Happy Thanksgiving!
Funny story. I had an idea for a full, four-panel Thanksgiving themed strip. It was built around one observation that I was sure had never occurred to me. I wrote all the dialog and sat down yesterday (Monday night) to start assembling it. It started feeling familiar, so I did a little digging.
Very little digging was needed.
Last year's Thanksgiving one-panel was built on the exact same premise. It still holds true, though. No Turkey I've ever seen has looked like a hand.
I'm falling back on my permanent plan B. "Abuse Rick."
Happy Thanksgiving. See you Friday.
November 23, 2010
Reader Comments (18)
I'm with Rick.
If turkeys had invented Hamburger Helper, would the Hamburger Helper mascot be a tracing of a turkey's foot, or a tracing of a whole turkey? I'm so confused.
Oh I did something new on this day..ignore it until it goes away..hahaha
hey dude this is a nice way to explain... :) i have been vising this site for a long time and today i decided to comment ... don't get confused just enjoy your thanks giving :)
What Rick does:
defrost and cook Freezer Queen turkey slices and gravy
make toast
open beer and can of Ocean Spray cranberry sauce
dump toast on plate
dump Freezer Queen on toast
dump cranberry sauce on Freezer Queen
dump self on couch in front of TV
dump cans and cans of beer into mouth
dump self respect into toilet
One more reason for Rick not to feel especially thankful...
No-one has a turkey-shaped hand, except for this kid: http://happletea.com/2010/11/23/the-boy-with-the-turkey-hand/
Abusing Rick is pretty much always a good plan.
Hey now, Turkey hand is my super power, you Meleagris gallopavo.
Well I know that made _me_ want to look up last years, so...
http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2009/11/25/happy-thanksgiving.html
Stupid frikkin' holidays that point out to the single and family-less, "HEY! Not only are you eating Thanksgiving dinner alone, but it's not even a proper Thanksgiving meal!"
also a good day to gorge yourself as it is the first and only meal you have in months. Eat until your totally miserable for the next two days.
Happy thanksgiving Scott!
I'm from the UK - an American friend explained this as "stuffing our faces and sitting around with our pants unbuttoned with drink in hand". Well, I tried this and got sent home early from work with a warning.
Scott Meyer, you are a hot mess. <3
Comic - funny; Bretty had me laghing through my nose. I was going to say snorgling, because that was the sound it made, but hten I googled it and it means something different...
it's "dialogue" not "dialog" im sorry but that was driving me nuts
To Steven:
Things like Dialog came about in the rage to use simplified English back in the day, an idea that was actually tried by the Chicago Tribune for years. In this era of tweets, Interweb chats, cartoon captions, and limited space comments during Multiplayer sessions in games like Halo, shorter words meaning the same thing will always remain popular.
To Scott:
Man, it's a good thing you've ground down Rick's expectations... maybe.