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

By: Elliott

Elliott — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:25:29 +0000

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

By: Pinny

Pinny — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:26:07 +0000

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]

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:45:13 +0000

@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.

By: Winter Wallaby

Winter Wallaby — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:34:44 +0000

I get the comic just fine. Now will someone explain Bill’s title for me?

By: dd

dd — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:33:20 +0000

I think Jeff wins. And that actually makes it funny for me…

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:48:20 +0000

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.

By: Ray Brady

Ray Brady — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:17:18 +0000

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”.

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:01:51 +0000

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.

By: Rammy M

Rammy M — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:36:17 +0000

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.

By: Rasheed

Rasheed — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:18:11 +0000

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.