posted by Paul
06.14.10 @ 2:09 PM
Not usually what you get around these parts.
I’ve been reading Shel Silverstein books. Since my mind stopped developing at the age of 8, this should come as no surprise.
Seriously, the man was good at what he did. The Giving Tree still has the ability to choke me up. It’s just such an awesome little love story. Then there’s some of his stuff that’s just funny to me, regardless of the lack of dick joke. Like this one, for example:
The Battle
Would you like to hear
Of the terrible night
When I bravely fought the—
No?
All right.
Yes, he uses that form of “alright”. Anyway, we’ll get back to our regular crudeness in no time at all. Oh, and I got a couple of responses to the “add your own text” thing from last week. Enjoy, two-people who-actually-read-this-strip.











June 14th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Is this supposed to me me? I'm not offended, too much, really.
June 14th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Ha. No. Just Alliteration. But it did occur to me afterwards.
My mom, everyone.
June 14th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
I thought I was your Showtime Sue…
June 14th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Check out Silverstein's "Different Dances." Dick jokes aplenty.
June 14th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Yeah, actually I found one in "Falling Up" earlier today. Well, more of a pee joke, but still.
June 15th, 2010 at 12:17 am
You thought wrong. You GTFO.
June 15th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
My intense debate login is acting up…
The title totally reminded my of Tenacious D.
'This is just a tribute, you gotta beleive me, and wish you were there. OH FUCK! God love it….'
June 15th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Holy crap. Long time no see.
D reference = Intentional.
June 16th, 2010 at 6:31 am
awwww. that just made me think of PoD which made me think of Dio’s awesome song in it, which made me think of Dio which made me think of cancer which made me think of children which made me unhappy :(
June 20th, 2010 at 6:51 am
I too am a huge Silverstein fan, and loved this comic! Shel Silverstein put out a great album called Freakin at the Freaker's Ball with Dr. Hook as his backing band. It's a bit more adult oriented but it's definitely worth listening to.