Clock Jokes
In today’s new-run of For Better or For Worse, we have a series of clock jokes:
1. Uncle Phil says it’s time for bed.
2. Elly tells Phil the kids are all wound up.
3. Elly tells Phil he wound up the kids so he has to unwind them.
4. Phil thinks, “I’ll never what makes kids tick.”
Other choices Lynn Johnston decided not to use were:
1. You have to face facts Phil, and not like a clock face either.
2. Let me give you a hand, Phil. A clock hand that is.
3. If you don’t unwind these kids Phil, I will clean your clock.
4. You would know more about kids, Phil, if you didn’t spend so much time in whorology – the study of whores. Phil responds, “I don’t think you know what horology means.”
5. Oh Phil don’t be such a fob. Watch I how unwind them. You might want to put your hands over your ears.
6. When will the kids calm down? That all de-pendulums.
7. These kids are not self-winding, so they sure aren’t self-unwinding.
1. Uncle Phil says it’s time for bed.
2. Elly tells Phil the kids are all wound up.
3. Elly tells Phil he wound up the kids so he has to unwind them.
4. Phil thinks, “I’ll never what makes kids tick.”
Other choices Lynn Johnston decided not to use were:
1. You have to face facts Phil, and not like a clock face either.
2. Let me give you a hand, Phil. A clock hand that is.
3. If you don’t unwind these kids Phil, I will clean your clock.
4. You would know more about kids, Phil, if you didn’t spend so much time in whorology – the study of whores. Phil responds, “I don’t think you know what horology means.”
5. Oh Phil don’t be such a fob. Watch I how unwind them. You might want to put your hands over your ears.
6. When will the kids calm down? That all de-pendulums.
7. These kids are not self-winding, so they sure aren’t self-unwinding.
posted by howard at 11:56 PM
4 Comments:
That all de-pendulums.
That was such a bad pun I'm amazed it wasn't in the strip.
What bothers me most about this strip is that it, as always, puts out the idea that happy children who want adult attention are a bad thing that must be escaped from. It reveals something nasty about Lynn every time we see a parent get all pissed because her children don't do what they're supposed to and sit in the corner very quietly as they stare mindlessly into space and never EVER disturb adults with their evil demands for attention.
Sticky-outy-tongue Patterlaugh.
DreadedCandiru2,
What bothers me most about this strip is that it, as always, puts out the idea that happy children who want adult attention are a bad thing that must be escaped from.
It does reveal why we never see strips of Elly playing with her kids or grandkids. She fears that if she does so, she will wind up her kids and she doesn’t want to have to unwind them. The desire not to have to unwind the kids turns the activity into a bad thing that must be avoided.
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