I guess. It’s more of that “Women make no sense, and men are too stupid to try” nonsense that the strip seems to enjoy so much. I was trying to figure out the rest of the box. It’s the 1134th addition. Any significance to that number? Probably not. And wallpapering is only famously impossible if you do it with someone you are in a relationship with. Is canoeing generally thought of as a difficult task?
1134 is hell upside down? Depending on your font…
This strip is nothing but miserable people making other people miserable. I can’t imagine why any newspaper carries it, unless it’s on the Obituary page.
And who writes “Happy Birthday” on the unfrosted side of the cake?
It’d even depress the Obit page ’cause the people in this comic still have to live with themselves, and each other. Those on the Obit page don’t.
With a Sharpie, it looks like. Seems fitting, somehow.
I would normally say that the part about 1134 spelling hell upside down is a coincidence, but not with this strip.
Fun! Just like canoeing and wallpapering. Is that what it says? One is fun for those that do it and the other is usually not. So huh?
There’s no way that box holds 12,500 pieces.
I think this is the girl’s passive-aggressive way of stating that their relationship has seemed to be stuck in the same place for quite the same without any obvious hope for progress in the near future.
I took it to mean that the dating game yields nice prizes, but the relationship game yields nothing worthwhile.
Oh, yeah, that box holds 12,500 pieces. As if the puzzle weren’t impossible enough, the pieces are so tiny you can barely pick them up.
The Dating Game was a TV show known for providing a date for the contestant and his or her choice–dinner, activity, not what I’d call “cool prizes”. And not something comparable to a home game (which doesn’t involve “cool prizes”, either). So I assume she’s saying that it’s “like The Dating Game” in that the only reward is an activity to be done together, in this case, an activity that will probably lead to frustration and aggravation with each other. Gotta give some credit to the strip for thinking up an activity that would so obviously be miserable to try to do with another person. There are similarly challenging blank jigsaws, and I can vaguely imagine some pleasure at solving those, but that solution would only be achievable as a solitary activity.
Even the balloons are depressed.
And it’s a two-sided puzzle, with each side being a picture of sky.
Like the puzzle, a relationship is made of thousands of little interlocking pieces you put together together, as a couple,. Get it right and the wide open blue sky future is yours to write your own story on like one of those skywriting planes. Get it wrong, in a festival of irritation, and all the pieces end up on the floor.
I used to enjoy the sky portions of a puzzle and would concentrate on that while others did picture-matching exercises. I liked examining the patterns of the pieces and seeing the spatial relationships. I would sort the pieces by basic shape. I could often deduce which categories of pieces would be applicable to a given gap, which would reduce the set of candidate pieces.
@Brian in STL: which is why, as a philatelist, I enjoy plate reconstruction so much.
Olivier: Me, too. GB #33, especially.
@cxp: 1d red? (I don’t know what catalog you use: SG, I presume). I’ve been working for these last few years on France Y&T #16 and #23: Empire 40c orange unperforated then perforated.
narmitaj – I like that comparison!
This panel wasn’t nearly funny enough to justify a retread.
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I guess. It’s more of that “Women make no sense, and men are too stupid to try” nonsense that the strip seems to enjoy so much. I was trying to figure out the rest of the box. It’s the 1134th addition. Any significance to that number? Probably not. And wallpapering is only famously impossible if you do it with someone you are in a relationship with. Is canoeing generally thought of as a difficult task?
1134 is hell upside down? Depending on your font…
This strip is nothing but miserable people making other people miserable. I can’t imagine why any newspaper carries it, unless it’s on the Obituary page.
And who writes “Happy Birthday” on the unfrosted side of the cake?
It’d even depress the Obit page ’cause the people in this comic still have to live with themselves, and each other. Those on the Obit page don’t.
With a Sharpie, it looks like. Seems fitting, somehow.
I would normally say that the part about 1134 spelling hell upside down is a coincidence, but not with this strip.
Fun! Just like canoeing and wallpapering. Is that what it says? One is fun for those that do it and the other is usually not. So huh?
There’s no way that box holds 12,500 pieces.
I think this is the girl’s passive-aggressive way of stating that their relationship has seemed to be stuck in the same place for quite the same without any obvious hope for progress in the near future.
I took it to mean that the dating game yields nice prizes, but the relationship game yields nothing worthwhile.
Oh, yeah, that box holds 12,500 pieces. As if the puzzle weren’t impossible enough, the pieces are so tiny you can barely pick them up.
The Dating Game was a TV show known for providing a date for the contestant and his or her choice–dinner, activity, not what I’d call “cool prizes”. And not something comparable to a home game (which doesn’t involve “cool prizes”, either). So I assume she’s saying that it’s “like The Dating Game” in that the only reward is an activity to be done together, in this case, an activity that will probably lead to frustration and aggravation with each other. Gotta give some credit to the strip for thinking up an activity that would so obviously be miserable to try to do with another person. There are similarly challenging blank jigsaws, and I can vaguely imagine some pleasure at solving those, but that solution would only be achievable as a solitary activity.
Even the balloons are depressed.
And it’s a two-sided puzzle, with each side being a picture of sky.
Like the puzzle, a relationship is made of thousands of little interlocking pieces you put together together, as a couple,. Get it right and the wide open blue sky future is yours to write your own story on like one of those skywriting planes. Get it wrong, in a festival of irritation, and all the pieces end up on the floor.
I used to enjoy the sky portions of a puzzle and would concentrate on that while others did picture-matching exercises. I liked examining the patterns of the pieces and seeing the spatial relationships. I would sort the pieces by basic shape. I could often deduce which categories of pieces would be applicable to a given gap, which would reduce the set of candidate pieces.
@Brian in STL: which is why, as a philatelist, I enjoy plate reconstruction so much.
Olivier: Me, too. GB #33, especially.
@cxp: 1d red? (I don’t know what catalog you use: SG, I presume). I’ve been working for these last few years on France Y&T #16 and #23: Empire 40c orange unperforated then perforated.
narmitaj – I like that comparison!
This panel wasn’t nearly funny enough to justify a retread.