The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for January 23, 2013

Quick Sherman… back to the WABAC!

Just prior to a humping of the royal leg.

“Off with ’is ’ead!!”

If he just went under the hoop skirt, nobody would have noticed.

A new adventure for Queen Victoria?

While Sherman is putting on airs, Mr Peabody is … well …We are not amused.

considering the size of the queen’s posterior, it must have been a wide breach of etiquette

PB: As you can see Sherman i am not in trouble; on the contrary.

SH: But you were rude to the queen.

PB: Queen, yes, but not Queen Victoria.My keen sense of smell alerted me to the fact that this was, in fact, Queen Victoria’s transvestite uncle, Victor.

Reminds me of the South Park episode when a pig gets up on stage at a political rally and sticks its snot between Hillary Clinton’s butt cheeks.

It’s said if one of us went back in history a few hundred years, the first thing we’d notice unusual would be the strong smells. The odor from horses and farm animals, poor drainage and open sewage in the streets would have been overpowering around the cities. .Even the royal courts, it is said, would be excessively fragrant to our modern sense due to body odor and perfumes. Clothing preserved from the time of Elizabeth I sometimes contains mummified fleas and lice. Parasites were a normal part of life, as were the diseases that resulted.. It wasn’t much before Victoria’s time that medical people started to push for sanitation in hospitals. In the thick of the Industrial Revolution, English workers crowded into cities did not bathe (stopping in October and not to resume until Spring) nearly as often as we do today — if at all (at birth and at death, it was said). Lack of effective sanitation, along with poor nutrition and bad working conditions actually greatly decreased the average life span..No doubt even Victoria and her court would not be up to the highly deodorized standards of our present age. Smells, like sounds, of that era can’t be transmitted through history. Except — I assume clothing from that time still exists. Has it been washed since then? What would a sniff test reveal?.I wonder if the concentrated smells of sweat and pheromones among people living before us caused more aggression than now. Notice that such conditions are seen today most often among athletes and soldiers, in which aggression may be valued. Air conditioning in offices might serve to keep us relatively odor-free and therefore less aggressive, too. (Can’t have fist fights among the accountants.).In John Brunner’s STAND ON ZANZIBAR, it is discovered that a certain tribe around the Bight of Benin sweats a unique pheromone that naturally stifles aggressive behavior. Although passive in nature, they have never been completely conquered, and surrounding tribes consider them sorcerers..By the way those Jay Ward cartoons were my favorites. I used to place a microphone against the television speaker and tape-record them and then play them over and over. I especially liked Fractured Fairy Tales, and can still recite some of the dialogue. (“Hey, Sam,” said one goblin to the other. “What do we do with people when we ‘get ’em’?” “I dunno – we never got one yet.” And, “Va-va-voom, that’s a lot of pazusas!”)

you mean off with the head (‘ead’) of the obviously incompetent royal ass wiper

Mr. Pea Body….you just can’t do that to every body!

I think Her Maj preferred cats, and perhaps this is one reason for that preference.

I always loved the Fractured Fairy Tales.

That’s okay he sniffed the midget hiding under there. He jumped showing the Queen where the “wild goose goes”.I too was a big fan of that cartoon.E. Everett Horton was the story teller. He had the smallest mouth I ever saw on a person. How he got the words our so clearly was amazing. Great orator. In Debate class and Public speaking he was used as illustration on how to enunciate. A skill lost somewhat today.

♫♪Peabody nose the troublesome queen . . . ♫♪ . . ☻

“I thought it would be considered impolite NOT to…”

Mr.Peabody is really just a brown noser…really///

There’s a Fractured Fairy Tale.

News item: Queen’s tail compromised unfairyly. Dog’s nose fractured. As the bespectacled dog was being led away by members of the Queen’s Guard, a bystander was overheard saying “Oh, Mr Peabody”.

Sounds good, and let’s start this with political leaders of whatever persuasion.

I’d swear it was the “Wayback Machine”

Drink your prune juice.

Funny one — I laughed out loud! (why are my coworkers looking at me funny??!?)