It says this strip has been running since 2008, so it can’t be that it’s just settling in. How long should I continue to read it before giving up on what’s going on?
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I quite like this strip, often just a gag a day but whimsical and fun. This strip is, I believe a play on “free range chickens.” But perhaps it is simply not to everyone’s taste.
The gag probably has something to do with “free range” poultry.
Here in Germany they were all set (several years ago) to enact a law prohibiting hatcheries from keeping chickens in those little wire cages(†). Then another wave of bird flu swept the nation, and suddenly there was a regulation prohibiting farmers from leaving their birds outside (to get pooped on by migrating waterfowl). Ooops.
P.S. (†) – I one heard someone in a (German!) grocery store refer to them as “Chicken Concentration Camps” (Deutsch: “Hühner-KZ“), which I thought was both very funny and quite appropriate.
P.P.S. Nevertheless, ever since I discovered one egg that appeared to have been accidentally left in the chicken yard for a couple of weeks, I have avoided buying “free range” eggs.
P.P.P.S. I have no idea why the artist has slid all of the cow’s facial features down to collide upon its mouth, but the result is simply unparsable. He used to be able to draw a cow that looked like a cow:
Add to it the recent news story of the woman who left her dog at the airport when told that he couldn’t fly with her.
I would guess it’s a variant on “children” as in “Do not leave your children unattended.”
@ Lost (3) – I’m not sure whether this NPR report is about the same incident: the dog escaped out of its carrier, nobody at the airport could recapture it, and the woman was forced by border authorities to leave without her dog. Happily, the dog was found (three weeks later) and has been re-united with its owner:
@Lost in A**2 — about a decade ago, on an airport shuttle to my hotel from the Orlando airport, I got chatting with a young couple. They said they had just ended their vacation, but their flight was cancelled. The airline was putting them up overnight at the Hampton we were all headed to, but the hotel didn’t allow dogs, so they gave their dog away at the airport. I was literally speechless. We can only hope it was the same woman–that means there aren’t two of them (but surely there are).
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I quite like this strip, often just a gag a day but whimsical and fun. This strip is, I believe a play on “free range chickens.” But perhaps it is simply not to everyone’s taste.
The gag probably has something to do with “free range” poultry.
Here in Germany they were all set (several years ago) to enact a law prohibiting hatcheries from keeping chickens in those little wire cages(†). Then another wave of bird flu swept the nation, and suddenly there was a regulation prohibiting farmers from leaving their birds outside (to get pooped on by migrating waterfowl). Ooops.
P.S. (†) – I one heard someone in a (German!) grocery store refer to them as “Chicken Concentration Camps” (Deutsch: “Hühner-KZ“), which I thought was both very funny and quite appropriate.
P.P.S. Nevertheless, ever since I discovered one egg that appeared to have been accidentally left in the chicken yard for a couple of weeks, I have avoided buying “free range” eggs.
P.P.P.S. I have no idea why the artist has slid all of the cow’s facial features down to collide upon its mouth, but the result is simply unparsable. He used to be able to draw a cow that looked like a cow:
Add to it the recent news story of the woman who left her dog at the airport when told that he couldn’t fly with her.
I would guess it’s a variant on “children” as in “Do not leave your children unattended.”
@ Lost (3) – I’m not sure whether this NPR report is about the same incident: the dog escaped out of its carrier, nobody at the airport could recapture it, and the woman was forced by border authorities to leave without her dog. Happily, the dog was found (three weeks later) and has been re-united with its owner:
I had a different incident in mind. Here’s a follow-up: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/woman-abandoned-french-bulldog-pittsburgh-airport-charged-allison-gaiser/
@Lost in A**2 — about a decade ago, on an airport shuttle to my hotel from the Orlando airport, I got chatting with a young couple. They said they had just ended their vacation, but their flight was cancelled. The airline was putting them up overnight at the Hampton we were all headed to, but the hotel didn’t allow dogs, so they gave their dog away at the airport. I was literally speechless. We can only hope it was the same woman–that means there aren’t two of them (but surely there are).