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Introducing Doug’s other cousin, Tom Tunneller Dung Beetle

By Dung Beetles

Doug dung beetle's tunneller cousinIntroducing Doug Dung Beetle’s other cousin – Tom Tunneler.  You may recall from previous posts there are three types of dung beetles: Rollers (Doug), Dwellers and Tunnellers. Well, this is the full set of Doug’s  extended family.  Tunnellers like to dive deep into dung, then start tunnelling their way through the dung and deep into the earth below. not only does this provide a nice safe home for the beetle, it also acts as a breeding spot for the little baby dung beetle eggs.  Unfortunately for Tom, methane gas is explosive.

 

September 21, 2012
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How to make beef kebabs

By Secret lives of giants

The secret life of giants - making beef kebabsPerhaps I should re-title this post as

‘How to not win the 39th annual Piracicaba International Humour cartoon competition’

Ahh, not that I’m upset. My ego is stronger than that! (just)

Boldly I decided to enter the competition (heck, it’s free and open up to the world. I had nothing to lose).  There are  5 categories, of which I entered the first category

  • Cartoon (humor with universal themes and timeless)
  • Charge (journalistic themes nowadays)
  • Caricature
  • Comic Strip
  • Theme Intolerance

Not only that, I could enter 3 cartoons, so I did (stay tuned, they’ll be coming out shortly). I even got a friend of mine to translate (below) the caption into Portuguese (that cost me a chocolate frog too). Don’t the Brazilians love their beef?  Surely, I was on a winner?

But alas no, it was not to be.  But if you are interested in seeing what the winners came up with, here are the winning cartoons from the Piracicaba International humour exhibition.

Portuguese cartoon of a giant making kebabs

September 20, 2012
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The less documented history of engineering

By Pot Luck

International day of engineeringIn anticipation of the international day of engineering on 15 September 2012, I thought I’d celebrate the wonders of engineering and take a journey back in time, where it all began. During my research, I discovered that it began with the rock, a primitive chisel and an determined woman.

September 14, 2012
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Not more toilet humour!

By Dung Beetles

Doug dung beetle tried convincing junior to eat his pooA relative of mine unwittingly handed this one to me on a silver platter when in casual conversation they referred to some purée,but pronouncing it as poo-rée. I’ll protect the innocent, and they shall remain nameless.

September 11, 2012
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