Sunday Funnies: Close But No Cigar

I like a good joke.  But few things irk me more than a joke that doesn't quite make it.

Here are few coulda-been-funny cartoons.  Click to almost-enjoy.

 

Homonym toast?

Words that sound similar but have different meanings are homonyms. He's a writer! He KNOWS the test should have been on "different words that mean the same thing."

Fail

If you're gonna play with a prefix, play with a prefix.  "Perverse" is not from the Latin per- (thoroughly) -versus (turn towards).  It's from a single French word.  He could have made puns on adverse, converse, inverse, diverse, universe, even traverse, but not perverse (even though it's a funnier concept ~ it's still a fail).

It's a home run, but you knew that, kid.

The kid should have said "a four base hit." If he knows the phrase "home run," he wouldn't have called it a quadruple.

Do you mean "caterpillar?"

Baby butterflies? Sorry.  Baby butterflies can't fly.

A bit dated.

So this one's about seventy years too late.

Daddy?  I don't get it.

And this one's only forty years too late.

And the winner is...

That looks like about a 30' long telescope. That's a 10,000 millimeter refracting telescope. I can zoom 100x on my camera! He'd probably get 1000-4000 magnification on there. And although I guess the giant mechanism off to the left is supposed to keep the 'scope following a celestial object, it ain't following a seagull. Oh... and there's no such thing as a seagull.

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Sunday Not Funny

I mentioned Close to Home last weekend.  I suggested it might be the worst strip ever.  Instead of posting my usual Sunday funnies here, I recommend you take a look at this blog post.

I leave a short excerpt here.  This is a bit that doesn't contain not-for-the-kiddies language.

THE WRITING: This comic is a deft combination of two overused clichés in comics – a desert island gag and a “____ For Dummies” reference. The result is spectacularly forgettable. THE ART: Line variation can really help out a drawing sometimes, but McPherson likes to draw body hair and grime with the same pen he draws everything else with, I guess. This man doesn’t look like he’s been marooned on an island. He looks like he was mercilessly beaten with a cactus.

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Definitely An Enabler

This is the second Close to Home cartoon I've printed.  CtH has been in the Washington Post for several years and has made me laugh exactly once.  And he's had one "CD" cartoon.  Alas, they were two different cartoons.

Now he's published one I'd put in my "CD-ish" file.  Those are the cartoons that are CD, with some imagination.  I definitely think she's trying to introduce him to a lifestyle she finds interesting.

Don't Forget the Bra!

Sorry McPherson.  You've been in The Post for a long time and I have yet to see one funny strip.  The only reason you made the blog is the little t-connection.

I hate it when a newspaper wastes valuable comic page real estate with something like this.