The Comics Curmudgeon

105 responses to “Josh gets Jumbled”

1. Anonymous
   August 25th, 2009 at 3:41 pm [Reply]

   I got the 1st 3 on the Jumble, but not a clue on that last one

2. Colorado
   August 25th, 2009 at 3:41 pm [Reply]

   Poise, Soapy and Corral…sorry I forgot my moniker on the 1st post…

3. buckyswife
   August 25th, 2009 at 3:42 pm [Reply]

   Josh, re: JP—That, along with Rocky’s disembodied, talking, driving cowboy hat. Yikes.

   y93 Aviatrix–I think we’re both right: they spent two weeks holed up in a seedy motel on the outskirts of Edinburgh and just perused the in-flight magazine on the way home so they’d have some G-rated material to share with the easily shocked Charterstone inmates.

4. buckyswife
   August 25th, 2009 at 3:43 pm [Reply]

   Colorado: hairdo

5. Laocoon
   August 25th, 2009 at 3:44 pm [Reply]

   I’m sure this has been brought up before but..seriously, why does Bil Keane draw everyone with old man paunches? He should have a perfect understanding of children’s anatomy from all those times in his woodshed. Christ even the doll has a paunch..

6. scott
   August 25th, 2009 at 3:47 pm [Reply]

   MT- Doesn’t Cherrys Dad walk anymore?
   Crankshaft-Even I knew taking the oldsters to the State Fair was a bad idea.
   Rip Haywire- If ypou love Dick Tracy, don’t read Rip today.

7. zamros
   August 25th, 2009 at 3:49 pm [Reply]

   I like that Ziggy had the idea to type RESUME on the back of his resume, as a little note for himself to remember that he’s at a job interview. Maybe Ziggy has the three minute attention span thing like in Memento. That would explain why everyone he encounters has no patience at all with him.

   Also: I wonder what font it is. Papyrus? Comic sans? Arial?

8. TheOriginalSteve-Dave
   August 25th, 2009 at 3:49 pm [Reply]

   The astrologer’s “map” spells “JUMBLE”.

9. Emily
   August 25th, 2009 at 3:51 pm [Reply]

   Re: Ziggy…there’s a joke in there somewhere about Comic Sans and how Ziggy is definitely sans comedy.

10. Hogan
    August 25th, 2009 at 3:52 pm [Reply]

    FC: That’s the scariest doll I’ve seen since the Zuni fetish segment in Trilogy of Terror. (Yeah that’s right. Suck on it, Chucky.)

11. Laocoon
    August 25th, 2009 at 3:52 pm [Reply]

    Upon first glance, today’s Marmaduke seems innocent enough. Yet my knowledge of prior comics leads me to believe that those clothes formerly belong to a young boy whose digested remains now lie in Marmaduke’s stomach.

12. Larry Fine
    August 25th, 2009 at 3:53 pm [Reply]

    Regardless of how his resume looks, Ziggy is doomed to perpetual unemployment if he persists in not wearing pants to job interviews.

13. TheDiva
    August 25th, 2009 at 3:55 pm [Reply]

    Dolly’s just getting into character for her class production of Chicago: “…and then he ran into my fist. He ran into it ten times.”

14. Tristram Draper
    August 25th, 2009 at 3:57 pm [Reply]

    There is a secret message in the astrologers map. It points to the location of the bodies.

15. Larry Fine
    August 25th, 2009 at 3:58 pm [Reply]

    Memo to LuAnn: If you hear a vibrating sound from beyond Margo’s door, she’s “busy”. Come back later.

16. buckyswife
    August 25th, 2009 at 3:59 pm [Reply]

    9 Emily—Yes, an excellent one by Muffaroo in the yesterthread (#58)!

17. 150
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:02 pm [Reply]

    If you saw some fiendish hell-demon crawling towards you with a sexy woman’s body and a yawning inky black emptiness where its face should be, you wouldn’t start unbuttoning your shirt to reveal your heaving bosom; you’d run screaming into the woods, severe ankle sprain be damned.

    Maybe YOU would. Bown chicka bowp bown.

18. m1ngle
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:06 pm [Reply]

    OriginalSteve – I noticed that, and also that it somehow fails to be awesome.

19. Pozzo
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:10 pm [Reply]

    I think the guy at the desk is mostly upset at Ziggy leaving the accent marks out of “resume” (which, ironically, I can’t figure out how to use, either).

20. Larry Fine
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:12 pm [Reply]

    PJ might as well get used to continual physical abuse from his peers if Ma and Pa Keane don’t change his name to something less lame than “PJ”.

21. Baka Gaijin
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:13 pm [Reply]

    Apartment 3-G: Separated at birth? Blonde and panel 2 Luann. *

    Medium Large: Veronica and Betty are caressing each other’s hair, Archie exclaims loudly while his hands are conveniently out of frame in his crotchal region, and Jughead eats a hot dog. Tell me there’s no sexual subplot there.

    * Thanks #Y76 One-eyed Wolfdog for the blonde model!

22. Saluki
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:14 pm [Reply]

    Jumble answer: Her “horrorscope”.

23. Black Drazon
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:15 pm [Reply]

    Grief sex? You mean Lu Ann’s gonna have sex with Margo, or Lu Ann is going to walk in and find Margo having a three-way with The Professor and Ruby? I’m… torn.

24. HighPlainsDrifter
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:15 pm [Reply]

    If KNUREK is indeed a Jumble clue, the only solution I could find is in the urban dictionary: “nukker” … and it ain’t a nice term. There’s gonna be a rumble in the jumble.

25. Les of the Jungle Patrol
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:15 pm [Reply]

    Ziggy, strong words coming from a guy with such weird lettering style.

26. Chip Whittle
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:16 pm [Reply]

    The fourth Jumble word is ‘Hairdo’, for the record.

27. Stripes55
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:20 pm [Reply]

    Larry Fine @15: Or, alternatively, open the door slightly, watching, until you get noticed.

    BOWN chicka BOWP bown….

28. Baka Gaijin
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:23 pm [Reply]

    #Y95 gnemec: That’s almost as scary as clowns in Dick Tracy! AAAAAaaaAAAaaaaAAaaaaHhh!!! evilscaryclown evilscaryclown AAAAAhhhhhh!

29. Digger
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

    JP: When did the Grim Reaper get a breast augmentation done?

    Ziggy: You know what alleviates the boredom of working in HR? Sex with a pantsless interviewee! [insert porn "bown chicka bowp bown" music here]

30. mr 12 oz can
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:30 pm [Reply]

    does anyone know how mark trail gets paid ? i know andy is well fed but does cherry only own one shirt . also ive only read rex morgan for one week now that the creepy fly fisherman left who is the hungry she devil ??

31. Paladin
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:30 pm [Reply]

    I’m guessing that Judge Parker’s trying to add some action to strip by including their very own superhero; in this case the Question. Unfortunately, they only needed to look as far as Spider-Man to see that this plan wouldn’t work. Now Judge Parker can look forward to two solid months of Renee Montoya crashing on his couch and watching TV.

32. TheOriginalSteve-Dave
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:31 pm [Reply]

    @m1ngle
    Fails to be awesome, and even fails to be truly jumbled.

33. queek
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

    If you saw some fiendish hell-demon crawling towards you with a sexy woman’s body and a yawning inky black emptiness where its face should be . . .

    you’re reading Pibgorn.

34. Steve S
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:39 pm [Reply]

    Maybe that’s the front of Ziggy’s résumé we’re looking at, and the boss is so disgusted Ziggy’s career consists entirely of the word “RESUME” followed by blank space that he’s shoving the document back in Ziggy’s face as if to say “We both know you’re a loser, but couldn’t you at least try to lie a little?”

35. Cranky
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:41 pm [Reply]

    “I’ve taken worse falls on a movie set. I’ve gone down a lot on movie sets. I’m frequently on my knees. Porno. You getting any of this, redhead?”

36. Niall
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:43 pm [Reply]

    I’m impressed Josh didn’t groan publically about the Hi&Lois miscolouring…

37. Niall
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:44 pm [Reply]

    ..oh, and I lost 10 minutes at work trying to solve the Jumble thinking that Mr. Knurek had somehow slipped in a Josh or CC reference today, hence the title of the post of the day above. Darn you Josh!

38. LUJBEM FEJF
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:44 pm [Reply]

    He he he- it’s funny because it’s true… Josh isn’t smart enough to solve the puzzle. There will be no brick hurling…yet. Thanks to Google street view maps, I do have the window picked out though. Game on Josh! Look for Jumble Josh, coming to your local paper (probably in the classified section, for whatever reason, more times then not) in October.

    BTW-Nice catch Steve-Dave!

39. Talking Squirrel
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:47 pm [Reply]

    Crunk: What the kid said — “Not too crunchy” .

    What he meant — “Even though these ain’t my permanent teeth, still I busted three of ‘em on last year’s deepfried possum backbone. Kin I have the Rocky Mountain oysters this year, pleeeeease?”

40. bats :[
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:48 pm [Reply]

    I was hoping to resist until tomorrow’s MW was posted, but I couldn’t. I swear, it was the potato-ade, the sweet, sweet potato-ade.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/3855918353/sizes/o/

41. AirForbes
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:56 pm [Reply]

    I thought Josh was going to say something about yesterday’s Jumble answer, “For her ‘prints’ “, a pun so bad even my Dad would have been embarrassed by it.

    And why has Barreto, of all people, given up drawing faces? I can think of a half dozen comics where inky blackness in place of faces would be an artist improvement – Mark Trail, Dick Tracy (where it would actually fit), Mary Worth, A3G, Gil Thorp… But it’s the one person who can actually draw and not have his characters features melting or their eyes facing off in different directions, who gives up and turns everyone into ringwraiths.

42. Sebastian
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:58 pm [Reply]

    Luann: The argument between Luann’s two potential suitors isn’t all that funny, but there’s a little dramatic irony when you realize that the whole time they are talking, Luann has a mouthful of Australian meat.

43. Editer
    August 25th, 2009 at 4:59 pm [Reply]

    The horrorscope … the horrorscope …

44. Calico
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:01 pm [Reply]

    JP – Fark me, it’s Michael Jackson back from the dead…

    FC – Dolly is ready to join Blackwater “security.”

    And Ziggy holds his hat that way because he’s pantsless, and is trying to hide his stubby penis.

45. Calico
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:02 pm [Reply]

    Hi Niall – I’ve been wondering (and was a bit worried) about how you are doing. Hope you’re feeling lots better!

    Welcome back!

    : D

46. Danel
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:03 pm [Reply]

    Why exactly are the people of Judge Parker trying to run down the paparazzi? Or is paparazzi their word for “assassin”?

47. Johnny Geo
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:04 pm [Reply]

    @Pozzo:
    In Windows, type ALT+0233. Start/Run/charmap to learn other extended character keystrokes.

48. Alan's Addiction
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:05 pm [Reply]

    Wait… we’re supposed to deduce an answer to a word puzzle based upon some undoubtedly boring and obscure pun that, in turn, is based on a boring and obscure ancient translation of astronomy? This is starting to sound less and less like a harmless family past time and more like the Allied attempts to decode the Enigma machine.
    I hate that font in Ziggy, too! Granted, I also loathe the characters, the jokes and the general premise of a pantless man being continually mocked/abused by random strangers, but admitting to the vileness of the font is a good first step for this strip.
    There are so very many better punchlines to today’s “Family Circus,” including; “The first rule of fight club is, you don’t talk about fight club,” and “Don’t make me angry; you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.” I would also like to know what child moves directly into beating their siblings without first learning the crucial role of lying convincingly. That is, unless the Keane kids are actually some sort of horrific prototype mini-Terminator robots that are incapable of lying, yet harbor a deep hatred of humanity.
    Oh, Luann; we all know that Margo doesn’t sleep. Her species evolved long ago to overcome such feeble human weaknesses to better catch their favorite prey (weak-willed roommates) off-guard.
    Hooray for today’s Judge Parker, which clearly showcases all the strip’s strengths: unnaturally large breasts, expensive toys, and bizarre plotlines that only make sense when under the influence. The strip is also, for some reason that escapes me, reenacting the opening scene of Cliffhanger – that’s my fervent prayer, because the alternative of this devolving into some sort of weird comforting/porno scene is too terrifyingly weird to even contemplate.

49. AirForbes
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:09 pm [Reply]

    bats :[ – that last cartoon has forced me to share that when I was 10 years old, potato-ade was a particularly hilarious result of a Mad-Libs session. I’d try making some and seeing how palatable it is, but I don’t have a blender. I doubt there’s much demand for potato-based beverages anyway, so I’ll file that idea with my other recent unmarketable ideas, such as Riding Mower Jousting and Wii: Orchard.

50. DumbBlone
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:17 pm [Reply]

    Hooray for taking on my favorite part of the comics page, the Jumble! (OK, that and KenKen, but its kinda hard to snark on KenKen. Though perhaps I underestimate this crowd, as my snarking abilities are nothing compared to most of the esteemed group here… there, I’ve thrown down the gauntlet, fellow curmudgeons!)

    Though if I were the Jumble guy, I wouldn’t be complaining to Josh about the lack of mocking, I would be complaining to Pearls Before Swine guy for stealing my painful puns.

    Though you know what salves the cringe-inducing pain of bad puns? [reprise of "bown chicka bowp bown" music here]

51. Baron Bizarre
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:20 pm [Reply]

    I solved the Jumble just looking at it. Great, I finally find my skill, and there’s no practical use for it.

52. DumbBlone
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

    OK… I just misspelled my moniker “Dumb Blonde” as “DumbBlone.” Yes, I do realize that this is ironic (in the Alanis Morissette sense of the word.)

    Sigh.

53. Dingo
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

    Take that second panel of Judge Parker and replace it with Jamus the Bartendar and Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener and I’m gonna need a new pair of boxers to finish out the day.

54. Doug Puthoff
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

    Real Life Adventures–The Congressman should’ve said, “Maybe if you get a job with the government you can afford health insurance. And with all increased government spending driving up inflation, the government may be the only business which can afford to stay open.”

55. Baron Bizarre
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:22 pm [Reply]

    Oh, and:

    “If you saw some fiendish hell-demon crawling towards you with a sexy woman’s body and a yawning inky black emptiness where its face should be…

    …I’d be saying, “Wow, I’m moving up in the world!”

56. Steve L
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:37 pm [Reply]

    Every time PJ cries, an angel gets its wings.

57. Poteet
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:37 pm [Reply]

    JUMBLE — I agree that it tells a delightful little tale, even more delightful because “mirth” sounds as if the prostitute might be a CC regular.

    JP — I saw this strip late last night and assumed the black hole in the universe where Abbey’s face used to be was merely a hallucinatory signal that I should go to bed. Now I can only hope this was an experiment that Barreto won’t repeat. *shudder*

58. Niall
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:38 pm [Reply]

    45 Calico: thanks, but I’m not quite back. Waiting for stuff at work. time to kill. was weak. but still not great emotionally. big cleaning waiting for me at home… bleah.

59. zerowolf
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:39 pm [Reply]

    How many times do we have to tell you, Dolly, you don’t hit your brother’s in the head with your doll. You kick them in the nuts.

60. Poteet
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:42 pm [Reply]

    FC — Geez, Dolly, get a clue. As the oldest of four sibs, I learned early that if you want to inflict minor violence on the younger ones, you have to come up with better stories than that.

61. Niall
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:45 pm [Reply]

    last for the day

    49 airforbes: no use for potato-based beverages? Better not tell the Russians.. or Germans… or any number of other people… they might disagree.

62. Poteet
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:55 pm [Reply]

    # 58 Niall — Hope you’ll feel better soon!

63. Dingo
    August 25th, 2009 at 5:57 pm [Reply]

    Dolly: “It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the doll again!”

64. Readem and Laf
    August 25th, 2009 at 6:01 pm [Reply]

    JP Yes, the inky dark shadow face is weird.

    Meanwhile will the SUV run them both down?
    Why is it always airborne
    in every panel?

    Will that spook Sultan?

    They know where the paparazzi’s car is, as well as its license plate, why not put a stable hand right next to it to have a chat with the trespassers?

65. zerowolf
    August 25th, 2009 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

    #49 AirForbes — Oh there’s a great market for potato based beverages, it’s called Vodka!

66. BigTed
    August 25th, 2009 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

    Frankly, the interviewer has a point — it really is hard to read a resume that’s been printed out in Wingdings.

67. Henning Makholm
    August 25th, 2009 at 6:37 pm [Reply]

    I think, with some sadness, that I the most vile typeface I can imagine Ziggy choosing for his resume is Comic Sans. Which is rather mundane, given the possibilties for real nastiness that are out there. How about Computer Modern Roman for headings and Bodoni Condensed Bold for copy? The possibilities are endless. But alas, that level of horror is forever out of Ziggy’s reach.

68. curlyfries
    August 25th, 2009 at 6:39 pm [Reply]

    #49 AirForbes, the Irish in bats:[’s strip (#40) totally pwned Charterstone’s Little Globetrotter by passing off a runny old batch of vichyssoise as their national drink. So just follow that recipe and overthin. Yummy!

    Finally we know the secret of the Cameron’s happy marriage – Toeby really will swallow anything.

69. Lolsworth
    August 25th, 2009 at 6:40 pm [Reply]

    “being berated just for being Ziggy”

    I just love that little subclause.

70. teddytoad
    August 25th, 2009 at 6:52 pm [Reply]

    @Poteet, Josh: MIRTH SKIMP CROTCH PENURY makes me think the john had his fun, refused to pay his lady (or lord!) of the night; then the prostitute kneed (knee-ed? kneeed?) him in the crotch and took all his money.

    Oh, and no comment, just an observation, does anyone else think that Abbey totally looks like that scene in The Black Dahlia where (spoiler alert) H—— S—-’s character comes out of the shadows in that same fedora and pushes A—- E——’s character off the balcony?

71. dasein
    August 25th, 2009 at 6:54 pm [Reply]

    “bown chicka bowp bown”

    I’ve always wondered how that was spelled…

72. Red Greenback
    August 25th, 2009 at 7:02 pm [Reply]

    Butter emptiness.

73. Rusty
    August 25th, 2009 at 7:19 pm [Reply]

    If no one else has said it yet, I will: Ziggy is aroused by verbal abuse from authority figures and is covering up little Ziggy with his hat.

74. Islamorada Girl
    August 25th, 2009 at 7:55 pm [Reply]

    JP and the Masque of the Black Death. I’m willing to bet that Baretto’s Rapidograph left a great big inky blot on Abbey’s face and he just decided to make it look like a shadow, rather than redo the whole thing. That’s what I used to do in art school.

75. Joe Blevins
    August 25th, 2009 at 8:02 pm [Reply]

    A3G: “Margo put on a brave face during dinner.” I take this to mean that Margo, like Leatherface, literally wears masks made from the faces of her victims. Margo’s “brave face” is one she made from someone she met once on a train who was brave — i.e. foolish — enough to ask her, “Ma’am, would you mind moving your handbag so that I can sit down please?”

    Z: What could possibly be on (the habitually-unemployed) Ziggy’s resume? “Hostility Sponge (1968 – present). Duties include soaking up the anger and resentment of my fellow human beings, essentially acting as a sentient Sham-Wow for the negativity and alienation of the modern world. Special skills include not killing myself.”

76. Fashion Police
    August 25th, 2009 at 8:02 pm [Reply]

    So Master Elwood wishes Gunther to create a costume for him. Very well. He would look adorable in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit.

77. fluffy
    August 25th, 2009 at 8:25 pm [Reply]

    I bet Ziggy used Impact.

78. Warren
    August 25th, 2009 at 8:31 pm [Reply]

    FYI, the answer to today’s Jumble is “Her Horror Copse.” I’m not sure why. It’s probably the name of some 1930’s slasher that the syndicate executives recall fondly from their [s]childhood[/s] [s]college days[/s] golden years.

79. Larry Fine
    August 25th, 2009 at 8:37 pm [Reply]

    Let’s see what’s going on in Funky Winker–OH MY FUCKING GOD! IS THAT GOOFY’S DECAPITATED HEAD?!? HOW CAN THESE PEOPLE MAKE LIGHT OF SUCH A TRAGEDY?!!

80. spazmodeas
    August 25th, 2009 at 8:50 pm [Reply]

    The very next panel from Apartment 3-G better be Margo rising from her coffin. I will accept nothing less.

81. Comrade Denny
    August 25th, 2009 at 9:04 pm [Reply]

    FC: So what you’re saying, Josh, is that the Keanes are related to the Merrye family from Spider Baby?

    Hi-Lo: Actually, Hi’s dressing up because he’s got a court date for his 3rd DUI since he got laid off, not that he’s told anyone in the family about either of those things yet. And besides, his workplace was business casual.

82. Larry Fine
    August 25th, 2009 at 9:22 pm [Reply]

    Apparently Gunther and Elwood are competing for Luann’s affection. The winner gets a terminal case of blue balls.

83. kurtthecomicreader
    August 25th, 2009 at 9:53 pm [Reply]

    A3G: Stay tuned for an endless stream of Margo’s Knock-Knock jokes, possibly beginning with:

    LU: Knock Knock
    MARG: Who’s There?
    LU: Luann
    MARG: Luann Who?
    LU: Lu and who else, silly?

84. He Brought Queenie Baby Jesus
    August 25th, 2009 at 9:59 pm [Reply]

    Ziggy really should have known better than to submit his resumé to John Gruber.

85. Jumper
    August 25th, 2009 at 10:13 pm [Reply]

    Every so often we Wilson draw Ziggy adrift in an otherwise Robert Crumb-style panel. This is okay but makes me think that Bil Keane may at some moment begin channeling Robert Williams. This is disturbing.

86. lunarhalo
    August 25th, 2009 at 10:27 pm [Reply]

    Judge Parker

    You know what they say:

    The darker the gaping facial chasm
    the bigger the orgasm

87. Jason1981
    August 26th, 2009 at 1:39 am [Reply]

    JP: If the artist was tryin to make Abbey look sexy and mysterious with that fedora and the shadowed face, he should’ve looked at pics of Carmen Sandiego, first (except Carmen’s trenchcoat makes her just a lil bit sexier than Abbey)

    Luann 8/26: Guys..neither of you mean alot to her. Only how much she can use you means alot to her–although Luann isn’t ever honest about that (unlikeTiffany .)

88. sowleman
    August 26th, 2009 at 2:06 am [Reply]

    Rumble in the Jumble?

89. It's time to pay the price
    August 26th, 2009 at 2:53 am [Reply]

    I think the Jumble is secretly recounting the latest Mary Worth story.

    Del-sepoi-sonous attitude repulsed her husband to the point that they seperated. Del needed someone at whom she could yapos-teoporosis sufferers seemed like the obvious answer so she made her way to charterstone. While there, she nearly fell for Charlie’s amo-ralcor-ruption, but after some fated showtunes she realized that her husband was the only one she loved. They reunited and he rhodia her like a stallion.

90. The Restless Mouse
    August 26th, 2009 at 3:09 am [Reply]

    God help me, the “bown chicka bowp bown” music plays in my head on command.

91. Steve Dore
    August 26th, 2009 at 3:12 am [Reply]

    MINOR INJURY SEX! [insert porn "bown chicka bowp bown" music here]

    What are the two sexiest animals in the barnyard?
    Brown-chicken-brown-cow!

92. The Spectre
    August 26th, 2009 at 5:11 am [Reply]

    Am I the only one slightly disturbed by the fact that “crotch” is one of the words to unscramble in the previous jumble?

93. The Spectre
    August 26th, 2009 at 5:21 am [Reply]

    Oh, and James Cawley is a professional Elvis impersonator *and* plays James T Kirk in the New Voyages series, so it *is* possible to provide dubious facts about the stars and still be home in time to move your pelvis like a houn’ dog.

94. John
    August 26th, 2009 at 8:22 am [Reply]

    You know, Josh, I’ve always wondered why you never make fun of Rose is Rose. Is it beneath contempt? Or is it just too easy a target?

95. Mr. Peabody
    August 26th, 2009 at 9:11 am [Reply]

    Is it me or is Abbey Spencer slowly turning into the Question?

96. Melanie
    August 26th, 2009 at 10:03 am [Reply]

    I think Abbey’s audition for the part of Rorschach in the direct to video “Watchman the Porno” is great. She even has a hat.

97. It's time to pay the price
    August 26th, 2009 at 12:01 pm [Reply]

    Adam @ Home seems like it would be a pretty easy target too. The dialogue is always extremely stilted, the punchlines are non-eistent and recently they replaced the entire cast with horrible animatronic puppets.

98. viscosity
    August 26th, 2009 at 12:57 pm [Reply]

    MT – I know I’m being lazy, but isn’t Bob the dude who shot Bucky the deer?

99. Gary
    August 26th, 2009 at 2:18 pm [Reply]

    It’s fun to think of Dolly being banished to the “kids we’d like to forget we had” land, wearing leg irons and cavorting about with Chuck from Happy Days.

100. Crankenstank
     August 26th, 2009 at 2:50 pm [Reply]

     With all due seriousness, the Jumble — I confess I do it every day, before the crossword, as a brain warmer-upper — has tremendously improved with the current team. The drawings are tough, because they have to be funny, punny, and a clue without totally giving away the answer. It’s quite an art. (The anagramming is another difficulty, of course, since you have to pick words that have NO other possible anagrammic solutions). And I also write a little story every day with the four answer words….always a fun free association. I’m convinced the choice of words is not an accident…

     OK, I’ll go back to being a snarky jerk now.

101. MeganKoumori
     August 26th, 2009 at 3:25 pm [Reply]

     Jumble answers are as follows:

     Poise

     Soapy

     Corral

     Hairdo

     The answer to the riddle is Horrorscope.

     http://instantrimshot.com/

102. Katey
     August 26th, 2009 at 6:09 pm [Reply]

     If Ziggy did use papyrus, the employer’s anger is perfectly justified.

103. DB
     August 28th, 2009 at 9:40 pm [Reply]

     Mother Keane might benefit from using her hairbrush on something other than her skullcap.

104. xrayguy
     August 30th, 2009 at 10:23 pm [Reply]

     JP-I thnk the porn music lyrics are more “brown chicken cow cow”, but thats just me.

105. BertDawg
     September 1st, 2009 at 1:28 am [Reply]

     Just recently referred to your blog and love it. Regarding the Jumbles, I find, oddly enough, that the only time I am able to solve them with any consistency is first thing in the morning, before I had breakfast. Have you tried that?

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