According to Wikipedia, “From 1993 to 2002, Pastis was an insurance defense litigation attorney” which would seem to breed a lot of cynicism.
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That selfie stick comic isn’t a geezer reference but it’s working on it. I doubt many people born after like 2010 would recognize one.
@Andrew Millar You mean like… children and teenagers? The ones who generally don’t get a phone where they MIGHT need a selfie stick until they’re 13-14 in 2024?
Invented in Japan by an engineer for Minolta, his patent ran out in 2003, never got popular. Re-invented in the 2000s by …lots of people. At least one patent and loads of knockoffs. Really took off when Instagram started in late 2010.
Are the straws the horses are using Flav-R Straws? Do they come in “new mown hay?”
Those selfie sticks were quite widespread for a while, but they soon became such a nuisance that they are now prohibited in many places, which put a damper on their popularity.
P.S. Now that someone has figured out how to get the horses to drink, the next challenge is how to get the college fools to think.
Kilby (6): Reminds me of an old joke I won’t repeat here but it ends, “You can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think.” For those curious, the full joke can be found in the 1968 classic, A Treasury of Atrocious Puns.
The TooMuchCoffeeMan in the header is missing only one thing: a The New Yorker tag
Righto, Chak (6).
Andrew Millar@5 – The line is attributed to Dorothy Parker, when she was challenged to use the word “horticulture” in a sentence. It doesn’t need a joke, as it is a good stand-alone PUNchline.
Isn’t that the opposite of a geezer reference?
@ Brian (9) – Geezerette?
P.S. @ Chak (6) – Depending on how you look at it, that Shannon Wheeler comic could be seen as an ancient predecessor, or a modern retelling of a venerable comic that is no longer supposed to be discussed outside of the author’s new hallowed grounds:
… P.P.S. With respect to a frequent running gag in The Big Bang Theory, it is retroactively ironic that the author named his character “Leonard“, rather than “Sheldon“.
P.P.P.S. I find it very refreshing that Wheeler’s cave man is quoted as saying “I don’t get it“, rather than the stereotypical “Me don’t get it“, as is commonly seen in “dumb cave man” setups.
Whatever language cave men spoke, did they speak it correctly or incorrectly? If some spoke with bad grammar, did others criticize that bad grammar?
@ MiB – The problem is that cave men delivered criticism using a wooden club that would make a police nightstick look like a toothpick. 🙂
(I’m really not sure what the “infraction” is supposed to be.)
The year on strip below is illegible, but it was probably published in the early 1980s, and is therefore not available in the fragmented B.C. archive at GoComics:
“We the People” in its original context was grammatically OK, and common nouns were capitalized back then, as they still are in German. But if “We the People” is the entire complete utterance, it’s a case of “This sentence no verb.”
@ MiB (14) – Thanks for the explanation. In return, here’s a little primitive criticism in Monday’s Non-Sequitur:
Today’s Macanudo offers an alternative solution for the selfie stick:
The Pearls strip is perfect.
And I’ve taken a few selfies including a Greek temple or something behind me just using my regular length arm. The passport people say to not send them a selfie. They probably were getting ones with other stuff in them or otherwise not conforming to specs. I did anyway, again using my arm, and printed it on glossy photo paper. It worked.
I think some Youtubers still use selfie sticks for recording video of themselves when in motion.
One thing I am lacking is photos of myself. Robert may take a one now and then, but most of the photos we are take are either of things we see when traveling (we WIL travel again!) including a lot of colonial items, items of which we would like to try make a modern copy, pictures of craft work, and items we need to buy to avoid arguing (as mentioned in another post) over which version/brand etc we buy – oh, and I take photos with my phone of my teddy bear collection to avoid buying duplicate bears. (“Do I have this bear? “Hmmm, not sure.”) I can check and see if I have a photo of the bear in question in my phone.
If I need to write a check while away from our house I will take a photo of same also as I scan all the checks I write to keep a record of them.
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That selfie stick comic isn’t a geezer reference but it’s working on it. I doubt many people born after like 2010 would recognize one.
@Andrew Millar
You mean like… children and teenagers? The ones who generally don’t get a phone where they MIGHT need a selfie stick until they’re 13-14 in 2024?
Invented in Japan by an engineer for Minolta, his patent ran out in 2003, never got popular.
Re-invented in the 2000s by …lots of people. At least one patent and loads of knockoffs. Really took off when Instagram started in late 2010.
Are the straws the horses are using Flav-R Straws? Do they come in “new mown hay?”
Those selfie sticks were quite widespread for a while, but they soon became such a nuisance that they are now prohibited in many places, which put a damper on their popularity.
P.S. Now that someone has figured out how to get the horses to drink, the next challenge is how to get the college fools to think.
Kilby (6): Reminds me of an old joke I won’t repeat here but it ends, “You can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think.” For those curious, the full joke can be found in the 1968 classic, A Treasury of Atrocious Puns.
The TooMuchCoffeeMan in the header is missing only one thing: a The New Yorker tag
Righto, Chak (6).
Andrew Millar@5 – The line is attributed to Dorothy Parker, when she was challenged to use the word “horticulture” in a sentence. It doesn’t need a joke, as it is a good stand-alone PUNchline.
Isn’t that the opposite of a geezer reference?
@ Brian (9) – Geezerette?
P.S. @ Chak (6) – Depending on how you look at it, that Shannon Wheeler comic could be seen as an ancient predecessor, or a modern retelling of a venerable comic that is no longer supposed to be discussed outside of the author’s new hallowed grounds:
…
P.P.S. With respect to a frequent running gag in The Big Bang Theory, it is retroactively ironic that the author named his character “Leonard“, rather than “Sheldon“.
P.P.P.S. I find it very refreshing that Wheeler’s cave man is quoted as saying “I don’t get it“, rather than the stereotypical “Me don’t get it“, as is commonly seen in “dumb cave man” setups.
Whatever language cave men spoke, did they speak it correctly or incorrectly? If some spoke with bad grammar, did others criticize that bad grammar?
@ MiB – The problem is that cave men delivered criticism using a wooden club that would make a police nightstick look like a toothpick. 🙂
(I’m really not sure what the “infraction” is supposed to be.)
The year on strip below is illegible, but it was probably published in the early 1980s, and is therefore not available in the fragmented B.C. archive at GoComics:
“We the People” in its original context was grammatically OK, and common nouns were capitalized back then, as they still are in German. But if “We the People” is the entire complete utterance, it’s a case of “This sentence no verb.”
@ MiB (14) – Thanks for the explanation. In return, here’s a little primitive criticism in Monday’s Non-Sequitur:
Today’s Macanudo offers an alternative solution for the selfie stick:
The Pearls strip is perfect.
And I’ve taken a few selfies including a Greek temple or something behind me just using my regular length arm. The passport people say to not send them a selfie. They probably were getting ones with other stuff in them or otherwise not conforming to specs. I did anyway, again using my arm, and printed it on glossy photo paper. It worked.
I think some Youtubers still use selfie sticks for recording video of themselves when in motion.
One thing I am lacking is photos of myself. Robert may take a one now and then, but most of the photos we are take are either of things we see when traveling (we WIL travel again!) including a lot of colonial items, items of which we would like to try make a modern copy, pictures of craft work, and items we need to buy to avoid arguing (as mentioned in another post) over which version/brand etc we buy – oh, and I take photos with my phone of my teddy bear collection to avoid buying duplicate bears. (“Do I have this bear? “Hmmm, not sure.”) I can check and see if I have a photo of the bear in question in my phone.
If I need to write a check while away from our house I will take a photo of same also as I scan all the checks I write to keep a record of them.
But photos of each other – not so much.