Thanks to Andréa for this subtle groaner:
Sources say that either the exclamation “Great Scott” is not attached to any particular person with that name; or else may be associated with Sir Walter Scott, or with U.S. General Winfield Scott. But here, with the talk of Antarctica and the South Pole, surely they intend some kind of glance at famous and unfortunate polar explorer Robert F Scott?
And another from Andréa, who calls this “Barely an oy”. Also fodder for you dialectologists out there.
FYI, John Hambrock does The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee.
… says the sign on the wall.
Sent by Brian in STL and by Chemgal; the latter asks “Is the ventriloquist doing voodoo?!”
I think, pretty clearly so; but maybe under a system that departs from the classic rules of voodoo?
This is from a book, Otto: A Palindrama by Jon Agee. It was brought to our attention by (and we picked up the image from) an online book review by Gene Ambaum, attached to his Library Comic newsletter.
Pastis is trying so hard in this one, how can we pass up enjoying another look?
Unless it’s disqualified because one of the characters is consciously making the pun joke?
Falco titled this “The Red Hoodie” in his enewsletter. But do we accept that these characters would use the plain form “hood” for either of the meanings required here? Mebbe.
From Andréa, a sort of OY-Awww!
Here’s one from Andréa and Mark Jackson:
This is from Andréa (and was a CIDU for Winter Wallaby, until Andréa explained it):
And this one from Chemgal:
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A November 18th Synchron-eww-city from Andréa.
And another Synchron-eww-city from September 4th.
Submitted by chemgal.
Boise Ed: “Actually, I have a tee-shirt with a fisherman in a lake of bass-clef signs.” . . . This comic was also submitted anonymously as an Oy
For the record, this comic long predates any current references to “quid pro quo”
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