# Larson comic - what's the funny **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [September 20, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434 "2023-09-20T20:09:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/61 "2023-09-21T11:56:01Z")
Sometimes a hose is just a hose. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/62 "2023-09-21T12:02:43Z")
> [@abcdefghij](#): > > Corollary: there’s no helping _Family Circus_ > **[Dysfunctional Family Circus (Webcomic) - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/DysfunctionalFamilyCircus)** > > Looking for Bil Keane's much beloved Newspaper Comic The Family Circus? Oy, have you come to the wrong place! The Dysfunctional Family Circus is a Remix Comic which uses Keane's art — or a pastiche thereof — with new captions, ranging … ---
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/63 "2023-09-21T12:16:30Z")
We’ll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree. (X3) As we go marching on! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/64 "2023-09-21T13:34:02Z")
What I was gonna post. Entertaining stuff. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/65 "2023-09-21T14:52:12Z")
“His soul is marching on” His hose was left on Can anyone work on that? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/66 "2023-09-21T14:55:00Z")
A college buddy of mine and I used to do DFCs all the time with a pen and a bottle of white-out. This was back in 1983 or so. I was surprised years later to find out that people were doing this on the Internet. I guess there really are no original ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/67 "2023-09-21T16:42:10Z")
My folks didn’t go to many movies, and I had t explain a comic to them, from the strip “Born Loser” In it a guy is in a restaurant and the waiter says their evening special is fava beans, liver, and chianti. He books it out of there. My folks didn’t get the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Pither](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@Pither](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pither)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/68 "2023-09-21T16:55:08Z")
My impression was it was referring to the guy who raced a steam shovel to dig a hole through a mountain for the railroad. He beat it using just his hammer. This would be him later in life with a delicate little hammer doing detail work. Don’t remember his name but assumed it was John Brown based on the comic. Made me giggle inside ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/69 "2023-09-21T17:01:59Z")
That’s John Henry. He was a Steel Drivin’ Man. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/70 "2023-09-21T17:06:46Z")
Not to be confused with Big Bad John, who worked in the mines and died saving people from a cave in. Not also to be confused with John Henry Irons, who was Steel(man). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/71 "2023-09-21T17:10:21Z")
And don’t mess around with Jim. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/72 "2023-09-21T17:57:53Z")
Or bad, bad Leroy Brown. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/73 "2023-09-21T18:01:54Z")
I was writing dirty captions for pictures in the Sears catalog way back in seventh grade. It was great fun! 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/74 "2023-09-21T18:12:38Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > > > The other one he got a lot of flack for was one of a couple of aliens with great big grins, in a bubble flying saucer driving low over a street with humans running, in obvious fear. > > He got even more flak for the one captioned “What dogs dream about” Not to mention the time he drew a bird in a diner, sitting down to a breakfast of scrambled babies. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/75 "2023-09-21T18:57:29Z")
Turnabout is fair play! ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/76 "2023-09-21T22:14:56Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I was writing dirty captions for pictures in the Sears catalog way back in seventh grade. It was great fun! Please tell me you still have one of those that you can share with us now. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > breakfast of scrambled babies. Yuck. Reminds of the [SNL skit ‘Fluckers’.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht7Jmp4tZsk) I think it was Dan who offered, “Mangled Baby Ducks”. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/77 "2023-09-22T01:50:46Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > > [@terentii](#): > > > > I was writing dirty captions for pictures in the Sears catalog way back in seventh grade. It was great fun! > > Please tell me you still have one of those that you can share with us now. They were mostly scatological in nature. Sadly, all of the catalogs we had when I was in junior high ceased to exist long ago. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/78 "2023-09-22T02:34:36Z")
And “Solidarity Forever” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/79 "2023-09-22T03:08:49Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > They also use pee to mark their territories and property. Hence the old gag of dogs peeing on trees, fire hydrants, and people they happen to like. > > One of the funniest cartoons I’ve ever seen was about a guy taking his dog into the woods to show him how to pee on trees instead of furniture. Somehow I did remember it right, it was none other than Ernie Bushmiller, the creator of Nancy, the one who made that comic. 🙂 > **[A Brief History of Ernie Bushmiller’s Dirtiest Comic Strip - The Comics Journal](https://www.tcj.com/a-brief-history-of-ernie-bushmillers-dirtiest-comic-strip/)** > > Although intended only as a cheap laugh for his Dutch Treat Club cronies, "How To Housebreak Your Dog" assumed an illustrious afterlife. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larson-comic-whats-the-funny/990434/80 "2023-09-22T07:20:54Z")
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