The GoComics comments provide many more things those initials can mean; but none that make sense in the context.
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“Personal Best.” If he walks off the cliff, he will get his best time ever at that distance. And die. A trade-off that many runners would be willing to make.
While I don’t disagree with BVCC that that was the intent of the comic, I’m confused by it being at the finish line instead of the start line.
Thanks, BVCC. I see that “Personal Best” was in the running for the applicable interpretation. But to me it remains dubious for understanding a punch line.
Speaking of impenetrable abbreviations, I recently fell down and hurt my hand trying to catch myself. Saw a hand specialist surgeon who said we could try immobilizing the fractured bits for a couple weeks, and sent me down the corridor to Occupational Therapy where the cheerful folks fabricated the brace you see in the pic.
Later when I saw the notes from the OT, it said I had experienced GLF FOOSH. Which when I decoded it was a good summary of what had happened…
Mitch, get better soon! Hope you’re right handed.
Thanks! And I am left-handed, something I’m learning to say first thing upon stepping into any exam or treatment room.
@Mitch4: Ouch! Heal fast indeed.
And I had to look it up: Ground Level Fall / Fall Onto Outstretched Hand. I did one of those ~15 years ago, while talking to my wife on the phone. She thought maybe I’d just been hit by a bus until I managed to find the phone and tell her I was ok.
Sigh, and WP has changed things again: now when you go to comment you have to login before you can click Comment. Not a big deal but c’mon, guys. Plus after doing so I got a prompt:
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Srsly?! I can't believe nobody tested/saw this. Amateur hour. It would be one thing if there was something I’d input in that–say my userid was “abc&d”–but this is THEIR TEXT.
He’s going to get personal best only if he crosses the finish line, and if he dithers too long about this the window will pass. He certainly can’t beat his own best time if he waits for them to fix the washed out bridge or whatever.
I took a similar fall but backwards, which is how I learned that if you put your hand down flat there’s a good chance you will break your wrist’s navicular bone. Unfortunately for me that cool bone name has been inexplicably changed to the dumb boring name “scaphoid”, so every time I tell the story I have to Google it.
I’ll go with” personal best” but what the heck are those things on his feet?
@ U.$. (11) – Opening up a discussion about defective artwork “In the Bleachers” is not a good idea. Besides the (1) mysterious footwear, there is also (2) the massive spare tire on top of his hips, (3) his two left hands, and (4) a head that looks like it would fit better on a duck (or a goose) than a human.
P. B. 4 U jump?
Fast healing to you, Mitch.
Along with all the art goofs Kilby pointed out, I did wonder why the ‘finish’ sign faced the way it does.
Mitch – add my wishes for you to recover quickly and completely!
@ Chak (14) – I didn’t notice the sign at all, but thinking about it now, I remember that the “Arrivée” sign at the end of each stage of the Tour de France is printed on both sides, so that it will be legible for TV cameras operating from either direction.
I once spotted someone in a bookshop with both hands bandaged and splinted – he’d been on one of those old-style (this was the 90s) dry artificial ski slopes and had managed to fall forwards and break both thumbs by putting his hands out – with his thumbs in the holes between the brushy bristles of Dendix.
Some nice alternate suggestions in those clips — platinum blonde, pink baboon (left over perhaps from the every-kid-gets-one party), polka band, ploughboy, piggy basketball …
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“Personal Best.” If he walks off the cliff, he will get his best time ever at that distance. And die. A trade-off that many runners would be willing to make.
While I don’t disagree with BVCC that that was the intent of the comic, I’m confused by it being at the finish line instead of the start line.
Thanks, BVCC. I see that “Personal Best” was in the running for the applicable interpretation. But to me it remains dubious for understanding a punch line.
Speaking of impenetrable abbreviations, I recently fell down and hurt my hand trying to catch myself. Saw a hand specialist surgeon who said we could try immobilizing the fractured bits for a couple weeks, and sent me down the corridor to Occupational Therapy where the cheerful folks fabricated the brace you see in the pic.
Later when I saw the notes from the OT, it said I had experienced GLF FOOSH. Which when I decoded it was a good summary of what had happened…
Mitch, get better soon! Hope you’re right handed.
Thanks! And I am left-handed, something I’m learning to say first thing upon stepping into any exam or treatment room.
@Mitch4: Ouch! Heal fast indeed.
And I had to look it up: Ground Level Fall / Fall Onto Outstretched Hand. I did one of those ~15 years ago, while talking to my wife on the phone. She thought maybe I’d just been hit by a bus until I managed to find the phone and tell her I was ok.
Sigh, and WP has changed things again: now when you go to comment you have to login before you can click Comment. Not a big deal but c’mon, guys. Plus after doing so I got a prompt:
Discover more from Comics I Don't Understand
Srsly?! I can't believe nobody tested/saw this. Amateur hour. It would be one thing if there was something I’d input in that–say my userid was “abc&d”–but this is THEIR TEXT.
He’s going to get personal best only if he crosses the finish line, and if he dithers too long about this the window will pass. He certainly can’t beat his own best time if he waits for them to fix the washed out bridge or whatever.
I took a similar fall but backwards, which is how I learned that if you put your hand down flat there’s a good chance you will break your wrist’s navicular bone. Unfortunately for me that cool bone name has been inexplicably changed to the dumb boring name “scaphoid”, so every time I tell the story I have to Google it.
I’ll go with” personal best” but what the heck are those things on his feet?
@ U.$. (11) – Opening up a discussion about defective artwork “In the Bleachers” is not a good idea. Besides the (1) mysterious footwear, there is also (2) the massive spare tire on top of his hips, (3) his two left hands, and (4) a head that looks like it would fit better on a duck (or a goose) than a human.
P. B. 4 U jump?
Fast healing to you, Mitch.
Along with all the art goofs Kilby pointed out, I did wonder why the ‘finish’ sign faced the way it does.
Mitch – add my wishes for you to recover quickly and completely!
@ Chak (14) – I didn’t notice the sign at all, but thinking about it now, I remember that the “Arrivée” sign at the end of each stage of the Tour de France is printed on both sides, so that it will be legible for TV cameras operating from either direction.
I once spotted someone in a bookshop with both hands bandaged and splinted – he’d been on one of those old-style (this was the 90s) dry artificial ski slopes and had managed to fall forwards and break both thumbs by putting his hands out – with his thumbs in the holes between the brushy bristles of Dendix.
https://medium.com/@ruth.garcia56742/the-future-of-artificial-ski-slopes-87cd3c5d4a3f
I like the title of this thread, because when I read “P.B.”, I also thought “Peanut Butter”.
“P.B.” meaning “Peanut Butter” has been ingrained into my brain from TV commercials way back in the 1980s for the “PB Max” candy bar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbd-jzQU4EM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_JNIAYCJeI
Does that make me a geezer?
Narmitaj, egad!
Some nice alternate suggestions in those clips — platinum blonde, pink baboon (left over perhaps from the every-kid-gets-one party), polka band, ploughboy, piggy basketball …