Um… two thoughts come to mind:
1) Yehuda has been engaging in some serious price wars (price matching) that Joe and Thistle didn’t know about.
or
2) Yehuda has found the perfect Halloween costume: The road rider, complete with attitude, shave, spandex, helmet, and syringe for doping.
My vote goes for the Halloween costume explanation.
My take on this is: 1. The costume is the usual asshole customer (work retail, and you’ll see them all the time, but never really get used to them). 2. Yehuda decides to play it. 3. The syringe is a nice poke at Joe (all modern racers dope, of course).
Wow, Yehuda sure had to change his looks to appear in that costume – if it is him. I can’t believe he would have done away with the beard, it was so becoming!
She’s perpendicular to Joe in Panel 2, and the hand on the chest is a silent signal to him to wait before falling for the ruse. So her head would be turned 90 degrees, not 180, and in Panel 3 she will have tilted her stance 90 degrees to her left so she’s parallel to Joe again. (Nobody here dances or wrestles, I gather.)
AHAHAHA! Greatest costume EVER!!! If I had the ball bearings to shave my beard. I would have undoubtedly found my costume for next Halloween!
Wow! the syringe and everything! I wounder if the yellow jersey is a key part of this costume
Off topic, but bicycle related, and its from Portland Oregon…a motorist runs over a giant orange rabbit operating a pedicab, and says he didn’t see her…read this while doing my morning ritual of checking for Strange News…
This idiot was not driving their vehicle in a safe manner. Honestly fumbling for a phone? If it were not for my Catholic-ness I’d say have his license revoked and have his castrated so that he may not breed potentially stupid children!
Because it was ‘Dangerous driving’ – Driving while not looking where you are going is possibly another offence?
He was ‘looking for his cell phone’!
Isn’t using a phone while driving illegal also?
He admitted the offence – Guilty as charged!
Using a cell phone while driving is not illegal everywhere, alas! I don’t know if either the State of Oregon or the City of Portland has passed such a measure.
Side comment – I love this comic. I read two every day, this one and Dilbert. Dilbert takes about five seconds / this one, about five minutes. Keep it up Rick!
I can’t blieve that Yehudda has shaved his beard. He has put someone up to this prank to get Joe to price match.
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Happy Halloween! Excellent comic & Yehuda costume! Rick – ignore all the comments about your artwork (Thistle’s hand, pencil, etc.) and keep at it your own way. That’s REAL art that comes from you, and not some over-thought perfectionism that so many folks suffer from. The critics need to stop being so critical and should be more supportive of your comic. I’ve heard riding a bike helps change those negative tendencies.
so now that Yehuda has the costume, maybe he’ll take Joe’s bike out for a ride? Can you imagine how fast Yehuda may be on a bike built for speed? He’d probably leave the locals in his dust.
Most excellent strip! One of the very best Rick! So will Joe dress up as a hippie bike cowboy tonight and lead a parade of clowns down main street during rush hour on the last Friday of the month? That would be the perfect comeback!
Some days I really enjoy most of the comments: others, I wonder why you have a place for them. Nearly every day there’s a few that are much needed reminder of how the 2004 election could have come out the way it did.
Huh? (Did you really think that’s what I meant? I doubt it.)
I really meant two things. First, that some of the comments have to be discouraging to Rick. Second, that there are many people who are not like me out there . . . Some of the comments reinforce something that is easy for me to forget: there are lots of people who need things that appear obvious to me slowly and carefully explained to them. And there are lots people who simply think differently than I do.
Your, American, election has small effect on us in the UK – just caused a laugh, until the last one! That made us smile )
Great ending, thumbs up Obama!
Now make using phones while travelling a federal offence!
Perhaps then the rest of the world will follow and we can all feel safer on the roads?
Typical, wait for the United States to do something, then follow behind like a bunch of baby ducks! Trust me, you don’t want to follow us where we are going. You really don’t.
=v= Awesome costume! Yehuda’s face is gonna be cold until his beard grows back in, but it was worth it!
I was a bike ninja for Halloween Critical Mass last night, but I’ve really got to work on my cog-throwing skills. Also, I don’t have a bamboo bike, but I’m saving up my pennies: http://community.bikefriday.com/blog/bamboofriday06
Wow. This one is deep : ) I like the performance enhancement syringe. Thanks funny! However, there is a lot of truth to that prank. I eventually figure out who those customers are and send them to the door. I don’t feel bad for it either, because I’ve been doing this for 18 years and I know them when I see them. You will never see them at a trail work day or a town hall meeting, because they are too busy shopping for deals on ebay instead of riding. When they threaten to tell all their friends… I just laugh, because they are saving me the trouble of doing it myself. There are plenty of good people out there that want to support their shop and community. My shop supports them as they support me… Happy Halloween! Cheers!
If Rick wants Yehuda’s beard back quickly, he can always explain that YM was wearing a latex appliance over it. That other great Rick, Rick Baker, could pull that off.
However, there might be some humor in a beardless Yehuda. Beards can itch when growing back in, and cycling with a cold wind off the lake may make Our Hero break out the balaclava early until his natural insulation is restored.
I loved dressing as a superhero for H’ween as a kid. Yehuda is practically “Captain Dashboard.”
Next year, Joe dresses as Fred Birchmore [googul him!]
Nup, don’t understand this one. Anyone care to explain?
Um… two thoughts come to mind:
1) Yehuda has been engaging in some serious price wars (price matching) that Joe and Thistle didn’t know about.
or
2) Yehuda has found the perfect Halloween costume: The road rider, complete with attitude, shave, spandex, helmet, and syringe for doping.
My vote goes for the Halloween costume explanation.
Good eye finding the syringe. I overlooked it.
My take on this is: 1. The costume is the usual asshole customer (work retail, and you’ll see them all the time, but never really get used to them). 2. Yehuda decides to play it. 3. The syringe is a nice poke at Joe (all modern racers dope, of course).
It’s Halloween! Notice the tilt of that helmet? No eyes? Yehuda shaved and disguised himself as a roadie! Wonder if the beard is all he shaved? HAH!
Ok, I have to admit, the syringe has me stumped too. I just noticed that.
Oh, wait, perhaps he’s poking fun at all the drugging scandals? That’s an awesome costume!
Looks like Yehuda dressed up as a roadie for Halloween. Though I can’t tell what Thistle is pointing at in frame 3. It looks like a syringe.
Thistle was looking at his ass in lycra…. then noticed the syringe.
Happy Halloween!!!
I think I’ll go as a Bike Ninja again… (Ninja mask, two swords, throwing cogs, bike helmet, and a retro-reflective vest)
Wow, Yehuda sure had to change his looks to appear in that costume – if it is him. I can’t believe he would have done away with the beard, it was so becoming!
Thistle has more joints than us! (Frame 2)
)
How else does she get her hand flat on Joe’s chest?
(Artisitic licence
She’s facing left side of the panel in that panel, then turns back to face right in the next. Yehuda’s in costume, to prank Joe…love it!!
So she can turn her head to look 180 behind? Useful on a bike, no need for mirrors!
She’s perpendicular to Joe in Panel 2, and the hand on the chest is a silent signal to him to wait before falling for the ruse. So her head would be turned 90 degrees, not 180, and in Panel 3 she will have tilted her stance 90 degrees to her left so she’s parallel to Joe again. (Nobody here dances or wrestles, I gather.)
Perfecty natural, for Thistleto reach across to stop him. Note thumb ~Its her left hand.
AHAHAHA! Greatest costume EVER!!! If I had the ball bearings to shave my beard. I would have undoubtedly found my costume for next Halloween!
Wow! the syringe and everything! I wounder if the yellow jersey is a key part of this costume
=v= It’s a jacket, not a jersey.
I think your right. Clearly the lines and texture suggest jacket.
Off topic, but bicycle related, and its from Portland Oregon…a motorist runs over a giant orange rabbit operating a pedicab, and says he didn’t see her…read this while doing my morning ritual of checking for Strange News…
http://www.baynews9.com/content/89/2009/10/30/540545.html?title=Man%20convicted%20in%20orange%20rabbit%20pedicab%20hit-and-run
I wasn’t their obviously but how is that not reckless endangerment? Any one?
This idiot was not driving their vehicle in a safe manner. Honestly fumbling for a phone? If it were not for my Catholic-ness I’d say have his license revoked and have his castrated so that he may not breed potentially stupid children!
Because it was ‘Dangerous driving’ – Driving while not looking where you are going is possibly another offence?
He was ‘looking for his cell phone’!
Isn’t using a phone while driving illegal also?
He admitted the offence – Guilty as charged!
Using a cell phone while driving is not illegal everywhere, alas! I don’t know if either the State of Oregon or the City of Portland has passed such a measure.
In California, talking on a cell phone while holding it is illegal. Looking/fumbling/holding a cell phone while not talking is OK.
Good prank! For Halloween I dress as The Friendly Giant.
Question – Where’d Joe’s pencil go?
Side comment – I love this comic. I read two every day, this one and Dilbert. Dilbert takes about five seconds / this one, about five minutes. Keep it up Rick!
Easy – fell out from surprise.
I can’t blieve that Yehudda has shaved his beard. He has put someone up to this prank to get Joe to price match.
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Nah, it’s gotta be Yehuda. Look at the hair, and the little curl that flips up off the back.
Happy Halloween! Excellent comic & Yehuda costume! Rick – ignore all the comments about your artwork (Thistle’s hand, pencil, etc.) and keep at it your own way. That’s REAL art that comes from you, and not some over-thought perfectionism that so many folks suffer from. The critics need to stop being so critical and should be more supportive of your comic. I’ve heard riding a bike helps change those negative tendencies.
roadies….. hahahahaha
so now that Yehuda has the costume, maybe he’ll take Joe’s bike out for a ride? Can you imagine how fast Yehuda may be on a bike built for speed? He’d probably leave the locals in his dust.
this is so funny! one of the best. the syringe is a gas.
Most excellent strip! One of the very best Rick! So will Joe dress up as a hippie bike cowboy tonight and lead a parade of clowns down main street during rush hour on the last Friday of the month? That would be the perfect comeback!
“So you don’t stock wooden 650B rims? What kind of bike shop is this? What do you mean they’re obsolete, you young pup, stop making fun of my bike…
Nah, don’t get them in, I’ll just order them from Rivendell”
I dont think Yehuda is a critical masshole
Thanks Rick! Great comic. Unexpected!
Some days I really enjoy most of the comments: others, I wonder why you have a place for them. Nearly every day there’s a few that are much needed reminder of how the 2004 election could have come out the way it did.
Oops. Not unexpected that the comic is great. Unexpected ending. Wonderful.
So you only want your own prejudices confirmed in the comments, and not discussed?
Huh? (Did you really think that’s what I meant? I doubt it.)
I really meant two things. First, that some of the comments have to be discouraging to Rick. Second, that there are many people who are not like me out there . . . Some of the comments reinforce something that is easy for me to forget: there are lots of people who need things that appear obvious to me slowly and carefully explained to them. And there are lots people who simply think differently than I do.
Your, American, election has small effect on us in the UK – just caused a laugh, until the last one! That made us smile
)
Great ending, thumbs up Obama!
Now make using phones while travelling a federal offence!
Perhaps then the rest of the world will follow and we can all feel safer on the roads?
Typical, wait for the United States to do something, then follow behind like a bunch of baby ducks! Trust me, you don’t want to follow us where we are going. You really don’t.
HA-HA-HA-HA!
Best one yet, Rick. Best one.
-Kurt
would’ve been funny without the syringe.
=v= Awesome costume! Yehuda’s face is gonna be cold until his beard grows back in, but it was worth it!
I was a bike ninja for Halloween Critical Mass last night, but I’ve really got to work on my cog-throwing skills. Also, I don’t have a bamboo bike, but I’m saving up my pennies:
http://community.bikefriday.com/blog/bamboofriday06
Wow. This one is deep : ) I like the performance enhancement syringe. Thanks funny! However, there is a lot of truth to that prank. I eventually figure out who those customers are and send them to the door. I don’t feel bad for it either, because I’ve been doing this for 18 years and I know them when I see them. You will never see them at a trail work day or a town hall meeting, because they are too busy shopping for deals on ebay instead of riding. When they threaten to tell all their friends… I just laugh, because they are saving me the trouble of doing it myself. There are plenty of good people out there that want to support their shop and community. My shop supports them as they support me… Happy Halloween! Cheers!
Looks like Yehuda will be ready for No Shave November
Great comic — one of the best ever. Brilliant gag.
he’s gonna look weird next week without his beard, or will rick draw the beard in tomorrow as if this never happened?
Yehuda can grow a a full beard in a day, no problem.
If Rick wants Yehuda’s beard back quickly, he can always explain that YM was wearing a latex appliance over it. That other great Rick, Rick Baker, could pull that off.
However, there might be some humor in a beardless Yehuda. Beards can itch when growing back in, and cycling with a cold wind off the lake may make Our Hero break out the balaclava early until his natural insulation is restored.
I loved dressing as a superhero for H’ween as a kid. Yehuda is practically “Captain Dashboard.”
Next year, Joe dresses as Fred Birchmore [googul him!]
Kevin
WOW!!!
The beardless Yehuda looks a little like Kevlar Bead. Could they be related?
Here was my costume:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25671211@N02/4062572203/