You never know what’s going to tick off the Almighty. You’d think if it bothered Him so much, He’d have made it one of the Commandments. “Thou shalt not chew with thy mouth open.” Maybe He did. After all, if “Thou shalt not stew the kid in its mother’s milk” really means “Thou shalt not cut a roast beef sandwich with a knife that, a week ago, somebody else used to cut a cheese sandwich”, then maybe “Honor thy father and thy mother” really means “Thou shalt not chew with thy mouth open”. After all, that’s the sort of thing parents are always saying to their children.
I’ll bring up the question the next time I’m in Bible class. You should, too.
Not to try to make a stupid joke, just say.. This is very funny. Even better was “Emotional Support Dog” of a few days ago, which is one of the funniest cartoons I have ever seen. You do very good work, Dave Coverly.
First question – why did this gag never occur to the guy who’s been doing Hagar the Horrible for the last forty years?
As is well known, the Vikings did not wear horned helmets. Horned helmets were the invention of a Nineteenth Century costume designer for a Wagnerian opera. And even if they had worn them, their women and children would not have.
Not to mention that no child at that time, or for hundreds of years after, had a sandbox.
But the biggest question is, why does the Viking ship in the distance have a Christian symbol (a Maltese cross) on the sail? (Let’s leave aside the fact that the ship seems to have two sails, which no Viking ship ever did, and that the wind blowing the pennant at the top of the mast is blowing in a completely different direction from the wind blowing the sails.) Whatever else the Vikings may have been, they were certainly not Christians. Perhaps the Maltese cross is a symbol from other cultures, including the Vikings.
This is a subject that requires exhaustive research. Which I am not going to do.
Thank God for Google! If not for Google, millions (thousands? dozens?) of people would be spending a lot of time trying to find the reference “Dorian Gray”…. (hint – Oscar Wilde).
Funny, but the caption is completely unnecessary. In fact, it would be better without the caption. It is possible to overexplain.