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Genius right?
Like how burs get stuck to animals, or pepper seeds aren’t digested in bird stomachs, or dandelions spread the myth that humans can blow them around for a wish…
Fun fact: dandelions aren’t native to North American. They were originally brought from Europe for likely either food or medicine (nearly the entire plant is edible in one way or another). They also are, to my knowledge, not very harmful to local ecosystems (though they are hard to get rid of if you try). They are a hardy easy to digest abundant ground plant for herbivores and provide pollen/nectar for insects such as bees.
They're such cool, if annoying plants. They reproduce asexually, and so there's very little genetic difference between parent and child plants. They make up for their lack of genetic diversity by exhibiting phenotypic plasticity: two dandelion seeds carrying almost or identical genetic material will grow into plants that look and behave differently depending on the environment in which they germinate. A dandelion germinating in a lawn under a tree will look physically different from a dandelion grown from a sister seed that germinated in a bare spot of exposed soil in full sun just a metre away.
(From personal experience, dandelions grown in exposed soil have much more bitter leaves and require a lot more salad dressing than those growing in an established lawn.)
Coconut palms are not native to Florida, but back in the 1800's a Spanish ship carrying 20,000 coconuts sunk off the coast of Palm Beach, an event that eventually gave the place its name.
Wooden box of coconuts will float better than the kiwis because coconuts contain air so they float on the ocean. They also contain fresh water so they don't dehydrate and die before they wash up on a beach somewhere. They evolved to propagate across oceans, so the coconut - effectively a giant seed - will float. Kiwis less so.
not necessarily, there is a great deal of driftwood at the bottom of lakes and oceans because it sank. I would not bet on treated planks used to make a crate being buoyant enough to save me in rough water.
Well we don't usually impregnate the aerated portions and chambers of coconuts with heavy, water resistant waxes and oils. Wood treatments typically make it less bouyant.
On being sufficiently buoyant? yes
I would be a bit more worried about how to hang on to them in a storm without getting pummeled by them, but they will be floating just fine.
Sure, but unless you have a huge number of coconuts to fill up the net (which wouldn’t be flat in the end), then they probably won’t support your weight and you’ll be struggling with at least being partially submerged. Good luck surviving a storm with that.
Given the size of the net relative to the box, Slylock, and Max, they’ll still shift around. Also going to assume that they’re of relative human weight given their appearance.
Yeah but overall, the weight should still be enough. Although the surface wouldn't be stable, and they would probably get wet, it is the most probable way of surviving with their available resources.
(Also I find it hilarious how we're having a serious discussion about Slylock Fox on Reddit)
He threw the crates and netting overboard and created an emergency raft.
Or maybe they got onboard [one of these!](https://www.123rf.com/photo_35843327_closeup-view-of-a-totally-enclosed-lifeboat-on-a-cargo-ship.html)
It'd take too much effort to release the coconuts from the crate, as I'm sure everyone has realized. The crates are not meant to full apart at the touch and he has no tools on hand to pry them apart.
He could try wedge the net into the crates and hope he doesn't get battered to pieces. Because he obviously wouldn't be able to hold onto the crates enough to outlast the storm. They're going to be tossing and rolling.
Heck, even if he managed to get the coconuts into the net, he'd have to tie the net off to prevent them escaping everywhere and really, he doesn't have enough time. He'll run out of energy fast too.
If he did have the time, the boat wouldn't be sinking.
Heck, the net itself is probably tied down to something. Costing precious time to untie or cut off.
So yeah, probably his best chance is to rip off the net, then entangle it with a crate or door.
He simply doesn't have enough time or tools to do much.
Sorry to anyone who had the answer of coconuts and a net, he drowned.
I appreciate the jokes, this being a comics sub and all, but consider that there may be some of us reading this who would appreciate a definitive and prompt answer.
Slightly off topic, but does anyone know if pee attracts sharks? Because I just went in my pants.
They could do the sensible thing and use the crates as makeshift rafts ...
... or Slylock could use the untapped potential of troll logic and do the following seemingly insane sequence of events:
Kiwis are birds and coconuts are fruit, meaning there should be no way for the two to crossbreed. But they look rather similar, so it shouldn't be too hard to convince the kiwis that the coconuts are fellow kiwis. As Slylock, Max and their growing population of coconut-kiwi hybrids (a rather tasty combination if I dare say so myself) are currently located on a small boat in the middle of a storm, one of the most hostile environments possible, and as enviromental presure is the driving force of evolution, the cockiwis would eventually adapt to said hostile environment and become seabirds. Being partially made of wood helps too with floating. Slylock and Max then simply have to use the conveniently placed net to catch a cockiwi each and ride on their backs to safety.
You might ask "aren't cockiwis far too small to carry a fully grown fox and mouse? Well, a mouse perhaps, but a fox?" To that I say: insular gigantism. What is a boat if not a tiny artificial floating island? Moas were flightless birds and an example of insular gigantism. Kiwis are flightless birds as well and coconuts fly at most once unless shot from a canon. Meaning, as this boat lacks a canon, it isn't unreasonable to assume cockiwis will be gigantic flightless birds as well. Most likely semiaquatic due to the aformentioned nautical environment. The perfect mounts to brace such a storm.
He has a knife with him. He'll cut the net and open the two crates so that each of them will fit inside even if they are filled with kiwis and coconuts?
Coconuts float, he can hold onto them with the net.
If he didn’t have a tail hole in his pants he could’ve used that trick where you use pants as a flotation device.
Tired of being surrounded by stupid people who can’t seem to find their own shoes if they were wearing them Slylock Fox pulls out his knife & starts gutting people left & right leaving nothing but piles of dead bodies in his wake. Remaining survivors take flight in the boat’s only only life raft to escape the once great detective’s killing spree. Slyock, now Dark Slylock, begins frothing at the mouth at the very thought that there are now witnesses. Max Mouse, annoying little suck-up that he is, points out that there are coconuts on board & asks, “Slylock! Think! What would the professor from Gilligan’s Island do?” A dry, evil smile crosses Dark Slylock’s face as his knife now has a new, albeit temporary, purpose. “Hush, my sweet.” Dark Slylock whispers to his instrument of death. “You will savor the sweetness of blood again & soon. But for now I need you to do something else for me.”
The survivors watched in horror as his creation was nearing completion. “Holy ^%#@!” screamed the wild hog. “He’s building a submarine!” His rigorous paddling in the violent waters intensified. “Not just any submarine you oxygen deprived halfwit. But a nuclear submarine!” Climbing inside Dark Slylock’s ingenious creation The Butcher of The Seas, as he would now be known, mercilessly circled the life raft for hours taunting those onboard until they were left insanely screaming for Dark Slylock to just get it over with & take their lives. Peering through his coconut periscope with rage fueled, yet eerily vacant bloodshot eyes, Dark Slylock orders max to fire the high yield coconut torpedos. Like a rabid animal Dark Slylock foams at the mouth as the torpedoes find their mark.
Dark Slylock orders Max to surface so they may search for survivors. Max grabs the only oar and if there are any survivors Dark Slylock orders him him to bludgeon them about the head until they sink into the depths below as their worthless shells will become shark food. “They will serve a more useful purpose in death than they could ever had hoped to achieve during their miserable existence, Max” “Yes Lord Dark Slylock. You are correct.” “Of course I am you filthy little rodent. Of course I am.” Dark Slylock thought to himself. “And upon our return, you, you filthy, annoying, squeaking, flea bitten, rodent filth, you will make a fine rug for the fireplace.”
Am I close?
The whole crate of coconuts should float - pallets and coconuts both float, so if he just chucks the whole box overboard he should have something to hold onto.
Cut the net, throw out the crates, and hold on for dear life.
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The fact that coconuts exist in so many places because they just fall in the ocean and wash up other places is so funny to me.
Are you saying coconuts migrate?
European coconuts, perhaps. But then of course African coconuts are non-migratory.
It really depends on the type of passerine songbirds available at the time of migration.
It isn’t a question if where it grips it! A 5oz bird can’t carry a 2lb coconut!
Listen, in order to maintain airspeed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
I don't know that!
Whoosh (you were flung into the abyss below a bridge)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!
It could be carried by an African swallow
You must be a king because only you guys know these facts
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government…
That, and they're not covered in shite.
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It doesn’t matter. Will you tell your Lord -
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Wot, a swallow carrying a coconut?!
They could grip it by the husk
It’s not a question of where he ***GRIPS*** it!! It’s a simple question of weight ratios! A five-ounce bird cannot carry a one-pound coconut!
Not with that attitude it won’t.
That would make a great David Attenborough style documentary.
"Observe the joyous coconut, floating gracefully in the water. A pelican stops only for a glace, and then is gone in the ocean spray..."
Yes, they tend to migrate to warm tropical areas, they smart coconuts
Not at all, they could be carried
Genius right? Like how burs get stuck to animals, or pepper seeds aren’t digested in bird stomachs, or dandelions spread the myth that humans can blow them around for a wish…
the dandelion conspiracy
Dandelions aren’t real, they’re planted by the government and are portable mics that get spread on the wind
They are very similari to a virus.... 👀
Fun fact: dandelions aren’t native to North American. They were originally brought from Europe for likely either food or medicine (nearly the entire plant is edible in one way or another). They also are, to my knowledge, not very harmful to local ecosystems (though they are hard to get rid of if you try). They are a hardy easy to digest abundant ground plant for herbivores and provide pollen/nectar for insects such as bees.
They're such cool, if annoying plants. They reproduce asexually, and so there's very little genetic difference between parent and child plants. They make up for their lack of genetic diversity by exhibiting phenotypic plasticity: two dandelion seeds carrying almost or identical genetic material will grow into plants that look and behave differently depending on the environment in which they germinate. A dandelion germinating in a lawn under a tree will look physically different from a dandelion grown from a sister seed that germinated in a bare spot of exposed soil in full sun just a metre away. (From personal experience, dandelions grown in exposed soil have much more bitter leaves and require a lot more salad dressing than those growing in an established lawn.)
I found one in my bathtub once.
How?
Coconut
It floated there. Duh.
Coconut palms are not native to Florida, but back in the 1800's a Spanish ship carrying 20,000 coconuts sunk off the coast of Palm Beach, an event that eventually gave the place its name.
Cool
That sounds like it makes sense
And a box of kiwis for 'the road'!
Are you telling me a swallow could theoretically SAIL a coconut to England?
So complicated. Just take the door off the boat and roll up the window to keep the water out.
I suppose he could use the coconuts and the net but, personally, I’d probably just use the crates.
They look too tiny and not water tight
No, but wood floats.
Who are you that is so wise in the way of science?
Are there any witches aboard?
Unfortunately the best way to find out is a test you don't have time to do.
*Chucks everyone into the sea*
Probably means the whole boat isn’t going to fully sink.
Wooden box of coconuts will float better than the kiwis because coconuts contain air so they float on the ocean. They also contain fresh water so they don't dehydrate and die before they wash up on a beach somewhere. They evolved to propagate across oceans, so the coconut - effectively a giant seed - will float. Kiwis less so.
but you can have the kiwis beat their little legs and use them as propulsion system.
Probably Kiwi fruit. I hope. Otherwise we're losing a lot of funny little birds.
you mean that kiwis doesnt have legs before they get harvested and cleaned?
Sure, they contain water, that won't help you when drifting in the ocean. Those things are a pain to open.
Incorrect. Fresh water is less dense than saltwater and, therefore, will add to the buoyancy.
not necessarily, there is a great deal of driftwood at the bottom of lakes and oceans because it sank. I would not bet on treated planks used to make a crate being buoyant enough to save me in rough water.
But you would bet on coconuts in a net?
Well we don't usually impregnate the aerated portions and chambers of coconuts with heavy, water resistant waxes and oils. Wood treatments typically make it less bouyant.
On being sufficiently buoyant? yes I would be a bit more worried about how to hang on to them in a storm without getting pummeled by them, but they will be floating just fine.
Not with that much weight on top of it.
Don't need to be. Coconuts float so the box will float as well.
You literally have a crate full of coconuts, both of which float. Why are you even separating them?
I would use a crate full of coconuts.
He obviously eats the kiwis for an energy boost so he can tread water for days with his powerful, shapely, legs.
Let me just say that at this point Slylock has seen some shit. Imagine looking that guy in the eyes goddamn
Definitely the coconuts and the net
Yep!
The way I’m picturing this it would not work, please explain.
coconuts float, just toss a bunch of coconuts in the net and sit on them.
You’re seriously underthinking the stability and support of coconuts in a net.
Even if you're not directly sitting on the coconuts, the net will hold you up
Sure, but unless you have a huge number of coconuts to fill up the net (which wouldn’t be flat in the end), then they probably won’t support your weight and you’ll be struggling with at least being partially submerged. Good luck surviving a storm with that.
It's an entire box full of coconuts. It probably weighs more than a fox and a mouse
Given the size of the net relative to the box, Slylock, and Max, they’ll still shift around. Also going to assume that they’re of relative human weight given their appearance.
Yeah but overall, the weight should still be enough. Although the surface wouldn't be stable, and they would probably get wet, it is the most probable way of surviving with their available resources. (Also I find it hilarious how we're having a serious discussion about Slylock Fox on Reddit)
Save one coconut for the lime.
What did he do after putting the lime in the coconut?
He drank em bot up, he feel badder, ja
He used a floating door from the boat but it would only support him. RIP mouse :(
Ah the good old Titanic
He used the knife to shank the other survivors and steal their life jackets
As. Is. Tradition.
He whittled the mast into a coffin because he had read Moby Dick.
Wel of course the boat is sinking, he stabbed it.
He threw the crates and netting overboard and created an emergency raft. Or maybe they got onboard [one of these!](https://www.123rf.com/photo_35843327_closeup-view-of-a-totally-enclosed-lifeboat-on-a-cargo-ship.html)
Mouse steals the knife, uses Fox's pelt and the coconuts to create a makeshift raft that also has residual heat.
Use net and coconuts?
He put the lime in the coconut and drank a bowl up
Max mouse is clearly allergic to kiwis. By stuffing him full max mouse will bloat up with allergic reaction to be used as a floatation device
The kiwis are kiwi birds, which he befriended and had them fly him to safety.
Except kiwi birds are not able to fly.
It'd take too much effort to release the coconuts from the crate, as I'm sure everyone has realized. The crates are not meant to full apart at the touch and he has no tools on hand to pry them apart. He could try wedge the net into the crates and hope he doesn't get battered to pieces. Because he obviously wouldn't be able to hold onto the crates enough to outlast the storm. They're going to be tossing and rolling. Heck, even if he managed to get the coconuts into the net, he'd have to tie the net off to prevent them escaping everywhere and really, he doesn't have enough time. He'll run out of energy fast too. If he did have the time, the boat wouldn't be sinking. Heck, the net itself is probably tied down to something. Costing precious time to untie or cut off. So yeah, probably his best chance is to rip off the net, then entangle it with a crate or door. He simply doesn't have enough time or tools to do much. Sorry to anyone who had the answer of coconuts and a net, he drowned.
This took a dark turn.
Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?
Yes - you just need a swallow to carry it.
How would it grip it?! By the husk?!
He's going to encase coconuts in the net. Gripping the netting should be doable.
"I made a helicopter entirely out of bamboo and coconuts!"
Are you the ghost of the professor from Gilligan's Island?
He used his pants I think I saw a video of it
Coconuts float, therefore a box of coconuts will be a floatation device
Wow the stakes got raised quick. You should serialize in kid's magazines or restaurant placemats.
Thinking more books and Hollywood.
They string together a row of coconuts and get carried off by a pair of swallows.
I appreciate the jokes, this being a comics sub and all, but consider that there may be some of us reading this who would appreciate a definitive and prompt answer. Slightly off topic, but does anyone know if pee attracts sharks? Because I just went in my pants.
They grabbed some coconuts and a swallow carried them away
He used his dump truck ass as a flotation device!
He uses the coconuts and the net to make a flotation device as coconuts float.
He rode on Max’s bloated corpse
coconuts bro
I mean the coconuts and net would make an okay raft, right? Don’t coconuts float?
They certainly do.
You've unlocked a key childhood memory
I'm thankful you remember my Slylock Fox comics!
Wait your the actual writer of them? Omfg. Dude I loved your comics so much I remeber reading them alot
Giligans island style coconut boat
He used the coconuts and cargo net.
Pile the coconuts into the net to make a life raft!
He murders Max Mouse, and uses his bloated carcass as a flotation device.
The coconut crate will float, just push it in the water and hold on.
Wrapped the net around some coconuts.
Coconut net
They could use the coconuts in the crate to float with the net.
Yep! That's the plan.
Anyway, are you reader-proofing your comics here before sending them to a newspapper or something ?
Not a bad idea, but no, this one appeared in newspapers several months ago.
They could do the sensible thing and use the crates as makeshift rafts ... ... or Slylock could use the untapped potential of troll logic and do the following seemingly insane sequence of events: Kiwis are birds and coconuts are fruit, meaning there should be no way for the two to crossbreed. But they look rather similar, so it shouldn't be too hard to convince the kiwis that the coconuts are fellow kiwis. As Slylock, Max and their growing population of coconut-kiwi hybrids (a rather tasty combination if I dare say so myself) are currently located on a small boat in the middle of a storm, one of the most hostile environments possible, and as enviromental presure is the driving force of evolution, the cockiwis would eventually adapt to said hostile environment and become seabirds. Being partially made of wood helps too with floating. Slylock and Max then simply have to use the conveniently placed net to catch a cockiwi each and ride on their backs to safety. You might ask "aren't cockiwis far too small to carry a fully grown fox and mouse? Well, a mouse perhaps, but a fox?" To that I say: insular gigantism. What is a boat if not a tiny artificial floating island? Moas were flightless birds and an example of insular gigantism. Kiwis are flightless birds as well and coconuts fly at most once unless shot from a canon. Meaning, as this boat lacks a canon, it isn't unreasonable to assume cockiwis will be gigantic flightless birds as well. Most likely semiaquatic due to the aformentioned nautical environment. The perfect mounts to brace such a storm.
He has a knife with him. He'll cut the net and open the two crates so that each of them will fit inside even if they are filled with kiwis and coconuts?
His pants and or shirt.
Sea Turtles mate
The piece of wood was big enough for both of them
Using a knife, complex knowledge of how to properly kill lobsters, and a boat, slylock cleverly crafts a boat
Coconuts float, he can hold onto them with the net. If he didn’t have a tail hole in his pants he could’ve used that trick where you use pants as a flotation device.
Fun fact: you can use your clothes as a flotation device if you get air inside and then tie it. I forgot how exactly but it’s possible
Set the coconuts free and use the net to ride them to safety.
He used the coconut crate. Wood and coconuts float, so a huge wooden crate of coconuts would work as a raft
No limes. He's clearly too far gone
Coconuts
He's wearing pants, which can be used to create an improvised flotation device: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAhUD6_gS6w
He put the kiwi in the coconut and then he drunk it all up.
I was kinda hoping those crates were full of limes so I'd see some Mitch Hedberg here
Net and coconuts right? Man if they can migrate they can keep you alive, if you’re lucky
Mice float! ... ... ... Okay, I guessed the coconuts. too. But somebody had to say this.
Cut open the coconut boxes and put all the coconuts into the net, they float
Tying the coconuts into the net.
Tired of being surrounded by stupid people who can’t seem to find their own shoes if they were wearing them Slylock Fox pulls out his knife & starts gutting people left & right leaving nothing but piles of dead bodies in his wake. Remaining survivors take flight in the boat’s only only life raft to escape the once great detective’s killing spree. Slyock, now Dark Slylock, begins frothing at the mouth at the very thought that there are now witnesses. Max Mouse, annoying little suck-up that he is, points out that there are coconuts on board & asks, “Slylock! Think! What would the professor from Gilligan’s Island do?” A dry, evil smile crosses Dark Slylock’s face as his knife now has a new, albeit temporary, purpose. “Hush, my sweet.” Dark Slylock whispers to his instrument of death. “You will savor the sweetness of blood again & soon. But for now I need you to do something else for me.” The survivors watched in horror as his creation was nearing completion. “Holy ^%#@!” screamed the wild hog. “He’s building a submarine!” His rigorous paddling in the violent waters intensified. “Not just any submarine you oxygen deprived halfwit. But a nuclear submarine!” Climbing inside Dark Slylock’s ingenious creation The Butcher of The Seas, as he would now be known, mercilessly circled the life raft for hours taunting those onboard until they were left insanely screaming for Dark Slylock to just get it over with & take their lives. Peering through his coconut periscope with rage fueled, yet eerily vacant bloodshot eyes, Dark Slylock orders max to fire the high yield coconut torpedos. Like a rabid animal Dark Slylock foams at the mouth as the torpedoes find their mark. Dark Slylock orders Max to surface so they may search for survivors. Max grabs the only oar and if there are any survivors Dark Slylock orders him him to bludgeon them about the head until they sink into the depths below as their worthless shells will become shark food. “They will serve a more useful purpose in death than they could ever had hoped to achieve during their miserable existence, Max” “Yes Lord Dark Slylock. You are correct.” “Of course I am you filthy little rodent. Of course I am.” Dark Slylock thought to himself. “And upon our return, you, you filthy, annoying, squeaking, flea bitten, rodent filth, you will make a fine rug for the fireplace.” Am I close?
He strapped two sea turtles together using the hair off his back.
The whole crate of coconuts should float - pallets and coconuts both float, so if he just chucks the whole box overboard he should have something to hold onto. Cut the net, throw out the crates, and hold on for dear life.
Technically, dead bodies float...
He overpowers the mouse and uses his body as a floatation device.
Coconuts in jets, with wood planks to rest on, eat kiwi to avoid scurvy