Beetle Moses | Bluesky
::: spoiler Transcript Two panel comic.
Panel 1: two Tiktaaliks (an extinct, 375-million-year-old fish that was the evolutionary link between fish and the first four-legged land animals) sit at the floor of a shallow sea bed. One of them angrily says to the other, “hey! You still owe me 20 bucks!”
Panel 2: the other Tiktaalik, to avoid paying $20, emerges from the water and steps onto land for the first time in history. The first tiktaalik is absolutely stupefied. :::
8 Comments
adarza@piefed.ca · 28 pts · 76d
missing third panel:
returning to the water, some time later.
"here's your twenty bucks. it sucks up there."
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 76d
Better third panel: deep in the future there's a hominid that resembles the reptilian saying "well, fuck."
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 75d
Or just a whale
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
Por que no los dos?
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 76d
Makes sense. If you account for 2.5% inflation each year $20 back then must have been like, trillions. I'd leave the ocean too.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 73d
by "bucks" he obviously means "buckets of fresh water", which they drink. the fish merely goes on land to fetch some from the nearest freshwater lake.
ignotum@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 76d
Money really is the root of all evil
Reject modernity, return to ocean!
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 75d
But that's where all the loan sharks are...