(This is the first of a series of my earliest & most popular posts. This was originally published June, 2012. As always, all the cartoons are new.)
AN ESSAY ON ART, FISHDUCKY STYLE
A man comes to a woman’s house a little early to pick her up for their blind date. She lets him in & asks him to wait in the living room while she finishes getting ready. He notices several paintings (by an obviously untalented artist) & is intently studying them when she walks in. She sees him looking at the “art” & says, “Do you like them? I painted all of them myself.” He blurts out, “Oh, thank heaven! I was afraid you’d bought them!” I have no idea how their date went.
The doctor’s wife & the blind date lady probably don’t identify with him:
Two of the newest forms of art are the bumper sticker & the tee shirt..
Some of them are gross and/or insulting, but a lot of them are really funny.
If you’re not a fan of bumper stickers, this is for you:
Some of them are gross and/or insulting, but a lot of them are really funny.
If you’re not a fan of bumper stickers, this is for you:
Here are some examples of what I mean.
These are from the web, but I’ve seen several on shirts, cars & motorcycles
that made me laugh.
My favorite, which I couldn’t find a picture of, was on the back of a
motorcyclist’s tee shirt.
It said, “If you can read this, my old lady fell off!"
I’ve saved my favorite for last.
In case you can’t read it, the sign on this Amish buggy says:
In case you can’t read it, the sign on this Amish buggy says:
Energy efficient vehicle
Runs on oats and grass
Caution: Do not step in exhaust
I’ve also made quite a few signs of my own, mostly on styrofoam leftover containers from restaurants. This was so I would be able to eat my own food the next day. When the kids were still at home I would write various things on the box so they would leave it alone. Some examples: “Keep out”, “Don’t touch” or “This is Mom’s”. These did no good. I graduated to “Poison” (with the appropriate skull & crossbones), “Danger—Live Snakes” & even “Caution—Radioactive Materials”! None of these worked either. Now that all the kids are married & gone, I just put an “X” on the box to remind my husband not to eat it. About nine eight seven times out of ten, he’ll leave it for me.
I wonder what’s (left) in the refrigerator----fishducky

I wonder what’s (left) in the refrigerator----fishducky

Some days delusions of mediocrity sounds ambitious to me...
ReplyDeleteTake that step up--you can do it!!
Delete"My day is not complete until I've terrified a complete stranger"
ReplyDeleteI reckon I should print that out and super-glue it to Loony Louies letterbox. I'm in that kind of mood. He's in one of his "drop a load of noisy stuff every time I use a tap" moods. It's very annoying.
I'm glad Loony Louie doesn't live here!!
DeleteI have actually seen that biker t-shirt before "if you can read this, my old lady fell off"
ReplyDeleteAnd how about this bumper sticker "if you don't like the way I'm driving, stay off the sidewalk"
I love it!! It reminds me of this, from an old post: My husband & I were walking--obviously a dangerous thing for me to do in Europe--down a beautiful boulevard in Paris. He suddenly pulled me up against a building. (I seem to get pulled a lot overseas.) This time a cab driver apparently felt the street was too crowded, so he decided to drive on the sidewalk, instead. Silly me--I thought this was strange. Stranger still--I found out later this was not that unusual!!
DeleteI wonder how safe you would have been inside the cab ha ha
DeleteProbably more than walking!!
DeleteHa! I'd love to sell my art and get it out of the house!
ReplyDeleteThe difference is that your art is good!!
DeleteI put "dog fecal sample" on my food container at work once and no one touched it. Sometimes you have to get ugly.
ReplyDeleteThat's one I never thought of using!!
DeleteHeh, heh. I love Michelangelo's bling!
ReplyDeleteIt looks a little like Mr. T's!!
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