It is true that women say they want a sense of humor in a man. Yes, indeed, women say that.
Okay, I don’t get it. Unless the joke is that Janis is frequently naked anyway, so her state wouldn’t necessarily mean she was in the bathroom.
His idea of a joke is to ask about something made obvious by Janis’ wet and towel-clad state. She claims to like his sense of humor, but he comes up with his best material while she’s not in the mood for it.
I think women *do* appreciate a man with a sense of humor. The trouble is that what men think is funny is often not what women think is funny. There’s a definite gender typing in humor.
As Jessica said, “He makes me laugh.” Worth a lot.
“Worth a lot.”
All I can say for certain is that, thus far, collectively, womenfolk are NOT greatly enthused by MY sense of humor.
No, there is no causality between your having a sense of humor and making her laugh. That’s different.
But WHERE in the bathroom? In the bathtub? Behind the door? On top of the toilet?
Bill, it too me a bit to get this one, too. My first thoughts had to do with “waterspout”.
I agree with MiB: even if it should be clear which room we are talking about, it’s still a valid question.
“I agree with MiB: even if it should be clear which room we are talking about, it’s still a valid question.”
Nah, it really isn’t. It WAS visible from the bathtub. Where it is now is information neither of them has.
Joke is on Arlo. She was watching Lord of the Rings while in the tub.
FBS, does that mean there was a ring around the tub?
My question is, why did she bother with the towel?
“why did she bother with the towel?” Janis, while clearly enjoying a healthy sex life with Arlo, has sometimes been depicted as reflexively body-modest even around her husband, I think, though I can’t call to mind any specific examples. Anyone, the towel wrap struck me as a very Janis-like reaction.
But of course the REAL reason is that the strip is self-aware enough to occasionally hint at breaking the fourth wall, so she knew that everybody who read ARLO AND JANIS would be looking at her, and not all of us would be polite enough to avert our eyes. Hubba hubba.
“why did she bother with the towel?”
Because Arlo might not have been alone? Because she didn’t want to drop water all over her house?
I can think of specific examples of Janis’ body-modesty, as for example whenever Arlo says “why don’t you ever wear that cute little nighty anymore?”
At the risk of soliciting TMI, who runs through the house (or apartment) naked, even when alone? I wouldn’t call wearing a towel “excessive modesty”.
I don’t know that the way Janis is holding the towel is really concealing anything anyway.
Or preventing water getting everywhere…
Even if I was home alone, and knew for sure that all the blinds were down, I would grab a towel getting out of the tub, rather than track water throughout the house.
Right, I think the water would be the bigger issue.
BA: Lots of people, Germans especially. Over Easter I visited a friend who invited us to his club for the traditional Easter bonfire (traditional at least in the Hannover area). After I got home, I looked up his club so I could properly caption my pictures, and it turns out it was a naturist club (BffL) — we were there at the end of March, beginning of April, so it was cold and people were dressed accordingly. I don’t know what the standard is, if you must be naked, or if you can be naked, and I don’t know if he would have invited us as casually as he did were it summer. But it was a nice club on a lake, family oriented, they keep their camper trailer there and use it weekends and holidays when not actually camping with it. The members are a cross-section of nice respectable people, families, retired people, grandparents and young people. If they go to the trouble of organizing a weekend place where they can go without clothes, you can pretty much assume that within the privacy of their own home they’re going au naturelle.
I seem to remember an anecdote from an old Bennett Cerf joke book. A small group of friends decided to pay a call on another friend, a man who lived alone. The man answered the door wearing nothing but a top hat!
They asked, “Do you always go around the house naked?” He replied, “Yes, nobody ever comes to visit me and I keep all the shades drawn.”
“But why the top hat?”
“I always wear the top hat, because, you know, somebody MIGHT come to the door.”
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Thank you, Captain Obvious.
It is true that women say they want a sense of humor in a man. Yes, indeed, women say that.
Okay, I don’t get it. Unless the joke is that Janis is frequently naked anyway, so her state wouldn’t necessarily mean she was in the bathroom.
His idea of a joke is to ask about something made obvious by Janis’ wet and towel-clad state. She claims to like his sense of humor, but he comes up with his best material while she’s not in the mood for it.
I think women *do* appreciate a man with a sense of humor. The trouble is that what men think is funny is often not what women think is funny. There’s a definite gender typing in humor.
As Jessica said, “He makes me laugh.” Worth a lot.
“Worth a lot.”
All I can say for certain is that, thus far, collectively, womenfolk are NOT greatly enthused by MY sense of humor.
No, there is no causality between your having a sense of humor and making her laugh. That’s different.
But WHERE in the bathroom? In the bathtub? Behind the door? On top of the toilet?
Bill, it too me a bit to get this one, too. My first thoughts had to do with “waterspout”.
I agree with MiB: even if it should be clear which room we are talking about, it’s still a valid question.
“I agree with MiB: even if it should be clear which room we are talking about, it’s still a valid question.”
Nah, it really isn’t. It WAS visible from the bathtub. Where it is now is information neither of them has.
Joke is on Arlo. She was watching Lord of the Rings while in the tub.
FBS, does that mean there was a ring around the tub?
My question is, why did she bother with the towel?
“why did she bother with the towel?” Janis, while clearly enjoying a healthy sex life with Arlo, has sometimes been depicted as reflexively body-modest even around her husband, I think, though I can’t call to mind any specific examples. Anyone, the towel wrap struck me as a very Janis-like reaction.
But of course the REAL reason is that the strip is self-aware enough to occasionally hint at breaking the fourth wall, so she knew that everybody who read ARLO AND JANIS would be looking at her, and not all of us would be polite enough to avert our eyes. Hubba hubba.
“why did she bother with the towel?”
Because Arlo might not have been alone? Because she didn’t want to drop water all over her house?
I can think of specific examples of Janis’ body-modesty, as for example whenever Arlo says “why don’t you ever wear that cute little nighty anymore?”
At the risk of soliciting TMI, who runs through the house (or apartment) naked, even when alone? I wouldn’t call wearing a towel “excessive modesty”.
I don’t know that the way Janis is holding the towel is really concealing anything anyway.
Or preventing water getting everywhere…
Even if I was home alone, and knew for sure that all the blinds were down, I would grab a towel getting out of the tub, rather than track water throughout the house.
Right, I think the water would be the bigger issue.
BA: Lots of people, Germans especially. Over Easter I visited a friend who invited us to his club for the traditional Easter bonfire (traditional at least in the Hannover area). After I got home, I looked up his club so I could properly caption my pictures, and it turns out it was a naturist club (BffL) — we were there at the end of March, beginning of April, so it was cold and people were dressed accordingly. I don’t know what the standard is, if you must be naked, or if you can be naked, and I don’t know if he would have invited us as casually as he did were it summer. But it was a nice club on a lake, family oriented, they keep their camper trailer there and use it weekends and holidays when not actually camping with it. The members are a cross-section of nice respectable people, families, retired people, grandparents and young people. If they go to the trouble of organizing a weekend place where they can go without clothes, you can pretty much assume that within the privacy of their own home they’re going au naturelle.
I seem to remember an anecdote from an old Bennett Cerf joke book. A small group of friends decided to pay a call on another friend, a man who lived alone. The man answered the door wearing nothing but a top hat!
They asked, “Do you always go around the house naked?” He replied, “Yes, nobody ever comes to visit me and I keep all the shades drawn.”
“But why the top hat?”
“I always wear the top hat, because, you know, somebody MIGHT come to the door.”