Comments on: Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud the Last Week in June

By: Kevin Andresen

Kevin Andresen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:29:09 +0000

Julie, yes.

Bikini tops have been like this for decades. I know that some women that I tango with have them on because I see the straps going up the front and their open shoulder dress only has material around the neck; I feel the rest of it going under the fabric that starts down from the lower part of her shoulder blades.

The cartoonist doesn’t show an adjustment; this has me curious about whether the whole thing could be comfortable with an elastic over-the-neck strap.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:06:59 +0000

Does Kevin mean a bra for a halter top, where the one strap would go behind the neck? I’ve had a couple of bras that can do that.

By: Sari Everna

Sari Everna — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:33:28 +0000

I’ve never heard of one strap bras, either, although it would make sense for them to exist. You’d probably have to try a lingere store or something.

And the manequin’s bra has two straps. The second is visible, although not necessarily as obvious as you might expect.

I really liked the zen garden one.

By: Lola

Lola — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:51:03 +0000

Kevin, I’m female and NEVER heard of this. I’m not saying they don’t exist and heck they probably do, but, WOW, I’m really impressed with your knowledge of the arcane fashion paraphernalia and curious of it’s source too.

By: Kevin Andresen

Kevin Andresen — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:28:06 +0000

I think the woman with the bra has unwittingly put it on wrong (John DiFool, option #3) because she has never experienced one with the single strap around the neck (to match certain dresses). There’s a similar bra on the mannequin in back.

By: eeyore19

eeyore19 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:05:48 +0000

John Lennon had a song called “Two Minutes of Silence” which was later “covered” as “One Minute of Silence” by Soundgarden.

By: Morris Keesan

Morris Keesan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:12:05 +0000

John DiFool, the bra cartoon is a reference to an old ad campaign for a bra which “lifts and separates”.

I was thinking similar things as other posters about 4′33″. It’s too bad the cartoonist felt the need to over-explain this; I think it would have been much funnier with the correct title, making the reader think a little bit.

By: Ladybird

Ladybird — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:44:31 +0000

That should be “…tending…”, of course.

By: Ladybird

Ladybird — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:43:50 +0000

Yup, the monk is tanding his Zen Garden, and the aliens are responding via crop circle. And I definitely LOL’d at the flying pigs and the aliens baiting the fishermen with beer.

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:39:56 +0000

I’m a pianist and I actually performed 4′33″ once (back in college) but the audience didn’t really “get” it the way heather did, probably because I’m not the best performer for the piece. You know the old joke where the prisoners know all the jokes by number? Someone says “356″ and everyone laughs. The new guy memorizes the joke book and then says “741″ and nobody laughs. “Some people can tell a joke, some can’t” explains the old-timer. 4′33″ is like that: some people can play or sing it, some can’t.

The notation is graphical. It’s in three movements and for each movement there’s a line marking the beginning and a line marking the end. The distance between the lines corresponds to the length of the movement, in addition to the exact timing being written after the end line. There is a page turn in the third movement. I turned the page at the proper time. Maybe I should have memorized the piece.