Other guy made neat, well-decorated gingerbread men. Buni made the same thing and his are awful – either he cut them out by hand or he warped them picking them up to put onto the cookie sheet to bake – and then he decorated them crooked too. I don’t know if there’s a running gag that Buni can’t cook, or just a one-off – but that seems to be all the jokes.
I *guess* it supposed to be a relatable experience you bring something nice to a bake sale and a clueless guy brings something shoddy and crappy and you feel somewhat …. contaminated?
This reminds me a bit of the Buni where Bunit gets a houseplant and it all seems love and cuddles until the plant gets home and sees the rest of the plants are scraggly and neglected.
In an introduction to “National Brotherhood Week“, Tom Lehrer mentioned “National Make Fun of the Handicapped Week“. I’d rather hope I’m wrong, but that was the first thing I thought of when I saw how Buni was laughing at his misshaped gingerbread men.
No, it’s a comment about inclusiveness. The other guy is all about conformity and everyone must be the same. Buni is laughing at his mindset, saying all are welcome and life is messy and we’re all a little off-kilter. He’s smashing the system. You see he’s helping these different people over the “wall” (the side of the box) and integrating them into the mainstream.
Also, aren’t his gingerbread men alive and cheerful, getting into marching onto the scene and waving at the crowds? Wait, the originals on the left are also alive, and showing their reactions.
This “Pagelow” strip is doing a pretty good job of imitating the look of “Buni”.
Also, it won’t count as synchronicity, but I had been thinking of Shari Lewis in recent months, wondering if an act like hers would fly today. Poking around the web just now I find that her daughter, Mallory has an act performing with Lamb Chop to carry on her mother’s memory. I had no idea.
Is there some sort of a connection between Buni and Shari Lewis, or was the sharp left turn “just because” of Andréa’s random post?
P.S. The label shown in the picture says that they are “Always Fresh!“, which is probably why the package does not have a “sell by” date.
I had a Lamb Chop puppet when I was a toddler watching Shari Lewis on television; and then 35 years later I was able to buy one for my own toddler, just in time for her 1990s program.
My dogs have had a Lamb Chop squeakie toy for years . . . never bee torn apart. Has even been tossed in the pool and ‘rescued’, many times. Right now, Hedgie is the fave ‘rescuee’.
I was thinking, ‘Oo, weird foodstuffs. I just rec’d the Lamb Chop comic; think I’ll post it and see what happens.’ (The person who sent me the comic is also the one who gave my dogs the squeakie several years ago. Just another bit o’ trivia to fill up your brain.)
“P.P.S. Nuts, I spent five minutes too long collecting the URLs.”
It took me a *heck* of a long time to find it. (Is the search function for this blog in a weird place? Does the blog have one?) I’m amazed I was able to beat anyone’s time.
@ woozy – Bill moved the CIDU search to above the 15 “Recent Comments” (click on the folder icon in the upper left corner). Using that to hunt for “forget it” produces the link, but that’s not how I found it before. I can’t remember exactly what I typed, but it appears that I just got lucky: the comic showed up right away (as the second or third image). Trying again (with two different search engines), I either get dozens of irrelevant “Pardon My Planets”, or dozens of “Chinatown” posters.
As far as the cooking lamb chops thing goes: when I was growing up, our family was mostly-vegetarian. Not for any particular ethical reason or anything — my mother just doesn’t like meat all that much, and nobody else cared enough to argue against that. Except my little sister, who’s a carnivore. Thus, she was THRILLED when Mom said that we were having lamb chop for dinner.
My mother claims that the fact that she used the singular should have been enough warning; my sister counts it as one of the most traumatic moments of her childhood, and my mother feels SLIGHTLY guilty about that, but thinks it was funny enough to make it worthwhile:
There’s photographic evidence in the comments
Well, anyway the photo can be found at “https” colon “scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/49174359_10156029711456447_2366007014175277056_n.jpg” then question mark, and then at the end of all that paste on the query string “_nc_cat=103&_nc_oc=AQnCgRhjEzDfNrcB11cfV_G–0ytl_8ZmoTA4xUtT0NO2_Ma0Q42v-CFRdS5d8H3JfI&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=e8dca87e84c42d0542b83a81cc24051e&oe=5DE2D473”
I’m in moderation hell but if you add “?” and ““_nc_cat=103&_nc_oc=AQnCgRhjEzDfNrcB11cfV_G–0ytl_8ZmoTA4xUtT0NO2_Ma0Q42v-CFRdS5d8H3JfI&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=e8dca87e84c42d0542b83a81cc24051e&oe=5DE2D473” to that…..
Let’s see if this is moderated. I’m hoping wordpress won’t think it’s a URL
Oh for God’s sake! Word press rendered an literal dash, dash as an m dash. Do the above but “G–0ytl” must have two short dashes. Not a single long dash.
Or wait till Ian Osmond reads this and posts a picture….
I clicked on the link in woozy’s comment at 3:09 pm, and the picture of baked lambchop showed up right away. Much better than having to log into Zuckerberg’s abominable time sink.
Shari and Lamb Chop were at my sister’s education master’s degree graduation – one or the other, I think Shari, was the speaker/honoree. It was in the college football stadium, so it was hard to see Ms Chop.
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They’re baked.
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Other guy made neat, well-decorated gingerbread men. Buni made the same thing and his are awful – either he cut them out by hand or he warped them picking them up to put onto the cookie sheet to bake – and then he decorated them crooked too. I don’t know if there’s a running gag that Buni can’t cook, or just a one-off – but that seems to be all the jokes.
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I *guess* it supposed to be a relatable experience you bring something nice to a bake sale and a clueless guy brings something shoddy and crappy and you feel somewhat …. contaminated?
This reminds me a bit of the Buni where Bunit gets a houseplant and it all seems love and cuddles until the plant gets home and sees the rest of the plants are scraggly and neglected.
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In an introduction to “National Brotherhood Week“, Tom Lehrer mentioned “National Make Fun of the Handicapped Week“. I’d rather hope I’m wrong, but that was the first thing I thought of when I saw how Buni was laughing at his misshaped gingerbread men.
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I don’t think he’s laughing, he’s just happy to be unpacking his work.
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No, it’s a comment about inclusiveness. The other guy is all about conformity and everyone must be the same. Buni is laughing at his mindset, saying all are welcome and life is messy and we’re all a little off-kilter. He’s smashing the system. You see he’s helping these different people over the “wall” (the side of the box) and integrating them into the mainstream.
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The “other guy” is a girl, usually called Bunigirl by fans. No actual name given. Buni loves her, but she has a boyfriend.
And Buni is joyful at participating in the sale, and doesn’t realize how misshapen his efforts are.
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Just because . . .
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Pete has it, I think. Buni will have a big smile whenever he sees Bunigirl without Bluto (my own name for the boyfriend).
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Also, aren’t his gingerbread men alive and cheerful, getting into marching onto the scene and waving at the crowds? Wait, the originals on the left are also alive, and showing their reactions.
This “Pagelow” strip is doing a pretty good job of imitating the look of “Buni”.
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When Shari Lewis opened her Broadway show some years back, a number of area restaurants promised to take lamb chops off their menu for the night.
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I like SingaporeBill’s explanation. I’m quite sure it’s not what the writer had in mind, but I like it anyway.
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Awwwwww . . .
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“When Shari Lewis opened her Broadway show some years back, a number of area restaurants promised to take lamb chops off their menu for the night.”
Shari Lewis very often ordered and ate lamb chops in restaurants.
BTW my favorite Lamb Chop line, protesting a suggestion from Shari: “But but but but but, and this is YOUR big butt, …”
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[“They’re baked.”]
The phrase that ran through my mind was “half-baked.”
:-)
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MiB, I guess the restaurants were honoring Lamb Chop, then, more than Shari Lewis.`
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Also, it won’t count as synchronicity, but I had been thinking of Shari Lewis in recent months, wondering if an act like hers would fly today. Poking around the web just now I find that her daughter, Mallory has an act performing with Lamb Chop to carry on her mother’s memory. I had no idea.
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The hightest-paid comedian these days is Jeff Dunham . . . ventriloquism returns.
Was just watching a bio of Shari Lewis . . .
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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mallory+lewis
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Oh, that’s nice!
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Baked, meaning “high”.
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Is there some sort of a connection between Buni and Shari Lewis, or was the sharp left turn “just because” of Andréa’s random post?
P.S. The label shown in the picture says that they are “Always Fresh!“, which is probably why the package does not have a “sell by” date.
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I had a Lamb Chop puppet when I was a toddler watching Shari Lewis on television; and then 35 years later I was able to buy one for my own toddler, just in time for her 1990s program.
I thought that was so cool.
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My dogs have had a Lamb Chop squeakie toy for years . . . never bee torn apart. Has even been tossed in the pool and ‘rescued’, many times. Right now, Hedgie is the fave ‘rescuee’.
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Kilby: Yes, my bad . . .
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@ Andréa – I didn’t mean that as criticism, I just wanted to make sure that I wasn’t missing something that everyone else understood.
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I was thinking, ‘Oo, weird foodstuffs. I just rec’d the Lamb Chop comic; think I’ll post it and see what happens.’ (The person who sent me the comic is also the one who gave my dogs the squeakie several years ago. Just another bit o’ trivia to fill up your brain.)
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Speaking of gingerbread people, could someone ‘splain this version?
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@Andrea, re: Candyland We didn’t explain it well enough the first time round?
https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/2018/12/23/forget-it/
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“but I had been thinking of Shari Lewis in recent months, wondering if an act like hers would fly today. ”
Why wouldn’t it?
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@ Andréa – Bill posted it in December, and the second comment(*) provided a link to a related thread. The comic (and Bill’s title for the earlier thread) play on a well-known quote from a 1974 movie: “Forget it, it’s Chinatown“.
P.S. (*) – Modesty forbids me from mentioning the name of the commenter. ;-)
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P.P.S. Nuts, I spent five minutes too long collecting the URLs.
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@Andrea, re: Candyland We didn’t explain it well enough the first time round?
https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/2018/12/23/forget-it/
I forgot it.
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“P.P.S. Nuts, I spent five minutes too long collecting the URLs.”
It took me a *heck* of a long time to find it. (Is the search function for this blog in a weird place? Does the blog have one?) I’m amazed I was able to beat anyone’s time.
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Search was recently relocated. If you click the folder icon at the top of the sidebar, Search is at the top.
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I generally use Google with “site:godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com” as one of the search terms.
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@ woozy – Bill moved the CIDU search to above the 15 “Recent Comments” (click on the folder icon in the upper left corner). Using that to hunt for “forget it” produces the link, but that’s not how I found it before. I can’t remember exactly what I typed, but it appears that I just got lucky: the comic showed up right away (as the second or third image). Trying again (with two different search engines), I either get dozens of irrelevant “Pardon My Planets”, or dozens of “Chinatown” posters.
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I tagged wayno and went through several pages. I’m surprised I beat you to it. I *really* didn’t search efficiently (or at all).
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As far as the cooking lamb chops thing goes: when I was growing up, our family was mostly-vegetarian. Not for any particular ethical reason or anything — my mother just doesn’t like meat all that much, and nobody else cared enough to argue against that. Except my little sister, who’s a carnivore. Thus, she was THRILLED when Mom said that we were having lamb chop for dinner.
My mother claims that the fact that she used the singular should have been enough warning; my sister counts it as one of the most traumatic moments of her childhood, and my mother feels SLIGHTLY guilty about that, but thinks it was funny enough to make it worthwhile:
There’s photographic evidence in the comments
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I’m confused . . . photo . . . where??
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You have to read the comments of ian osmond’s facebook page. The copied blurb doesn’t seem to let you see the comments.
I’ll see if this works:
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Apparently not…”Bad timestamp”
Let’s try again (this time with all the junk):
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/49174359_10156029711456447_2366007014175277056_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_oc=AQnCgRhjEzDfNrcB11cfV_G–0ytl_8ZmoTA4xUtT0NO2_Ma0Q42v-CFRdS5d8H3JfI&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=e8dca87e84c42d0542b83a81cc24051e&oe=5DE2D473
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^^^
“Bad URL timestamp”.
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Well, anyway the photo can be found at “https” colon “scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/49174359_10156029711456447_2366007014175277056_n.jpg” then question mark, and then at the end of all that paste on the query string “_nc_cat=103&_nc_oc=AQnCgRhjEzDfNrcB11cfV_G–0ytl_8ZmoTA4xUtT0NO2_Ma0Q42v-CFRdS5d8H3JfI&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=e8dca87e84c42d0542b83a81cc24051e&oe=5DE2D473”
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Brian at STL
I’m in moderation hell but if you add “?” and ““_nc_cat=103&_nc_oc=AQnCgRhjEzDfNrcB11cfV_G–0ytl_8ZmoTA4xUtT0NO2_Ma0Q42v-CFRdS5d8H3JfI&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=e8dca87e84c42d0542b83a81cc24051e&oe=5DE2D473” to that…..
Let’s see if this is moderated. I’m hoping wordpress won’t think it’s a URL
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Oh for God’s sake! Word press rendered an literal dash, dash as an m dash. Do the above but “G–0ytl” must have two short dashes. Not a single long dash.
Or wait till Ian Osmond reads this and posts a picture….
It’s cute.
…. hrmph one last idea…
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Okay a last “last idea”
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I clicked on the link in woozy’s comment at 3:09 pm, and the picture of baked lambchop showed up right away. Much better than having to log into Zuckerberg’s abominable time sink.
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Okay, the second one with “the junk” seems to do it.
That one was in moderation when Brian of STL posted.
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“Much better than having to log into Zuckerberg’s abominable time sink.”
Oh, I don’t know…. I got to find out quite a bit about our Ian Osmond. He has several amusing anecdotes.
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Buni nailed it!
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Yeah, the second one worked. I think posted just a minute after your first one and your update hadn’t appeared for me.
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Shari and Lamb Chop were at my sister’s education master’s degree graduation – one or the other, I think Shari, was the speaker/honoree. It was in the college football stadium, so it was hard to see Ms Chop.
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