Saturday Afternoon Ewww
Cidu Bill on Jul 18th 2009
Nicole:
yellojkt: Ewwww! Let’s hope that diaper is leakproof
Filed in Bill Bickel, Close to Home, Ewww, John McPherson, Real Life Adventures, baseball, comic strips, comics, humor | 13 responses so far
Keera Jul 18th 2009 at 12:29 pm 1
RLA is a LOL for me more than a ewww.
That's Me Jul 18th 2009 at 11:16 pm 2
Honestly, I thought the first one was going to be something about the unfortunate fullness of the catcher’s pants before I read the caption.
Mitch4 Jul 19th 2009 at 06:43 am 3
I also didn’t quite see the joke in the baseball one … because it’s just realistic. Thw fielding team is out there all inning long with no privacy, so there’s a polite fiction that the spectators don’t notice them “adjusting their clothing” and so on. TV cameras no longer bother with strict discretion over that.
Making him the pitcher muddies the waters a little. The pitcher isn’t supposed to, say, run his fingers through his hair, since that may be a way of getting a foreign subs
Mitch4 Jul 19th 2009 at 06:48 am 4
(woops)
Making him the pitcher muddies the waters a little. The pitcher isn’t supposed to, say, run his fingers through his hair, since that may be a way of getting a foreign substance onto the ball; and picking his nose might (ewww) count the same. But it reads more like the cartoonist wanted to substitute something for “scratch your balls”.
yellojkt Jul 19th 2009 at 09:16 am 5
The RLA also made me laugh, but I worry about the parenting skills of a dad that doesn’t immediately change the diaper of a tot with a full load on his shoulder.
padraig Jul 19th 2009 at 11:28 am 6
Some pitchers throw 100+ pitches a game. If he picks his nose before EVERY pitch, he better have a good otolaryngologist on call. Or at least a couple of tampons to stop up his bloody nose. Which also wouldn’t look so good on national TV, what with the strings and all…
Rainey Jul 19th 2009 at 12:36 pm 7
Mitch4, the cartoonist could simply have used the word “crotch” instead of “balls” in order to get it past the editors.
Keera Jul 19th 2009 at 12:54 pm 8
Padraig, medical tampons don’t have strings attached.
anaceofkidneys Jul 19th 2009 at 05:38 pm 9
So the child’s stench is so foul that it’s literally burning the father’s eyes? That’s lovely. I’m SO glad I have cats instead.
Jeff S. Jul 20th 2009 at 10:31 am 10
Oh yeah… Cats never stink up anything.
Scott Jul 20th 2009 at 12:34 pm 11
The baseball strip reminds me of an early Bill Cosby routine, about playing football for Temple. The story was about a televised game, where the players were warned before going out “do not touch certain areas of your body on the football field.” The expected happens to him.
anaceofkidneys Jul 20th 2009 at 08:25 pm 12
At least cats crap in designated areas and have the decency to cover it up.
Snardo Aug 6th 2009 at 10:23 am 13
WRT the baseball strip:
Hmm. Maybe that’s why some pitchers hold up their glove in front of their face before most pitches.