Just when I thought they couldn’t top the whole crystal meth thing
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Mary Worth, 12/2/04
“Sure, I’ve been married for years, now, but … hey, yoga instructor! Bendy!”
If your nickname is “the menace,” maybe you shouldn’t be talking to the cops
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Dennis the Menace, 12/1/04
You can that tell he wants to, though. Look at the little smile on his face. Heck, what’s the point of being a cop if those P.C. jerks downtown tell you that you can’t haul a broad in just for being mouthy? I tell you, this country’s been heading downhill ever since the Miranda ruling.
However, if we’re going to be arbitrarily arresting children, I think you ought to take a closer look at Dennis, there, officer. Check out those “droopy drawers” on him. That’s so he can hide his “gat” in the back. He’s even wearing a gang color (it’s red, so he’s in the “Bloods”). Better take him downtown and rough him up a little, just to be sure.
Believe it or not, this is the first time I’ve done Dennis the Menace in IRTCSYDHT, so it’s my first opportunity to ask: Hank Ketchum’s dead, right? I mean, I remember when he died. I thought to myself, “Ah, soon there will be no more Dennis the Menace in the paper.” But it kept coming, so I thought “Ah, he must have already submitted a bunch of strips to the syndicate.” That was at least five years ago. It’s not even “Classic Dennis the Menace.” So, um, what’s the deal? Every once in a while, I think about it and it creeps me out.
Metapost: Month-end roundup
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As November draws to a close, let’s take a fond look back at some of the bizarre and offensive search terms that brought you here: “feminism and cathy comic,” “free picture of charlie brown sighing from peanuts” (always they want the free things, you’ll notice), “slamming meth” (can some tweaker out there please explain to me what this phrase means?), “worst comic strips one big happy” (I didn’t say it, I’m just reporting it), “foppish,” “apologies to dagwood and blondie,” “snuffy smith stereotype” (he sure is!), “unnerving search term watch” (let’s get meta, shall we?), and “i hate mondays and dilbert.” And linkbacks go to the good people at Distance, Redefined, SecretPlans.org, and the amusingly named joshrocket.net (touch my joshrocket!).