I think this works as absurdist in either of two ways:
1. The interviewer isn’t reacting to the interviewee’s wearing a
banana costume.
2. The job is wearing a banana costume, but they’re doing a
normal interview.
But my first reaction to the question was, “You have to be
bananas to want to work there.”
Noodle Incident?
He heard something about the job that makes him believe dressing as a banana in a job interview would be advantageous. And the interviewer is asking how he came about that (probably correct) idea. We the readers are left to wonder what the heck could be the nature of this job and how this could have come about.
Whatever the recruiter said, the job must have APEELED to him. Or perhaps it just SLIPPED his mind to take off his banana suit that he likes to wear while hanging around with a bunch of his friends. If so, he should SPLIT.
I’m with Arthur’s last comment – you have to be bananas to want to work there!
I’m still trying to figure out those three short vertical slashes after “So” in the text bubble.
The job involves wearing a banana suit, so the recruiter went out and looked until finding someone who was already wearing a banana suit, and then sent him over.
“They told me they wanted a banana that looked like Hitler. So, do I get the job?”
I think it’s just what it seems like. The interviewer is thinking that the recruiter must have said something that gave an unusual impression to the applicant — the interviewer is wondering what the applicant was told that made him believe that wearing a banana outfit was a good idea.
Wait, you mean wearing a banana suit to all interviews ISN’T normal behavior?
I’ll have to rethink the money I budgeted for that off-brand “Dress for Success” seminar. . .
Beerslayer, I think the vertical slashes are supposed to be commas, indicating a long pause, which in turn indicates that the interviewer wasn’t expecting this and is intrigued.
@ Mark M – Or it might be an ellipsis that was drawn so thick that the ink dripped. ;-)
Arthur’s third comment for the win!
I think John Deering has made up his own punctuation mark, which is an ellipsis made out of commas. I’m not entirely sure what it’s supposed to mean.
They said dress for the position you want, and I want to be second banana.
The joke is the interviewer is using a very indirect and seemingly casual way of asking “Why the heck are you wearing that costume?”
Recalling an article somewhere about casting television shows. They were auditioning an actress for a housewife part. She came over on her lunch break from a Star Trek shoot in full alien makeup, gave an utterly straight audition, and hurried back to the other gig. It didn’t say if she got the part.
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I think this works as absurdist in either of two ways:
1. The interviewer isn’t reacting to the interviewee’s wearing a
banana costume.
2. The job is wearing a banana costume, but they’re doing a
normal interview.
But my first reaction to the question was, “You have to be
bananas to want to work there.”
Noodle Incident?
He heard something about the job that makes him believe dressing as a banana in a job interview would be advantageous. And the interviewer is asking how he came about that (probably correct) idea. We the readers are left to wonder what the heck could be the nature of this job and how this could have come about.
Whatever the recruiter said, the job must have APEELED to him. Or perhaps it just SLIPPED his mind to take off his banana suit that he likes to wear while hanging around with a bunch of his friends. If so, he should SPLIT.
I’m with Arthur’s last comment – you have to be bananas to want to work there!
I’m still trying to figure out those three short vertical slashes after “So” in the text bubble.
The job involves wearing a banana suit, so the recruiter went out and looked until finding someone who was already wearing a banana suit, and then sent him over.
“They told me they wanted a banana that looked like Hitler. So, do I get the job?”
I think it’s just what it seems like. The interviewer is thinking that the recruiter must have said something that gave an unusual impression to the applicant — the interviewer is wondering what the applicant was told that made him believe that wearing a banana outfit was a good idea.
Wait, you mean wearing a banana suit to all interviews ISN’T normal behavior?
I’ll have to rethink the money I budgeted for that off-brand “Dress for Success” seminar. . .
Beerslayer, I think the vertical slashes are supposed to be commas, indicating a long pause, which in turn indicates that the interviewer wasn’t expecting this and is intrigued.
@ Mark M – Or it might be an ellipsis that was drawn so thick that the ink dripped. ;-)
Arthur’s third comment for the win!
I think John Deering has made up his own punctuation mark, which is an ellipsis made out of commas. I’m not entirely sure what it’s supposed to mean.
They said dress for the position you want, and I want to be second banana.
The joke is the interviewer is using a very indirect and seemingly casual way of asking “Why the heck are you wearing that costume?”
Recalling an article somewhere about casting television shows. They were auditioning an actress for a housewife part. She came over on her lunch break from a Star Trek shoot in full alien makeup, gave an utterly straight audition, and hurried back to the other gig. It didn’t say if she got the part.
It’s peanut butter jelly time!
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