From Mitch4, who notes, “Is this speech directed to the deceased or to the veiled woman at graveside? It reads like it would have to be partly each.”
If we can’t even tell that much, it’s definitely a CIDU, I think!
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Or maybe it’s the veiled woman who is speaking. No matter which way it makes no sense to me.
“It was me the whole time” makes me wonder if someone was posing as his/her own girlfriend.
My guess is that the man standing beside the grave is addressing his comments to the deceased, and that the veiled woman is the “secret girlfriend.” I am by no means certain of that, though.
SteveHL
I think @Powers has it. The veiled person IS THE “DECEASED”, showing up at his own funeral and pretending to be his own girlfriend.
We don’t know why he did that. And it isn’t funny. But that’s the implication.
Thanks, the Powers / Carl Fink theory makes sense to me. The speaker’s head is inclined towards the “girlfriend” but his “you” has to be for the “departed”; so the faking-his-own-death plot explains both.
Adding to the mystery: the freshly dug grave appears to be empty; and the guy is checking his watch. Almost could have alternate dialog about someone being late to his own funeral. Still don’t know what’s up with that veil though, and the little poofty ponytail sticking up.
OK, I have the framework of a hypothesis, which I submit for your consideration.
There is a song called “The Long Black Veil”, in which a man is falsely accused of murder. He has an alibi — he had been “in the arms of his best friend’s wife”. Rather than betray his lover, he remains silent and is hanged. Now a mysterious woman in a long black veil visits his grave.
@jajizi, thanks for bringing memories of that song. I don’t think it will quite fit this cartoon, but I do remember the song — It’s a “traditional” and been covered by a range of performers, but the one I absorbed it from was The Band, on the Big Pink album —
BTW, the cartoonist replied on CK, “It is both. The casket is empty. “
According to Wikipedia, this popular song dates to 1959, and was written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell.
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Or maybe it’s the veiled woman who is speaking. No matter which way it makes no sense to me.
“It was me the whole time” makes me wonder if someone was posing as his/her own girlfriend.
My guess is that the man standing beside the grave is addressing his comments to the deceased, and that the veiled woman is the “secret girlfriend.” I am by no means certain of that, though.
SteveHL
I think @Powers has it. The veiled person IS THE “DECEASED”, showing up at his own funeral and pretending to be his own girlfriend.
We don’t know why he did that. And it isn’t funny. But that’s the implication.
Thanks, the Powers / Carl Fink theory makes sense to me. The speaker’s head is inclined towards the “girlfriend” but his “you” has to be for the “departed”; so the faking-his-own-death plot explains both.
Adding to the mystery: the freshly dug grave appears to be empty; and the guy is checking his watch. Almost could have alternate dialog about someone being late to his own funeral. Still don’t know what’s up with that veil though, and the little poofty ponytail sticking up.
OK, I have the framework of a hypothesis, which I submit for your consideration.
There is a song called “The Long Black Veil”, in which a man is falsely accused of murder. He has an alibi — he had been “in the arms of his best friend’s wife”. Rather than betray his lover, he remains silent and is hanged. Now a mysterious woman in a long black veil visits his grave.
@jajizi, thanks for bringing memories of that song. I don’t think it will quite fit this cartoon, but I do remember the song — It’s a “traditional” and been covered by a range of performers, but the one I absorbed it from was The Band, on the Big Pink album —
BTW, the cartoonist replied on CK, “It is both. The casket is empty. “
According to Wikipedia, this popular song dates to 1959, and was written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell.