God Only Knows
Cidu Bill on Feb 3rd 2010
I already had this one queued up for tomorrow morning; but then a bunch of people sent it to me, so I moved it up
Filed in Bill Bickel, Bizarro, CIDU, Dan Piraro, comic strips, comics, humor, religion | 22 responses so far
James Feb 3rd 2010 at 12:06 pm 1
Jewison and Christianson are fairly commonplace names - Agnosticson, not so much. I guess they’re just a religiously open law(?) firm.
Elyrest Feb 3rd 2010 at 12:34 pm 2
I think it is just a play on words. Jew and Christian with ison are common last names. Agnostic isn’t really a religion, but Piraro is playing off of that. He then makes it the name of a firm. He could easily use Atheistison, Hinduison, Buddhistison, Scientologistison, Mormonison etc. Of course now it is sounding like countries in eastern Europe.
Taigan Feb 3rd 2010 at 01:06 pm 3
I’d never heard the name “Jewison” before.
This isn’t so much a CIDU as “just plain not funny.”
RyanE Feb 3rd 2010 at 01:11 pm 4
I just like the cell phone bunny background on her computer.
Where can I get *that*?
Kevin A Feb 3rd 2010 at 01:17 pm 5
The director/producer Norman Jewison is probably the most famous one in entertainment (at least in the 70s and 80s when his projects had large sets of Ascar nominations ).
Kevin A Feb 3rd 2010 at 01:18 pm 6
… or maybe those were “Oscar nominations”.
paperboy Feb 3rd 2010 at 01:21 pm 7
Taigan#3, you’ve never heard of the movie director Norman Jewison? He did Fiddler on the Roof, Moonstruck and many others.
paperboy Feb 3rd 2010 at 01:24 pm 8
Damn you, Kevin A! Your comments weren’t there when I sent, I swear!
Judge Mental Feb 3rd 2010 at 01:28 pm 9
@RyanE #5
That isn’t a cell phone the bunny is holding, its a stick of dynamite. Dan Piraro has a handful of recurring objects that likes to stick in Bizarro. The 3 by the signature indicates the number of the objects found in this particular strip ( the dynamite, the rabbit, and the “K2″.)
Kevin A Feb 3rd 2010 at 07:30 pm 10
paperboy #8, I fully expected to see 5-10 similar messages before I could hit Submit.
(Not that I have any love for the guy after his movie versions of the musicals Fiddler on the Roof and Jesus Christ Superstar.)
David N Feb 3rd 2010 at 08:47 pm 11
Now, that’s a firm that probably takes a LOT of holidays! Made up, on a coffee mug, long as human tradition, whatever.
Joshua Feb 3rd 2010 at 10:13 pm 12
And Norman Jewison, the director of Fiddler on the Roof, one of the most Jewish films in Hollywood history, is not Jewish.
I wonder how that conversation went down.
“Norman, great news! They want you to direct the movie of one of the biggest Broadway hits of all time!”
“Which one?”
“Fiddler on the Roof! They said Norman Jewison was the perfect guy to make the movie!”
“Uh … they didn’t assume I was Jewish from my name, did they? Because I’m not.”
“Ah … let me get back to you on that.”
Frank the curmudgeon Feb 4th 2010 at 01:37 am 13
To the religious right, it is probably the World Council of Churches. OK, my curiosity is piqued. What is the origin of the name “Jewison”? Some variant of Hugh’s son or some name that got Anglicized by a barely literate immigration clerk at Ellis Island ?
Kamino Neko Feb 4th 2010 at 02:09 am 14
It apparently comes from Jewett (or Juwet)’s Son, Jewett/Juwet being a variant of Julian.
Molly J Feb 4th 2010 at 09:17 am 15
Law firm names are ripe pickings for minor haha’s. There is, for example, the Car Talk guys representative firm of “Dewey, Cheatem & Howe.” Here in my small town we have a firm called “Black, Black & Brown” which is at least mildly amusing.
Dan Feb 4th 2010 at 10:31 am 16
Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe is an old Three Stooges bit.. they probably swiped it from vaudville, too.
mkilby Feb 4th 2010 at 11:18 am 17
There’s a similar joke in the names of the lawyers handling the auction of Bilbo’s house at the end of “The Hobbit”: if memory serves, they were called something like “Grubb, Grubb, and Burrows”.
Scott Feb 4th 2010 at 12:33 pm 18
Joshua, since Irving Berlin wrote White Christmas, we don’t mind if it goes the other way once in a while.
NoAlias Feb 4th 2010 at 01:04 pm 19
I would think these these three guys would run a bar, not a law firm… but then they probably wouldn’t have a receptionist.
Molly J Feb 4th 2010 at 01:53 pm 20
Dan, I have a vague memory of Groucho Marx using Dewey Cheatem and Howe or something similar as well. As you say, probably Vaudeville connections.
ty Feb 4th 2010 at 05:23 pm 21
NoAlias - we had a bar here about 15 years ago by the name of Dewey Chetham. I always wondered why they didn’t go all the way and add “and Howe.” Maybe the principals really were named Dewey and Chetham?
Dave in Boston Feb 5th 2010 at 02:46 am 22
“Cheatham”, folks.
Sarah Caudwell used “Styngham and Grynne”.