Terry: ”Almost Eggsactaly the Same ”

Cidu Bill on Jan 13th 2012

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Filed in Argyle Sweater, Bill Bickel, Humpty Dumpty, Rubes, Scott Hilburn, comic strips, comics, humor, synchronicity | 21 responses so far

21 Responses to “Terry: ”Almost Eggsactaly the Same ””

  1. john Jan 13th 2012 at 01:22 pm 1

    How are these the same? Because potato salad and deviled eggs both use hardboiled eggs?

    I must be missing something here.

  2. Its Justme Jan 13th 2012 at 01:48 pm 2

    Agree, John. And here’s a difference: one’s funny, one’s not.

  3. furrykef Jan 13th 2012 at 03:53 pm 3

    I’m not even sure what’s supposed to be funny about the second one.

  4. James Pollock Jan 13th 2012 at 04:27 pm 4

    The fire ants started a fire. You know, instead of biting or stinging or whatever it is that they do (I live in an area still blissfully free of the things.)

  5. furrykef Jan 13th 2012 at 04:51 pm 5

    Sure, but if that’s the joke then the setup doesn’t fit it very well.

  6. George P Jan 13th 2012 at 05:57 pm 6

    And I don’t see any ants.

    I don’t see a joke in the second one. If he’s stopped with the chicken, which is supposed to be crisply fried, then I would get the joke, although I wouldn’t think it was funny.

    (For those who don’t live in areas with fire ants, they aren’t large or red as often portrayed by people who don’t know better. They are tiny black ants, smaller than regular ants. They are named “fire” not for their color but for the intense pain of their bites.)

  7. guero Jan 13th 2012 at 09:40 pm 7

    For the trifecta: http://www.gocomics.com/realitycheck/2012/01/12

  8. furrykef Jan 14th 2012 at 12:03 am 8

    Upon thinking about it, the Rubes could be greatly improved simply by removing the dialogue and keeping the caption.

  9. The Bad Seed Jan 14th 2012 at 02:58 am 9

    I get both of them, but neither is hilarious. There’s no synchronicity, though, just barely intersecting, as would two strips that both featured poodles, for instance.

  10. The Bad Seed Jan 14th 2012 at 03:00 am 10

    By the way, many moons ago I thought I’d been bitten by a fire ant, but turned out to be a Brown Recluse Spider instead. Most people who live in the south can tell you that’s not an improvement.

  11. Mike Jan 14th 2012 at 06:47 am 11

    guero (7) has the true synchronicity for the first comic. The second comic above is but an acceptable addition.

  12. Pete Jan 14th 2012 at 07:32 am 12

    Hard boiled egg is an ingredient in potato salad? Not as far as I’ve ever seen.

  13. mitch4 Jan 14th 2012 at 08:15 am 13

    I’m baffled by the placement of the comma in the Argyle Sweater comic. If it were one word later, it would still be mildly wrong but pretty normal. Here it seems hastily weird.

  14. Igelino Jan 14th 2012 at 09:39 am 14

    Pete, here you can see potato salad recipes with boiled eggs.
    http://allrecipes.com/recipes/salad/potato-salads/
    I know they aren’t the actual salad, but well…

  15. Mike Jan 14th 2012 at 11:06 am 15

    Living my life in the Midwest, I don’t recall ever having a potato salad that didn’t include hard boiled eggs.

  16. Dave in Boston Jan 14th 2012 at 12:33 pm 16

    mitch4: it’s just routine illiteracy I think. When standardized tests cover punctuation, they routinely offer things like that (that is, commas and other punctuation off by one word) as alternatives, so some people must write like that until/unless taught otherwise. Never made any sense to me though.

  17. Lost in A**2 Jan 14th 2012 at 01:26 pm 17

    For examples of the use of commas, look at the U. S. Constitution and the King James Version of the Bible.

  18. Bob in Nashville Jan 14th 2012 at 05:00 pm 18

    The fire ant joke was a groaner for me.

  19. Chakolate Jan 14th 2012 at 09:11 pm 19

    Did anybody else get the last line (”fire ants”) cut off? No? Just me? All righty then.

  20. Olpera Jan 15th 2012 at 08:38 am 20

    Bob in Nashville! Can I understand your claiming the fire ant joke as “a groaner” that you consider it funny because it excels in simple stupid witty absurdity? In that case I agree - and I find it strange that some people above don’t understand nothing about it. (Or are they pathological grumblers?).

    BTW, to#6, and with ref. to: “P is for Arlo” ( http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2011/12/21/p-is-for-arlo/ ):

    The “P-word” in the ref shall definitely be “piss ant”! That’s the common appellation, at least in Sweden and I assume several other countries, to a.o. the, 2-6 mm long, “Red garden-ant”, Myrmica rubra, also known as the European fire ant. “Pissmyra”, , is one of the first worlds Swedish children are “learning by burning” while learning to talk. They also learn that it is excellent as an abuse and when grown up, they use it frequently, esp behind the steering wheel (when something stronger isn’t called for).
    It is a species of ant found all over Europe and has started to invade North America. Put its name on your mind!
    They are mainly red in color and live under stones, fallen trees, and in soil. They are aggressive ants, often attacking rather than running away, and are equipped with a stinger that injects a poison which causes a severely burning pain in the skin. (See eg Wikipeedia)

    The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), or simply RIFA, is one of over 280 species in the widespread genus Solenopsis. Although the red imported fire ant is native to South America, it has become a pest in many countries.
    The RIFA was accidentally introduced into the United States aboard a South American cargo ship that docked at the port of Mobile, Alabama, in the 1930s, and came to infest the majority of the Southern and Southwestern United States.

    N.B: There are many, many other ants causing similar burning pain so please spare your protests! I only want to spread knowledge about the word “piss ant” (its a better abuse than “You fire ant”).

  21. Bob in Nashville Jan 16th 2012 at 05:59 pm 21

    Olpera @ 20, Yep, you got my comment right.

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