If you’re not expecting the Crazy-Ball game to run over you, your reflexes probably aren’t going to save you.
You just circle the wagons (or, in this case, the Judges booths) and wait for the arrival.
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Durnell knows better than to leave a sparkly shiny hat just lying around in a large crowd of people.
Unfortunately, the large crowd of people is filled with normal, everyday lunatics who may or may not know that it’s not okay to run off with a sparkly hat because there’s a Crazyball game starting up.
Anyone wanna come up with a good ‘Crazyball’ chant or song or catchphrase or shout or something? I think we need one of those.
I should have been around more boat races. I’ve paddled as Safety Boat for one here in town a couple of times, and I’ve been to watch the race a couple of times.
Other than the insane scrum at the starting gun? Not interested.
Seriously. It sounds awful, but I just have a lot of difficulty in finding something to thrill me about canoe and kayak races. I’ve done artwork for race teams and for races to use on posters and T-shirts. That was entertaining for the length of time it took to do the work.
So… I guess what I’m saying- is that THIS is the canoe race I wanna see. This is the insane scrum at the starting gun, spread out across a lake. That’d be great. I like that notion, and so I pass it on to you. Enjoy.
Sue P. is not the only one who sent in her application along with notations about horsies.
She may have been the only one to mention Tai Chi.
The title of today’s strip was shown to me as a rebus. A rebus is not a kind of monkey they do testing on. It’s a picture puzzle. At the time, I was working at a screen print operation, and the other artist on staff was told to be more efficient. He said he’d make a sign to remind him.
It was a big letter ‘A’, and a fish, an ampersand, and a letter ‘C’, if I remember right. I was very amused.
That has nothing to do with anything today, except that I’m amused by Durnell’s idea of efficiency.
Personality comes into judging, doesn’t it? I mean, if we all saw things the same way and felt the same way about what we saw, there’d hardly be a reason for judges.
But if we feel our judgements aren’t being respected, well, we feel WE aren’t being respected. And, as we all know that if everyone just felt and behaved the we ourselves behaved, there would be no war and no poverty- if we ourselves aren’t being respected, those who don’t respect us are enemies of peace and plenty. Anarchists and Huns, obviously.
There’s no actual reason that the judges for an event have to like one another, is there? No, so long as they’re impartial. That’s the important thing. They can’t have anything for or against the competitors.
Even if they’re kicking the other judges shins under the table.
My apologies if you already read the cartoon I originally posted for today.
In an effort to get a little ahead, I had a stack of cartoons ready to go, and the pile got shuffled, partly buried, mixed up, and generally forgot about.
So when I hit the ‘back’ button double-checking some things a little while ago, I though, “Hang on… where’s those other two cartoons? They were supposed to run before this one.”
Hitting ‘back’ four or five more times alerted me to the fact that I had to move four of my cartoons around.
And THUS! You got two cartoons posted today, and the permalinks are all badgered up, and you know what’s coming if you’ve already seen the one that I’m replacing and will re-run later.
Ugh.
You guys didn’t need to hear any more from Peter, did you?
I thought we might get back to the silly stuff for a moment.
Durnell may have disavowed his excuse for a harrowing race course, but his excuse as it stands sounds like a good one to me.
When I shaped up this cartoon, I thought maybe finding a REASON to have a burning hoop at the end of a ramp would be a hard thing to justify in a race.
But no. Competition calls for crazy stuff, and the reason flowed onto the page seamlessly. Makes Durnells almost-instant retraction seem kinda mean-spirited, but I was rapidly running out of panels to use to soften it up.
