For most of the time we’ve been married, Missy and I have referred to beef meatballs as “beefmeat balls.” I don’t remember who started it, but I’m 99.9% sure it was me. It sounds like the kind of thing I’d come up with. That might come off as bragging, but believe me, it’s not.
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
Shortly before I wrote this comic, I went to the movies. Just by chance, two friends from work happened to be going to the same movie, at the same theater, and were there for the same showing. Athena was one of them. I ended up taking the photos I needed to put them in the comic, the photos these images of Athena were drawn from, in the lobby of the theater.
The theater was the AMC at Disney’s Pleasure Island (now Disney Springs). Anybody who has gone to Pleasure Island/Disney Springs will remember that theater, because everyone who sees it has one of two thoughts:
Who goes to Walt Disney World and goes to a movie?
or
I bet it’s air conditioned in there, and I could sit down in a nice, padded chair, and my kids wouldn’t be able to ask me to buy anything, for TWO WHOLE HOURS!
In case you’re curious, the movie we saw was Jackass 3D, one of the least Disney-ish films I can think of.
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
I am of course referring to Dr. Bronner’s, which people often praise as being the soap you can use for anything you might use soap for.
It’s an amazing commentary on marketing that there’s a brand of soap that can make a virtue of the fact that you can use it for any problem which calls for soap. Somehow, we’ve allowed soap to get far too specialized. You wouldn’t use shampoo to wash your dishes, or at least you wouldn’t want anyone to catch you using shampoo to wash your dishes.
Anyway, without getting too graphic, I will mention that using diluted peppermint-scented Dr. Bronners as a body wash can result in a sensation like “Jack Frost, blowing on my junk.” If that sounds appealing, give it a try. I won’t judge.
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
I made this comic eight years ago. I’m a bit more enlightened now. I understand that people who dress in animal costumes for recreational purposes prefer to be called Furries. I also now understand that many—some say most—of them derive no sexual pleasure from the activity at all.
In my defense, (and it is a weak defense) at the time I wrote this I was a cast member at Walt Disney World, and frankly, the idea that any human being would put on one of those hot, heavy, uncomfortable, expensive suits for recreational purposes was beyond me.
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
I once had a coworker go off on a tangent about how the lowest thing you could do was discuss someone’s flaws behind their back. He went on to name several of our coworkers, none of whom were present, who were guilty of criticizing people who weren’t present. When we called him a hypocrite, the fact that we did it to his face instead of behind his back didn’t seem to make it less offensive to him.
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
I know it’s not even close to Thanksgiving, but I said I’d run the comics in order. This kind of thing was inevitable.
There are those who would say that every day is Thanksgiving Day, because we should all be grateful every day for all the blessings in our lives. The irony is that people who say stuff like that often make the people around them less grateful, and feel less blessed.
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
Also, the man has a full head of hair and, from, the looks of it, uses motor oil as hair gel.
And he dated Meg Ryan. That irritates me to no end as well.
Note from Missy: Eight years later, Scott still shakes a fist and has stern words to say about John Cougar Mellencamp every time the guy’s music comes up. So don’t get on Scott’s loathe-list, because that thing has a long, long life.
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
For the record, the battleship Bismarck was running from a flotilla of enemy ships, all intent on sinking her, and was struck by a torpedo dropped from a biplane, because we used to do that sort of thing.
The torpedo damaged the steering system, fusing one of the rudders in place and leaving the Bismarck only able to steer in a giant circle, with the flotilla coming to destroy it with no means getting away. I think we can all agree, for the sailors on board, it must have been one of history’s finest examples of a “real bummer.”
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
In retrospect, there are changes I would make to this product. The doll would be integrated, and it would be a one-piece toy the child pushes around, like those popcorn popper things, only the wheels spinning would drive the baby’s head swinging back and forth, and the mechanical siren would be like a small air raid klaxon.
I know it sounds awful, but I promise you, it would sell. No parent would buy it, but the friends or siblings of parents would.
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
