Friday
Oct172008
EVEN MORE OBSCURE CARTOON
Friday, October 17, 2008 at 08:53AM 
My goal is to cause as much head-scratching as humanly possible, for I have invested my 401k in Arthur Treacher's Scalp Salve, in which, unless I am very much mistaken, there will very shortly be a frenzied run. The only hitch in my devilishly clever plan is that I am almost always very much mistaken, so this plan will certainly fail. My "safety net", as it were, is that I have no funds in my 401k, so I stand to lose nothing when my plan plummets into the sea, trailing the greasy smoke of failure. I'm getting pretty adept at this zero-sum thing, which, take my word for it, is an improvement over past performance.
Reader Comments (7)
Less than zero.
It's like that phrase, "Nothing matters."
Does it?
?...?
I get...confused.
Like a pong, between the tongs of a tweezer.
"A pong between the tongs."
I know one thing, for sure -
Anti-matter doesn't matter.
Does anybody know a good way to clear the lungs of hilarity-induced suddenly-inhaled coffee? Coughing like an old tractor's not doing it.
This is a cartoon of beauty, sparks!
I think you might be onto something with Arthur Treacher's Scalp Salve though. People everybody are understandably enough tearing their hair out in worry over the whole thing. A soothing balm might help calm us all down and, who knows, with everyone n a better mood it could possibly shore up investor confidence and you could save the economy with your prudent choice.
I wouldn't trust that lady one bit. She switches allegiance some kinda fast.
The realization of the apparently misplaced apostrophe in the true situation of this cartoon is brilliant.
This may be my favorite cartoon ever.
I'm glad Burgle's employees are more respectful to him than Rob's were.
Root jerky. Don't think it went unnoticed!
Do Mr. Burgle's employees get to wear their uniforms home? It looks that way. So if you worked two shifts, you would never need other clothes. (And something else, how did the "e" get added to cloth to make the new word? This is something I have thought about for many hours. Or was it the other way round? Probably cloth came first.) And have you noticed that over the years, Fastfood is no longer fast. You have to get everything yourself: Ask for the catsup, and if inside, fill your own cups, get your own napkins, get your own fork. So the convenience store is faster than the Fastfood. And the peoples of Europe and Asia never really had Fast food, did they? That entire epoch was missed by them, so how can they relate to us?