New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for January 10, 2010

I have people who root through my recycling bins every week looking for return-for-deposits that are never there that I would seriously love to do this to.

I would have no problem with others taking my garbage. Better that it’s reused than simply go to the landfill.

Bet they’re hoping to find some Crown jewels between the cushions…

Hey! come back here with my @#%&*! Netflix!

When we have our city-wide clean ups people will go around, scrounging what they can.

I’m with the Prince. What the heck happened in panel 7?

I always put out old TVs. The city would have me drive them to a hazardous waste site, but there’s always some fool will take them.

Sometimes he’s a little too subtle or esoteric or something. I don’t understand this strip today at all. Other times he’s hilarious. This one, I have to say, just went way over my head…..

..see how quickly the sofa was picked up…just like my neighborhood…

Dude. I freakin’ LOVE junk week! We got my pantry out of the trash. We got our curtains out of the trash. We got our DIVING BOARD out of the trash!

We found a perfectly good typewriter that we donated to my high school (This was a long time ago, lol) We found a shiatsu massage machine in the trash.We’ve found bowling balls in the trash.

We find stuff in other people’s trash, and save it up. Then my neighbor has a charity garage sale every year to raise funds for dystonia research. We donate items from the trash to her.

Hey, I consider it recycling! Someone else could use that perfectly good sofa, or winter coat, or whatever. :)

I understand about the recycling and all and it’s a very good idea, but what did Queen Vicki actually DO?

I’m all for roadside recycle. How else would I have furnished my dorm. Nowadays though:

Bedbugs. Can you say Bedbugs?

I think the couch blew up, thus removing the couple picking it up from the gene pool…

I’m all for free-cycling! (and not blowing up the takers)

I believe JRSearcher is on the right track, but there must be more to this. Why did the couch explode? Did Vickie booby-trap it? Why? And what is this Darwin game? Google wasn’t any help this time.

Pab, if you have to explain them, are they worth your effort and ours?

Pab is suprisingly quiet on this one. I’m with pschearer: Why did the couch explode? Did Vickie booby-trap it? Why? And what is this Darwin game?

We always put the stuff we think people will pick up separate from the rest of the garbage. Makes it easier for them and they don’t mess up the real garbage.

@cabrobst, @bruce920, @Takiniteasy, et al Re: What happened?

I don’t know what happened, but I’m visualizing something like this.

I understood this comic right away! Queen Vic considers those beneath her to be worthless, so she set a trap (ie a booby-trapped couch). She knew someone of lesser class would come by to pick it up. She has now disposed of a couple of people she considers to be of no value.

The Darwin reference is the whole “survival of the fittest” thing, only in reverse. In this case, it is “the demise of the unfit”.

The whole comic is very, very nasty and distasteful. I love it!!

I agree with dstufff take on it. I’m speculating that exactly what happened to the trash pickers.

A horsehair sofa stuffed with magnesium wool and placed atop a springloaded deadman switch would provide that approximate effect.

Trust me it’s better that someone else take it than go to a landfill. I should know I inspect them for the government for a living!

[10 days later] I think Dstuff has it exactly right. I just never considered that explanation because it never occurred to me that Vicky would ever be that vicious.

To paraphrase Dstuff: The whole comic is very, very nasty and distasteful. I hate it!!