Sent by a very puzzled Harvey Heilbrun.
(We haven’t featured In The Bleachers very often, but there is another coming up, in the next LOLs set.)
You’re … not out!
Category / CIDU
Chekhov’s carving knife
Yes, we get the joking premise of “what if nursery rhymes were actively written by teams like modern or tin-pan-alley era songwriting partnerships”. But there is no third stanza in the actual nursery rhyme, nothing like stanzas really … so is that in there just to fit with the (secondary) joke about the Chekhov’s Gun principle?
Three blind mice. Three blind mice.
See how they run. See how they run.
They all ran after the farmer’s wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a sight in your life,
As three blind mice?
The Crumbling Newspaper
From Cristiano, who explains “It was published in an Italian magazine called ‘La Settimana Enigmistica’ (a famous crosswords magazine). It’s rather well known for the… ‘curious’ comics it contains. This one had no captions and no other context indications, it was “standalone” just as you see it…”
“Thank Heaven, there was only one you”?
Poll: your favorite Trudeau
Speaking of Garry Trudeau, Phil Smith III sent in the following recent Doonesbury and reports that the commenting crew at Go Comics didn’t get far with this. Your Editors, meanwhile, confess to not having recently followed Doonesbury closely enough to even know what it would be to get somewhere with an explanation of this episode. But Phil will be on hand to help propel the comments here. Apparently the crux is just what they said or did to lead Mel to face-plant like that.
“Scare Quotes”
From dollarbill.
Garbage monster
Was the garbage supposed to be there in panel 6, when she says “looks nice”? Or are we supposed to assume that it’s moving forward? Is it alive?
“Could you scoot over and make some room?”
Probably a bit too technical (though not hard to look up). But the point of interest is in how it uses the tools of “photographic meme” but in a drawing. Would the same joke (about “getting cancelled”) work in a direct cartoon format?
A dog by any other name. . .
From Stan, who says “Maybe it’s that he’s a ‘fire dog’ now (is that what they’re called?), but he’s still a dog, right? It’d be like someone saying, ‘I used to be human, but I’m a dentist now.'”
Or is it just a rummy?
From Karen, who wonders “Is this supposed to be Cards Against Humanity? But they’re using a regular deck of cards?”. But who can resist the demonic drawing of the triumphant rejoinder!
