Rubes by Leigh Rubin for January 11, 2024

…not to mention teleporting Big Saurus up to the vehicle

Probeably a good idea.

Betty and Barney Hill will be along someday

Find something smaller, like a T-rex.

A great moment in intelligent life history.

Or come back in the 1960’s

Sounds like a plan.

Like somewhere in Nevada in 1955?

Um mind probe right?

Aha. Just what the ancient astronut theorists had always suspected!

There was a The Far Side cartoon that I can’t seem to link to here, with an academic approaching the rear of a dinosaur carrying what appears to be a giant rectal thermometer. The caption read, “An instant later, both Professor Waxman and his time machine are obliterated, leaving the cold-blooded/warm-blooded dinosaur debate still unresolved.”

They need a backup plan.

And may I suggest we don’t stand here.

We’re aliens, not spelunkers!

It’s about to be a close encounters of a t-urd kind.

They could assault a Saltopus.

Just stay where you are and look up … no probing required.

Shut up and put on the rubber suit!

Yeah, that’s a butt of dinosauric proportions.