I was going to comment on Bill’s “Wade to Rest” comment, timestamped 2:42 AM PST today (Monday), but it is nowhere to be found. It was the McPherson with Uncle Wade’s “slightly used casket.” My comment was the Bill’s title is a better bit than the comic itself.
I’m not a subject matter expert in comics physics, but the rolled-up ski fronts don’t gibe with a flat-wall collision! this made my eyes see the poor skier wrapped up against a thin vertical line a la collision with a tree.
The joke is not that he hit the wall, ha ha. The joke, such as it is, is that having hit the wall, he is flattened and his skis rolled up. It doesn’t work that way in real life.
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Follow the tracks back. He bounced off the wall, which flattened his face and curled his skis.
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Arthur is of course correct, but the fella is standing backward, i.e., his bounce should have cause him to be facing the other way.
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“He bounced off the wall, which flattened his face and curled his skis.”
…. which is funny….. why?
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So the “joke” is that this guy ran into a structure? Typically inscrutable New Yorker attempt at humor.
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I was going to comment on Bill’s “Wade to Rest” comment, timestamped 2:42 AM PST today (Monday), but it is nowhere to be found. It was the McPherson with Uncle Wade’s “slightly used casket.” My comment was the Bill’s title is a better bit than the comic itself.
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And now you’ll get to see it TWICE!
Think of this as a preview of coming attractions.
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I’m not a subject matter expert in comics physics, but the rolled-up ski fronts don’t gibe with a flat-wall collision! this made my eyes see the poor skier wrapped up against a thin vertical line a la collision with a tree.
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This looks more like Virgil Partch than Peter Arno to me.
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Thank you Arthur, I had no idea what I was looking at. It looked like he was in the process of hitting an invisible pole.
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Cartoon physics.
And yeah, the 20th century was a.different time for humor.
I was reminded of Warner Bros. Cartoons, and found the comic mildly amusing .
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I agree that it looks a lot more like Patrch than Arno.
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The joke is not that he hit the wall, ha ha. The joke, such as it is, is that having hit the wall, he is flattened and his skis rolled up. It doesn’t work that way in real life.
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Arno should have just stuck with naked women.
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Yes, it does look more like VIP. I believe I was misled.
The absence of naked women should have been a tip-off.
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We can’t count the fingers because they’re all wearing mittens, but I say Partch too.
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