Page 85 – Coffee
Last time I tried to ride the dinosaurs at the museum the staff were very rude and yelled at me. I refuse to go back.
I like finding neat alternatives to common items to put in the comic, like the Doctor’s tea tray with a handle. Why don’t all trays have these?
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It is a pity to waste perfectly good coffee over something as simple as a perfectly good revived dinosaur…
Caffeine is poisonous to dinos. He’s saved it’s life.
Except that it’s undead. What a waste of good coffee. 🙁
Only the best coffee trays have handles. The best.
Obviously this handle wasn’t good enough to withstand dino surprise.
A single point of suspension for a tray with a variety of objects on it would be extraordinarily difficult to keep level. The slightest imbalance would cause a catastrophic cascade of unsecured items, and the possible spillage of secured ones. This is why surfaces such as stoves which must be kept level aboard watercraft are gimbaled side to side and fore and aft. The tray does look cool, though. 🙂
Seeing people climbing the exhibits would be a horrifying sight for any curator. I do hope that Dr. Otto does not suffer an apoplectic fit. 🙂
I’m pretty sure the physics of the tray are sound, especially with the lip around the edge. The swinging motion is always in an arc around the handle, but objects want to travel in a straight line and thus push against the tray surface. With just a little practice one could swing the whole thing in a vertical 360 loop without spilling a drop. It has perfect center of gravity, compared to carrying a tray from the bottom which tips easily. The real problem with such a tray is that it takes up a lot of storage space. 🙂
dr. otto took a living mummy in stride, why cavil at a revived dinosaur? if you think something that actually happens is weird, it just means that you need to recalibrate your definition of normal.
To be fair to the doc, he thought Jane (aka “Bethany”) was merely injured or sickly. He doesn’t know about her real condition. Having one of the exhibits you walk by every day suddenly prance about would probably make anyone nervous. I’m sure he’ll be watching all the other exhibits very carefully from now on. 😀
” That’s the third tray of coffee this week! I simply must stop being so horrified!”– paraphrased from the one good line of one of many increasingly terrible Simpsons episodes, except in in the this case the British gentleman is background to an actually good story
Nice one. 🙂 I can’t recall which season of the Simpsons was the last one I watched, but it was several ago. Rick & Morty is the new Simpsons/Futurama.
“What’s this weird place I awoke in?! Better get out before I look like the bony fellows below me… Oh wait, there’s some food riding on my back!”
I really really wanted to have the beast eat someone, but it wouldn’t be able to fit a grown person through the hole in it’s jaw. Maybe a small dog or three?
Hey, it is about halloween… maybe trick or treat reversed. Sweeties (little monsters) for the big monster…