Things I Don't Get, Things That Make Me Mad
One day late, it is time for another "I Don't Get B.C." installment:
So, his uncle is a burglar, and he obviously likes to steal clothes . . . but why does he get them from his nephew's dry cleaning ruse? He is a "burglar," which means he actively goes in to houses (or caves or whatever) and steals them. He is not an "embezzler" or whatever you are if you take clothes from your nephew's dry cleaning business. Does the dry cleaning nephew just hand over the clothes to the uncle? Or, does the uncle actually come to "burgle" the dry cleaners every twelve hours? If so, why doesn't the nephew get better security?
And can someone please explain again why this strip takes place in caveman times? And the answer "Because its name is B.C." doesn't count. Really, half the time it is ants and snakes and rocks and flowers, and we have all those things now, and then whenever it's got cavemen they have dry cleaners and baseball and things of that ilk.
I have a theory: B.C. actually did begin in the caveman times (you can see it at Lascaux), and Johnny Hart (who has gotten the strip from his great-many-times-over grandfather) tries to keep it "up-to-date" with references to dry cleaners and the like. We're hip to his jive, though . . . those are definitely cavemen there. It's sort of like how Dennis the Menace is nominally set in the present day, but we all know it is really set in the 50s when there is a joke like, "I hate it when bridge club causes me to miss The Ed Sullivan Show, but I'm going to Tivo it."
Short notes from today:
Here's where we learn that Dagwood doesn't know about ATMs:
See, Dag, you don't actually have to deal with rude clerks when withdrawing small amounts from your account.
And from the "girls don't know about sports, aren't they dumb?" file:
Grrr . . . OK, no more references to Casey Stengel or Johnny Damon or George Mikan from THIS girl, I clearly have no idea what I am talking about. Now pardon me while I go check on my fantasy baseball team, you male chauvinist bird!
And finally, this makes about as much sense as the dry cleaning burgling uncle nephew duo:
Nobody was home . . . so they just let themselves into the house? Did Marmaduke let them in? And did they assume that the flat panel TV was to be mounted for the viewing pleasure of the dog? And did they also assume that he would be lying down at all times? And did the owners not realize this until they turned on the TV? Why don't they just fix it themselves? Those panels are not very heavy. I don't get it.
So, his uncle is a burglar, and he obviously likes to steal clothes . . . but why does he get them from his nephew's dry cleaning ruse? He is a "burglar," which means he actively goes in to houses (or caves or whatever) and steals them. He is not an "embezzler" or whatever you are if you take clothes from your nephew's dry cleaning business. Does the dry cleaning nephew just hand over the clothes to the uncle? Or, does the uncle actually come to "burgle" the dry cleaners every twelve hours? If so, why doesn't the nephew get better security?
And can someone please explain again why this strip takes place in caveman times? And the answer "Because its name is B.C." doesn't count. Really, half the time it is ants and snakes and rocks and flowers, and we have all those things now, and then whenever it's got cavemen they have dry cleaners and baseball and things of that ilk.
I have a theory: B.C. actually did begin in the caveman times (you can see it at Lascaux), and Johnny Hart (who has gotten the strip from his great-many-times-over grandfather) tries to keep it "up-to-date" with references to dry cleaners and the like. We're hip to his jive, though . . . those are definitely cavemen there. It's sort of like how Dennis the Menace is nominally set in the present day, but we all know it is really set in the 50s when there is a joke like, "I hate it when bridge club causes me to miss The Ed Sullivan Show, but I'm going to Tivo it."
Short notes from today:
Here's where we learn that Dagwood doesn't know about ATMs:
See, Dag, you don't actually have to deal with rude clerks when withdrawing small amounts from your account.
And from the "girls don't know about sports, aren't they dumb?" file:
Grrr . . . OK, no more references to Casey Stengel or Johnny Damon or George Mikan from THIS girl, I clearly have no idea what I am talking about. Now pardon me while I go check on my fantasy baseball team, you male chauvinist bird!
And finally, this makes about as much sense as the dry cleaning burgling uncle nephew duo:
Nobody was home . . . so they just let themselves into the house? Did Marmaduke let them in? And did they assume that the flat panel TV was to be mounted for the viewing pleasure of the dog? And did they also assume that he would be lying down at all times? And did the owners not realize this until they turned on the TV? Why don't they just fix it themselves? Those panels are not very heavy. I don't get it.
posted by big al at 8:44 PM
4 Comments:
All of those Marmaduke thoughts went through my head. I like how they can afford a $5,000 plasma TV but still do not have a dishwasher. What a world.
Fuck Marmaduke. Fuck y Winkerbean.
I used to read the comics to laugh. Now they are so stupid I have finally been convinced that there is no happiness to be had in this life.
Goodbye, cruel world.
My cave man loin cloth and my one-button white dress shirt got lost because I left them at the dry cleaner's longer than 12 hours. I tried to make a small withdrawal from the bank to collect the clothes, but my hypercritical ex-wife had emptied the account in order to mount a flat-panel TV on the wall sideways -- for her flippin' dog to watch the big Westminster show! My ex-wife loves her dog more than she did me!
Nope. Even the cumulative effect of these strips doesn't include any identifiable humor. Just checking.
Well, you know the dumb broad didn't buy the TV to watch sports. Chicks don't watch sports. They hate them in fact.
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