Super Bowl Sunday Funnies

Since most comics today were focused on the Super Bowl and how most people watch only for the commercials, I'm specifically weeding those out, because it seems it was too tempting to take the easy way out.  Or maybe I should make a point to ridicule them all. No, twenty or so comics with the same punchline on the same day deserve to be ignored. Instead, let's look at some more interesting fare:

Does anyone like Ziggy? Seriously, is there a crowd of 50/60-year-olds who worshiped at the Church of Ziggy in the late 70's still opening their newspapers and chortling at the adventures of the big nosed-no-pants-wearing Zigmeister?  So forget the stupid joke.  Voted off the iceberg? Like voted off the island? A Survivor reference. Like a joke that was relevant in 2000 used in 2013? Well, I guess it's the same century, so that's kind of a win for Ziggy.  

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Wait, a spilled milkshake causes the brakes to not work?  How does that make someone stick to the seat?  What hellish physics is at work with this milkshake from...what is that burger jockey wearing in the first panel? Is he working at BoyScoutBurgers? What did he put in the shake to make it so sticky? What is the need for water being so desperate to drive off a cliff instead of driving to a car wash?  Where did the snorkel come from in the final panel? Is she supposed to still be stuck to the seat of the convertible she's driving? 

Forget all those messed up logic gaps, why am I even reading Broom Hilda?

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My mother was a huge Pogo fan, so I had access to numerous copies of various collected Pogo comics.  In fact, I probably learned more about the Cold War reading Pogo than I ever learned in all the History classes I took in school combined.  That, and I can sing along to "Deck us all with Boston Charlie."

As far as the strip..ehh. It's like saying: "I saw an obese orange tabby cat and it at no time did it sit up and try to steal my lasagna, throw an upper-cut at a dog, nor make any unfunny or mean-spirited comments to its owner. I never realized what an inaccurate comic strip Garfield was."  I guess the lady wearing the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar goggles to do the dishes is just making a snide comment to express disdain for donut-goatee's extreme ignorance and inability to see a comic strip as different from reality.  To that, then I say bravo, goggle-wearing lady. Bravo. 

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Momma is blind without her glasses: Age-related macular degeneration is such a laugh.  

One theme often employed in the strip is that the title character is always trying to get her youngest daughter, Marylou, married off. Her youngest son, Francis, is a never-do-well slacker who can't hold a job, etc. So the "joke" (I use that term loosely here) in the strip is that she is trying to get Marylou together with her nice-looking friend.  Now, I don't know if she's referring to the snowman, or the guy building the snowman with her, who is none other than her brother Francis.  I'm not sure which it is, but one is not funny and the other is just plain disturbing! 

It's scary when the lesser of two evils is that Momma wants her daughter to hook up with a snowman and makes some snow-babies.

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Sorry, I know I said I was ignoring the Super Bowl themed comics but bare rear in the Sunday Funnies is too much to ignore. Personally, I'm disappointed that the censors don't have water dripping since we all know she took a little fanny-dip into the bowl. 

Now this begs the bigger question I've always pondered (I have nine older sisters: believe me, I was trained to be putting the toilet seat down after making numero uno from from my first day of toilet training.), if these angry women with their wet heinies are not looking to see if the seat is down before sitting down on the can, what happens when a well-trained, considerate male such as myself puts BOTH seats down (both the seat and the cover, I guess they'd be called).  If the cover is down over the seat over the toilet...well, that won't be pretty.  Is that why we buy the fuzzy covers for the toilet seat covers? Is it an early warning system? 

See, these are the real issues.  This is the eternal question that begs an answer. Oh yeah. Guys, don't ask your wife/fiancee/girlfriend/etc for an answer...you will regret it. Trust the old man with experience and just apologize (even if it was your friend/relative/child), put the seat down, and ponder the question in your own mind.

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Have a great Super Bowl Sunday! As always, thanks for reading!