SoSfDavidO here, though I’ve been trying to leave. The aisle is blocked by Dinkle’s imposing form!
Let’s kick of today’s strip with a clunky line of dialog that no one would ever just randomly say to someone else!
People don’t seem to value the importance of music in our culture. Funny, I thought music was the one thing that united almost every culture across the globe, from Aboriginal Australians to the peak of French Society. It’s been like that for around, oh, 4,000 years or more so, is featured in everything from school plays to movie soundtracks and has numerous award shows honoring the year’s best musicians so I have NO idea what Holly is yammering about.
I mean, what do we need to do, put musical artists on a pedestal and obsess about them endlessly? Oh wait, we’re already doing that.
Son of Stuck Funky 
Please stop talking during a live performance, d***!
They’re complaining that as the nation is still being gripped by recession and they’re in a small town, schools are actually CUTTING BACK on their music programs.
How selfish can those two get? See, I like music. I like music programs. I like things that are about culture and spreading culture and I like giving kids things to do after school. But, and this is just me, maybe those things aren’t the top priority at a time when the schools don’t have a lot of money and people around them don’t have a lot of money.
Oh Tom…Of course you never do any research … you just pulls these false factoids outta your arse… you see people have paid to hear a Banker perform at Carnegie Hall (2006)
Morgan Stanley Banker Gives Concert at Carnegie Hall
Carla Harris, a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, will perform at Carnegie Hall in New York on November 2006
Look, I love music, as is probably obvious from my handle. Few things energize and inspire me like it. But nobody ever asks a trumpet player to manage their investment portfolio either, Harry, so shut the fuck up and quit acting like you’re God’s only gift to civilization just because you taught some kid how to play “Frere Jacques” on the recorder.
And no one’s ever gone to Carnegie Hall to listen to you yammer through a concert either. Seriously he’s in the second row directly in back of the conductor talking. TB is this really how you think we should show respect for music?
So these two gasbags are sitting in the second row of a concert, babbling like a pair of morons about how “people” don’t value the “importance” of music in “our culture”. Just so priceless in that oblivious Batominc way of his. He doesn’t even seem to realize they’re actually at a concert right now, desperate as he is to race toward that cackling, sneering, two-hundred year old punch line.
Yeah Tom, those darned “people”, you rarely hear much about music in “our culture” anymore. Man, sometimes he’ll deliver a line of dialog so staggeringly witless that it could only exist in this comic strip, you know? Thanks Batom, for making my day with one of the most unintentionally funny bits of dialog you’ve coughed up in quite some time.
She’s right, people don’t value the importance of music in our culture. That’s why the Beatles were penniless and mired in obscurity
BatHack is teaching an important economic lesson here, folks, so please pay attention (at least more attention than the Dinkles are). If we, as a society, don’t value the arts and their role in our economic engine, then an important segment of our young adults will never reach their full potential and this will have a catastrophic effect on our economy. These are the creative minds that create jobs, people. Mark my words, if we continue to underfund arts education, then you will have towns across America with nothing more than a dysfunctional pizzeria and, if you’re lucky, a comic book store. And nothing else! You want that? I didn’t think so.
Has a facial expression ever been more incongruous with its accompanying dialogue than in panel 3? The speech balloon, carefully crafted a full year ago, says: “No one’s ever gone to Carnegie Hall to listen to a banker.” The leering visage says: “After this concert is done, I expect you to put out, woman!”
As is Dinkle’s wont.
Harriet: “People don’t seem to value the importance of music in our culture.”
Harry: “Dog goes woof, cat goes meow.
Bird goes tweet, and mouse goes squeak.
Cow goes moo. Frog goes croak, and the elephant goes toot.
Ducks say quack and fish go blub, and the seal goes OW OW OW.
But there’s one sound that no one knows…
WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY?”
Harriet: “…*….I take it back. Music stinks.”
Harry: “By the way, how does one ‘value’ importance? That sounds so awkward and weird.”
Harriet: “Shut up! Just shut up and listen to the damn band!”
Harry: “Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!”
Harriet: “AAAAARGH!”
.”People don’t seem to value the importance of music in our culture.”
Is that why Ben Stein is going to lecture on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff during halftime of tomorrow’s Super Bowl?
Somewhat off topic, but: I have noticed that when I am at a concert and it is ruined by inconsiderate idiots who talk during the performance, invariably their topic of conversation is “how much they love music”…
Now, back to my regularly scheduled hatred of this strip!
I think others have pinpointed the major failing in today’s strip: The quip and retort are so lacking in context or content as to be rendered completely devoid of meaning.
And before the Nationally Syndicated Cartoonist and his sock puppet minions protest: No, you can’t point to the earlier strips in this arc as providing either. They were focused on making people remember three decade old jokes regarding a certain character.
Faded, incomplete memories of something that possibly meant something once and empty, incoherent rambling….hmmm….subtract the doom and gloom and that more or less sums up the modern Funky.
Tom, they say the past is a country one can never visit. You can never go home again. Let these characters go.
This is, what, the third time this strip has decided “bankers” are the great unworthy of our time? This really seems petty to me–like [i]someone’s[/i] relative is a big success in his chosen field, while [i]someone[/i] isn’t appreciated enough in the family.