17 April 2007

Lion in Winter

In today's Dinette Set, Burl and Joy discuss a lion statue
  • For reasons passing understanding.
  • To illustrate that they don't understand the nature of solid objects.
  • So the garden center employee can look askance at them.
  • I got nothing here, I don't even understand what's supposed to be funny about this.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think the "joke" is supposed to be that if the lion isn't heavy enough Joy will kick it over and break it and if it is heavy enough she'll hurt her foot. I'm really in the dark here though.

I think the cartoonist has become lazy enough to just pencil-trace a clip-art lion instead of drawing one from scratch. The third hit on Google image search for "lion statue" finds the model she used at:
http://www.statue.com/images/lion-statue.jpg

Anonymous said...

Yep, that does appear to be the same lion. Sad that she can't trace any better than she draws.