LOLabor Day
Cidu Bill on Sep 7th 2009
Chuck:
Lola: this would have been perfect for mothers’ day
Sal Biondo:
Filed in Bill Bickel, Bizarro, Dan Piraro, Dilbert, F-Minus, Hilary B. Price, Jerry Scott, Retail, Rhymes With Orange, Rina Piccolo, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Scott Adams, Tony Carrillo, Zach Weiner, Zits, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol, media | 29 responses so far
Kelly F. Sep 7th 2009 at 12:09 am 1
He’s a ‘praying’ mantis.
Mitch4 Sep 7th 2009 at 02:49 am 2
The “Retail” was a severe Ewwww for me.
chuckers Sep 7th 2009 at 04:59 am 3
>He’s a ‘praying’ mantis.
With an Oedipus complex, apparently. Ewww for me.
Kamino Neko Sep 7th 2009 at 05:05 am 4
The SMBC cracked me up…so very true.
furrykef Sep 7th 2009 at 05:07 am 5
I agree with Mitch. I actually said “oh no” out loud as soon as I got it.
Probably the biggest Eww I’ve seen here in a long time, in fact.
sciencereported Sep 7th 2009 at 08:28 am 6
As a scientist who’s dealt with media many times, that one is absolutely true. I’m convinced they intentionally train reporters in little sealed boxes so they don’t learn anything else about the world.
Powers Sep 7th 2009 at 08:30 am 7
the Retail strip was not a huge ewww for me, but only because it’s at least the third reference I’ve seen in the last couple of weeks to treating the change room as a toilet.
Dan Sep 7th 2009 at 11:46 am 8
I have to admit I didn’t get the Retail one until I read the comments here. I don’t follow the strip, so I figured the person had used a changing room and left their own clothes there (i.e., stole the clothes). But apparently they took a dump, and it looks like clothes? (Guess I still don’t get it.) And why wouldn’t the receptionist-person there not immediately know there were no restrooms on that floor?
Fandango Sep 7th 2009 at 12:12 pm 9
“Aaaargh”? I think he means “Arrr!”
Dan: She mistook the changing room for a restroom. I think that’s pretty much all there is to it.
GymJustice Sep 7th 2009 at 12:56 pm 10
I love how women complain about not meeting anyone and end up old and single, yet they behave all uppity like in the Dilbert skit.
Adam F Sep 7th 2009 at 03:36 pm 11
“I love how women complain about not meeting anyone and end up old and single, yet they behave all uppity like in the Dilbert skit.”
That’s a pretty broad and sexist brush. While it made me laugh because there are people out there like that woman, I think reasonable people think “what a jerk!” not “all women are shallow.”
Dan Sep 7th 2009 at 04:27 pm 12
I kind of figured that was all to it, but it still doesn’t make any sense. Who would mistake a changing room for a restroom?
Chuck Sep 7th 2009 at 11:54 pm 13
Someone who really needed to go.
furrykef Sep 8th 2009 at 02:47 am 14
I agree with Dan: it doesn’t make sense. There’s nothing that even vaguely resembles a toilet in any changing room I’ve ever seen.
chuckers Sep 8th 2009 at 05:30 am 15
Re: Retail
Maybe those are REALLY think glasses (think Mr. Magoo level) and SHE is the
one that … uh … left something behind.
Likely, perhaps.
Powers Sep 8th 2009 at 06:39 am 16
It’s a pretty common trope to have someone go into a changing room and find a neighbor knocking on the wall and asking for toilet paper. It has to do with the resemblance in shapes.
Then there’s stuff like this: http://notalwaysright.com/a-time-to-laugh-but-mostly-a-time-to-cry/2162
Dan Sep 8th 2009 at 06:53 am 17
Resemblance in shapes? I haven’t been in a changing room in some time, but are there items in a changing room that are the same shape as a toilet?
Particularly odd about this one is the first woman calling it “a bunch of clothes.” If someone had used the changing room as a bathroom, why would this person mistake a pile of poop for a pile of clothes? For that matter, why would she mistake a changing room for a bathroom…
furrykef Sep 8th 2009 at 08:55 am 18
I don’t think anybody’s mistaking a pile of poop for a pile of clothes. The pile of clothes is, in fact, a pile of clothes. The only reason the pile of clothes figures into the story is so the customer has something to tell the receptionist (or whatever her job title is). Otherwise she wouldn’t say anything and we’d never know she mistook the changing room for a bathroom.
- Kef
furrykef Sep 8th 2009 at 08:56 am 19
…and, I might add, most of us would be happier.
Mitch4 Sep 8th 2009 at 09:08 am 20
@Dan and others — Yes, there’s something a bit implausible about the encounter in “Retail”. But some of that implausibility comes from taking the customer as a confused innocent, and diminishes when we realize she’s the culprit — as Powers’s link suggests. I like furrykef’s elucidation of the apparent backstory (so to speak). I would add that possibly she was taken short and was in a panic, and knew what she was doing but thought she had to anyway. She wants to report it so the store can do a cleanup (rather than leaving it to another customer to discover), but won’t make a full confession and instead comes up with this somewhat inane remark.
Dan Sep 8th 2009 at 09:20 am 21
Well, Powers’ links suggests that sort of thing has happened before, but it certainly doesn’t show that that’s what’s happening here. (It’s possible that’s what the artist intended, but to me it’s clear as mud.) I’m also not sure that we’re supposed to think that the customer is the culprit. We could, but I just don’t know. All of which makes it less of a LOL for me, but if people got this right off the bat, I’m sure it was all sorts of funny!
Tim Sep 8th 2009 at 09:32 am 22
Dilbert reminds me of the “I Am Rich” app, that did nothing but glitter and attract attention to itself. Those who knew of the $999 price tag on it would presumably have been impressed by the sheer amount of money and hubris involved.
Would that woman have been impressed with that app?
Karen Sep 8th 2009 at 12:33 pm 23
I used to work in a Woolworth’s, in the ladies’ clothing department. We had changing rooms…and yes, they did get “mistaken” for restrooms on occasion. We found wet patches on the carpet, and actually the candy aisle one day got mistaken for a restroom as well. We had to call the stockroom guy out with the mop, because somebody found a large, human turd on the floor.
Humans are disgusting creatures sometimes.
Gary Sep 8th 2009 at 12:41 pm 24
I saw that Bizarro in the paper and thought “aren’t they known for eating their _mates_?”, which immediately moved that one into the Ewww category for me.
Vroshnak Sep 8th 2009 at 01:23 pm 25
Wait… is GymJustice, with his comment and his name, purposefully trying to sound like the dweeb who went into the gym and killed lots of ladies a couple of months ago? If so, how tasteless!
Jeff S. Sep 8th 2009 at 01:41 pm 26
@Karen… I used to work in the stockroom of a JCPenney’s while in college. One day, I got called to show up at the entrance of the store with a mop. We had an elderly gentleman go in his pants, and apparently it slipped out of his underwear, down his pants leg, and onto the floor, where he promptly stepped in it and tracked it through the entire store.
I can’t begin to describe the fun I had at that job… really, I can’t. Ever.
Todd Sep 8th 2009 at 04:01 pm 27
Re: Retail: The lady should have been portrayed in a way that suggested she was a recent immigrant from a poor country, then it might have made more sense for her to mistake the changing room for a restroom. And that is what happened, otherwise she would have said someone had an accident in the changing room.
My question is, who discovered the leavings and is asking for clean-up assistance? One would think the customer would notify the first employee she came across.
Eric L Sep 9th 2009 at 11:37 pm 28
I can assure that the RETAIL strip is not far fetched at all. It’s only happened in my store once (that I know of), but it has happened. I agree it makes no sense, but when there’s a pile of shit laying on the bench in the fitting room there’s no denying the reality of the situation.
scott Sep 14th 2009 at 09:20 am 29
The Zits has a second joke:
There is a pretty good size Eiffel Tower replica at King’s Island near Cincinnati, where Jim Borgman is an editorial cartoonist. It’s 1/3 scale, but that’s still 350′ tall. But I don’t think Jeremy could get his van to it without running over quite a few people.