OK it’s just a friggin’ comic panel but I cannot figure this one out. If anyone has an explaination for it I would love to hear from you. It better be a REAL funny or I’m gonna bust some heads. Here it is:
HAHAHAHA!!! OH MY!!! SPRINGS! HAHAHA
[sub]huh?[/sub]
There’s a thing called, er, color profiling or something.
It goes like this:
A “colour consultant” holds different coloured bits of cloth up to your face to find out which colours suit you.
You are then classified as a season. “Autumns” suit rust, brown, orange and khaki colours. “Springs” suit springtime colurs like lilac and jade (I think).
So, the joke here is that one of the gentleman is wearing colours that don’t suit a “spring” person, and the “spring” gentlmen feel threatened. I would imagine it’s intended to play off the macho spirit of cowboys with the poncey spirit of colour consultants.
I am afraid you are going to have to bust some heads.
Surely you have heard women talk about having a “summer” complexion, or any other season. That is what the comic is alluding to. The town has all “spring” complexions and wear their accessories accordingly. The stranger is different, maybe a “winter” or “fall”, and the locals don’t trust him because of it.
Jesus, I can’t believe I knew that. I’m going to go watch Sportscenter now and try to forget facts like that are swimming around in my brain.
Briminator, you’re not stupid; you’re just the victim of another guy who stares in his mirror all day fantasizing that he’s Gary Larson.
Nope, you aren’t stupid. Just not fashion conscious.
Well I don’t know, I think Hawaiian shirts are now the hottest thing out there in the fashion world. They hide the blood splattered stains quite well.
::Grabs baseball bat and heads outside::
OP subject line - “I think I’m stupid”
You think therefore you are.
j/k I couldn’t help myself, maybe comic would be better in color.
I agree that the “joke” must refer to color profiling. Were I the cartoonist I’d have used some other season in place of “springs” to avoid confusion with bedsprings or slinkies or whatnot.
Actually, were I the cartoonist I would never have written this joke at all, because it is stupid. It wouldn’t have been very funny even if written properly, and as it stands it seems clear that the cartoonist doesn’t even understand what it means to be a “spring”. He apparently thinks that it’s a matter of choice: the townsfolk have all decided to be springs and wear spring colors, and the newcomer is not wearing an acceptable spring color combination. But you can’t choose to be a spring; either you are one or you aren’t, depending on your skin tone and hair and eye color.
So feel free to bust away, my good man.