Glad to hear this evidently ended better than Kitt William's Masquerade treasure-hunt.

One classic Far Side strip has a scientist coming to a bad end when he uses his time machine to take a large rectal thermometer back to the Age of Dinosaurs to conduct some tests...

She's no Lena the Hyena!

The antlered fellow is probably a Wendigo.

People in far-north California and/or eastern Oregon keep making similar pitches, wanting to create a right-leaning state called Jefferson.

Reminds me of the original Star Trek episode where an Earth ship visiting a distant planet left behind a book about the Chicago Mobs of the 20's, and when the Enterprise arrived years later, the natives had modeled their entire society on it.

The predators are after the seed, the arm got attacked because the seed was on it at the time.

H.G. Wells' short story "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" ends with this happening, thanks to a very ill-advised wish on the protagonist's part. Also the 30's movie adaptation...

I've eaten and enjoyed sweet-pickle pie, without the hot dogs.

Additionally, I've read that the original version of that critter didn't have that headpiece; it was added after the female star of the movie made fun of this squatty little thing trying to be scary.

"And even if he was a lazy man - and The Dude was most certainly that - quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County .. which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide."

My favorite in my state of Washington is Humptulips. It even rated a mention in a Discworld novel.

I read a webcomic once where the scores in a belching contest were measured on the Richter Scale