Or actually write out the html (hah? No-one makes you do that anymore) funny new yorker.
Woozy, I just now tested this in the Random Comments thread, and it seemed to work there the way we figured out earlier this year.
That was – – WP will display an image as *embedded* in your comment provided (1) you paste the URL as is, no extra Html, in particular no IMG tag, (2) it should be the URL of the image itself, not a containing page or something like that, (3) it should be URL for a standard image type in the final part of the URL, not a query code or anything funny.
But it looked like that’s what you were doing! I copied your URL and used it over in the Random Comments, and it worked fine, producing a comment with the image embedded right within it.
Hmm. So testing again here, maybe it depends on settings of different sections.
Of course, making a link with an A tag and short name, as you did, is a good choice if the target is more than an image, or if you don’t really want it embedded.
But when embedding does work, sometimes that is more satisfying when you are offering another cartoon for comparison or precedent.
Sigh, we need a preview option (and the preview option needs to use the same template code as the final comment display– it’s astonishing the number of blogs that have different conversion codes for the preview than for the final comment. Astonishingly dumb, if you think about it.)
So… sorry for the experiment.
Ooookay….. so … what did you do differently than I did do you think?
No protocol????? images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/bird-watchers-spot-a-bird-wearing-a-thong-mike-twohy.jpg
I kept the protocol, yes.
And probably on a new line.
For the record, I like the Speed Bump version much better: the New Yorker explains rather than shows the joke.
Next panel: First bird is thongless and singing.
Second bird: “What happened to the thong? And how are you singing?”
First bird: “The thong is ended but the melody lingers on.”
I guess I’m just dense, so bear with me…
Previously, on the Speed Bump:
Bird1: (not wearing a thong) Hi, I’m a thong bird!
Bird2: (to himself) what an unfortunate lisp.
On today’s episode of the Speed Bump, hear Bird2 say: But yesterday I thought you said you were a song bird…?
[roll opening credits]
Bird1: Song Bird? I never said I was a song bird…
Is this the correct setup for this panel? Am I understanding that part?
Because if so, I am not understanding that part! Why, if the bird is a thong bird, would he ever appear without his thong? And why would he then feel the need to explain he is a thongbird, if he isn’t actually wearing one? Maybe his thong was in the wash, but he wanted to make it clear that he normally wears a thong, because otherwise this other bird might get the wrong impression about him? OK, but then why, upon seeing him wearing a thong, would the other bird assume this somehow implies that he isn’t still a songbird? What is it about wearing a thong that this other bird would immediately think negates his understanding that this is a songbird? A songbird can’t wear a thong? Huh?? He would be thinking, “this songbird with a lisp is today wearing a thong, what’s up with that?” So if he feels compelled to comment on this, he would say something like, “why are you wearing a thong?” or “what’s with the thong?” or maybe even, jokingly/mockingly, “I see today you really ARE a thongbird!” But whatever he says, it would not merit the response we see. The only comment I can see meriting the extant response is something along the lines of, “I thought you said you were a songbird,” and it doesn’t make any sense for him to say anything like that…
The joke don’ work…
Maybe they were online friends and naked-bird has never actually seen thongbird before, just talked to them?
lark. They met a few times. The bird said he was a thong bird. The second bird doesn’t associate it with the garment the bird is wearing and hears it as a “song bird”. One day they meet and the second bird says “Let’s sing”. The thong bird says “I can’t sing”. The second bird says “I thought you said you were a song bird”.
Well, the new yorker cartoon was a caption contest winner. It’s a bit hard to believe the cartoonist didn’t have this in mind but maybe he was just seeing how many readers would pick up on it.
Was this perhaps timed to be an obtuse May the Fourth reference?
Thing a thong
… of sex pants
…snaked up a thigh
Thongs are mostly identifiable from the back (a string of fabric thru the crack, if you will-hence the “thong”), so both comics are dumb cause a regular pair of panties may look like that from the front.
Comics I Don't Understand 
It took me a while to figure out what the thongbird was talking about.
Thongbird and Wrongbird. Unfeatured in the black above the panel, bongbird.
I don’t get it…
So do thongbirds have thpeech impedimenth? (I’ve always thought it was cruel to call pronouncing “S” as “TH” a “lisp.”)
Yeah, I might have gone with:
Bird #2: “I thought you said you were a songbird.”
Bird #1: “I never thaid that.”
This was a New Yorker caption contest winner once.
Umm…. so what’d the could to leave a link? Just paste the url? https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/bird-watchers-spot-a-bird-wearing-a-thong-mike-twohy.jpg
Or actually write out the html (hah? No-one makes you do that anymore) funny new yorker.
Woozy, I just now tested this in the Random Comments thread, and it seemed to work there the way we figured out earlier this year.
That was – – WP will display an image as *embedded* in your comment provided (1) you paste the URL as is, no extra Html, in particular no IMG tag, (2) it should be the URL of the image itself, not a containing page or something like that, (3) it should be URL for a standard image type in the final part of the URL, not a query code or anything funny.
But it looked like that’s what you were doing! I copied your URL and used it over in the Random Comments, and it worked fine, producing a comment with the image embedded right within it.
Hmm. So testing again here, maybe it depends on settings of different sections.
Of course, making a link with an A tag and short name, as you did, is a good choice if the target is more than an image, or if you don’t really want it embedded.
But when embedding does work, sometimes that is more satisfying when you are offering another cartoon for comparison or precedent.
Okay, image tag
Image tag with a close tag
anchor (link tag) the new yorker cartoon
And just pasting the dang url: https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/bird-watchers-spot-a-bird-wearing-a-thong-mike-twohy.jpg
Sigh, we need a preview option (and the preview option needs to use the same template code as the final comment display– it’s astonishing the number of blogs that have different conversion codes for the preview than for the final comment. Astonishingly dumb, if you think about it.)
So… sorry for the experiment.
Ooookay….. so … what did you do differently than I did do you think?
No protocol????? images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/bird-watchers-spot-a-bird-wearing-a-thong-mike-twohy.jpg
On a line by itself:
Both?
images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/bird-watchers-spot-a-bird-wearing-a-thong-mike-twohy.jpg
On a line by itself….
I kept the protocol, yes.
And probably on a new line.
For the record, I like the Speed Bump version much better: the New Yorker explains rather than shows the joke.
Next panel: First bird is thongless and singing.
Second bird: “What happened to the thong? And how are you singing?”
First bird: “The thong is ended but the melody lingers on.”
I guess I’m just dense, so bear with me…
Previously, on the Speed Bump:
Bird1: (not wearing a thong) Hi, I’m a thong bird!
Bird2: (to himself) what an unfortunate lisp.
On today’s episode of the Speed Bump, hear Bird2 say:
But yesterday I thought you said you were a song bird…?
[roll opening credits]
Bird1: Song Bird? I never said I was a song bird…
Is this the correct setup for this panel? Am I understanding that part?
Because if so, I am not understanding that part! Why, if the bird is a thong bird, would he ever appear without his thong? And why would he then feel the need to explain he is a thongbird, if he isn’t actually wearing one? Maybe his thong was in the wash, but he wanted to make it clear that he normally wears a thong, because otherwise this other bird might get the wrong impression about him? OK, but then why, upon seeing him wearing a thong, would the other bird assume this somehow implies that he isn’t still a songbird? What is it about wearing a thong that this other bird would immediately think negates his understanding that this is a songbird? A songbird can’t wear a thong? Huh?? He would be thinking, “this songbird with a lisp is today wearing a thong, what’s up with that?” So if he feels compelled to comment on this, he would say something like, “why are you wearing a thong?” or “what’s with the thong?” or maybe even, jokingly/mockingly, “I see today you really ARE a thongbird!” But whatever he says, it would not merit the response we see. The only comment I can see meriting the extant response is something along the lines of, “I thought you said you were a songbird,” and it doesn’t make any sense for him to say anything like that…
The joke don’ work…
Maybe they were online friends and naked-bird has never actually seen thongbird before, just talked to them?
lark. They met a few times. The bird said he was a thong bird. The second bird doesn’t associate it with the garment the bird is wearing and hears it as a “song bird”. One day they meet and the second bird says “Let’s sing”. The thong bird says “I can’t sing”. The second bird says “I thought you said you were a song bird”.
Well, the new yorker cartoon was a caption contest winner. It’s a bit hard to believe the cartoonist didn’t have this in mind but maybe he was just seeing how many readers would pick up on it.
Was this perhaps timed to be an obtuse May the Fourth reference?
Thing a thong
… of sex pants
…snaked up a thigh
Thongs are mostly identifiable from the back (a string of fabric thru the crack, if you will-hence the “thong”), so both comics are dumb cause a regular pair of panties may look like that from the front.