It looks like it’s a caution sign warning you of a dude standing looking confused.
Instead, the sign is a depiction of what’s going to happen: a caution sign is going to fall on a dude standing looking confused.
I imagine the cartoonist was facing a deadline and this image came to him.
Dark Side of The Horse 🐴 does this sort of thing rather well, tho in different drawing style and more cheerful tone.
It’s a warning sign, warning of falling warning signs. A particularly accurate warning sign.
A better sense of perspective would have helped. If it looked like the falling caution sign was actually going to fall on the guys head while the guy is standing in front of sign it’d be clearer but it looks like the falling caution sign is hovering to the side.
B.C. in its golden age of the early 70’s could have done this in panels. Panel 1: A guy walks up to the sign. Panel 2: the guy stands in front of sign and has puzzled question marks over his head. Panel 3: A giant caution sign bashes him on the head from above.
“B.C. in its golden age of the early 70’s could have done this”
I think it feels more Chuck-Jones-y.
It’s not a sign, it’s a mirror. The orange part is translucent and the “CAUTION” is visible from behind as well, but reverse. Therefore it is reflected right-way-’round in the mirror. This comic is a commentary on the danger of vanity. Had he not stopped to admire his reflection, he’d have avoided this.
If it’s a mirror, why aren’t the question marks reversed left-to-right?
Um… mark. They are correct. Mirrors don’t, despite popular parlance, reverse left to right. They reverse front to back.
The issue with a mirror is those hills can’t be the hills ahead and that we don’t see the guys front in detail.
Keep in mind the person in the right facing forward has his real question marks backwards, right to left. If you were facing him and looking at the marks, the marks are wrong. They are corrected the way the should be in the mirror.
I have a feeling one or more people on this thread are not getting dry, tongue-in-cheek jokes. But I’m not 100% sure who’s making the dry jokes, and who’s not getting them. :)
Well, pretending to not recognize dry tongue in check humor is a form of dry tongue in check humor so no-one can blame you, ww.
The problem with dry humor is that not everyone keeps their tongue in check.
I’m very partial to a particular kind of dry humor that used to be called “Irish Bull”. Example: “I’m glad I don’t like mushrooms because if I did I’d eat them all the time and I HATE them!”
My two favorite Irish Bulls were from Punch magazine archives. In one a thatcher carrying a ladder calls up to his partner on the roof “Be careful when you come down the ladder. It’s not there.” ANd another is a patient comes to an irrascable doct and says “Doctor, it hurts when I do this with my elbow” and the doctor say “Then why in the #### do you do it?”
Not quite an Irish Bull but when a man finds his best friend naked in his closet ask “Murray, why are you in y closet” and Murray answer “Well, everything has to be somewhere….”
Real live Irish Bull (though the speaker was, I believe, German-American): Many years ago we wanted to cut down and into small chunks an old tree on our property line, and one afternoon I got ambitious and, while my wife and our friend Karen were out, got the job almost completed. When they returned, Karen (a linguistics major) burbled to my wife: “Oh, look how much of the tree isn’t!”
“Cut the cake into two pieces but make sure that one of them is bigger than the other.” So he does, but … “Can’t you do anything right? I told you to make one piece bigger than the other. Instead you made one piece SMALLER than the other, you idiot!”
@ MiB – The very first time my mom offered us the “one cuts, the other chooses” option: after careful consideration I made one piece just a little bigger than the other… and was shocked when my brother picked that one, rather than the piece he was “supposed” to take. Lesson learned, permanently.
Woozy – My dad told me the response to “Doctor, it hurts when I do this” is “Then don’t do it.”
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It looks like it’s a caution sign warning you of a dude standing looking confused.
Instead, the sign is a depiction of what’s going to happen: a caution sign is going to fall on a dude standing looking confused.
I imagine the cartoonist was facing a deadline and this image came to him.
Dark Side of The Horse 🐴 does this sort of thing rather well, tho in different drawing style and more cheerful tone.
It’s a warning sign, warning of falling warning signs. A particularly accurate warning sign.
A better sense of perspective would have helped. If it looked like the falling caution sign was actually going to fall on the guys head while the guy is standing in front of sign it’d be clearer but it looks like the falling caution sign is hovering to the side.
B.C. in its golden age of the early 70’s could have done this in panels. Panel 1: A guy walks up to the sign. Panel 2: the guy stands in front of sign and has puzzled question marks over his head. Panel 3: A giant caution sign bashes him on the head from above.
“B.C. in its golden age of the early 70’s could have done this”
I think it feels more Chuck-Jones-y.
It’s not a sign, it’s a mirror. The orange part is translucent and the “CAUTION” is visible from behind as well, but reverse. Therefore it is reflected right-way-’round in the mirror. This comic is a commentary on the danger of vanity. Had he not stopped to admire his reflection, he’d have avoided this.
If it’s a mirror, why aren’t the question marks reversed left-to-right?
Um… mark. They are correct. Mirrors don’t, despite popular parlance, reverse left to right. They reverse front to back.
The issue with a mirror is those hills can’t be the hills ahead and that we don’t see the guys front in detail.
Keep in mind the person in the right facing forward has his real question marks backwards, right to left. If you were facing him and looking at the marks, the marks are wrong. They are corrected the way the should be in the mirror.
I have a feeling one or more people on this thread are not getting dry, tongue-in-cheek jokes. But I’m not 100% sure who’s making the dry jokes, and who’s not getting them. :)
Well, pretending to not recognize dry tongue in check humor is a form of dry tongue in check humor so no-one can blame you, ww.
The problem with dry humor is that not everyone keeps their tongue in check.
I’m very partial to a particular kind of dry humor that used to be called “Irish Bull”. Example: “I’m glad I don’t like mushrooms because if I did I’d eat them all the time and I HATE them!”
My two favorite Irish Bulls were from Punch magazine archives. In one a thatcher carrying a ladder calls up to his partner on the roof “Be careful when you come down the ladder. It’s not there.” ANd another is a patient comes to an irrascable doct and says “Doctor, it hurts when I do this with my elbow” and the doctor say “Then why in the #### do you do it?”
Not quite an Irish Bull but when a man finds his best friend naked in his closet ask “Murray, why are you in y closet” and Murray answer “Well, everything has to be somewhere….”
Real live Irish Bull (though the speaker was, I believe, German-American): Many years ago we wanted to cut down and into small chunks an old tree on our property line, and one afternoon I got ambitious and, while my wife and our friend Karen were out, got the job almost completed. When they returned, Karen (a linguistics major) burbled to my wife: “Oh, look how much of the tree isn’t!”
“Cut the cake into two pieces but make sure that one of them is bigger than the other.” So he does, but … “Can’t you do anything right? I told you to make one piece bigger than the other. Instead you made one piece SMALLER than the other, you idiot!”
@ MiB – The very first time my mom offered us the “one cuts, the other chooses” option: after careful consideration I made one piece just a little bigger than the other… and was shocked when my brother picked that one, rather than the piece he was “supposed” to take. Lesson learned, permanently.
Woozy – My dad told me the response to “Doctor, it hurts when I do this” is “Then don’t do it.”