April 3rd, 2006
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This guy was inspired by a guy from a 70s catalogue I have on a postcard. He just looked so hilarious. He’s become my way of getting away with a bad joke. As long as the strip ends with him being punished for the bad joke, it’s okay!
May 18th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Durr.. me no understand great joke. Me lack proper upbringing in English-speaking pop culture. What make funny in “horse of a different color”?
Or is it something about “a rose of any other name”? Or maybe “he took away the ‘uni’ which does not reference horse color, and replaced it with ‘maroon’ which does not refernce the horn”? Guh, me overthinking things. Me should just look at pretty pictures. It very nice maroonicorn picture. 🙂
September 6th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Er… why did they take his shirt off before throwing him in the dungeon?
October 6th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Because his shirt was dry clean only.
December 8th, 2008 at 2:30 am
I just started reading this comic, because it was linked to Charles Christopher.
Great work. And if this is a Wizard of Oz reference, then yay.
If not, then I really need to stop watching that movie.
December 8th, 2008 at 9:16 am
It’s not an Oz reference. I had never seen the movie until 2007. It was a long standing source of “What, really? You’ve never seen it? You have to see it!” comments from many, many people. Turns out I waited to long to see it. If I’d seen it as a kid maybe I would have liked it more, but as an adult I found Dorothy way too irritating. The costuming and sets were fantastic though!
October 8th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
@galenthias: “Horse of a different color” is another idiom. I don’t recall what it means at the moment.
December 8th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
It means “something totally different from what we were just talking about”. The Wizard of Oz example was “I want to see the Wizard.”
“Nobody sees the wizard.”
“I’m Dorthy.”
“The Witch’s Dorthy? Well that’s a Horse of a different color.”
Thus “Oh you’re a VIP?? That’s completly different.”
I’ve heard used in the same context lots of times, but that’s the only time in a movie.
September 30th, 2012 at 2:02 am
I’m many years late to the conversation, but there’s a pretty famous philosophical statement (in China, at least) that a white horse is not a horse.
April 20th, 2013 at 7:54 am
I suppose it’s better than a Moronicon
April 20th, 2013 at 7:55 am
I meant Moronicorn
January 8th, 2014 at 8:14 pm
I love the ascot the guy is wearing it does fit with a 70’s vibe.