Comics That Made Me Laugh Out Loud, Pre-April Fool’s Edition
Cidu Bill on Mar 31st 2008
(Matt Paretsky and Craig M. Bobchin submitted this one for the Ewww Files)
Filed in Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, Ewww, Leigh Rubin, Rubes, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, centaurs, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol, prisons | 12 responses so far
Dave Van Domelen Mar 31st 2008 at 02:36 pm 1
Heh. Tarot deck joke, too. It’s not just that he’s so stupid he hung himself the wrong way…”The Fool” of the traditional Tarot deck is depicted as hanging from his ankle.
Lindsey ^_^ Mar 31st 2008 at 04:45 pm 2
The one with the soap was a CIDU for me.
Michèle Mar 31st 2008 at 07:25 pm 3
Why is Janis whistling/humming/whatever-the-music-note-is-supposed-to-mean while shoveling Centaur-Arlo’s, er, mess?
For that matter, why does Centaur-Arlo look angry?
And why is he hiding behind a bush? Is the bush supposed to be “strategically placed”?
… or is she using it as manure to fertilize her flowers? and he’s angry because she’s only using him for his, um, waste products?
heather Mar 31st 2008 at 09:03 pm 4
Ahhh… Arlo was a CIDU for me too but I think the “fertilizer” idea does it.
Lindsey: The soap one — the inmate tried to escape with a short soap-on-a-rope. He slipped on the soap and fell 15 stories instead of cleverly shimmying down…
Carl Apr 1st 2008 at 07:55 am 5
A 15 story prison? Man, they really are running out of space for prisoners.
Arlo was trying to conduct a “rite of spring” with Janis, but she wanted to garden instead.
Powers Apr 1st 2008 at 09:04 am 6
Centaurlo?
Scott Apr 1st 2008 at 12:23 pm 7
Having fertilized my garden with the output of my daughter’s horse, I’m with Janis. However
You are supposed to let it compost for a bit before applying.
Scott Apr 1st 2008 at 12:24 pm 8
Hmm. I had put and around my last line, but it looks like they got parsed out. I’ll have to look them up in my html book.
Scott Apr 1st 2008 at 12:26 pm 9
That was left angle bracket quibble right angle bracket and left angle bracket /quibble right angle bracket. Sorry for cluttering things up, but otherwise this would have been a comment you don’t understand.
Michèle Apr 2nd 2008 at 01:10 am 10
I still don’t get why he’s standing behind the strategically-placed bush.
Cidu Bill Apr 2nd 2008 at 01:13 am 11
Because this isn’t Argyle Sweater?
Tristara Apr 4th 2008 at 07:27 am 12
That man hanging upside down is NOT a fool, he is depicted in the tradition of “The Hanged Man”.
The fool is typically depicted as a jester, clown, or child. The Fool is not crazy, but innocent, ignorant, or naive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_%28Tarot_card%29
The Hanged Man typically is a person who is making their own problems (he did this to himself) or a person who is making a misdirection or lie (he wants you to think there is a problem)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanged_Man_%28tarot_card%29
How does this explain the comic? He is a crybaby looking for attention, but his behavior just confirms what a whiner he really is.