Okay, this month metaphorically comes in like a (small, improbably-blue) lion and goes out like a lamb; but beyond that, I’m quite stumped.
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It’s eaten, same as in today’s ‘Barney & Clyde’.
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Looks like a coming in presentation, fanfare, and greeting celebration to me. I think that is all there is to this one.
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Arlo is kind of holding Ludie up like in the Lion King when Simba?) is presented to his subjects. Janis is merely showing the proper respect.
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Guero’s impression matches mine.
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And here to explain how a lamb goes out is Barney and Clyde:
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Hmmm… Didn’t quit work like I thought it would.
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Today’s “MUTTS” has a different but quite lovely representation !
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Any other geezers here remember the March 1976 “In Like a Lion” issue of the National Lampoon?
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@ Andréa & Guero – I’ve been robbed – the first absolutely true case of synchronicity that I’ve been able to catch in months, but it got superceded by one of the strips being an inscrutable (“cat”=”CIDU”) comic.
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I’ll just leave this here:
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@ catladymac – Ever since McDonnell decided to monetize the Mutts website, it has become odiously difficult to get usable links for individual strips:
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I submitted them both as a synchronicity, but was denied, so you didn’t really get robbed ‘-)
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After reading Andrea’s comment in #1, I was thinking “goes out” referred to something more toilet humor related. But I guess it’s more “you don’t want to know” because it’s a bad ending for the lamb?
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Thanks, DemetriosX. I wanted to reference that, but didn’t get a chance to look for it.
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We eat lamb; we don’t eat lions (or cats). Not knowingly/voluntarily, anyway.
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The GO comics page also came up with “in like a lion, out like a lamb.”
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@ Andréa – Virtually all of the animals that people normally eat are strict vegetarians. Meat taken from carnivores usually tastes rather unpleasant, and big cats are notorious for tasting foul. Even omnivores (such as wild boar) have a fairly strong taste that not everyone likes.
P.S. I vaguely remember reading a comment from a (south) polar explorer that basically amounted to: “If you have to, it is possible to eat penguin meat, but only if you have to.“
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Except dogs, which are still eaten in some countries and doesn’t bear thinking about.
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Chickens aren’t vegetarians.
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Nor snakes, frogs, some fish, etc.
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Not a lot of snake dishes in my cookbook.
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Although free-roaming chickens will eat worms and bugs, the vast majority of chickens that end up on dinner plates are fed grain, and nothing else.
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P.S. @ Olivier – Whether frogs (or snails) count as “edible animals” is a debatable question. ;-) It clearly depends on one’s heritage.
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I had bear steak once. Mild and pretty tasty, as I remember. But pretty difficult to come by, which is why I’ve never repeated the experience.
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