Eh. I can’t distinguish ‘merry’ from ‘marry’ from ‘Mary’, but in my dialect ‘lager’ is high upper ‘ah’ with the chin back and ‘logger’ is a low forward ’ah with the chin forward.
Of course, I live where there are both. In fact the best Thai food around is made at a bar and grill (owned by a Thai family, now) called The Woodsman which I visit several times a year… in good years, alas.
“We’ve got to get some logs.” “No, we’ve got to get a new producer.” “Are you a logger?” Dialogue at the end of Spanky and Our Gang’s “Sunday Mornin’” (extended version).
From the comments I gather there was some sort of Monty Python skit about loggers. I never got the humor of MP, but I’m glad Pastis is back to making puns instead of all doom and gloom.
Amazing, how most of the comments above deal with the pun and its possible Python sources, while almost no one (well, very few) deal with the proper punishment of Pastis, a.k.a. Cartoon-Boy, for what he has done! Even Rat’s Retort is muted today, with no actual redwoods being harmed in the strip….
BTW, don’t offer a corviknight or corvisquire in trade or as a trading card, using a Boston accent; in Boston accent, “corvi-” becomes “covi-”, and before the “s” or “n” sound, as in those two pokemon species names, it might come out “covid-” (like “COVID”). LOL! XD!
BE THIS GUY over 3 years ago
Order a Pilsner next time.
alasko over 3 years ago
It’s good for what ales you.
Bilan over 3 years ago
If you want a tall one, he’s the guy to talk to.
eolan59 over 3 years ago
He’s a lumberjack and he’s okay
feverjr Premium Member over 3 years ago
He’s a lumberjack and he’s okay. He sleeps all night and he works all day.
BasilBruce over 3 years ago
If he’d ordered a Black and Tan, would the guys from Miami Vice have come over?
Templo S.U.D. over 3 years ago
What will Rat get from the barkeeper if he requested an ale? A deed to a plot of land in the middle of an ocean?
jpsomebody over 3 years ago
If he chops down trees in time to music, would you call him logarithmic?
Robin Harwood over 3 years ago
This is a joke for people who can’t pronounce the letters “a” and “o”.
Concretionist over 3 years ago
Eh. I can’t distinguish ‘merry’ from ‘marry’ from ‘Mary’, but in my dialect ‘lager’ is high upper ‘ah’ with the chin back and ‘logger’ is a low forward ’ah with the chin forward.
Of course, I live where there are both. In fact the best Thai food around is made at a bar and grill (owned by a Thai family, now) called The Woodsman which I visit several times a year… in good years, alas.
Gent over 3 years ago
Oh thank goodness. Happy new year!
DamnHappyChappy over 3 years ago
I bet if you are a Lumberjack you may be a little pissed off with Monty Python.
gopher gofer over 3 years ago
they need to give that bartender the axe…
deojaideep aka Courage over 3 years ago
Seriously??
UTZAAKE over 3 years ago
“We’ve got to get some logs.” “No, we’ve got to get a new producer.” “Are you a logger?” Dialogue at the end of Spanky and Our Gang’s “Sunday Mornin’” (extended version).
alanrobisch over 3 years ago
Thats why I spell my name out
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 3 years ago
?
Breadboard over 3 years ago
Rat is that a deadwood redwood ? …. Croc Power !
iggyman over 3 years ago
Rat “axed” him !
Plumbob Wilson over 3 years ago
If he rents instead of owns, would that make him a Tennent Lager?
dwane.scoty1 over 3 years ago
My Sides!
Kurtass Premium Member over 3 years ago
I like how in the movies, a guy will walk up to a bar and ask for a beer. The bar tender hands him a beer, without even asking what brand.
mail2jbl over 3 years ago
Finally, a PBS strip where Stephan isn’t bitching about 2020!
hitmouse over 3 years ago
It took this Brit a while to get the joke. Lager / Lahgger/ logger. It’s all in the accent.
lavender headgear over 3 years ago
In some parts of town that would be a real customer draw.
cdward over 3 years ago
Now there’s a wood joke.
lproven over 3 years ago
Confused Brit here. What is the connection between asking for a lager and getting a lumberjack?
Call me Ishmael over 3 years ago
Is it drafty in here ?
Dom999 over 3 years ago
Anyone else read that third panel in Johnny Carson’s voice?
Ellis97 over 3 years ago
This strip is getting lame.
Zebrastripes over 3 years ago
I didn’t say logger, you bonehead! Are you trying to get me killed?
Reader over 3 years ago
I see Pastis is not tapped out of puns yet!
Mando over 3 years ago
I’m getting a weird axe murderer theme.
mac04416 over 3 years ago
He loos to me like an Allagash White
YippiKiAyMofo over 3 years ago
Wait! I thought this was the “All Covid/All 2020/All Life Sucks” strip. When did it get…punny again?
Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 3 years ago
It would appear Rat axed for the wrong beverage.
Herd of Turtles over 3 years ago
Order only if you have an axe to grind.
l3i7l over 3 years ago
Will the laggard logger linger over his lager?
Ignatz Premium Member over 3 years ago
I’m stealing this one.
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 3 years ago
Thank you, Pastis.
dsom8 over 3 years ago
8 months of quarantine and that’s all you’ve got? At least the commenters’ creativity has been released.
Ralph Newbill over 3 years ago
And, seriously, who rally wants a lager when there are all those great dark ales and stouts!
SNVBD over 3 years ago
i don’t get it?
Publius10608218 over 3 years ago
Just look out for Axe headed Dogs, they steal and eat your axe handles.
Ermine Notyours over 3 years ago
Is anyone actually seeing images here?
JMG316 over 3 years ago
LOL!!!!
willie_mctell over 3 years ago
“I know that you are a logger and not just a common bum. I know that only a logger stirs his coffee with his thumb.”
CaveCat87 over 3 years ago
If Rat orders a Shirley Temple or an Arnold Palmer, would either one of them show up?
Croc over 3 years ago
try ordering a grasshopper
cracker65 over 3 years ago
HAHAHAHA
phlash over 3 years ago
“I’m a logger – up from Coos Bay Oregon…”
stamps over 3 years ago
Does he stir his coffee with his thumb?
Ratkin over 3 years ago
From the comments I gather there was some sort of Monty Python skit about loggers. I never got the humor of MP, but I’m glad Pastis is back to making puns instead of all doom and gloom.
Lawrence.S over 3 years ago
I thought more of the Frozen Logger than Monty Python:
As I sat down one evening within a small cafe
A forty year old waitress to me these words did say:
“I see that you are a logger, and not just a common bum
’Cause nobody but a logger stirs his coffee with is thumb
My lover was a logger, there’s none like him today;
If you’d pour whiskey on it he could eat a bale of hay
Another Take over 3 years ago
Pastis could post 3 panels of a polar bear in a snow storm and get 300 likes.
Tentoes over 3 years ago
Pastis, buddy, I think you deserve it this time.
zeexenon over 3 years ago
I close my eyes and envision all four of them floating down the river tied to logs heading to the sawmill. But at the last second Nell saves them.
dwkiser28603 over 3 years ago
Next time Rat, just order a pilsner, no way in hell Stephen could mess that one up. Now a India Pale ale…..
Thinkingblade over 3 years ago
Sometimes you just want someone to have a beer with.
Drewe Zanki Premium Member over 3 years ago
Doesn’t work as well with an Australian accent, so it took me a second :-)
Sisyphos over 3 years ago
Amazing, how most of the comments above deal with the pun and its possible Python sources, while almost no one (well, very few) deal with the proper punishment of Pastis, a.k.a. Cartoon-Boy, for what he has done! Even Rat’s Retort is muted today, with no actual redwoods being harmed in the strip….
dmagoon202ii over 3 years ago
BTW, don’t offer a corviknight or corvisquire in trade or as a trading card, using a Boston accent; in Boston accent, “corvi-” becomes “covi-”, and before the “s” or “n” sound, as in those two pokemon species names, it might come out “covid-” (like “COVID”). LOL! XD!
Cosfather2 over 3 years ago
Finally, a non-COVID strip. And a good one, too!
Ceeg22 Premium Member over 3 years ago
You pronounced it wrong
glowing-steak32 over 3 years ago
Shut it all down.
NeilCopeland over 3 years ago
In New Zealand, “lager” and “logger” are too different in sound to make a pun. (Is that what’s going on here?)