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Willy ‘n Ethel, 10/21/04

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Here’s what I want out of you, Willy ‘n Ethel: Jokes about the many reasons that and ways in which Willy gets fired, jokes about how fat and/or unpleasant Ethel’s sister is, jokes about how stupid Willy is, jokes about how lazy Willy is, and jokes about how Ethel can’t believe she’s married to Willy. I also want passing mentions of the names of Willy and Ethel’s pets (Bondo and Dogmeat), and strips in which Willy attempts to teach his nephew something and only ends up illustrating his own ignorance. (I know this last type of joke falls into the category of “jokes about how stupid Willy is,” but I like these strips and feel that they deserve a separate mention.)

Now, here’s what I don’t want out of you: Jokes about feeding mountains of corpses, or perhaps still-living condemned human beings, into hellish industrial machinery in order to reprocesses the very flesh and bones of our fellow men and women into some mysterious end-product that we either knowingly or unknowingly consume, implicating each one of us in this awful crime and transforming existence into a ghastly cannibalistic deathscape.

I don’t really think that’s a lot to ask, honestly.

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B.C., 10/20/04

OK, so I keep trying to make sense out of the continuing B.C. presidential race and keep failing. Is it just “ha ha, politicians are stupid and/or funny?” Or is it supposed to be a metaphor for ours? Obviously the current candidate who most fits the “linguistically challenged” category is Bush; so is this an attempt to link Kerry with “elitist grammarians,” possibly the most hated group in America today? Does the interrobang represent Kerry’s oft-mention flip-flopping ways? Or … or … what the hell?

Still got all those birds in the background, though. B.C.’s always got the background birds covered.

Not to sound like a despised elitist grammarian myself, but I defy anyone to explain the punctuation in the second panel to me — particularly the ellipsis and the em dash.

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Earlier today, IRTCSYDHT was subjected to a puzzling series of posts touting the quality of a particular Web site’s online Texas Hold ‘Em tournament matches. While this information may be interesting to some, I deemed it to be non-comic-related and therefore purged it. I also changed some of the settings of the blog so that, if a comment contains certain suspect phrases, it goes into a queue that I have to moderate, which, since I have no life and spend much of my day in front of the computer, I will do in fairly short order. So what I’m saying is, if you try to post a comment and it doesn’t appear right away, particularly if it contains words or phrases like “Texas” or “Hold ‘Em” or “Texas Hold ‘Em” or “OH MY GOD I HAD SEX WITH MY DOG,” don’t panic: if it’s legit, it’ll show up soon.