In the last panel, the person on the left looks like the word OK just as the person on the right predicted in the second panel.
Mr.(?) Breakdown got a LOT taller in panel 3.
Funny. If you’re stoned enough, I suppose. Thumb down.
Stick figure comics are harder to do than previously estimated. er, harder to do well, I mean.
I’ll give it a thumbs up. I smirked even though not stoned. I’ll come back a little later and let you know if things improve.
I liked it enough that when I first saw it a few days ago I
saved it. Surprisingly, I saw it as a picture of this on a piece
of paper and didn’t have the URL. Apparently someone else liked
it enough to claim it for their own.
First time I read it I thought it was just “I’ll be comforting, if I’m wrong you’ll never know”
but seeing it here I realized it actually is a good (ish) joke, because, as RW said, he becomes “O K”
:-) thumbs up
OK 👍
👍
I think this is actually clever. Up.
It’s OK for me, too. Up.
Thumbs down. Just a little too clever and tries to do too many things.
Definite thumbs up
I groaned when I first saw this, but the main reason I disliked it was because the drawing was so crude (far below PBF’s usual standards), not to mention the G missing from the first panel. However, I see now that the substandard artwork is necessary to make the joke work. If the stick figures had been “clean” and “complete” (such as with XKCD), then the final panel wouldn’t have been convincing as “text”.
I enjoyed it.
I’ll confess. I literally laughed out loud.
Thumbs up! The longer it takes to figure it out, the bigger the laugh for me. Original and fun. I like how it is still challenging to change which interpretation I see.
(I laughed inside. I think I’d have laughed out loud if there hadn’t been that “Quick…” command influencing the brain process.)
Funny. Thumbs up.
I laughed. Thumbs-up.
It’s not really a thumbs up or thumbs down for me. It’s just OK.
Lame. Thumbs down.
I chucked out loud. Thumbs up
I think that everyone is getting it wrong. The joke is NOT that he is saying in the 2nd panel, “You’ll be OK,” and in the 4th panel he sort of becomes the shape of the letters “OK”, rather we are supposed to THINK that he is saying “You’ll be OK,” in the 2nd panel but we are supposed to realize after the last panel that what he was actually saying in the 2nd panel was, “You’ll be laying on your side.”
It therefore does not matter if he looks exactly like the letters “OK” in the last panel; it is important that he looks exactly like the image of him laying on his side that appears in the word bubble in the 2nd panel.
I like it.
“I think that everyone is getting it wrong.”
Well, or you are.
The joke is that in the artist’s hand, “OK” looks kind of like a stick figure with a severed head, so when you get it in panel 2, you’re misdirected by the context into assuming it’s one, when it’s actually the other.
Meh. Clever. Not very funny.
What I really like is realizing that the fellow is definitely not okay, with his head disconnected, a rendering which only occurs in the 2 places. I think that Pinny went to the next level to make that work. The question then might be, did the disconnected head look of “OK” (maybe meant as “okay” in the speech balloon) in this stick figure, comic strip world act in some dark energetic way to make the guy’s head break off?
James Pollock, I agree that I may be wrong (though you did not need my agreement for me to actually be wrong). That is why I prefaced my comment with “I think” rather than made a blanket statement (which could have also been wrong, but would not have acknowledged that I was aware of that fact).
What made me think that panel 2 is NOT actually stating “OK” (followed by panel 4 where the fallen over figure sorta looks like the “OK” in panel 2) is that what looks like the letters “OK” in panel 2 is not written with the same lettering/font as the rest of the letters in the comic. They are larger and are shaped differently. As a matter of fact, in retrospect (i.e., after reading through to panel 4) they actually look like the other fellow laying on his side. Hence my explanation.
“James Pollock, I agree that I may be wrong”
What you were wrong about was the part I quoted, not the text of the explanation for the comic (which I did not quote). Your explanation of the comic is fairly parallel to mine… so if “everyone [else] is wrong”, and I am part of “everyone else”, then my understanding is wrong, and if my understanding is the same as yours, and mine is wrong, then yours is wrong, too. QED.
Now, as Brian in STL likes to say about me, I am once again completely correct, so your explanation that parallels mine must also be correct… but if mine is completely correct, then “everyone [else] is getting it wrong” cannot be correct.
So, (sorry) either fork puts an error in your column. I suggest you bask in the warmth and happiness of knowing that you agreed with me, and that’s the most important part.
Pinny, after going back and studying the cartoon (27 comments and analyses for what was supposed to be a simple poll, really?), I agree with your first comment, the cartoonist took special care to make the OK in panel 2 look just like the fallen stick figure in the last panel. In my mind, this is just an extra level of detail making it a doubly clever joke (If someone is still taking a poll) I don’t know how this got side tracked into who’s right or wrong, but JP’s comments have caused unhappy flashbacks to my one and only Logic course way back in college.
Clever in a 5th-grader kind of way.
“JP’s comments have caused unhappy flashbacks to my one and only Logic course way back in college.”
Good news for you, then! JP ALSO has unfond memories of one and only logic course way back in college, so you ALSO can bask in the warmth of knowing that you agree with me.
The world is just a better, happier place when more people find themselves in co-alignment with Truth and Correctness, which is to say, me.
If you are confused by this tone, sorry. I have been informed that I ALWAYS have to try to prove that everyone agrees with me, and I’m trying to oblige.
Did you hear about the guy who got chilled to absolute zero? Don’t worry, he’s 0K.
Boo. Hiss.
Did you hear about the dyslexic guy who got into boxing? He’ll be OK for a long time.
That big tornado roared out of north Texas and threatened to touch down just over the border, but at last report the area was still OK.
The was a gunfight at the corral that was OK…
“Did you hear about the dyslexic guy who got into boxing?”
Enough of this type of slander. Dyslexics of the world…UNTIE!
Thumbs up. It also made me reflect on the standard comfort phrase, “There, there. It’s going to be okay.” To which I call “bullshit!” My – insert your own significant person – just – died/was injured/was arrested. It is not going to be okay. I never say it and never want to hear it. I put my right hand to my heart and nod, and offer a hug if it seems appropriate.
It took me a bit to notice that it wasn’t an OK, but a sketch that happened to look very similar, but once I got it I thought it was hilarious.
Personally, I thought this PBF strip was extremely weak, but there must be enough people who liked it, because it has just been released in the form of a T-shirt.
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In the last panel, the person on the left looks like the word OK just as the person on the right predicted in the second panel.
Mr.(?) Breakdown got a LOT taller in panel 3.
Funny. If you’re stoned enough, I suppose. Thumb down.
Stick figure comics are harder to do than previously estimated. er, harder to do well, I mean.
I’ll give it a thumbs up. I smirked even though not stoned. I’ll come back a little later and let you know if things improve.
I liked it enough that when I first saw it a few days ago I
saved it. Surprisingly, I saw it as a picture of this on a piece
of paper and didn’t have the URL. Apparently someone else liked
it enough to claim it for their own.
First time I read it I thought it was just “I’ll be comforting, if I’m wrong you’ll never know”
but seeing it here I realized it actually is a good (ish) joke, because, as RW said, he becomes “O K”
:-) thumbs up
OK 👍
👍
I think this is actually clever. Up.
It’s OK for me, too. Up.
Thumbs down. Just a little too clever and tries to do too many things.
Definite thumbs up
I groaned when I first saw this, but the main reason I disliked it was because the drawing was so crude (far below PBF’s usual standards), not to mention the G missing from the first panel. However, I see now that the substandard artwork is necessary to make the joke work. If the stick figures had been “clean” and “complete” (such as with XKCD), then the final panel wouldn’t have been convincing as “text”.
I enjoyed it.
I’ll confess. I literally laughed out loud.
Thumbs up! The longer it takes to figure it out, the bigger the laugh for me. Original and fun. I like how it is still challenging to change which interpretation I see.
(I laughed inside. I think I’d have laughed out loud if there hadn’t been that “Quick…” command influencing the brain process.)
Funny. Thumbs up.
I laughed. Thumbs-up.
It’s not really a thumbs up or thumbs down for me. It’s just OK.
Lame. Thumbs down.
I chucked out loud. Thumbs up
I think that everyone is getting it wrong. The joke is NOT that he is saying in the 2nd panel, “You’ll be OK,” and in the 4th panel he sort of becomes the shape of the letters “OK”, rather we are supposed to THINK that he is saying “You’ll be OK,” in the 2nd panel but we are supposed to realize after the last panel that what he was actually saying in the 2nd panel was, “You’ll be laying on your side.”
It therefore does not matter if he looks exactly like the letters “OK” in the last panel; it is important that he looks exactly like the image of him laying on his side that appears in the word bubble in the 2nd panel.
I like it.
“I think that everyone is getting it wrong.”
Well, or you are.
The joke is that in the artist’s hand, “OK” looks kind of like a stick figure with a severed head, so when you get it in panel 2, you’re misdirected by the context into assuming it’s one, when it’s actually the other.
Meh. Clever. Not very funny.
What I really like is realizing that the fellow is definitely not okay, with his head disconnected, a rendering which only occurs in the 2 places. I think that Pinny went to the next level to make that work. The question then might be, did the disconnected head look of “OK” (maybe meant as “okay” in the speech balloon) in this stick figure, comic strip world act in some dark energetic way to make the guy’s head break off?
James Pollock, I agree that I may be wrong (though you did not need my agreement for me to actually be wrong). That is why I prefaced my comment with “I think” rather than made a blanket statement (which could have also been wrong, but would not have acknowledged that I was aware of that fact).
What made me think that panel 2 is NOT actually stating “OK” (followed by panel 4 where the fallen over figure sorta looks like the “OK” in panel 2) is that what looks like the letters “OK” in panel 2 is not written with the same lettering/font as the rest of the letters in the comic. They are larger and are shaped differently. As a matter of fact, in retrospect (i.e., after reading through to panel 4) they actually look like the other fellow laying on his side. Hence my explanation.
“James Pollock, I agree that I may be wrong”
What you were wrong about was the part I quoted, not the text of the explanation for the comic (which I did not quote). Your explanation of the comic is fairly parallel to mine… so if “everyone [else] is wrong”, and I am part of “everyone else”, then my understanding is wrong, and if my understanding is the same as yours, and mine is wrong, then yours is wrong, too. QED.
Now, as Brian in STL likes to say about me, I am once again completely correct, so your explanation that parallels mine must also be correct… but if mine is completely correct, then “everyone [else] is getting it wrong” cannot be correct.
So, (sorry) either fork puts an error in your column. I suggest you bask in the warmth and happiness of knowing that you agreed with me, and that’s the most important part.
Pinny, after going back and studying the cartoon (27 comments and analyses for what was supposed to be a simple poll, really?), I agree with your first comment, the cartoonist took special care to make the OK in panel 2 look just like the fallen stick figure in the last panel. In my mind, this is just an extra level of detail making it a doubly clever joke (If someone is still taking a poll) I don’t know how this got side tracked into who’s right or wrong, but JP’s comments have caused unhappy flashbacks to my one and only Logic course way back in college.
Clever in a 5th-grader kind of way.
“JP’s comments have caused unhappy flashbacks to my one and only Logic course way back in college.”
Good news for you, then! JP ALSO has unfond memories of one and only logic course way back in college, so you ALSO can bask in the warmth of knowing that you agree with me.
The world is just a better, happier place when more people find themselves in co-alignment with Truth and Correctness, which is to say, me.
If you are confused by this tone, sorry. I have been informed that I ALWAYS have to try to prove that everyone agrees with me, and I’m trying to oblige.
Did you hear about the guy who got chilled to absolute zero? Don’t worry, he’s 0K.
Boo. Hiss.
Did you hear about the dyslexic guy who got into boxing? He’ll be OK for a long time.
That big tornado roared out of north Texas and threatened to touch down just over the border, but at last report the area was still OK.
The was a gunfight at the corral that was OK…
“Did you hear about the dyslexic guy who got into boxing?”
Enough of this type of slander. Dyslexics of the world…UNTIE!
Re dyslexics:
https://xkcd.com/745/
Don’t forget to read the hover text.
Thumbs up. It also made me reflect on the standard comfort phrase, “There, there. It’s going to be okay.” To which I call “bullshit!” My – insert your own significant person – just – died/was injured/was arrested. It is not going to be okay. I never say it and never want to hear it. I put my right hand to my heart and nod, and offer a hug if it seems appropriate.
It took me a bit to notice that it wasn’t an OK, but a sketch that happened to look very similar, but once I got it I thought it was hilarious.
Personally, I thought this PBF strip was extremely weak, but there must be enough people who liked it, because it has just been released in the form of a T-shirt.