Noelol’s

Cidu Bill on Dec 25th 2009

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36 Responses to “Noelol’s”

  1. tiffman Dec 25th 2009 at 01:19 pm 1

    doc ellington? you mean duke?

  2. Elyrest Dec 25th 2009 at 01:55 pm 2

    tiffman - I think that’s part of the joke. Gene (the son) doesn’t really know the difference between Duke Ellington and Doc Severenson (can’t think of another Doc).

  3. Rasheed Dec 25th 2009 at 06:56 pm 3

    That MacGyver one reminds me more about SAW, especially the way the rightmost cookie is positioned. The milk won’t melt the candy cane (for some reason) in time, but it WILL melt through gingerbread to make their escape.

  4. Frank the curmudgeon Dec 25th 2009 at 07:06 pm 4

    @Elyrest the first part was Duke Ellington being originally on CDs. I don’t think they existed during his lifetime.

  5. Elyrest Dec 25th 2009 at 07:18 pm 5

    Frank the curmudgeon - I got that. I was responding to tiffman questioning the Duke/Doc. I figured he understood the rest of the joke.

  6. Eric Dec 25th 2009 at 08:10 pm 6

    Haha, I love when Comics I Don’t Understand turns into Comments I Don’t Understand.

  7. Cornbread Dec 25th 2009 at 09:34 pm 7

    The “Ask Me About Your Grandkids” one is a CIDU for me.

  8. jp Dec 25th 2009 at 09:43 pm 8

    Cornbread: The usual bumper sticker says “Ask me about my grandkids”. However, since Santa sees you when you’re sleeping, and keeps himself busy making a list…

    -jp

  9. Cornbread Dec 25th 2009 at 09:56 pm 9

    Oh. I’ve never seen that bumper sticker before; doesn’t seem to make sense though - behind someone’s car in the middle of traffic isn’t the time to strike up a conversation about anything, let alone a stranger’s grandchildren who may or not be totally uninteresting to you.

  10. Usual John Dec 25th 2009 at 11:38 pm 10

    So how do the gingerbread men make their escape?

  11. Kamino Neko Dec 26th 2009 at 04:04 am 11

    Stab Santa in the eye with the candy cane, which they’ve sharpened to a point by dissolving the end in the milk, and rubbing it, using the note to protect their hands from the milk.

  12. Elyrest Dec 26th 2009 at 12:39 pm 12

    Kamino Neko - Very good. You have an evil side I see.

    Cornbread - Seriously? You think people who put bumperstickers on their cars are actually asking you to talk to them then? I think you are pulling the proverbial leg. Bumperstickers are for their owners to brag, to lecture, to promote, to be silly to be a moving billboard, if you will, of whatever a person feels the need to say or do. I myself have never put one on my car, but I have enjoyed many that I seen.

  13. Cornbread Dec 26th 2009 at 01:43 pm 13

    Elyrest - sorry if I’m coming off as a killjoy, but just informing the general population that you have grandchildren doesn’t seem to me to count as bragging, lecturing, promoting, or being silly, unless you have something specific to say about them. I would understand if it was a funny joke, since something doesn’t have to make sense if it’s just a joke, but honestly, I don’t see it as funny.

    I hope I won’t be vilified for that; too often I get people jumping down my throat just for asking about a joke that didn’t make sense to me, saying that by asking about it I “ruined” the joke. I thought that on this site, which is explicitly devoted to asking and answering such questions, I would at least get some slack on that front.

  14. Jon88 Dec 26th 2009 at 01:44 pm 14

    Duke/Doc — don’t overthink it. The kid just got the name wrong.

  15. Mark M Dec 26th 2009 at 02:22 pm 15

    The whole “Ask me about…” expression is normally seen on a salesperson’s tag, as in “Ask me about our Bacon Cheeseburger” at a fast food place, which IS a form of bragging or promoting it. The bumper stickers that substitute ‘grandkids’ are a humorous attempt to parody those tags and give grandparents a chance to brag. Now Santa has taken that gag a step further.

  16. Karen Dec 26th 2009 at 03:13 pm 16

    I’m going to go on record as finding the Santa bumpersticker one kind of creepy. I don’t know why, but i found Santa creepy when i was a kid, the idea of a strange dude coming in the house when everybody was sleeping, so i guess there’s traces of that left in my psyche. :P

  17. Elyrest Dec 26th 2009 at 03:38 pm 17

    Cornbread - I think you are taking my comments a little too seriously. It sounds as if perhaps you take the bumperstickers too seriously also. I know nothing about your age or relationships, but in my experience the very act of (most) grandparents bringing up their grandchildren means they want to brag a little. It might only be funny to other grandparents, but that is often such the case with humor.

    “I thought that on this site, which is explicitly devoted to asking and answering such questions, I would at least get some slack on that front.”

    That is exactly what you are given and what you must give in return. I questioned what you meant because I honestly couldn’t tell from your post if you were being serious, sarcastic or tongue-in-cheek. I know very little about the people who post here. My impressions are formed from reading their words. If I don’t understand what they are trying to say I will ask. I hope that others would do the same for me.

  18. Cornbread Dec 26th 2009 at 04:07 pm 18

    Elyrest - Sorry again. I’m a little sensitive when it comes to this subject, and even upon re-reading your comment it doesn’t sound like a polite request for clarification, but more like mocking me for not seeing the obvious. I see now that it wasn’t meant that way, and I’m sorry I misinterpreted.

  19. Winter Wallaby Dec 26th 2009 at 04:36 pm 19

    Cornbread, I thought that your comment #9 was a joke (and a pretty funny one, actually), not a serious comment.

    As Elryst said, most grandparents who bring up grandchildren want to brag a little. I’ll add that many people consider just the fact that they have grandchildren to be something to brag about, independent of any actual qualities of the grandchildren. Admittedly, this is a little odd, since it’s not clear to me why successfully producing children with working reproductive systems is something to be particularly proud of, but a lot of people do.

  20. Another Josh Dec 26th 2009 at 05:59 pm 20

    My grandmother once gave me a card or present that said “#1 Grandson” on it, as I am the oldest of her 8 grandchildren. Unfortunately grandson #2 (and grandchild #4) saw it and got offended. That put a stop to that.

  21. Mark in Boston Dec 26th 2009 at 06:26 pm 21

    So this woman had a “Honk if you love Jesus” bumper sticker, and the driver behind her honked because he loved Jesus, and the woman stuck her head out and shouted back “THE LIGHT IS RED YOU GODD@&^ A%%*&#$!”

  22. Cornbread Dec 26th 2009 at 06:47 pm 22

    So perhaps the purpose of rhetorical commands on bumper stickers is to provide entertaining irony when the commands are obeyed? Fascinating. (For reference, this is half serious, half joking).

  23. NoAlias Dec 26th 2009 at 06:51 pm 23

    Mark in Boston - hahhahahahaaha!!! My browser automatically sees “GODD@&^” in your comment as an email address (godd @ &^) and makes it a mailto link! hahhahhahahaha!

  24. turquoise cow Dec 26th 2009 at 09:45 pm 24

    i was recently behind a guy who had a bumper sticker that said “Honk again, I’m reloading.” I was pondering this while we were stopped at a red light. The light then turned green, and the guy didn’t move. I was praying to any nonspecific deity that the person BEHIND me would honk, because I was actually rather intimidated by the bumper sticker and wasn’t sure if I should take it seriously or not. When we finally did move, I wondered if the guy waited extra long at green lights to see if people would obey this command or not.

    Mark in Boston, and NoAlias, yeah, my browser does the same automatically when ever it sees the @ symbol. I’ve noticed it in other comments in which people use that and other characters to symbolize unprintable words. Curiously enough, although it created this link for Mark’s post, it didn’t do the same for NoAlias’ post, even though it was the exact same list of characters. Perhaps because of the quotation marks?

  25. mitch4 Dec 26th 2009 at 09:57 pm 25

    NoAlias - I’m seeing the same thing. But I think it’s likely the Word Press software doing the conversion and delivering it that way, rather than our browsers later rendering it that way.

    Another Josh and others on the Monty — My father sometimes would call me “Number one son” but my brother didn’t mind. (In fact, I suppose he respected my brother more than me.) It was just representing birth order, and probably derived from a catchphrase in some 1930s popular culture (the “Charlie Chan” movies I think).

  26. Kamino Neko Dec 26th 2009 at 11:32 pm 26

    It’s not the browser - at least it SHOULDN’T be, as that would be bad, bad browser behaviour - it’s wordpress’s software. (Which, frankly, shouldn’t do it automatically, either.)

  27. furrykef Dec 27th 2009 at 04:06 am 27

    Yep, the web browser has nothing to do with it. Web browsers never insert links by themselves; they only insert links exactly where the webpage says links should be. (Browser add-ons may change this behavior, but I imagine very few people have such add-ons without knowing it.)

  28. Mitch4 Dec 27th 2009 at 07:25 am 28

    Definitely I agree with Neko and Kef on both points:
    — this is Word Press behavior, not browser behavior;
    — behavior like this would be bad browser behavior.

    However (to flip a usual motto), you can’t reason from an ought to an is. After I installed Skype (for example), I noticed ordinary text phone numbers on web pages being turned into call-it-now buttons by Skype’s browser add-on.

  29. Mark in Boston Dec 27th 2009 at 12:12 pm 29

    Yes, it’s WordPress. Do a right-click View Source and you’ll see the code WordPress puts in. You’ll also notice that it replaces ordinary double-quotes with fancy open and close double-quotes.

  30. mkilby Dec 27th 2009 at 05:43 pm 30

    As far as the comics are concerned, I thought that “Zits” was the best of this set. It’s a perfect compliment to Calvin’s dad saying “I still think this could have waited until dawn.” (And as it happens, my family has always had a few decorated Christmas eggs hanging on the tree, much to the consternation of first-time visitors.)

  31. Jeff S. Dec 27th 2009 at 09:50 pm 31

    I can relate to two of the comics from this Christmas alone…

    My wife, son (20) and daughter (12) went to see my mother (89) this Christmas. We had our Christmas before we left, so we stayed up kinda late Christmas Eve, and my son slept in pretty late (just like Jeremy). We had already eaten lunch.

    Then we went to my brother’s house for dinner, where my mother passed out Christmas cards to all the family. Every one had a check for $30 inside. I opened mine and said, “Cool! $200! What did you get?” My brother had a very puzzled look on his face for a few seconds until he realized I was joking.

  32. furrykef Dec 27th 2009 at 10:48 pm 32

    Yep.

  33. Mark in Boston Dec 28th 2009 at 09:39 pm 33

    I liked the Sunday “Zits” with Jeremy giving Grandma a tour of the house by carrying the computer around.

    You know, in the 1970’s they said we would have picture phones real soon (there was one in the movie “2001″) and we didn’t get them and we didn’t get them …

    and the phone company never DID introduce picture phones …

    and suddenly it turns out we’ve had them for a couple of years now and didn’t even know it.

  34. Cidu Bill Dec 28th 2009 at 10:19 pm 34

    Earlier than that, Mark: The 1964-5 World’s Fair introduced many of us to picture phones. and microwave ovens. Apparently back then, the concept of microwaved hamburgers seemed like a good idea.

    I swear, sometimes I think I can still taste that slimy thing.

    They told us that both inventions would be in our homes soon, but they showed up half a century apart (and in the case of the picture phone, as you point out, from a completely unexpected direction).

  35. mitch4 Dec 29th 2009 at 09:29 am 35

    Ah, the 1964-65 Fair! I don’t recall the picture phones or microwave ovens, but who could forget Belgian Waffles? Mmmmm.

  36. Detcord Dec 29th 2009 at 04:22 pm 36

    There is a group of music aficionados who will listen to nothing but records played on turntables as this gives the highest fidelity. In order to make the music fit, CD makers cut corners on fidelity and MP3’s cut whole blocks. Since these music buffs tend to be, well, fairly focused on this, one would reasonably expect their offspring to know this and purchase accordingly. Amazingly, Gene apparently doesn’t and the look on Arlo’s face says it all.

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