Sunday Funnies - LOL January 15
Cidu Bill on Jan 15th 2012
Filed in Bill Bickel, Buni, Close to Home, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Easter Island, John McPherson, Lio, Mark Tatulli, New Yorker, Rubes, Speed Bump, comic strips, comics, humor, lol | 37 responses so far
Kilby Jan 15th 2012 at 01:13 am 1
I don’t get the last one at all, and now I’m wondering whether the “drip” in the third panel is supposed to be significant. Does one need to know the characters, or is this part of a longer sequence?
chuckers Jan 15th 2012 at 05:07 am 2
I am with Kilby. I can still hear it whooshing.
Winter Wallaby Jan 15th 2012 at 05:34 am 3
Ditto to Kilby #1, chuckers #2.
George P Jan 15th 2012 at 06:42 am 4
The kid appears to have nothing on his mind.
The others are made me laugh, except the vampire one, which made me smile appropriately.
Olpera Jan 15th 2012 at 07:00 am 5
@ Kilby et al: The guys face is, what we in Swedish (but shorter) call, “reset to zero” (). It means that the person seemingly has nothing at all whatsoever in mind. Thus the question is obsolete and silly (& thus somewhat funny?).
The PEZ-dispenser (n:o VI) is hilarious and Kramer & Vaughn are for the moment my newest favorites.
N:o II isn’t very bad either. (The fifth panel shows a crashed cell-phone satellite {if anyone wonder [and when you get close to it, you get really good signal strength (and of course the phone can’t show more than six marks)]}.
The others: ,
ANDREA Jan 15th 2012 at 08:06 am 6
Comic #3 - for your viewing pleasure . . .
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/tebow/1374394
mitch4 Jan 15th 2012 at 08:47 am 7
In “The Buckets” (last one), along with Kilby’s doubts about the boy’s drip in the 3rd panel, I’m wondering what those dots and numbers are doing between panels 2 and 3. Are they part of the cartoon content, or something like registration marks for real paper printing?
The Easter Island Great Stone Pez Dispenser is great!
Powers Jan 15th 2012 at 09:06 am 8
Mitch, that’s the date. 1-11-12.
I don’t get the dance one. What did he expect if not someone who dances?
Ooten Aboot Jan 15th 2012 at 09:19 am 9
Powers (#8), I think he was hoping for someone more exotic.
mitch4 Jan 15th 2012 at 09:27 am 10
Acchh! <Faceplant> Thanks, Powers.
MollyJ Jan 15th 2012 at 09:35 am 11
My impression of the last was that, on the contrary, he’s thinking very hard about something. The droplet was sweat. Notice the slight startle marks when she speaks to him.
Not much of a joke, though, that way. Just pointing out the obvious. Up there with “Hot enough for ya?” when it’s 98 degrees out and someone’s mowing the lawn.
Ooten Aboot Jan 15th 2012 at 09:45 am 12
Andrea (#6), as a furriner, I tried three different browsers with Hotspot and could only get the video without audio. My lip reading is poor, so I can only assume the joke is that Jesus, being Jewish, does not play professional football on the sabbath. Thus NE 45, DEN 10.
william k Jan 15th 2012 at 09:53 am 13
I sent in the Buckets as CIDU not LOL,
Sal Jan 15th 2012 at 10:24 am 14
@ Andrea#6 that was hilarious!
R2T Jan 15th 2012 at 12:00 pm 15
Lio is the funniest but they all were amusing
George P Jan 15th 2012 at 02:45 pm 16
Cell phones don’t (at least directly) communicate with satellites, but the joke is still funny.
Ooten, in the skit Jesus was asking the Broncos to put more effort into the games so he doesn’t have to intervene to make them win them all.
He also tells them that he is going to be busy when they play the Patriots, so they’ll need to step up their game. Prophetic.
Cidu Bill Jan 15th 2012 at 04:33 pm 17
Yes, William, in fact you did. Whoops.
ANDREA Jan 15th 2012 at 04:56 pm 18
Jimmy Fallon as TEBOWIE . . .
http://www.hulu.com/watch/318731/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-tebowie
Blinky the Wonder Wombat Jan 15th 2012 at 05:32 pm 19
I wonder if the Close to Home comic originally referred to a pole dancer but someone chickened out and changed it to just a dancer. Pole dancer is funny, just dancer is “meh”.
Olpera Jan 15th 2012 at 09:04 pm 20
@ George P, #16: You are not quite updated, they do but only in very small scale and at a high fee. Reporters and other researchers use them when working far out in nowhere or on sea where regular service is unreliable (war zones) or non existing. Its not a technical matter but a financial one that its not working globally since some 5 to 8 years. (I designed on-board up- and downconverters* for that purpose 12 years ago.)
* SIC! A technical spellchecker would accept it.
Seth Finkelstein Jan 15th 2012 at 09:34 pm 21
@Blinky / 19 - I think you have it right. I’m not sure, but the thought-balloon looks like it might have originally had “pole” just after the words “she’s a”, but the “pole” got removed.
guero Jan 15th 2012 at 09:50 pm 22
Well, I thought the Buckets joke was that, not only was he not thinking about anything, he had fallen asleep standing up, and was drooling. The startle marks still work, though.
And Blinky the Wonder Wombat @19, I agree, but it probably wasn’t so much the lack of nerve, as starting out with one joke - A woman in Polish outfit dancing, and the guy thinking pole dancer; but how do you draw a Polish dancer in some universal comic code that everyone would understand? Thus the addition of Polka! Polka!, which doesn’t really work with pole dancer, so “pole” was taken out, and you are left with …meh
Seth Finkelstein Jan 15th 2012 at 11:50 pm 23
guero - Easy. Have an award plaque on the wall with “[Obviously Polish name], #1 Polka Dancer”
If you’re really clever, draw so “Polka” is semi-obscured (say by a hand) so it sort of looks like “Pole” but on detailed looking is “Polka”.
Olpera Jan 16th 2012 at 06:51 am 24
I am afraid that ## 19, 21, 22, & 23 have revealed Close to Home comic fundamentally! - Afraid because it is based on a misconception.
–That is:
¤ Polka is NOT a Polish dance - it is Bohemian, performed in 2/4-beat.
¤ Bohemia is today a part of the Czech Republic which, when the polka was born, was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy.
–This is muddled with:
¤ Polska*, which literally translates to Polish and is is a family of music and dance forms shared by the Nordic countries and performed in 3/4-beat, based on influence of the Polish court.
Of course polka is danced i Poland but its natural association is connected to Bohemian (Czech), Bavarian (German), and Tyrol (Austrian) tradition (”Lederhosen”, yodel, and oumpa-pah).
I don’t consider pole dancing as such very exciting so I never made that connection. It was obvious enough that the guy expected something more arousal than polka dancing. (Come on, the clothing …)
* P-O-L-S-K-A, if any spellchecker complains!
Blinky the Wonder Wombat Jan 16th 2012 at 08:21 am 25
Olpera-
Being the spouse of a daughter of Polska, I am quite familiar with the peasant cultures of Poland. Be that as it may, most Americans associate Polkas with Poland. And since comics depend on visual shorthand, that is the cue I think the artist was trying to cue.
George P. Jan 16th 2012 at 08:37 am 26
Satellite phones are not cell phones.
Olpera Jan 16th 2012 at 11:05 am 27
BtWW, #25: You were referred to only for of bringing up pole dance, which was a point as such. The rest was only for them not feeling enlightened - and for them thirsting for becoming!
George P, #26: Forget about it. My night sleep can stand it.
Dan W Jan 16th 2012 at 11:42 am 28
In the Lio comic, I like the door in the background that seems to wrap around the corner.
Winter Wallaby Jan 16th 2012 at 11:44 am 29
William #13: Ah, I was wondering how that could possibly be a LOL. Now all is right with the world!
Do people associate “polka” with “Poland” specifically? I just associate it with East European.
Mike Jan 16th 2012 at 12:05 pm 30
As someone who was raised on Lawrence Welk, I’ve always associated the polka with North Dakota.
jjmcgaffey Jan 16th 2012 at 04:57 pm 31
OK - I liked several of the comics, but it was Mike’s comment (30) that got a real LOL out of me!
Mark in Boston Jan 16th 2012 at 05:54 pm 32
The Polka pretty much swept through all of Europe. Johann Strauss Jr. wrote so many polkas that you could be forgiven for thinking it’s a Viennese dance. Are you SURE it’s not popular in Poland as well?
Olpera Jan 16th 2012 at 08:49 pm 33
Mark i B, #32 (If I am addressed.): Polka is SURELY VERY POPULAR in Poland. Never the less, Polka doesn’t give very many people association to Poland but to , repeating like a drunken parrot, Boehemia, Bavaria, and Tyrol. The Strausses Polkas are more stylish and give ball room associations.
In Finland, the same goes for Tango, esp Argentinian - it’s almost considered sacrosanct. But Finland doesn’t make very much people associate to a fierce impassioned tangos in 9. Chickweed Lane-style.
Finland make you - you who can - primarily to think of Jenkka, Humppa, Polska, and (Säkkijärven) Polkka.
Winter Wallaby, #29: No! I actually don’t think people associate polka to Poland at all!
The natural “Polka habitat” as above, is Central Europe.
East Europe lies east of Central Europe.
Central Europe had been in place for not so very few years before the Iron Curtain for a short moment was drawn west of Central Europe and the latter didn’t have to move during that time so it’s still where it’s always been.
Lihtox Jan 16th 2012 at 09:28 pm 34
I don’t actually LOL when reading very often, but the Easter Island pez dispenser did it!
Meryl A Jan 17th 2012 at 02:13 am 35
In the Buckets it’s a mom & son. The son is not the brightest kid in the world and gets into trouble. I guess she wonders why he’s just standing there doing nothing.
tdcjames Jan 17th 2012 at 08:05 am 36
Obviously I’m swimming against the tide here, but is it possible the guy was just expecting someone lithe and sensuous like Edda in 9 Chickweed Lane or Jerry Seinfeld’s fantasy gymnast? While I live, it is not a truth universally acknowledged that every red-blooded male must be in want of a professional skank.
Pirk Jan 21st 2012 at 01:37 pm 37
I just don’t see the word pole fitting in that little bit of space