I’ll disagree on two points. First, facile wordplay (ie., puns) have been in comics since their inception. It’s not “these days.”Second, you wrote, “And Dr. Emil Schaffhausen is not an archeologist.” But the cartoonist wrote: Dr. Emil Schaufhausen – a different name. In fact, intended or not, since Schaufel in German means shovel, you’ve got a second wordplay going on (as shovels are rather important parts of an archeologists work).
All these arguments are fine except for one thing – a bona fide archaeologist studies human artifacts; the illustrations on the banner and the bad pun indicates that the esteemed doctor studies bones, which makes him a paleontologist. So it turns out that dillio9000 is right. If Dr. Schaufhausen does indeed study bones, he is not an archaeologist.Some people don’t realize the difference between archaeology and paleontology.
Not that it has anything to do with the strip – as far as I can tell – but Dr. Emil Schaffhausen was the character played by Michael Cain in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
And yet we still have no examples of how you’d do it,do we? Would it really kill ya to just show us how it’s done? Do you even enjoy comics? Every other comic where I’ve happened upon your comments earns only your contempt and derision. You never take pleasure of the presentation of any comic at face value. We know that they won’t always hit ‘em out of the park,but we just go “Oh,well”,and move on,because we don’t enjoy hitting our heads against the wall. Stop hitting your head against the wall,dillio. It’ll feel so good when you do.
i_am_the_jam over 12 years ago
I don’t get it….
naturally_easy over 12 years ago
Bone- afide! Not the Boychuk’s best work.
jay_dallas over 12 years ago
I dunno – I thought it was kinda clever – gave me an early morning snicker
cdward over 12 years ago
I’ll disagree on two points. First, facile wordplay (ie., puns) have been in comics since their inception. It’s not “these days.”Second, you wrote, “And Dr. Emil Schaffhausen is not an archeologist.” But the cartoonist wrote: Dr. Emil Schaufhausen – a different name. In fact, intended or not, since Schaufel in German means shovel, you’ve got a second wordplay going on (as shovels are rather important parts of an archeologists work).
J Short over 12 years ago
Sounds like many of the readers have a bone to pick.
runar over 12 years ago
All these arguments are fine except for one thing – a bona fide archaeologist studies human artifacts; the illustrations on the banner and the bad pun indicates that the esteemed doctor studies bones, which makes him a paleontologist. So it turns out that dillio9000 is right. If Dr. Schaufhausen does indeed study bones, he is not an archaeologist.Some people don’t realize the difference between archaeology and paleontology.
celeconecca over 12 years ago
humerus, schumerous – whatta ya gonna do?
jeffbacon12357 over 12 years ago
Not that it has anything to do with the strip – as far as I can tell – but Dr. Emil Schaffhausen was the character played by Michael Cain in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Michelle Morris over 12 years ago
And yet we still have no examples of how you’d do it,do we? Would it really kill ya to just show us how it’s done? Do you even enjoy comics? Every other comic where I’ve happened upon your comments earns only your contempt and derision. You never take pleasure of the presentation of any comic at face value. We know that they won’t always hit ‘em out of the park,but we just go “Oh,well”,and move on,because we don’t enjoy hitting our heads against the wall. Stop hitting your head against the wall,dillio. It’ll feel so good when you do.