Boise Ed sends this in: “Some commenters feel that the little rectangular solid is supposed to represent a hay bale. From panel 2, I infer that its name is “going.” At this point, I’m totally lost.”
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Looks like a dad joke but really a fodder joke.
It’s name is “hay,” which is pronounced the same as “hey.”
*Its. Stupid autocorrect changing a perfectly good word into the wrong one.
+1 for Andrew’s answer!
definite +1 for Andrew… for what it’s worth, doesn’t help raise the humour level from baseline WTF :)
+1 more for Andrew’s follow-up!
What, no love for bensondonald? His was an excellent joke.
It ‘s a bale of hay.
The (horribly drawn) character says ‘Hey, how’s it going?’
How does one ‘infer that its name is ‘Going’?
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Brian (8): In P3, the thing asks how she knew its name, after she asks “How’s it, going?” (but without the comma). I suppose she could have been using “Hey” as its name, as Andrew Millar (2) suggested.
“What, no love for bensondonald? His was an excellent joke.”
Hear, hear!!
Ed: ‘How’s it going’? is a common greeting.
‘How’s it?’, perhaps in the UK.
Since there was no comma in the strip dialogue, I’m not sure why anyone would assume a comma would be there.
Since there was no comma in the strip dialogue, I’m not sure why anyone would assume a comma would be there.
And yet at least two of us did (I garden-pathed that way first, ‘Howzit Joanna Going?’ before reversing and realizing it was punning on “hey”). Accept it, get over it. It’s not right, it’s not wrong, just different.
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Looks like a dad joke but really a fodder joke.
It’s name is “hay,” which is pronounced the same as “hey.”
*Its. Stupid autocorrect changing a perfectly good word into the wrong one.
+1 for Andrew’s answer!
definite +1 for Andrew… for what it’s worth, doesn’t help raise the humour level from baseline WTF :)
+1 more for Andrew’s follow-up!
What, no love for bensondonald? His was an excellent joke.
It ‘s a bale of hay.
The (horribly drawn) character says ‘Hey, how’s it going?’
How does one ‘infer that its name is ‘Going’?
Readers using the main web interface may not know that Likes are available in some other interfaces (such as WP Reader). [@guero, you may get an email saying that I Liked your comment.] And they can be made visible in the main web interface as well — though the last time that was tried, the experiment was ended very quickly because almost everyone expressing an opinion hated it!
Brian (8): In P3, the thing asks how she knew its name, after she asks “How’s it, going?” (but without the comma). I suppose she could have been using “Hey” as its name, as Andrew Millar (2) suggested.
“What, no love for bensondonald? His was an excellent joke.”
Hear, hear!!
Ed: ‘How’s it going’? is a common greeting.
‘How’s it?’, perhaps in the UK.
Since there was no comma in the strip dialogue, I’m not sure why anyone would assume a comma would be there.
Since there was no comma in the strip dialogue, I’m not sure why anyone would assume a comma would be there.
And yet at least two of us did (I garden-pathed that way first, ‘Howzit Joanna Going?’ before reversing and realizing it was punning on “hey”). Accept it, get over it. It’s not right, it’s not wrong, just different.