The Argyle Sweater Comic Strip, January 12, 2013 on GoComics.com

Bilan said, 4 months ago

He forgot to mention the times those big hideous hands would come climbing up.

margueritem said, 4 months ago

@Bilan

And that insecticidal shampoo and lice comb…

Linux0s said, 4 months ago

I wonder how they loused this up.

Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

Even so she washed all that hair. So much to clean then comb and brush….

win said, 4 months ago

A lot of nitpicking here.

Arianne said, 4 months ago

Only a nitwit believes those lousey tales are true.

JohnnyDiego said, 4 months ago

I’ve been telling you guys for years that girls have cooties.

Notsoastute said, 4 months ago

This cartoon bugs me.

jreckard said, 4 months ago

@JohnnyDiego

I think the old coot is eggsaggerating.

emptc12 said, 4 months ago

Hilburn’s offering today has a common theme that many cartoonists have used. It calls to mind the following from “literature”:
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Some of my favorite quotations come from Don Marquis in his “archy and mehitabel” series of poems (archy is a cockroach that had once been human. He used Marquis’s manual typewriter to leave messages, and can’t use capitalizations). In “the cockroach who had been to hell,” 1927, an “old simp cockroach” has a group of young cockroaches circled around him as he tells of his alleged visit. As archy mocks him, he rails about the injustice of his transmigration from a vers libre poet into his current existence as a roach —
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listen i says to him
old man youve never been to hell
at all there isn t any hell
transmigration is the game i
used to be a human vers libre
poet and i died and went
into a cockroach s body if
there was a hell id know
it wouldn t i
.
And in another rant by archy, he curses,
.
damned be this transmigration
doubledamned be the boob pythagoras
the gink that went and invented it
i hope that his soul for a thousand
turns of the wheel of existence
bides in the shell of a louse
dodging a fine toothed comb
.
In “the wisdom of archy” he proclaims:
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as a representative
of the insect world
i have often wondered
on what man bases his claims
to superiority
everything he knows he has had
to learn whereas we insects are born
knowing everything we need to know
a louse i
used to know
told me that
millionaires and
bums tasted
about alike
to him
.
There’s a lot to be learned from a transmigrated roach. I wonder in what form he is incarnated now?

finale said, 4 months ago

@emptc12

Had our shot of serious caffeine this morning? Way too deep for Saturday morning. Will revisit in the afternoon.
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Granpa louse will regale the nits about “Rapelling Rapunzel” in the Good ’Ol Days.

WifesWrath said, 4 months ago

Lester , Lord of Lies, leads lyrical lesson of lore…..(get it? lies/lice?)

Perkycat said, 4 months ago

@emptc12

I read ‘archy and mehitabel" in college and was captivated. I hadn’t thought about it for a long time. Very deep – yes.

Dragon0131 said, 4 months ago

@emptc12
thanks for the archie and mehitabel. Haven’t thought about them in years. And thanks for the added info, I did not know archie was a transmigrated roach.