![]() ![]() It’s a fine enough non-sequitur joke that someone might be good in sales or market research or buffalo-slaughtering. Imagine if the caption read, “Well, Mr Smith, … ” instead. In my defense - and this applies to the Al Tilly the bum incident too - part of my slowness was that it wasn’t obvious I was missing a joke. But the scene was funny already even without the name confusion, right? Anyway, nobody ask why the door sign implies they’re outside the career counseling office, OK? It’s a comic strip convention and once you notice this you’ll never enjoy a setting again, ever. It was this scene at a castle rampart and the guard has thrown his spear at this hobo, and missed, and the hobo says, “I think you misunderstood” and it was like twelve years later that I twigged to how the joke was the guard thought he’d said he was Atilla the Hun. It was previously held by another Far Side strip, the famous “I think you misunderstood … I’m Al Tilly, the bum” incident. This now takes, by far, the record between me seeing and me getting the joke. It was only today, when I saw it bundled with other historical strips under the History Shmistory label, that I realized Gary Larson’s joke. I’ve seen this particular Far Side now and then for thirty-plus years.
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