Comments on: Ziggy’s Toaster

By: eeyore19

eeyore19 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:20:51 +0000

Clearly it’s a complimentary toaster.

By: Scott Strehlow

Scott Strehlow — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:11:26 +0000

I agree that the toaster is making a toast. I was originally thinking vulcanize = hot (i.e. curing rubber with heat) and toasters are hot, so they must be Vulcans.

My aunt has a Toastmaster pop-up that she got as a wedding present about 50 years ago. She is still using it daily. I think it has had the plug replaced once or twice. Otherwise it works as well now as when it was new.

One of her refrigerators is that old too. I don’t remember what brand it is.

By: Rainey

Rainey — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:36:19 +0000

I think this strip is referring to the fact that sci-fi shows used ordinary objects and tools to represent futuristic items. ie- cheese graters used as communicators, Christmas lights used as starry skies.

By: Gus Johansen

Gus Johansen — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:27:54 +0000

Damn you, Ziggy. Damn you.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:51:20 +0000

Okay then. Revised to read: Tom Wilson is insane, and believes that inanimate objects spewing non sequiturs are “hilarious”.

By: Powers

Powers — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:08:23 +0000

Aaron, the part that’s confusing is that the artist picked a very well known phrase from Star Trek for the toaster’s dialog, apropos of apparently nothing.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:49:18 +0000

Ziggy is insane and believes inanimate objects are speaking to him.

What’s not to understand?

By: Kevin Andresen

Kevin Andresen — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:16:14 +0000

Maybe it’s just me (and I think a toaster toast *is* the joke), but when I toast, it’s a welcoming in, a celebration of an image of the future; it’s not some wishful command such as “fare well” or “live long and prosper”. I’d say (okay, I wouldn’t say except I do know one couple that got married in Star Fleet uniforms), “may you live long and prosper”; that’s a toast. You know, “to life”, “to happiness”, “to beer”, that sort of sentiment. So, for me, this good idea implementation isn’t funny.

“I raise my glass to toast.”

By: Lola

Lola — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:30:26 +0000

Reminds me of the toaster on Red Dwarf.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:12:46 +0000

NiChrome - Closer to $100 (gold @ $700 vs $35) but the damn things worked and lasted 20+ years.

The inhuman TOASTMASTER making a nonhuman toast.