These sorts of occurrences used to be tagged in CIDU with the “synchronicity” tag.
And the 1st one is a LOL for me.
Yes, Chipper, except : These are dated some 11 days apart. And these are from the same comic strip, and done by the two partner artists. So, sort of missing the element of coincidence.
Actually, I wouldn’t be too surprised to learn they had set this up with full knowledge.
I think the shape of the Rock in the two scenes is a suspiciously close match!
And BTW both use the dynamite and eyeball as Secret Symbols. (I haven’t spotted what the third declared one is for the Sunday strip.)
Mitch4 (#4): Me either! I keep trying to make something out of the dead guy’s hair or the tongue of the stabber’s boots, but can’t get there.
Aachh, here is the “answer key” from Dan’s blog. The one we’re missing was the K2 in the wrinkles of Scissors’ pants.
Oops! I missed that they were from the same comic.
I just hope that neither Wayno nor Piraro were inspired (or influenced in any way) by the animated cartoon “Rock, Paper, Scissors” that started appearing last year on Nickolodeon. It is an unbelievably worthless piece of trash.
Was it here that I recently saw a reference to Would I Lie To You’s “Worm, Pigeon, Shotgun” alternative to R-P-S, or somewhere else?
If the latter I can recommend looking it up on YouTube.
I have long wondered how Rock-Paper-Scissors became associated with Rochambeau, and these comics prompted me to search, and find: https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/23932 tl;dr: the game almost certainly came from Japan, perhaps via Korea, to the US in the early 1900s, and became popular in the US then. M. le comte de Rochambeau’s connection may have been due to a statue!
One of the questions in today’s quiz in The Guardian magazine was
What links:
Dwayne Johnson
The Guardian
Ana Matronic
I had to look up Ana.
Good riddling setup, michaelperry, and thanks for finishing it, Brian — I knew there had to be a scissor connection but thought it would emerge from just thinking about the concept “Animatronic”.
Here’s what Wayno says in the comments thread on his blog:
“I did not know that he had that one in the pipeline! Happily, I see Dan’s Sunday pages at the same time as everyone else.”
Later! Piraro showed up in the Waynoblog comments, and added I can assure you he did not. We work separately and W never sees my Sunday cartoons until they are published.
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These sorts of occurrences used to be tagged in CIDU with the “synchronicity” tag.
And the 1st one is a LOL for me.
Yes, Chipper, except : These are dated some 11 days apart. And these are from the same comic strip, and done by the two partner artists. So, sort of missing the element of coincidence.
Actually, I wouldn’t be too surprised to learn they had set this up with full knowledge.
I think the shape of the Rock in the two scenes is a suspiciously close match!
And BTW both use the dynamite and eyeball as Secret Symbols. (I haven’t spotted what the third declared one is for the Sunday strip.)
Mitch4 (#4): Me either! I keep trying to make something out of the dead guy’s hair or the tongue of the stabber’s boots, but can’t get there.
Aachh, here is the “answer key” from Dan’s blog. The one we’re missing was the K2 in the wrinkles of Scissors’ pants.
Oops! I missed that they were from the same comic.
I just hope that neither Wayno nor Piraro were inspired (or influenced in any way) by the animated cartoon “Rock, Paper, Scissors” that started appearing last year on Nickolodeon. It is an unbelievably worthless piece of trash.
Was it here that I recently saw a reference to Would I Lie To You’s “Worm, Pigeon, Shotgun” alternative to R-P-S, or somewhere else?
If the latter I can recommend looking it up on YouTube.
I have long wondered how Rock-Paper-Scissors became associated with Rochambeau, and these comics prompted me to search, and find: https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/23932 tl;dr: the game almost certainly came from Japan, perhaps via Korea, to the US in the early 1900s, and became popular in the US then. M. le comte de Rochambeau’s connection may have been due to a statue!
One of the questions in today’s quiz in The Guardian magazine was
What links:
Dwayne Johnson
The Guardian
Ana Matronic
I had to look up Ana.
Good riddling setup, michaelperry, and thanks for finishing it, Brian — I knew there had to be a scissor connection but thought it would emerge from just thinking about the concept “Animatronic”.
Here’s what Wayno says in the comments thread on his blog:
“I did not know that he had that one in the pipeline! Happily, I see Dan’s Sunday pages at the same time as everyone else.”
Later! Piraro showed up in the Waynoblog comments, and added
I can assure you he did not. We work separately and W never sees my Sunday cartoons until they are published.