I rarely understand the newspaper’s Sunday Funnies and apparently I would have been just as stumped back in the 1950s. Here’s some titillating post cards I bought today that are almost impossible to get.
After staring at this one for at least an hour, the best I can come up with is he’s saying “What are you up to?” as in “how high is the water up to on your body?” Is that the pun? Because if it’s not, then he’s just saying “what are you doing?” which would be a whole new kind of comedy: Just saying shit with no joke whatsoever.
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What are you, 10? “Tee hee I went into the water and tickled the girls fannies.” 23 year-olds back then were basically pre-pubescent kids today. What a queer.
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We’re going to have to assume “Rings the bell” is an old timey saying meaning “Rocks.” That STILL makes it a really fucking lame gag. You take a colloquilaism, draw it literally, and that’s your joke? Why don’t you have a cat in some pajamas while you’re at it?
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This one I simply cannot crack and would appreciate some reader input. Yes you forgot something, you’re your fucking pants. What is this “No Pants 1k950″? And what’s with the “Post no Bills” thing? It serves no purpose other than distracting us from the thing on the fence – and what is that thing anyway? Is it really written on the fence or is it her thought? I think Timmons Jr was so flabergasted at the naked lady he just drew he gave up on actually making a funny. What a bunch of baby faggots people were back in the 1950s. Grow the fuck up.
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the post no bills sign is covering up the glory hole.
01.11.09 at 4:34 pm
Whats the rake got to do with it ? I think Post No Bills sign is a red herring.Weird, if they were more explicit they’d probably be less creepy.
01.11.09 at 4:35 pm
Trees? Trees, are for soc’s who are living for the days, the days of drinking partying and fucking. Yeah, trees. My best of friends, they are what i love, they are there for me, no matter what. I love them, despite what you’ve been told. They have soul. That’s the meaning of the last one.
-Slippery Gecko 2nd
01.11.09 at 4:53 pm
“You are” fucking pants. Your.
01.11.09 at 5:02 pm
The first one could be a variation on “up to my neck in shit”, as in “up to my waist in shit”. Or he has just realized he found a freak with a boob on her side.
01.11.09 at 6:21 pm
The “Post no Bills” sign means don’t put any advertisements on the fence. Any advertisement in the olden days was called a bill. I guess that’s where billboard derived from but what do I know, I’m a choad that’s under 22.
01.11.09 at 7:22 pm
We know what “post no bills” means you ass. It’s still used everywhere. Jesus. Thanks for the lesson. The question is: “Why is post no bills included in the joke?”
01.11.09 at 8:52 pm
WELL I THINK IT IS FASSINATING HOW IN THE 1950′S “SUNDAY FUNNIES” WAS THE MEANING OF “POST CARDS.” OH HOW THE LANGUAGE HAS REALLY CHANGED SENSE THEN.
01.11.09 at 9:01 pm
Do you really want me to get into the psychology of this thing?
01.11.09 at 10:02 pm
That’s her thought, and I’m betting it was a skirt not pants. Poor guy’s been raking all day, it’s hot. This cruel slut parades by. He’s clearly taking care of business. I recall coming across head-warping shit like this in my grandpa’s den. Weirdly “naughty” or something, it made my head swim twilight-zone style.
01.12.09 at 1:43 am
THE JOKE IN THE FIRST ONE IS THAT HE’S POINTING TO THE SIGN AND GETTING MAD AT HER FOR SWIMMING INSTEAD OF JUMPING IN THE RIVER AND RAPING HER. (MEN WERE ALLOWED TO RAPE ANY NAKED WOMAN THEY SAW IN THE 1950S, OBVIOUSLY. BEING NAKED == CONSENT.)
THE JOKE IN THE LAST ONE IS INDEED THAT SHE FORGOT HER SKIRT (WOMEN DON’T WEAR PANTS.) “POST NO BILLS” SIGNS WERE COMMON IN THOSE DAYS TO TELL YOUR UTILITIES NOT TO POST YOUR BILLS ON YOUR FENCE OR WHATEVER WHEN THEY CAME BY TO READ THE METER.
BTW I JUST PULLED ALL OF THAT OUT OF MY ASS BUT IT SOUNDS PRETTY CONVINCING.
01.12.09 at 10:40 am
Posting a Bill was slang for banging a dude. This queer behind the fence saw a super hot chick and forgot that he bangs dudes.
01.12.09 at 10:43 am
IN THE “TICKLE” ONE, THAT GIRL IS OBVIOUSLY GETTING FINGERED.
IN BOTH HOLES.
PLUNGE…
01.12.09 at 10:57 am
I like how the hillbilly sheriff in the first one is wearing a Pizza Hut table cloth for a shirt.
01.12.09 at 11:19 am
I have a real life tingle in my weiner from the post no bills comic.
01.12.09 at 11:26 am
the “post no bills” sign is a poor illustration crutch, used to indicate we’re looking at a fence and not a giant melting slab of butter with lines in it. the erect rake is his boner. mighta translated better if he was say, launching a model rocket in his yard, or a giant slinky was going “booooinnng!”
01.12.09 at 11:52 am
For the last comic: Notice only one hand is showing. He is jerking off with his other hand. Post no bills is a reference to blowing his load on the fence. The open window with shutters is a reference to her gaping vagina. The “Have i forgotten anything” is her talking, but with a slap of sarcasm. Like, “Yes, i am not wearing pants and I did it on purpose, but if you want to touch, you’re going to have to drop the rake and get a job”. The fence symbolizes the reality that he has no chance. hahahahaha
01.12.09 at 1:14 pm
In the first one, the sheriff-man is pointing to the sign and asking it what it’s up to. He’s obviously pissed off that the sign isn’t doing its job properly and to demonstrate his ire, he’s going to smash the woman in the head with a rock and then have a danger-wank behind the jail.
01.12.09 at 1:43 pm
Ultimately, I think the cartoon is a statement about the importance of civil disobedience, and the risk inherent in subverting social norms. In any protest, even against the most obviously unjust laws, there will be those who push the envelope beyond the pale. This lovely young woman, innocent in her nudity as Eve before the fall, is challenging the anachronistic, puritanical norms promulgated by the old agrarian, booze addled codger (society’s old guard). However, while the reader might sympathize with this simple act of defiance (who wouldn’t want to take a dip in that bucolic setting, sans sartorial accoutrements), he must also accept that she is fouling the water supply with her urine. The message here is that change is not easy, and that while change is inexorable (the farmer can do little more than stamp his feet in outrage by the banks of the river and gesture at the warning posted), it will bring bad along with the good.
01.12.09 at 5:17 pm
goddamnit, i just laughed out loud at work while reading this shit. good job on the comments, erebody.
01.12.09 at 7:12 pm
NO! the first one he’s like WHAT ARE YOU DOING? cause she’s swimming and she shouldn’t be.. but she’s naked and he doesn’t even notice cause she broke the rules.
i’m fucked about the other ones and honestly, that doesn’t really bother me that much.
01.12.09 at 10:17 pm
she forgot her pants
01.12.09 at 11:42 pm
Definitely earlier than the 50’s. Probably the 40’s when all the good cartoonists were off fighting the Nazi’s. This guy is just some 4-f scrub.
01.13.09 at 2:18 pm
what about that “outlaw cunty” joke? you’re just as bad, dude.
01.13.09 at 8:17 pm
This philosophy moves the library deeper into the realms of openness, transparency, and participation. ,
10.22.09 at 4:13 pm
stop making fun of these things, people will definitly make fun of us some day so shut up please, and your language is pitiful.:(
04.16.10 at 12:09 pm