Hi! I’m back! Sorry for the complete lack of a Tuesday strip this week. I got tired of apologizing for the Tuesday strip being a day late, so I decided to just forgo it completely. Actually, this has just been a week of chaos – playing Nerdapalooza last weekend followed by trying to slide back into reality following a week and a half of vacation in North Carolina and Florida.
…Yeah, I totally don’t expect any sympathy for this. I had a blast. And an ear infection. But mostly a blast.
Anyway, this one’s one of those “I’ve got a punchline, how do I get to it?” strips. I decided to go for the contrast of a dry meeting and a goofy idea. For those who are measuring my strips’ effectiveness against my wife’s assessments, my wife considers this one “cute.” I should totally just add a wife score to each strip’s commentary.
I’ll be back to Tuesday and Friday strips next week. For real. See you then!
-=ShoEboX=-
I would totally buy Rubber Baby-Batter Buffers. That would be my exclusive choice for birth-control. I’d be like, “Honey, stop taking the pill. I’ve got something better.”
LOL!! I NEVER “lol”, but this one LITERALLY made me LOL!!
Great one Tim, never saw it coming (pun half intended).
… and if you can say it 10 times fast, she’ll come…. a runnin. Rubber Baby-Batter Buffers, the only choice for discerning individuals.
I would support a special section for your wife’s commentary every week. Over the past few weeks I’ve come to consider it as regular and important part of the strip
Best, Will
I have to agree with William, your wife’s commentaries have often been as entertaining as the strip itself, they should totally be an official feature.
I was waiting for you to do something with sexually ambiguous appearance of the “men” in the clip. Especially the 2 w/o mustaches have very feminine looks to them. I thought you could do a cross-dressing or a sexual reassignment company exec meeting….
It wasn’t until I read the last comment that I realized the person on the right was meant to be a man. I thought “woman” the whole time I read the strip.
Made me think about when I was little and thought rubber baby buggy bumpers was about an old-fashioned car with the bumpers replaced by links of babies made out of rubber.
I wholeheartedly agree that the “wife score” should become an official feature. So much so, that I’ve devised a handy chart to make the process easier:
Mrs. ShoEboX Humor Alert Level Chart
[Any similarity between this chart and another chart you've seen before is surely a figment of your overactive imagination and absolutely not to be trusted. Your IP address has been noted.]
MZ – Love the chart. And Ms. ShoEboX (who looks exactly like me except she has a bow on her head) laughed hysterically at it.
God, this strip has the best readers. Thanks for existing, people.
-=’Box=-
“Laughed hysterically”, eh? That must be close to the “Yes, it’s great! Post it!” level – truly an honor!
I’ll admit, though, that I had to guess a bit at the relative rankings since I only know Ms. ShoEboX and her sense of humor through your own comments. (You can imagine how that went: “A ‘snort-laugh’? Well, that must be better than just normal-funny. But nothing could be funnier than ‘douchenozzle’, right?”)
Rubber Baby-Batter Buffers really IS a nutjob idea!
I still love the word ‘stinkchunnel’.
This one gave me the giggles. It, the commentary, and the rating system added up to utterly hilarious.
Just me or does Carl look like a SUPER FRIGGIN FREAKY ALIEN-TRANNY…
I mean, that’s Carl’s choice to be a super friggin freaky alien-tranny, his face just gives me shivers down my spine and out my belly-button and I want to go cry now.