# Brevity - I hate it when I don't understand cartoons **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343 "2010-03-22T15:25:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343/21 "2010-03-22T19:47:13Z")
I actually thought it was a comment on him paying cash. The “American Way” these days is to charge it. More likely the other thing though. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343/22 "2010-03-22T21:05:28Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I think he’s hugging him because he’s just so darn stupid. He provides Bucky with so much joke fodder, jumping on him for not only not being able to distinguish between a bug and a Grape-Nut, but for not knowing that Grape-Nuts cannot be resuscitated just reminds Bucky what a wonderful source of amusment/abuse Satchel is. OK, I guess that works. Like I said, Bucky’s not usually the hugging type, he’s more of the smacking type, so it kind of threw me. Maybe Bucky’s been hanging out with Chubby Huggs. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343/23 "2010-03-22T21:58:16Z")
I just double checked the link. Worked for me. Although, with all of Yahoo!'s “upgrades”, I wouldn’t doubt that they would eff it up somehow. I haven’t flown post-9/11, but I didn’t know that the TSA has problems with folks paying cash for tickets? You can’t buy a ticket at the counter anymore? I’m about ready to give up on \*\*Get Fuzzy \*\*as well. Thanks for the help, all! 🙂 I now know I’m not alone! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343/24 "2010-03-23T00:27:58Z")
> [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](#): > > I just double checked the link. Worked for me. Although, with all of Yahoo!'s “upgrades”, I wouldn’t doubt that they would eff it up somehow. > > I haven’t flown post-9/11, but I didn’t know that the TSA has problems with folks paying cash for tickets? You can’t buy a ticket at the counter anymore? > > I’m about ready to give up on \*\*Get Fuzzy \*\*as well. > > Thanks for the help, all! 🙂 I now know I’m not alone! You can still buy a ticket at the counter for cash, but it increases the chance of being strip-searched. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343/25 "2010-03-23T00:37:28Z")
So is that a friendly warning or a helpful hint? 😉 Either way, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343/26 "2010-03-23T01:21:33Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > In any event, I’m e-mailing Guy and Rodd to see what’s what. That was a quick response: Munch: So…I don’t get it. Is the joke that American Way is American Airlines’ free on-board magazine and thus Bill’s an idiot for trying to buy it, or is it a commentary on how airlines are charging for everything these days and Bill’s an idiot for paying for what used to be a free service? Joe says the second, I say the first. Who’s right? Guy: Munch wins again! (i am assuming you have won before) Thanks for reading the strip. all best, guy ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343/27 "2010-03-23T02:48:41Z")
If our pitifully thin daily rag ever gave up Get Fuzzy, I would hasten its demise by giving up my subscription. Get Fuzzy and Dear Abby are the only things I actually look forward to reading in it, other than the Readers’ Recipes on Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343/28 "2010-03-23T03:02:38Z")
What, do the authors of “Brevity” know they have a large following among frequent flyers? Because if it’s a general-interest cartoon, that’s something of a niche-specific gag. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343/29 "2010-03-23T03:45:48Z")
I also thought it was that he was paying cash for a magazine called “American Way,” when the American way is to pay with credit… The ‘Get Fuzzy,’ I’m guessing is the beginning of a story arc with Bucky acting affectionate (probably with some devious purpose in mind). ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343/30 "2010-03-23T06:58:07Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > The link in the OP just gives me a Yahoo ‘Page not found’ error: However, putting ‘Brevity Comics’ into a new search on that page took me to [Comics.com](http://Comics.com), with what I assume to be the [right comic (Mar 22)](http://comics.com/brevity/). Do you have NoScript? Because, even if you have Yahoo on your trusted list, it seems to think it was a hijack attempt (cross site scripting, to be exact.) Since I knew it wasn’t, I used the little drop down and did an “Unsafe refresh.” But, for posterity, the proper link that doesn’t depend on unsafe JavaScript techniques is: [http://comics.com/brevity/2010-03-22/](http://comics.com/brevity/2010-03-22/) (I never link to the front page of a site if there’s a way around it. You never know when they’ll change to the latest comic.) ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343/31 "2010-03-23T13:52:20Z")
I never got British humor. Benny Hill, etc. I still don’t. Monty Python goes right over my head. I did like the skit with the knight who lost an arm and called it a “flesh wound”. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343/32 "2010-03-24T01:27:27Z")
> [@SkeptiJess](#): > > I also thought it was that he was paying cash for a magazine called “American Way,” when the American way is to pay with credit… > > The ‘Get Fuzzy,’ I’m guessing is the beginning of a story arc with Bucky acting affectionate (probably with some devious purpose in mind). Pity, I’d say, more than affection. And today’s comic pretty much confirms that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brevity-i-hate-it-when-i-dont-understand-cartoons/533343.md?page=1)