1-800-CIDU
Cidu Bill on Oct 14th 2009
Just wondering… Why is this specific scenario taken for granted by both Hi and the garbage man. Not that I particularly see the gag here in any case. Actually, if I were Hi, I’d be less concerned that one of the neighbors had a divorce lawyer’s business card than the fact that the garbage man sifts through everybody’s garbage thoroughly enough to find that business card.
Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Hi and Lois, comic strips, comics, humor | 13 responses so far
The Bad Seed Oct 14th 2009 at 01:27 am 1
Yeah, trash isn’t private property anymore at some point between when you place it at the curb and when the trash man takes it, but there’s some implied trust there. Stuff outside the bag/can is fair game, but the anything in the bag or can should remain private. Do I want him sitting on my curb and rummaging through my bag, scattering my assorted trash and feminine hygene about and showing my neighbors? Yeesh, I may never put my trash out again!
furrykef Oct 14th 2009 at 01:55 am 2
I think that the garbage man cared enough to find it is part of the gag. Though it could have just been sitting there in plain sight for all we know.
Frank the curmudgeon Oct 14th 2009 at 03:02 am 3
Isn’t it (wasn’t it) a convention that there were no secrets from the trash man nor the operator back in the days of the party line?
cydu Oct 14th 2009 at 04:06 am 4
I’m just wondering too … How many staff meetings do you suppose it took before the principals at Browne Amalgamated Industries agreed that “divorce” was a sufficiently scandalous replacement for whatever perversity appeared in the original draft of the strip?
Mitch4 Oct 14th 2009 at 07:21 am 5
Is that -555- in the right place?
Powers Oct 14th 2009 at 07:53 am 6
Sure, it’s the area code.
Nicole Oct 14th 2009 at 08:04 am 7
So….. what exactly is funny about invasion of privacy and divorce? If I didn’t know better, I would say that one of Dean’s modified comics made it into syndication.
Ron Oct 14th 2009 at 08:21 am 8
Even ignoring the privacy concerns, the joke falls flat.
It’s not the divorce lawyar card in the trash that’s
significant; it’s one that’s *not* in the trash.
Pinny Oct 14th 2009 at 10:36 am 9
Why assume that it was the wife who had the card — maybe the wife should think about treating her husband better, because HE was the one with the card?
Or maybe the neighbor is divorce lawyer him/herself and this is just an extra card of his that was thrown out by mistake?
Or maybe the trashman (and Hi) should be reassured because the neighbor threw the card away rather than kept it? Obviously he/she does not need or want it.
Scott Oct 14th 2009 at 10:58 am 10
We know one of HI’s neighbors is a lazy bum, so is the trash his or from the other neighbor, who I don’t think we ever met.
David N Oct 14th 2009 at 07:52 pm 11
Aside from the other things mentioned, I just can’t get past Hi’s 5 o’clock shadow.
Frank the curmudgeon Oct 14th 2009 at 08:15 pm 12
It’s probably first light in the morning and Hi probably just got up to take out the trash. It’s a 5AM o’clock shadow.
Lindz Oct 16th 2009 at 01:04 pm 13
Yeah, Hi’s 5 o’clock shadow looks like he fell asleep on a grill…