#784 – Samuel

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56 thoughts on “#784 – Samuel”

  1. Lich King says:

    yeah birds are stupid aint they?

  2. speearr says:

    Ha you made me google for a morse code translator! Didn’t know such things even existed.

  3. Lucas Chromeck says:

    Translation:

    “We have some areas of exposed wood all around our house just under the roof. a few times this spring we had a red-bellied woodpecker decide to take a look and see if there were any bugs hanging around inside. the first time i heard it happening there was a moment of… are you kidding me? they are pretty timid though. every time i go outside to see what they are doing they pause for a second and then fly away.”

    “Help get the book of biff number 4 in print. preorder your copy in the store and give the gift of freedom to a freshly printed book that will otherwise be trapped in a shipping container.”

    Am I right?

  4. SharkJumper says:

    Well, presumably Chris did; I don’t think he expected us to get out our Boy Scout Handbooks and wring out the English by hand.

  5. Micah says:

    “We have some areas of exposed wood all around our house just under the roof. A few times this spring we had a red-bellied woodpecker decide to take a look and see if there were any bugs hanging around inside. The first time i heard it happening there was a moment of… Are you kidding me? They are pretty timid though. Every time i go outside to see what they are doing they pause for a second and then fly away.

    “Help get the book of biff number 4 in print. Preorder your copy in the store and give the gift of freedom to a freshly printed book that will otherwise be trapped in a shipping container.”

  6. Nogi says:

    …. . -.– / .-.. — — -.- / — — .-. … . / -.-. — -.. . .-.-.-

  7. Ziggy Stardust says:

    Damn you Samuel Morse! Damn you and your telegraph straight to hell!

  8. The Dustin says:

    it automatically refused my Morse comment so here it is in plain English:

    We get woodpeckers after the telephone pole in our backyard, never the trees though. The wires are also used by Squirrels like tightropes between trees. Animals in my neighborhood sure have adapted to technology

  9. Vosur says:

    Whiskey Hotel Yankee / Mike Uniform Sierra Tango / Yankee Oscar Uniform / Alpha Tango Tango Echo Mike Papa Tango / Bravo Echo Indigo November Golf / Oscar November Echo / Tango Oscar / Delta Oscar / Tango Hotel Indigo November Golf Sierra / Tango Hotel Echo / Hotel Alpha Romeo Delta / Whiskey Alpha Yankee ?

  10. linuxxorcist says:

    vosur says “why must you attempt being one to do things the hard way?”

    chris says in the top “WE HAVE SOME AREAS OF EXPOSED WOOD ALL AROUND OUR HOUSE JUST UNDER THE ROOF. A FEW TIMES THIS SPRING WE HAD A RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER DECIDE TO TAKE A LOOK AND SEE IF THERE WERE ANY BUGS HANGING AROUND INSIDE. THE FIRST TIME I HEARD IT HAPPENING THERE WAS A MOMENT OF… ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THEY ARE PRETTY TIMID THOUGH. EVERY TIME I GO OUTSIDE TO SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING THEY PAUSE FOR A SECOND AND THEN FLY AWAY.”

    chris says in the bottom “HELP GET THE BOOK OF BIFF NUMBER 4 IN PRINT. PREORDER YOUR COPY IN THE STORE AND GIVE THE GIFT OF FREEDOM TO A FRESHLY PRINTED BOOK THAT WILL OTHERWISE BE TRAPPED IN A SHIPPING CONTAINER”

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  11. Polymorph says:

    @Vosur Because it can be fun. Like the time I memorized how to count up to 1023 on my fingers. In binary. Which was about a month ago.

  12. linuxxorcist says:

    srry for the double post

    @ziggy: so, you would sacrifice decades in the development of modern communication to get rid o a cipher?

    samuel morse gets too much recognition for morse code, what he should really get it for is the single line telegraph, a magical device that required just one wire to send text down many miles of cable before requiring a repeater (predecessors required one every hundred yards or so) and used those newfangled electrochemical cells to provide the juice instead of nikola tesla’s dynamo (still in use today)

  13. Vosur says:

    @Polymorph: At least it wasn’t sitting down and doing calculations on on how many seconds were in a year.

  14. Unoriginality says:

    @Vosur Bravo Echo Charlie Alpha Uniform Sierra Echo / Indigo Tango / Indigo Sierra / Charlie Hotel Romeo Indigo Sierra.

  15. Vosur says:

    @Unoriginality: Foxtrot Alpha Indigo Romeo/ Echo November Oscar Uniform Golf Hotel/… Sierra Oscar Mike Echo Tango Indigo Mike Echo Sierra/ Yankee Oscar Uniform/ November Echo Echo Delta/ Tango Oscar/ Delta Oscar/ Tango Hotel Indigo November Golf Sierra/ Tango Hotel Echo/ Hotel Alpha Romeo Delta/ Whiskey Alpha Yankee.

  16. Kurast says:

    About halfway through translating, you start to remember certain letters. I always knew s and o, though. (SOS, … — …)
    We had a bunch of them around my grandmother’s place. Red crested.

  17. Cc says:

    Why must you attempt being one to do things the hard way

    Fair enough sometimes you need to do things the hard way

  18. Nilly says:

    My grandma has pilated and red crested woodpeckers. There’s one pilated that is probably as big as my arm from wrist to shoulder, because it’s been trying to bring down a dead butternut stump and it’s about halfway through the wood now. O_o

    I don’t know Morse code. >.>

  19. Joe says:

    Memories of Ft. Devens, Mass., way back in the early sixties. Morse code for eight hours a day, five days a week. I got up to forty words per minute copying that stuff. I still can’t stand high-pitched intermittent sounds!!

    … —- .. –

  20. Lich King says:

    *sigh* fine ppl heres the message sorry if i spoiled the fun anyone
    .HELP GET THE BOOK OF BIFF NUMBER 4 IN PRINT. PREORDER YOUR COPY IN THE STORE AND GIVE THE GIFT OF FREEDOM TO A FRESHLY PRINTED BOOK THAT WILL OTHERWISE BE TRAPPED IN A SHIPPING CONTAINER.

  21. Caerlean says:

    Woodpeckers are pretty timid it’s the bluejays you have to watch out for theyll swoop down and peck you on the head. We used to have a lot of both around my old house.

  22. TCC says:

    and decoded it reads….. “be sure to… drink plenty of ovaltine…” Ovaltine? i had no idea chris had sold out.

  23. WE HAVE SOME AREAS OF EXPOSED WOOD ALL AROUND OUR HOUSE JUST UNDER THE ROOF. A FEW TIMES THIS SPRING WE HAD A RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER DECIDE TO TAKE A LOOK AND SEE IF THERE WERE ANY BUGS HANGING AROUND INSIDE. THE FIRST TIME I HEARD IT HAPPENING THERE WAS A MOMENT OF… ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THEY ARE PRETTY TIMID THOUGH. EVERY TIME I GO OUTSIDE TO SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING THEY PAUSE FOR A SECOND AND THEN FLY AWAY.

    So there.

  24. kaitou says:

    Yes, they do, but you have to run it through rot13.

  25. kiga says:

    For those with less time than me, here’s the translation:

    We have some areas of exposed wood all around our house just under the roof. A few times this spring we had a red-bellied woodpecker decide to take a look and see if there were any bugs hanging around inside. The first time i heard it happening there was a moment of… are you kidding me? they are pretty timid though. Every time I go outside to see what they are doing they pause for a second and then fly away.

    Help get the book of Biff number 4 in print. Preorder your copy in the store and give the gift of freedom to a freshly printed book that will otherwise be trapped in a shipping container.

  26. Colin Gaynor says:

    Who else google’d Morse Code translator when they read the blurb under the comic?

  27. caffiend says:

    @Vosur … <,< that’s 31,536,000 seconds a year

  28. Linzleh says:

    Guess Biff won’t have any “morse” bird problems…

  29. Chris says:

    @Linzleh – Booooooooo.

  30. Radical Edward says:

    Damn…I can’t read Morse code. I guess you win, Chris. You have done something that I rarely encounter. The last time you did something like this, it was involving vowels.

    Anyway, I made creampuffs and cookies. Have one of either.

  31. Chefs Brian says:

    i couldn’t read the ./. code, but within 5 seconds of looking at the tango type code, i instantly realized how it is. better hope the army does better than that XD.

  32. nobodyy says:

    @ chefs Brian: well if I’m not mistaken the “word per letter” system or whatever it’s actually called isn’t a code so much as a system to prevent confusing the pronunciation of single letters. ever have to say “Bee as in Boy” when trying to spell something for an operator on teh phone?

    as to the woodpeckers i remember my dad saying they search dead trees for food and tap live ones or telephone poles or house sides to send messages. and it’s not morse code, they lack teh means of making a “-“, all they can do is “.” don’t see them much here, but hear them a lot and sometimes see them at my dad’s place.

  33. Haha I laughed so hard at the comment today…

  34. dartigen says:

    The traditional ‘text message received’ tone on the majority of mobile phones made before 2000 was actually Morse code for ‘SMS’.
    I was so disappointed when they changed it to ‘beep beep’. The Morse code tone was cool.

  35. -2! says:

    Ndd movwq o vost o gnhhjq gjft rk uoqw n uny qwop op mtohsthqojh!

    Warning the above coded message will now be solved below because I doubt anyone will want to but if you do you can go ahead and try

    The solution to the above code is “All right I give I cannot come up with a way this is reinvention”

    See if you can solve the code!

  36. no name says:

    are you kidding?

  37. -2! says:

    @                (what he has no name)

    Is who kidding?

  38. Anon says:

    -2

    Perhaps ROT13? It doesn’t look like it though.

  39. no name says:

    “We have some areas of exposed wood all around our house just under the roof. A few times this spring we had a red-bellied woodpecker decide to take a look and see if there were any bugs hanging around inside. The first time I heard it happening there was a moment of… are you kidding me? They are pretty timid though. Every time I go outside to see what they are doing the pause for a second and then fly away.”

    And no I did not use a morse code translator (honest to God) to solve this although I did use one to check to make sure.

  40. Pazno says:

    Jano lmajan ica uv Sunca luta. Pid oui tu hud feh drec nuiht oad!

  41. Gee says:

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  42. kitaronicus says:

    …. .- …. .- / –. — — -.. / -… ..- – / -. — – / –. — — -.. / . -. — ..- –. ….
    ;D

  43. Candeseamo says:

    -.-. — — .-.. / -… . .- -. … 8D

  44. i.half4 says:

    I’ve never wondered that about woodpeckers before, but I have wondered on many an early morning what the robins were going on about.

  45. Matt Lee says:

    @i.half4

    You have no idea what evil those friggin’ wood peckers are up to all the time. If you knew what they were saying to each other you’d be paranoid too.

  46. Mr. President says:

    I could have googled it, but I bgot my boss (a retired Marine and Vietnam vet) to give me a Morse alphabet refresher. I ran out of work at noon and he doesn’t do anything. He wrote it down, of course, but yeah.

  47. hypermuser on a hunt says:

    did anyone else come here because of the muse treasure hunt? please no one start yelling at me because this is off topic…

  48. Kelly says:

    I feel proud, I translated it without any aid except my amateur radio license 😀

  49. YukiSnowflake says:

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  50. YukiSnowflake says:

    wait a sec, ignore last post.

  51. YukiSnowflake says:

    triple posing again.. c-crap…
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    http://www.onlineconversion.com/morse_code.htm

  52. BrainpanSonata says:

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    And again in English (because I’m bilingual like that):

    The weirdest thing, YukiSnowflake? I already had that website bookmarked before I got to this particualr comic.

  53. SurveySays says:

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  54. Marscaleb says:

    This comic made me chuckle, but when I saw the blurb I completely lost it.
    Thank you, sir!

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