Please WHAT?

Please WHAT?

Thanks to Boise Ed for sending this one! “Pardon My Planet often has head-scratchers, but this one really befuddles me. If she has gotten a restraining order to keep him 500 feet away from her, why is she about to marry him?”


Chemgal submitted:

There’s actually an explanation for this, left as an exercise for the community (but to also be revealed in comments, eventually).

Huh? Who are these characters? And who is “Beast”? If he’s from “Beauty and …”, then are these others as well?

I think we may have analysed this retro A&J before?

Thanks to Targuman for sending this in, with illuminating comment.

That idea, and its expression as “nothing new under the sun”, is most prominent to our contemporary culture from the book which Targuman (and scholars of the Hebrew Bible) refers to as Qohelet (The Teacher), also known to most of us as Ecclesiastes (The Preacher) — famous for collaborating with Pete Seeger on that song. :-)
Though that is the most familiar source, what are the chances it was actually the first? Hard to say, after several thousand years. However, somebody had to be first. And in that very moment they were making it false, since there was now something new: that very thought.
So that gives a fun-paradox! But … is it really a case of hypocrisy?




This next one depends on remembering when Lars von Trier and friends declared the Dogme 95 principles for filmmaking. (And probably does not require remembering the Kevin Smith film Dogma.)


With this December 2011 Brevity, we’re getting a bit into OYs.







And we interrupt our parade of Oldies to drop in a Duffy Lug Nuts on the same theme from current GoComics publication:



