Once again, the 9CL strip reminded me of a “Parrot/Poirot/Pwa-reau” gag in “The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim”, but when I tried to discover the source (or date) of the strip, I discovered that GoComics has discontinued “9CL Classics” entirely; searches and links to it come up empty.
9CL — It’s a paradox — you can’t tune a fish, but you can tuna fish.
I was going to slip it in as a very last-minute addition to the 11 August LOLs (since the comic is in fact dated Sunday), but didn’t want to dislodge the lovely unicorn picture already filling the “featured image” slot (you’ll see shortly), and also saw this was sort of a pictorial spoonerism and so belongs with the OYs……
@ target4cactus (2) – REO Speedwagon used a similar pun for an album title:
Guy caught a fish — a big fish. It looked like a tuna but it had teeth, 88 of them to be exact. And it had only 24 scales. 12 big ones on one side and 12 little ones on the other side. He couldn’t identify it and showed it to his friend, who said, “You mean you never heard of a piano tuna?”
@ MiB (5) – How well does that joke play outside of (non-rhotic) Boston?
@Kilby: I don’t know how well it plays on the piano, but as a joke it plays as well as any pun that stretches the pronunciation. Like the Montreal song: “I’m A Dreamer, Montreal?” Or the gorilla song: “Gorilla My Dreams, I Love You.” Or Groucho Marx’ line about elephants: “In Alabama, Tuscaloosa.”
MiB: Oy indeed!
@ MiB (7) – Only after rereading it (twice) did I realize that “tuna” is virtually identical to the Bostonian pronunciation of “tuner“.
P.S. There were two students from Boston in my college residence in L.A.; during their first year, one of them frequently had to translate the other’s pronunciation for the benefit of everyone else in the house.
@Kilby: Oddly, in the four years I spent as an undergraduate at Boston University, I never heard a Boston accent! The dominant accent among the students at BU was the Long Island (or Lung Guyland) accent. Wealthy Long Island industrialists sent their sons to BU to attempt to learn enough to eventually take over the business. And their daughters to BU to get their MRS degree. I was in the music department of the college of fine arts. Students came from all over the world, but I think the music students from Boston itself went to Berklee or the Boston Conservatory of Music. (Not to be confused with Berkeley or the New England Conservatory of Music.)
Later, after moving back to Boston and being more mobile and able to get to places like Medford (Meffid) and Revere (Veah) I heard plenty of Boston accents.
Actually as a resident of same it is pronounced Lawn Guyland no G at the end of the first word.
I guess since my dad was not a industrialist or wealthy – we – my sisters and I went to local colleges – all with degrees in business (one went back and also got one in teaching and one went to law school for a couple of years)
We were also suppose to actually learn and be able to support ourselves (and anyone else we needed to support – such as when I told husband to quit his job and I would support us when he was overwhelmed at work or my middle sister whose husband was rather ill – baby did marry a wealthy fellow, but she is still working and he is retired).
And all 3 of us Long Island born and bred though I was born in an NYC part of same.
Maybe the rich ones went to college under those rules and away from home.
(Yes I know it was written tongue in cheek.)
There are two reasons to send your kids to business school. One is for them to learn all that is necessary to start up a new business or keep a small family business going. This includes things like accounting, marketing, sales, management, and finance. The other is to prepare your kid to take over your CEO job. The most important skill will be networking (not the computer kind) so the concentration should be on partying. My freshman year roommate was one of those. He didn’t know how to do his own laundry but he had enough girlfriends that there was always one willing to do it for him. Now he is CEO of his dad’s company and through his network connections he hires people to do the accounting, marketing, sales, management and finance.
I majored in music and spent a lot of time practicing, rehearsing and performing. I didn’t know of the importance of networking at the time, but it doesn’t really matter because I didn’t try to make a living in music. But if I had wanted to, networking would have been essential. My classmates are connected to a lot of notable people in the music business.
What is the thing in the Lio hovering over the bush? Looks like a disembodied nose and mustache?
Lola, I don’t know what it could be! At first I thought you meant the big half-sun further to the right in the drawing, and I foolishly started a comment merely explaining the joke! :-( But the hovering object is a mystery .
Mark Tatulli’s signature.
Oh, thanks!
Wow. Why did I never notice that before? Don’t call me as a witness to anything.
@ Lola (17) – Tatulli introduced his new signature a long time ago (June 17th, 2013), but he normally puts it in an inconspicuous corner or on the edge:
The problem with the “Party Sunny” strip is the signature is right in the middle of the second panel, which makes it look like some horrific insect.
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Once again, the 9CL strip reminded me of a “Parrot/Poirot/Pwa-reau” gag in “The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim”, but when I tried to discover the source (or date) of the strip, I discovered that GoComics has discontinued “9CL Classics” entirely; searches and links to it come up empty.
9CL — It’s a paradox — you can’t tune a fish, but you can tuna fish.
I was going to slip it in as a very last-minute addition to the 11 August LOLs (since the comic is in fact dated Sunday), but didn’t want to dislodge the lovely unicorn picture already filling the “featured image” slot (you’ll see shortly), and also saw this was sort of a pictorial spoonerism and so belongs with the OYs……
@ target4cactus (2) – REO Speedwagon used a similar pun for an album title:
Guy caught a fish — a big fish. It looked like a tuna but it had teeth, 88 of them to be exact. And it had only 24 scales. 12 big ones on one side and 12 little ones on the other side. He couldn’t identify it and showed it to his friend, who said, “You mean you never heard of a piano tuna?”
@ MiB (5) – How well does that joke play outside of (non-rhotic) Boston?
@Kilby: I don’t know how well it plays on the piano, but as a joke it plays as well as any pun that stretches the pronunciation. Like the Montreal song: “I’m A Dreamer, Montreal?” Or the gorilla song: “Gorilla My Dreams, I Love You.” Or Groucho Marx’ line about elephants: “In Alabama, Tuscaloosa.”
MiB: Oy indeed!
@ MiB (7) – Only after rereading it (twice) did I realize that “tuna” is virtually identical to the Bostonian pronunciation of “tuner“.
P.S. There were two students from Boston in my college residence in L.A.; during their first year, one of them frequently had to translate the other’s pronunciation for the benefit of everyone else in the house.
@Kilby: Oddly, in the four years I spent as an undergraduate at Boston University, I never heard a Boston accent! The dominant accent among the students at BU was the Long Island (or Lung Guyland) accent. Wealthy Long Island industrialists sent their sons to BU to attempt to learn enough to eventually take over the business. And their daughters to BU to get their MRS degree. I was in the music department of the college of fine arts. Students came from all over the world, but I think the music students from Boston itself went to Berklee or the Boston Conservatory of Music. (Not to be confused with Berkeley or the New England Conservatory of Music.)
Later, after moving back to Boston and being more mobile and able to get to places like Medford (Meffid) and Revere (Veah) I heard plenty of Boston accents.
Actually as a resident of same it is pronounced Lawn Guyland no G at the end of the first word.
I guess since my dad was not a industrialist or wealthy – we – my sisters and I went to local colleges – all with degrees in business (one went back and also got one in teaching and one went to law school for a couple of years)
We were also suppose to actually learn and be able to support ourselves (and anyone else we needed to support – such as when I told husband to quit his job and I would support us when he was overwhelmed at work or my middle sister whose husband was rather ill – baby did marry a wealthy fellow, but she is still working and he is retired).
And all 3 of us Long Island born and bred though I was born in an NYC part of same.
Maybe the rich ones went to college under those rules and away from home.
(Yes I know it was written tongue in cheek.)
There are two reasons to send your kids to business school. One is for them to learn all that is necessary to start up a new business or keep a small family business going. This includes things like accounting, marketing, sales, management, and finance. The other is to prepare your kid to take over your CEO job. The most important skill will be networking (not the computer kind) so the concentration should be on partying. My freshman year roommate was one of those. He didn’t know how to do his own laundry but he had enough girlfriends that there was always one willing to do it for him. Now he is CEO of his dad’s company and through his network connections he hires people to do the accounting, marketing, sales, management and finance.
I majored in music and spent a lot of time practicing, rehearsing and performing. I didn’t know of the importance of networking at the time, but it doesn’t really matter because I didn’t try to make a living in music. But if I had wanted to, networking would have been essential. My classmates are connected to a lot of notable people in the music business.
What is the thing in the Lio hovering over the bush? Looks like a disembodied nose and mustache?
Lola, I don’t know what it could be! At first I thought you meant the big half-sun further to the right in the drawing, and I foolishly started a comment merely explaining the joke! :-( But the hovering object is a mystery .
Mark Tatulli’s signature.
Oh, thanks!
Wow. Why did I never notice that before? Don’t call me as a witness to anything.
@ Lola (17) – Tatulli introduced his new signature a long time ago (June 17th, 2013), but he normally puts it in an inconspicuous corner or on the edge:
The problem with the “Party Sunny” strip is the signature is right in the middle of the second panel, which makes it look like some horrific insect.