A Special Message that Appeared on my E-mail

Dear American:

Greetings and salutations to you.  May God bless you and your family.  I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country had  has crisis that has caused need for large transfer funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.

I working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is matter of great urgency. We need blank check. We need funds quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for reliable and trustworthy person who act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

Shortpacked with the chaff cut out!

That's right, on Scans-Daily, someone performed the couragous task of taking out all the boring and pointless Shortpacked comics! That's right, they removed the main story comics, leaving the brilliant filler comics for our enjoyment!

Comics like this:

Dinosaur Bird! I want one!

Well, Pteradon actually. An article in Azhdarchid Paleobiology suggests that this group of pteradons wasn't actually a shoreline predator as commonly assumed. By studying wing, neck, foot and beak structure and comparig them to modern birds, they came to the conclusion that Azhdarchid actually stalked inland plains, using it's wings as forelegs, and preying upon small dinosaurs.

Well, not THAT small:


 
(image courtesy of Mark Witton/University of Portsmouth)


So why the game tag? I've been considering a flying race for "Under the Green Moon, annd this is a great model for what a realistic large flyer might look like.  I mean, it won't look exactly like that, but it definitely gives me ideas.