To Sleep, Perchance to Dream of Family Circle
Today's Cartoon (You can see it here)
A man with stubble and a big nose is lying in bed, apparently sleep. Dolly, attired in a lace-edged lavender nightie, points at him and says to a pajama-clad Jeffy: "See? Sleepin' makes Daddy's whiskers grow."
Analysis
Daddy sure looks different without his glasses -- are we sure that's really him, or could it be that the kids sneak into the neighbors' houses at night and watch them while they're sleeping?
Daddy (if that is really him) certainly does have a lot of visible whiskers for a blondish man. Just how long has he been asleep? I'm guessing that it's two in the afternoon, and Mommy sent the kids in his bedroom to poke him to see if he's still alive. See, the death of Ronald Reagan hit Daddy pretty hard, and he just hasn't been able to get out of bed since the funeral.
Daddy, who's just pretending to be asleep so he doesn't have to interact with his annoying offspring, hears Dolly drivel about sleep makin' his whiskers grow, and this sets off a feverish fancy within his disturbed mind. He comes to believe that if he falls asleep, his facial hair will grow so long that it will plug up his nose and choke him. For a week he doesn't sleep, but instead spends his nights watching Fox News while putting Nair all over his body. He starts to imagine that Dolly's pony tail is really a living noose that is plotting to strangle him, and that Jeffy's hair is full of poisonous bugs. However, before he can fulfill his plan to purify the house by burning it down while his family slumbers, Dead Grandpa is dispatched from heaven to smack some sense into Daddy.
Prediction:
Rush Limbaugh's "sleeping" (getting high on Oxycontin) caused his beard (Marta) to grow (get some self respect and decide that she wasn't going to live like this anymore). Keane is predicting that during the contentious divorce proceedings, Rush's sexual orientation will be made an issue.
Or maybe not. Let's see you do better.
4:09:56 AM 
|
