The actual name of this piece in my clip art collection is “Cotton Candy Vendor,” but if that’s cotton candy, it’s cotton candy with goddamned stubble. I fear that these are actually poorly-shaven Muppet torsos on a stick, and if they are, I’ll take a Grover. Not that I suspect Grover is tastier than the other muppets, but that way I can hold it to my wife’s face and then pull it away while going “NEEEEEAR! FAAAAAAAAR!”
Speaking of the Mrs…
MRS. SHOEBOX’S ASSESSMENT OF TODAY’S STRIP: *Chucklesniff* Lightly funny.
In other news, my sketch comedy group, “Cirque du So What,” has a new CD available for pre-order! All pre-orders come with a free immediate digital download of the album and a bonus digital album with 40 minutes of unreleased whatnot! You can order from The FuMP online store. More info is available at http://www.cirquedusowhat.net. Pre-orders will be taken through the 11th, and I really should’ve mentioned them here earlier.
See you on Friday!
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That vendor has a great deadpan delivery.
yeah, his face never changed thru allll the questioning… lol love the grover comments… muppet -onna-stick, near far… awesome! LOL
I’m thinking Cookie Monster might taste lightly of ginger snap.
Rats!
I’m fascinated by the fact that the vendor’s torso appears to be stapled together. Couple that with the fact that the meat onna stick is vaguely lung-shaped and I start to feel a little queazy. *Eat me! EAT ME!!!*….
The mental image of the NEEEEEEAR! FAAAAAAAAR! Muppet torso on a stick just reduced me to a quivering mass of sheer mirth. My fiance had to smack my back to get me to breathe properly. Well done.
^_^
Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler would be proud.
KHLAV KALASH!
I like how they both look “vaguely Asian”.
Baywolfe – For some reason, my clip art collection contains a ton of “vaguely-Asian man running a food stand of some sort” art. This is but one example.
Thanks for the kind words, people!
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The price seems to be in shillings
50/- and 25/- (£2 10/- and £1 5/- respectively)
Given when shillings were dropped in decimalisation in 1971, that’s a hell of a lot of coin for meat on a stick, let alone candyfloss.
Ah. Wasn’t sure what that meant. Toyed briefly with the idea of removing the sign from the art, but decided to leave it. Thanks for the info.
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So one day, I’m standing in my fraternity’s living room, and a friend asks me, “Hey, you wanna see how to catch a muppet?” and then says to the room at large “I don’t know the difference between near and far!” At that point, one of our more esteemed Brothers, a gangling young man with loose joints, big curly hair, tiny dark glasses, and a surprising set of lungs rushes into the adjoining room, shouts “Far!”, rushes back to us to shout “Near!”, whereupon my friend grabbed him!
Beverage choices: Mountain Dew & crab juice.
Obviously it is ROAD KILL