Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for August 24, 2021

The award winning ”Asthma Hound” Chihuahua.

Where do people get this 2 of each animal on the ark malarkey from? It wasn’t 2 of each animal, but 7 pairs of 2 of every useful animal. Only the animals not considered useful were limited to 2. Otherwise when Noah sent the bird (I’ve forgotten the species) out to seek land that never returned that species would have gone extinct right away. I know the second bird he sent out brought back the twig that proved there was land once again. Upon reaching land Noah also sacrificed a sheep? goat? as a goodwill offering to God and that would have endangered another useful species if there were only 2 of that species, as there were no guarantees of the gender of the first offspring to be born if relying on a single pregnant animal to carry on the species.

Why didn’t Noah just build a party float?

Why you gotta pick on the Chihuahua, my late wife and I had 2 and they were great. Sadly we lost them both within 6 months of each other and my wife in the middle. December, March, June. Been a rough 18 months.

“There are two wolves inside you” would be truest when spoken to Noah’s ark itself.

There’s an added layer of hilarity in seeing Biblical literalists having intense discussions on an SMBC strip!

Find a planet with emerging intelligent life. Place genetically modified versions of a variety of species in a – let’s call it a garden. Watch as the offspring of the intelligent species gets too aggressive, so you decide to wipe the slate, but save a few specimens of the ones that hybridized least with the native life forms, especially the domesticated species. Now how would you expect primitive herdsman and their progeny to retell THAT story?