Pimentos: Not Funny
So, the "little red part of the olive" isn't TECHNICALLY "part of the olive." It's a pimento stuffed in there. And I don't think it is particularly fattening or high in calories. Which I guess is the joke: taking out the pimento doesn't make the martini "diet!" HA HA HA! The pimento is probably the lowest calorie thing in the whole drink. HOO HOO, I get it now, ooh boy that's funny. It's about as funny as hard of hearing ducks!
Unfortunately, in yesterday's list of things that aren't funny, I left out both olives and pimentos. Neither are particularly humorous. Not necessarily UN-funny, just, you know, random things. Here are some OTHER things in the category: page numbers, sweat bands, scented candles.
posted by big al at 10:12 PM
5 Comments:
I didn't know Vikings drank martinis.
Vikings DON'T drink martinis!!! That's what makes this one so funny!! It would have been even BETTER if he ordered a Cosmopolitan! Ha ha ha!
For sheer artistic laziness, this one deserves some sort of Viking trophy with the big horns and all. How much work does it take to remember, or just to look up, the word "pimento"? And yet we get "little red thing."
Or does our esteemed artist think a significant part of the Hagar audience wouldn't recognize that term? Is that it? Would "pimento" be too intellectual for the mass market audience? Chee-ze!
The pop cultural sky is falling!
(By the way: What exactly are the cryptic black marks above panel #2? Is there some other dialog up there that we're not allowed to see in this our family paper? Hagar had some ad libbed lines of his own that have been edited out, methinks.)
The cryptic black marks above panel two look like Morse code to me. I'm not well versed in it, except to know that ---...--- equals S.O.S., which pretty well sums up Hagar.
Oh, and Mr. ianscot, I think your second theory is correct: dumbing things down by saying "little red thing" instead of "pimento" seems to fit perfectly into the Hagar style. Think about it. What must the mindset of somebody who enjoys reading Hagar the Horrible be like?
Well, since this is the time of the Vikings, maybe the word "pimento" hadn't been invented yet, and everyone just called the little red thing "the little red thing."
Or, we're to assume that the bartender did not get the proper amount of schooling (he's probably been bartending since he was 12) to learn that "the little red thing" was, in fact, a pimento.
Hagar is more deep than you guys give him credit for. /sarcasm off
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