Bonus: Valentine’s Arlo Award

I find it hard to believe that any newspaper editor would have let Get Fuzzy strip this appear in print, even if the relevant expression is a little bit dated:


The last dialog bubble in the fourth panel is closer to overkill than actually necessary, but it certainly makes it clear that the joke in the third panel was intentional.


This Yuval Robichek comic was submitted as a “choice half-Arlo”, but in Bill’s day it would never have appeared on the primary CIDU site: he would have banned it to his separate “Arlo” page. (But since it is a web comic, it wouldn’t qualify for an Arlo “award”.)


10 Comments

  1. Unknown's avatar

    I know what “beaver” implies in the comic.

    But, Valentine’s day sometimes falls within Lent, when some denominations abstain from meat. And there is a loophole that classifies beaver as fish because it lives in the water. So people sometimes do eat beaver meat on Valentine’s day.

  2. Unknown's avatar

    I have to assume the censors just missed it. Probably too young to get it. After all, almost nobody outside of First Nations actually EATS Castor canadensis, so it’s sorta almost funny even if you don’t get it.

  3. Unknown's avatar

    2nd one is definitely a cidu. Could it be described in alt text and still be funny? “A semi-naked woman stares at 6 pairs of panties and 6 pictures of men on a bed.” I’m old, so maybe that’s why I don’t get t?

  4. Unknown's avatar

    Pete (1): That’s amazing. I’ve heard of desperate people eating rats or other rodents, but never beavers. But yes, I’m old enough to remember the NSFW slang usage.

    Jim (3): Apparently, she has six boyfriends with different, er, personal tastes.

  5. Unknown's avatar

    Real:
    Walt Disney presents a True Life Adventure … Beaver Valley.
    Also real:
    Theodore Cleaver’s nickname was Beaver, so …
    Probably not real:
    “Ward, weren’t you a bit rough on the Beaver last night?”

  6. Unknown's avatar

    Meryl A — So that each of the men can say “I like her but the weird thing is she never changes her panties.”?

  7. Unknown's avatar

    She may match the panties to the man and the occasion and thereby be wearing different ones.

    Or like some of we lazy people who do not like to waste time on choices – they all may be the same.

    (Biggest difference is they changed the waistband and no more label on husband’s newer ones, so I fold his old ones and his new ones differently – but otherwise his are al the same also.)

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