Ah, the old “Flame Boy” DIY flamethrower that Jeff bought at the surplus store. And this comic is about as close to an “editorial” cartoon as I get. My opinion of insurance companies of any kind be it home, life, or health insurance is that it is a total rip off. I’ll stop my rant there… we old farts get angry easily. 🙂
So I came up with “In Through the Out Door” by Led Zeppelin for today’s title. Well, it fits in my mind. My favorite song on the album is not “In The Evening” but rather the Benny Hill-esque song “Hot Dog”. It’s a toe tapper and the song hit the spot for me. Enjoy!
Seeing as In the Evening is my favorite track off of In Through The Out-Door, I gotta ask ya man do you think that song goes better with a cool summer night?
Panel #2 … I’ve always wanted to say that! Especially the flamethrower part. And, I don’t mean just as a euphemism. 😛 Hmmmm … maybe if you’ve not used Fire On High yet? Might be good for a Flame Boyâ„¢ incident (that I smell might be just about to happen). 😉 😀
In Through The Out Door … I’m surprised 1) that you’ve not used it before and 2) that you didn’t manage to work it into a Surprise! Buttseks! joke of some sort or another. You’re slipping, dude … *tsktsk*
That entire album is so full of dirty guitar its unbelievable. People always look at me funny when I tell them In Through The Out Door is one of my favourite Zep albums.
Didn’t the vinyl package have like 10 different covers or something? Each cover was shot from a different angle in the bar?
I’m with you Byron & second everything you said about In Through the Out Door. Like you, while I appreciate it more now than I did when it came out, it’s still my least favorite of their studio releases, and “…Evening” would be the only song I’d even consider if I was putting together a carreer-spanning “Best Of” for them. Ahhh, the lost trade of door-to-door… They were all as annoying & persistent as telemarkerters. No way in hell I’d have ever done it, altho I did have a HS classmate who’s dad was a Fuller Brush salesman & seemed to do very well – they had a very nice house & his dad always had a late-model Lincoln land-barge.
That guy is the old version of modern Spam mail. 🙂
I was just starting to get into Zep when that album came out, so I didn’t have the shocked purist reaction when I heard “Fool in the Rain.” I always loved “In the Evening” and “Carousel,” and though “All of My Love” got painfully overplayed on my local radio stations, I always rather liked the song itself.
Almost bought the album several times back then, but I wasn’t cash-flush enough to buy much music that I wasn’t 100% wild about. My album purchases from those days included Judas Priest’s Unleashed in the East, Van Halen’s debut album, Jethro Tull’s Stormwatch, and the Runaways’ Queens of Noise. Damn… now I’m on a turn-of-the-80s kick…
Anyway, I didn’t even hear “Hot Dog” until about five years ago, when I ripped my girlfriend’s roommate’s copy of In Through the Out Door. The song blew me away. Since then, I’ve found a few other unplayed-by-radio gems buried deep in the Led Zep catalog, my favorite of which might be “Wearing and Tearing” off of Coda, which sounds almost like the boys were trying to experiment with punk. What a band, for better and worse! Ah, there were giants on the earth in those days…
Aww, shame – ‘America, Fuck yeah!’ is probably Trey Parker’s ONLY worthwhile contribution to the arts 😀
Love the salesman’s blank eyes. You know I usually hatehatehate blank eyes, but in this case it’s soooo appropriate!
It wasn’t greed that this country was founded on, it was the ability to live ones life as one chooses, to keep what you have earned by the sweat of your brow, to have a say in how your country is run,
Almost makes me wish it was that easy to get rid of insurance salesmen today…:(
Still funny comic, even though I wish it was kind of true. 😀
Lol seriously xD He doesn’t care if you need it, he just wants to get paid :p.