The Difference
Cidu Bill on Jul 30th 2009
Directly to the Arlo Page with this one:
And here’s the bonus panel for anybody who suspects it might help.
Filed in Arlo Page, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Zach Weiner, comic strips, comics, humor | 18 responses so far
JamesK Jul 30th 2009 at 12:11 am 1
“The difference between boys and girls is that boys will have sex with anything. Har har har.”
Kelex Jul 30th 2009 at 12:12 am 2
A girl would have said “No.” Men are only interested in sex, and are not nearly so picky. At least, I THINK that’s what it’s saying.
Frank the curmudgeon Jul 30th 2009 at 12:42 am 3
Not THAT gorilla! It’s Homer Simpson before he went bald.
Kate Jul 30th 2009 at 01:07 am 4
I don’t get how this strip can be so hilarious some days, and so weak on others (well, actually I do, because is it a daily strip). JamesK summed up my feelings exactly.
Singapore Bill Jul 30th 2009 at 01:46 am 5
Kelex, agree that that is the “joke.” Fortunate for women, however, that men are not so picky or there’d be a lot more bachelors in the world.
Chuck Jul 30th 2009 at 02:10 am 6
Kate, I agree, but I find it’s worth digging through the muck to find those gems. Like the Thumb Cold War, and the 17th century explorer vs calculus.
James Jul 30th 2009 at 03:03 am 7
The bonus panel is more of an Arlo…cause it might involve “explanation” as in “why does he want the picture?”
The main comic is so obvious …I guess I’m not sure about Arlos…I thought they were comics you didn’t want to have to explain to kids…but I would be more kids would get the first one.
James Jul 30th 2009 at 03:03 am 8
would beT (typo)
yellojkt Jul 30th 2009 at 07:32 am 9
That gorilla’s face is the filthiest thing I’ve ever seen.
Tim Jul 30th 2009 at 08:49 am 10
I thought Arlos were for print comics, not web comics. Different standards of what you can get away with… actually, web comics can get away with anything.
Morris Keesan Jul 30th 2009 at 09:25 am 11
Tim, the Arlo *page* is different from the Arlo *award*. The award is for getting things past the newspaper censors, the page is just for putting things that might not be safe for work, or that you might not want your 9-year-old son to see while looking over your shoulder.
Re the comic, I almost sent this in as an LOL, specifically for the bonus panel.
Brian Jul 30th 2009 at 09:45 am 12
I agree with JamesK & Kelex about the joke & with Morris (#11) about the reaction. I thought that it was amusing, particularly the bonus panel. I also agree that S.M.B.C. sometimes falls flat. It reads, sometimes, as if the cartoonist just drew & wrote the first thing that popped into his head. His head has a high degree of weirdness & perversity, though, so the comic is often quite funny, much like BIZARRO.
Rebecca Jul 30th 2009 at 10:40 am 13
I think it means that boys love Chewbacca.
Charlene Jul 30th 2009 at 02:16 pm 14
Some of us actually discussed this yesterday. One woman claimed that the real joke wasn’t that a guy would have sex with anything, it’s that a guy would have sex with anything *as long as it was shaved*. In other words, they’d rather have a shaved gorilla than Cindy Crawford with one hair below the nape of her neck.
BGneiss Jul 30th 2009 at 04:01 pm 15
Actually, as soon as I saw this particular strip, I emailed if off to several of my male friends, because it was a good illustration to accompany a discussion we had the last time we all got together. And, by the way, they range in age from 44 to 59, and they all agreed with me.
Frank the curmudgeon Jul 30th 2009 at 06:02 pm 16
While the “Brazilian” or “Baldie” may have caught popular fancy in recent years I doubt that many would pass on Cindy. Of course, being over the hill, paunchy, and very married, I speak of the hypothetical.
cydu Jul 30th 2009 at 07:14 pm 17
I don’t get it. I mean, why does the gorilla need to be partially shaved?
ljdarten Aug 2nd 2009 at 01:07 am 18
cydu: it doesn’t take much to make a guy consider a gorilla do-able maybe?