Sunday’s “Arlo & Janice” highlights a different aspect of the same topic:
Whamond is making the average Facebook user a nose-picking moron who can’t recognize a Russian agent even when the FSB employee actually has “foreign agent” in his profile. He is perhaps invoking Carlin’s Law?
Also, the name is a weak attempt at turning “Malicious” into a pun name.
I’m trying to work out if that’s a pun name or not. Mel is hush?
It’s not, is it?
Aaaaaaa! I have to start refreshing the page before posting! I see it now as clear as day! Bah!
I was parsing the name as “Is hush” too and wondered why a foreign agent would have the name Mel. I see that the guy already has the squirrel in his friends list.
In Kilby’s A&J, in the first three panels, it seemed as if Arlo was being sarcastic. His actually being clueless came out of left field (and his continued cluelessness after Janis’s death stare really defies belief).
” His actually being clueless came out of left field (and his continued cluelessness after Janis’s death stare”
That’s not a death stare. That’s a “go right ahead, but leave me out of it” look. Janis didn’t want to play, so it was no fun, and Arlo wound it all up. Arlo has an excess of whimsy, and sometimes Janis humors him, and sometimes she doesn’t. (Ludwig, on the other hand, is almost always confused by it.)
Robert is on Facebook and is active. I am on same, but my account is so private that even I am not allowed to see anything about me. :-) I have it to keep someone else from getting an account in my name – not that anyone else has my name. Anytime I have looked for anything I am interested in I cannot find anything related. As part of my teddy bear collection I collect bear figures from ENESCO designed by an artist named Lucy Rigg. They were somewhat popular in the last few decades of the last century. Then the company dropped her for a different set of bear figurines (which I won’t buy on principle). It has now been long enough that the bears are popping up at flea markets and I am filling in some I did not buy and wanted and some I have never seen. Dawned on me one day to check Facebook for some like minded bear collectors. Only thing I could find was 2 people each trying to sell one of the more common pieces.
Robert has said to me – what about best friends from when you were young? I gave him a “think about it – what best friends – you know me better than that look” but I still had to explain to him. It did start me thinking though of 2 girls I was friends back when I was 5 & before. It took about half an hour for their last names to pop into my head. I looked them up and think I found them – but then thought – “meh?! and moved on.
Best friends from way back — reminds me of one of Emo Phillips’ bits. “Who should I see walking toward me but Billy Smith from first grade! And I went up to him and slapped him hard on the back and said ‘Billy Smith! How are you?’ And he fell down and started to cry. And then I thought to myself, if that was Billy Smith from first grade, by now he’d be all grown up too.”
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Sunday’s “Arlo & Janice” highlights a different aspect of the same topic:
Whamond is making the average Facebook user a nose-picking moron who can’t recognize a Russian agent even when the FSB employee actually has “foreign agent” in his profile. He is perhaps invoking Carlin’s Law?
Also, the name is a weak attempt at turning “Malicious” into a pun name.
I’m trying to work out if that’s a pun name or not. Mel is hush?
It’s not, is it?
Aaaaaaa! I have to start refreshing the page before posting! I see it now as clear as day! Bah!
I was parsing the name as “Is hush” too and wondered why a foreign agent would have the name Mel. I see that the guy already has the squirrel in his friends list.
In Kilby’s A&J, in the first three panels, it seemed as if Arlo was being sarcastic. His actually being clueless came out of left field (and his continued cluelessness after Janis’s death stare really defies belief).
” His actually being clueless came out of left field (and his continued cluelessness after Janis’s death stare”
That’s not a death stare. That’s a “go right ahead, but leave me out of it” look. Janis didn’t want to play, so it was no fun, and Arlo wound it all up. Arlo has an excess of whimsy, and sometimes Janis humors him, and sometimes she doesn’t. (Ludwig, on the other hand, is almost always confused by it.)
Robert is on Facebook and is active. I am on same, but my account is so private that even I am not allowed to see anything about me. :-) I have it to keep someone else from getting an account in my name – not that anyone else has my name. Anytime I have looked for anything I am interested in I cannot find anything related. As part of my teddy bear collection I collect bear figures from ENESCO designed by an artist named Lucy Rigg. They were somewhat popular in the last few decades of the last century. Then the company dropped her for a different set of bear figurines (which I won’t buy on principle). It has now been long enough that the bears are popping up at flea markets and I am filling in some I did not buy and wanted and some I have never seen. Dawned on me one day to check Facebook for some like minded bear collectors. Only thing I could find was 2 people each trying to sell one of the more common pieces.
Robert has said to me – what about best friends from when you were young? I gave him a “think about it – what best friends – you know me better than that look” but I still had to explain to him. It did start me thinking though of 2 girls I was friends back when I was 5 & before. It took about half an hour for their last names to pop into my head. I looked them up and think I found them – but then thought – “meh?! and moved on.
Best friends from way back — reminds me of one of Emo Phillips’ bits. “Who should I see walking toward me but Billy Smith from first grade! And I went up to him and slapped him hard on the back and said ‘Billy Smith! How are you?’ And he fell down and started to cry. And then I thought to myself, if that was Billy Smith from first grade, by now he’d be all grown up too.”