Hmmm…. Caulfield has it right…. Principal Spaetzel IS a great character from comic literature, IMO. Now, I know Caulfield does not mean that in the way I am hoping for, but still…. Principal Spaetzel is great!
Of all the suggestions from others…. I would most like to see Caulfield dress up as Watson, although I think it is unlikely.
If I had to choose the most difficult part of drawing today’s strip, I’d have to say it was the concept of having to mimic a baffled expression. Baffled is my default.
I went a Halloween party yesterday of sorts. My local open-water swim friends close out the season with a Vampire Swim, a kind of polar-plunge-with-actual-swimming costume party and fundraiser, only instead of donating money to Red Cross (which is still an option), you just donate blood at some point within a year of the swim.
Like Caulfield, I, too, dressed as a great character from literature, at least if Herman Melville was as fascinated with medusozoa as he was with leviathans. Because you can’t spell jellyfish without a J, an E and an F.
Here it is for you to steal: Silicone swim cap; a thick rubber band that, stretched taut, is about the circumference of your head; curling ribbon attached to that headband for tentacles; one more rubber band for extra snugness. Shave your head if you can. It helps. Then get a flexible plastic tube. Stuff one end of the tube up the swim cap, place the other end in your mouth and blow like mad until you inflate your swim cap into a jellyfish body, then pull it out before any air escapes. Go swim.
The original idea didn’t involve a swim cap; I thought a condom would do the job, and be nice and jellyfish-translucent to boot. Alas, no. We’ve all seen the demonstrations in health class making them into giant water balloons (“see? they don’t break if you do it right”), but of course the crown size means nothing if the brim won’t go. But it was worth the failed experiment to have seen the look on the cashier at the pharmacy as I checked out with my condoms and my curling ribbon, wondering, I can only hope, just what kind of party I had planned. Because I shouldn’t be the only one walking around all baffled-looking.
Chris Colvard over 6 years ago
Now I have a baffled expression. Can’t wait to see what Caulfield has planned this year.
x_Tech over 6 years ago
Dr. John Watson?
daveoverpar over 6 years ago
Humpty Dumpty.
Lyons Group, Inc. over 6 years ago
Marcel Marceau?
matzam Premium Member over 6 years ago
presenting this bit rather late this year
JudyAz over 6 years ago
“great” as in “really good”, or “great” as in “large”?
sloaches over 6 years ago
Falstaff, perhaps?
Jon Premium Member over 6 years ago
Yossarian?
David Rickard Premium Member over 6 years ago
500 quatloos on Joseph K from The Trial
ZachBender over 6 years ago
chauncey gardiner
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member over 6 years ago
Hmmm…. Caulfield has it right…. Principal Spaetzel IS a great character from comic literature, IMO. Now, I know Caulfield does not mean that in the way I am hoping for, but still…. Principal Spaetzel is great!
Of all the suggestions from others…. I would most like to see Caulfield dress up as Watson, although I think it is unlikely.
Joliet Jake over 6 years ago
I’ll admit it … I have yet to figure one of these out from the clues.
GaryCooper over 6 years ago
Chauncey Gardiner?
danketaz Premium Member over 6 years ago
A Confederation of Dunces
DLeeCool Premium Member over 6 years ago
Forrest Gump
ZBicyclist Premium Member over 6 years ago
Baffled look? Rincewind from Pratchett’s Discworld novels? (probably too obscure)
Kind&Kinder over 6 years ago
Nero Wolfe?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
Frazz (Jeff Mallet) Facebook Blog
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If I had to choose the most difficult part of drawing today’s strip, I’d have to say it was the concept of having to mimic a baffled expression. Baffled is my default.
I went a Halloween party yesterday of sorts. My local open-water swim friends close out the season with a Vampire Swim, a kind of polar-plunge-with-actual-swimming costume party and fundraiser, only instead of donating money to Red Cross (which is still an option), you just donate blood at some point within a year of the swim.
Like Caulfield, I, too, dressed as a great character from literature, at least if Herman Melville was as fascinated with medusozoa as he was with leviathans. Because you can’t spell jellyfish without a J, an E and an F.
Here it is for you to steal: Silicone swim cap; a thick rubber band that, stretched taut, is about the circumference of your head; curling ribbon attached to that headband for tentacles; one more rubber band for extra snugness. Shave your head if you can. It helps. Then get a flexible plastic tube. Stuff one end of the tube up the swim cap, place the other end in your mouth and blow like mad until you inflate your swim cap into a jellyfish body, then pull it out before any air escapes. Go swim.
The original idea didn’t involve a swim cap; I thought a condom would do the job, and be nice and jellyfish-translucent to boot. Alas, no. We’ve all seen the demonstrations in health class making them into giant water balloons (“see? they don’t break if you do it right”), but of course the crown size means nothing if the brim won’t go. But it was worth the failed experiment to have seen the look on the cashier at the pharmacy as I checked out with my condoms and my curling ribbon, wondering, I can only hope, just what kind of party I had planned. Because I shouldn’t be the only one walking around all baffled-looking.