We discussed this first Macanudo strip (in both languages) in the “Macanudo Road” post in April:
At the time I thought that Liniers changed the name of the leader because Ringo is still alive (and John isn’t), but a pair of subsequent strips give me the impression that he just likes bashing on drummers:
(Of course, this strip has absolutely nothing to do with the way nor why Best was actually dumped from the Beatles.)
Just like the first strip above, the question here is “Why Ringo?” (Perhaps he is supposed to be the one with the lowest level of awareness-enhancing substances in his system?)
Boise Ed sent this one in. If Hagar and Eddie joined the onstage table, they must have thought they were at a dinner theater. But if it were a dinner theater, the audience wouldn’t be in rows of theater seats. It looks like they went to a stage play, got there late, saw the scene involving a meal, then sat there. Even those two aren’t that dumb.
It turns out the second and third artists, though unknown to me, were real and easily searchable. But I’m still unsure what their panes here are meant to say about their ideas or careers. And since they may not be commonplace names for many, this seems still a CIDU.
Rather dumb word-argument. But it prompts memory of an assortment of senior-targeted advertising campaigns which for a while used the phrasing “age 50 or better” or “age seventy-and-a-half or better” etcetera. It was supposed to be obvious, yet a sort of joke, that better would mean older. At least one that I heard regularly for a while did change to older; but then later reverted to better ; so I guess there was some complaint but it got resolved, or just overruled.
Come to think of it, probably the word-level associations of squashing things must have played a role in my lifelong aversion to the vegetable of that name.
Chak notes “I’ve read En attendant Godot several times, and I still don’t have a clue.”
Could one expect Godot to comment? Waiting for your comments below.
Over a year ago I posted a set of Non-Sequitur comics in which Wiley had repeated the exact same joke (including some lengthy dialog) in three different versions. The following examples from Tom Wilson’s “Ziggy” aren’t nearly as sophisticated, but the identical setups seem to show that the author has either forgotten the own material, or simply doesn’t care (“…just run it again, readers will never remember it…”)
All three of these were created by “Tom II” after his father retired, so it’s not a case of a legacy artist not knowing what the original author wrote: he did these all by himself.
Just three years later, with new artwork, but exactly the same joke, word for word:
Sixteen years after that, a new rendition (and now in color), but it’s still the same gag:
I’m sure that it is difficult (effectively impossible) to remember every single joke over a span of 18.5 years (and over 6800 comics), but insulting Ziggy as “shorty” is something of a running gag (besides these three, I ran into half a dozen other examples), so perhaps reviewing the GoComics archive might have been a good idea. That’s exactly why somebody has been going to all the trouble of making sure that the dialog is included in the GC index.
Umm, what part are we looking at in the 2nd and 3rd panels? If exposed bone, then how can the patient be so wide-awake? Also, if the parity of turns is correct, the current site is playing O, and has only losing moves. Can’t they concede, and not ship the guy off to let County, playing X, claim their victory?
