Three cartoons from Saturday: a Dilbert (on the nature of human beings); a Pearls Before Swine (with yet another ambiguity); and a Zippy (on politics, sort of).
Dilbert:
(#1)
L’homme machine (de La Mettrie, building on Pascal): a robot made of lunch meat.
Pearls:
(#2)
This one turns on the ambiguity of offensive: as an ordinary adjective ‘giving offense’ vs. as a pseudo-adjective evoking the noun offense (vs. defense) in sports.
Zippy:
(#3)
A nice build-up to “All politics is loco”, playing on the formula “All politics is local” (a slogan generally attributed to Tip O’Neill).
November 4, 2013 at 8:07 am |
Of course, knowing how Pearls Before Swine generally works, one hardly has to read past the first panel.