2005-05-19

A man named Fred reclines outdoors against a backdrop of rolling purple-and-green hills under a purple sky. His thought bubble reads 'Nature is so amazing... Look at that cloud. It's shaped just like a crashing plane.' Two smaller speech bubbles follow: 'Wait a minute.!' and 'Oh no!' as his expression shifts. The caption below reads: 'Fred had forgotten his wife's birthday.' The joke is that the ominous crashing-plane cloud and his alarm aren't about a disaster at all, but about the mundane horror of a forgotten birthday. Votey (aftercomic): a rough black-and-white sketch of a wide-eyed man exclaiming 'What a twist!'