to Mark Parisi for making the only comic in my reading list on GoComics to feature Columbus Day!
Notsoastute said, 8 months ago
Why is this still a federal holiday?
dheine1971
said, 8 months ago
1492…
blackman2732 said, 8 months ago
The first tropical depression?
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 8 months ago
@chireef
Oh get over it. And don’t think too hard about that Kennewick Man.
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 8 months ago
@Notsoastute
Why shouldn’t it be?
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 8 months ago
So. How’s everyone with saving the indigenous peoples and culture of Europe?
Stephen Gilberg
said, 8 months ago
It hardly matters which European came here first; Columbus’s crew was first to return and tell about it. If you want to criticize him, focus on his brutality.
abilyeu said, 8 months ago
@Nabuquduriuzhur
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You seem to be implying that carbon-14 dating is the only method available to science for dating prehistoric finds. You’re conveniently “forgetting” about numerous other methods, such as dendrochronology, glacial varves, coral reefs, etc. Not to mention the various other radioisotopes such as aluminum-26, iodine-129, samarium-147, uranium-235, potassium-40, uranium-238, thorium-232, rhenium-187, rubidium-87… which are useful for different age ranges extending back to the billions of years (and which agree with each other nicely where they overlap). And I’ve barely scratched the surface. Someday you might try reading an actual science book that wasn’t written by one of your religious leaders.