Like it says. The guy’s word balloon is upside down.
That one can see the word balloon and comment on it is the joke.
The Arlo page is for the NSFW comics, and Bill has been shunting political material over to Crimeweek, so that the discussions here don’t turn into pornographic flame wars. Can we add a separate page for worthless stuff like this? It could be called GIDWU (for “Garbage I Don’t Want to Understand“.
I’ve been racking my brain to come up with some explanation for this. Surely…surely there was something the artist was going for other than what Woozy suggested.
Everyone is speaking rather pretentiously at this party, taking themselves very seriously and looking to impress others. Except the one guy who blurts out something oafish and irrelevant and ruins the mood. There’s one at every party, amirite?
Except the word balloon is upside-down, so it’s not irrelevant and that actually might make a curious talking point if everyone is used to seeing word balloons.
It might have even made a little sense if the UDWB guy was saying, “We like to camp on the north side of Queensland…”, but he isn’t.
Woozy, I’m with you. You too, Kilby.
I think it’s an honest cocktail party, where instead of pretentiousness everyone exposes their true mediocre lives. This includes McPherson himself, making a “mistake” in his comic by “accidentally” placing the balloon upside down. A ski resort that can be done is just 45 minutes is rather small, coming from a shoe salesman background, or camping on the north side of the lake instead of the south, etc. Really mundane.
I was puzzled too. But eventually shrugged it off as just displaying party chatter. Maybe more specifically an after-ski gathering.
The reversed balloon, and self-conscious reference to it, do seem to call for some key or special remark, but I have no idea what that should be.
My interpretation of the intended joke agress with that of Its Justme.
My interpretation of the actual humor level of the intended joke pretty much agrees with that of Kilby.
Yeah, I think it’s just a simple fourth wall joke. The rest of the comments are red herrings, random comments put there so there would be a baseline of what a normal word balloon should look like. It’s one of those comics that dares you to overthink it.
“Hey Check it out, this guy’s….” is reminiscent of “Look, that guy’s fly is down” or some other “whoa look at that oaf thing” which is what people sometimes do at parties or in crowds.
There’s nothing to the other word balloons except as typical word balloons others would wear at a party.
I think it’s kind of cute that because the guy’s balloon is upside down it is pointing to the woman rather than the guy speaking.
It’s funny if you overthink it as well. Everyone had to choose a word balloon to wear to the party and drowned fish guy choose the incomplete “We like to camp on the north side of… ” but put it on upside down. Bozo deliberately choose “Hey, Check it out! This guy,s balloon is upside down!”. Whereas most of the party find compatible balloon wearing people to stand next to. Drowned fish guy stands by himself making a conversation with no one one while bozo guys walks around looking for a guy with a bad balloon. How weird was that to happen?
Or maybe the word balloons appear and disappear as people speak and dead fish guy is talking to bozo guy when he pops off an upside down one. Bozo guy is a jerk as well as a bozo and shouts out to the rest of the party fish guy’s faux pas, thus interrupting dead fish guys upside down balloon and so the “…”
Still the logistics of time and the physical properties of word balloons materializing and dematerializing is ambiguous. (As they always have been in all fourth wall Word Balloons Are Real jokes. I’ve always wondered about that in this jokes. This one doesn’t answer but makes the inconsistencies far more apparent than most.)
‘. . . pornographic flame wars, . . .’
Now, THAT’s funny . . . I’d actually like to see one o’ those.
And it burns burns burns, the burning ring of fire. The pornographic flame wars getting higher.
And what the heck is that thing obscuring “Impressive!” guy’s mouth? It can’t be a beard – I’ve seen beards, and that’s no beard.
“And what the heck is that thing obscuring “Impressive!” guy’s mouth? It can’t be a beard – I’ve seen beards, and that’s no beard.”
It’s not nice to make fun of a persons whose entire lower jaw has cut off in a tragic gardening accident.
@ Andréa – Your “local freebie paper” has elevated the art of shirking data privacy obligations to a whole new level. They actually invented a new HTML return code as an excuse. Instead of “400 – Not Found“, the Sun Coast News produces “451: Unavailable for legal reasons – We recognise you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore cannot grant you access at this time. For any issues, e-mail us … or call us at ….”
What a bunch of enormous twits.
It just makes me think of the joke about the two horses named Ed and Ned. I hope you’ve heard it because it would take me all night to type out the whole thing. It goes on and on about the horses winning races and finally retiring back to the farm. After a few more paragraphs, Ned does something that hurts Ed’s feelings, and the old farm dog sees it and takes Ned aside and tells him to apologize to Ed, so …
Ned goes over to Ed and says, “Ed, did you know that dog can talk?”
woozy, in Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (the first Roger Rabbit novel), toons produced word balloons, which quickly crumbled away, when they spoke. There was something I don’t remember about how this worked with phone calls.
Treesong…. but how would that work with interruptions? When forming the word balloon “We like to camp on the north side of the lake” the guy wouldn’t *know* he will be interrupted by the guy pointing out hi balloon is upside down. And the guy saying “Hey, Check it out! This guy’s balloon is upside down!” wouldn’t say that until he could see the balloon. But then the ellipses for the interruption occur before the interruption itself.
“Who censored Roger Rabbit” was about comic strips— not animated cartoons?
Well, it IS Florida, after all . . . I mean, ‘Florida Man’ is something no other state has.
Anyway, this is the story . . . Johnny Cash has a tenuous connection to Port Richey, FL . . .
PORT RICHEY – Legendary singer-songwriter Johnny Cash would be celebrating his 87th birthday next Tuesday, Feb. 26.
Famously known as the Man in Black, Cash will be posthumously celebrated for a fifth consecutive year in a town in which he spent some of his days.
Cash’s connection to Port Richey came through his in-laws, Ezra and Maybelle Carter, who owned a home on the Pithlachascotee River. Cash, who died in 2002, married country singer June Carter, Ezra and Maybelle’s daughter, in 1968.
Gill Dawg Tiki Bar and Grill, 5419 Treadway Drive, will present the Cash Bash of the Bayou, featuring the Man in Black Tribute Concert Birthday Bash 7:30-11 p.m., Saturday.
This year’s event includes a Karaoke contest featuring Cash’s music, a Johnny Cash trivia contest, team corn hole tournament, two-on-two volleyball tournament and drink specials inspired by the country music icon.
‘“Who censored Roger Rabbit” was about comic strips— not animated cartoons?’
“Who Censored Roger Rabbit” is a good book. “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” is a good movie.
They share character names and the fact that humans and toons live in the same world. Other than that, there’s not a lot of overlap.
Comics I Don't Understand 
Like it says. The guy’s word balloon is upside down.
That one can see the word balloon and comment on it is the joke.
The Arlo page is for the NSFW comics, and Bill has been shunting political material over to Crimeweek, so that the discussions here don’t turn into pornographic flame wars. Can we add a separate page for worthless stuff like this? It could be called GIDWU (for “Garbage I Don’t Want to Understand“.
I’ve been racking my brain to come up with some explanation for this. Surely…surely there was something the artist was going for other than what Woozy suggested.
Everyone is speaking rather pretentiously at this party, taking themselves very seriously and looking to impress others. Except the one guy who blurts out something oafish and irrelevant and ruins the mood. There’s one at every party, amirite?
Except the word balloon is upside-down, so it’s not irrelevant and that actually might make a curious talking point if everyone is used to seeing word balloons.
It might have even made a little sense if the UDWB guy was saying, “We like to camp on the north side of Queensland…”, but he isn’t.
Woozy, I’m with you. You too, Kilby.
I think it’s an honest cocktail party, where instead of pretentiousness everyone exposes their true mediocre lives. This includes McPherson himself, making a “mistake” in his comic by “accidentally” placing the balloon upside down. A ski resort that can be done is just 45 minutes is rather small, coming from a shoe salesman background, or camping on the north side of the lake instead of the south, etc. Really mundane.
I was puzzled too. But eventually shrugged it off as just displaying party chatter. Maybe more specifically an after-ski gathering.
The reversed balloon, and self-conscious reference to it, do seem to call for some key or special remark, but I have no idea what that should be.
My interpretation of the intended joke agress with that of Its Justme.
My interpretation of the actual humor level of the intended joke pretty much agrees with that of Kilby.
Yeah, I think it’s just a simple fourth wall joke. The rest of the comments are red herrings, random comments put there so there would be a baseline of what a normal word balloon should look like. It’s one of those comics that dares you to overthink it.
“Hey Check it out, this guy’s….” is reminiscent of “Look, that guy’s fly is down” or some other “whoa look at that oaf thing” which is what people sometimes do at parties or in crowds.
There’s nothing to the other word balloons except as typical word balloons others would wear at a party.
I think it’s kind of cute that because the guy’s balloon is upside down it is pointing to the woman rather than the guy speaking.
It’s funny if you overthink it as well. Everyone had to choose a word balloon to wear to the party and drowned fish guy choose the incomplete “We like to camp on the north side of… ” but put it on upside down. Bozo deliberately choose “Hey, Check it out! This guy,s balloon is upside down!”. Whereas most of the party find compatible balloon wearing people to stand next to. Drowned fish guy stands by himself making a conversation with no one one while bozo guys walks around looking for a guy with a bad balloon. How weird was that to happen?
Or maybe the word balloons appear and disappear as people speak and dead fish guy is talking to bozo guy when he pops off an upside down one. Bozo guy is a jerk as well as a bozo and shouts out to the rest of the party fish guy’s faux pas, thus interrupting dead fish guys upside down balloon and so the “…”
Still the logistics of time and the physical properties of word balloons materializing and dematerializing is ambiguous. (As they always have been in all fourth wall Word Balloons Are Real jokes. I’ve always wondered about that in this jokes. This one doesn’t answer but makes the inconsistencies far more apparent than most.)
‘. . . pornographic flame wars, . . .’
Now, THAT’s funny . . . I’d actually like to see one o’ those.
And it burns burns burns, the burning ring of fire. The pornographic flame wars getting higher.
Coincidentally, the local freebie newspaper delivered today had THIS in it . . .
http://www.suncoastnews.com/news/birthday-bash-for-the-man-in-black/article_be3d58b8-345b-11e9-b849-fbc7a7f60203.html
And what the heck is that thing obscuring “Impressive!” guy’s mouth? It can’t be a beard – I’ve seen beards, and that’s no beard.
“And what the heck is that thing obscuring “Impressive!” guy’s mouth? It can’t be a beard – I’ve seen beards, and that’s no beard.”
It’s not nice to make fun of a persons whose entire lower jaw has cut off in a tragic gardening accident.
@ Andréa – Your “local freebie paper” has elevated the art of shirking data privacy obligations to a whole new level. They actually invented a new HTML return code as an excuse. Instead of “400 – Not Found“, the Sun Coast News produces “451: Unavailable for legal reasons – We recognise you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore cannot grant you access at this time. For any issues, e-mail us … or call us at ….”
What a bunch of enormous twits.
It just makes me think of the joke about the two horses named Ed and Ned. I hope you’ve heard it because it would take me all night to type out the whole thing. It goes on and on about the horses winning races and finally retiring back to the farm. After a few more paragraphs, Ned does something that hurts Ed’s feelings, and the old farm dog sees it and takes Ned aside and tells him to apologize to Ed, so …
Ned goes over to Ed and says, “Ed, did you know that dog can talk?”
woozy, in Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (the first Roger Rabbit novel), toons produced word balloons, which quickly crumbled away, when they spoke. There was something I don’t remember about how this worked with phone calls.
Treesong…. but how would that work with interruptions? When forming the word balloon “We like to camp on the north side of the lake” the guy wouldn’t *know* he will be interrupted by the guy pointing out hi balloon is upside down. And the guy saying “Hey, Check it out! This guy’s balloon is upside down!” wouldn’t say that until he could see the balloon. But then the ellipses for the interruption occur before the interruption itself.
“Who censored Roger Rabbit” was about comic strips— not animated cartoons?
Well, it IS Florida, after all . . . I mean, ‘Florida Man’ is something no other state has.
Anyway, this is the story . . . Johnny Cash has a tenuous connection to Port Richey, FL . . .
PORT RICHEY – Legendary singer-songwriter Johnny Cash would be celebrating his 87th birthday next Tuesday, Feb. 26.
Famously known as the Man in Black, Cash will be posthumously celebrated for a fifth consecutive year in a town in which he spent some of his days.
Cash’s connection to Port Richey came through his in-laws, Ezra and Maybelle Carter, who owned a home on the Pithlachascotee River. Cash, who died in 2002, married country singer June Carter, Ezra and Maybelle’s daughter, in 1968.
Gill Dawg Tiki Bar and Grill, 5419 Treadway Drive, will present the Cash Bash of the Bayou, featuring the Man in Black Tribute Concert Birthday Bash 7:30-11 p.m., Saturday.
This year’s event includes a Karaoke contest featuring Cash’s music, a Johnny Cash trivia contest, team corn hole tournament, two-on-two volleyball tournament and drink specials inspired by the country music icon.
‘“Who censored Roger Rabbit” was about comic strips— not animated cartoons?’
“Who Censored Roger Rabbit” is a good book. “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” is a good movie.
They share character names and the fact that humans and toons live in the same world. Other than that, there’s not a lot of overlap.