Metapost: A young man’s fancy turns to the comments of the week
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It’s full-on spring now, and the comments are blooming into this fine comment of the week!
“The boys are fine … The hub’s fine too. By which I mean, Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, or ATL, the primary hub of Delta Airlines, is impressive. Considering how many flights come through there every hour, it’s a wonder of efficiency and professionalism. It makes the passenger’s layover practically enjoyable! …Anyway, the boys asked about you, because they don’t have a father.” –Chance
That metaphor … didn’t really work? Anyway, spring, nice weather, blah blah, these runners up are very funny
“It’s cool that Hi wants to do the Harpo thing and watch this all unfold while just making dumb expressions, but can we get this man a slide whistle? A bike horn? Something? ‘We’re getting drinks with these guys, see you whenever we’re done! ‘HONK … honk.’” –A Grave Mind
“I like him because he’s literally anyone other than a member of my horrible family!” –Peanut Gallery
“Maybe you should buy multiple copies of the newspaper. That way, everyone could get their own and you wouldn’t have to do … whatever this is.” –Joe Blevins
“I hate that ‘Bean’s End’ is the catalog Crankshaft orders gardening supplies from when there are real-life and quite famous catalogs for L.L.Bean and Land’s End, neither of which are gardening companies. Puns are nominally your whole thing! Nobody made you give up cancer, that was your choice!” –Dan
“Golf on the radio! Could anything be more boring? What about golf on video streaming, but the camera only records the journalist?” –Ettorre
“Look, I get it, it’s golf, the lingo is what it is, but when a guy whose last name is Moon and who dresses like Don Johnson Goes to Margaritaville uses the phrase ‘nine holes of stroke play,’ I feel like maybe it’s time to put down the comics page and take in a rousing morning’s church service. Confessional, here I come!” –els
“Because those are petroglyphs and they predate written language by thousands of years, Leroy, you doorknob. No wonder your marriage is a shambles!” –Tabby Lavalamp
“So that’s why Sharon has been so busy — she’s serving aboard the Starship Enterprise as a science officer.” –Johnny lt
“Knowing that Dustdad’s bitter, misanthropic attitude stems from his feelings of being lost and adrift in a world that’s moving too fast for him makes me … happy that he’s suffering, really. I hope every day a new app comes out that he doesn’t know how to use. I hope every child that crosses his path runs up to him, yells ‘six-seven’ and runs away laughing while he loudly demands to know what that means. I hope the teller at the bank asks him for the security password he set for his account and he doesn’t remember it.” –TheDiva
“Being asked to prove his humanity with a CAPTCHA is an existential crisis for a man who spent decades avoided the least bit of self-reflection.” –Philip
“Granted it has been a long time since I’ve sent in an actual paper tax return, but should it fit so nicely in a little envelope like that? Or maybe CatMan simply writes ‘I do not recognize the authority of your False Corporatist Government’ on a sheet of paper along with a scanned copy of his signed social security card.” –pugfuggly
“Lonnie sells office Dieffenbachia houseplants. ‘Look how big and healthy it is! We can’t seem to get them to die. I’m afraid we won’t be ordering any replacements this season, sorry.’” –Ukulele Ike
“Jesus, Thirsty, just file an extension. It’s a signature, a Social Security Number, and you’ll have until October 15. You can sober up by October.” –Doc Wonmug
“Henry is concentrating so hard because if he can get a tax refund, he’ll finally be able to afford a vacuum cleaner so Alice doesn’t have to sweep the house with a cartoon witch’s broomstick any more.” –Schroduck
“Every year the baseball season begins a little earlier. It’s been a long time indeed since it began in mid-April. How long? Well, it was back when the creators of Blondie were paying attention to outside reality. That’s how long.” –Rube
“Wait, so this guy is a young man? He doesn’t look like it, he looks the same approximate age as Dagwood, or maybe even older. If he is young, why is he hanging out with Dagwood, who holds young people in contempt? Anyway don’t let this man’s ambiguous age distract you from his desire to fuck a baseball player, or possibly a baseball.” –Vulpes
“We all gas on the Bumsteads’ weird living room arrangement — Blondie’s tiny chair, turned 90 degrees away from Dagwood etc. — but if my choices were whatever weird gastronomic reality TV perversion Dagwood’s been ‘binging’ lately or a green–blue shimmering void, I’d choose the void too.” –Charterstone: Dune
“Oh look, Andy Capp finally passed the Bechdel Test after all these years.” –Gordogato
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17 replies to “Metapost: A young man’s fancy turns to the comments of the week”
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Dirk Twacy Hollistic Defective: “Is 48 hours enough to stall the plot without losing our audience?”
Thanks for the mention, Josh, and congratulations to all
Congrats Chance and the other runner-ups.
Chance, yes, congrats on your coveted COTW award but even more, for the promotion you inevitably received for so adeptly advertising your employers services. We’ll use Harts field -Jackson Atlanta first chance we get.
Way to go, Chance et al. Here are the Scroters:
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Bob Tice
April 11th, 2026 at 4:35 am Reply
FC:
“Give me that ‘Silly Philly’ book!”
“No way! — you can read ‘Rantin’ Scranton,’ ”Leery Erie,’ or ‘Dreading Reading’ !”
Hibbleton
April 11th, 2026 at 4:45 am Reply
FC: Billy doesn’t quite understand it but he finds the whole brotherly love thing intriguing.
Liam
April 11th, 2026 at 5:49 am Reply
FC-“Alright,” Billy exclaims, “I’m finally old enough to see an adult film.”
Anonymous
April 11th, 2026 at 7:27 am
FC- “A double header? You mean ‘Silly Philly’ blows two guys? Oh boys!”
pugfuggly
April 11th, 2026 at 4:49 am Reply
FC: Oh Dolly, you know that Billy can’t enjoy the movie theater since they put his head on backwards.
MW: So I guess that it’s not enough for Mary to recap every storyline with Dr Jeff at the end, we now have to pause mid-plot for Mary to summarize events to her cat. I know that the median reader for this strip isn’t young, but it feels a bit rude to assume they’re in the mid-stages of dementia.
Dennis Jimenez
April 11th, 2026 at 6:23 am Reply
MW – Can you crack the MW code today? Big Amount “Trixie” Meow Lonely Misses Can….
TheDiva
April 11th, 2026 at 7:41 am Reply
MW: I’m wondering if Dr. Jeff is in danger of being permanently replaced as Mary’s adoring audience. On the one hand, Muffin will never ask for her hand in marriage, or any physical contact more intimate than a kiss on the cheek. On the other, Muffin can’t pick up the tab at the Bum Boat and doesn’t have a yacht.
CanuckDownSouth
April 11th, 2026 at 4:51 am Reply
MW Muffin, I was trying to help! Why didn’t you tell me you were running the romance scam business and didn’t *want* Harv’s family to come investigate?!
A Grave Mind
April 11th, 2026 at 4:39 am Reply
“Muffin, I was trying to help!” straight-up sounds like Mary got called to the carpet on this. So Muffin is sentient. And disapproving. This tracks. Now she just needs to use her telekinetic powers to fix football games, as sentient cats do.
Dr. Larry Erhardt
April 11th, 2026 at 10:02 am Reply
Just now realizing that Mary Worth named her cat “Muffin.” That’s a bit on the nose, isn’t it? It’s like Dagwood naming his dog “Sandwich,” or Dick Tracy naming his parakeet “Suspect shot while attempting to flee.”
Maude R. Fawker
April 11th, 2026 at 9:32 am Reply
Mary Worth: “I was trying to help,” the meddler says with a sigh as she strokes her Muffin. “He’s lonely.”
I speak Jive
April 11th, 2026 at 9:31 am Reply
Mary Worth – I’m seriously concerned that Mary’s meddling abilities have collapsed. HH is so deluded that he can’t grasp that Trixie isn’t real. Plus there’s the so far unmentioned to Sharon bombshell that he lost $200,000 and change to a scam. Mary’s solution to all this is for HH and his daughter to “reconnect.” I think that something broke in Mary during that last meddle, when she had to justify to Ian Cameron that he should be overjoyed to have those fucking parrots in his house, even when they chewed up his belongings and pooped in his shoes. Meddler, heal thyself.
lynn
April 11th, 2026 at 4:56 am Reply
MW: Should we be concerned that Mary thinks a father/daughter relationship is a more than equivalent substitute for a sexual relationship?
Charterstoned
April 11th, 2026 at 5:19 am Reply
@lynn: MW: Should we be concerned that Mary thinks a father/daughter relationship is a more than equivalent substitute for a sexual relationship?
No. We should be concerned that MOY thinks that.
MKay
April 11th, 2026 at 4:52 am Reply
MW: Mary is somehow intimidated by Senor Cravat. She was terrified when he blew up, and now she’s seeking validation from the cat. Is the old girl losing her moxie?
RMMD: “Truck’s finger scare was front page news!”
Professor Well Actually
April 11th, 2026 at 5:08 am Reply
RMMD: motel guy is clearly stoned. Will Mae Mae find the cannabis garden?
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 11th, 2026 at 12:32 pm Reply
RMMD: Sarah Morgan certainly made a headline or three, although they read like a mass hallucination on the part of the newspaper staff.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
The Quiet Man
April 11th, 2026 at 4:41 am Reply
GT: Well, I guess nearly seeing the world come to an end last week stiffened the spine of the syndicate sufficiently to let these strips which were clearly held back and nearly canceled run.
pugfuggly
April 12th, 2026 at 4:53 am Reply
RMMD: Another exciting Rex Morgan, M.D. strip, where our characters take a whole 8 panels to say “Huh?”, “What?“, “Nevermind”
Maltmash3r
April 12th, 2026 at 5:05 am Reply
RMMD- Today’s strip demonstrates the drawback of the comic medium. As i recall, a few days ago, Mud was mentioning he could help her with weight loss if she wanted. In the written form, not the best pickup line ever used.
matt w
April 12th, 2026 at 5:11 am Reply
Why does Truck ask “Anybody I’d know?” Would he expect to know someone from Fergus’s hometown? Is Fergus from some future celebrity incubator where the kids are assigned birth names like “Mae Mae Clodfelter” so they have a cool trivia fact when they change them?
Tabby Lavalamp
April 12th, 2026 at 8:23 am Reply
A single microphone and a couple of amps in the living room isn’t a “home recording studio,” Truck.
A Grave Mind
April 12th, 2026 at 4:27 am Reply
Oh, God, Jordan’s. Don’t walk her home, Mud! It’ll be a week of talking about Jordan’s, then talking about walking! Then you’ll notice your muddy boots, and write a song about them that rips off a song that you’ve already written!
“I like Garfield because there’s a version of it without him!” – Every Dustin Character At Once
Victor Von
April 12th, 2026 at 7:03 am Reply
Dustin: No one has ever said, “I like Garfield because he’s like me.” We might think it, but saying it would give most people a lethal dose of embarrassment. I guess Dustin’s family has been building up their resistance over time.
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 12th, 2026 at 8:35 am Reply
Dustin: Garfield is the spirit animal for the entire Kudlick family, and for his sake I hope he’s insulated from that knowledge.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Ken
April 12th, 2026 at 4:40 am Reply
Say what you want about MG&G, the most disturbing comic I’m seeing on the Curmudgeon site today is the the left sidebar ad, which is serving up “6 Weird Home Remedies for a UTI” accompanied by a sketch of a naked woman with a lily flower in place of her genitals.
Hibbleton
April 12th, 2026 at 5:46 am Reply
MW: Gotta hand it to Moy. She worked the heterological word long into the story as an inside joke. John Long’s part in the story is very short. That, or she was inspired by a word-a-day calendar.
Charterstoned
April 12th, 2026 at 7:06 am Reply
MW: Sharon’s giraffe neck shows to awesome advantage in that Star Trek Science Department uniform shirt. If she inherited that neck from Harv, it’s no wonder he wears that ascot.
CanuckDownSouth
April 12th, 2026 at 5:25 am Reply
MW Well, despite the initial “it’s a big chunk of change” as the scam payment was done looks like Ascot Dude could absorb the 200k hit pretty well, he appears completely unworried now. The lesson learned is that the scammers shouldn’t have stopped but instead asked for more $$ for Trixie’s recovery!
FC (Dolly grabs the compass and runs to another room) Look! Now North is there, and South is there, and … that points back to where you said was the center – no, for now *I* am the center, not *you*! But, but then… are there *multiple* centers? Is… is that even *possible* by definition?? is there then *no* center?? (collapses in an existential crisis)
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Deadly Goon Bugs
April 12th, 2026 at 5:46 am Reply
Starting Monday Hi and Lois are I’ll be replaced with Cucks and Cougars.
ValdVin
April 12th, 2026 at 5:41 am Reply
H&L: This clever use of foursome would get accepted the Hays Code.
Pozzo
April 12th, 2026 at 5:25 am Reply
H&L: What’s with the multiple flags on the green? Is this a new take on miniature golf? I miss the windmill!
TheDiva
April 12th, 2026 at 7:12 am Reply
H&L: Is this a “Thirsty doesn’t want their wives playing with them because they’re women and therefore terrible at the sportyballs, even lame lazy sportyball like golf” thing, or a “Thirsty doesn’t want to play with them because he uses the golf course to escape his marriage” thing?
Lauralot
April 13th, 2026 at 5:03 am Reply
MW: Remember, women! It’s your job to soothe the bruised egos and emptied bank accounts of every man in your life!
Dennis Jimenez
April 13th, 2026 at 5:09 am Reply
Crank – I don’t really get this – like a niche mail order clothier has become a seed house? I think Ed sitting on a toilet jerking to a fifty year old Gurney’s catalog would make as much sense….
A Grave Mind
April 13th, 2026 at 4:42 am Reply
Pam is capable of enunciating silent “e,” so Ed totally can appreciate the joke, here.
Schroduck
April 13th, 2026 at 5:20 am Reply
Crankshaft: “When a package from Bean’s End arrives… it’s like Christmas in the spring! Also I’ve spent your inheritance hiring three prostitutes and we’re about to have a depraved orgy together.”
“Hoe! Hoe! Hoe!”
“They have names, you know.”
J.J. O’Malley
April 13th, 2026 at 6:12 am Reply
C’Shaft – Except that you’re buying it for yourself, Ed, and you already know what it is, so really it’s not like Christmas at all.
Oh, and Pmm? “Hoe, Hoe, Hoe” sounds exactly like “Ho, Ho, Ho,” so if you’re merely saying it out loud no one knows you’re trying to make a pun. Written plays on words often do not translate to the verbal medium.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Liam
April 13th, 2026 at 6:21 am Reply
FC-Will Mommy be getting a pearl necklace?
Gil Thorp-“It will be nine holes of stroke play.” Giggity.
But What Do I Know?
April 14th, 2026 at 4:50 am Reply
MW — “The boys want to go boating with you again. How is the HMS Trixie?”
Banana Jr. 6000
April 14th, 2026 at 4:49 am Reply
MW: It’s tax deadline day tomorrow. Is HH’s daughter even going to her the words “two hundred thousand dollars” before then? He shipped it to “Trixie” on March 23!
Hibbleton
April 14th, 2026 at 5:45 am Reply
MW: “Boys?” “About that, Troy is now Trixie.”
MKay
April 14th, 2026 at 4:51 am Reply
MW: What family is so dumb that they ignore and neglect their rich old boat-owning patriarch? Fortunately for them, H is pretty much a chump.
Ukranazi Stepan
April 14th, 2026 at 5:36 am Reply
When is Trixie going to knock on the door, admit the scam, and offer to spend the rest of his life working to refund Hardy Har Har his money?
Ettorre
April 14th, 2026 at 4:39 am Reply
“The boy asked about you. They asked ‘Mom, is it… is it hereditary?!’”
Bob Tice
April 14th, 2026 at 4:42 am Reply
MW:
“My ever-present ascots are all in the wash, so I decided to improvise with this kitchen tablecloth!”
Tabby Lavalamp
April 14th, 2026 at 5:37 am Reply
More like “What an ass-cot!” Ha ha! But seriously, Off-his-Rockerfeller, it’s been days now. Put on some clean clothes. Your daughter is here fresh from her job on the original Star Trek’s Enterprise and she’s wearing her nicest uniform.
Doc Wonmug
April 14th, 2026 at 6:18 am Reply
Looks like Thurston J. Ascot III’s daughter is an old school Trekkie. Maybe they can go to a con together.
Ken
April 14th, 2026 at 4:57 am Reply
MW: “The hub’s fine?” Damn, I was so hoping John “Trixie” Long would turn out to be Sharon’s missing husband. It would have been peak Mary Worth ridiculousness — no, I lie, I blocked the memory of the balloon rescue by telepathic dogs.
The Rambling Otter
April 14th, 2026 at 5:05 am Reply
Took me a while to figure out what “The Hub” meant.
I presumed she meant her house, but no, she apparently means her Husband/Hubby
This is falling into “Vendo” territory and I don’t like it.
Charterstoned
April 14th, 2026 at 4:36 am Reply
MW: Aaron and Sharon? No wonder she calls him The Hub.
Chance
April 14th, 2026 at 4:37 am Reply
“The boys are fine…. The hub’s fine too. By which I mean, Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, or ATL, the primary hub of Delta Airlines, is impressive. Considering how many flights come through there every hour, it’s a wonder of efficiency and professionalism. It makes the passenger’s layover practically enjoyable! …Anyway, the boys asked about you, because they don’t have a father.”
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
BigTed
April 15th, 2026 at 7:26 am Reply
Rex Morgan: “Sorry, but with the rising of beef and chicken, while customers are simultaneously looking to spend less on eating out, we just can’t see investing in a McDonald’s franchise at this time. So you may as well take your red-and-yellow-striped folder and go.”
Ukulele Ike
April 15th, 2026 at 7:40 am Reply
GT: Lucas Martin buys his golf clubs at the Big & Tall Men’s Shoppe.
MKay
April 16th, 2026 at 4:43 am Reply
RMMD: Dude, you should definitely be more concerned about being the last person left on Earth. (Don’t break your glasses!)
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Pozzo
April 16th, 2026 at 4:41 am Reply
DtM: Broom? Check! Apron? Check! Alice just needs a string of pearls to complete her ’50s mom cosplay.
pugfuggly
April 16th, 2026 at 4:50 am Reply
DtM I love the idea of Dennis as a kind of budding reaganite republican. It’s just too perfect.
Hibbleton
April 16th, 2026 at 5:45 am Reply
DtM: Henry fills out his tax forms with a fountain pen while Alice sweeps up with a corn broom. Dennis wants his Dad to take break so they can play some mumblety-peg together.
Marvin: I know bathroom jokes are the lowest form of humor but Bitsy squatting to take a shit right in the living room in P2 is such a commitment to the bit that you gotta admire it.
CS: Makes sense ’cause in the field it’s hard to find remote power for a sternum saw, I guess.
Tabby Lavalamp
April 16th, 2026 at 4:50 am Reply
I can appreciate the thought of Crankshaft having a heart attack on his lawn and bystanders trying to save him by performing surgery with garden tools. Sorry, “bystanders”? No, the neighbourhood would be running out their doors to stand in line for their turn.
Lorelei
April 16th, 2026 at 6:54 am Reply
Crankshaft: “No way am I going out like Vito Corleone.”
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Rube
April 16th, 2026 at 6:26 am Reply
Every year the baseball season begins a little earlier. It’s been a long time indeed since it began in mid-April. How long? Well, it was back when the creators of Blondie were paying attention to outside reality. That’s how long.
2+2=7
April 16th, 2026 at 7:46 am Reply
BLONDIE: Poor Dagwood is thinking, Sheesh! This is not how that guide book said it would play out! I knew I should have just went to the glory hole in the park restroom.
CanuckDownSouth
April 16th, 2026 at 4:43 am Reply
MW “Why would we think less of you for looking for love? That’s so normal that there are dating apps just for seniors, after all! It’s not as if looking for love means you’d be trying to hook up with someone younger than me or be so dumb as to spend piles of money courting someone you’ve never met who is completely out of your league”
Special Scrotal Awards to the Best No. 69 and Beyond of the Week
69. Anonymous
April 11th, 2026 at 8:01 am Reply
RMMD– “We’ve had some locals here make a headline or two…The Truck Tyler – Wanda Beehive wedding was the social event of the season! And last summer, the Spuds Morton paternity scandal rocked this town to it’s core! And earlier this year, it was ‘Surgeons botch appendectomy, Local boy demands ex-spleen-ation’. Yep, it can be a regular Santa Royal flush around here sometimes “.
69. Rosstifer
April 12th, 2026 at 8:39 am Reply
Nice meal don’t play golf, Thirstywife.
69. ValdVin
April 13th, 2026 at 6:51 am Reply
GT: I take back my jape about radio coverage of a HS golf tournament being the most meh thing ever.
Livestreaming a HS golf tournament thru a smartphone, without a camera at any tee or green, has that beat.
Special Scrotal Awards to the Best No. 69 and Beyond of the Week
69. Abram Beazer
April 14th, 2026 at 7:30 am Reply
Come on, Dustin’s dad. “I’m going to the bank because I can’t make a password”? That’s the lie of a man who wants to get caught having an affair.
69. Ken
April 15th, 2026 at 7:23 am Reply
MW: It just occurred to me — Sharon doesn’t know about the fake girlfriend or $200K since Mary didn’t tell her. And Harv doesn’t think there’s a problem, other than that he hasn’t heard from “Trixie”. So it’s possible we’ll have another week or so of idle chit-chat before they part without Sharon learning about the scam.
Though if that happens, Mary will undoubtedly still take a victory lap because she got them to reconnect.
Thanks, Scratchy!
Sex Organ V.D.:”Up….on that tv…it’s a bird! Its a blimp!It’s Me!Me! Starr!”