Comments on: Size

By: The Ploughman

The Ploughman — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:21:50 +0000

Or her.

By: The Ploughman

The Ploughman — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:21:34 +0000

The Judge has again shown his wisdom.

By: Judge Mental

Judge Mental — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:43:32 +0000

I must acquiesce. I think you guys are right. I certainly agree Kamino Neko regarding the Tex Avery comment. I can’t see the corroborating evidence presented by mitch4 as it is blocked by my firewall, but I have no doubt that he is right. Lastly, I am with rain in that I erred in trying to make something funny out of it. The notion of “you thought he was made fun of for being too small, but he was actually being made fun of for being too big” at least has a germ of a joke about it, the scenario of “it turns out the guy who makes fun of people with small genitalia has big genitalia himself” hasn’t an inkling.

By: rain

rain — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:10:58 +0000

Ok, I’m now agreeing with Kamino Neko. There’s just no joke here. He would just literally run until the guy got his feet tangled and trip. Ha ha?

I think we were trying to make something funny out of this. I’ll take the Tex Avery comment as a compliment.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:08:29 +0000

The ‘Johnson’s Johnson is long’ interpretation is cartoonish. The ‘narrator’s the one with the big equipment’ goes beyond cartoonish to ‘Tex Avery would tell you this is too much’.

By: mitch4

mitch4 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:22:14 +0000

Okay … this cartoon is at http://www.courting-disaster.com/archive/20110527.html ,but the letter that would go with it seems to be one click previous, at http://www.courting-disaster.com/archive/20110520.html
The text makes it clear the guy was teased about being small.

By: mitch4

mitch4 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:51:28 +0000

This doesn’t seem to be very recent, at the Courting Disaster archive. If we located it, there might well be a reader letter printed, that the cartoon was based off, which could clarify the interpretation. (Though sometimes the cartoon goes its own way in contradiction to info in the letter.)

By: George P

George P — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:21:24 +0000

Yes, everyone else, to Johnson, would have small genitals. There’s no evidence that the speaker is the only person he teased.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:15:48 +0000

I’m pretty sure the choice of the name Johnson was deliberate. So I expect he was tripping over his own.

And I was going to say something similar to Lihtox’s comment.

By: Judge Mental

Judge Mental — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:12:42 +0000

I have resigned myself that not many see it my way and it is doubtful I can convince anyone otherwise, and that is okay, But to specifically address Dr. Shrinker’s query at 10:

The longer hipster guy runs, the more “hose” accumulates behind him (sorry I had to put that image out there, but you asked). Additionally, whether it is Johnson’s johnson or not-Johnson’s johnson, the longer (in duration) one runs with an obstacle in his path, the more apt they are to eventually trip.

The joke aside, I find *my* interpretation more logical. (overlooking the notion of genitals being so large that you trip over them) If we assume that Johnson is the one with the giant equipment, wouldn’t everybody else in the locker room be “small” by comparison. Regardless of how small hipster’s package is, it would be more in line with “normal”.

To reiterate, the whole joke hinges upon the reader’s expectation (too small) and the twist of the punchline (too large). I think if hipster was being teased about too small, the first balloon would have explicitly said that… no need to be ambiguous about it, unless that is indeed the joke.