All are enjoyable, including the one I didn’t understand – the snake charmer one. The drawing is funny enuf in itself, but why is the conductor a snake?
He’s not a snake, he’s just very limber. And he’s very limber because it’s funnier that way, making the cliche connection clearer. What I wonder about is whatever is hanging from the flute in the first picture.
@ Treesong – Me too. I don’t know what it is, but I spent quite a while studying that blob of gunk on a very small screen (thinking that it must be the whole point of the joke), before I gave up and scrolled down to see the next comic, which turned out to be the second panel. Ooops.
P.S. I can’t even figure out who drew it. It sort of looks like a “New Yorker” comic that someone has touched up with a pair of Sharpies.
How many Mr Potato Head jokes have we seen lately? Maybe we should add them to team Pinocchio. Or at least add a “Mr Potato Head” tag.
Oh, and I think the thing hanging from the flute is just a smudge of ink/ printing error.
Under. Always under. It makes one handed operation easier.
You’re right. Pete: how do I NOT already have a Mister Potatohead tag???
@ Bill – Well, you still don‘t. Does WordPress even permit adding or changing a category or subject tag after a post goes online? Or is it simply more difficult than it is worth? The only changes I ever remember seeing were to the type (CIDU vs, not a CIDU).
Kilby, that’s just a mater of editing the post, so no problem.
That said, though, adding a tag after the fact requires finding those posts, which can difficult… when you can’t find them using tags.
“Under. Always under.” Sorry, I disagree with John Hodgman on this as well. Many times I don’t care, but there are different (idiotic) dispensing appliances, and some of them have woefully inferior utility in one or the other position. For them, there is a right and a wrong position, and it’s not always the same. Units at my current office are almost unusable in the “under” configuration because the loose end falls down the back of a sealed metal box. The previous building had a dispenser that stacked the rolls. Due to the pressure, “over” didn’t work (the friction meant that it was difficult to pull off more than a single square without it breaking), but “under” worked just fine.
Not just commercial units. One of my relatives had a bathroom that must have had 1950s or 1960’s appointments. The dispenser was recessed into the wall and had a cylindrical chrome cover that could be lowered so you didn’t have to see the roll of paper sitting there. A bit too small for modern rolls, you couldn’t easily grab the back in “under”, but “over” was fine.
I dispensed (heh) with loading the paper at all. I just keep the rolls on the top of the tank.
I always use pages from the Sears Roebuck catalog.
You must have a collection of them, because Sears Roebuck stopped publishing the catalog 20 years ago.
According to Robert the paper goes over – and with our small bathroom it makes sense – hard to reach it if it hanging under. (I keep saying that we need to have a roll holder recessed into the wall for the space.)
We had a cat that wouldn’t leave the T.P. alone. In the over position, she would unspool the entire roll – on the floor if we were lucky, into the toilet if not so fortunate. So while that feline was alive, we went with under. She got her revenge by shredding the top layer of each new roll, but at least it stayed on the spool. (Yes, we did try to spoil her fun by keeping the bathroom door closed, but it didn’t always happen. :) )
If we put the tp in opposite to how Robert says to do it – in our RV we have had it all come off the roll due to the bouncing and motion of the RV. (Remember RV is only a Chevy Express van conversion.)
Comics I Don't Understand 
All are enjoyable, including the one I didn’t understand – the snake charmer one. The drawing is funny enuf in itself, but why is the conductor a snake?
He’s not a snake, he’s just very limber. And he’s very limber because it’s funnier that way, making the cliche connection clearer. What I wonder about is whatever is hanging from the flute in the first picture.
@ Treesong – Me too. I don’t know what it is, but I spent quite a while studying that blob of gunk on a very small screen (thinking that it must be the whole point of the joke), before I gave up and scrolled down to see the next comic, which turned out to be the second panel. Ooops.
P.S. I can’t even figure out who drew it. It sort of looks like a “New Yorker” comic that someone has touched up with a pair of Sharpies.
How many Mr Potato Head jokes have we seen lately? Maybe we should add them to team Pinocchio. Or at least add a “Mr Potato Head” tag.
Oh, and I think the thing hanging from the flute is just a smudge of ink/ printing error.
Under. Always under. It makes one handed operation easier.
You’re right. Pete: how do I NOT already have a Mister Potatohead tag???
@ Bill – Well, you still don‘t. Does WordPress even permit adding or changing a category or subject tag after a post goes online? Or is it simply more difficult than it is worth? The only changes I ever remember seeing were to the type (CIDU vs, not a CIDU).
Kilby, that’s just a mater of editing the post, so no problem.
That said, though, adding a tag after the fact requires finding those posts, which can difficult… when you can’t find them using tags.
“Under. Always under.” Sorry, I disagree with John Hodgman on this as well. Many times I don’t care, but there are different (idiotic) dispensing appliances, and some of them have woefully inferior utility in one or the other position. For them, there is a right and a wrong position, and it’s not always the same. Units at my current office are almost unusable in the “under” configuration because the loose end falls down the back of a sealed metal box. The previous building had a dispenser that stacked the rolls. Due to the pressure, “over” didn’t work (the friction meant that it was difficult to pull off more than a single square without it breaking), but “under” worked just fine.
Not just commercial units. One of my relatives had a bathroom that must have had 1950s or 1960’s appointments. The dispenser was recessed into the wall and had a cylindrical chrome cover that could be lowered so you didn’t have to see the roll of paper sitting there. A bit too small for modern rolls, you couldn’t easily grab the back in “under”, but “over” was fine.
I dispensed (heh) with loading the paper at all. I just keep the rolls on the top of the tank.
I always use pages from the Sears Roebuck catalog.
You must have a collection of them, because Sears Roebuck stopped publishing the catalog 20 years ago.
According to Robert the paper goes over – and with our small bathroom it makes sense – hard to reach it if it hanging under. (I keep saying that we need to have a roll holder recessed into the wall for the space.)
We had a cat that wouldn’t leave the T.P. alone. In the over position, she would unspool the entire roll – on the floor if we were lucky, into the toilet if not so fortunate. So while that feline was alive, we went with under. She got her revenge by shredding the top layer of each new roll, but at least it stayed on the spool. (Yes, we did try to spoil her fun by keeping the bathroom door closed, but it didn’t always happen. :) )
If we put the tp in opposite to how Robert says to do it – in our RV we have had it all come off the roll due to the bouncing and motion of the RV. (Remember RV is only a Chevy Express van conversion.)