if you are a cartoon character, who are you and why?

[S.B.G]

Well, you can tell Puma that Garfield needs to recover from his involuntary exile in the wardrobe in my mother's room; he is currently submerged, (but does not look the worse for it), in water, and is soaking nicely.

No doubt, he will presently be restored to his proper position on top of the sofa (in my study)…….I will make an announcement in due course…..but yes, I am happy to have recovered him safely…..

Ah, well, a bath for Garfield probably isn't his favorite thing to do, but, he will be in great condition once it's over.

 

[LizKat]

Oh yeah, The Far Side was great. I read that one weekly too for years.

Oh someone please find me that one w/ the professor in the lecture hall saying something about audience remembering their ducks (sure I've botched the punchline but someone must remember this one).

Update: (see below). YES!! that's the one. Thanks

 

[S.B.G]

Oh someone please find me that one w/ the professor in the lecture hall saying something about audience remembering their ducks (sure I've botched the punchline but someone must remember this one).

Maybe this one?

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Maybe this one?
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Very good. Some of the stuff which came from The Far Side was excellent…..

I also remember some very funny and clever Doonesbury cartoons; indeed, I recall being in stitches (of laughter) at a series of (Doonebury) cartoons on the office door of one of my professors.

It depicted a professor having to make ever wilder claims in order to keep the attention of - and get a reaction from - his class of students (who carried on scribbling, while expressing thought bubbled surprise at how interesting this stuff that they 'never even knew' was). Very, very funny.

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Ah, well, a bath for Garfield probably isn't his favorite thing to do, but, he will be in great condition once it's over.

Well, I thought that as cats like washing themselves, a bath (in a bucket) might not (in the circumstances) go amiss.

More to the point, he will look simply wonderful when he is ready to reclaim his throne on top of the sofa, and can be welcomed back by his willing and adoring subjects. In other words, by me.

 

[jimjam99]

I'd say if this works as a cartoon character. I'd be pikachu. He fights battles. I have battles to fight. He has energy. I have energy pent up.

 

[LizKat]

I just love thinking about how cartoonists come up with their material. Like they’ll take a concept millions of us are familiar with, and invert it, coming up with a cartoon that doesn’t even need a caption. Like the clown car at a circus...

(S.Gross, The New Yorker, Jan. 18, 1993)

 

[Scepticalscribe]

And just for SBG, a Garfield update: I came upon Garfield, now retrieved from his bathing bucket, and sitting comfortably in a colander, both forepaws happily resting on the rim of the colander. It, in turn, is balanced neatly over the bucket, into which water from (Garfield) is dripping, slowly.

Garfield still looks a little bedraggled, but is rapidly recovering his composure and sardonic smile, eyes gleaming with wickedness. His t-shirt, meanwhile, is drying on a nearby radiator……..

Actually, it is a hilariously funny image…..

 

[S.B.G]

And just for SBG, a Garfield update: I came upon Garfield, now retrieved from his bathing bucket, and sitting comfortably in a colander, both forepaws happily resting on the rim of the colander. It, in turn, is balanced neatly over the bucket, into which water from (Garfield) is dripping, slowly.

Garfield still looks a little bedraggled, but is rapidly recovering his composure and sardonic smile, eyes gleaming with wickedness. His t-shirt, meanwhile, is drying on a nearby radiator……..

Actually, it is a hilariously funny image…..

Haha! That's great!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Haha! That's great!

The Doonesbury cartoon I mentioned above (and I'd love to see the sequence of pictures) was more or less as follows:

In a recent Doonesbury cartoon a teacher is upset because his students seem more intent on writing down what he says than on listening and understanding. He delivers a series of outrageous statements culminating with "Jefferson was the Antichrist! Democracy is fascism! Black is white! Night is day!" while students scribble frantically without pause. As the teacher collapses, saying "Teaching is dead," one student says, "Boy, this course is really getting interesting." Another answers, "You said it. I didn't know half that stuff."

Anyone who ever spent time in a classroom trying to elicit a reaction from students would readily identify with the cartoon.

Meanwhile, Garfield is positively blooming…...

 

[S.B.G]

The Doonesbury cartoon I mentioned above (and I'd love to see the sequence of pictures) was more or less as follows:

In a recent Doonesbury cartoon a teacher is upset because his students seem more intent on writing down what he says than on listening and understanding. He delivers a series of outrageous statements culminating with "Jefferson was the Antichrist! Democracy is fascism! Black is white! Night is day!" while students scribble frantically without pause. As the teacher collapses, saying "Teaching is dead," one student says, "Boy, this course is really getting interesting." Another answers, "You said it. I didn't know half that stuff."

Anyone who ever spent time in a classroom trying to elicit a reaction from students would readily identify with the cartoon.

Meanwhile, Garfield is positively blooming…...

A classic case of not seeing the forrest through the trees.

 

[mobilehaathi]

The Doonesbury cartoon I mentioned above (and I'd love to see the sequence of pictures) was more or less as follows:

In a recent Doonesbury cartoon a teacher is upset because his students seem more intent on writing down what he says than on listening and understanding. He delivers a series of outrageous statements culminating with "Jefferson was the Antichrist! Democracy is fascism! Black is white! Night is day!" while students scribble frantically without pause. As the teacher collapses, saying "Teaching is dead," one student says, "Boy, this course is really getting interesting." Another answers, "You said it. I didn't know half that stuff."

Anyone who ever spent time in a classroom trying to elicit a reaction from students would readily identify with the cartoon.

Meanwhile, Garfield is positively blooming…...

Oh, that's excellent.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Oh, that's excellent.

The actual cartoons were on the office door of a Professor of Medieval History under whom I worked over twenty years ago, and I remember laughing aloud - being almost helpless with laughter - when I first saw them there.

The Professor was one of the best bosses I have ever worked for anywhere, anytime, a civilised, urbane, scholarly, gentle man with a subtle and dry sense of humour who treated his staff with courtesy, and respect allowing them complete scholarly and intellectual autonomy while gently encouraging their academic pursuits and careers.

It was said of him that he was 'a conservative' (and it was fairly well known that my views were somewhat different). This meant that some of my left wing friends expressed startled surprise that he had recruited me, and - for that matter - that I had accepted an offer to work under him. However, he was exemplary as a boss, multi-lingual, open-minded, incredibly well educated and taught me the very valuable lesson that what also matters in the workplace is how you treat people rather than forming opinions based solely on what people think might be your political or religious views.

Anyway, he liked both Doonesbury and The Far Side, and I admired him as a scholar, and respected and liked him hugely as a man.

 

[mobilehaathi]

The actual cartoons were on the office door of a Professor of Medieval History under whom I worked over twenty years ago, and I remember laughing aloud - being almost helpless with laughter - when I first saw them there.

The Professor was one of the best bosses I have ever worked for anywhere, anytime, a civilised, urbane, scholarly, gentle man with a subtle and dry sense of humour who treated his staff with courtesy, and respect allowing them complete scholarly and intellectual autonomy while gently encouraging their academic pursuits and careers.

It was said of him that he was 'a conservative' (and it was fairly well known that my views were somewhat different). This meant that some of my left wing friends expressed startled surprise that he had recruited me, and - for that matter - that I had accepted an offer to work under him. However, he was exemplary as a boss, multi-lingual, open-minded, incredibly well educated and taught me the very valuable lesson that what also matters in the workplace is how you treat people rather than forming opinions based solely on what people think might be your political or religious views.

Anyway, he liked both Doonesbury and The Far Side, and I admired him as a scholar, and respected and liked him hugely as a man.

Sounds like an all-around excellent mentor.

 

[kazmac]

lately...

I am Marvin the Martian...

my desire to destroy certain humans is only matched by the frequent misplacing of my thermonuclear comboobulator!!!

 

[kazmac]

lately...

and posting twice of course!!!!

Duplicate...

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Sounds like an all-around excellent mentor.

He was. Oddly enough, he was the very first person - around twenty years ago, to suggest my my current career path to me; also, for a man who was said to have been 'a conservative' he was one of the very first faculty members who recruited (and mentored and supported and actually liked, as human beings) women. A few of us got our first breaks under him, so I am grateful as well as admiring.

Back on topic: To SBG: Garfield spent a lot of yesterday sitting (protected by towels and other cloths) on nice radiators, grinning. This morning, he is on his head, on the radiator, a smirk on his face, and looking wonderfully revived. I expect him to be restored to me (more to the point, to his perch on the sofa) possibly later today.

 

[roadbloc]

When out with mates, I have a habit of going quiet and just following them about with little input. They started calling me Kenny for a while because of this so I guess it has to be Kenny.

I haven't died yet though.