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Hans Christian Andersen wrote a wonderful story about a snowman looking inside a window and being attracted to a hot stove! (After he melted, it turned out that his backbone was the stove’s coal shovel…)
The cartoon is a GREAT comment on how we’ve put identity issues above things that are (or should be!) more important and more real. Snowman has a real problem — he’s gonna die! — but his big issue is whether someone uses the right name for him. A lot like what progressive politics in the US has turned into — unfortunately.
BE THIS GUY over 3 years ago
I’d like to know what is Rat smoking.
Gent over 3 years ago
Wow, a rare talking snowman! Or is it the old taperecorder inside the snowman trick?
B UTTONS over 3 years ago
The snow-folk will experience reincarnation – snow, water, vaper, water, snow; repeat.
All Rat can expect, bone and dust.
hariseldon59 over 3 years ago
In real life rats don’t live that long either. Average lifespan is about 2 years
Templo S.U.D. over 3 years ago
What would be a better name? Gonzalo?
BasilBruce over 3 years ago
Rat’s second choice: Puddle.
tudza Premium Member over 3 years ago
I’d have gone with Puddles.
Johnny Q Premium Member over 3 years ago
Hans Christian Andersen wrote a wonderful story about a snowman looking inside a window and being attracted to a hot stove! (After he melted, it turned out that his backbone was the stove’s coal shovel…)
Cornelius Noodleman over 3 years ago
At least Rat dresses for the weather.
AndreasMartin over 3 years ago
As was his dad Ohshitspringalready. And his Granddad Dontthrowthesaltinmydirection.
Sanspareil over 3 years ago
Rat is illogical, snowmen are not alive!
jessie d. over 3 years ago
no cap for his head and no caption for the toon. Where is your holiday spirit Pastis? and don’t be blaming it on Rat. A true rat fink be Stephan.
iggyman over 3 years ago
Very appropriate name I am afraid!
gopher gofer over 3 years ago
gonesoon the snow goon…?
juicebruce over 3 years ago
Well Rat if you have a freezer you can let Gonesoon live there ;-)
mjb515 over 3 years ago
“I am kind of disappointed in the quality of my creator as well.”
GlenGoodwin over 3 years ago
Must be the 3 button suit, like a cupcake or twinkle
Ellis97 over 3 years ago
Rat, you’ve only got three or five years to live, so your kind doesn’t live very long either. It’s much longer than a snowman, but still.
ekw555 over 3 years ago
is a long life really that desirable anymore?
Huckleberry Hiroshima Premium Member over 3 years ago
He doesn’t live at all.
well-i-never over 3 years ago
“Soon” is such a relative term. In Wisconsin, the cold seems to last a long time. After a diagnosis, not so much.
Call me Ishmael over 3 years ago
If Rat had any class, he’d have named his snowman “Ephemeral”.
Call me Ishmael over 3 years ago
Call him Brevity. it’s funnier, because “Brevity is the soul of wit “. (Okay, I’m already leaving..)
arrseetee over 3 years ago
Ah yes. Gonesoon Puddlemaker. I knew ye well.
WCraft over 3 years ago
Yeah, when snow-goons are angry you do NOT want to put a magic hat on them…
Zebrastripes over 3 years ago
RAT sure has no compassion
Nighthawks Premium Member over 3 years ago
I’ll bet Gonesoon smells carrots constantly
Cameron1988 Premium Member over 3 years ago
Rat could have named him something much worse
poppacapsmokeblower over 3 years ago
Gonesoon, caught in a monsoon, was Soongone
darthopper Premium Member over 3 years ago
Goonsoon got what we all get, a lifetime.
DondiDoo over 3 years ago
We’re here for a good time, not a long time!
cactusbob333 over 3 years ago
Isn’t his name Parson Brown?
Goat from PBS over 3 years ago
He can talk without the top hat! What sorcery is this?
Ryan B over 3 years ago
Rat, if people renamed you I’d bet you wouldn’t care for your new name either.
Sisyphos over 3 years ago
Careful, nasty little rodent! His full name may be Gonesoon the RatSlayer!
dipierro Premium Member over 3 years ago
The cartoon is a GREAT comment on how we’ve put identity issues above things that are (or should be!) more important and more real. Snowman has a real problem — he’s gonna die! — but his big issue is whether someone uses the right name for him. A lot like what progressive politics in the US has turned into — unfortunately.