Arrgh, they just missed the chance to pun it off against serialism, the academic successor to atonal or twelve-tone music as a body of theory and compositional practice. To boot, cerealism and serialism are pronounced identically, while surrealism is distinguishable! Well OY to that, or indeed ARRRGH!
This time the squirrel does have something to say — and he’s clearly wrong.
Here’s an Oy-Ewww. Wait, do I know the actual etymology? And how’s about “steak tartare”?
Sent in by Barbara – thanks!
Here’s a Reality Check from Stan, who says ” A couple of things didn’t quite scan with this for me. If that bubble is what I assume it is, I don’t think he’d need to be ‘told’. Also, why are the fish wearing regal headgear?”
And the squirrel didn’t have anything to say?
Brevity is one of those strips that seems to try a pun every time. But if we get too used to it, we may not notice when a pretty good one slips by.
We were about to cavil that the “k” was the same thing in both cases … but it really isn’t.
Therapeutic notes from Andréa!
In your circle of friends, child-raising experts, and ethicists, what generally is the next step in thinking from that kind of statement?
And this Whamond was picked up from Arnold Zwicky’s blog, which also discusses the “grammar police” construction for our convenience.
From Andréa.
From Philip.
Both from Andréa.
(The pun isn’t always on a word that appears in the caption or dialog.)
Hannukah is over. This has nothing to do with Hannukah. Just some comics about polo, from Kilby.
There’s an Oy here of course, but . . . “chickens are mammals”???
From Andréa.
