Two Vegas-ish Funnies For Monday

Every day, I make Miles his lunch and include a note and at least one comic from the newspaper. Often they're not actually funny, but the comics pages these days are slim pickings for belly laughs. These two, however, felt blog-worthy in a Vegas-esque kinda way:

Saturday Funnies...

This was today's Argyle Sweater. Wow. Harsh, huh? There's robust debate in the comments section over at GoComics.Com over whether this was fair, uh, game for a humor.

Strange, too, that in the Review-Journal, the tiger and Siegfried's jacket appeared as orange, not white. Plus, Siegfried's pants, the wall, the cop's gun and shoulder patch are all white. I'll scan in and add to this post later when I get home. (Miles is still recovering from strep and asked me to stay out of the house so the dogs don't go haywire and disturb his sleep.) Anyone have a clue why these color differences occurred? I find it hard to imagine the R-J would alter the comic over local sensitivities, but the fact that the tiger's not white in the newspaper version did have an effect on the joke.

Meanwhile, a couple of other toons I had clipped with Vegas-related relevancy. This March 8 Argyle Sweater is fun given where the new season of Top Chef is being filmed right now...


It's pretty amusing to see the folks on the GoComics.Com site debating who the lady on the right is in the comments section. Clearly, they don't watch the show.

And finally, this Danny Shanahan bit is only funny locally because the Luxor, thanks to desperate efforts by MGM Mirage to make money, does have colorful vinyl siding on it around here...

A Sunday Funny

Loyal readers know I love Argyle Sweater, the latter-day Far Side cartoon by Scott Hilburn. Today's was another winner, although I wonder if any of you keen-eyed Vegas lovers can spot the mistake in the artwork...

Time To Blow Our Brains Out!

At least that's how I feel when I open up an unceasingly bleak Business section to read this headline...


I'm not blaming anyone. It's awful out there. But I just had to emit a rueful laugh when I saw this one. Guess what, folks? We're all even more broke than we thought! Read on!!!

I'd rather not. Instead, I figured this would be the right moment to provide a smile. So click on the image below and enjoy Sunday's utterly brilliant Argyle Sweater, with its layers of cleverness:


And now, back into the kitchen I go. Much cooking and preparing to be done!