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After talking about this wonderful bank, a moment later he’s ready to smash it open to get change for the ice cream man.
the joke is hampered by the fact that it is ceramic piggy banks you smash open, not cast iron ones. But at least he brought a big hammer for the job.
“This a valuable heirloom bank that has been passed down to me.” “Ice cream man is here!” “I am going to break this valuable bank to get the cash out so I can get ice cream, and since it is cast iron, I will need a sledgehammer.”
That’s my best guess, anyway.
He put his last coin in the bank to demonstrate it, and now he wants it back. Because: Ice Cream!
Okay, yes … but then, what is the role of [sorry, I don’t know the characters’ names] the green monster? Is it just to give us the ice-cream man cue, and show how eager for that these folks can be? Or does his absence in the last panel serve to enable the smashing?
Also — this question I should have put forth sooner — one would think after the set up of the mama bird and baby bird that the cute mechanical operation would be for her to in some fashion feed it to the chick. But all the rest of the story depends on her swallowing the coins that are given to her. So what gives?
The modern equivalent of a busted piggy bank is a college student’s emptied out U.S. Quarters collection board. Usually for a pizza at the end of the first week of dorm food.
The illustration isn’t very good – it shows as a flat plate with the birds on top. An actual bank would be a box with the birds on top, and yes Mama bird would “feed” the coin to the baby (probably it would pivot aside or up to make room to drop the coin through the nest and into the box below). And then there would be a latch on the box so you could get the coins out.
The vampire is always the dumb one, green monster slightly smarter – if he were still there, he’d probably object to smashing “valuable heirloom bank”. Whether he’d know how to get the coin(s) out without smashing it, dunno.
Danny Boy – Leopold is Gary’s supposed henchman and is always saying and doing things to sabotage Gary.
A family heirloom is all well and good until the ice cream man comes.
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After talking about this wonderful bank, a moment later he’s ready to smash it open to get change for the ice cream man.
the joke is hampered by the fact that it is ceramic piggy banks you smash open, not cast iron ones. But at least he brought a big hammer for the job.
“This a valuable heirloom bank that has been passed down to me.”
“Ice cream man is here!”
“I am going to break this valuable bank to get the cash out so I can get ice cream, and since it is cast iron, I will need a sledgehammer.”
That’s my best guess, anyway.
He put his last coin in the bank to demonstrate it, and now he wants it back. Because: Ice Cream!
Okay, yes … but then, what is the role of [sorry, I don’t know the characters’ names] the green monster? Is it just to give us the ice-cream man cue, and show how eager for that these folks can be? Or does his absence in the last panel serve to enable the smashing?
Also — this question I should have put forth sooner — one would think after the set up of the mama bird and baby bird that the cute mechanical operation would be for her to in some fashion feed it to the chick. But all the rest of the story depends on her swallowing the coins that are given to her. So what gives?
The modern equivalent of a busted piggy bank is a college student’s emptied out U.S. Quarters collection board. Usually for a pizza at the end of the first week of dorm food.
The illustration isn’t very good – it shows as a flat plate with the birds on top. An actual bank would be a box with the birds on top, and yes Mama bird would “feed” the coin to the baby (probably it would pivot aside or up to make room to drop the coin through the nest and into the box below). And then there would be a latch on the box so you could get the coins out.
The vampire is always the dumb one, green monster slightly smarter – if he were still there, he’d probably object to smashing “valuable heirloom bank”. Whether he’d know how to get the coin(s) out without smashing it, dunno.
Danny Boy – Leopold is Gary’s supposed henchman and is always saying and doing things to sabotage Gary.
A family heirloom is all well and good until the ice cream man comes.