Well, we’re hoping they’ll be back again this year. We can see the shoots and the flower buds: let’s hope they’re not discouraged by the continued cold weather and change their minds at the last minute.
It turns out that I made a mistake. The “Newt Rhino” I posted earlier may in fact have been a Rhino Newt. This one is the real Newt Rhino. I hope. I’m sorry for any confusion or inconvenience I may have caused.
This is exciting, because it turns out that the Newt Rhino is extremely abundant, possibly the most abundant animal there is. However, they are elusive and scientists can’t even agree about their mass yet.
I’m hoping to find out even more at a University of Oxford seminar next week by Dr. Antonin Vacheret. The title is “Neutrino, the invisible messenger” – I wonder if they’ve spotted their spelling mistake.
Really this cartoon was just an excuse to draw a dinosaur. Something like a triceratops, perhaps. It’s almost as much fun to draw a dinosaur as it is to draw a giraffe!
Any imagined resemblance to any manager half-alive or un-dead is purely co-incidental.
BTW this joke probably doesn’t cross the Atlantic so well.
TYRANNOSAURUS, despite having the most powerful bite of any animal, was nevertheless rather poorly adapted for tennis.
They are also known to have been rather sore losers.
Puns are like ear-worms. Once they’re in the brain the only way to get rid of them is to tell everyone else. Thanks for listening!
I realised that I had to post a follow-up to my previous post.
I apologise for the long delay between updates. My excuse is that my brain was empty. Anyway, today the birthday present I bought Karen arrived, an enormous pile of Letraset Pro-markers and she said I could use them…
[Technical Note: It’s really hard to choose colours for real-world drawing as opposed to colouring on computer as I usually do (and impossible to go back if you change your mind.) But the saddest part is that scanning the picture changed all the colours to something else and I had to fix them in gimp afterwards anyway. Plus knowing that they won’t look the same on your screen as they do on mine. Ho hum.]
Seasonal Greetingisations!
[NB the image should appear jerkily-animated, about a frame per second.]
UPDATE: Thank you for your helpful comments. I think there’s a general RSS problem with viewing all pictures, there doesn’t seem to be any special problem with animation. — A