Comments on: Geezer Lite

By: Araxie

Araxie — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:12:55 +0000

I, a 19-year-old, was quite familiar w/ Spuds. But flipping around the dial? What the hell are they talking about?

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:17:50 +0000

Last time I looked at public pay phones, the handset was still hanging on its hook.

Spuds was a girl dog, by the way.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:18:10 +0000

With the follow-up strips, it’s obvious that Spuds is intended to be a relic of the past, but it sure wasn’t clear from the first strip.

By: Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:53:18 +0000

I could see manual windows in a car being advertised as ‘aerobic windows’. People might show up to see if cars had a new type of exercise device.

By: NoAlias

NoAlias — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:55:22 +0000

I like Ellen C. (14)’s explanation. I remember Petey’s eye as more of a circle around the eye than a black eye blotch, but having the dog in the comic being Petey objecting to being mistaken for Spuds almost makes the comic humorous. My mind was stuck in dogs/commercials mode instead of dogs/famous dogs mode.

By: Ellen C.

Ellen C. — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:04:32 +0000

When I saw the black eye under the glasses, I thought of Petey from the Spanky and Our Gang series, which makes for an even more geezerish reference. But it does makes sense that Petey might be considered “the greatest (dog) actor of our time.”

By: chuckers

chuckers — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:34:25 +0000

If Spuds is supposed to be the best actor Grimmy has ever seen, he obviously has a very narrow range of choices. He needs to expand his horizons by flipping channels.

By: NoAlias

NoAlias — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:16:05 +0000

OK, so we can agree we are all/most geezers.

My question is, what does the comic mean? Has Spuds been beaten up by a better dog actor in a beer commercial that I don’t know about on some other channel?

Or in extreme geezer-hood, did Spuds smoke Tareyton cigarettes and rather fight than switch?

By: furrykef

furrykef — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:34:46 +0000

Mark in Boston — synecdoche

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:13:38 +0000

In the old days they would say “Hang up the receiver” meaning specifically the part of the phone you hold up to your ear. In a Krazy Kat comic strip, Krazy misunderstand’s the operator’s instruction to hang up the receiver and hangs it from a tree branch or some such thing.

There’s some literary term for the name of the whole being used for a part. “Hang up the phone” is like “The White House called while you were out.”