You wouldn’t want to bang? You have very broad standards, sir or ma’am.
I’m a Penelope/Pizza Girl man, myself.
ETA, and I see I wrote “Magna Carter” in post #17. Curse you, Gaudere!
You wouldn’t want to bang? You have very broad standards, sir or ma’am.
I’m a Penelope/Pizza Girl man, myself.
ETA, and I see I wrote “Magna Carter” in post #17. Curse you, Gaudere!
How do you know there are 3 jokes?
In the notes right below the comic the artist says:
Sign in the front panel says “Smith”, t-shirt in third panel says “Smif”?
ETA: I should read the other posts closer. Another “tim” made the same point.
I reread the sign to clarify that, myself.
And I enjoy the irony of YOU making a 1984 reference.
My two cents:
Two of the jokes are obviously her response being iambic pentameter and the “do we decimal?” pun.
The third is probably supposed to be a Jabberwocky reference. It’s wrong, as others have pointed out. But if you Google “oh joyous day” you’ll find that many people do mistakenly think that the word is joyous rather than frabjous.
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071017/day-92-oh-joyous-day-well-one-out-of-one-hundred-at-least/
Maybe 5% of them do. That would the joke on him, wouldn’t it.
My favorite thing about that quote is the end of the first line: “!?!?” You’d expect Lewis Carroll to finish the stanza:
Daniel
sad nobody picked up on the joke in his first post
Well, the sentence Oh joy’ous day’, you’ pass’ed the test’! is itself in iambic pentameter, isn’t it? Though I thought that WAS the first joke, the second one being the Dewey / Do We pun, and still not sure of the third one.
Not as you wrote it. You can’t have three straight stressed syllables. The “you’re hired” at the end is needed for the fifth pairing. (And passed is one syllable.)
That was most excellent.
Holy crap thanks a lot for posting this, I’ve read from 1-700 so far today.
I pronounce hired as two syllables.
I don’t.
Most people, if asked to pronounce hired alone and out of context, probably would give it the proper two syllables. Just as they would pronounce passed as only one syllable in all contexts.
But in normal speech hired is pronounced something like hir’d, with the second syllable slurred and combined. And for this poetic purpose, hir’d and pass’d get a single syllable and stress.
I didn’t say it was great poetry.
I was thinking that, but her last line isn’t Iambic pentameter… well, maybe if we turned “ever” into “ev’r” … then again, her line with “you’re hired” would have to be hir’d to make it iambic pentameter, too…
When I said “that whole bit” I only meant the balloon with “Oh joyous day…” in it, as per the quote from squeegee. The first joke is that realizing the application is in iambic pentameter is the test; it’d be a perfectly good one-joke strip if it ended right there with a quick “You’re hired.”
The second joke is that she answers his question about iambic in iambic pentameter, which prompts a quick “What?” before he says “Oh, I get it.” The third joke is the “Do we ever!” pun, which doesn’t need iambic pentameter; she’s already made that joke, he already got it, she’s moved on to something else.
Well, not the blonde crazy one–but the rest (gay & straight) are all incredibly hot…at least in the eyes of this dude.
Check out Dora in panel 3 of today’s comic. Hot indeed.
It helps that they all look basically the same. At least, all of the ones within the next 10 strips or so.