Month: January 2014

SoSfDavidO here!

Link to today’s dreary strip.

You would think merging two of the 7 known plots in the World of Funky Winkerbean would make for comedy gold but somehow it doesn’t! This strip reminds me of when I was ten and decided that, hey, I love Mountain Dew and I love Nestle Quik– why not put Quik powder IN Mountain Dew? This strip, and that drink (Mountain Quik) both left me with a terrible taste in my mouth.

It isn’t the bad pun, or the uncomedy that is the failing Ohio School System or even impending budget cuts that irk me about today’s strip. It’s the fact Harry is droning on DURING a music performance. Do we really need to tell the supposedly “World’s Greatest Band Director” to shut the hell up during a live performance?

SoSfDavidO here, slogging through another day of… what are they doing again?

Link to today’s strip.

I don’t know if this is supposed to be some kind of trade show for band directors or what but you’d think there could be a little ray of sunshine, what, with people passionate about a topic all coming together to meet in one place. But, no, that’s not the case! Dinkle must have brought his own special cloud of Westview with him because what should be a fun music-based excursion turns into a funeral march for yet another underfunded Ohio school program.

“Did you know they don’t even have marching
bands in Pakistan? That Taliban outlawed music.”

Link to today’s strip.

Ah, another day, another unfunny quip. (I’m talking about your host here, SoSfDavidO as well as TomBat)

We’re going to be here all week, folks, so grab an over-sized, salty, stale pretzel for $4.99 and have a seat! Your host for this week’s unending list of knee-slappers is someone apparently very close to Harry that we’ve never met before named Hugh Manpun.

Can we just give Harry his Lifetime Award for yelling at kids through a megaphone and call it a week?

Link to today’s strip.

More massive accolades for TomBat Harry L. Dinkle at the Ohio Band Conference, where everyone recalls the way he… umm.. led the band and did fund-raisers? Can anyone fill me in one what this random, never-to-be-seen-again character is talking about? Panel One Snapping-Turtle Faced Harry is carrying on like he invented the damn trumpet.

Sorry, BeckoningChasm, you’re Snarking too well! Time to bring the snark down to the level of Tombat’s writing with a guest slot from SoSfDavidO here!

Link to today’s strip.

Harry, who has retired, is still attending the Ohio Music Education Association so he can walk around and deliver bad band puns and get lifetime achievement awards. I can’t blame him for staying active, though, because he looks younger than Funky does these days despite being at least 15 years his elder.