I wasn’t going to mention the missing title for this post, but then I saw the second comic, which is a CIDU for me. What does “tackling lyme” have to do with Barnum?
I wonder if a title will congeal the different ideas together? If we call it 5770 that won’t help much.
Yeah, I don’t really get the second panel either. It feels like there’s supposed to be some sort of joke there. I get the skewed Barnum quote, but it seems like there’s more here.
But the joke in the Barney & Clyde is just in the play between “a sucker-borne disease” and “a sucker”. The ticks carrying Lyme would be the suckers in the first, whereas gullible members of the public are the suckers in the second, the original supposed quotation.
Comment in moderation. A tick is literally what Barnum called the public.
So as not to get caught in moderation, I’ll euphemise.
Ticks literally inhale blood (and some can give you Lyme disease). Barnum said that there’s an inhaler born every minute.
Barnum said “There’s a sucker born every minute”. This is a play on that. “There’s a sucker-borne disease every minute”.
“It feels like there’s supposed to be some sort of joke there (in the second panel).”
I don’t see why. It’s all a lead up to the fourth panel so I don’t think it needs to be that the second panel is supposed to be a deflater joke.
I must say the that as a ad campaign slogan “Conquer Tick Season by Tackling Lyme” is the most deceptively clunky and impossibly awkward tag line anyone could have. It doesn’t look so bad but it’s practically impossible to get it out of one’s mouth.
I liked the tick / vacuum pun. But shouldn’t the second panel be the other way around: tackle lyme by conquering tick season rather than how he said it?
I liked the tick / vacuum pun. But shouldn’t the second panel have been the other way around: conquer Lyme by tackling tick season rather than how he said it?
Yeah the Barnum pun is fine, but I can’t get over the second panel. It sure sounds like it’s supposed to be a pun of some kind. I have always heard it called Lyme Disease, never just Lyme.
Ten years ago I’d have thought a filter that filtered at *inhale* and even *inhal*er would have been comically ludicrous. It’s not even as though *inhale* is that much of an obscenity. So what if someone says “Well, that *inhale*s”? That’s no reason to get the vapors.
So the message board content filter is apparently more famously prudish than the comics page editor.
One automotive forum I recall had an overzealous naughty filter, often rendering some words almost indecipherable. It’s kinda hard to spell “glass” and “chassis” without a certain three-letter combination. for instance.
But didn’t we have the same “inhale” filter trouble with the previous version of this site?
I seem to recall grumblings regarding the sensitivity (and relative ludicrousness) of that particular filter.
Getting back to the comic, I wonder what the dogs would make of a DEAD END street.
Whoa betide anyone named Dick. I once had to work with a forum and I couldn’t figure out why my posts were being blocked and then I finally got a response that the problem word was abdominal. …. You see, it contains the consecutive letters D-O-M and ….
I see a fair number of “no outlet” signs in tangled suburban tracts. They’re the color and shape of “yield” signs, and usually warn drivers trying to drive a straight line between to points.
I once had the thought of posing myself near one of those signs, holding the plug on a very long extension cord and looking discouraged. Also, the gag of police coming for somebody who was using that spot as an emotional or creative outlet (“Yes, you have freedom of expression, sir. You just need to take your accordion to another street.”).
I see a fair number of “no outlet” signs in tangled suburban tracts. They’re the color and shape of “yield” signs, and usually warn drivers trying to drive a straight line between to points.
I’ve never seen ones like that. The ones I’ve seen are standard warning signs (square, one vertex up).
Oy. I made that “NO OUTLET” joke a decade ago, as a dad joke. With the expected result.
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I wasn’t going to mention the missing title for this post, but then I saw the second comic, which is a CIDU for me. What does “tackling lyme” have to do with Barnum?
I wonder if a title will congeal the different ideas together? If we call it 5770 that won’t help much.
Yeah, I don’t really get the second panel either. It feels like there’s supposed to be some sort of joke there. I get the skewed Barnum quote, but it seems like there’s more here.
But the joke in the Barney & Clyde is just in the play between “a sucker-borne disease” and “a sucker”. The ticks carrying Lyme would be the suckers in the first, whereas gullible members of the public are the suckers in the second, the original supposed quotation.
Comment in moderation. A tick is literally what Barnum called the public.
So as not to get caught in moderation, I’ll euphemise.
Ticks literally inhale blood (and some can give you Lyme disease). Barnum said that there’s an inhaler born every minute.
Barnum said “There’s a sucker born every minute”. This is a play on that. “There’s a sucker-borne disease every minute”.
“It feels like there’s supposed to be some sort of joke there (in the second panel).”
I don’t see why. It’s all a lead up to the fourth panel so I don’t think it needs to be that the second panel is supposed to be a deflater joke.
I must say the that as a ad campaign slogan “Conquer Tick Season by Tackling Lyme” is the most deceptively clunky and impossibly awkward tag line anyone could have. It doesn’t look so bad but it’s practically impossible to get it out of one’s mouth.
I liked the tick / vacuum pun. But shouldn’t the second panel be the other way around: tackle lyme by conquering tick season rather than how he said it?
I liked the tick / vacuum pun. But shouldn’t the second panel have been the other way around: conquer Lyme by tackling tick season rather than how he said it?
Yeah the Barnum pun is fine, but I can’t get over the second panel. It sure sounds like it’s supposed to be a pun of some kind. I have always heard it called Lyme Disease, never just Lyme.
Ten years ago I’d have thought a filter that filtered at *inhale* and even *inhal*er would have been comically ludicrous. It’s not even as though *inhale* is that much of an obscenity. So what if someone says “Well, that *inhale*s”? That’s no reason to get the vapors.
So the message board content filter is apparently more famously prudish than the comics page editor.
One automotive forum I recall had an overzealous naughty filter, often rendering some words almost indecipherable. It’s kinda hard to spell “glass” and “chassis” without a certain three-letter combination. for instance.
But didn’t we have the same “inhale” filter trouble with the previous version of this site?
I seem to recall grumblings regarding the sensitivity (and relative ludicrousness) of that particular filter.
Getting back to the comic, I wonder what the dogs would make of a DEAD END street.
Whoa betide anyone named Dick. I once had to work with a forum and I couldn’t figure out why my posts were being blocked and then I finally got a response that the problem word was abdominal. …. You see, it contains the consecutive letters D-O-M and ….
I see a fair number of “no outlet” signs in tangled suburban tracts. They’re the color and shape of “yield” signs, and usually warn drivers trying to drive a straight line between to points.
I once had the thought of posing myself near one of those signs, holding the plug on a very long extension cord and looking discouraged. Also, the gag of police coming for somebody who was using that spot as an emotional or creative outlet (“Yes, you have freedom of expression, sir. You just need to take your accordion to another street.”).
I see a fair number of “no outlet” signs in tangled suburban tracts. They’re the color and shape of “yield” signs, and usually warn drivers trying to drive a straight line between to points.
I’ve never seen ones like that. The ones I’ve seen are standard warning signs (square, one vertex up).
Oy. I made that “NO OUTLET” joke a decade ago, as a dad joke. With the expected result.