March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: The Last Quartet: Pangaea vs Beethoven /6/mar… 1 week ago Statistics Saturday: Most and Least Common Dates of Easter /7/sta… 1 week ago March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: The Last Quartet: Old Couches vs Viscosity /9/mar… 5 days agoĦ0s Popeye: The Black Knight (not the one where he fights a pinball game) /watch?feature=… /8/60s… 6 days ago What’s Going On In Rex Morgan? Why is there a superhero in Rex Morgan? January – April 2022 /0/wha… 4 days ago Reading the Comics, April 17, 2022: Did I Catch Comic Strip Master Command By Surprise Edition /0/rea… 3 days ago March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: The Last Quartet: Trivia vs $20,090 /1/mar… 3 days ago MiSTed: Safety First (part 2 of 16) /2/mis… 2 days ago March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: The Final Pairing: HTML’s span element vs Pizzicato /3/mar… 1 day ago I suppose it’s all a reminder that you can tell any joke you like, but you can’t control what joke the audience hears.įollow Me on Twitter – Saturday: The Movies (an incomplete list) /4/sta… 2 hours ago The beard and ten-gallon hat were also cues, although it’s not like comic strip characters won’t have long beards or quirky fashion choices either. If the identity of the person seeking a career didn’t matter, he’d have been named Smith or Jones or even not addressed by name. It’s a fine enough non-sequitur joke that someone might be good in sales or market research or buffalo-slaughtering. Imagine if the caption read, “Well, Mr Smith, … ” instead. In my defense - and this applies to the Al Tilly the bum incident too - part of my slowness was that it wasn’t obvious I was missing a joke. But the scene was funny already even without the name confusion, right? Anyway, nobody ask why the door sign implies they’re outside the career counseling office, OK? It’s a comic strip convention and once you notice this you’ll never enjoy a setting again, ever. It was this scene at a castle rampart and the guard has thrown his spear at this hobo, and missed, and the hobo says, “I think you misunderstood” and it was like twelve years later that I twigged to how the joke was the guard thought he’d said he was Atilla the Hun. It was previously held by another Far Side strip, the famous “I think you misunderstood … I’m Al Tilly, the bum” incident. This now takes, by far, the record between me seeing and me getting the joke. It was only today, when I saw it bundled with other historical strips under the History Shmistory label, that I realized Gary Larson’s joke. I’ve seen this particular Far Side now and then for thirty-plus years.
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