Brevity by Dan Thompson for March 29, 2012

Ok….. I remember hearing that line used on a TV show… I wasn’t paying a lot of attention but I thought it was just part of the specific dialogue.After staring blankly at this…I finally realised it must be a recognised expression…The annoying guy points to his flexed biceps and says "Hey baby, I got two tickets to the gun show. The joke here is supposed to be that he meant it literally.But some of us old folk didn’t get that there was any other way to take it!

His fun gun show?

Must be ammo hey! Thought I’d take a shot at it.

if you think this couldn’t get any worse wait until tomorrow.Any more of this stupidity and I’m pulling the plug.

Some men call their arms (and/or arm muscles) “Guns” and when showing off while flexing it’s the Gun Show. So yeah, it looked like he was using a lame pickup line when he was being litteral. This reference is a pretty common line that I would think everyone would have heard by the time they’re 12.

GinRummy, some of us knew what “guns” are, but we didn’t know that “having tickets to the gun show” was common slang to those of you young enough to have heard it when you were 12.When I was 12, you couldn’t even mention guns anywhere near the dinosaurs.

JohnnyD !! TMI !!!It’s also TMI in a different way when people come here to explain why they don’t like Brevity, or are dropping it, or to “warn” those of us who DO like it that it’s not good.Just don’t read it!!

I would have thought this was a cartoon by Rameriz or Trudeau to create such an avalanche of comments.

He looks flexable.

That’s my kind of woman if she’s fantasizing about a date at a REAL gun show!

@SusanSunshineGreat comment. Susan.I’m just suspicious that they’re all not one disgruntled person who reregisters under different names. The complaints and threats are always the same.

I’m more interested in knowing why you can buy ice cream at a gun show. Doesn’t that make the guns sticky?

Yeah, had to read the comics to get this one. So do body builders give 21 gun salutes?

Face palm.

Love it! This is one of the few Brevity’s that I got right away. Still love the strip ‘cause it makes me think and I enjoy everyone else’s puns.

oh no! it’s swirling ‘round and ’round and round……..quick, put that plug back in before it all goes down the drain!

So some people don’t like some people’s comments? 1) Too bad. 2) Tough noogies. 3) Boo-hoo. 4) All of the above. Pick one or more.

(Sorry, SusieS., nothing personal, but I think you are seriously wrong on this. TinaC.: You’re onto me! I’m the only one who has ever been irritated by the too-often obscure and sometimes downright mean jokes in this strip.)

She said yes!

Really enjoying this strip guys. Great artwork!

Geez, folks, it’s just a lame pickup line for US to get. Then, oops, us gutter minds were wrong – it really is a gun show. Lame isn’t apt. But not too funny might be.

GinRummy obviously has it right. For old coots like me, the first panel might have read “Want to come up and see my etchings?” and the second panel shows the couple at an art gallery literally admiring his etchings. (Has anyone ever actually HAD etchings?)

It’s not the cartoonists’ fault I hadn’t heard “gun show” used that way before.

Oh, real guns? Shoot….

Like Foxworthy says" If you take her to the gun show, on the first date, you might be a RED NECK.

now i get it ho ho

seems pretty obvious, dunno why everybody’s reading into it as if it’s all complicated… he wants to see guns, she wants to eat ice cream… his woman be mellowin him out

This strip was actually okay, I thought it was funny. If you have to think too much to get the guns reference then I can understand it not being funny.