Elly, why didn’t you just ask the reverend to turn off your vent…you told yourself to do it…I guess it’s difficult for you to confront someone. I should talk! ;)
Ah, the dilemma of how to be courteous in the face of rudeness, real or perceived. Simply reaching up and adjusting one’s own vent would seem to be a better approach, but let’s see how Lynn tells the story.
Maybe it’s better this way. Elly could say she thought the man may need the extra air and she didn’t mind putting her coat on and was being considerate. But it’s no usually men who need all that extra air but women when we go through the change!
You never know who will be your seat partner(s).In 1965 when I boarded the Canadian at Winnipeg (destination Medicine Hat & Lethbridge) I really lucked out!Sitting next to a lady about my age!She was at least an 8.5Very pleasantProbably single?A pleasure to around.
Those nozzles do typically have enough range of motion that the person in the center seat could obtain a draft from all three. And the reverend looks like a larger-bodied gent, with a coat, so that he might appreciate a little more air. His seat mates might also appreciate the cooler air around him. That being said, common courtesy would dictate that he at least ask before using either nozzle but his own.
And perhaps in reality (as opposed to a comic strip), he would have made those adjustments prior to the other occupants of the row boarding the plane. But then we readers would not get to see Elly’s predicament.
Maybe Lynn Johnston should have written a book instead of drawing comics. She could have explained all those little details.
I was suggesting that she could have used a different original genre, not a behind-the-scenes explanation of the genre she chose. Different genres provide different capabilities, and it is unfair to judge one by the characteristics of another. Thus, a novelist can go into great detail about when a person adjusted an air vent and what and why he saw in a garment; a 4-panel cartoonist has extremely limited ability to do the same. Nor is the the goal the same. In a 4-panel strip, setting up the pun is all that is needed. Leave the “whys” for the novelist or short-story writer.
I hadn’t thought about the reverend’s arm until you pointed it out; I just thought that the suddenly awakened passenger was reacting to “man of the cloth.” In any case, I get a kick out of the look on Mustache Man’s face.
Templo S.U.D. about 10 years ago
Nice to know you you showed being sentimental, Reverend, AND for making a pun.
ORMouseworks about 10 years ago
Elly, why didn’t you just ask the reverend to turn off your vent…you told yourself to do it…I guess it’s difficult for you to confront someone. I should talk! ;)
dsom8 about 10 years ago
Ah, the dilemma of how to be courteous in the face of rudeness, real or perceived. Simply reaching up and adjusting one’s own vent would seem to be a better approach, but let’s see how Lynn tells the story.
alondra about 10 years ago
Maybe it’s better this way. Elly could say she thought the man may need the extra air and she didn’t mind putting her coat on and was being considerate. But it’s no usually men who need all that extra air but women when we go through the change!
sleeepy2 about 10 years ago
It’s nice to see a daily strip end with Elly smiling (she’s usually showing varying levels of exasperation).
route66paul about 10 years ago
Canuckians get cold?
tuslog64 about 10 years ago
You never know who will be your seat partner(s).In 1965 when I boarded the Canadian at Winnipeg (destination Medicine Hat & Lethbridge) I really lucked out!Sitting next to a lady about my age!She was at least an 8.5Very pleasantProbably single?A pleasure to around.
tuslog64 about 10 years ago
-And getting off at Portage La Prairie – the next stop!
dsom8 about 10 years ago
Those nozzles do typically have enough range of motion that the person in the center seat could obtain a draft from all three. And the reverend looks like a larger-bodied gent, with a coat, so that he might appreciate a little more air. His seat mates might also appreciate the cooler air around him. That being said, common courtesy would dictate that he at least ask before using either nozzle but his own.
And perhaps in reality (as opposed to a comic strip), he would have made those adjustments prior to the other occupants of the row boarding the plane. But then we readers would not get to see Elly’s predicament.
Maybe Lynn Johnston should have written a book instead of drawing comics. She could have explained all those little details.
coffeeturtle about 10 years ago
{face palm}
dsom8 about 10 years ago
I was suggesting that she could have used a different original genre, not a behind-the-scenes explanation of the genre she chose. Different genres provide different capabilities, and it is unfair to judge one by the characteristics of another. Thus, a novelist can go into great detail about when a person adjusted an air vent and what and why he saw in a garment; a 4-panel cartoonist has extremely limited ability to do the same. Nor is the the goal the same. In a 4-panel strip, setting up the pun is all that is needed. Leave the “whys” for the novelist or short-story writer.
westny77 about 10 years ago
A fashion dude who preaches in the Church
The Rolling Cat about 10 years ago
I hadn’t thought about the reverend’s arm until you pointed it out; I just thought that the suddenly awakened passenger was reacting to “man of the cloth.” In any case, I get a kick out of the look on Mustache Man’s face.