Not Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Like a Smell
I subscribe to the New Yorker Cartoon Bank's cartoon-a-day service--which, as you might expect, sends me a free New Yorker cartoon every day, visible in LiveJournal. All in all it's been (as you'd expect) a mixed bag: some funny, some not. But even the bad ones are often lovely to look at, so on the whole it's been a big thumbs-up.
Today, however, it was pretty clear they'd screwed something up. It looks like I'd been sent a cartoon that obviously required a caption, and yet there was none. That happened occasionally at Hallmark, so I recognized the problem. (We once sent out a card whose outside said "Brother..." along with a suspiciously large blank empty space, and on the inside it said, "I miss doing that." It sold, how do you say, poorly.) So I clicked the link to report the error, and I discovered it wasn't an error. It's just not that funny.
Just so The New Yorker Of The Past can learn the difference between a punch line and a premise, I've been trying to think of a caption that COULD go with the drawing, but so far, I haven't come up with anything I'm willing to type. When I have something that doesn't suck, I'll let you know. Feel free to make suggestions.
[Later:] Got one! "If this were a Charles Addams cartoon, we'd be about to go over a waterfall."
Today, however, it was pretty clear they'd screwed something up. It looks like I'd been sent a cartoon that obviously required a caption, and yet there was none. That happened occasionally at Hallmark, so I recognized the problem. (We once sent out a card whose outside said "Brother..." along with a suspiciously large blank empty space, and on the inside it said, "I miss doing that." It sold, how do you say, poorly.) So I clicked the link to report the error, and I discovered it wasn't an error. It's just not that funny.
Just so The New Yorker Of The Past can learn the difference between a punch line and a premise, I've been trying to think of a caption that COULD go with the drawing, but so far, I haven't come up with anything I'm willing to type. When I have something that doesn't suck, I'll let you know. Feel free to make suggestions.
[Later:] Got one! "If this were a Charles Addams cartoon, we'd be about to go over a waterfall."
Labels: humor and whimsy
posted by Cowboy Dave Dickerson | 8:05 AM
4 Comments:
Oh good it wasn't just me!
It would have worked *slightly* better if the image was large enough to actually tell what was going on.
"Forget what the guidebooks say and don't tip this time! These are the last dry clothes I have."
(What, by the way, was the missing part of the "Brother..." card?)
Good question. The missing text was something like, "Remember when we were younger and I always used to tease you and call you names? Well now that we're older, I just have to say..." You could have written it yourself.
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