One of the things I think is funny and interesting in B.C. is its mix of sentient predator and sentient prey animals, actually depicted preying on each other, as with the ants and anteaters. I find today’s strip particularly intriguing on this score. If you don’t really think about it much and accept the outside-the-anthill perspective the strip gives you, it’s a silly bit about an anteater getting his tongue tied in a knot, ho ho! But take a minute to imagine the scene inside: the gathering of innocent ants, going about their business within the larger colony, when suddenly an enormous, slimy tentacle bursts through the wall of their home, slithering to and fro. Who knows how many hundreds of unfortunates were snared by foul mucus that covers the monstrous thing and dragged back screaming into its snout, where they will be digested, alive, in agony? The carnage continues until one heroic young ant defeats the beast using the skills he’s learned in his scout group; the monster retreats in confusion, but the colony members look around their shattered home, weeping for their loved ones, wondering how they’ll be able to put their lives back together.
rf_eq almost 12 years ago
they are tongue twisters
Top Cat almost 12 years ago
That’s what you get for stick’n your nose where it don’t belong.
pouncingtiger almost 12 years ago
That’s knot the way to go about it.
KA7DRE Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Guess they didn’t have the time to make it into a granny knot…
revisages almost 12 years ago
fess up, bud.we know the truth.your slot todaystopped cherries.the solutionto being so “tied up”?lucky lemons
Aussie Down Under almost 12 years ago
He just got knotted (mild insult not the other definition).
Lyons Group, Inc. almost 12 years ago
Knot of this world.
Superfrog almost 12 years ago
They seem to have been prepared.
bbadenov almost 12 years ago
It looks like he’s tongue tied to me.
celeconecca almost 12 years ago
The rabbit comes up the hole, runs around the tree, and goes back down the hole. (bowline knot)
celeconecca almost 12 years ago
darn GIRL Scouts
Fogger_man almost 12 years ago
Ant got your tongue?
lightenup Premium Member almost 12 years ago
We all know the Girl Scouts taste better anyway. No, wait, that’s their cookies…
kbyrdleroy123 almost 12 years ago
This is what you get when you don’t look before you leap.
pierreandnicole almost 12 years ago
Luv expression in panel 1.
The Life I Draw Upon almost 12 years ago
An overhand, not a square knot?
Dutch56 almost 12 years ago
I need that on a tee-shirt!!!
dfowensby almost 12 years ago
if his tongue isnt lolling out his nostril, what’s that line drawn under his head?
Woody157 almost 12 years ago
He was still angry from having to run 2 termites out of his establishment. They had come in demanding to know where was the ‘bar-tender’.
boldyuma almost 12 years ago
For some strange reason this reminded me
of a girl who could tie a knot in a cherry stem
with her tongue..yeah..TMI
iced tea almost 12 years ago
The anteater knows now not to mess with boy scouts. He has to knot up his tongue forever more.
:)
Coltens14 almost 12 years ago
One of the things I think is funny and interesting in B.C. is its mix of sentient predator and sentient prey animals, actually depicted preying on each other, as with the ants and anteaters. I find today’s strip particularly intriguing on this score. If you don’t really think about it much and accept the outside-the-anthill perspective the strip gives you, it’s a silly bit about an anteater getting his tongue tied in a knot, ho ho! But take a minute to imagine the scene inside: the gathering of innocent ants, going about their business within the larger colony, when suddenly an enormous, slimy tentacle bursts through the wall of their home, slithering to and fro. Who knows how many hundreds of unfortunates were snared by foul mucus that covers the monstrous thing and dragged back screaming into its snout, where they will be digested, alive, in agony? The carnage continues until one heroic young ant defeats the beast using the skills he’s learned in his scout group; the monster retreats in confusion, but the colony members look around their shattered home, weeping for their loved ones, wondering how they’ll be able to put their lives back together.