13 August 2007

What's So Funny Bout...

In today's Dinette Set, the artist's level of certainty about what is supposed to be funny here does not match the reader's:
  • Is it that Burl is a slow reader and can't finish a novel in 3 weeks?
  • Is it that Burl does not understand that you can re-check items out?
  • Is it that Burl is so cheap he's unwilling to pay $0.10/day for overdue books?
  • Is it that Burl can read at all?
Whatever it is, I will say that under no circumstances should The Dinette Set be making boob jokes. Leave that to the professionals, like Judge Parker.

1 comment:

Eric said...

Hard to say. I regularly check four or five books out of the library, and return them half-read. I give them about 80 pages, then if they're not all that good, I stop reading them. Usually that's when I'm trying out a new author.

Maybe Burl is such an airhead that reading half of a book is just as good as a whole one, because he doesn't remember or care what goes on in it? Maybe Burl just wants to move his eyes back and forth, like people who read the ingredients to their cereal while they're eating it.