Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for February 19, 2025

How about them Mets.

The Russian word for weather is pronounced ‘pagoda’.

I originally read this as The Evolution of Small Talk.

Dave Coverly’s done several of these evolutionary beach scenes, but my favorite is from Dan Piraro

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It’s hard to understand weather when you’re always under the weather.

Sorry, Charlie.

Are you a Pisces?

They shouldn’t have too much trouble evolving to live on the land. After all, air is just very diluted water (and water is just very humid air).

Can’t wait to see how they gossip at the water cooler.

“It’s more important to know whether there’ll be weather than what the weather will be.”

- Milo the Whether Man (from the Phantom Tollbooth)

How is conversation an invention?

This one made me laugh twice. First when I saw the cartoon and again when I saw the title.

I thought Xerox invented smalltalk?

It’s like waves and stuff but without the water…

Is he fishing for an answer?

I’m glad we were spared the lecture on the difference between weather and climate.

Hail, hail!

I said I don’t know whether this is a good idea. :)

How you doin’?

You can have a whale of a time if you engage in big talk.

Then gossip came…

Love these evolutionary cartoons, pretty silly stuff ! ;-)

“sʜʀɪɴᴋᴀɢᴇ?”

Looks like we are in for a dry spell.

And God created the first fishes and named them Gilligan and Bubbles.