Separate Newspapers, Please…

Cidu Bill on Mar 2nd 2008

prefecal.gif
Ewww for a Sunday afternoon

Filed in Alison Barrows, Bill Bickel, Ewww, Preteena, comic strips, comics, humor | 10 responses so far

10 Responses to “Separate Newspapers, Please…”

  1. Kedamono Mar 2nd 2008 at 02:15 pm 1

    Ya know, that wouldn’t have fazed me at all. I’d reply “That’s nice dear, now eat you dead animal and plant matter covered in chemicals and insect poop.”

  2. Keera Mar 2nd 2008 at 03:49 pm 2

    Why is being told that blood is the most complicated liquid known to man an ewwww? That’s fascinating! And it’s not like that’s what’s in the wine bottle, so why cancel that order? Are those two adults really the parents? They’re not acting like they’re used to kids, i.e. gross table conversation. (But the “separate tables” comment is funny.)

  3. Winter Wallaby Mar 2nd 2008 at 06:23 pm 3

    I’m with Keera, I don’t see the Ewww here. I see how the last panel could be an Ewww, although I don’t find it so. But the wineblood Ewww is like refusing to eat a potato because “potato” and “poop” both start with “p”.

  4. John Mar 3rd 2008 at 01:15 am 4

    Is it true that blood and red wine are the first and second most complicated liquids? Where does milk fit in? Amniotic fluid? For that matter, urine?

  5. arik1969 Mar 3rd 2008 at 02:20 am 5

    I don’t know much about milk and amniotic fluid, but I CAN tell you that urine is basically water with a number of things in it filtered from the blood. Blood is much more complex.

    Also, I see the Ewwww here. It’s like eating some yogurt, and having someone come over and say, “Gosh that looks like something I blew out of my nose this morning.” It’s just kind of off-putting.

    By the way, when eating rice, which ALWAYS goes all over the place, I think a fun thing to do is reach across the table for them, one at a time, eat them really quickly, and say, “That one almost got away.” I’ve done this, and the results are almost always funny.

  6. bAT L. Mar 3rd 2008 at 04:15 am 6

    I don’t know about the characters in this comic, but if the wife is either a doctor or someone who has a background in biology, then it might be a completely normal conversation piece for her, while if the husband stays away from it all the time, he might not want to be thinking about how much his drink is similar to the stuff that comes out of you when something has gone wrong.

  7. Keera Mar 3rd 2008 at 02:24 pm 7

    Thank you, Arik1969! You gave me a good laugh!

  8. Jennifer Mar 3rd 2008 at 09:47 pm 8

    It doesn’t really seem that disgusting. I could come up with (and probably have) a lot worse at a dinner table. Maybe the problem is with them being in a public place?

    bAT L, I don’t know that much about this comic either, but I’m pretty sure that’s the daughter talking.

  9. bAT L. Mar 4th 2008 at 11:00 pm 9

    Jennifer - Hehheh, oops! I suppose I should have looked at the pictures when I read the text. Then I would have realized that it was the very short girl in the title panel and not the tall woman next to him. I suppose my mind assumed it was husband and wife talking just because that is the usual conversation seen in movies and on TV. Well, the daughter could study biology a lot in school…

    Thanks, Jennifer!

  10. Todd Mar 6th 2008 at 05:17 pm 10

    I don’t see why knowing wine is second only to blood as the most complicated liquids known to man would convince one not to drink wine. It definitely is a case of writer wanting to reach point c from point a, so forcing the path through point b, no matter how illogical.

Trackback URI | Comments RSS

Leave a Reply