Comments on: Knit One…

By: Vroshnak

Vroshnak — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:21:37 +0000

But that thing in Foxtrot isn’t a pun. It’s just a lot of rhyming words that don’t really reference anything.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:10:23 +0000

What can I say? I’m not a knitter. Purl it is, then.

By: Mark M

Mark M — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:23:07 +0000

I immediately thought of the old SCTV skit when I saw the PBS comic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztXm1_fZd4Y

By: Chakolate

Chakolate — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:13:30 +0000

I agree that as a pun, FoxTrot’s isn’t great, but as an homage, it’s first-rate, especially with the C&H reference in the last panel. Nice!

By: Keera

Keera — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:43:37 +0000

Purl two, please. Perl is a computer language.

By: Morris Keesan

Morris Keesan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:17:54 +0000

I predicted the Pearls punch line when I read the first speech balloon (okay, I didn’t get the “dunk rye”, but Arch, Tina, and “Evita’s” is enough to predict the lyric).

And the Fox Trot one isn’t really a pun — it’s just a tortured set of (almost) rhymes.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:13:17 +0000

Knit one, perl two.

By: Usual John

Usual John — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:34:36 +0000

For the slower among us, can someone explain the “knit one” pun?

By: turquoise cow

turquoise cow — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:34:37 +0000

i give foxtrot props for trying - i laughed at this just because i recognized it as a PBS pun - but it didn’t seem to work as well as the usual ones in Pearls.

And I’d love to know where/how Pastis comes up with his puns (and their set-up). Crazy stuff, that.

By: CIDU Bill

CIDU Bill — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:43:56 +0000

Tim, what would be the point otherwise?