Sunday Funnies: LOL-May 30
Cidu Bill on May 30th 2010
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Sili May 30th 2010 at 02:18 am 1
I have to admit the changing of the guard made me smile.
Chuck May 30th 2010 at 03:45 am 2
You’re into that, huh?
Jeff May 30th 2010 at 04:17 am 3
Why would amputating the a cat’s claws make it LESS likely for something to kill her?
chuckers May 30th 2010 at 05:05 am 4
Jeff,
It’s questions like that that will lead to your own demise.
George P May 30th 2010 at 05:35 am 5
Jeff, the premise is that it’s a minor procedure and that the cat wasn’t in bad shape before he brought it in. I assume it needed general anesthetic, which is always a risk, but that doesn’t help the joke.
The dyslexics T-shirt cracked me up when I read it.
Farmer May 30th 2010 at 06:39 am 6
That “old friend” guy is me, except without the racism as far as I know. But it’s sure true; settling down and starting my own business has pulled me well to the right of my youth.
mitch4 May 30th 2010 at 08:22 am 7
George P, thanks for the explanation that the claw removal was recent and in fact te reason for this visit to the vet. I was at a bit of a loss along the lines that Jeff originally posted, on the assumption that the dialogue in panel 3 was about a procedure done some time ago which the owner imagined would protect the cat in some way, so was surprised she was not invulnerable.
Off topic, or at any rate tangential, I should speak up against that procedure. It’s not good for the cat, and there are less radical ways of protecting your furniture. (And each other, and yourself!)
mdt48302 May 30th 2010 at 08:30 am 8
Winston Churchill once said, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re old, you have no head.” Of course, Churchill moved back and forth between the Liberal and Conservative parties multiple times.
Mark M May 30th 2010 at 08:59 am 9
Maybe I’m dyslexic, but I don’t get that one.
Uh Clem May 30th 2010 at 09:03 am 10
If “some idiot” left the prototype on the bar stool in the 20th century, it’s been sitting there for at least 10 years at this point.
Karen May 30th 2010 at 09:16 am 11
Clem—the joke, i think, is that somebody found the communicator and used it to invent the cell phone. Kind of like in “Night at the Museum 2″ when Larry gives a soldier in the 1940s his cell phone, and it turns out he’s given it to Joey Motorola….
Morris Keesan May 30th 2010 at 09:22 am 12
Karen, it’s also a reference to the recent occasion when some Apple engineer accidentally left a prototype of the new iPhone in a beer garden.
Morris Keesan May 30th 2010 at 09:26 am 13
Mark M (#9), the joke is that they had intended to have T-shirts with the old joke “Dyslexics of the world UNTIE”, but because they’re dyslexic they accidentally spelled “UNITE” correctly.
The cartoonist’s comment for this one says, “And of course I had to redo this like three times because I kept writing ‘UNTIE’; I kept doing ‘doing ‘doing it wrong’ wrong’ wrong.”
Detcord May 30th 2010 at 09:52 am 14
Thanks Morris (13). I was driving myself crazy trying to figure out the joke on this one. I have to say, your report on the cartoonist’s comments is funnier than the joke itself.
Matthew May 30th 2010 at 10:03 am 15
Geez, how many times have we seen the changing of the guards joke? You would have thought that they would be toilet trained by now.
Matthew May 30th 2010 at 10:16 am 16
Bill, If curiosity kills, why are you still alive then?
Detcord May 30th 2010 at 10:21 am 17
Matthew (16),
… because the affliction only effects cats, and with 9 lives, they can afford it!
George P May 30th 2010 at 10:23 am 18
I thought about writing “don’t declaw your cats”, but I didn’t want to be that guy (to bring us back a few weeks).
The iPhone/communicator joke is old news at Web speed but maybe not at publishing speed.
John DiFool May 30th 2010 at 10:32 am 19
“Mark M (#9), the joke is that they had intended to have T-shirts with the old joke “Dyslexics of the world UNTIE”, but because they’re dyslexic they accidentally spelled “UNITE” correctly.”
My WAG is that the shirt-making company, in a sincere attempt to be helpful, “fixed” the “typo” that the dyslexics gave them.
Keera May 30th 2010 at 01:20 pm 20
There should be more zombie cats. Cuz satisfaction brings ‘em back.
John DiFool @19, sadly, in my line of work, there are no longer any proofreaders. Customers get signs, posters, flyers, etc. made up with their cockamamie use of apostrophes, misspellings, weird punctuation, etc. I’m not sure if the printers don’t correct because they don’t know better (there are those) or because they’re told the customer’s always right (especially when the customer made the material).
George May 30th 2010 at 01:58 pm 21
Re: Lost Star Trek Communicator
The 20th Century reference is probably just a mistake…but this comic works at a couple of different levels and the cartoonist might have gotten himself confused.
As well as the Apple iPhone prototype story of the last couple of months, there was a Star Trek episode (original series, “A Piece of the Action”) where McCoy loses his communicator on a planet of 1920’s style Chicago Gangsters.
There was no time travel involved, but the episode could be mistaken for one where Kirk/Spock/McCoy travel back to the 20th century.
BroBoCop May 30th 2010 at 03:40 pm 22
George, the whole crew traveled back to the 20th century in the 4th movie, The Voyage Home. The wording makes it sound as if Kirk went alone, but the joke works in context of the film. Hard to believe that movie was released 24 years ago. Geez, I’m old…
Kamino Neko May 30th 2010 at 04:09 pm 23
There were a number of episodes involving time travel in ST:TOS - Assignment Earth, The City on the Edge of Forever, Tomorrow is Yesterday (all of which took them to 20th century Earth), The Naked Time (rewound events a few days), and All Our Yesterdays (Spock, Kirk, and McCoy were sent to various time periods on the planet Sarpiedon).
George May 30th 2010 at 04:55 pm 24
I guess my point wasn’t too clear.
The lost communicator scene was a classic humor scene that is very close parallel to this cartoon. It would have been even closer if McCoy were drawn in getting the “eye” from Spock.
I only brought up time travel because this is one episode where time travel *didn’t* happen.
Hannah May 30th 2010 at 05:07 pm 25
George, that was my first thought as well. Classic episode. The cartoon’s cute, but a little behind on the times (the lag between when a cartoon’s conceived and when it’s printed can be a killer sometimes) and Spock’s ears look really weird, which bothers me more than it probably should. McCoy would’ve really made it.
Woodrowfan May 30th 2010 at 08:03 pm 26
In ST: Enterprise (or was it Voyager) there was even a reference by Federation Time Cops (or some such) about what a HUGE file Kirk had (said with considerable annoyance)
Kamino Neko May 30th 2010 at 08:22 pm 27
That was DS9. A throwaway line in Trials and Tribble-ations. The time officer in Voyager was mostly concerned with Janeway, and the time traveler in Enterprise was cagey.
Fnord May 31st 2010 at 04:23 pm 28
mdt48302 #8: I had a boss paraphrase that quote at me once. He said, “In the words of Winston Churchill, if you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart, but if you’re not a conservative you’re fired. Clean out your desk right now, you stupid hippie terrorist.”
He and I didn’t get along very well.
John Small Berries Jun 1st 2010 at 12:48 pm 29
I enjoy the fact that Mike Peters thinks his readership is so clueless that despite the Starfleet uniforms, the obvious depictions of Kirk, Spock and a communicator, and the mention of the Federation, he still felt it necessary to explicitly indicate that it was Star Trek (in a way that wouldn’t make sense in context, no less)… despite the fact that anyone who wouldn’t recognize the drawing as a reference to Star Trek probably isn’t familiar enough with the show to get the joke anyway.
Carol S Jun 1st 2010 at 04:52 pm 30
John (29), I will cheerfully and willfully imagine that Mike Peters wrote “Starfleet Intelligence announced …” instead of “The Federation announced …” (which is like saying “The United States announced …”) and avoided mentioning Star Trek itself, but his editor figured all this was too subtle and overruled him. (Do comic strips even have editors these days?)
Despite all this, I really liked the double joke.