Sunday Funnies: LOL July 25
Cidu Bill on Jul 25th 2010
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Morris Keesan: It’s nice to see Janis having a moment of Arlo-style silliness; we don’t see that enough.
Dave:
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Marauder34 Jul 25th 2010 at 01:19 am 1
Am I the only person in the world left who likes to read Funky Winkerbean?
Jeff S. Jul 25th 2010 at 01:55 am 2
No, I believe Tom Batiuk still likes it too, but that may be a stretch. I like Dean’s Comic Booth’s FW mockups. Funny stuff there. It’s the only FW worth reading, IMO.
Back on topic… Vuvuzela should have an exclamation point after it… always.
James Schend Jul 25th 2010 at 02:11 am 3
I like to read it, but only for the purposes of mocking it later.
Rid Jul 25th 2010 at 02:27 am 4
Is that a take on “Welcome to hell. Here’s your accordion” in The Far Side?
yes, yes it is. Only made uber-topical.
Keera Jul 25th 2010 at 05:34 am 5
Oh, heavens - ! That last one - ! Vuvuzelas ARE the sound of hell! FAR worse than accordions!
Freezer Jul 25th 2010 at 07:24 am 6
I still read FW. Mostly out of bile fascination, mind you. But I’m a regular reader.
Father Bruno Di Frocco Jul 25th 2010 at 09:33 am 7
I’m a regular with Funky W., and I enjoy it. But I read it after a session with Mary Worth and Mark Trail, so maybe FW comes as a relief.
mitch4 Jul 25th 2010 at 10:09 am 8
Has anybody done the homework of verifying that the fridge-magnet letters are (roughly anyway) consistent in their counts from one message to another? Somehow I really want it to work out. But unwilling to do the work …
Lost in A**2 Jul 25th 2010 at 10:26 am 9
The counts are not the same. But then, you have to have extra letters around if you are going to use them to keep a shopping list.
Don’t over-analyse.
Morris Keesan Jul 25th 2010 at 11:12 am 10
What surprises me over the past few weeks is how everyone seems to be reacting as if they’d never seen or heard a vuvuzela before the World Cup in South Africa. But I remember seeing long plastic horns like these in the U.S. years ago, at high school football games, and sold on the street during parades. As far as I can tell, there’s no difference between those horns and vuvuzelas.
John DiFool Jul 25th 2010 at 11:12 am 11
“I like Dean’s Comic Booth’s FW mockups. Funny stuff there.”
Even better are his recent mashups involving Rex Morgan as Zippy the Pinhead.
Mark M Jul 25th 2010 at 11:20 am 12
I’m not sure Bob the neighbor really thought this out. I have to think a suicide by self-stabbing would be questioned, besides the fact that his fingerprints are all over the magnetic letters.
padraig Jul 25th 2010 at 11:33 am 13
My personal theory is that Batiuk is planning to merge FW with Crankshaft. Funky and Crankshaft will be in rocking chairs on the porch, shooting BB guns at kids and dogs who walk on their lawn, loads of yuks.
amo Jul 25th 2010 at 11:41 am 14
@ Rid - Thank you! I knew I had heard that somewhere before and I was trying to remember.
@ Keera - It depends… Have you ever heard someone try to play the accordian that doesn’t quite know how? It can be horrific. At least vuvuzelas are pretty much limited to one note (in my limited experience).
Keera Jul 25th 2010 at 11:43 am 15
Amo, that’s exactly why the vuvuzela is so annoying: The monotony of one note.
Morris Keesan Jul 25th 2010 at 11:45 am 16
Looking at the shopping list: Bob’s neighbor was going to buy an alarm at the grocery, along with milk and bread?
Keera Jul 25th 2010 at 11:48 am 17
Morris, he’s probably doing what I do: Writing down needs as they appear. He’s not going to take his refrigerator door with him when he shops, is he?
Morris Keesan Jul 25th 2010 at 11:49 am 18
The vuvuzela is essentially a brass instrument; I would think that with even a little practice, one could get at least one overtone out of it, if not more.
George Jul 25th 2010 at 12:13 pm 19
Via embouchure, three easy.
Elyrest Jul 25th 2010 at 01:07 pm 20
Embouchure - Now that’s a word I can wrap my lips around.
Mark in Boston Jul 25th 2010 at 02:15 pm 21
If it’s like the plastic horns in high school, you’d have to be an expert trumpeter to get more than one note out of it. The mouthpiece isn’t designed to make it easy. I played the sousaphone, and I still couldn’t get more than one note out of the plastic horn.
I wonder how hell compares with heaven, with all those harps that the new souls don’t know how to play or tune.
Elyrest Jul 25th 2010 at 02:28 pm 22
Mark in Boston - Regarding harps - if there is a hell it will be full of harps. I once lived under a Celtic harpist and it was hellish. Her practice room was above my bedroom and all the sounds went down through the floor into my ceiling. Early in the morning. Late at night. Dreary, moody music that made me think of killing either myself or her.
Jeff S. Jul 25th 2010 at 05:26 pm 23
When my son was in 7th grade, he played on a junior league football team. As a fundraiser, they sold those plastic horns. That was 7 yrs ago. When my daughter started soccer, I started taking it to her games and I would give it a good blast whenever our team scored. If I don’t toot it, the girls let me have it, yelling at me from the field!
Up until this year, I’ve always called it a plastic horn… I never knew it had an official name.
turquoise cow Jul 25th 2010 at 09:03 pm 24
Morris Keesan - (16) I noticed that “alarm” was on the fridge also, and figured that this was why he was murdered: he didn’t have an alarm system yet for his house. If he did, his neighbor would presumably not be able to come in and murder him.
Elyrest - (22) One of my coworkers lives beneath an opera singer, who practices at least once a day. I wonder which scenario is more unbearable. At least my upstairs neighbors only shout at each other and have a barking dog (who once caused a flood).
CIDU Bill Jul 25th 2010 at 10:19 pm 25
Turquoise cow, that reminds me of this.
Dave in Boston Jul 26th 2010 at 01:09 am 26
I have one word to add: Bagpipes.
Kilby Jul 26th 2010 at 03:44 am 27
The name is new, but those plastic horns are at least 40 years old: the orange vuvuzela I just bought during the World Cup is virtually identical to one I remember getting at a baseball game in the early 70’s. It is possible to get a second (over)tone out of it, but it is not easy. For all practical purposes, all it can produce is a monotonal “BLAAAAATT!“.
Powers Jul 26th 2010 at 07:08 am 28
It’s older than that — try 1870!
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Nbar5U4uMTh57R1L5eip0A
billytheskink Jul 26th 2010 at 09:42 am 29
Add me to the list of folks who were surprised at all the vuvazela outrage. I thought they were just called “soccer horns” or something back when they gave them out at my high school’s football games.
I figured most American soccer fans were familliar with them as I’d seen them for years at amatuer and professional soccer games, especially when Mexican Premier League teams would come to town on a US tour.
Apparently I was wrong, and the outrage against vuvazelas has resulted in them being banned from the upcoming MLS all-star game. Silly if you ask me.
The vuvazela buzz has nothing on 24 two-stroke dirtbikes racing a 20+ minute moto on a short track.
Morris Keesan Jul 26th 2010 at 10:48 am 30
Living over, under, or next to any musician who practices regularly can be annoying; it doesn’t really matter what they play, or how good they are. Listening to scales, exercises, and the same piece played five times in a row (or, even worse, the same two or three measures played 10 or 20 times in a row), just isn’t fun. If it’s any consolation to the unwilling listener, it’s not much more fun for the person practicing; I do know some people who claim to actually enjoy practicing, but for most of us, it’s a chore we do because we know it’s good for us (or, in my case, and too many others, something we know we should do, but find excuses to not get around to it).
Morris Keesan Jul 26th 2010 at 10:50 am 31
Powers #28, that looks to me like the proverbial “tin horn”. And Dave in Boston #26, the bagpipers I know are generally pretty good at finding places to practice that minimize the annoyance to their neighbors.
Prosfilaes Jul 26th 2010 at 10:58 am 32
My brother-in-law is a composer, and my sister has described the nights where he plays three notes on the piano. The same three notes again. Three notes slightly differently. The first three notes again. Four notes starting with the first three notes. I’m not sure the instrument really matters.
Detcord Jul 26th 2010 at 05:24 pm 33
CIDU Bill (25)
Thanks for the excellent link to Kristin Chenoweth. I’ve been following further links of hers and frankly, she’s GOOD! I now wish I had taken the time to see Wicked when it was on in London - provided she’s one of the leads.
turquoise cow Jul 26th 2010 at 09:20 pm 34
CIDU Bill (25) - I second that thanks! That was a cool song. Who knew scatting jazz music and opera could go together so well, and I can’t imagine it’s really easy to skip from one to the other on a moment’s notice! Now I want to see a duet between two people that melds the styles…
Mark in Boston Jul 26th 2010 at 10:46 pm 35
The cool think about the Celtic harp is that you can play it sitting in bed.
I guess that’s true for most band and orchestra instruments. For a pianist or organist, you pretty much have to go to wherever the instrument is.
Living directly under a church organist is OK. They generally don’t have their own organs and they practice in the church. In J.S. Bach’s day (and even in my college piano teacher’s day when she was a young organist in Latvia) you either paid someone to pump the organ for you or you practiced with the sound off.
(Yes, there’s a name for the occupation of pumping the bellows so that the organ can make sounds. Organ blower.)
bAT L. Aug 7th 2010 at 07:50 pm 36
I didn’t get an LOL out of the refrigerator magnet one, but I did find it funny in that the neighbor thought he could get away with such a simple tactic. You’ll notice that the blood spatters on the fridge are different from the first view, which most likely left traces of Bob, be that fingerprints, skin or hair cells, or even left more blood on him. Also, his fingerprints are now on the letters he moved, unless he used gloves which were not previously pictured. He also put the “(suicide)” and arrow where the body landed, but were it a suicide, the victim would have not yet landed there. This alone could still be regarded as a suicide from first glance, were it not for the absence of the weapon, which would lead investigators to look further into the incident.
Okay, maybe I have been watching too much Detective Conan and playing too much Phoenix Wright.
Lihtox Oct 27th 2010 at 12:30 pm 37
Belated comment, but: before going to heaven, people go to purgatory to learn the harp *first*, and the sounds of their practice are piped into hell.