Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to PartiallyClips one of its most beloved guests: Profanity! I’ve managed to refrain for a whole three strips (if you don’t count the brief bit ‘o’ blasphemy in “Children Writing” and the references to genitalia in “Cavalry”) but for this one, it was unavoidable.
Not that I’m all that worried over offending PC’s mostly-non-PC audience (SEE WHAT I DID THERE?) over a bit of naughty language. I’m more worried about the “Gawd, four strips in and already he’s resorted to rapping cowboys? I’m taking this bookmark out back and putting it out of its misery!” factor. But the moment I first saw this picture, I envisioned the banjo-playing cowboy singing N.W.A. I can neither explain nor justify this, but fortunately my brain was able to access the small portion of itself that has Blazing Saddles on repeat 24/7, and this in turn gave me a way to get to my desired endpoint.
Have a good weekend, people! See you on Tuesday!
-=ShoEboX=-
One word: beans.
So, how the hell do you play sweet chariot on the banjo? I mean, exactly what would that sound like?
Corwyn,
first you need a rocking chair and a pendulum clock. Worn out jeans and white beard are preferable but purely optional.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JkATIeI0Ow
Probably the same way any other blues song sounds on a banjo. Look up Papa Charlie Jackson or Gus Cannon; just like that, but slower.
I see that Sergei beat me to the punch. So… yeah.
People who forget what year it is piss me off. I’ve got this song stuck in my head that’s not going to be written til i’m an old man but I can’t remember enough of it to write it ahead of time and make money.
I am reading this un-PC PC on my PC.
Wow, now that you’re a cartoonist, you suck at TWO things! No, um, THREE things… Waitaminute…. FOUR things!! Yes, you suck at FOUR things! I’m not counting that thing you stink at. No, wait, um… TWO things you stink at….
PC’s mostly non PC audience? I think you give mac & linux far too much credit
Not to be a downer, but that’s not how “y’all” works. It’s a contraction of “you all” – ergo, it’s a second person plural pronoun. English used to have this back in the day, but it evolved out, but hey, now it’s rising again. It’s for addressing a group of people directly, so unless that banjo player has a backup band off-strip the conversation rings falsely for the southern audience.
And for some reason I imagined that cowboy singing the RATM version of that song.
Halykan, don’t be needlessly didactic, particularly if you haven’t any direct experience. I lived for ten years in Georgia and twelve in Texas, and I can tell you that this strip’s use of “y’all” is not usual in Georgia and the Deep South (though it would not actually be considered wrong there), and usual in Texas.