Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for April 05, 2024

The last panel is such a mood.

What a laugh!

I was anticipating that Marigold would actually try to tell the crowd to be more like her, without actually saying that she’s using herself as a model, and they would all say that they’re already like that.

And that might actually get a better reception than this.

Twenty unicorns could stand side by side and each one could say “HA!”.

It’s pretty funny how they need to laugh at themselves’ but on GoComics you can’t use emojis so literally EVERY time I try to laugh online it sounds sarcastic _

Relatable (I have zero self-esteem and the only humor I know is self-deprecation)

Shakespearean Toilet Humor—NOT my story

I used to work in a library. In the pre-Internet days, I would often be called upon by parents hoping to get their children ahead of required reading at school.

Patron: “My daughter is doing a Shakespeare this semester. You know, the ‘double bubble, toilet trouble’ one.”

Me: “You mean ‘double, double toil and trouble’? That’s Macbeth.”

Patron: “No, it’s ‘toilet trouble’.”

Me: “I’m pretty sure it’s ‘double, double toil and trouble’, but anyway, if it’s Macbeth they’re reading, then I can show you our copies.”

I took them over to our Shakespeare section, and they grabbed the complete works instead of just “Macbeth”.

Patron: “I’ll get all of them just in case you’re wrong about it being Macbeth. You don’t even know the words to the song.”

I just nodded and helped them loan out their book. I then told my manager about the interaction during our break.

Manager: “Well, I can understand. Every time I’m cleaning my toilet, I’m saying, ‘Out, d***ed spot! Out, I say!’”

Can you tickle a Unicorn?

Panel 4: It’s like the early seasons of ST:TNG when Mr. Data is attempting to laugh at a joke.

Or at least change that deranged expression.

Alfred Bigelow Paine, in his biography of Mark Twain, says that Twain tried to watch his mouth in his wife’s presence but one time Livy overheard one of his more colorful expressions. When she repeated it, Twain asked, “Livy, did it sound like that?”

When she replied, “Of course it did, only worse. I wanted you to hear just how it sounded.”

“Livy,” he said, “it would pain me to think that when I swear it sounds like that. You got the words right, Livy, but you don’t know the tune.”

And try not to look like you’ve just been hacked by a claymore.

It’s Scott the Woz’s scheduled laugh at the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller’s price point.

Yeah yeah I know you don’t understand that reference

That’s usually preceded by messing up – are unicorns willing to do /admit to that?

It sounds more like the sound you make when you discover a traumatic truth.

I snorted!