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I got a few emails about this cartoon from people who did not understand it. At least one admitted to not knowing what the word “reverb” means, so maybe that’s it. Reverb is the echo you hear on song recordings sometimes, so the lady is supposedly wearing a bucket on her head because she likes the echo it provides. Not a very good answer, as noted by the good doctor.
Next up is a dandy idea by my known colleague, Wayno of Pittsburgh. It’s based on the Dos Equis commercial spokesman, “The Most Interesting Man in the World.” I’ve actually gotten a chuckle out a few of these commercials and do not hate TMIMITW, as many do, but it still makes a great cartoon. Well done, Wayno. Look here to see what W of P has to say about it.
This cartoon was inspired by the ten years I spent in NYC. Many of the cab drivers there are aliens, as you’ve heard, but not just the kind from other countries. Some are actually extraterrestrials. Times are hard on other planets, too, apparently.
Our last offering of the day is about cats and bats. I love bats and wish I had an occupied bat house in my yard. But not in my house. This idea was in collaboration with Victor The Boy Genius. He’s been on a roll this summer but now that he’s back in hillbilly college, he’ll likely be submitting fewer ideas to me. Sigh. They grow up so fast.
His cartoons are always in color, even when he draws them in black and white.
“I don’t always read comics, but when I do, I prefer Bizarro.”
(Actually I always read the comics.)
His comics always have a point … even when they don’t.
He once drew a precise copy of the Mona Lisa into the background of one of his strips … just because he could.
Stan Lee asks for HIS autograph …
We recently discovered bats in our attic – the bat comic made us both laugh out loud, for reals. :)
No mosquito problems at your house.
When I was young I had a cat that would catch bats and bring them into the house still alive. The bats would fly up on top of bookcases and you’d hear them squeaking. The dog, a low built terrier cross, would also occasionally catch bats. You’d see her walking around with the bat, still alive, in her mouth and the wings sticking out of either side. Now that’s bizarre.
Today I checked one of your books out of the library. Love it.
So now maybe you’ll go out and buy it? JAFS. We must support the arts.
2012 is becoming the year newspaper obsolescenece. I joined the smart phone age at the end of 2011 and was gifted another year of our local newspaper subscription. I love to peruse the headlines in the morning, but now I find that its very natural to do via smartphone. Whats missing? My dailly Bizarro fix! So my goal this year was to cut out each day of Bizarro and paste them(the old fashion way) in a small journal, then recycle the rest of the paper! Now I have found your blog Dan and I am here to stay! I find that I am in tune with the way you look at life, I have these same moments everyday when I look at situations in Bizarro fashion and most people either dont get it or laugh, maybe I need to draw them a diagram or give them visual ‘aids’. Thank you! Michael owner and sole proprietor of Avant Sculpture
Thanks for the terrific note, Michael, and welcome. Here at the blog, regular readers are called Bizarro Jazz Pickles. Stay tangy, my friend.
OH DAN!! You and your silly blow up dolls ; o)
but you did make me smile…
Install some bat straps on the eves of your house and they might come to stay. I have bats on the side of my house.
Oh geez Lynn, at first I thought you were referring to bat strips, something similar to the sticky strips used to trap flies. I hope to God there is no such product as the sticky bat strips :-)
Bat straps are little pieces of leather or nylon which give my local bats a nice comfy place to hang out and sleep during the day. At night they fly around and eat the bugs around my house.
COOL!
The bat cartoon would be even funnier in my language, Swedish. The Swedish word for bat is “fladdermus”, which can be translated literally into “fluttermouse”.
Ooh. I love that!
Hah! I was just about to say the same about German! A beautiful cartoon, which works really well with the German “Maus” and “Fledermaus”… same as the Swedish. Snap, Tobias Jazz Pickle!
(In fact, I hadn’t even realised that wasn’t even the joke until I read it the second time just now… my mind’s a mush of English and German… Germush perhaps.)
Same in Dutch, vleermuis. I’m sort of disappointed this was not intentional- I found the concept of a joke that only second language speakers will “get” completely amusing.
Oh, that doesn’t ruin it a bit for me! I love unintentional humour.
Congratulations to mr Piraro for making your foreign readers laugh a little extra! ;-)
(And I just learnt how to say “bat” in two more languages. I hope that’ll be useful someday.)
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Here’s another “Most Interesting…” send up. The computer programming geeks in my circle of friends think this is a scream. Non-geeks? Maybe not so much.
http://memegenerator.net/instance/9689481
I am not slow, but it took me a while to understand the Annoying Man cartoon. I seldom pay attention to beer commercials, so that’s my excuse…funny it is when you know what it means.
I was working on the lawnmower earlier, and the thought occured to me that perhaps i don’t really fix anything, but that my machines begin to work out of fear of being worked on.
I love this notion, though I’m not sure I can make it into a cartoon. Thanks for the smile, though. :o)
I love that you love bats! I do too. They’re so lovely and so misunderstood. I also don’t have an occupied bat house, largely because my bat house is sitting on the floor of my storage shed because I can’t figure out how to stick it up by my roof. Failure of mechanical skill, the story of my life.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it, Emma. I’ve read that bats are incredibly fussy about where they will roost so there is a very good chance that even if you installed your bat house, no bats would ever live there. I know, it’s sad. :o(
Sorry for the delayed input; just discovered you tonight. (Hooray!)
On top of being late, I’m all jealous, ’cause in French, it’s “chauve-souris” (bald mouse, or rather “mouse-bald”). The Germanic languages use a much cuter name, and more apposite as well!