If the bartender had been in Comic Sans, could he claim he’d just been joking? (I think the joke is generally “ Comic Sans walks into a bar. The bartender kerns towards it and says …)
Powers, darned good question. I first interpreted it one way and had this whole explanation typed up. I got to the end and wrote “sans serif”—and that’s when I realized what you were actually asking.
“So what if I seem cross? I own this ‘cross’ bar, and I can work bare-chested if I want, but I insist customers at least wear a tee-shirt. You exhibitionists are nothing but a source of consonant trouble to me! Maybe refusing to serve you is unethical, tee-hee, but my friends in the Tea Party say I’m within the letter of the law!”
Then the next guy comes in the bartender says “I don’t like U either!”
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… and you better not show your face around here again, either!
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I wonder whether the squirrel’s companion snuck in, or was given the benefit of the doubt, because there’s never a serif on an “O”.
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There’s a lack of divers-ed T here.
It’s late and that’s the best I can do.
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If the bartender had been in Comic Sans, could he claim he’d just been joking? (I think the joke is generally “ Comic Sans walks into a bar. The bartender kerns towards it and says …)
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How does squirrel’s companion know he’s not both? He should go to the blood bank. I hear they need more type O.
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What is “San Serif”?
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Powers, darned good question. I first interpreted it one way and had this whole explanation typed up. I got to the end and wrote “sans serif”—and that’s when I realized what you were actually asking.
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Good point. My computer dictionary recognizes “sans serif” and “sanserif” but not “san serif”.
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“So what if I seem cross? I own this ‘cross’ bar, and I can work bare-chested if I want, but I insist customers at least wear a tee-shirt. You exhibitionists are nothing but a source of consonant trouble to me! Maybe refusing to serve you is unethical, tee-hee, but my friends in the Tea Party say I’m within the letter of the law!”
Then the next guy comes in the bartender says “I don’t like U either!”
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” there’s never a serif on an ‘O’.”
That’s a decision for the typeface designer to make, not a law of the universe.
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“Then the next guy comes in the bartender says ‘I don’t like U either!'”
And the guy drinking at the bar just out-of-frame pipes in “nor I”.
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No Shirt
No Shoes
No Serif
No Service
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James Pollock (JULY 28, 2018 AT 11:50 AM): If an “O” (oh) had a serif, it would be a “Q” (queue).
Brian: In that restaurant, do you tip the serifer?
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Powers, that’s Spanish for Saint Serif.
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“If an ‘O’ (oh) had a serif, it would be a ‘Q’ (queue).”
Or the o would look like a g, or a p. Or maybe even a b or a d. and if you put them all together, oqpgbd, THAT would be a queue.
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It’s where the elite meet to eat.
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“I’m not here to drink. I’m just a Courier.”
“Do you have Goudy Stout on tap?”
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“…there’s never a serif on an “O”.”
There are several “Circus” typefaces that have horizontal flourishes at the sides of letters C, O and Q.
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…and relating to the comic above I wonder if the characters drive Model T Fords.
The poor guy is going to Helvetica in a hand-basket. I wonder what he does for a living. Maybe he’s a letter carrier.
The barkeep has been there for a long time, though. He’s a font of knowledge.
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The bartender’s serifs are improperly applied, anyway.
Serif fonts have serifs to guide the eye along the line of text.
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I’ll just leave this here for your amusement: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Joke_articles/San_Serriffe
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“now leave before I call the San Sheriff…”
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Maybe San Serif is an obscure small town in California
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