Comics I Don’t Understand

I see the glasses as being half synchronous

Cidu Bill on Aug 11th 2009

Filed in Bill Bickel, Bizarro, Dan Piraro, Mike Peters, Mother Goose, comic strips, comics, humor, synchronicity | 10 responses so far

10 Responses to “I see the glasses as being half synchronous”

Marshal Aug 11th 2009 at 02:56 pm 1

I never have quite understood the single spectacle as used in the
Bizarro comic. Why would anyone use a eye glass like this. I could see
it being used like a magnifying glass but then you wouldn’t walk around
with it all the time.

As for the comic.
Does he have perfect vision in one eye and bad vision
in the other? If so doesn’t that mean he is currently seeing the
glass as sharp with both eyes. And if he has bad vision in both eyes
why not where regular eye glasses.
Sari Everna Aug 11th 2009 at 04:59 pm 2

Marshal, I believe you answered the question in your first part in your second part. Monocles are for people with vision impairment in only one eye, although today we’d probably just put an unadjusted lens for the other eye in a normal pair of glasses. I’ve also seen the monocle brought out only occasionally, like reading glasses, to better see things close up, hence why one would have it around all the time even if you don’t need it all the time; you don’t know whether or not you will today.

And as for the comic, the pirate can only see through one eye, hence seeing “half” a glass, and the assumption for the aristocrat is as you were making before; that he needs correction for both eyes. Since he’s only getting it for one, he sees half of it as blurry. Of course, that’s not quite how eyes work, each seeing one half, but I think we can let it slide for the joke.

Also, monocles are stylish and very upper class.
Marshal Aug 11th 2009 at 07:50 pm 3

Monocle. I knew a was messing up the name.

The only place I’ve seen these is in old movies and TV shows.
Colonel Klink wore one in Hogan’s Heroes. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen
one in at least one old comic strip as well.

And yes I think we do sometimes over analyze these comics. 8^)
Taquelli Aug 12th 2009 at 12:37 am 4

Why is Abraham Lincoln hitting on a pirate? And wearing a monocle?
Cidu Bill Aug 12th 2009 at 12:39 am 5

The monocle is a disguise, Taquelli. I mean seriously, how would it look if people saw the president hitting on a pirate?
Pinny Aug 12th 2009 at 01:15 pm 6

Suggested alternate title for this post:

Synch-full of half-glasses
Cidu Bill Aug 12th 2009 at 01:40 pm 7

Pinny, that’s at least a million times better than the one I used!
Bob in Nashville Aug 12th 2009 at 07:55 pm 8

The monocle concept hits close to home for me because I’m nearsighted and need to remove my glasses to read. Therefore, when I asked my optometrist about contact lenses I would only get them for one eye so I could see at a distance with that eye and read with the other. One actually can adapt to such a situation, but I wouldn’t want to operate a vehicle like that.

Better to just remove glasses or wear bifocals.
Bob in Nashville Aug 12th 2009 at 08:00 pm 9

Marshal, the joke is that with a monocle on only one eye, then only one eye could see clearly, therefore the glass was half blurry to him whereas it was half empty to the guy with an eye patch.
Mitch4 Aug 12th 2009 at 09:14 pm 10

My French uncle had one of those. … …

Yes, I well recall le monocle de mon oncle.