Comics I Don’t Understand

Maybe He’s Just Looking At His Ted Williams Baseball Card

Cidu Bill on Apr 29th 2008

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, F-Minus, Tony Carrillo, comic strips, comics, cryogenics, humor, snowmen | 17 responses so far

17 Responses to “Maybe He’s Just Looking At His Ted Williams Baseball Card”

Pete Apr 29th 2008 at 12:19 am 1

He wants to preserve himself. For a snowman, embalming is not an option!
brien Apr 29th 2008 at 12:56 am 2

Cryogenics pamphlets are a snowman’s version of porn.
Powers Apr 29th 2008 at 06:59 am 3

…. they are? I don’t see that at all, brien.
brien Apr 29th 2008 at 07:36 am 4

I guess they are. I think that’s what the joke is supposed to be. Besides, snowmen don’t have a lot of options.
Dave Van Domelen Apr 29th 2008 at 08:16 am 5

Pretty straightforward, really. He’s worried about the end of winter and wants to freeze himself to stave off the reaper. Unlike with humans, it may actually work.
heather Apr 29th 2008 at 08:23 am 6

Dave has it. Cryogenics is *freezing*, so it would make sense for a snowman to consider it.
Morris Keesan Apr 29th 2008 at 08:51 am 7

I almost sent this one in as one that made me laugh out loud.
Rasheed Apr 29th 2008 at 09:18 am 8

It was an LOL for me because the talking snowperson has no visible torso (and barely noticeable bulge under the covers), so it looks like they’re just a head.
Rammy M Apr 29th 2008 at 09:36 am 9

I agree with brien. In a world where snowfolk live (and sleep with covers), a “cryogenics pamphlet” could easily show frozen bodies. Porn for snowmen.
Jeff S. Apr 29th 2008 at 10:01 am 10

I think it’s like the pamphlets you get for certain vacation spots. I mean, he’s not going to stay there forever… he’s just staying over the non-winter months. Unlike humans, cryogenics doesn’t mean “The End” to a snowman.
Ray Brady Apr 29th 2008 at 12:17 pm 11

Just to be a stickler: he’s using the wrong word. “Cryogenics” is the study of how materials behave at low temperatures. The process of freezing living organisms in the hopes of future revival is called “cryonics”.
Michael Apr 29th 2008 at 12:48 pm 12

This is a LOL for me. Forgiving the point Ray brought up, it’s like people who want to be frozen when they die in hopes that whatever ails them could be cured in the future — at which time they could be revived and cured. But it’s ironic (I hope I’m not Morrisetting that word) in the case of a snowman since what ails him is the heat of spring and the cryogenics/cryonics would be the cure itself.
dd Apr 29th 2008 at 04:33 pm 13

I think Jeff wins. And that actually makes it funny for me…
Winter Wallaby Apr 29th 2008 at 05:34 pm 14

I get the comic just fine. Now will someone explain Bill’s title for me?
Kit Apr 29th 2008 at 05:45 pm 15

@WW There was a big to-do about whether Ted Williams body would be frozen or not. Quite the legal battle amongst his heirs over it, too.
Pinny Apr 29th 2008 at 09:26 pm 16

Re: Winter Wallaby (#14) & Kit (#15)

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Williams:
A public dispute over the disposition of Williams’s body was waged after his death. Announcing there would be no funeral,[13] his son John-Henry Williams had Ted’s body flown to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, where the head was separated from the body and both placed individually into cryonic suspension.[14]
Elliott Apr 30th 2008 at 09:25 am 17

It doesn’t make much sense, they’re both frigid!