@ lazarusjohn (1) – I think the butcher is claiming that the filet he is selling will be tender because old cows never use that muscle tissue, but the part that I really don’t get is the editorial subtitle below the comic (I’m not sure whether it’s a reference to “regular(i)ly” or “aged”).
P.S. Taken literally, the spa in “Frank & Ernest” would be for healthy people.
Aged humans are prone to pulling muscles if they don’t properly stretch before physical activity. So this comic is playing on the two connotations of “aged”: Having lived for many years vs. having been left alone for many months between death and butchering.
@ Powers (3) – Thanks for explaining both the pun and the target of the subtitle (I would say the answer is clearly “one”, but I’m sure there will be alternative opinions).
P.S. I’m not sure whether Andy Carter deserves a tag of his own: it turns out that Snopes investigated the “chip monk” anecdote in 2006, and mentioned that they had seen versions of it as far back as 1997.
Yeah, double oy on Frank & Ernest, because if you know German the spa name translates to “Healthy Heights,” which would actually be a good name for a place promising to make you healthy.
@Kilby: I was in a seminary many years ago (well before 1997) and variations on “chip monk” were an old joke even then. Maybe St. Benedict was the first to make that joke. :)
That was the first time Shoe made me smile in…well, ever.
@ Chak (7) – It may depend on how far back your experience with “Shoe” goes. I don’t follow it at all now, but I thought it was pretty good back in the previous millennium. Jeff McNelly’s humor was a good bit more acidic (with a tendency toward “editorial”) than Susie’s has become.
Good collection today! I especially like the chip monks.
I second Boise Ed!
A joke I heard more than 50 years ago:
I went to a fish and chips stand that was run by two members of the Regular Clergy (i.e. monastery types). Only one of the brothers happened to be there.
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@ lazarusjohn (1) – I think the butcher is claiming that the filet he is selling will be tender because old cows never use that muscle tissue, but the part that I really don’t get is the editorial subtitle below the comic (I’m not sure whether it’s a reference to “regular(i)ly” or “aged”).
P.S. Taken literally, the spa in “Frank & Ernest” would be for healthy people.
Aged humans are prone to pulling muscles if they don’t properly stretch before physical activity. So this comic is playing on the two connotations of “aged”: Having lived for many years vs. having been left alone for many months between death and butchering.
@ Powers (3) – Thanks for explaining both the pun and the target of the subtitle (I would say the answer is clearly “one”, but I’m sure there will be alternative opinions).
P.S. I’m not sure whether Andy Carter deserves a tag of his own: it turns out that Snopes investigated the “chip monk” anecdote in 2006, and mentioned that they had seen versions of it as far back as 1997.
Yeah, double oy on Frank & Ernest, because if you know German the spa name translates to “Healthy Heights,” which would actually be a good name for a place promising to make you healthy.
@Kilby: I was in a seminary many years ago (well before 1997) and variations on “chip monk” were an old joke even then. Maybe St. Benedict was the first to make that joke. :)
That was the first time Shoe made me smile in…well, ever.
@ Chak (7) – It may depend on how far back your experience with “Shoe” goes. I don’t follow it at all now, but I thought it was pretty good back in the previous millennium. Jeff McNelly’s humor was a good bit more acidic (with a tendency toward “editorial”) than Susie’s has become.
Good collection today! I especially like the chip monks.
I second Boise Ed!
A joke I heard more than 50 years ago:
I went to a fish and chips stand that was run by two members of the Regular Clergy (i.e. monastery types). Only one of the brothers happened to be there.
I asked him, “Are you the fish friar?”
He replied, “No, I’m the chip monk.”
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