May’s Friday Freebie is now available to download! It’s paper fortune cookies made with 100% fat free cartoons!
Click here to be the first to grab it! It also contains one new unpublished cartoon.
And you guessed it, the topic for today is the boomerang. Some boomerang facts you might not have known:
- Boomerangs are not solely native to Australia – Boomerangs have been found world-wide, including Egypt. Our favourite pharaoh, King Tut possessed a few boomerangs, some plated in gold – now that’s my kind of stick!
- Not all boomerangs are designed to return – there are two types: ‘returning’ and ‘hunting’. The non returning ‘hunting’ variety are typically used to knock down the prey and travel straight, rather than curved.
- The oldest ever found boomerang is about 30,000 years old and was found in a cave in Poland. It was made from a mammoth’s tusk
- The smallest boomerang to travel over 20m was weeny s a teeny-48mm
Thanks to GD from GD Konstantine’s Blog for submitting this joke on the Submit a joke page
So a little lesson in the wonders of thermodynamics….Obviously you are hard-core, because your eyes have not glazed over and you are still reading.
To put it simply, it helps to mathematically explain why a system will change from ordered to disordered over time. The theory introduced the property known as entropy, which is used to explain the ‘amount’ of order.
The theory unfolded in the 1800s when scientists were trying to understand the maths around fluid dynamics – specifically to help engineers improve the efficiency of steam exchangers (such as old steam trains!) However, it has found application in physics and helps explain why ultimately everything (including the universe) will move from a state of order (low entropy) to disorder (high entropy).
My explanation is no where near as elegant as that of Professor Brian Cox. For a succinct explanation (using a sandcastle!) watch this 2 minute video, taken from one of my all time favourite top 3 documentaries ever – The Wonders of the Universe
My thanks need to go to Mark from Australian Migration – This was his contribution to one of the possible reasons for the ultimate demise of those cute, green dinosaurs. If you have a theory, why not submit a joke on the Submit a joke page and I’ll have a crack at drawing it. I’m targeting 50:0!
You might recall an earlier Doug Dung Beetle post which explained that there are 3 types of dungs beetles – roller (Doug), tunneller and dweller (Doug’s cousin). Well for a bit of Friday fun, I thought it was time to have another poll. Tell us what you think – just click your choice, then hit the vote button – easy!
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Yes, this might look familiar to some. It made its debut appearance in the March Freebie.
What? You missed the March Friday Freebie – well don’t worry, here’s the link again. And while you’re at it, how about giving the Freebie page a rating? Feel free to give it a 5 star stellar rating!
While drawing this cartoon I was reminded of my favourite cartoonist as a child – Jeff Hook. His cartoons appeared daily in the local newspaper and were topical and political – not that I was interested in that part. It was having to find that teeny-weeny little hook he always hid in his cartoons. Our school teacher used to cut it out from the paper and stick it in a scrap-book for us all to look at daily. He still works too (born 1928), but officially retired. You can see his old and new cartoons by checking out his website