Sunday, March 18, 2012

Another Potentially-Useful Duck

The last kerfuffle (or was it the one before that? I'm losing track), which involved people who were not familiar with some of CM's ongoing jokes and conventions, especially those connected with images, interpreting them out of context, got me thinking about how the RGM might respond if someone new to CM read one of Strelnikov's more colorful comments in isolation, and demanded the RGM alert the FBI (or CIA, or Interpol, or some arcane  but appropriate agency so secret I haven't even heard of it).  Then I opened up the comics to find that Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine had begun a story line about an East Coast/West Coast Cartoonist's War, and I had my answer: the RGM can explain that Strelnikov is our Guard Duck. 

Nominations for other parallels are welcome, but please keep in mind my late Irish grandfather's favorite saying, oft-quoted to me by my mother: "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."  [Okay, so CM would go toes-up very quickly if we kept to that advice all of the time, but maybe for the moment, at least in referring to and/or addressing each other?]

8 comments:

  1. Vog3lfr3iMarch 19, 2012 at 5:48 AM

    I fear Strelnikov.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 6:05 PM

    Long-time lurker, first-time commenter, love the show, er, blog...

    If anything could get me to uncloak, it's invoking Pearls, the EC/WC war, & Guard Duck so as to relate it all to the latest internecine dustup.

    Brilliant!

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  3. Middle-Aged and MoroseMarch 19, 2012 at 9:38 PM

    I notice it's a white duck. so much for diversity!!! (kidding)

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  4. StrelnikovMarch 20, 2012 at 4:14 AM

    I'm not coming to get you Sultans....you make it sound like I've got bottles on my fingers, clinging them together while I yell out "College Misery....come out and PLA-AY!"

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  5. The Contemplative CynicMarch 20, 2012 at 2:10 PM

    Middle-Aged. You must be white to make a comment like that. (Kidding!). :o)

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  6. The Contemplative CynicMarch 20, 2012 at 5:21 PM

    Check out this cartoon for a duck-worthy laugh.

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  7. AnonymousMarch 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM

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  8. AnonymousMarch 20, 2012 at 5:57 PM

    In the same vein as CC's link, here's another duck-worthy link...

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