This is called «the tragedy of the commons» and was written about by garrett hardin 1968. luckily, my dinosaurs existed 65 million years before that, so if anyone's plagiarizing anyone, it's garrett hardin plagiarizing t-rex! i'm SO GLAD i remembered that 65 million years ago thing just now

I'm surprised at how useful this «giant bathtub» unit of measurement is: your lifespan in «seconds as cubic millimeters» fills one up, and your caloric needs for the day, as established here on May 26th 2009, can slightly heat it. all thanks to the official dinosaur comics unit of measurement, the metric gianttub.

Helicopter analogies: also very useful for explaining the important difference between copyright infringement and theft. first off, imagine i have a machine that can duplicate helicopters for free! wait - stop writing your free helicopter fan fiction. there's MORE.

Chocolate chip cookie dough crunch!? what are you doing here? and what happened to all my OPINIONS

Where's panel seven I NEED PANEL SEVEN

Anything tarrare can do i can do better, where's MY thirty pounds of raw bull lungs?? oh there they are, nevermind, false alarm

Americans have had poison warnings on their toothpastes since 1997, so this is not news to them. so here's some special, AMERICANS-ONLY news: last night i dreamed i went to japan for 24 hours and had a nice jog. it was great. DON'T TELL A SOUL

The other half are helping them so consider me to be PERFECTLY UNMOVED

NEW BUSINESS CARD SLOGAN??

Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for she