I don’t get it. Probably a term with which I’m unfamiliar.
John Moralessays
Ah, never mind.
Last speech bubble in last panel is obviously the clue for such as I.
Pierce R. Butlersays
John Morales @ #s 1-2: Lend an ear to the Beach Boys band.
John Moralessays
Pierce, Leonard Daneer.
Pierce R. Butlersays
John Morales @ # 4 -- a search for that name turns up only close resemblances, no actual hits.
John Moralessays
Pierce, familiar diminutive for Leonard is Len.
Pierce R. Butlersays
John, searching for that variant turns up more nothing, except an Instagram account with zero words or pictures.
Could you maybe be less oblique?
moarscienceplzsays
Ah yes, that famous line from Shakespeare: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, Len Daneer…”
I tried to guess the PUNch line before I read it, but I was stuck on something about cauliflower.
flexsays
This one is more tortured than usual.
Considering how regularly Pastis lurks in the dark alleys of the literary city, waiting for an innocent word or phrase to come close enough to club, and then dismembers them in order to stitch together a Frankenstein’s Monster of pun-manship, that’s saying a lot.
Won’t somebody think of the adverbs!
BTW, I find two clues to the solution in the last panel.
chigau (違う)says
Try reading the comic out loud.
moarscienceplzsays
When the tide does roll in, we can all toast Pastis’ demise with some lovely wine and cheese and crackers. I volunteer to bring the goodbye rations.
moarscienceplzsays
I guess the time is ripe for this one:
A chess playing society held a convention at a certain hotel. They played games of chess all day, and had reservations to dine together at a particular restaurant that evening. As they started to gather in the hotel lobby before dinner time, they naturally started talking about their games from earlier.
“Did you see me take my opponent’s queen? Best game of my life!”
“Oh, that’s nothing! I got my opponent with a knight fork! It was just beautiful!”
“OK, that’s enough of that! If you don’t stop, I’ll throw the lot of of you out of this hotel”, yelled the hotel manager.
“Why? What did we do?”
“If there’s one thing I can NOT stand”, said the manager, “it’s chess nuts boasting in an open foyer!”
Lassi Hippeläinensays
First I expected something about earls before swine…
I don’t get it. Probably a term with which I’m unfamiliar.
Ah, never mind.
Last speech bubble in last panel is obviously the clue for such as I.
John Morales @ #s 1-2: Lend an ear to the Beach Boys band.
Pierce, Leonard Daneer.
John Morales @ # 4 -- a search for that name turns up only close resemblances, no actual hits.
Pierce, familiar diminutive for Leonard is Len.
John, searching for that variant turns up more nothing, except an Instagram account with zero words or pictures.
Could you maybe be less oblique?
Ah yes, that famous line from Shakespeare: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, Len Daneer…”
I tried to guess the PUNch line before I read it, but I was stuck on something about cauliflower.
Considering how regularly Pastis lurks in the dark alleys of the literary city, waiting for an innocent word or phrase to come close enough to club, and then dismembers them in order to stitch together a Frankenstein’s Monster of pun-manship, that’s saying a lot.
Won’t somebody think of the adverbs!
BTW, I find two clues to the solution in the last panel.
Try reading the comic out loud.
When the tide does roll in, we can all toast Pastis’ demise with some lovely wine and cheese and crackers. I volunteer to bring the goodbye rations.
I guess the time is ripe for this one:
A chess playing society held a convention at a certain hotel. They played games of chess all day, and had reservations to dine together at a particular restaurant that evening. As they started to gather in the hotel lobby before dinner time, they naturally started talking about their games from earlier.
“Did you see me take my opponent’s queen? Best game of my life!”
“Oh, that’s nothing! I got my opponent with a knight fork! It was just beautiful!”
“OK, that’s enough of that! If you don’t stop, I’ll throw the lot of of you out of this hotel”, yelled the hotel manager.
“Why? What did we do?”
“If there’s one thing I can NOT stand”, said the manager, “it’s chess nuts boasting in an open foyer!”
First I expected something about earls before swine…
moarscienceplz @ # 8 -- Ah, thanks.