Thank goodness Bud gets most of his stuff for free, as now the gang has enough cash to finally get to California. We’ll stroll into stately Bergstrom manner on Monday, as the foursome spends some time acclimating in the San Diego sun!
Today’s comic title is a bit of a stretch. “Happy Together” by the Turtles is a cute little pop song about a guy being happy in love with his girl. Yeah, yeah, sickening. But, at the end of the song, the lead singer sings “happy together” a few times then finally sings “how is the weather?” and it has always struck me funny. Since I’m nodding my hat to Carlin’s “Hippie-Dippie Weatherman” bit, that song popped into my head. I’m just that way.
Byron — those guys from the Turtles were stoners so this is a great title! Did you know they joined Frank Zappa after that?
That I was not aware of! Very cool.!
EVERY musician in the 60s was a stoner, it’s when the harder stuff started popping up that we lost some talented folks. Have you EVER heard of anyone dieing from smoking a joint, or ten? Nope. We’ve lost some great talents to booze and hard drugs, but not the happy slappy weed (best to my knowledge). Just food for thought. Um, food…
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Ya. The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie. Live at the Filmore West. Who could forget *that*?
The image conjured up by “You kick it to start” had me clutching me plums and wincing though. Not what FZ had in mind, I’m sure.
*phones the cops*
hullo? i’d like to report a stolen idea, please.
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awesome 🙂 great joke, man. 🙂
–dee!
At least I’m a man of my word! My motto is: Professionals Steal, Amateurs Copy. My “old fart” feeling is there’s nothing new… nothing. It is merely how you make it your own. Or failing that, at least give credit where credit is due… and that belongs to you!
This comic was TOTALLY different and I’ll have to use the idea at another point, but once I saw your comment on Wednesday, this little light bulb went off and this drew itself. So, thank you! You folks can be script writers as well!
The ENTIRE sequence where Jeff and Bud meet Lily and her Mom was NOT planned at all and the idea came after one reader simply commented “Can wait to see what comes next.” and I hadn’t really planned on following it up (it was suppose to be a one off joke) and two weeks later, and a lot of sex comics, the idea finally came to a rest.
So, chime in anytime, you never know when I might run with it!
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“Who made me the genius I am today,
The mathematician that others all quote,
Who’s the professor that made me that way?
The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat.
One man deserves the credit,
One man deserves the blame,
And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.
Hi!
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.
I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:
Plagiarize!
Plagiarize,
Let no one else’s work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good lord made your eyes,
So don’t shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize …
Only be sure always to call it please ‘research’.
And ever since I meet this man
My life is not the same,
And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name.”
Partial lyrics of “Lobachevsky” from a great lyricist and so called singer Tom Lehrer of the 1960’s.
And one of the best known and most famous comedians of radio and early television Milton Berle made his living doing other people’s material, only generally he did it better than the guy who originated it.
Beats HMO’s! I wish all doctors were that cool.
Well, it’s Nebraska, they don’t have much in the form of entertainment there you know…
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By gawd/ess, I do miss Carlin. There is an American hero.
@dee –
Careful … reporting a crime by someone familiar with Carlin is dangerous. We have the secret to committing the ‘perfect murder,’ as passed down by George some decades ago. You pick one person up and kill another person with them; they both die and there is no murder weapon …
“Uh, gee Sarge. What happened here ..?”
“Dunno. Looks like a pedestrian accident to me.”
“They musta’ been moving at quite a clip …”
This is why Carlin is priceless in my book! That’s a great routine and makes total sense… in a way!
And @dee is cool, I told dee to call the cops on Wednesday as I was gonna “steal” that idea! And I did.
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Hey, you missed a chance of drawing a nice cleavage there, man!
Heheheheh.
Have a good weekend.
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO nurse!
Makes sense. Grass, like money, is green…
Carlin is awesome.
I am really fond of this doctor.
And goddammit where does Bud find all this stash?
I got to see Carlin perform live once, probably about 10 years ago. Some woman got offended at his routine — apparently she assumed that she’d be getting a live version of “Shining Time Station” or some such shit — and told him to watch his language (IIRC). The results were… predictable.
Seeing George Carlin go after a heckler is a thing of beauty. I’m glad I got to experience it first-hand.