which sparked a lively discussion about arthroscopic vs. laparoscopic vs. the generic “minimally invasive” surgery.
Meanwhile, it also proved to be a mystery for some!
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So shaking the piggybank to estimate your savings is no longer good enough! Instead we’re going to insert a fiber optic cable and have a direct look!
Dana has the right idea, but I think the “doctor” is the kid who owns the bank, and the “instrument” that to be inserted will be an ordinary butterknife, which is one of the better methods to extract coins from a “sealed” bank (those that do not have a plug in the pig’s belly, as well as those that have a locked plug, with Mom in possession of the key).
This cartoon will not show up on my Ipad.
I does show up on the computer.
Brave Search defines arthroscopic surgery as a keyhole surgery used to treat joint problems. So the keyhole is already made, making it very easy to perform.
Sorry about the image display issues. The image filetype is GIF, so there shouldn’t be problems like those we sometimes see for WEBP or that other relatively new one. Anyhow, I’m glad it did come thru for you on computer.
With some other sites I have discovered that image problems can be related to the browser (or OS) not accepting the site’s security certificate. Opening just the image in a separate tab triggered the “warning” dialog, and as soon as I had accepted the “doubtful” certificate, that image (and all the others) showed up just fine on the original page (after a page reload).
Hmm. I uploaded the image from my machine, so I doubt it was a cert issue, Kilby??!
The cartoon does show up in safari on my iPad Pro.
Yes, certain filetypes won’t appear for whatever reason on here.
@ Phil – I’m sure that there’s no trouble with your system or the file, it’s just that Maggie’s iPad has become allergic to certain file types (or something in WordPress). Similar things have happened before: just another one of those weird glitches that is so impossible to diagnose at a distance.
Coinoscopic surgery
Kilby is right. I have done such arthroscopic surgery to get the pennies out, but I used a nail file.
The image also will not appear on this desktop system using Firefox.
So I trawled through the page’s code for the URL of the GIF and opened it separately, and it works fine. WordPress serves it, and Firefox displays it. I suspect I have a plugin that’s blocking some specific thing in JavaScript that prevents it displaying.
Works fine as originally posted for this desktop with Firefox.
I’m just objecting to “arthroscopic” here. The back is not a joint.
I’d be okay with “endoscopic”, but of course butter knives don’t normally have cameras on them.
A coinectomy would be on the nose, but is a much poorer pun.
How about just reversing the gag completely? He could have said: “The bad news is… my psychiatrist thinks that I’m at high risk for getting stabbed in the back.“
I was using Brave, which probably blocks certain filetypes?
FWIW, I’m not seeing it, in Mac Chrome. On Firefox, Safari, and Vivaldi, it does show up.
Oddly enough, at work this afternoon we were joking about piggy banks.
Is the left-hand piggy wearing glasses? That threw me off.
@ Grawlix – One slightly annoying similarity between Dave Blazek (Loose Parts) and Mike Baldwin (Cornered) is that both of them draw all of their (human) characters wearing glasses. Therefore, the remarkable element in this comic is that the bank on the right has eyes.
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So shaking the piggybank to estimate your savings is no longer good enough! Instead we’re going to insert a fiber optic cable and have a direct look!
Dana has the right idea, but I think the “doctor” is the kid who owns the bank, and the “instrument” that to be inserted will be an ordinary butterknife, which is one of the better methods to extract coins from a “sealed” bank (those that do not have a plug in the pig’s belly, as well as those that have a locked plug, with Mom in possession of the key).
This cartoon will not show up on my Ipad.
I does show up on the computer.
Brave Search defines arthroscopic surgery as a keyhole surgery used to treat joint problems. So the keyhole is already made, making it very easy to perform.
Sorry about the image display issues. The image filetype is GIF, so there shouldn’t be problems like those we sometimes see for WEBP or that other relatively new one. Anyhow, I’m glad it did come thru for you on computer.
With some other sites I have discovered that image problems can be related to the browser (or OS) not accepting the site’s security certificate. Opening just the image in a separate tab triggered the “warning” dialog, and as soon as I had accepted the “doubtful” certificate, that image (and all the others) showed up just fine on the original page (after a page reload).
Hmm. I uploaded the image from my machine, so I doubt it was a cert issue, Kilby??!
The cartoon does show up in safari on my iPad Pro.
Yes, certain filetypes won’t appear for whatever reason on here.
@ Phil – I’m sure that there’s no trouble with your system or the file, it’s just that Maggie’s iPad has become allergic to certain file types (or something in WordPress). Similar things have happened before: just another one of those weird glitches that is so impossible to diagnose at a distance.
Coinoscopic surgery
Kilby is right. I have done such arthroscopic surgery to get the pennies out, but I used a nail file.
The image also will not appear on this desktop system using Firefox.
So I trawled through the page’s code for the URL of the GIF and opened it separately, and it works fine. WordPress serves it, and Firefox displays it. I suspect I have a plugin that’s blocking some specific thing in JavaScript that prevents it displaying.
@Maggie, it is here: https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/c.gif
Works fine as originally posted for this desktop with Firefox.
I’m just objecting to “arthroscopic” here. The back is not a joint.
I’d be okay with “endoscopic”, but of course butter knives don’t normally have cameras on them.
A coinectomy would be on the nose, but is a much poorer pun.
How about just reversing the gag completely? He could have said: “The bad news is… my psychiatrist thinks that I’m at high risk for getting stabbed in the back.“
I was using Brave, which probably blocks certain filetypes?
FWIW, I’m not seeing it, in Mac Chrome. On Firefox, Safari, and Vivaldi, it does show up.
Oddly enough, at work this afternoon we were joking about piggy banks.
Is the left-hand piggy wearing glasses? That threw me off.
@ Grawlix – One slightly annoying similarity between Dave Blazek (Loose Parts) and Mike Baldwin (Cornered) is that both of them draw all of their (human) characters wearing glasses. Therefore, the remarkable element in this comic is that the bank on the right has eyes.