{"id":9632,"date":"2013-07-12T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=9632"},"modified":"2013-07-12T11:53:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:53:11","slug":"i-cant-quite-explain-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=9632","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t quite explain this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but I&#8217;ll try.\u00a0 The 9 July 2013 <em>Crankshaft<\/em> had a joke (yeah, whatever) about Crankshaft putting ketchup on everything, and the old lady who lives with him commenting, &#8220;Your father puts ketchup on the most inappropriate things.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn an effort to salvage what little humor there was in this particular strip on this particular day, Josh, <em>The Comics Curmudgeon<\/em> himself, said:\u00a0 &#8216;\u201cYour father puts ketchup on so many inappropriate things\u201d&#8230;is surely the greatest sentence that will appear in the comics all week, and perhaps all month. It\u2019s positively poetic. In fact, I urge all of you poetically inclined folk to make it the first line in a poem of your own design in the comments. I expect Pulitzer Prize-winning greatness.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Well, heck, the commentary that resulted made the site look\u00a0 like that weird tomato-chucking festival the locals hold annually somewhere in Spain.\u00a0 (It&#8217;s<em> La Tomatina<\/em>, held in <a title=\"Bu\u00f1ol\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bu%C3%B1ol\">Bu\u00f1ol<\/a>, in case you&#8217;re making travel plans.\u00a0 It&#8217;s probably safer than running with the bulls.)<\/p>\n<p>And since I don&#8217;t consider myself a poet, I took the visual route.\u00a0 <em>Here&#8217;s ketchup in yer eye!\u00a0 <\/em>[What surprised me is no one commented on the contents of the wine glass&#8230;maybe I&#8217;m just too obvious.]<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Not-Crankshaft-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9633\" alt=\"Not Crankshaft 12\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Not-Crankshaft-12.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Not-Crankshaft-12.jpg 750w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Not-Crankshaft-12-250x75.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but I&#8217;ll try.\u00a0 The 9 July 2013 Crankshaft had a joke (yeah, whatever) about Crankshaft putting ketchup on everything, and the old lady who lives with him commenting, &#8220;Your father puts ketchup on the most inappropriate things.&#8221; In an effort to salvage what little humor there was in this particular strip on this particular day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9637,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9632\/revisions\/9637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}