Actually true, making allowances for that graph in panel 3 being simplified to fit.
But not that hard to figure out, so it’s not really a CIDU for an audience as clever as ours. Eventually it will be one of those phrases where the original meaning of the term becomes ever more obscure, e.g. “not worth a plug nickel”.
Here’s how it was done in 1943:
JMcAndrew ponders:
Does the military train soldiers with live grenades? How did they survive this? I’m starting to think that this comic isn’t very well thought out.
Which of course brings to mind the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch:
I’m betting I’m not the only one among us who has irritated their spouse by counting “One, two, five!” on occasion.
The person in panel 1 is Mildred’s mother, IIRC. Otherwise, it’s a bit of a muddle. Who would ever say such a thing? Panel 4 is no help.
Prediction is hard, especially about the future.
From Dirk the Daring, an Oddly Enough:
Dirk comments, “Rooollll a another one….I think maybe I get it. Does he want a dog that can sniff out where to buy his next bag of dope? I dunno, maybe I’m just slow. Or I’ve taken too many hits myself.”
I’m thinking “Where to buy” or maybe just to find weed that he’s forgotten about in his apartment? Cop’s hat says NYPD and I’m told that dispensaries are on every block there (mostly unlicensed), so I don’t think he should need help finding one. And Tomlinson lives in New York, so it’s not like he’d be unaware. ‘Tis a mystery!
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Cristiano sends this in: “Honestly, with this one, I’m at a loss. I think I’m missing some contest… is this guy a criminal? A spy? A perv? What is he doing in the bushes at night? Why does he have a radio? What the hell is happening? What do you think?”
Also, can anyone provide sourcing info? Google Image Search didn’t find this one.
Mitch4 wonders, “There must be some simple fact related, maybe ‘Wellness’ stuff?”
I know I’m stumped!
The biblical reference is from Matthew 18, if that helps:
“They said, “Who is the greatest in the holy nation of heaven?” 2 Jesus took a little child and put him among them. 3 He said, “For sure, I tell you, unless you have a change of heart and become like a little child, you will not get into the holy nation of heaven. 4 Whoever is without pride as this little child is the greatest in the holy nation of heaven. 5 Whoever receives a little child because of Me receives Me. 6 But whoever is the reason for one of these little children who believe in Me to fall into sin, it would be better for him to have a large rock put around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.”
Yesterday’s Arlo and Janis. Free beer tomorrow? Why not today? Is June 30 some sort of free beer holiday I’m about to miss?
Boise Ed sends this in: “Is there a joke here?”
If this was a storyline comic, I would think this was just a setup day for more hilarity in the days following. But that isn’t the way this strip works.
Mitch4 sends this in: “I can think of a couple ways a punch line to this situation could play out, but the final panel doesn’t really seem to be illustrating either.
Maybe she’s upset because, as she predicted and the husband said was unlikely, everybody else is already well-tanned. But I don’t see that. The big red exclam would indeed represent her fuming, but we don’t see a bunch of tanned people — just a couple darker-skinned kids among paler ones, and none of them up close or large.
Or maybe the husband is acting-out her (hyperbolically stated) fear that everybody will “have to shield their eyes from the glare” . If that’s supposed to be it, he would be indulging in a mean sort of teasing, and that isn’t usually the dynamic of this couple. And his wincing/squinting seems to be drawn as genuine, which maybe would be from the white pages of his book?”
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