That article says ‘The actual words are transliterated as “Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin” ‘, so I guess this would be funny to someone who knew that.
Meanwhile, I did get a good laugh from the chicken lacrossing the road.
I still don’t get the “Doing laundry is fun” one.
In small print, at the bottom of the wall, is “Hogwash.”
I took it as sort of implicit dialog: You think doing laundry is fun? Hogwash!
But then it may be a problem that it is also doing a literalization pun on a hog washing…
Starbuck’s never has short staff. Only tall, grande and venti.
However, sometimes they come latte for work.
Mark in Boston: But Starbucks does offer a short. It’s just not on the menu.
An inventive take on the “Chicken crossing the road” trope.
The art style of the “Hogwash” comic just hurts my eyes.
“And “memento mori” is damned esoteric for a comic strip.”.
Maybe a little too esoteric for Bizarro if the thinks “memento” has something to do with remembering things or people past.
Annoying Pundit Alert:
It was Nebuchadnezzar’s son, Belshazzar, who saw the writing on the wall.
And “memento mori” is damned esoteric for a comic strip.
“Meanie, meanie, tickle a parson!”
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A search on Dana’s phrase found this image and an article (on LinkedIn?) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/writings-wall-lex-mckee-the-accelerated-trainer-or-entertrainer-/
That article says ‘The actual words are transliterated as “Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin” ‘, so I guess this would be funny to someone who knew that.
Meanwhile, I did get a good laugh from the chicken lacrossing the road.
I still don’t get the “Doing laundry is fun” one.
In small print, at the bottom of the wall, is “Hogwash.”
I took it as sort of implicit dialog: You think doing laundry is fun? Hogwash!
But then it may be a problem that it is also doing a literalization pun on a hog washing…
Starbuck’s never has short staff. Only tall, grande and venti.
However, sometimes they come latte for work.
Mark in Boston: But Starbucks does offer a short. It’s just not on the menu.
An inventive take on the “Chicken crossing the road” trope.
The art style of the “Hogwash” comic just hurts my eyes.
“And “memento mori” is damned esoteric for a comic strip.”.
Maybe a little too esoteric for Bizarro if the thinks “memento” has something to do with remembering things or people past.