April 26, 2015 - Lipids

Transcript

40 comments

Jan

Squeezy squeezy!

LionkingCMSL • 04/26/2015

If lemon oil comes from lemons, where does baby oil come from? :=3

Kael Duranus • 04/26/2015

Is it me, or does wolf's gesture in the last panel look like he is suggesting getting chocolate oil out of the candy bar?

Akitagami • 04/26/2015

I would love some chocolate oil! Great for frying French fries in!

Jan • 04/26/2015

@LionkingCMSL Haha, wow, you got to that one quick :3

microbuss • 04/26/2015

cottonseed oil. sunflower oil corn oil XD

OmegaWolf • 04/26/2015

Oil, oil everywhere.

Luissen • 04/26/2015

rapeseed oil :|

Cray Z. Bouy • 04/26/2015

I may have to use Wolf's shirt in one of my programming projects. 3,735,928,559 in hex, in case anyone wants to know. Trying to read the bar in his hand. I'm just going to assume it says "Carob."

MishaFox • 04/26/2015

Ok. The bad images this comic puts in my head! Where is brain bleach?

Frank • 04/26/2015

well, when life gives you lemons, make lemon oil!

UrsusArctos • 04/26/2015

Hah! I absolutely LOVE Wolf's t-shirt! As a telemetry geek, it shows up frequently in my line of work.

ShotgunKid • 04/26/2015

This makes me think of a plan. A ludicrous, crude plan, but a plan McMurrayless. First. We grab the spilled, slick Alberta tar sands and squeeze them. Hard. A keystone in this plan will bp some kind of XL pipe to carry it into the States into .. refining .. facilities of some sort. Then we.. uh...

Lord_Chaos • 04/26/2015

Old Army Bugle Oil.

Perfesser_Bear • 04/26/2015

Emu oil. Because nobody likes rusty, squeaky Dromaiidae.

Bruce Bergman • 04/26/2015

Not the bar, but squeeze the cacao beans and you get Cocoa Butter which is an oil...

Interstate2011 • 04/26/2015

There's always palm oil and palm kernel oil, all from the same source... except that palm oil comes from the flesh of the fruit, while palm kernel oil comes from inside the seed.

Interstate2011 • 04/26/2015

What are they looking for oil for?

Interstate2011 • 04/26/2015

Perhaps there is coconut oil in the chocolate. Maybe palm.

Sammy • 04/26/2015

What about Elbow Grease?

Lownleinhigh • 04/26/2015

Squeeze anything to get oil?.... quiet true I'd say.

Jade • 04/26/2015

See what happens! Now you've all got me thinking! Nothing good ever comes of that! I mean...what would you even use fox oil for..?!

soriac • 04/26/2015

So snake oil does come from squezzed snakes and not from slimy salesmen? Wow, never would have guessed...

But the variety of the different oil types (especially the organic type) and its use by humans is really interesting, although this is nothing compared to the human ability of making alcohol out of everything :) Yes, really, look at the monks in old times, they could brew some kind of beverage out of everything they found in nature. I bet they could even brew booze out of oil, but this process has long been lost in the mists of time and modern chemistry ;-)

Jo Li KMC • 04/26/2015

@Jade I could think of a couple uses... shifty eyes

Jan • 04/26/2015

@Cray Z. Bouy Of course, you meant "In decimal". We need more octal shirts. And yes, it's carob. Wolf can't eat chocolate :O

@MishaFox Next to the ammonia. Please don't mix the two :P

@UrsusArctos How about 0xFFFFFFFF ... it's like it's about to curse XD

@Sammy Elbow squeezings? Eww.

@Jade I'm not going there! XD

Tvorsk • 04/26/2015

Well, Jan, you sure know that - but for the sake of our less nerdy readers, 0xFFFFFFFF is kind of a "common" value that can occur for various reasons (one "bad" reason being integer overflow).

Weird magic words, like 0xDEADBEEF, 0xBAADF00D, and so on are useful in debugging, because if you initialize all your "blank" memory to that, and such a value shows up anytime later in a crash dump, you know some part of the code has read from memory that has never been written to (as in, never set to a "valid" value).

Plus, of course, magic words are often used as "markers" of various sorts, e.g. compiled Java .class files start with 0xCAFEBABE or 0xCAFED00D... ... what do you say? Programmers have juvenile sense of humour? Ridiculous accusation!

Bayrain • 04/26/2015

Emu Oil?, Must a little weird to use that.

ndrvr • 04/26/2015

@MishaFox but don't forget to relube with brainbleach oil, you've no idea how terrifying squeaky braincells are...

And in case of bad programming:

0xCOOOFFEE

unci • 04/27/2015

Hello from the pumpkin seed oil corner of the world!

Dyfed • 04/27/2015

Although most oils need the item to be mashed up, except for high oil items like olives and coconut which use a pressing and decantion (seperating water and oil, sometimes with a centrifuge) method, most common oils tend to use non mechanical extraction.

There are some other methods is other methods including steam distilation, in which steam is passed through a mash and then cooled so that you get the oil floating on the water (of the cooled steam) (eg lavender oil); Solvents, in which a solvent (normally Hexane but under pressure you could use supercritical carbon dioxide) is passed through a mass to extract the oils (eg soy oil); sparging, a method similar to steam distilation but involves heating the mash to near smoking point in a vacuum and passing water through it, the water turns to steam and takes the oil with it (eg Sunflower oil). Nitrogen maybe used too to help bind the oil particles together by removing oxygen and helps it stay fresh.

Silverwolf • 04/27/2015

@Jan From Ranger Skippy's List (Pacific Rim):

34: There is such a thing as "elbow grease," it's what's used to keep the elbow joints in the Jaeger from locking up.

Does this mean that lithium grease is made from people with bipolar disorder?

Dyfed • 04/28/2015

@Silverwolf : Technically Lithium Grease is a soap. @LionkingCMSL : Baby Oil is made from baby dinosaurs (probably...) as it is a mineral oil as a by product of the petroleum industry and some fragence to make it smell nice... @Bayrain : Emu oil is basically the refined body fats of a type of emu, was (wrongly) touted to help with certain conditions.

Cod Liver Oil - Traditionally made by putting the livers of the cod into a barrel and letting it ferment for a year, after which a simple decantion was used to get the oil, no wonder it was a running joke in old comics, must have tasted foul.

Mineral oil is not really a food item but used on skin and on wooden chopping boards to stop them obsorbing smells and germs.

Krill Oil - Made the same way most fish oils are made, chopping, cooking, crushing, steaming, decantion, also produces fishmeal with drying of the fleshy bits.

Does look like a carob bar, but as a chocolate subsitute, its pretty poor, cacao is far healthier...

Sereverus • 04/28/2015

speaking of an awesome oil idea, how about turnip oil? or how about turnip wine? Turnip vinegar?

WB101 • 04/29/2015

But I 'like' my vixens oiled... suddenly sounds of something anvil-shaped falling from above
Errr... Wait. WAIT! I meant cuddled... yeah cuddled.
smiles and nods furiously, glances up, then steps out from beneath suspended anvil of much hurtiness Whew. No coyote oil today... :D

And the only 'magic words' I know are e=mc2... spontaneously combusts the pile of coyote ashes says... Oh dang.

And now for your oil-related amusement... Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Jed. A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed. And then one day he was shootin' at some food, and up through the ground came a bubblin' crude. Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.

ShotgunKid • 04/30/2015

(Seriously, talk about wishful thinking.. Using Wolf's Logic: If only we squeezed the Tar Sands hard enough, we would have energy oil independence!!!11)

Silverwolf • 05/12/2015

After the "cocunut chicken rampage," I wonder whether Wolf will now have to oil his coconuts.

"If you squeeze anything hard enough, oil will come out!"

Later... Physics professor: "He actually made 'water oil.' That should not be chemically or even physically possible...but he actually broke the laws of chemistry."

Roll a SAN check before you try to figure THAT one out.

sir chewie • 06/07/2015

actually with chocolate you'll get cocoa butter, not chocolate oil. which they put into body lotions rather than the chocolate. which is too bad because chocolate made with cocoa butter rather than 'milk solids' is SO MUCH BETTER!

drivernjax • 12/18/2015

Wolf's shirt might be hexadecimal; but I read DEAD BEEF. (Yes, I know that all those letters are Hex for numbers between 11 and 15. I was a computer operator once upon a time.)

Annonomus person, of derpiness • 08/07/2017

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure there is a innuendo here somewhere...

Wait, did somebody seriously say "oil his coconuts"?

Silverwolf • 10/25/2017

Interestingly, I did find "elbow grease." It's called Arthrovisc, and it's injected into the joint capsule. It's not just for elbows!

AntonLeen • 06/16/2020

Errrr.... Baby oil?

Comments are closed.