Metapost: Commentors continue to bring the funny
Once again, picking a comment of the week was really tough this week, and while I couldn’t resist another opportunity to link to that ludicrous bear picture, I wanted to acknowledge some quotes that had me guffawing over the past few days.
“I’d like to see a ‘plugger’s wife’ defending her cubs by mauling some extras from Mark Trail. Now that would be comedy. ‘You know you’re a plugger when … your wife completely dismembers random passers-by who get too close to the kids!’ On second thought, that’s not quite depressing enough for a Pluggers panel.” — Darth Paradox
“What was the idea submitted for today’s TDIET? ‘People with cell phones are annoying’? I’m going to send one in re: sometimes people get in the grocery store express check-out with more then 15 items. That ought to rock his world.” –Summerhouse
“But this, of course, is A3G, where the unending theme is the impossibility of happiness, even fleetingly.” –Craigers
“When you die and go to your judgment, and are let into heaven not because you did good, but because a paranoid conscience was your iron master, then you spent your life in Apartment 3-G.” –tefflan
“Is it possible for three people to say something in unison … anything at all … and have it not be laugh-out-loud funny? Imagine the three most serious and important people you can. Say, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Henry David Thoreau, and Nelson Mandela. And they all look at you and say, together… YOU BETTER NOT! I have to admit, I’d laugh. A lot.” –Edward
“‘Devil, What do you think?’ Um, I THINK I’M A FREAKING DOG, Ghost-who-apparently-isn’t-the-brains-in-this-operation. And if it were up to me, we’d be back on the dock, warm and dry with snausages all around.” –SmartPeopleOnIce
“Anthony has got to be either gay, or a Methodist youth minister, or both.” –CBrachyrhynchos
“Here’s an informal challenge: Find me a Pluggers strip that can’t be captioned, ‘You’re a plugger if your abject poverty is slowly destroying your body and sapping your very will to live.’” –Christopher
“I hate Spider-Man with all the hatred I can muster, and that’s a lot.” –bootsybooks
“I feel very strongly that Blondie would have appealed to a younger demographic if, instead of ‘pro-pimiento,’ the phrase ‘pimiento-pimping’ had been used.” –saint ruby
On Ian and Toby Cameron’s sex life: “I see her sprawled naked across the bed like a swastika and him upright on the Persian rug beside it so that he can have sex in his most comfortable position: standing and lecturing.” –Dingo
Harry Paratestes
September 18th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Oh man, some seriously cutting comments there.
Wayne
September 18th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
That makes me think of the superb line in today’s Doonesbury: “Pimp my gimp.”
Zikar
September 18th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Wow…I missed that one about Ian Blowhard…that’s gold!
Marc
September 18th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Hi&Lois: And with the raise, he could have gotten cabinet handles!
MW: Aldo gon’ get in a car collision!! I can’t wait! (That sounds horrible)
DinetteSet: You know you’re a plugger when you walk less than half of what you normally should in a day.
johnw
September 18th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
To paraphrase Will Rogers, I never metapost I didn’t like.
Bill Peschel
September 18th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Tough room, man, tough room. You gotta be on top of your panel-punching game to be noticed, ya know?
Funny stuff.
Iggy
September 18th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
I picture Aldo singing along with Merle Haggard: “Tonight the bottle let me down,
It let your memory come around,
The one true friend I thought I’d found,
Tonight the bottle let me down…”
treedweller
September 18th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
Metacomment: I left the house today shortly after Josh’s first posting, with the FOOB siblings, thinking she looks so much like her mother largely because of the hairstyle.
Then, when I was eating lunch, I saw the restaurant’s slogan and wondered if they have Taco Bell in Canada, because she really needs to think outside the bun.
And I still think that is funnier than any joke in FOOB, ever.
Christy
September 18th, 2006 at 7:39 pm
dudes, I never comment, but I just saw this website mentioned in Newsweek. I’m feeling a little bit hipstery-pissy, like cool teenagers who get annoyed when their favorite bands make it onto MTV. I enjoyed this website way before Newsweek mentioned it!
Kenny
September 18th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
#8 – We do have Taco Bell in Canada, however the outside-the-bun concept seems to have gone amiss, what for the impenetrable, C-grade “seasoned-grilled-beef” that is Liz’s skull.
I really doubt that Mrs. Johnson has ever been to a taco bell though, it seems to me she’d have a tendency toward organic eatery’s and Cat-pageants.
ak_teacher
September 18th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
I wish I were clever……
Rusty
September 18th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
Without having looked, did anyone else notice that Bombay Gin is on sale at the packy Aldo entered? Breakfast of champions and Cardinals!
Doug Puthoff
September 18th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
The sad thing about “Popeye” is that the daily strips are all reprints (though the Sundays are new). They didn’t have to publish this pathetic storyline. And if they’re to reprint stuff, King Features should reprint the Segar strips.
Doug Puthoff
September 18th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Darn, I was hoping Aldo’s drink of choice would be ripple (Fred Sanford’s fave), however, I discovered via Wikipedia that beverage is no longer being made. I am not happy.
Rusty
September 18th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
Never mind, Josh picked up on the Bombay reference in an earlier post. It may well be a shout out to the blog.
Dingo
September 18th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Y’know what’s sad/pathetic/scary/irony-laden? I have a job interview on Friday on Long Island. It’s a 900-mile drive (Yeah, I’m driving. Need to make a stop in Indiana to look at some Amish furniture). What am I thinking about? I’m gonna miss about four gazillion posts on here. Granted, in the days that I’m gone it’ll be but two fleeting seconds in the sanguine life of Tommie Thompson, but I fear that I’ll miss so much. Y’all have been the one solace I’ve had while searching for work. I can come on here at any time of day, read a few comments, and find myself laughing so hard that I forget my troubles. If I get this job, I’ll give each and every one of you a metaphorical bottle of Bombay Gin! (but not between 7AM and 7PM)
Skooter
September 18th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
MW: Yes, Professor you could have done much worse than have an intervention with Aldo Kelrast! Aldo could have gathered the other Charterstone tenants and staged a fashion intervention against all of you, Mary, Professor, Toby and Ask Wendy.
RMMD: Since when do Jedi, snatch purses. I guess that what happened to Luke Skywalker.
Dub Not Dubya
September 18th, 2006 at 11:28 pm
Dingo, drive safe and best of luck with the interview!
AppleGirl
September 18th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
16 – Dingo, you’ve made me laugh about a gazillion times with your comments. I’ve known unemployment myself, it’s not pretty! Enjoy your roadtrip, stay at places with broadband, and I hope you get that job!
miss alexandra.
September 18th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
MW- Bad news, Aldo- your old friend “Johnny” thinks you’re a loser, too.
miss alexandra.
September 19th, 2006 at 12:04 am
Oh. My. Goodness:
http://mary-worth.blogspot.com/
here’s a quote:
“I recognize my own part in this persecution. After all, I too recklessly exaggerated when I said I “never knew where he was going to turn up.” After all, he really only met me once in my garden, two or three times in the parking lot, and called me up once on the phone. Now, if I felt nothing for Aldo, or only friendship, these acts would seem very like the actions of my other Charterstone neighbors.
But proximity to that man puts me in very grave jeopardy. I am at risk of throwing my inhibitions and my high-waisted panties to the wind and sitting on his face in an expression of unchecked passion!”
Ned Ryerson
September 19th, 2006 at 12:18 am
JP: Ahhhh yeah, Raju, now you’re getting a taste for the forbidden fruit of barely pubescent mall chicks. You don’t need a warrent to tap that!!
Milwaukee
September 19th, 2006 at 12:28 am
Dingo, kelrast your interviewer if you must to get that job.
Dingomania!
Wow! There are some really messed up anagrams of “dingomania” !!
Ned Ryerson
September 19th, 2006 at 12:46 am
A3G: Tommie is practiced in the art of the head-bobble-buzz-kill.
You don’t think anybody wants to look at your boring ass painting of ferns and rhododendrons, do you. Pull your head out of your ass, Lu Ann. Eric Mills is interested in topiary, all right. But here’s a clue, it’s NOT your still life with ficus series.
monkeyhawk
September 19th, 2006 at 12:46 am
Am I the first to point out that Dingo looks exactly like Buffalo Bob Smith?
MJ1066
September 19th, 2006 at 1:01 am
Tuesday, Sept. 19:
Baldo: What has Baldo got in the shower with him? A Chia Head? The head of a broken doll? A shampoo container shaped like a woman’s head? This is really weird.
Rose is Rose: Since when is it the room mother’s responsibility to notify the parents of every child in the class about school closings or delayed openings due to bad weather? In all of the cities where I’ve lived, the school districts notified the TV stations and radio stations when they were closed or had delayed openings. The TV stations and radio stations broadcast lists of public school districts and private schools that are closed or have delayed openings because of the weather. It’s that simple. Also, the parents can look on the school district’s Web site to see if there are any school closing messages.
Mibbitmaker
September 19th, 2006 at 1:11 am
Aw, I can’t even go for a Carl Reiner-openly-trying-to-get-on-the-Carson-anniversary-shows move here…….Johnny never gave in!
Oh, who’m I kiddin’, I can’t even get quoted in my own photocopied minicomic!
Joshua
September 19th, 2006 at 1:43 am
MJ1066: I think the “Rose Is Rose” is just trying to show the teacher overburdening the class mom, as opposed to trying to portray the duties of the class mom realistically.
MJ1066
September 19th, 2006 at 1:48 am
#28: It occured to me that maybe the teacher was just joking when she said that Rose had to notify all the parents in the class when the schools were closed. She was just joking when she said that there would be a quiz on the room mother information later.
I’m still trying to figure out what Baldo was playing with in the shower.
MJ1066
September 19th, 2006 at 1:52 am
Curtis (Tuesday, September 19): That’s way too much information.
Von Zeppelin
September 19th, 2006 at 6:00 am
Mr. Giella continues to give us artistic clues to Aldo’s sad mental state. In his despondency, the stripe on his shirt has permanently disappeared. He lifts the bottle to his clenched teeth in panel 2. Apparently his drink of choice is the otherwise unknown “Johnny Walker Yellow.”
smacky
September 19th, 2006 at 6:19 am
# 26: Baldo is reveling in the harmless joy of chronic teen masturbation. (His girlfriend Smiley dumped him over the summer, right?)
Justafoob
September 19th, 2006 at 7:28 am
Don’t be succesful or you will have Apwil and here friends dissing you left and right.
Talk about be ungrateful.
Well, when the Beckster is a big star and Apwil is home with her three howling rugrats, lout of a husband, and an ass that won’t quit she will be so, so sorry that she was a complete bitch.
Dave
September 19th, 2006 at 8:50 am
9-19 MW – Aldo may be drinking and driving, but at least it’s Safety First when it comes to his seat belt !!
Bigfoot
September 19th, 2006 at 8:58 am
Good luck, Dingo, on the interview. One of the commenters should start a blog called “We Read the Comics Curmudgeon Comments So You Don’t Have To.” It’s tough to get out of the loop & come back only to find that you are not the first to notice Capt Kangaroo staring at you from the unfunny pages.
As for our continuing Aldomania, I second (or maybe one-millionth) the commenter who wants to see Aldo & Rita sitting in a tree, d-r-i-n-k-i-n-g.
johnw
September 19th, 2006 at 9:00 am
#13 — Doug, now that you mention it, I can see the signature of Bud Sagendorf, who was the first (and longest-tenured) of the post-Segar artistes. Sagendorf ran the strip into the ground for decades, and was followed by several short-timers, I believe.
And while your suggestion of reprinting the Segar originals clearly has merit, I doubt the Segar strips would fit into the space mandates of today’s comics pages. I think a typical daily strip had six panels and a whole lot of dialogue. You’d need a microscope to read it in a modern-day newspaper.
benro
September 19th, 2006 at 9:01 am
Good Luck on the interview Dingo. I live and work on Long Island, and I love it here.
benro
September 19th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Regarding today’s FW, WTF is “A gross of aduil…” ???
Harry Mirth
September 19th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Alpo is going to swing by the downtown women’s shelter and pick up Ritazilla so they can go on a fists of rage, swan bashing bender to end all bender.
Then Mary can come along behind and glue it all together with her pot of platitudes.
Sigh. Life is good.
Craigers
September 19th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Dingo, BEST BEST BEST luck in your interview. As others have said, you make me laugh so much… the Chinbeard comment (”standing and lecturing”) was the funniest thing I’d seen all week.
Keep yer chin up and enjoy the fall colours on your drive…
Rose
September 19th, 2006 at 9:23 am
“Mary Worth” is obviously headed into the territory plowed by the short-lived Brady Bunch drama “The Bradys” in which Marcia gets behind the wheel of a car intoxicated. I only hope this tale proves to be the same kind of experience that will teach, move our hearts, and speak to something inside, not only lushes, but all of us.
Hogenmogen
September 19th, 2006 at 9:34 am
#38, benro, it says “a gross of Advil” you know, the pain reliever stuff.
To cure Aldo’s alcoholism, he should just play a round of golf with Von and Ben Franklin from GT.
roydrink
September 19th, 2006 at 9:41 am
ATTENTION!
Family Circus – made me laugh today! As a sufferer of dyslexia, I completely know where that question came from.
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060919&name=Family_Circus
Popeye – with the latest news about spinach, he’s gone cold turkey and has the DTs.
benro
September 19th, 2006 at 9:43 am
ADVIL!! Of course… Never Mind.
Rose
September 19th, 2006 at 10:12 am
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060919&name=Family_Circus
Like manatee.
shnubby
September 19th, 2006 at 10:21 am
So, the Aldo-terist is moonlighting as a security guard in RMMD?
SmartPeopleOnIce
September 19th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Whoa, COTW. I luff you guys! (sniff).
Alas, it’s not the first time I’ve exploited a furry animal for personal gain, and I can’t imagine it will be the last.
And the bear helped too (ba-boom!).
mon-ma-tron
September 19th, 2006 at 10:39 am
Good luck, Dingo!
Buckle up like Aldo, and save the Johnny for the truck stops!
SmartPeopleOnIce
September 19th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Speaking of exploiting furry animals…
Allright Elrod, if you’re going to recycle a 2000 year old plot device (see: A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi) and you’re going to reuse artwork them I’m gonna say it again: MOLLY IS HUMPING ANDY!
pelagius
September 19th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Baldo: For anyone who might not be tuned in – TEENAGE BOYS MASTURBATE IN THE SHOWER.
MW:
Yeah, the other day I got invited to a
partyinterventionBut I stayed home instead
Just me and my pal Johnny Walker
And his brothers, Black and Red
teenybopper
September 19th, 2006 at 11:28 am
TDIET: wow, I never expected to go through a mid-life crisis at 16, but I remember getting ready for my first date at 15, so I must be getting old. Damn! And I only just learned to drive, too!
plugged
September 19th, 2006 at 11:38 am
So now we know that the cheif plugger not only has little understandig of teh concept of what is a plugger (as do we all) but also that he has no concept of what identity thieves are looking for.
frippy
September 19th, 2006 at 11:50 am
Today’s Mallard Fillmore is great if you substitute the text with Aldo’s soliloquy in today’s Mary Worth:
http://pics.livejournal.com/frippy/pic/0000ga53/
Old Fogeyette
September 19th, 2006 at 11:55 am
GOOD LUCK, Dingo! And also with the stop in Indiana.
Let us know when you get back.
AhClem
September 19th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
Stone Soup: What exactly is going on in that last panel?
In our paper, Stone Soup appears directly above Mallard Fillmore. If that damn duck looks up and sees what’s going on, the tirades will spew forth like shit through a goose.
xerxes
September 19th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
I learned something while flying back from Reykjavik the other day and glancing at a neighbor’s newspaper. Hagar the Horrible is infinitely more enjoyable in Icelandic.
Of course, not being a math prodigy, I’m not sure what infinity times zero is exactly. Is it a quantifiable number?
Chromium
September 19th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
In other news, today’s Garfield is, um… surprisingly risque. And slightly creepy.
bootsybooks
September 19th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Good luck, Dingo!
What is Jack Elrod’s issue with animal size? Small rodents gain enormous stature, Molly is a minibear, and Andy the dog has a head bigger than the horse!
Hoyt also carries a POW POW gun. No one is Lost Forest has real hardware. And now he’s shootin’ at Mark Trail’s dog! That’s just wrong.
And Spider-Man, what an idiot. He can’t tell when a real bad guy, OK, a butler with an attitude, is behind him with a pipe about to bash his head in, but when he’s in bed with MJ, his spidey sense just won’t stop tingling. Maybe that’s not spidey sense?
Hogenmogen
September 19th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
#57, Chrom – are you suggesting the sock drawer is where Jon keeps his anal lube and 3 hp dildo? Maybe the ladies from Stone Soup (see #55) with their chest-bumping and lips so dangerously close to one another’s will want to borrow it for the weekend.
treedweller
September 19th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
#55 they’re doing a “chest bump.” Though when I first read “chest bumps,” I was thinking about how theses women didn’t really have much in that area.
#56 any number times zero is zero.
Beavispants
September 19th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
#56 and #60 — re infinity times zero:
There are expressions in calculus called “indeterminate forms”. One of those indeterminate forms is infinity times zero. What does “indeterminate” mean in this context? Essentially, that you don’t know the answer just from the form of the question alone, and more work is required. The final answer depends on the problem.
I’m sure that was both more prosaic and more needlessly informative than you wanted, but there you go. More information about indeterminate forms can be found on the internet.
BTW, infinity is considered not to be a real number, but there are still calculus problems containing expressions that approach infinity.
Hogenmogen
September 19th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
So my take on this Aldo intervention is thus:
1) Mary and Toby cooked up the plan, Mary went through with it, got terribly guilt ridden, is now showing signs of being smug and proud of it, but will revert to feeling bad probably by next week.
2) A group of one acquaintance and three strangers that tell you to quit it means that you will go cold turkey on whatever it is they tell you.
3) Intervention in stalking will only lead to another intervention, but this time with drinking.
4) A bland ad for Bombay, no matter how prominently featured, will only drive the customer to drink Johnny Walker.
It’s been posted before that Johnny Walker didn’t have a “yellow label”. There is a Johnny Walker Gold, aged 18 years. Seems that although Aldo has no discernable income, lousy taste in clothes and women, he has quite expensive taste in liquor. It does, however, come in a clear bottle, and the bottle featured in the strip appears brown. The only other explanation I have is that he’s really just drinking tequilla, and “Johnny” is his gay ex-lover.
frippy
September 19th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
While the first thing that came to my mind was a certain brand of Scotch whiskey, I later thought that perhaps “Johnny” might be short for the old-fashioned nickname for alcohol, John Barleycorn.
Hogenmogen
September 19th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
I take that back! Although Johnnie Walker Red and Black have clear bottles, it seems as the Gold comes in a brown bottle. However, Aldo’s reference to “Johnny” is inconsistent with the spelling of “Johnnie Walker”. And, by the way, the Gold label is best served only after having been in the freezer for 24 hours and accompanied by a chocolate dessert. More information on high fallutin’ liquors can be found on the internet.
King Dogmeat
September 19th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
# 14: Don’t despair. They still make Night Train.
Hogenmogen
September 19th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
Or, maybe it is a clear bottle after all. This picture is ambiguous.
MJ1066
September 19th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Baldo: When I read the strip in my local paper, I realized that the thing in Baldo’s hand was, indeed, a shampoo bottle. It had what looked like “Shampoo” in cursive writing on it. I couldn’t read the lettering in the online Houston Chronicle version of the strip. It looks like Baldo used shampoo lather to add hair, a nose, and a mouth.
xerxes
September 19th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Thanks, #61. They never covered that in “Math For Communication, Theatre Arts and Physical Education Majors.” I’ll bet if I started reading “Cathy” in Spanish, I might finally start to understand sub-sub-atomic particles.
smacky
September 19th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
MT: Today’s strip is solely to confirm that Hoyt is the BAD GUY in this strip, if kicking chickens wasn’t obvious enough. On one hand, he’s within his rights to save his hives from bears, on the other, he and his buddies just put at least three shots into Andy (who, don’t worry, will never die). A stray bullet had to have hit one of his other dogs too. I doubt Molly was hit at all. She’s wearing a vest made of dogs! Hoyt’s popping dogs to get to the chewy bear center.
Anonymous
September 19th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
More information on L’Hopital’s rule can be found on the internet.
Ran
September 19th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Hey, don’t be so quick to judge! Maybe Aldo works at the liquor store and is just going to work early. Or maybe he just stopped in for directions to a church or something. You guys read Mary Worth and all start thinking like old busybodies, ascribing the worst motives to everyone. Sheesh!
TransplantDuck
September 19th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
#55–Stone Soup is drawn by Eugene,Ore.,artist Jan Elliott,who doubtless wishes to remind Oregon Ducks not to take their college sports as seriously as a certain university’s Swooners. I think Mallard Fillmore would have been tarred and feathered when I was an undergraduate there,had not his initial layer of feathers already made it superflous.Maybe just tarring with a broad brush would have been sufficient.
Perry
September 19th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Why is Mark Trail’s dog shouting “Pow Pow” at Hoyt, who is shouting “Pow” back? Is this some kind of secret form of man/dog communication?
Perry
September 19th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
57: I assumed that his sock drawer is where Jon keeps his porn. His ‘veterinarians in chains’ porn.
Hogenmogen
September 19th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
I don’t know what Baldo is up to in the shower today – or maybe I know all too well but will pretend that I don’t – but I found a clear HIPPA violation on Saturday. He should sue that nurse, not pay her.
Hogenmogen
September 19th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
#71 – Ran, that’s an interesting take on it. But I think you’re out of date by a day at least. Aldo is clearly chugging down a bottle of fine Scotch Blend Whiskey. What he needs is a chaser from his good Buddy Weiser.
Hogenmogen
September 19th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
And on the subject of fine liquor, I actually DID find more information on the internet, and the Cardinals don’t seem to be alone in their appreciation of Bombay.
rich
September 19th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Funky Winkerbean: Crazy Harry has a ponytail?!
…not so crazy.
Dark Star
September 19th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Today’s MW:
What are the odds that the Radio is Aldo’s car is playing George Thorogood and The Destroyer’s “I Drink Alone”
Christopher
September 19th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
Speaking of Mallard Fillmore, if the punchline is that the Iranians are laughing their heads off at us, then why is the presumably Iranian fellow in the strip just standing there with no particular expression?
Is it like, a meta-joke about Iranian taciturnity? Is the art from the Iranian version of Pluggers, which had the caption “A
PluggerIranian Cracking Up?”On a different note, I’m assuming that that’s supposed to be Iranian President Ahmadinejad, but when has he ever worn a tangerine polo shirt with a leather vest?
Actually, looking again, I suppose Tinsley might have meant to draw a sports jacket, but the colorist accidentally coloured in a highlight (Although… what kind of sports jacket has such huge highlights? Is the President overly fond of sequins, or is Tinsley just too lazy to ink in the entie jacket?), at which point I have the same complaint, but with the colorist.
Seriously, who colors the daily strips, and have they ever seen another human being in their entire lives?
This question doesn’t just apply to Mallard Fillmore.
Oh, and before I forget: Is that art of Ahmadinejad re-used from an earlier strip? Because that might explain why it doesn’t match the joke at all, but my google-fu is too weak to find old Fillmore strips about Iran.
Anonymous
September 19th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Re: 71, 76, 79 – The only one who’ll put up with him, is his dear Old Granddad.
trubbaman
September 19th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
#56 and #60
that reminds me of an old Emo Phillips joke:
“How much did you love me when we first met?”
“Zero”
“And how about now?”
“A million times more”
cheech wizard
September 19th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Though it’s often pretty lame, there are times when Cow and Boy is exquisitely deranged – Sunday’s is a case in point:
http://www.comics.com/comics/cowandboy/archive/cowandboy-20060917.html
Cow’s cannibalistic delerium earlier last week was pretty twisted as well:
http://www.comics.com/comics/cowandboy/archive/cowandboy-20060912.htm
Cow is definitely off her meds – the artwork sometimes makes her look absolutely hideous, which only adds to the effect. This is one of those strips that I originally disliked, but am gradually coming around to see its merits. Anyone else?
Oh, and pardon the lack of html skills.
Len
September 19th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
#83 — Cow is a female, so calling herself “Amen-Ra” is gender confusion, at best. Her headdress leads me to believe that she saw a picture of either Isis or Hathor as inspiration. I suppose a “Hat-whore” is even more intensly attracted to chappaux than a “Hat-man.”
AppleGirl
September 19th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
MF – Um, I don’t think that’s a rendering of an Iranian gentleman in that strip. I think it’s supposed to be Abraham Lincoln. Although what Abraham Lincoln has to do with the joke, I couldn’t guess. To me, Mallard Fillmore is always extremely surreal, I would have to be in an altered state to get the joke, and I haven’t smoked that much dope since 1973.
2fs
September 19th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
#68: The print edition of The Onion actually does feature “Cathy” in Spanish. It’s much funnier that way – especially if you don’t read Spanish.
Anonymous
September 20th, 2006 at 12:32 am
#68 xerxes,
Don’t feel bad. I was keeping my options open early in college and, despite ending up with an English degree, I took calculus for science majors. And I have no idea what Beavispants was talking about.
Not that I dispute it. Now that it’s come up, I remember that I am aware of the existence of theoretical numbers, and theoretically one of them could be defined as a number that can be multiplied by zero and give a result other than zero. If you take an infinite set and multiply it by that number, then by zero, you would get some result other than zero. But I think you probably have to be the sort of person who took about 9 semesters of college math to care about any of that. For most of us, x times zero equals zero. Then again, maybe Icelanders feel a closer kinship to vikings, being from the same general part of the world, and could never understand why Hagar was so stupid, so they made him a mathmetician.
More information about Iceland can be found on the Internet.
rich
September 20th, 2006 at 10:09 am
80, 85: I thought it was supposed to be Bill Murray!
Eric
September 20th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
I was going to say that TDIET is the “bad comic” of the comics – you know, like “And WHAT is the DEAL with this AIRLINE FOOD, huh?” or “Black people are all like this but white people are all like that” and the like.
But then it occurred to me that’d probably be a step up in comedy level for TDIET.
treedweller
September 20th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
#89 Eric, If I may refine your theory a bit, I propose the people who enjoy the bad comedian then submit his bad comedy to TDIET.
Incidentally, we may have reached some of the 1970’s backlog strips; instead of a vibrating-belt machine, it was a treadmill. That would make the bad comedian who told the joke that someone submitted for this TDIET . . . Gallagher?