Friday Morning Ewww

Cidu Bill on Dec 11th 2009

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Janice Rey:

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Nicole:
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Laurie B. Wylie:
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Filed in Bill Bickel, Brevity, Calvin and Hobbes, Close to Home, Dave Blazek, Ewww, Guy & Rodd, John McPherson, Loose Parts, comic strips, comics, humor | 18 responses so far

18 Responses to “Friday Morning Ewww”

  1. Tim Dec 10th 2009 at 11:21 pm 1

    Loose Parts is gross. Funny, but gross. Imagine having to sort it, to get enough to match…

  2. TasmanSea Dec 10th 2009 at 11:44 pm 2

    What a great set of Ewws! In the last one, I like how the people who ate their sled-dogs are a little tubby- obviously they didn’t have to be very close to starvation before they revised their attitudes towards pets….

  3. chuckers Dec 11th 2009 at 05:20 am 3

    Maybe their winterized clothes make them *look* tubby? Although TasmanSea’s explanation works too.

  4. David Dec 11th 2009 at 09:39 am 4

    In fifth grade we read a book called “The Iceberg Hermit” (IIRC), in which a white guy gets stranded from a wrecked whaling ship and lives with Inuits for some years. He and his Inuit buddy get stranded, and kill the weakest dog as food for themselves (and the other dogs). They’re holding out hope that the storm will stop, the iceberg will hit land, or whatever the problem was, and they’ll still have enough dogs left to pull the sled home. By the time they get free, they’ve made soup from the bones and sinews in the sled and are chewing on their parkas. Great introduction to harsh reality for 5th graders.

    Then there’s what the lunatic does with the sled dogs in “Cavalier and Clay”.

  5. mkilby Dec 11th 2009 at 10:09 am 5

    According to Bill Watterson, today’s reprint was once responsble for getting Calvin and Hobbes dropped from a newspaper that had been running the strip for less than a week.

  6. Ian Osmond Dec 11th 2009 at 11:43 am 6

    In Anne Fadiman’s essay, “My Odd Shelf”, in her collection of essays Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, she discusses how much she likes the stories of the Victorian British Arctic and Antarctic explorers — the ones who died a lot. She writes,

    THe successful explorers — Roald Amundsen, for example, the ultrapragmatic Norwegian who sledged 830 miles to the South Pole, killed and ate his sled dogs on a strict schedule, and sledged miles back again without the slightest touch of fristbite, scurvy, or snow blindness, though one of his four companions did get a toothache — don’t hold much interest for me. “Of course they don’t,” said George. “You’re a romantic. What’s romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and getting there?”

    So, at least once, an arctic explorer PLANNED to eat his sled dogs. And it worked.

  7. Ian Osmond Dec 11th 2009 at 11:45 am 7

    That last sentence was intended to be outside the blockquote — Fadiman’s quote ends with “getting there?”

  8. Kamino Neko Dec 11th 2009 at 12:13 pm 8

    I’m not sure what’s ‘eew’ about the telescope one.

    (And while I can understand the ‘ew’ness of the sled dog one, I don’t agree.)

  9. Keera Dec 11th 2009 at 12:36 pm 9

    Loose Parts is a LOL for me.

  10. Michael Dec 11th 2009 at 03:18 pm 10

    Isn’t the telescope one Peter Walder’s “Flight Deck”? It’s not listed in the tags…

    And why is that one in the Ewww category anyway?

  11. Mark in Boston Dec 11th 2009 at 04:31 pm 11

    Maybe if you took sled pigs or sled cows instead of sled dogs …

  12. The Bad Seed Dec 11th 2009 at 08:19 pm 12

    @Kamino Neko - Do you have pets? Certain people used to tease me about cooking my parrot (wings, drumsticks, etc), and although I eventually learned to laugh along, I always found it as gross as talking about cooking and eating your own children.

  13. Kamino Neko Dec 11th 2009 at 09:10 pm 13

    Like I said, I UNDERSTAND the ‘ew’ reaction, I just disagree.

    As sad as it’s always made me to lose a pet…they’re still animals, not humans. Eating them would not be equivalent to cannibalism.

  14. Carolyn Dec 12th 2009 at 09:34 am 14

    Did anyone else think Bad Seed (#12) actually did cook his/her parrot?! It took me a long time to realize what he/she meant!

  15. Matthew Dec 12th 2009 at 10:10 am 15

    Carolyn, I, too, read Bad Seed’s remark twice. He/She apparently hasn’t yet cooked the parrot, and I don’t think that there would be much meat there, anyway.

    This is a funny set of cartoons, particularly the LOOSE PARTS, CLOSE TO HOME, & Guy & Rodd’s. I love how the dogs are realizing their possible fate.

  16. David A. Rooney Dec 12th 2009 at 09:28 pm 16

    “He’s pining for the fjords!”

  17. Matthew Dec 12th 2009 at 09:47 pm 17

    Yes, Carolyn, I had to read Bad Seed’s remark twice. Parrots, though, probably don’t make good eating. Some of these were quite good, particularly the LOOSE PARTS, the CLOSE TO HOME, & the BREVITY. I love the thoughts that must surround the dogs’ observation. They may decide that it is eat or be eaten.

  18. Dan Dec 13th 2009 at 08:05 pm 18

    I thought these were all funny… but I too don’t see what’s grossgusting about the telescope one. Maybe because I’m nearer to the dad’s age than to the kid’s age.

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