2008-11-27

A four-line yellow caption box at the top reads: "After a friend accused me of being closed-minded, I decided that, every day for a week, I would make one alteration in my mode of thinking." In the purple-background panel below, a blonde woman in a blue shirt says, "I was thinking about the plight of women in the Near East. Recently." A red-haired man in a brown shirt, seen from behind, points at her and replies, "Hah! Hey, me too. Me too." A caption at the bottom reads: "Day 1: Assume every statement is a masturbation joke." The joke is that, primed to hear everything as innuendo, the man reacts with knowing glee to her earnest, completely non-sexual statement. Votey (small black-and-white aftercomic): one person says, "I just got back from my gramma's funeral," and a grinning man bursts out laughing, "Hahaha! Hahaha!" — showing the same warped mindset turning grim news into a punchline.