Garfield by Jim Davis for April 10, 1997
April 09, 1997
April 11, 1997
Transcript:
Jon: This book is about faithful pets, Garfield. Pets who risked their lives to protect their owners. You wouldn't be interested. Garfield: What about the time I ate that hot pizza to save you from burning the roof of your mouth?
glowing-steak32 about 9 years ago
Yeah, he would’ve gotten seriously hurt! Pizza don’t lie!
alexzinuro over 3 years ago
“Pets who risked their lives to protect their owners”…or at least, who proved themselves useful to their owners (e.g. by letting their owners eat their food, and by not attacking the mail carrier, not killing spiders and songbirds, and not eating flowers).
alexzinuro over 3 years ago
Jon, Garfield might not be interested, but you don’t seem too impressed, either. If pets risk their lives on behalf of their owners, that should be considered “heroic” or “altruistic”; you consider it merely “faithful”.
alexzinuro about 1 year ago
“Faithful” is a very broad term; it could refer to anything that the pets did in order to improve their owners’ lives. Why does Jon consider pets risking their lives on their owners’ behalf merely faithful and not heroic?