I’ve forgotten, what part of a leprechaun do you rub for good luck?
Good one, Mitch4,
I had to use a Firefox plugin to zoom the first “comic” 200% to see what was going on. Are those guys wearing kilts? Where (if anyone knows) is the original?
(“Comic” in quotes because really, it’s just someone putting a funny caption on an oil painting, which is not a comic by the Scott McCloud definition.)
Yeah, I’ve gotten sort of tired of “That Is Priceless”, for too often sticking to the same brand of humor, and too little variety in the choice of originals.
The citation of the originals I agree is incomplete, but at least he does provide the basics of identification.
Sorry, I thought the original titles were given. With that and location both missing, it is indeed pretty skimpy.
Artist and year is more than sufficient for my purposes. I don’t think there’s ever been a painting that I actually wanted to look up or see in a museum. As for the narrow range of ages, it’s clear that his images are limited to those not encumbered by copyright, yet still available from a digital source. In other words, nothing extremely recent, nor all too old.
P.S. @ carlfink (2) – I think she’s churning butter. If it were a “he”, this one would have been one of those “great moments in phallic portraiture” of which Mr. Melcher is so inordinately fond.
@carlfink; Those guys aren’t wearing kilts, they’re wearing Lederhosen and Tyrolean jackets that hang a little below hip level. Pretty standard Austrian/Bavarian costume and not even uncommon today, especially for dressy occasions where it’s important to show just how Austrian or Bavarian you are.
It appears to be called “Auf der Alm” (On the Alpine Meadow), but where it might hang I cannot say. Seems to enjoy some popularity as a print. Plus the artist appears to have called several of his paintings “X auf der Alm” (Strangers, The Zither Player, etc.).
I usually find I can identify them a lot more easily when they appear here. Comics.com doesn’t allow you to grab an image, which prevents dragging an image to another tab with Google’s image search open.
The walk-in closet joke reminded me of one of Garrison Keillor’s Ole and Lena jokes.
Ole comes home in the middle of the day and Lena is nowhere to be seen. Ole searches the house and finds Lena in bed stark naked. “Lena vat are you doing in bed naked in the middle of the day?”
“I haven’t got anyting to vear.”
“Sure you do, you got plenty of dresses.” Ole opens her closet and says, “Look at dat, you got a yellow dress.”
*shing*, he slides the dress on its hanger to the left. “You got a blue dress.”
*shing* “You got a green dress.”
*shing* “Oh hello Sven. You got a brown dress….”
(works better out loud.) ;)
My problem with the Pardon My Planet is that this looks like a free-standing wardrobe, not at all a walk-in closet.
Or am I missing the point and this is showing something fun that a wardrobe or small closet allows but would fail if they had a walk-in?
Mitch4, it’s not a traditional walk-in closet. It’s a closet that walks in on you.
“this looks like a free-standing wardrobe, not at all a walk-in closet.”
If the joke is a pun on an alternate meaning, then traditional meaning need not apply at all.
I’m too lazy to google. What did Curly actually say “Why, I oughta…” if not “massage you” and why is “massage” the alternative? I kind of remember “Why, I oughta …” just petering out. I suppose ending with “give you a nice massage, facial and complementary flute of sparkling wine” would be a funny alternative albeit a weird one.
@woozy: Off the top of my head, I think Curly said something like “murderize” or “murdalize”. Blazek must have been looking for some word that starts with M and is reasonably pleasant.
” What did Curly actually say ‘Why, I oughta…'”
My recollection is something that sounded somewhat like “moidelate”, which suggested murder. Not a big 3S fan, so fairly hazy memory.
Usually Moe was the “why I oughta” guy. Curl(e)y was things like, “I’m a victim of coicumstance!”
Perhaps this early in the casting process, they were still working on the dialogue.
Recalling a favorite joke that was often recycled. Somebody like Vernon Dent would greet them and say “Gentlemen!” The Stooges would immediately look behind them and then realize they were being addressed.
Synchronicity with the dresses-in-the-closet joke. This morning I was listening to a podcast and heard the following in a record from the 1920’s:
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard
To get her poor daughter a dress.
But when she got there, the cupboard was bare,
And so was her daughter I guess.
I’m shocked that nobody has pointed out that not liking to touch door handles is not being phobic. Well, I do use them without much though, but I hate touching the door handles in public toilets. There are so many people who do not wash their hands properly (and many places that don’t provide soap). Always want a paper towel for the men’s room door.
I used to work with a blind man and he would tell me that when he was in the men’s room and no other sighted people were in there, he would hear a huge number of people do their business and exit with no hand washing. Given how many people I see doing stuff like the finger sprinkle, I can believe it.
“I’m shocked that nobody has pointed out that not liking to touch door handles is not being phobic”
Not liking to touch them is not phobic. Being afraid to touch them is.
A phobia is an irrational fear. Not wanting to get the feces of strangers on his hands is not irrational.
” Not wanting to get the feces of strangers on his hands is not irrational.”
It neither categorically is, nor categorically is not, irrational.
@ DemetriosX (1) – It should be possible to drag the image if you start from ComicsRSS.com.
A fear is fear whether rational or not. But fearing feces on your hands from a single push handle door is not a rational concern. It *is* a phobia.
Woozy, I bet you’re one of those that doesn’t wash their hands. Of course you have no fear. :)
If it’s on there, and it’s perceptible, then avoiding it is just good sense. If it’s imperceptible, but you just KNOW it’s there, even though you can’t detect any signs of it being there… that’s irrational.
Sorry.
Wouldn’t the people who *don’t* wash their hands have more to fear. If it were a rational concern wouldn’t those who are casual get whammied more? Isn’t it that they don’t have adverse health issues a sign that maybe the concern (or the degree to which one has them) an indication that it’s irrational.
My sister is germ phobic. Like hypochondria part of the condition is the inability to realize the degree to which one is being irrational. Licking a toilet seat is probably a bad idea and washing ones hands is probably a good idea. But worrying about a door handle in a hall way *is* excessive.
Yep. Couple of finger sprinklers…
Assume that’s true. Does it fill you with a deep, all-consuming dread? A raw, unwavering fear that somehow, in some unknown and unknowable way, this causes you harm? Are you helpless against this wall of darkness?
Thanks, Mark M and others, I really didn’t get the walk-in closet!
What are the triple disks at the top on either side? Just movement indicators? Virtual shoulders??
@woozy et al (a bit belated) , ‘What did Curly actually say ‘Why, I oughta…”‘ I’d also like to know what Bart Simpson is when Homer says, “Why you little….”. ;)
Just movement indicators.
” I’d also like to know what Bart Simpson is when Homer says…”
Over the course of the shows 43 years, there are a few occasions when Homer has expressed a complete thought in that scenario. They aren’t particularly memorable, but they do exist.
JP has inverted the strategy in this XKCD.. The Simpsons series started in 1989, so it is entering its 29th year.
The Simpsons existed for several years as short clips on the Tracey Ullman Show before they got their own spinoff series.
For some class Robert took they did a survey of what was the dirtiest thing in the bathroom based on what and when people touched something (okay this was for men’s rooms, they did not do a matching study for ladies rooms) – the door knob/handle was the one thing that everyone touched whether they had washed their hands or not – but that was the inside the bathroom knob/handle, not the outside one.
Myself, I carry hand sanitizer and often use it instead of washing my hands when out – if there is only a blow dryer or no hand towels or no soap.
JP is correct that the Simpsons did appear elsewhere as shorts (and ads) before the series started: in 1987, which increases the age to 31 years. This does not change the fact that 43 years is just plain wrong, especially since the original comment specified the “shows”, not the “shorts”.
I didn’t say that all 43 years of shows have already aired.
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I’ve forgotten, what part of a leprechaun do you rub for good luck?
Good one, Mitch4,
I had to use a Firefox plugin to zoom the first “comic” 200% to see what was going on. Are those guys wearing kilts? Where (if anyone knows) is the original?
(“Comic” in quotes because really, it’s just someone putting a funny caption on an oil painting, which is not a comic by the Scott McCloud definition.)
Yeah, I’ve gotten sort of tired of “That Is Priceless”, for too often sticking to the same brand of humor, and too little variety in the choice of originals.
The citation of the originals I agree is incomplete, but at least he does provide the basics of identification.
Sorry, I thought the original titles were given. With that and location both missing, it is indeed pretty skimpy.
Artist and year is more than sufficient for my purposes. I don’t think there’s ever been a painting that I actually wanted to look up or see in a museum. As for the narrow range of ages, it’s clear that his images are limited to those not encumbered by copyright, yet still available from a digital source. In other words, nothing extremely recent, nor all too old.
P.S. @ carlfink (2) – I think she’s churning butter. If it were a “he”, this one would have been one of those “great moments in phallic portraiture” of which Mr. Melcher is so inordinately fond.
@carlfink; Those guys aren’t wearing kilts, they’re wearing Lederhosen and Tyrolean jackets that hang a little below hip level. Pretty standard Austrian/Bavarian costume and not even uncommon today, especially for dressy occasions where it’s important to show just how Austrian or Bavarian you are.
It appears to be called “Auf der Alm” (On the Alpine Meadow), but where it might hang I cannot say. Seems to enjoy some popularity as a print. Plus the artist appears to have called several of his paintings “X auf der Alm” (Strangers, The Zither Player, etc.).
I usually find I can identify them a lot more easily when they appear here. Comics.com doesn’t allow you to grab an image, which prevents dragging an image to another tab with Google’s image search open.
The walk-in closet joke reminded me of one of Garrison Keillor’s Ole and Lena jokes.
Ole comes home in the middle of the day and Lena is nowhere to be seen. Ole searches the house and finds Lena in bed stark naked. “Lena vat are you doing in bed naked in the middle of the day?”
“I haven’t got anyting to vear.”
“Sure you do, you got plenty of dresses.” Ole opens her closet and says, “Look at dat, you got a yellow dress.”
*shing*, he slides the dress on its hanger to the left. “You got a blue dress.”
*shing* “You got a green dress.”
*shing* “Oh hello Sven. You got a brown dress….”
(works better out loud.) ;)
My problem with the Pardon My Planet is that this looks like a free-standing wardrobe, not at all a walk-in closet.
Or am I missing the point and this is showing something fun that a wardrobe or small closet allows but would fail if they had a walk-in?
Mitch4, it’s not a traditional walk-in closet. It’s a closet that walks in on you.
“this looks like a free-standing wardrobe, not at all a walk-in closet.”
If the joke is a pun on an alternate meaning, then traditional meaning need not apply at all.
I’m too lazy to google. What did Curly actually say “Why, I oughta…” if not “massage you” and why is “massage” the alternative? I kind of remember “Why, I oughta …” just petering out. I suppose ending with “give you a nice massage, facial and complementary flute of sparkling wine” would be a funny alternative albeit a weird one.
@woozy: Off the top of my head, I think Curly said something like “murderize” or “murdalize”. Blazek must have been looking for some word that starts with M and is reasonably pleasant.
” What did Curly actually say ‘Why, I oughta…'”
My recollection is something that sounded somewhat like “moidelate”, which suggested murder. Not a big 3S fan, so fairly hazy memory.
Usually Moe was the “why I oughta” guy. Curl(e)y was things like, “I’m a victim of coicumstance!”
Perhaps this early in the casting process, they were still working on the dialogue.
Recalling a favorite joke that was often recycled. Somebody like Vernon Dent would greet them and say “Gentlemen!” The Stooges would immediately look behind them and then realize they were being addressed.
Synchronicity with the dresses-in-the-closet joke. This morning I was listening to a podcast and heard the following in a record from the 1920’s:
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard
To get her poor daughter a dress.
But when she got there, the cupboard was bare,
And so was her daughter I guess.
I’m shocked that nobody has pointed out that not liking to touch door handles is not being phobic. Well, I do use them without much though, but I hate touching the door handles in public toilets. There are so many people who do not wash their hands properly (and many places that don’t provide soap). Always want a paper towel for the men’s room door.
I used to work with a blind man and he would tell me that when he was in the men’s room and no other sighted people were in there, he would hear a huge number of people do their business and exit with no hand washing. Given how many people I see doing stuff like the finger sprinkle, I can believe it.
“I’m shocked that nobody has pointed out that not liking to touch door handles is not being phobic”
Not liking to touch them is not phobic. Being afraid to touch them is.
A phobia is an irrational fear. Not wanting to get the feces of strangers on his hands is not irrational.
” Not wanting to get the feces of strangers on his hands is not irrational.”
It neither categorically is, nor categorically is not, irrational.
@ DemetriosX (1) – It should be possible to drag the image if you start from ComicsRSS.com.
A fear is fear whether rational or not. But fearing feces on your hands from a single push handle door is not a rational concern. It *is* a phobia.
Woozy, I bet you’re one of those that doesn’t wash their hands. Of course you have no fear. :)
If it’s on there, and it’s perceptible, then avoiding it is just good sense. If it’s imperceptible, but you just KNOW it’s there, even though you can’t detect any signs of it being there… that’s irrational.
Sorry.
Wouldn’t the people who *don’t* wash their hands have more to fear. If it were a rational concern wouldn’t those who are casual get whammied more? Isn’t it that they don’t have adverse health issues a sign that maybe the concern (or the degree to which one has them) an indication that it’s irrational.
My sister is germ phobic. Like hypochondria part of the condition is the inability to realize the degree to which one is being irrational. Licking a toilet seat is probably a bad idea and washing ones hands is probably a good idea. But worrying about a door handle in a hall way *is* excessive.
Yep. Couple of finger sprinklers…
Assume that’s true. Does it fill you with a deep, all-consuming dread? A raw, unwavering fear that somehow, in some unknown and unknowable way, this causes you harm? Are you helpless against this wall of darkness?
Thanks, Mark M and others, I really didn’t get the walk-in closet!
What are the triple disks at the top on either side? Just movement indicators? Virtual shoulders??
@woozy et al (a bit belated) , ‘What did Curly actually say ‘Why, I oughta…”‘ I’d also like to know what Bart Simpson is when Homer says, “Why you little….”. ;)
Just movement indicators.
” I’d also like to know what Bart Simpson is when Homer says…”
Over the course of the shows 43 years, there are a few occasions when Homer has expressed a complete thought in that scenario. They aren’t particularly memorable, but they do exist.
JP has inverted the strategy in this XKCD.. The Simpsons series started in 1989, so it is entering its 29th year.
The Simpsons existed for several years as short clips on the Tracey Ullman Show before they got their own spinoff series.
For some class Robert took they did a survey of what was the dirtiest thing in the bathroom based on what and when people touched something (okay this was for men’s rooms, they did not do a matching study for ladies rooms) – the door knob/handle was the one thing that everyone touched whether they had washed their hands or not – but that was the inside the bathroom knob/handle, not the outside one.
Myself, I carry hand sanitizer and often use it instead of washing my hands when out – if there is only a blow dryer or no hand towels or no soap.
JP is correct that the Simpsons did appear elsewhere as shorts (and ads) before the series started: in 1987, which increases the age to 31 years. This does not change the fact that 43 years is just plain wrong, especially since the original comment specified the “shows”, not the “shorts”.
I didn’t say that all 43 years of shows have already aired.