Never Look a Synchronicity in the Mouth
Cidu Bill on Apr 13th 2010
Judge Mental: The punchlines have little in common, but I think two Trojan horse comics on the same day qualifies for synchronicity.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, Mark Parisi, Off the Mark, Trojan Horse, comic strips, comics, humor, synchronicity | 7 responses so far
George P Apr 13th 2010 at 06:36 pm 1
My cat prefers cardboard boxes to carpet or sisal scratching posts.
Frank the curmudgeon Apr 13th 2010 at 07:22 pm 2
Mine prefered the dog. He’d wait behind the ballaster s on the landing two steps up. When the lab walked by, the cat would reach out and swipe him. I wonder if they share the same afterlife as the Dinos ?
David A. Rooney Apr 13th 2010 at 09:52 pm 3
Our cats just used the furniture. Couldn’t get them declawed because they liked riding around on my shoulders. Which hurt.
furrykef Apr 14th 2010 at 12:02 am 4
Further synchronicity, though admittedly not same day: just the other day I read about the Trojan horse (in Latin, though not quite Virgil’s original words) in my Latin book, and one of my friends — not knowing that I had done so — said this, quoting somebody or other: “What were the Trojans famous for? Letting something sneak past their defenses. Is this an intelligent name for a condom brand?”
Danny Boy (London Derriere) Apr 14th 2010 at 01:15 am 5
And do Trojan War re-enacters use that namesake product as water balloons to launch from their siege engines?
Mark in Boston Apr 14th 2010 at 03:16 pm 6
furrykef, no worse than McDonalds setting their song “Mac Tonight” to the tune of a ballad about a criminal who cut up his victims with a knife.
Or a car company marketing a car named “Nova” in a Spanish-speaking country.
And don’t get me started about Apple’s iPad.
furrykef Apr 15th 2010 at 10:06 pm 7
Or a car company marketing a car named “Nova” in a Spanish-speaking country.
I like Snopes’s assessment of that: that’s not any worse than a dinette set called “Notable” (because who would want a dinette set without a table?). Most Spanish speakers wouldn’t even notice the connection, just as we wouldn’t readily notice the connection between “notable” and “no table”. So I don’t think this example is akin to “Mac Tonight” or the iPad, whose dissonance is more obvious.