The Family Circus, 2014-05-16.
Billy has a piece of paper with "8+8=16" written on it.
"Guess what!" he says. "In another year I'll be halfway to driving your car!"
His father just looks at him blankly.
The joke here, of course, is that Billy will never have the mental capacity required to drive a car.
F-Minus, 2014-05-19.
A young man and an old woman cross paths in the street. As they do so, the man grabs the woman's bag and takes off with it. But something seems unusual about this scenario...
"Hey..." he says, "where's my wallet?"
It turns out that the woman has picked his pocket and is now in possession of his wallet.
Pluggers, 2014-05-22.
Earl applies yet another sticky note to a wall already covered in them.
A plugger always uses tape when using a sticky note.
Sticky notes are supposed to be temporary. They're not meant to stay up for year after year. If you want to store notes on a more permanent basis, there are better ways. Why do people do this?
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2014-05-07
One-Panel Wednesday: As rare as hen's teeth
The Lockhorns, 2014-05-05.
Leroy spots a sign in a window — "SIGN UP FOR OUR 10K CHALLENGE". He stops to consider it.
"Forget it, Leroy..." says Loretta, tiredly. "'K' is for kilometers, not 'kegs.'"
Ballard Street, 2014-05-05.
Roger is hanging by his hands from a clamp that he has affixed to a door-frame. At his feet a number of other clamps are scattered about. A dog is investigating them.
"Clamps are not a proper area of interest, Roger." says his wife.
Heathcliff, 2014-05-05.
Heathcliff and Garfield stand facing each other on an empty street.
"ShIt just got real." says one bird to another.
Pluggers, 2014-05-05.
Henrietta Beak is sitting in her car.
"Uh oh." she says, looking at the calendar she keeps on the dash. "I forgot I have a dentist appointment Friday. I better start flossing tonight."
A plugger continues to put a stick-on calendar she got from her bank onto her car's dashboard, even though she has three calendars on her cellphone.
Henrietta Beak is a chicken. She doesn't have teeth. Why is she going to a dentist? She is a chicken!
Leroy spots a sign in a window — "SIGN UP FOR OUR 10K CHALLENGE". He stops to consider it.
"Forget it, Leroy..." says Loretta, tiredly. "'K' is for kilometers, not 'kegs.'"
Ballard Street, 2014-05-05.
Roger is hanging by his hands from a clamp that he has affixed to a door-frame. At his feet a number of other clamps are scattered about. A dog is investigating them.
"Clamps are not a proper area of interest, Roger." says his wife.
Heathcliff, 2014-05-05.
Heathcliff and Garfield stand facing each other on an empty street.
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Pluggers, 2014-05-05.
Henrietta Beak is sitting in her car.
"Uh oh." she says, looking at the calendar she keeps on the dash. "I forgot I have a dentist appointment Friday. I better start flossing tonight."
A plugger continues to put a stick-on calendar she got from her bank onto her car's dashboard, even though she has three calendars on her cellphone.
Henrietta Beak is a chicken. She doesn't have teeth. Why is she going to a dentist? She is a chicken!
2014-04-16
One-Panel Wednesday: Money Money Money
The Family Circus, 2014-04-14.
Bil is sitting at his desk. Papers are spread across it and he has a folder labelled Your Tax Guide.
"Look at all these papers and numbers!" says Billy. "Daddy you must REALLY be thinkin'!"
Apparently it's tax time in America. I can tell by the way every fucking comic is about how difficult taxes are. Now, I'm willing to believe that doing your taxes is more of a hassle in America than it is in Australia, because your country is some kind of third-world dystopia, but come the fuck on. Doing your taxes is not some huge ordeal, you just have to fill out some forms. Get over it you gigantic babies.
Oh, and the number of people who actually think that earning more can be a bad thing because you pay more tax is just mind-boggling. There is no way you can earn just enough more that your taxes go up and leave you with less over all. That is just not how it works. Earning more always means ending up with more.
The Lockhorns, 2014-04-15.
Loretta is depositing a cheque at the bank. Leroy waits just behind her, next to a man who is presumably there to do some banking and really didn't do anything to provoke conversation.
"We have a joint checking account..." says Leroy. "If I don't keep checking on Loretta, we lose the joint."
Although it could pass for word-play, there is no humour in his delivery and everyone involved is just sad.
Pluggers, 2014-04-16.
Andy is at a take-away pizza restaurant.
"Hmm... let's see now..." he says. "2 small pizzas + 1 large pizza, and 2 small are 1¢ less than 1 large, so I want 2 small pizzas..."
Plugger math.
While this may seem like a ridiculous way to save a single cent, I'm with Andy on this one. Firstly, why shouldn't you save a cent? It's not much, but why not? Secondly, if you order two small pizzas then you can have two different pizzas, whereas a large half-and-half pizza usually costs extra.
The real issue I have with this comic is, how does he know that two smalls are the same as one large? Pizzas are usually measured by diameter so working out the actual area of the pizza is slightly complicated. If a small pizza is 9" and a large is 13" then the large is about 133 in² and the small is about 64 in². That's the sizes of the pizzas at the place I usually order from, but the prices there don't work out as favourably as a large is less than twice the price of a small but actually slightly bigger than two smalls.
And many pizza places don't actually tell you the sizes of their pizzas at all, so I suspect that if the prices work out as Andy claims then the smalls are probably actually significantly less than half as big as the larges. That's not to say that Andy is wrong to buy them though, just not for the reasons he thinks.
Andy is noticeably overweight and probably shouldn't be eating a lot of pizza, so if he does end up getting slightly less this way it will be good for his health, and given that the difference is likely to be quite small he probably won't even notice and will still be just as satisfied with the amount he's eaten as he would be if he had ordered more.
So what I'm saying is, nobody tell Andy that his pizza maths doesn't add up. It's for the best.
Bil is sitting at his desk. Papers are spread across it and he has a folder labelled Your Tax Guide.
"Look at all these papers and numbers!" says Billy. "Daddy you must REALLY be thinkin'!"
Apparently it's tax time in America. I can tell by the way every fucking comic is about how difficult taxes are. Now, I'm willing to believe that doing your taxes is more of a hassle in America than it is in Australia, because your country is some kind of third-world dystopia, but come the fuck on. Doing your taxes is not some huge ordeal, you just have to fill out some forms. Get over it you gigantic babies.
Oh, and the number of people who actually think that earning more can be a bad thing because you pay more tax is just mind-boggling. There is no way you can earn just enough more that your taxes go up and leave you with less over all. That is just not how it works. Earning more always means ending up with more.
The Lockhorns, 2014-04-15.
Loretta is depositing a cheque at the bank. Leroy waits just behind her, next to a man who is presumably there to do some banking and really didn't do anything to provoke conversation.
"We have a joint checking account..." says Leroy. "If I don't keep checking on Loretta, we lose the joint."
Although it could pass for word-play, there is no humour in his delivery and everyone involved is just sad.
Pluggers, 2014-04-16.
Andy is at a take-away pizza restaurant.
"Hmm... let's see now..." he says. "2 small pizzas + 1 large pizza, and 2 small are 1¢ less than 1 large, so I want 2 small pizzas..."
Plugger math.
While this may seem like a ridiculous way to save a single cent, I'm with Andy on this one. Firstly, why shouldn't you save a cent? It's not much, but why not? Secondly, if you order two small pizzas then you can have two different pizzas, whereas a large half-and-half pizza usually costs extra.
The real issue I have with this comic is, how does he know that two smalls are the same as one large? Pizzas are usually measured by diameter so working out the actual area of the pizza is slightly complicated. If a small pizza is 9" and a large is 13" then the large is about 133 in² and the small is about 64 in². That's the sizes of the pizzas at the place I usually order from, but the prices there don't work out as favourably as a large is less than twice the price of a small but actually slightly bigger than two smalls.
And many pizza places don't actually tell you the sizes of their pizzas at all, so I suspect that if the prices work out as Andy claims then the smalls are probably actually significantly less than half as big as the larges. That's not to say that Andy is wrong to buy them though, just not for the reasons he thinks.
Andy is noticeably overweight and probably shouldn't be eating a lot of pizza, so if he does end up getting slightly less this way it will be good for his health, and given that the difference is likely to be quite small he probably won't even notice and will still be just as satisfied with the amount he's eaten as he would be if he had ordered more.
So what I'm saying is, nobody tell Andy that his pizza maths doesn't add up. It's for the best.
2014-04-07
Weekend Workshop: Monday is still the weekend, right?
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| Based on Pluggers, 2014-03-31. |
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| Based on Lola, 2014-04-03. |
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| Based on The Better Half, 2014-04-04. |
2014-03-21
Philosophical Friday: Human or Animal?
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| Dennis the Menace, 2014-03-14. |
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| Sherman's Lagoon, 2014-03-19. |
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| Pluggers, 2014-03-21. |
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| B.C., 2014-03-20. |
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| B.C. |
2013-11-11
Terrible coffee
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| Pluggers, 2013-11-08. |
2013-10-13
Pluggers
Sheila and Andy are out at a restaurant.
"Oh, this looks good!" says Sheila, looking through the menu.
"Oooh, this doesn't look good." think Andy, doing the same.
A plugger knows, the darker the restaurant, the higher the prices.
You see, men earn the money and are fiscally responsible and their wives just want to spend all of it.
Pluggers, 2013-10-11.
"Oh, this looks good!" says Sheila, looking through the menu.
"Oooh, this doesn't look good." think Andy, doing the same.
A plugger knows, the darker the restaurant, the higher the prices.
You see, men earn the money and are fiscally responsible and their wives just want to spend all of it.
Pluggers, 2013-10-11.
2013-05-13
2012-07-25
Pluggers
A half-human, half-dog creature wearing clothes sits under a tree holding a pencil and some paper in its malformed hands. "Dear Pen Pal," it writes.
"Pluggers have had 'friends' long before Facebook."
"Pluggers have had 'friends' long before Facebook."
2012-07-07
2012-06-05
2012-05-21
Pluggers
Earl Houndstooth sits alone in his livingroom, as he often does (a fact evidenced by the room's furnishings, a single armchair, a lamp and a television sitting on top of a much older television), watching a fishing program, remote in hand.
"The stand for a plugger's new flat-screen TV is at least 30 years old."
Comic
"The stand for a plugger's new flat-screen TV is at least 30 years old."
Comic
2012-04-19
Pluggers
Earl Houndstooth is on his new ride-on lawnmower. Smiling with the satisfaction of his newfound resolve. Today this lawn will darn well get cut. With his old mower it was a chore, but with this new one it's different. Even with petrol more expensive than ever and his ever-increasing medical bills, this was money well spent. There may be plenty of things Earl doesn't understand and can't control, but his lawn will no longer be one of them.
"You're a plugger if you paid more for your new lawnmower than for your first car."
Comic
"You're a plugger if you paid more for your new lawnmower than for your first car."
Comic
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