Okay, do you agree this belongs in the LOLs? Or would you put it in OY, because the patient’s mishearing error depended on a near-miss similarity of sound between urine and hearing?
Thanks to Chak for this LOL from the Chuckle Bros:
When the New Yorker website has an outage, you see this message.
Hey, just a minute there! Are you saying there’s something wrong with that? It strikes me as an eminently reasonable basis for a preference.
Here is a sampler from recent episodes of an Australian strip that is new on our radar, Insanity Streak by Tony Lopes.
Comics I Don't Understand 
I’ll be honest, the urine cup was so small that it was a complete CIDU for me until I saw the poll.
In the funeral scene, is there a reason they’re avocados specifically, or could they be any fruit that needs to ripen?
So, with you guys it’s feast or famine?
The poll is coming in correctly (IMO), as OY.
Powers, maybe avocados specifically because of their role in recent generational mocking disputes. (Though I don’t recall if it’s Millennials or GenZ whom we’re supposed to complain are always eating avocado toast.)
Where do we find Insanity Streak?
It’s on Comics Kingdom. I stumbled onto it while trying out their latest revision of Favorites list browsing.
The dead avocado. Not ripe but dead avocado are usually brown/black splotches and not nice green.
Banana? Transvestite or drag show for bananas?
Raymond is likely right, the banana/carrot cartoon seems to involve a sort of drag show.
I wasn’t able to see the poll at all until I tried again on our “newer” iPad, the older model could not resolve the Javascript. Unfortunately, the answer that I would have preferred was not included: Ewww!
The Rhymes with Orange would be funnier if patient had taken some test that was invasive or painful. Goodness, that sounds awfully mean.
And today, the tenth of March in 2024, I finally understood a New Yorker comic.
I completely agree with the woman in Funky Winkerbean – I have a choice between hospital/medical offices that are closer but heavy traffic, paid parking, one way streets, a pain! Or one that’s a couple miles farther, huge parking lot (I may have to park at some distance, but it’s less trouble and no cost compared to the parking garages – and actually not much farther to walk, if you count the stairs), easy wide low-traffic streets. I will always go to the further one if I have the option (they have all the same gadgets, it’s only for specific doctors I need to go to the closer one).
Chak (10): “The Rhymes with Orange would be funnier if …” Is often so. However, just about every time i decide to remove it from my list, it comes up with a zinger. It does so much more often than New Yorker comics, though.
I figured the New Yorker emergency replacement strip was going to be more along the lines of, “Quick, Lassie, you can replace him, because no one on the internet will know you’re a dog!”
When I read it, I winced. It’s an Oy.
I thought the Rhymes With Orange was funny when I saw it in the newspaper. There’s no similarity in the sounds. Mr. Smith really needs a hearing test. His hearing is so bad that he has no idea what the doctor actually said, other than something about a test. Usually that means pee in a cup. So he did.
Coincidentally, Saturday’s “Macanudo” had an alternative take on Batman’s headgear problems:
Avocados are notorious for their incredibly short period of useability between rock hard and brown mush. We eat a lot of avocados here and joke that there’s a 15 minute ripeness window. So he never made it to ripe…which wouldn’t have lasted long anyway. Kinda like someone dying just before going into hospice.
She has a nice pair of bazoombas.
Re avocado ripeness, Paula Poundstone made the same ripeness-window complaint about cantaloupe. “Kids! Wake up! It’s 2:15 in the morning and the cantaloupe is just right.”
“No wonder your kids prefer Fruity Pebbles. They get to sleep!”
I like the drawer pulls in the Chuckle Bros one. Nice detail.
Avocados can be successfully refrigerated when near ripeness.
Mitch4 – I’ve never even heard of avocado toast.
Whether or not there is parking - the availability of same and whether it free parking makes a big difference in where we go for many things – including our doctors. Okay, we go to the doctors because they are good and they are understanding (in case anyone has not picked it up from my posts – husband and I are odd people to deal with), even if our GP has decided that he will be a concierge doctor and we will now have to pay him a few thousand dollars to see him – in addition to what our insurance pays, even though it is not something we can that easily afford. (Been with him for around 20 years and more than 20 years with his dad before him.) One thing which is nice about his office is there is a municipal parking lot with free parking just behind his building.
No one has mentioned the idea of a woman posing for an artist while he paints a picture of the cat in the window is strange?
At its simplest, avocado toast is toast with sliced avocado on it. Some recipes mash it with lemon or lime juice or have various additions.
@ Meryl (23) – That incongruity is precisely the point of the joke. Her rustic erotic charms (she’s naked under those overalls) are simply not enough to hold the artist’s interest, and she seems to be aware of this, because she’s glaring at the cat.
Thank you Brian and Kilby.