But no one ever mentioned the walrus

Josiah Rowe · Post by **Josiah Rowe** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 6:36 pm

Cyborg Caveman wrote:Shrimp? She means Bernice, right?

That was Bernice, calling poor Cathy "shrimp". Scott's really pulling all the stops to make us sympathize with Cathy, isn't he? And it's working (at least for me!)

Cyborg Caveman wrote:
IronSpike wrote:HA.

Eat it, Stephen.
Ah, let em alone. He was okay. He was probably distracted with covertly staring at Cathy while writing that invoice.

Oh, I don't think his staring at Cathy was very covert -- not a subtle fellow, our Stephen.

Besides, serves him right for the way he dismissed poor Cathy when she tried to tell him about it:

Doc MacDougal · Post by **Doc MacDougal** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 8:39 pm

I think you're mixing up Cathy and Susan.

Cyborg Caveman · Post by **Cyborg Caveman** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 8:57 pm

Doc MacDougal wrote:I think you're mixing up Cathy and Susan.

If you mean that other guy, then yeah. If you mean me it seems I had a brainfart and mixed up Susan and Bernice.

Hunter of Wisdom · Post by **Hunter of Wisdom** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 10:49 pm

Poor Susan. People can't even remember her name

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pen ward · Post by **pen ward** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 7:03 pm

dude... susan is totally going to sneeze on the walrus...
and then she will notice her sneeze on the walrus' face..
and to her it will just be floating around in mid air.. like a ghost sneeze.. and she is going to faint
and the walrus.. will eat her.

10 bucks says that is how scott mccloud is going to end it.

at least the sneeze part.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 3:44 pm

I'll be the foolish optimist and say:
YES! Someone finally noticed him!

Jimmy Ho · Post by **Jimmy Ho** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 3:58 pm

Regarding the (precolombian?) "head things" and for what it's worth: at first sight, they reminded me of the huge stone heads at the end of Vol 714 pour Sidney (Flight 714 to Sidney), one of Herg?'s Tintin adventures.
Then again, I grew up in France some decades ago, and Tintin had naturally a large part in my basic comics education (along with Ast?rix, which I've always preferred, Pif, and a few others, but no superheroes), hence the immediate reminiscence (however, after checking it, I have to admit the heads in Tintin are different, and they are located in some island in the Indian Ocean).

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 6:20 pm

Is this finally the Payoff?

IF we assume both of the following conditions are true:
a) Scott is NOT once again jerking our chain, by deking us into thinking someone is actually noticing the Walrus (Brimley), when in fact he/she is actually noticing someone behind the Walrus (Wilfred); but, on the contrary, Susan is INDEED noticing the Walrus (Pop Fisher)
AND
b) NOBODY, in the course of the story, can, or will, ever notice the Walrus (It the right thing to do!), because the title tells us NOBODY Ever Noticed the Walrus (check your blood-sugar and check it often), and we assume title does NOT contradict the story.

THEN we can conclude that Susan, by one person's social definition, or another, IS a NOBODY, and thus IS totally capable of noticing the Walrus (there's just no reason NOT to!)

ELSE Susan is noticing Doc Pettibone (IF that's his real name), lurking in the shadows, waiting for all to leave, so he can secretly unfurl his nefarious, un-American scheme.

Josiah Rowe · Post by **Josiah Rowe** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 7:08 pm

There's a lot of that brain-farting going around, it seems. What I meant to say was,

Josiah Rowe wrote:
Cyborg Caveman wrote:Shrimp? She means Bernice, right?
That was Bernice, calling poor Susan "shrimp". Scott's really pulling all the stops to make us sympathize with Susan, isn't he? And it's working (at least for me!)

Cyborg Caveman wrote:
IronSpike wrote:HA.

Eat it, Stephen.
Ah, let em alone. He was okay. He was probably distracted with covertly staring at Cathy while writing that invoice.
Oh, I don't think his staring at Cathy was very covert -- not a subtle fellow, our Stephen.

Besides, serves him right for the way he dismissed poor Susan when she tried to tell him about it:

Tomorrow: the brimley-boggling conclusion? And on to "The Accidental Dentist"?

pen ward · Post by **pen ward** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 8:04 pm

come onnn... she's just talking to herself. she's going to whip out a sock puppet of stuart and ask it out to dinner.. and then the sock puppet will say yes... and then they will smooch.. and then the walrus will faint... and susan will eat the walrus.

Iain · Post by **Iain** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 9:26 pm

Maybe Susan is talking to herself, saying "Yeah, everyone ELSE actually has something to have already left for, whereas I have no life and am thus the last one here."

- iain hamp

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 10:29 pm

I'm assuming you've all noticed this, but the brimley is not bordered in black, like the rest of the characters in the strip. He's officially been noticed, and thus crosses over into "real character"

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 10:30 pm

Bah! I meant "now bordered in black". You know, since he wasn't before...

And it turns out I have a user name....

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 11:07 pm

...but the title is "mentionned", not "noticed".

Eggs Benedict · Post by **Eggs Benedict** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 11:55 pm

Josiah Rowe wrote:There's a lot of that brain-farting going around, it seems.

Whoever smelt it, dealt it!

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 12:11 pm

Anonymous wrote:...but the title is "mentionned", not "noticed".

The title of this forum topic is "mentioned" but the title of the comic is "noticed." (Yes, the topic name can be changed, but since the mistake itself was a topic of discussion, it seems wrong to change it- Especially since it's served well enough for 13 pages!)

buzzard · Post by **buzzard** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 2:24 pm

The walrus being outlined in black is just because he's in the foreground of the frame; he was as outlined (I think) at the beginning before he sat down. Once sitting, he was back from the foreground, and so, like everything else further away, he's slightly faded out (I think) and not as heavily outlined.

The problem with Rip's theory of Susan as "Nobody" is that the title is "No One Ever Noticed", not "Nobody Ever Noticed".

Josiah Rowe · Post by **Josiah Rowe** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 2:45 pm

So Susan is no one. That works too...

So, is there a fish dinner in our brimley's future?

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:09 pm

No one is nobody, nobody is no one. Nothing is everything, everything is nothing. No one but the Beatles ever noticed the Nowhere Man OR the Walrus (Goo-goo-ga-joob) Just Who in the office is making all the nowhere plans for nobody?

My brain hurts.

DecafSilicon · Post by **DecafSilicon** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 6:51 pm

Gah, she's so cute!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 7:13 pm

DecafSilion is right, Rip Tanion sounds like a Beatles fan on drugs.

Axord · Post by **Axord** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 9:45 pm

Heh. The brimley seems so happy to just be noticed. Finally! Acknowledgement!

Either that, or he's got kittie reflexes and Suse is scratching him behind the ear....

Aquilo · Post by **Aquilo** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 2:29 pm

Wow! His name actually is Brimley. What an amazingly crazy coincidence!

And, yes, she is indeed cute.

I wonder what our walrus friend came here for in the first place.

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 2:43 pm

Brimley. Heh. Crazy.

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But no one ever mentioned the walrus

Heads and Memory

Susan notices the Walrus (Brimley)