If borrowing really were funny, loan officers would be more popular
Happy New Year!
I am back from a week’s vacation in the Caribbean, and I did not once think about the sorry state of the “funny” page. Nor did I read a comic! I almost don’t have the motivation to continue. Who cares that they aren’t funny? It’s not like I’m forced to read them. In the “Entertainment” section, I could just read the TV listings, music reviews, advice columns, and skip the comics altogether. The one flaw is that I like to do the crossword, and it’s on the same page. So, I suppose I will keep reading the comics, and keep getting upset at them.
We’ll turn to a new topic today, and that is neighbors. Like dopey skinny guys, neighbors are also a staple of comedy in the comics and on TV. TV has Ed Norton, Rhoda Morgenstern, Cosmo Kramer, Wilson (Home Improvement) . . . In Friends, they were ALL neighbors! Yep, for some reason, the neighbor is necessary for humor. If the neighbor is also a skinny dopey guy (Norton, Kramer) … all the better.
So, let’s see how the comics treat neighbors. One of the most often explored areas of “neighbor comedy” is how often neighbors borrow things. HA HA HA! We just borrowed a crib from our neighbors. Friends were visiting with their baby. They forgot to bring the travel thing the baby sleeps in, so it was either a drawer from our house or a crib from our neighbors. That was funny, let me tell you! I’m sure our neighbors still get a chuckle out of it.
Neighbor hi-jinks (and borrowing) are universal. As you can see here, even Viking warriors from the days of yore had problems with overly-borrowing neighbors. This surprises me a bit, as I would think the Viking longhouses were too remote from each other to make borrowing from the neighbors an easy thing. Helga needs a cup of sugar. Did they have sugar back then? I am sure they did somewhere, but did the Vikings? That also surprises me.
What doesn’t surprise me is that the joke isn’t funny. Dagwood makes it at least twice a month. It may have been funny at one time, but the neighbor borrowing your stuff and not returning it is NO LONGER FUNNY. I think the “humor” here is that while Hagar goes on and on about NO MORE BORROWING, Helga wants him to go over there and borrow something! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
I am back from a week’s vacation in the Caribbean, and I did not once think about the sorry state of the “funny” page. Nor did I read a comic! I almost don’t have the motivation to continue. Who cares that they aren’t funny? It’s not like I’m forced to read them. In the “Entertainment” section, I could just read the TV listings, music reviews, advice columns, and skip the comics altogether. The one flaw is that I like to do the crossword, and it’s on the same page. So, I suppose I will keep reading the comics, and keep getting upset at them.
We’ll turn to a new topic today, and that is neighbors. Like dopey skinny guys, neighbors are also a staple of comedy in the comics and on TV. TV has Ed Norton, Rhoda Morgenstern, Cosmo Kramer, Wilson (Home Improvement) . . . In Friends, they were ALL neighbors! Yep, for some reason, the neighbor is necessary for humor. If the neighbor is also a skinny dopey guy (Norton, Kramer) … all the better.
So, let’s see how the comics treat neighbors. One of the most often explored areas of “neighbor comedy” is how often neighbors borrow things. HA HA HA! We just borrowed a crib from our neighbors. Friends were visiting with their baby. They forgot to bring the travel thing the baby sleeps in, so it was either a drawer from our house or a crib from our neighbors. That was funny, let me tell you! I’m sure our neighbors still get a chuckle out of it.
Neighbor hi-jinks (and borrowing) are universal. As you can see here, even Viking warriors from the days of yore had problems with overly-borrowing neighbors. This surprises me a bit, as I would think the Viking longhouses were too remote from each other to make borrowing from the neighbors an easy thing. Helga needs a cup of sugar. Did they have sugar back then? I am sure they did somewhere, but did the Vikings? That also surprises me.
What doesn’t surprise me is that the joke isn’t funny. Dagwood makes it at least twice a month. It may have been funny at one time, but the neighbor borrowing your stuff and not returning it is NO LONGER FUNNY. I think the “humor” here is that while Hagar goes on and on about NO MORE BORROWING, Helga wants him to go over there and borrow something! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
posted by big al at 4:13 PM
1 Comments:
Do you think Helga wears lace underneath her clothes?
I wonder what she plans to bake with brown sugar that would appeal to Hagar. I would think you could serve chopped liver to a Viking and he would be happy.
Speaking of Vikings, have you seen Randy Moss' weave? I have never seen a brother with that kind of hair. I've seen afros, but not this thing. It's out of control, and I actually think the front part of his fro is alive.
John
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