We’ve had a couple other Ancestry.com panels from Argyle Sweater recently (do you remember “dachsund”?), but I think they landed in LOL or OY collections, as they did not present major interpretative difficulties. This one, however, has us stumped!
Suggested by BillR. After some pondering we think we have most of an explanation – but it wasn’t something you can just crank out.
And another Bliss. This maybe should have counted as a CIDU, if there’s much doubt what his special message would be …
Yet Another Ewww-LOL from Kliban:
Nice twist, maybe LOL-worthy? It takes the over-familiar observational-humor point “fitted sheets are hard to handle” but adds a factor which is gonna interfere with anything at all he tries to do.
I guess the premise is mostly “analogy”.
They just don’t quit with the puns over at Mannequin on the Moon!
Is it a Geezer factoid to remember the term for this particular form of standing arm-wrestling?
(Far Side handled as link only, not copied nor embedded.)
Is a Spoonerism necessarily a pun? Maybe not, but it can still be an Oy!
I’m just not making some connections.
(Wednesday)
(Thursday)
This Wrong Hands is almost a good Oy, playing on “usher” being both a family name and a role in a wedding. But do we make sense of the different kinds of dwelling the two people have?
This Pardon My Planet is not really wrong. But it’s not right, either.
Sent in by Max C. Webster, III, who says “I assume Old Jake is the dog, and the familiar sight is his boy, but as for the joke . . . huh?”
This one from Ken Berkun.. The zombie could have said something about “Brains!” and the scarecrow may connect to the Oz Scarecrow who felt the lack of brains. But do those line up right for a “I hear that”?
Wait up, I’m still stuck on “I hear that”. Does that somewhat less common expression offer any advantages (besides maybe shortness) over the more modern / natural sounding “Now you’re talking!” or “You said it!”?
Crankshaft often uses a pun or attempted pun as the punch. Can it be that “processing” is meant to work that way here?
I guess this is meant as a critique of how some people think of the process of teaching and learning?
Frequently Lay Lines does have a definite joke and a punch line, but not always. The times when it doesn’t are often when she’s in the throes of a long continuing story; but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. So: does anybody see a distinct joke – or are we just going to enjoy the account of Carol’s history with bats?
I suspect the 1965 audience was expected to read-in a gender-based insult; but probably a mild one?
P.S. This one above appeared for an Arnold Zwicky analysis shortly after its GoComics reprint.
I was almost going to say the casual acceptance of violence is actually a bit shocking. But on second thought, Beetle’s reaction is not fully accepting. (Yes, we regularly see Sarge beating on Beetle, but that’s mostly about raising a ball of dust, while Rocky’s “blackjack” or “sap” strikes a more sinister air, something like underworld associations.)
… but I couldn’t say what the joke is in a narrow sense, nor if there are correspondences to a specific target. The credits for The Oldersons do a cute quick job of telling the story of how legacy strips get managed.
Comics I Don't Understand 