LOL-December 14
Cidu Bill on Dec 14th 2009
Nicole:
Janice Rey:
Sal Biondo:
Jon Delfin: The Brevity will especially resonate with musicians. Unfortunately, we also will be aware that the piano is ridiculously out of scale (too small), has the curved indent on the wrong side, and has one too many legs.
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lisa Dec 14th 2009 at 06:55 am 1
What is that last strip? I can’t quite make the name out…
Powers Dec 14th 2009 at 07:24 am 2
I’m a musician but a) probably wouldn’t have noticed the piano errors, and b) don’t get the joke, unless it’s just the absurdity of having a rule against kangaroos.
Heather D Dec 14th 2009 at 08:16 am 3
I definitely would notice the piano errors, it’s a pet peeve of mine. Along with trombone errors. (Really, how hard is it to draw a trombone correctly? Apparently, it’s surprisingly hard). But those are my instruments so I’m primed. That comic is mildly amusing, but I wouldn’t say it ‘resonated’ with me.
Anyway, I was actually considering sending in the chicken-in-the-throat one as a CIDU. Is there a pun there I’m missing? Or is it just the absurdity of the doctor not noticing this big chicken sticking out of his mouth? If that’s all it is, it’s not all that LOL-worthy.
Kamino Neko Dec 14th 2009 at 08:33 am 4
Lisa - it’s the New Adventures of Queen Victoria. http://www.gocomics.com/thenewadventuresofqueenvictoria
Nicole Dec 14th 2009 at 08:44 am 5
Heather — the tickle is from the chicken feathers
And the piano is not necessarily out of scale .. there are many small kangaroos
lisa Dec 14th 2009 at 09:03 am 6
thanks, Kamino Neko– looks almost sort of possibly maybe perhaps slightly somewhat just a tad interesting… in theory
Heather D Dec 14th 2009 at 09:33 am 7
Nicole — so that means the joke is just that the doctor isn’t noticing the chicken. Like I said, not really funny.
Morris Keesan Dec 14th 2009 at 09:38 am 8
Heather D: Yes, and flutes either held on the wrong side of the body, or with both hands on the same side of the flute. And woodwinds in general, with the hands in the wrong relationship (left hand closer to the mouth, right hand farther away [which is left hand on top, except for transverse flutes]).
furrykef Dec 14th 2009 at 10:33 am 9
The Get Fuzzy one made me chuckle twice: once because Bucky thought rock-paper-scissors applied to the real world… and again when I realized Bucky got the rule backwards.
John DiFool Dec 14th 2009 at 11:18 am 10
Never realized, until she put the helmet on, just how much Queen Victoria looks like George S. Patton…
David Dec 14th 2009 at 12:02 pm 11
John DiFool - No one has ever seen Q.V. and Patton together…
Izzy Dec 14th 2009 at 02:12 pm 12
I get the feeling that cute little Marcus hates crazy ass Dill.
Keera Dec 14th 2009 at 04:41 pm 13
To all you folks thinking the doc’s the dumb one: It ain’t just the doctor not noticing the chicken. The patient describes his problem as an annoying tickle. (And we may all describe the comic as such, too.
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Furrykef, nice catch! I missed the rule error.
Izzy, that’s Dill being happy about being a head cold germ. And who can blame him? Snowflakes don’t have half the fun germs do!
Todd Dec 14th 2009 at 04:49 pm 14
While I find these funny on a mild level, none are laugh out loud.
What’s with abstinence in the tags? Not even the Bizarro is about abstinence. The preacher isn’t saying anything about not sinning, just about being truly repentant. The parishioner can go out and sin all he wants, he just has to feel guilty about it afterward. Isn’t that why most Christians are Catholics?
Todd Dec 14th 2009 at 04:50 pm 15
How is the patient telling the doctor what his problem is? How is he talking past the chicken in his mouth? For that matter, how do you get a chicken in your mouth?
Keera Dec 14th 2009 at 04:57 pm 16
How, Todd? I don’t know. I just read the caption.
R Rolls Dec 15th 2009 at 12:02 am 17
It’s a left handed piano of course! They have those down under.
LostInTarnation Dec 15th 2009 at 04:30 am 18
I wouldn’t have noticed the four legs on the piano if it hadn’t been pointed out. But then again, nobody noticed “There was a lot of unique performances?” Aargh! Subject-verb agreement are important.
Hello it's Me Dec 15th 2009 at 10:09 am 19
The 4 legs is just one of the piano errors aluded to. On a piano the longer strings are the lower notes - and are on the left side of the piano, so it’s drawn backwards.
paperboy Dec 15th 2009 at 01:44 pm 20
It’s not backwards; it’s a piano for lefties.
Naomi Dec 15th 2009 at 02:15 pm 21
@furrykef: Bucky getting the rock/paper rule backwards is actually a continuation from an earlier strip: he askrf Rob, since scissors beat paper and rock beats scissors, why doesn’t rock beat paper? (as you’d expect from an ordinary mathematical/logical equation.) That got me thinking all kinds of zen thoughts….
@LostIntarnation - FWIW, I did notice “there was a lot of unique performances” and it bugged the heck out of me!
Naomi Dec 15th 2009 at 02:16 pm 22
Sigh…. “askrf” –> “asked”. Darn misregistered touch-typing.
furrykef Dec 15th 2009 at 10:43 pm 23
The Get Fuzzy one made me chuckle twice: once because Bucky thought rock-paper-scissors applied to the real world… and again when I realized Bucky got the rule backwards.
Derek Dec 16th 2009 at 04:25 pm 24
LostInTarnation:
“But then again, nobody noticed “There was a lot of unique performances?” Aargh! Subject-verb agreement are important.”
They agree in this case. “A lot” is singular. Ergo, there *was* a lot.