Archive for March, 2009

Does it ever irk you when someone says, “no pun intended”? I think Someonw at thefunniestpart may have already discussed this. But obviously if they are proud enough of the pun to point out the fact that even though they could have, they didn’t intend to use the skull crushing pun on you this time. Idioms, or idiom-esques, are generally the fare of the single pane cartoons. Far Side was a prime example of this, just think of all of the funny cartoons that could come of, Curiosity finally killed the cat, or Hell in a handbasket. Go on, imagine, and laugh.

http://www.fhoomp.com/ (a great toon, I assure you)

I don’t have a talent for art. If I did I might be drawing webcomics instead of making daily comments about them. I do love how artists can make a character’s face so expressive. Dewey is so hopeful, and happy in the cover, and so delightfully lost and confused on the couch. Somehow a stuffed dinosaur conveys human emotion. I guess even when drawing a non-human face you really can give it human characteristics. Unfortunately when I draw stick figures they just look like stick figures.

It is also terribly fun to use clueless comments like this to catch people off guard in conversation. The key is keeping a straight face so they wonder if you really are that lost.

Try it out sometime. You’ll have fun.

An choice selection from the archives of Imagine This

I thought I could make a short post of this and just say, “1984″, but that would be too easy.

I’ve heard people say that if you aren’t doing anything wrong you have no reason to worry.

Of course you would never talk on your cell phone while driving without a hands-free set. I mean… Well maybe just because your dad is calling and he never calls unless it is super important. I was just going to be on it for a few seconds… I was in the process of pulling over!

Jaywalking isn’t a real crime. Right?

If the speed limit is 65, you can get away with 68. Right?

I hope you didn’t just push your 5 year old around the garage on their bike, they didn’t have their helmet on.

What new laws will there be this year. Heck. What agency regulations will there be. Did you just throw that battery in the trash, or put window cleaner in the sink?

How closely do you want to be watched?

From the always insightful Boy on a Stick and Slither

I’ve always wondered if most band teachers came from a troubled past. I mean surely they all didn’t play the clarinet with some small midwestern town’s symphony orchestra. No, I dare say that they tried to bring the clarinet to the forefront of rock and roll at one point in time. A lessin to those who believe this is going to happen; it’s not.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/