Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for August 06, 2018

Oy! We all need more cushion for our Pushkin!

Oh I see what you did there, your really pushkin it Darby. ;^)

A worthy pun, lad.

sounds like a remake of a Spinal Tap lyric

Plumb Bob Square Flaps????

Saw the Tchaikovsky opera on TV recently. I thought the story was surprisingly slim for an opera (boy meets girl, boy loses girl), so I Googled and learned that it was written as a novel in verse form of almost 400 fourteen-line sonnets. So the reason for the story’s longevity is basically that it is a poetic feat (almost said ‘feet’) in Russian but of not much interest otherwise. (The opera’s famous waltz and polonaise are lovely though.)

The problem with “Eugene Onegin” is that it’s on-again, off-again.

are those spectacles bucky is wearing?

That was a lot of effort to get to that punchline!

Well, we’d seen that Darby has an affinity for Pearls Before Swine…

Putin on the Ritz ;(

Is there a widespread auditory impairment whereby people think Pushkin rhymes with Cushion? It doesn’t, you know! The punchline might be “worthy” or “priceless” if it did, but it doesn’t, so it’s a complete dud that barely even fizzles.

Um, Jefano: perhaps you’re unaware of what Darby’s using for his punchline here? Undoubtedly the raciest one he’s done, the play on “more cushion for your pushin’” being a slang phrase for why some men prefer, um, ‘well upholstered’ women for sexual encounters…

I thought “Eugene Onegin” was a liquor store in Oregon.

All these comments have taken a real Tolstoy on my nerves!

I wonder if that Russian Blue is a Gogol dancer, and prefers her cream Pasternakized.

I read Eon and Eternity, by Gregg Bear. There were some Russians and some Americans (and an alien or two). He named every Russian, all three names, all about twenty consonants long each, even if they were somebody like a gate guard that was never mentioned again. They were great books, except for those Russian names. Makes me wonder how difficult real Russian writing would be to read!

Does Stephan Pastis know you stole one of his jokes?