By gum, you are right! I am going to take the literal approach and literally affix that last panel to a number of things! Literally! (Examples include but are not limited to: public washrooms, my clothes closet and the front door of the Burger King down the street.)
On a completely unrelated note, I would like to propose that everyone start saying “by gum!” a whole lot more. Readysetgo!
I’m in. It’s the new Alice’s Restaurant Anti Massecre Movement. Stick it on conservative student group posters, public hand sanitizer stations, and No skateboarding signs.
I’d definitely pay for a sticker of the last panel. Just imagine: if people bought enough of them, someone would eventually have to go stick one on Dorothy’s [fancy kind of dwelling in fancy New York neighborhood].
(what do I know about the upper middle class or New York? Nothing, apparently.)
I think in some geographic contexts, a capella groups are upper-middle. Yale has had the Whiffenpoofs for I don’t know how long, and Princeton its Nassoons and Tigertones. It was during the last “preppy revival” (early 80’s, the era of Izod and The Preppy Handbook) that Stanford got its Fleet Street Singers, an attempt to be more like its upper-middle East Coast counterparts. So, yes, a capella does mean upper-middle in many contexts.
The show choir is a very upper middle class thing, especially in the midwest. It requires going to a school at 1) funds the (silly) arts, and 2) wastes money on sequins and aquanet hair spray. There were a lot of Catholic schools in our ‘league’.
In some of the old cartoons there would be this 16 ton flat top pyramidal weight that would drop out of the sky and obliterate one of the characters. Cat just dropped an invisible one on Girl in 5.
September 29, 2009
Ha ha! 2. Trüe.
September 29, 2009
Time for grad school
September 29, 2009
is the cardigan coming back to?
September 29, 2009
One could cut out the last panel and affix it to any number of things.
September 29, 2009
By gum, you are right! I am going to take the literal approach and literally affix that last panel to a number of things! Literally! (Examples include but are not limited to: public washrooms, my clothes closet and the front door of the Burger King down the street.)
On a completely unrelated note, I would like to propose that everyone start saying “by gum!” a whole lot more. Readysetgo!
September 29, 2009
@krimson: i’m going to paste it to all of my high school students’ bags and binders.
September 29, 2009
by gum.
September 29, 2009
I’m in. It’s the new Alice’s Restaurant Anti Massecre Movement. Stick it on conservative student group posters, public hand sanitizer stations, and No skateboarding signs.
September 29, 2009
Now that Girl has been identified as a carrier of sickle cell bohemia, society must quarantine her. By gum.
September 29, 2009
i think a lot of people would pay for a sticker of the last panel.
September 30, 2009
Singing groups are upper middle class? Really?
September 30, 2009
Let’s see if Distant Voices, Still Lives is still on Youtube.
September 30, 2009
Yes! It is! Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXPsKuUcUpE
Well that’s not very upper middle class, is it.
September 30, 2009
I’d definitely pay for a sticker of the last panel. Just imagine: if people bought enough of them, someone would eventually have to go stick one on Dorothy’s [fancy kind of dwelling in fancy New York neighborhood].
(what do I know about the upper middle class or New York? Nothing, apparently.)
September 30, 2009
I didn’t think singing groups were particularly upper middle class either. What a non-starter. :(
By gum.
September 30, 2009
I think in some geographic contexts, a capella groups are upper-middle. Yale has had the Whiffenpoofs for I don’t know how long, and Princeton its Nassoons and Tigertones. It was during the last “preppy revival” (early 80’s, the era of Izod and The Preppy Handbook) that Stanford got its Fleet Street Singers, an attempt to be more like its upper-middle East Coast counterparts. So, yes, a capella does mean upper-middle in many contexts.
October 1, 2009
The Office’s Andrew Bernarna, The NArd-Dog may have something to do with it
October 2, 2009
The show choir is a very upper middle class thing, especially in the midwest. It requires going to a school at 1) funds the (silly) arts, and 2) wastes money on sequins and aquanet hair spray. There were a lot of Catholic schools in our ‘league’.
October 4, 2009
There’s a sudden mainstream cultural interest in a Capella singing groups and show choirs?
October 4, 2009
Wait. When did Cat become the philosophical one?
November 17, 2009
But… I’ve always enjoyed show choirs and a cappella groups. I was a choir kid in high school….
@Jim: just look up GLEE, the new show on FOX.
October 7, 2013
In some of the old cartoons there would be this 16 ton flat top pyramidal weight that would drop out of the sky and obliterate one of the characters. Cat just dropped an invisible one on Girl in 5.