I don’t get it.
In general, one does not drink wine while eating tube steak. Also, it should probably be a red wines since the hot dog is likely to contain beef.
I see that, by why describe it as an “eating disorder”
Because if he were to use the phrase “alcohol abuse” the folks at AA would be pissed?
No kidding. This is funny!
Because if you take in white wine and a hot dog at the same meal, you’re clearly eating something out of order. Or, more simply, your eating is disordered.
A couple of my favorite definitions from Wiley’s Dictionary:
mort-gage: the measure of one’s tolerance for guys named Mort (probably an inside joke at Mort Walker since the two were close friends)
hu-mid-i-fier: an Italian oxymoron
Somehow I am not impressed.
Years ago I clipped a Sunday B. C. strip in which one of the characters stands by the pillar engraved “TRVTH” and tells the others that, as for the source of all matter in the universe, “That would be God.”
At this the others jeer him.
So, to be fair, he asks them, “All right, where do YOU say it’s from?”
And they give answers like, "It was always here! or “Aliens brought it in!”
In the last panel, the one character looks up with a helpless sigh as the others, apparently satisfied with their own answers, walk away.
Is this what ‘deepness of religious thought’ requires?
Was there supposed to be some sense in there?
-Joe
First, my apologies, I hadn’t read this thread and no one reported it, so I’m coming in late.
However: this is a funeral thread. Criticism and disparaging remarks have no place in this thread; that’s thread-shitting.
If you want to critique Johnny Hart’s work, that’ s fine: not here. Start a new thread, and anything is fair game. A funeral however is the place for nice words and kind thoughts, not for brutal criticism. A funeral thread is ditto. We mourn the loss of artists and creative talents, and the deceased is entitled to that respect in the funeral thread or death notice.
No artist, no creative talent, is always perfect. Shakespeare had his Titus Andronicus. Threads critiquing an artist/writer/whatever and their work are certainly welcome. But keep it out of the funeral thread: that’s just polite and good manners.
Quick hijack- what was wrong with T.A.? It made a bitchin’ movie with Anthony Hopkins AND inspired my ex-gf’s funniest joke. End hijack.
I believe it is- in his book Backstage at the Strips, Walker reprinted a letter he received after the strip was published filled with Mort-definition gags.
Watterson specifically mentioned Garfield in an interview with the Onion A.V. Club. That’s another horse beaten far beyond death and well into zombie-land.
All right, spill.
Based on the current discussion on whether “funeral threads” should have criticism of the deceased allowed: as Hart’s comments in his strip in later years were the subject of controversy and are as such an important part of his history, as starter of this thread, I hereby allow criticism of Johnny Hart and/or his work. I agree with many that Johnny Hart was overly preachy in his later years and hit you over the head with his beliefs, often sacrificing humor to do so, as opposed to, say, Charles Schulz, who was able to mix humor and religion without turning it into a religious message.
Well, beef by-products.
Maybe.
Point well taken, Mister Moderator.
I confess that the controversy you have alluded to belongs in a BBQ-pit thread.
Oh, I dunno. I never saw that one, but you know what? From your description, I would bet that every single character in the last panel was thinking the exact same thing. Certainly you could read it as a “I’m right and how sad it is that all these other people are wrong” religious commentary, certainly the evangelical atheists here are going to read it that way, but to my mind, it works on another level as well.