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: Desalination
Jul 12, 2007

Someone needs to tell Wally that just because pepper is black, and salt is white, that does not somehow make them spice opposites with the power of canceling each other out. In fact, together they can be quite intense. Personally I’ve become somewhat desensitized to spices. These days I add lots of salt and pepper to all my food (often garlic powder too) because otherwise it just tastes too bland to me. Guess I just like my food spicy, my favorite dishes are hot Thai, Cajun and Mexican dishes.

The actual process of desalination is becoming more and more popular, places like the Middle East have been using it for quite some time, with ocean water more readily available than fresh water sources in that region. Since pepper doesn’t work, desalination plants rely mostly on the techniques of reverse osmosis or multi-stage flash for making saltwater drinkable.

Wally and Osborne shouldn’t be too concerned with desalination in Antarctica… over two thirds of the world’s fresh water is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps.

45 Comments

  1. JOHN says:

    I love a happy Wally :mrgreen:

  2. I love mraz says:

    HA!!!!!
    i got the second comment. :mrgreen:
    tons of pepper wouldnt really do that. 😮
    but it makes a good comic. 😀

  3. Phizlo says:

    Man, that’s gotta be some spicy water. 😀 I don’t like my food spicy. It burns my tongue. 😮

  4. yay fourtth comment! i love osborne breathing fire! 😛

  5. Whoa,a flame-throwing penguin.There’s another W&O Product! Osborne Lighters!

  6. AWESOME
    hmm, what if you tried Tabasco sauce in that….
    also..where’d he get the pepper..
    i guess they have this huge thing where they get tons of stuff like donuts.
    or maybe it just washed up on shore

  7. allforwally says:

    hehe pepper canceling out salt…. hmmmmm don’t think i’d ever think of that one!:!:

  8. msrle4 says:

    Fire!!!!!!!!!! Cool!!!!!!!!

  9. Sarah da penguin lvr says:

    AHHHH!!!! FEAR THE MIGHTY FLAMING POWER OF OSBORNE-ISCUS, THE DREADFUL DRAGON!!!!! 😈 NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👿

  10. Cristina says:

    Wally’s so cute. 😉
    All of his senceless scemes make him so happy. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

  11. Cristina says:

    make that senseless 😎

  12. BriGuy says:

    Watch out for the PENGDRAGON! 👿 👿 👿

  13. A Shi says:

    As to not running out of fresh water any time soon those polar caps are melting more and more each year so for the time being they are (pardon the punn) swomming in the stuff!

  14. Todd says:

    Mmmm…. Spicy Thai is just about the grandest thing that has ever graced the the surface of the Earth. I must agree with you, Tyler, foods that aren’t spicy aren’t nearly as good. 😀

  15. Rob H. says:

    Osboarne’s face in the last panel needs to be an emote. 😮

  16. Lee says:

    If there *was* a cheap way to distill fresh water out of seawater it would solve a lot of the world’s environmental problems. Probably create a whole lot of new ones, though, the human race being what we are

  17. Metroplex says:

    if you look very closely at osbourne you will see that he has a bright light surrounding him because of the flame! 😕 🙂 😀 💡 🙄 😐 😯 😮 ❗ :mrgreen:

  18. poolfreak says:

    AHA! YOU SAID SOMETHING, YOU REALLY SAID SOMETHING!!!!!!!!! 😎

  19. Metroplex says:

    😯 🙁 😡 👿 😆 ❗

  20. Sarah says:

    in the second panel the wall turns blue…

  21. msrle4 says:

    I made the top 10!

  22. msrle4 says:

    😀

  23. msrle4 says:

    🙁 m 🙁 🙁

  24. Penguin Boy says:

    Penguin Boy’s birthday is this coming thursday ! 🙄 Yeah! 😆

  25. WALLYICIOUSE says:

    ha! :mrgreen: 🙂 😎 😀 😛 😉 when i was still in 7th grade, we learned about desalination. now its vacation. 😀

  26. somebody says:

    dude, if you like spicy food you should definitely try Indian. (if you’ve got a dining partner who fears the spicy, get them chicken tikka masala–no one doesn’t like it. you should try vindaloo. it’s tastey.)

  27. Metroplex! Good eye! I usually see stuff like that! 😯 🙂

    Happy (Early) Birthday, Penguin Boy !

  28. msrle4 says:

    msrle4, please don’t copy my name!

  29. msrle4 says:

    Everybody, please don’t copy my name like the one who did ” 🙁 m 🙁 🙁 ” and I do not have website. maybe later. Thank you everybody! msrle4

  30. Bellyac says:

    I used to be Friendly Penguin.

    And, that’s hilarious, Wally just (accidentally) gave Osborne a weapon – FLAMING PEPPER BREATH OF DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  31. Poppy says:

    😮 😡 👿 😆 :mrgreen: 😕 😳 😥

  32. Poppy says:

    IT’S OSBURN, THE SCARY WATER ANIMADRAGON! 😯 😮 😥 ATTACK HIM!
    👿 😎 😆 👿 🙄 * osbourne hypnotises osburn* 🙁

  33. Bramblefire says:

    awesome comic, tyler!
    😮 ➡ ➡ ➡ ➡ ➡
    (osborne breathing fire)

  34. Jonah says:

    Wally is always tricking people! LOL!

  35. Brian.V.P. says:

    DUDE! A new icon just calling out. Osbourne blowing fire!

  36. Tre says:

    Is Ozzie-O a dragon in an adelie penguin suit?

    And yeah, Mr.Oz’s face in the last panel does need to be a smiley! 😐

  37. Poppy says:

    😆 ➡ ➡ ➡ ➡ ➡ ➡ ➡ ➡ ➡ ➡

  38. Poppy says:

    OSBURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEK!

  39. Tre says:

    Sorry, I meant 😮 ~~~~~

  40. Meg says:

    😯 😯 🙂 😕 😎 👿 😀 😀 💡 💡 😀 😀 ❗ ❓ 😈 😐 😈 😈 😈 ➡ ➡ 🙁 😥 😮 😮 😆 😆 😡 😀 💡 😳 😳 😛 🙄 🙄 😉 😎 😎 😎 👿 👿 👿 ➡ ➡ 😯 😯 😯 🙂 😈 :mrgreen: 😐 😐 😮 😆 😡 🙁 ❓ ❗ ❗ 😉 😮 😥 💡 😳 🙄 😀 😕 😎 👿 😀 💡 😳 😛 🙄 😉 😥 😮 😆 😡 🙁 ❗ ❓ :mrgreen: 😐 ➡ ➡ 😯 🙂 🙂 😕 😎 👿 👿 🙁 ❗ ❓ :mrgreen: 😐 😈 ➡ 😯 🙂 :mrgreen: 😐 😈 ➡ 😯 🙂 😕 😎 👿 😀 💡 😳 😛 🙄 😉 😥 😮 😆 😡

  41. Nate says:

    Osbourne can breathe fire!!!! 🙂 :O 🙁

  42. Jenny says:

    PEPPER?! Why would you put pepper in saltwater? Too spicy!

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