Coming Soon 👀 At the beginning of April, you’ll be
introduced to a brand-new GoComics! See more information here. Subscribers, check your
email for more details.
I’ve always wondered about those barrels myself. So I looked it up on wikipedia:
The bankruptcy barrel is a visual symbol, primarily of the 20th century, used in cartoons and other media as a token of destitution. Not intended to be realistic, it consists of a suit made of only a wooden barrel held on by suspenders, indicating that the subject is so poor that he is unable to afford even clothes and is reduced to wearing a barrel for modesty because his clothes have been stolen or because of some other similarly amusing circumstance.
However, the use of a barrel as clothing for comedic effect goes back much further. George Etherege’s 1664 comedy ‘The Comical Revenge’ aka ‘Love in a Tub’ included a barrel-wearing character.
So now you know, as Paul Harvey used to say… the REST of the story.
Averagemoe over 2 years ago
He took his shirt off, which means he actually needs to cover his “shame” now.
danketaz Premium Member over 2 years ago
They keep them next to the Niagara barrels.
Bill D. Kat Premium Member over 2 years ago
I’ve always wondered about those barrels myself. So I looked it up on wikipedia:
The bankruptcy barrel is a visual symbol, primarily of the 20th century, used in cartoons and other media as a token of destitution. Not intended to be realistic, it consists of a suit made of only a wooden barrel held on by suspenders, indicating that the subject is so poor that he is unable to afford even clothes and is reduced to wearing a barrel for modesty because his clothes have been stolen or because of some other similarly amusing circumstance.
However, the use of a barrel as clothing for comedic effect goes back much further. George Etherege’s 1664 comedy ‘The Comical Revenge’ aka ‘Love in a Tub’ included a barrel-wearing character.
So now you know, as Paul Harvey used to say… the REST of the story.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 2 years ago
I was never interested in “cool” a transient idea promulgated by those who claimed it. Nor popularity.