I don’t understand why this should be a CIDU. Pinocchio is telling a series of lies in order to furnish Gepetto with the raw material for the handles he wants to make. It’s not quite Rube Goldberg complexity, but the method is certainly silly enough to warrant at least a small smile.
Or a wee eww …
@ Mr. Grumpy – I think he would polish off the snot before he fashions the wood into handles.
Supposedly Pinocchio has an infinite supply of… “nose wood,” which Geppetto uses to make a supply of broom handles that will never run out.
Of course, it requires that our Pinocchio always be lying, or else his “nose wood” would soon be depleted.
On the bright side, they didn’t make Geppetto a mohel as well as a mop and broom merchant.
Wouldn’t a mini nose guillotine be more efficient than a saw?
Is he even lying, technically? Some definitions need “intent to deceive”.
This was one of those “I got it the moment I posted it” comics.
I always wondered how Pinocchio’s nose goes back to normal size after he lies? Does it have to be cut off, or does it shrink after he tells the truth again?
And if it shrinks after he tells the truth again, then wouldn’t cutting it off be really bad?
“I always wondered how Pinocchio’s nose goes back to normal size after he lies?”
Does it? How do we know that Pinocchio didn’t go the rest of his life with a longer nose?…. well, I guess we can go to the source.
I predict… he did it in the presence of the blue fairy and she fixed it for him.
I’ll google the book…
Crying as if his heart would break, the Marionette mourned for hours over the length of his nose. No matter how he tried, it would not go through the door. The Fairy showed no pity toward him, as she was trying to teach him a good lesson, so that he would stop telling lies, the worst habit any boy may acquire. But when she saw him, pale with fright and with his eyes half out of his head from terror, she began to feel sorry for him and clapped her hands together. A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio’s nose. They pecked and pecked so hard at that enormous nose that in a few moments, it was the same size as before.
*aside: I’ve **always** despised “Pinocchio”*
Of course, as with all cultural allusions though, the original never matters as it’s only the movie that anyone remembers and… oh, I suppose someone has posted it on you tube somewhere.
….. okay, lousy transfer but yeah, the fairy fixed it…..
Pinocchio is a character in the FABLES comic book series. In the last “what eventually happened to them” issue, we learn he’s on his way to a successful political career, because he’s the only candidate who can prove he *doesn’t* lie (and supposedly never has).
How different from the home life of our own dear [deleted]. . . .
After Pinocchio told a bunch of lies the first time, birds came and pecked off his extended nose. He didn’t tell lies after that.
A long time ago there was a story in Playboy magazine. I forget the title but the main character was Ben Occhio who was granted a wish by a genie. You can guess what grew by six inches every time he told a lie. Except it never got shorter, just longer and longer with every lie.
As they say on the comic – he does not make a good a motivational speaker.
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I don’t understand why this should be a CIDU. Pinocchio is telling a series of lies in order to furnish Gepetto with the raw material for the handles he wants to make. It’s not quite Rube Goldberg complexity, but the method is certainly silly enough to warrant at least a small smile.
Or a wee eww …
@ Mr. Grumpy – I think he would polish off the snot before he fashions the wood into handles.
Supposedly Pinocchio has an infinite supply of… “nose wood,” which Geppetto uses to make a supply of broom handles that will never run out.
Of course, it requires that our Pinocchio always be lying, or else his “nose wood” would soon be depleted.
On the bright side, they didn’t make Geppetto a mohel as well as a mop and broom merchant.
Wouldn’t a mini nose guillotine be more efficient than a saw?
Is he even lying, technically? Some definitions need “intent to deceive”.
This was one of those “I got it the moment I posted it” comics.
I always wondered how Pinocchio’s nose goes back to normal size after he lies? Does it have to be cut off, or does it shrink after he tells the truth again?
And if it shrinks after he tells the truth again, then wouldn’t cutting it off be really bad?
“I always wondered how Pinocchio’s nose goes back to normal size after he lies?”
Does it? How do we know that Pinocchio didn’t go the rest of his life with a longer nose?…. well, I guess we can go to the source.
I predict… he did it in the presence of the blue fairy and she fixed it for him.
I’ll google the book…
*aside: I’ve **always** despised “Pinocchio”*
Of course, as with all cultural allusions though, the original never matters as it’s only the movie that anyone remembers and… oh, I suppose someone has posted it on you tube somewhere.
….. okay, lousy transfer but yeah, the fairy fixed it…..
Pinocchio is a character in the FABLES comic book series. In the last “what eventually happened to them” issue, we learn he’s on his way to a successful political career, because he’s the only candidate who can prove he *doesn’t* lie (and supposedly never has).
How different from the home life of our own dear [deleted]. . . .
After Pinocchio told a bunch of lies the first time, birds came and pecked off his extended nose. He didn’t tell lies after that.
A long time ago there was a story in Playboy magazine. I forget the title but the main character was Ben Occhio who was granted a wish by a genie. You can guess what grew by six inches every time he told a lie. Except it never got shorter, just longer and longer with every lie.
As they say on the comic – he does not make a good a motivational speaker.