Sunday, March 23, 2025

H-E-Double Hockey Sticks

Brutus is standing on Veeblefester's porch as it starts to rain. Veeblefester's butler says "One moment, please," and goes off to inform Veeblefester that Brutus is here. "A Brutus Thornapple is here to see you, sir." "I'm just starting my first course," Veeblefester says as he sits at a table with food on it. "Have him wait until I am finished with dinner." The butler goes out to Brutus, still on the porch, and now getting rained on in a downpour. "He's having an after dinner brandy. You may see him now." Brutus, dripping wet, goes up to Veeblefester. "Yes, Thornapple? What is it?" "You invited me to dinner..." Brutus says.
December 14, 1986
Does Veeblefester not have a sitting room that Brutus could sit in until Veeblefester is ready for company? I mean, I guess Veeblefester doesn't even have a covered front porch so why would he have a sitting room?

Is that a harp in the background of the fifth panel?

Brutus is sitting in his green chair watching TV while Wilberforce stands next to him, apparently also watching TV. "Are you enjoying the hockey match?" Brutus asks. "Why have they stopped playing? Is it halftime?" Wilberforce asks. "Well, not exactly. In a hockey match, a break is called an intermission, not halftime. Because there are two intermissions in a hockey match," Brutus explains. "How do they take two intermissions during halftime?" Wilberforce asks. "Because hockey is divided into three periods, not halves or quarters." "So hockey has two halftimes and three quarters? Are you missing with me?" Wilberforce fumes.
That's not what Brutus said at all, Wilberforce. Three periods, an intermission between each period. He even explained it's not halftime. It's the first thing he said!

Learning they are called 'intermissions' hurts more than learning a soccer field is called a 'pitch'.




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