He worked at foot locker. A guy came in with no money for shoes. He felt sorry for him and gave him shoes And that’s why he was fired.
The joke is we thought he was waxing philosophical but she points out it was a practical reality.
Well, to the extent that he’s balking at one of the standard forms of that admonitory saying, I’m with him.
Anyway, here is Sincerely L. Cohen with a sort of second-order take on the same idea, from his “Bird on a Wire”:
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He said to me, “you must not ask for so much”
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
She cried to me, “hey, why not ask for more?”
He gave away a pair of shoes to the man who had no money, so Footlocker said “That’s against policy” and fired him.
He was a salesman, and should have been pushing people to buy shoes, not accepting their claims that they couldn’t afford shoes.
I just realized that this blog is sort of the generic version of explainxkcd.com! XKCD is the only strip I know of that’s deep enough to need a regular, specific version of “Who can understand this one?”
Good on Bill for providing a public service, eh?
“I had no shoes, and complained. And then I met a man who had no sense of rhythm!”
Which of course always reminds me of “Do not criticize a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes. Then, if he gets mad at you, he’s barefoot and you’ve got a one mile head start.”
Helen Keller: “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
If he’s been fired, why is he still wearing his stupid Footlocker “referee” shirt?
The next time “Mr. Boffo” is funny, will be the first time.
Helen Keller: “I cried because I had no eyes until I met a man who had no lacrimal glands.”
Oddly just yesterday (or the day before) I was musing on “Mister Boffo” and wondered if it was still in print.
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He worked at foot locker. A guy came in with no money for shoes. He felt sorry for him and gave him shoes And that’s why he was fired.
The joke is we thought he was waxing philosophical but she points out it was a practical reality.
Well, to the extent that he’s balking at one of the standard forms of that admonitory saying, I’m with him.
Anyway, here is Sincerely L. Cohen with a sort of second-order take on the same idea, from his “Bird on a Wire”:
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He said to me, “you must not ask for so much”
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
She cried to me, “hey, why not ask for more?”
He gave away a pair of shoes to the man who had no money, so Footlocker said “That’s against policy” and fired him.
He was a salesman, and should have been pushing people to buy shoes, not accepting their claims that they couldn’t afford shoes.
I just realized that this blog is sort of the generic version of explainxkcd.com! XKCD is the only strip I know of that’s deep enough to need a regular, specific version of “Who can understand this one?”
Good on Bill for providing a public service, eh?
“I had no shoes, and complained. And then I met a man who had no sense of rhythm!”
Which of course always reminds me of “Do not criticize a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes. Then, if he gets mad at you, he’s barefoot and you’ve got a one mile head start.”
Helen Keller: “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
If he’s been fired, why is he still wearing his stupid Footlocker “referee” shirt?
The next time “Mr. Boffo” is funny, will be the first time.
Helen Keller: “I cried because I had no eyes until I met a man who had no lacrimal glands.”
Oddly just yesterday (or the day before) I was musing on “Mister Boffo” and wondered if it was still in print.