Thatababy by Paul Trap for September 03, 2016
September 02, 2016
September 04, 2016
Transcript:
Letter: Dear Thatababy@thatababy.com, on occasion your characters visit a coffee shop called 'queequeg's.' what the?? Carlos O'Toole Noblesville, IN Thatababy: Thanks, Carlos! Queequeg's is a takeoff from the coffee chain Starbucks! Starbuck is from the novel 'Moby-Dick'- his shipmate was Queequeg, a tattooed warrior from the south pacific. It's a tip of the hat to those of you whose own personal white whale was having to read 'Moby Dick!!'
Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
Carlos must not have read Herman Melville.
hcarpenter1 about 8 years ago
sounds like more fun to be had……
Rob Smith Premium Member about 8 years ago
Queequegs is good, but my favorite Starbucks takeoff is from the comic Zits who (20 years ago) called it Fourbucks.
Christopher Shea about 8 years ago
That Time I Spent on a Commercial Whaling Ship Totally Changed My Perspective on the World
eolan59 about 8 years ago
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard
Ishmael “Call me Ishmael”.
Captain Ahab “Crew, we will seek the white whale and kill it, because I am insane.”
Crew “Alas, your destructive obsession will be our undoing.” (They almost find the white whale. Then they almost find the white whale. Then they find it.)
Captain Ahab “I stab at thee. I stab at thee”. (Everybody dies except Ishmael, although this is no surprise, because it was foreshadowed CONTINUALLY from the BEGINNING.)
THE END
prfesser about 8 years ago
I read Moby Dick about 6 times. On the sixth time I actually made it past Chapter 2 and … believe it or else … actually finished the book! Last year!
Godfreydaniel about 8 years ago
@tsandlSome call that “padding” but I call it “blubber”……..Whereas there’s hardly a dull moment in the ten thousand page “War and Peace.”
Charlie Tuba about 8 years ago
Moby Dick in one minute:https://youtu.be/pKhUoFCBhNE
Comic Minister Premium Member about 8 years ago
Your dad’s crazy!
ktrabbit about 8 years ago
I love that logo!
Nancy Murphy about 8 years ago
My white whale was Somerset Maugham’s Texas – it seemed to go on forever!
Chloe the Cucumber almost 7 years ago
Moby Dick plus Moana????????????