CSotD: No one is to be spared …

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1. Mark Jackson

   Yeah – no way the head will have enough velocity to make it through the top of the loop and hit the pins.
   Does Lee do physics humor often?

2. Mike

   Ha! Sometimes I miss the conversations at r.a.c.s. where people would pull out their protractors to analyze a joke! I was tempted to comment on how hard it was for him to get the gizmo into the confines of a panel. In a strip, though, he could draw a more credible Hot Wheels layout. Using a protractor, of course!
   The real trick is to execute Puritans and not Cavaliers.

3. Mike

   (Standing by for comments from history buffs pointing out that the guillotine wasn’t invented until after the English Civil War and was never used in England anyway.)

4. JayFish

   Wouldn’t it be great to get a gag this clever and funny every day in your email? Funniness like this is pretty rare. Great pick, Mike. And great gag, Vic!

5. Rico

   Hahahaha — this is very very funny — that cheered up my day… in a dark humour sort of way.

6. Brian Fies

   As the original racs protractor wielder (look, it was necessary at the time), I appreciate the cite. And I’m not implying anything about Vic Lee–sincerely I’m not–but I’m struck seeing this cartoon just a day after reading this entry at the “Edison Lee” blog:
   http://edison-lee-blog.blogspot.com/2010/07/
   reubens-on-hudson-george-booth-part-2.html
   Scroll down, you’ll know it when you see it…

7. Brian Fies

   Sorry ’bout the line break, try this:
   http://tiny.cc/vv6lu
   Independent conception and expression of similar ideas happens all the time. It’s happened to me, both ways. It’s just interesting.

8. Mike

   Hokey Smokes, that’s quite a coincidence! And Booth’s version satisfies the physics purists … though Vic Lee’s is funnier.
   Irrelevant side trip: I wandered into a garage in Oquossoc, Maine, looking for directions, and was stunned to find a Booth original framed on the wall, a cartoon that included the name of the garage. Turns out he used to summer up there. Kind of like walking into a random diner and finding the couple from Grant Wood’s American Gothic behind the counter.

9. Anne

   I don’t know which is funnier, the comic or the comment!