Tag: Harriet

Bore Stories

To me, “shop talk” consists of discussing shared experiences and common aspects of one’s profession with others in that same profession. This, this is just a bunch of old men, not just pissing and moaning but trying to outdo one another’s tale of woe. Similar to, though not one iota as funny as, Monty Python’s “Four Yorkshiremen” sketch:

First Yorkshireman: In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o’ tea.
Second Yorkshireman: A cup o’ cold tea.
Fourth Yorkshireman: Without milk or sugar.
Third Yorkshireman: Or tea.
First Yorkshireman: In a cracked cup, an’ all.
Fourth Yorkshireman: Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper…

Call Me the Sleeve

Jeffcoat Wayne
February 16, 2013 at 11:07 am
One week of this mundane arc down, three more to go. YIPPEE!!!!!!!

I really did not expect the Music Education Convention to run into a second week, but here we are. Batiuk has managed to find a topic of even less interest to the average reader than comic books, and I say this as a former high school band member and a band parent (and with all due love and respect to comics fans). Having swung and missed every day last week at humor, today Batiuk “assumes” a serious tone with a tip o’ the Scapegoat shako to the struggles of women band directors.

Hard Candy

Duane
February 16, 2013 at 3:30 pm

This whole week’s story should have just been done in ONE Sunday comic, not wasting a whole week.

Indubitably! In fact, today’s strip packs about as much entertainment as did the six strips that preceded it, which is to say, none.

You would suppose that the two people who accompanied Harry to this convention might already be seated in the front row. Instead, Harriet and Becky arrive “just in time” for Harry’s session.