As so often with “Viivi and Wagner”, the thesis seems to be that men are pigs…
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My fave among these might be the Fireman Ron one.
“Dark night of the sole” is indeed a goodie, though oldie…
“Tomorrow’s Review” made me chuckle.
In the Martha Gradisher cartoon, why is the celebrant a sasquatch?
I was thinking he’s a zombie.
I remember the Kilban’s “little mousies”. I think it was on a card or a box of cards I bought LONG ago.
As to Alexa – well, hearing the other Alexa (or similar) is possible. We got a phone call one late night/early am from a police officer who was with mom. Mom was in her 80s at the time and living alone in our family home. (She is now 94 and in a nursing home.) Mom had called the police because she heard the (new) neighbors plotting to kill her to get her house. (No, mom never had problems that like that before.) When the officers who arrived asked her who to call (at something like 2 am) she of course picked me over my 2 sisters. (“Well, you stay up late, don’t have to get up for work,live the closest and are the oldest.” – with logic like…) She had not stayed in the house so “they” could not find her and the police officers found her wandering in the street with an assortment of (sort of logical) items she took with her – like her good jewelry.
FIRST THING the officer asked was “Does she have an Alexa or Siri?” Seems they get a lot of calls from people who were/are hearing their neighbors devices and he figured she might have heard something from her neighbor’s house. She did not. Robert (who ran a mental health program for children and knew the jargon of same) spoke with the officers and asked them to arrange for an ambulance to take her to the hospital and the next day my middle sister took over.
Even with this – mom stayed in the house alone for about another year, maybe more, though she did have a new medication to take after this incident.
@ Meryl – I was pleasantly surprised to discover that “Little Mousies” was the only Kliban comic in this collection that I recognized, all the rest were new to me, as far as I could remember. (But it took me quite a while before I noticed the shoulder notch in “Certain Women”.)
P.S. Another pleasant surprise was a reasonably decent gag in “Dennis the Menace”, for which I completely lost all interest in decades ago. I can’t find it now, but the only “Dennis” comic that I have ever really laughed at showed Dennis and his father in the bathroom, with the caption “Boy, goldfish sure don’t get much of a funeral, do they?“
I had a beach towel with “Little Mousies” printed on it. I stapled it to a canvas stretcher and hung it on my wall.
Kilby – love the Dennis comic from your description!!
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My fave among these might be the Fireman Ron one.
“Dark night of the sole” is indeed a goodie, though oldie…
“Tomorrow’s Review” made me chuckle.
In the Martha Gradisher cartoon, why is the celebrant a sasquatch?
I was thinking he’s a zombie.
I remember the Kilban’s “little mousies”. I think it was on a card or a box of cards I bought LONG ago.
As to Alexa – well, hearing the other Alexa (or similar) is possible. We got a phone call one late night/early am from a police officer who was with mom. Mom was in her 80s at the time and living alone in our family home. (She is now 94 and in a nursing home.) Mom had called the police because she heard the (new) neighbors plotting to kill her to get her house. (No, mom never had problems that like that before.) When the officers who arrived asked her who to call (at something like 2 am) she of course picked me over my 2 sisters. (“Well, you stay up late, don’t have to get up for work,live the closest and are the oldest.” – with logic like…) She had not stayed in the house so “they” could not find her and the police officers found her wandering in the street with an assortment of (sort of logical) items she took with her – like her good jewelry.
FIRST THING the officer asked was “Does she have an Alexa or Siri?” Seems they get a lot of calls from people who were/are hearing their neighbors devices and he figured she might have heard something from her neighbor’s house. She did not. Robert (who ran a mental health program for children and knew the jargon of same) spoke with the officers and asked them to arrange for an ambulance to take her to the hospital and the next day my middle sister took over.
Even with this – mom stayed in the house alone for about another year, maybe more, though she did have a new medication to take after this incident.
@ Meryl – I was pleasantly surprised to discover that “Little Mousies” was the only Kliban comic in this collection that I recognized, all the rest were new to me, as far as I could remember. (But it took me quite a while before I noticed the shoulder notch in “Certain Women”.)
P.S. Another pleasant surprise was a reasonably decent gag in “Dennis the Menace”, for which I completely lost all interest in decades ago. I can’t find it now, but the only “Dennis” comic that I have ever really laughed at showed Dennis and his father in the bathroom, with the caption “Boy, goldfish sure don’t get much of a funeral, do they?“
I had a beach towel with “Little Mousies” printed on it. I stapled it to a canvas stretcher and hung it on my wall.
Kilby – love the Dennis comic from your description!!