Not sure how the kid who’s never seen that catalog would know that it always pictures people doing insane outdoor activities (chopping wood, driving a horse-drawn sleigh, snowshoeing through the wilderness) while most of their actual customers wear their stuff to get the newspaper out of the driveway. When it’s 58 degrees.
So . . . Replace the entirety of Frazz’s last speech bubble with “Why not?” And then remove the word “or” from the last sentence and it better conveys the meaning of the joke.
I’d be willing to bet that was the original draft, but Mallett wanted to add some commentary on generational differences or something like that.
@ aaronpf2014 – Excellent editing job: I didn’t get this one at all before, but I understand it perfectly now, I also like padraig’s point about the anachronistic effects.
Couple of years ago, I would haunt the 2-a-day mark-downs on the LL Bean site; I bought a lot of LL Bean stuff, but always at a very good discount. So I’ve been decked out in LL Bean stuff these last few years (shoes, merino wool shirts, zip off pants, jackets, hats), so you would think LL Bean had my number — but did they really? I couldn’t help thinking they were getting a very bad deal with me, because I was upsell resistant — I’d wait for whatever else I wanted to be featured on a 2-a-day markdown. So either their markups are great enough that they could make a profit on me, or I was the reason for them to drop their free shipping on everything and limit their legendary return policy… (To be fair, I never abused the return policy — but it was extremely nice to know I could return anything at any time (there’s a convenient retail store nearby), and the free shipping made me just buy without waiting.) Frankly, I think it was a big mistake to rein back the return policy — it was why I was willing to buy from them in the face of sometimes dodgy suppliers — I knew they would stand behind what they sold, even if it turned out to be crap. (And in the face of nearly 100 years, only now is it suddenly killingly unprofitable to offer that guarantee??) I see it as a sign that they are going to be reducing quality all the more (a problem they’ve been having these last few years), so I haven’t bought from LL Bean since.
“zip off pants”?
Full-length pants become shorts.
Hubby wears his when he travels from cold weather (WI) to scuba dive in warm weather.
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Not sure how the kid who’s never seen that catalog would know that it always pictures people doing insane outdoor activities (chopping wood, driving a horse-drawn sleigh, snowshoeing through the wilderness) while most of their actual customers wear their stuff to get the newspaper out of the driveway. When it’s 58 degrees.
So . . . Replace the entirety of Frazz’s last speech bubble with “Why not?” And then remove the word “or” from the last sentence and it better conveys the meaning of the joke.
I’d be willing to bet that was the original draft, but Mallett wanted to add some commentary on generational differences or something like that.
@ aaronpf2014 – Excellent editing job: I didn’t get this one at all before, but I understand it perfectly now, I also like padraig’s point about the anachronistic effects.
Couple of years ago, I would haunt the 2-a-day mark-downs on the LL Bean site; I bought a lot of LL Bean stuff, but always at a very good discount. So I’ve been decked out in LL Bean stuff these last few years (shoes, merino wool shirts, zip off pants, jackets, hats), so you would think LL Bean had my number — but did they really? I couldn’t help thinking they were getting a very bad deal with me, because I was upsell resistant — I’d wait for whatever else I wanted to be featured on a 2-a-day markdown. So either their markups are great enough that they could make a profit on me, or I was the reason for them to drop their free shipping on everything and limit their legendary return policy… (To be fair, I never abused the return policy — but it was extremely nice to know I could return anything at any time (there’s a convenient retail store nearby), and the free shipping made me just buy without waiting.) Frankly, I think it was a big mistake to rein back the return policy — it was why I was willing to buy from them in the face of sometimes dodgy suppliers — I knew they would stand behind what they sold, even if it turned out to be crap. (And in the face of nearly 100 years, only now is it suddenly killingly unprofitable to offer that guarantee??) I see it as a sign that they are going to be reducing quality all the more (a problem they’ve been having these last few years), so I haven’t bought from LL Bean since.
“zip off pants”?
Full-length pants become shorts.
Hubby wears his when he travels from cold weather (WI) to scuba dive in warm weather.