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1. Lich King
   June 12th, 2009 at 12:03 am

   yeah birds are stupid aint they?

2. speearr
   June 12th, 2009 at 12:24 am

   Ha you made me google for a morse code translator! Didn’t know such things even existed.

3. Lucas Chromeck
   June 12th, 2009 at 12:25 am

   Translation:

   “We have some areas of exposed wood all around our house just under the roof. a few times this spring we had a red-bellied woodpecker decide to take a look and see if there were any bugs hanging around inside. the first time i heard it happening there was a moment of… are you kidding me? they are pretty timid though. every time i go outside to see what they are doing they pause for a second and then fly away.”

   “Help get the book of biff number 4 in print. preorder your copy in the store and give the gift of freedom to a freshly printed book that will otherwise be trapped in a shipping container.”

   Am I right?

4. SharkJumper
   June 12th, 2009 at 12:38 am

   Well, presumably Chris did; I don’t think he expected us to get out our Boy Scout Handbooks and wring out the English by hand.

5. Micah
   June 12th, 2009 at 12:47 am

   “We have some areas of exposed wood all around our house just under the roof. A few times this spring we had a red-bellied woodpecker decide to take a look and see if there were any bugs hanging around inside. The first time i heard it happening there was a moment of… Are you kidding me? They are pretty timid though. Every time i go outside to see what they are doing they pause for a second and then fly away.

   “Help get the book of biff number 4 in print. Preorder your copy in the store and give the gift of freedom to a freshly printed book that will otherwise be trapped in a shipping container.”

6. Sman
   June 12th, 2009 at 1:01 am

   rofl!

7. Nogi
   June 12th, 2009 at 1:03 am

   …. . -.– / .-.. — — -.- / — — .-. … . / -.-. — -.. . .-.-.-

8. Ziggy Stardust
   June 12th, 2009 at 1:06 am

   Damn you Samuel Morse! Damn you and your telegraph straight to hell!

9. The Dustin
   June 12th, 2009 at 1:19 am

   it automatically refused my Morse comment so here it is in plain English:

   We get woodpeckers after the telephone pole in our backyard, never the trees though. The wires are also used by Squirrels like tightropes between trees. Animals in my neighborhood sure have adapted to technology

10. Vosur
    June 12th, 2009 at 1:25 am

    Whiskey Hotel Yankee / Mike Uniform Sierra Tango / Yankee Oscar Uniform / Alpha Tango Tango Echo Mike Papa Tango / Bravo Echo Indigo November Golf / Oscar November Echo / Tango Oscar / Delta Oscar / Tango Hotel Indigo November Golf Sierra / Tango Hotel Echo / Hotel Alpha Romeo Delta / Whiskey Alpha Yankee ?

11. linuxxorcist
    June 12th, 2009 at 1:46 am

    vosur says “why must you attempt being one to do things the hard way?”

    chris says in the top “WE HAVE SOME AREAS OF EXPOSED WOOD ALL AROUND OUR HOUSE JUST UNDER THE ROOF. A FEW TIMES THIS SPRING WE HAD A RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER DECIDE TO TAKE A LOOK AND SEE IF THERE WERE ANY BUGS HANGING AROUND INSIDE. THE FIRST TIME I HEARD IT HAPPENING THERE WAS A MOMENT OF… ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THEY ARE PRETTY TIMID THOUGH. EVERY TIME I GO OUTSIDE TO SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING THEY PAUSE FOR A SECOND AND THEN FLY AWAY.”

    chris says in the bottom “HELP GET THE BOOK OF BIFF NUMBER 4 IN PRINT. PREORDER YOUR COPY IN THE STORE AND GIVE THE GIFT OF FREEDOM TO A FRESHLY PRINTED BOOK THAT WILL OTHERWISE BE TRAPPED IN A SHIPPING CONTAINER”

    — -. . / — ..- … – / .- .-.. .– .- -.– … / -.-. …. . -.-. -.- / – — / … . . / .. ..-. / … — — — -. . / . .-.. … . / …. .- … / .- -. … .– . .-. . -.. / -.– — ..- .-. / –.- ..- . … – .. — -. / . .-.. … . .– …. . .-. .

12. Polymorph
    June 12th, 2009 at 1:50 am

    @Vosur Because it can be fun. Like the time I memorized how to count up to 1023 on my fingers. In binary. Which was about a month ago.

13. linuxxorcist
    June 12th, 2009 at 1:53 am

    srry for the double post

    @ziggy: so, you would sacrifice decades in the development of modern communication to get rid o a cipher?

    samuel morse gets too much recognition for morse code, what he should really get it for is the single line telegraph, a magical device that required just one wire to send text down many miles of cable before requiring a repeater (predecessors required one every hundred yards or so) and used those newfangled electrochemical cells to provide the juice instead of nikola tesla’s dynamo (still in use today)

14. Vosur
    June 12th, 2009 at 2:01 am

    @Polymorph: At least it wasn’t sitting down and doing calculations on on how many seconds were in a year.

15. Unoriginality
    June 12th, 2009 at 2:12 am

    @Vosur Bravo Echo Charlie Alpha Uniform Sierra Echo / Indigo Tango / Indigo Sierra / Charlie Hotel Romeo Indigo Sierra.

16. Vosur
    June 12th, 2009 at 2:23 am

    @Unoriginality: Foxtrot Alpha Indigo Romeo/ Echo November Oscar Uniform Golf Hotel/… Sierra Oscar Mike Echo Tango Indigo Mike Echo Sierra/ Yankee Oscar Uniform/ November Echo Echo Delta/ Tango Oscar/ Delta Oscar/ Tango Hotel Indigo November Golf Sierra/ Tango Hotel Echo/ Hotel Alpha Romeo Delta/ Whiskey Alpha Yankee.

17. Kurast
    June 12th, 2009 at 3:27 am

    About halfway through translating, you start to remember certain letters. I always knew s and o, though. (SOS, … — …)
    We had a bunch of them around my grandmother’s place. Red crested.

18. Cc
    June 12th, 2009 at 3:54 am

    Why must you attempt being one to do things the hard way

    Fair enough sometimes you need to do things the hard way

19. Nilly
    June 12th, 2009 at 5:23 am

    My grandma has pilated and red crested woodpeckers. There’s one pilated that is probably as big as my arm from wrist to shoulder, because it’s been trying to bring down a dead butternut stump and it’s about halfway through the wood now. O_o

    I don’t know Morse code. >.>

20. Joe
    June 12th, 2009 at 7:15 am

    Memories of Ft. Devens, Mass., way back in the early sixties. Morse code for eight hours a day, five days a week. I got up to forty words per minute copying that stuff. I still can’t stand high-pitched intermittent sounds!!

    … —- .. -

21. Lich King
    June 12th, 2009 at 8:47 am

    *sigh* fine ppl heres the message sorry if i spoiled the fun anyone
    .HELP GET THE BOOK OF BIFF NUMBER 4 IN PRINT. PREORDER YOUR COPY IN THE STORE AND GIVE THE GIFT OF FREEDOM TO A FRESHLY PRINTED BOOK THAT WILL OTHERWISE BE TRAPPED IN A SHIPPING CONTAINER.

22. Caerlean
    June 12th, 2009 at 8:58 am

    Woodpeckers are pretty timid it’s the bluejays you have to watch out for theyll swoop down and peck you on the head. We used to have a lot of both around my old house.

23. TCC
    June 12th, 2009 at 8:59 am

    and decoded it reads….. “be sure to… drink plenty of ovaltine…” Ovaltine? i had no idea chris had sold out.

24. Andore Mordre
    June 12th, 2009 at 9:04 am

    WE HAVE SOME AREAS OF EXPOSED WOOD ALL AROUND OUR HOUSE JUST UNDER THE ROOF. A FEW TIMES THIS SPRING WE HAD A RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER DECIDE TO TAKE A LOOK AND SEE IF THERE WERE ANY BUGS HANGING AROUND INSIDE. THE FIRST TIME I HEARD IT HAPPENING THERE WAS A MOMENT OF… ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THEY ARE PRETTY TIMID THOUGH. EVERY TIME I GO OUTSIDE TO SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING THEY PAUSE FOR A SECOND AND THEN FLY AWAY.

    So there.

25. kaitou
    June 12th, 2009 at 11:41 am

    Yes, they do, but you have to run it through rot13.

26. kiga
    June 12th, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    For those with less time than me, here’s the translation:

    We have some areas of exposed wood all around our house just under the roof. A few times this spring we had a red-bellied woodpecker decide to take a look and see if there were any bugs hanging around inside. The first time i heard it happening there was a moment of… are you kidding me? they are pretty timid though. Every time I go outside to see what they are doing they pause for a second and then fly away.

    Help get the book of Biff number 4 in print. Preorder your copy in the store and give the gift of freedom to a freshly printed book that will otherwise be trapped in a shipping container.

27. Colin Gaynor
    June 12th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    Who else google’d Morse Code translator when they read the blurb under the comic?

28. caffiend
    June 12th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    @Vosur … <,< that’s 31,536,000 seconds a year

29. Linzleh
    June 12th, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    Guess Biff won’t have any “morse” bird problems…

30. Chris
    June 12th, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    @Linzleh – Booooooooo.

31. Radical Edward
    June 12th, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    Damn…I can’t read Morse code. I guess you win, Chris. You have done something that I rarely encounter. The last time you did something like this, it was involving vowels.

    Anyway, I made creampuffs and cookies. Have one of either.

32. Chefs Brian
    June 12th, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    i couldn’t read the ./. code, but within 5 seconds of looking at the tango type code, i instantly realized how it is. better hope the army does better than that XD.

33. nobodyy
    June 12th, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    @ chefs Brian: well if I’m not mistaken the “word per letter” system or whatever it’s actually called isn’t a code so much as a system to prevent confusing the pronunciation of single letters. ever have to say “Bee as in Boy” when trying to spell something for an operator on teh phone?

    as to the woodpeckers i remember my dad saying they search dead trees for food and tap live ones or telephone poles or house sides to send messages. and it’s not morse code, they lack teh means of making a “-”, all they can do is “.” don’t see them much here, but hear them a lot and sometimes see them at my dad’s place.

34. Andore Mordre
    June 12th, 2009 at 5:52 pm

    Haha I laughed so hard at the comment today…

35. dartigen
    June 12th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    The traditional ‘text message received’ tone on the majority of mobile phones made before 2000 was actually Morse code for ‘SMS’.
    I was so disappointed when they changed it to ‘beep beep’. The Morse code tone was cool.

36. -2!
    June 12th, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    Ndd movwq o vost o gnhhjq gjft rk uoqw n uny qwop op mtohsthqojh!

    Warning the above coded message will now be solved below because I doubt anyone will want to but if you do you can go ahead and try

    The solution to the above code is “All right I give I cannot come up with a way this is reinvention”

    See if you can solve the code!

37. no name
    June 12th, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    are you kidding?

38. -2!
    June 12th, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    @                (what he has no name)

    Is who kidding?

39. Anon
    June 12th, 2009 at 11:30 pm

    -2

    Perhaps ROT13? It doesn’t look like it though.

40. no name
    June 12th, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    “We have some areas of exposed wood all around our house just under the roof. A few times this spring we had a red-bellied woodpecker decide to take a look and see if there were any bugs hanging around inside. The first time I heard it happening there was a moment of… are you kidding me? They are pretty timid though. Every time I go outside to see what they are doing the pause for a second and then fly away.”

    And no I did not use a morse code translator (honest to God) to solve this although I did use one to check to make sure.

41. Pazno
    June 13th, 2009 at 5:19 am

    Jano lmajan ica uv Sunca luta. Pid oui tu hud feh drec nuiht oad!

42. Gee
    June 13th, 2009 at 6:02 am

    dotdotdotdot dashdashdash dotdashdash forwardslash dash dot dashdotdashdot dotdotdotdot dashdot dotdot dashdotdashdot dotdash dotdashdotdot forwardslash dotdashdash dot forwardslash dashdashdot dot dash forwardslash dotdotdotdot dot dotdashdot dot dotdotdashdashdotdot

43. kitaronicus
    June 13th, 2009 at 10:09 am

    …. .- …. .- / –. — — -.. / -… ..- – / -. — – / –. — — -.. / . -. — ..- –. ….
    ;D

44. Candeseamo
    June 13th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    -.-. — — .-.. / -… . .- -. … 8D

45. i.half4
    June 14th, 2009 at 10:32 am

    I’ve never wondered that about woodpeckers before, but I have wondered on many an early morning what the robins were going on about.

46. Matt Lee
    June 15th, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    @i.half4

    You have no idea what evil those friggin’ wood peckers are up to all the time. If you knew what they were saying to each other you’d be paranoid too.

47. Mr. President
    July 6th, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    I could have googled it, but I bgot my boss (a retired Marine and Vietnam vet) to give me a Morse alphabet refresher. I ran out of work at noon and he doesn’t do anything. He wrote it down, of course, but yeah.

48. hypermuser on a hunt
    July 14th, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    did anyone else come here because of the muse treasure hunt? please no one start yelling at me because this is off topic…

49. Kelly
    August 15th, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    I feel proud, I translated it without any aid except my amateur radio license

50. taltamir
    September 2nd, 2009 at 8:35 pm

    Morse translator
    http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html

51. YukiSnowflake
    July 27th, 2010 at 10:36 am

    …. .- …. .- …. .- –..– / …- . .-. -.– / ..-. ..- -. -. -.– –..– / -.-. …. .-. .. … .-.-.- / .. / -.-. .- -. .—-. – / -… . .-.. .. . …- . / -.– — ..- / .– .-. — – . / .- .-.. .-.. / — ..-. / – …. .- – –..– / … — / .. .—-. .-.. .-.. / –. ..- . … … / -.– — ..- / .- .-. . / -.. — .. -. –. / .– …. .- – / .. .—-. — / -.. — .. -. –. / .- -. -.. / – -.– .–. .. -. –. / .. – / .. -. – — / .- / — — .-. … . / -.-. — -.. . / – .-. .- -. … .-.. .- – — .-. .-.-.- / … – ..- .–. .. -.. / -… .. ..-. ..-. .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.- / -.. — . … -. .—-. – / …. . / -.- -. — .– / – …. .- – / – …. . -.– / -.. — / ..- … . / — — .-. … . / -.-. — -.. . –..– / .— ..- … – / -. — – / – …. .- – / .-.. — ..- -..

52. YukiSnowflake
    July 27th, 2010 at 10:54 am

    wait a sec, ignore last post.

53. YukiSnowflake
    July 27th, 2010 at 10:55 am

    triple posing again.. c-crap…
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    http://www.onlineconversion.com/morse_code.htm

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