Oh, downer. It’s a flower boutonniere on a dead clown.
Eeew, those are meat-eating scavenger butterflies.
I seem to remember people remarking how C&H is often not funny,
but just deliberately dark and offensive. I think this falls
into that category.
Is this a CIDU? It’s hard to tell these days.
Stan, the CIDU tag is usually a pretty good clue.
I dunno, man, I bet that clown tastes funny.
“the CIDU tag is usually a pretty good clue”
Ahhhh, ok. I thought they all had that and I was looking for the tag in the “Bill Bickel, Buni, comic strips, comics, humor” part. My bad. Very sorry. With the program now.
Some butterflies do eat dead animals, though.
Flies and gnats swarm around dead bodies. Butterflies swarm around dead clown bodies.
The new format allows me to use “Category” as a primary tag. So “CIDU” or whatever will generally be alone there. That seems to work better than burying it among all the other tags.
Butterfly? Looks more like a blue flying hotdog…
I thought it looked like a blue hot dog too.
For a cynical for the sake of cynical I rather like Cyanide and Happiness because it’s the only one that seems to get that shocking people with cynicism is not in and of itself a joke and it always has some form of joke in it. The rest seem to think “Ha– this is gross! Aren’t you surprised!” is enough.
Of the cynical for sake of cynical Buni is my absolute least favorite. It must assume the readers live in some candyland to be shocked by its utterly banal form of shock value. At least it occasional has a joke.
The scavenger butterflies eating clown corpses is just weird and pointless.
Barry for the win; larK takes a close 2nd.
When I first saw the comic, I actually spent a little time trying to figure out if butterfly = hot dog was somehow part of the joke.
Me too, WW — and I even thought about a bun/Buni connection
What’s really funny is it’s true – I’ve read naturalist’s comments about finding clusters of butterflies gathered together (on a path in the woods, is the one I remember best) and finding that they’re sitting on some animal’s corpse. What they’re getting from it, I don’t know – ah, googled and apparently once the flesh has liquified they can eat/drink it and get necessary nutrients (https://www.google.com/search?q=butterflies+on+corpses&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab). I bet the author came across that and just had to draw it up – with a clown for weirdness.
So when I used to run away from butterflies screaming that they were going to bite me – since a lot of people think I am a clown – I was right that they might bite me?
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Aww, it’s a butterfly. And it’s found a flower.
Oh, downer. It’s a flower boutonniere on a dead clown.
Eeew, those are meat-eating scavenger butterflies.
I seem to remember people remarking how C&H is often not funny,
but just deliberately dark and offensive. I think this falls
into that category.
Is this a CIDU? It’s hard to tell these days.
Stan, the CIDU tag is usually a pretty good clue.
I dunno, man, I bet that clown tastes funny.
“the CIDU tag is usually a pretty good clue”
Ahhhh, ok. I thought they all had that and I was looking for the tag in the “Bill Bickel, Buni, comic strips, comics, humor” part. My bad. Very sorry. With the program now.
Some butterflies do eat dead animals, though.
Flies and gnats swarm around dead bodies. Butterflies swarm around dead clown bodies.
The new format allows me to use “Category” as a primary tag. So “CIDU” or whatever will generally be alone there. That seems to work better than burying it among all the other tags.
Butterfly? Looks more like a blue flying hotdog…
I thought it looked like a blue hot dog too.
For a cynical for the sake of cynical I rather like Cyanide and Happiness because it’s the only one that seems to get that shocking people with cynicism is not in and of itself a joke and it always has some form of joke in it. The rest seem to think “Ha– this is gross! Aren’t you surprised!” is enough.
Of the cynical for sake of cynical Buni is my absolute least favorite. It must assume the readers live in some candyland to be shocked by its utterly banal form of shock value. At least it occasional has a joke.
The scavenger butterflies eating clown corpses is just weird and pointless.
Barry for the win; larK takes a close 2nd.
When I first saw the comic, I actually spent a little time trying to figure out if butterfly = hot dog was somehow part of the joke.
Me too, WW — and I even thought about a bun/Buni connection
I thought the hot dogs looked moldy.
Butterflies eating clowns? Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s true.
What’s really funny is it’s true – I’ve read naturalist’s comments about finding clusters of butterflies gathered together (on a path in the woods, is the one I remember best) and finding that they’re sitting on some animal’s corpse. What they’re getting from it, I don’t know – ah, googled and apparently once the flesh has liquified they can eat/drink it and get necessary nutrients (https://www.google.com/search?q=butterflies+on+corpses&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab). I bet the author came across that and just had to draw it up – with a clown for weirdness.
So when I used to run away from butterflies screaming that they were going to bite me – since a lot of people think I am a clown – I was right that they might bite me?