“Zot who?”
Frammin’ on the jim-jam
Frippin’ at the klotz
Take away the curse
With a big fat ZOTZ!
If I have learned anything in my travels, sir, it is this: never underestimate a reanimated evangelist.
Yes! that is what I remember best.
Peter, pointing at Thor passsing by on a Wheel: Thor!
Grog: GDUNGE!
Peter: Wheel!
Grog: GDUNGE!
Grog: [large, shit-eating grin]
Btw, his last Easter comic… not too bad to go out on.
“Somewhere in my magic there is a basic flaw.”
I find myself using that a lot when things go haywire on the servers I support (which happens with distressing frequency).
Guard (running into the throne room): “Sire! The moat monsters are starving!”
King: “Oh, dear.”
Another guard (running into the throne room): “Sire! The peasants are without water!”
King (thought balloon): “We may be able to work this out yet.”
Supposition on my part. Both artists mentioned in my post did say they wanted to get out before they lost what made them funny.
We still got a couple of those, but the art wore/washed off years ago.
Mel Brooks ripped (most of) this off in History of the World Part I. (At least he changed the response to “You said it! They stink on ice!”)
I’d be surprised if this one doesn’t date to the days of radio or maybe even vaudeville.
I’m not sure what triggers my incongruity meter more; the ants being Christian, or thinking that “how old was Jesus when he was crucified?” is a math problem, simply because the answer is a number.
Ants going to “SKOOL” doesn’t bother me a bit. Everyone knows that ants can’t spell for shit…
**Guard **: One o’clock and all is well.
**Guard **: Two o’clock and all is swell.
**Guard **: Three o’clock and the King is a fink.
King: Four o’clock and the guard’s in the clink.
Guard: Two o’clock and the king has been captured.
Guard: STOP THAT DANCING IN THE STREETS!
Apteryx: Hi there, I am an aspirin…I mean, I am…
Dinosaur…(laughing)
Apteryx: An APTERYX!!!
Dinosaur: Ha ha ha…I liked you better as an aspirin!
Apteryx goes away but comes back)
Apteryx: Hi there, I am an aspirin.
Dinosaur: What happened to “apteryx”?
Apteryx: Being “liked better” is more important. 
I think my favorite WOI strip was the king waking up in the morning, jumping onto a trampoline and up over and into his tights that were suspended so he could fall into them.
The final panel had him unfastening the clips that held his tights, and the the King says “Like every one else, my ass” (Or words to that effect)
Johnny, I hope you find that clams really do have legs.
Well, the incongruity ALWAYS is that they’re talking about Christ when the strip is plainly titled “B.C.” 
Alan Sherman had the joke in his song about Louis XVI (from memory from a long time ago so apols if I’ve got anything wrong):
You went the wrong way old King Louis,
That’s why they put you on the shelf,
It’s no wonder that the peasants are revolting
'Cause Louis, you’re pretty revolting yourself.
IIRC, it was “One leg at a time” which makes more sense.
Beggar: Alms, alms.
King: Do you have change for a fifty?
Beggar: Yes, sire.
King: :mad: Then get out of my courtyard.
Well, one of the open secrets about B.C. was that it was populated with people Johnny Hart knew in the Binghamton/Endicott area. Or to put it another way, it was populated with charactures of people from Broome County, NY.
My uncle claims to have worked with the inspiration for Clumsy Carp.
You’ve got to be kidding. That last strip embodies the crap that Hart has been spewing out the last few years.
It doesn’t make one bit of sense. Hell, neither does Zippy, but at least Zippy tries to be clever. This is utter crap.
What does the test question have to do with math? For that matter, what does the student’s answer have to do with an “English” composition or math?
The answer, of course, is that they have absolutely nothing to do with any subject other than the Christian religion.
It’s like Hart sat at his drawing board trying to figure out another way to shoehorn his religion into what used to be a clever premise.