Orange Alert

I recently got two emails about this cartoon.

Here's the first:

Dear Sir, I dont understand this joke. Please explain it to me.

And the second:

Today's cartoon, "This, my fellow poets, is the enemy," LOVED IT!

Obviously I like the second email better, but, honestly, I sorta knew this'd be obscure when I did it.

Here's the thing, first writer: nothing rhymes with "orange."

Seriously. Go ahead and try it.

So the joke is that a group of poets (folks who rhyme a lot of the time) would really hate that word.

Why do a cartoon that 99.9% of the population won't get? That's the great thing about being an independent cartoonist – I can do whatever I think is funny.

And the .1% of people who get an oddball cartoon like this, generally think it's really funny.

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Comments

[Mike Lynch]

OK, whenever I post a cartoon on the Web that people have told me they do not understand, I get a flutter of emails from a number of people who (a) get it and (b) don't understand why anyone would not.

The latest:

http://heykidscomics.com/574web.jpg

[Brad Shorr]

Door hinge.

:)

[Andertoons]

Brad - That's two words

Mike - That's 41 words.

[Dave]

This would be the wrong time to point out that there is a mountain near Abergavenny, Wales UK called 'the Blorenge' wouldn't it? (Google it if you don't believe me...)

Yes, I thought so.

:)

[Andertoons]

Now I don't know how to feel...

[Mike Lynch]

Dave, contact Hilary Price about this!

[RubberOnion]

Isn't there a comic strip called rhymes with orange?

How can people not get your cartoon?? It's kindof obvious to me... I laughed out loud (as opposed to the pitiful lol... no... no)

[Andertoons]

Hey there, RO! Yeah, I gotta stop using LOL. Is there anything else?