8 Responses to “Apocalypse Now”

1. frankp Says:
   October 15th, 2004 at 1:14 am

   When Bif sent me the text for this cartoon I thought “you b*stard. How much can you fit in one cartoon? Four horses, four people and an army it would seem… jeez Bif why didn’t you throw in the seven dwarfs and a partridge in a pear tree?”

   So this one was a bit of a challenge to envisage and produce, I think I just about managed it… I hope anyway. If it lacks something it’s through my efforts not to have it look too crowded - I just hope I didn’t take from the impact of the joke in doing so.

2. Anonymous Says:
   November 30th, 2004 at 4:31 am

   The punchline is hard to understand. Maybe you should proofread it again.

3. frankp Says:
   November 30th, 2004 at 12:40 pm

   How would you write it? Bif, you’re fired.
   Thanks,
   Frank

4. Bif Says:
   November 30th, 2004 at 1:05 pm

   Good, it was all getting to be a bit of a pain anyway. I’m sorry, I don’t see how that line is hard to understand. It’s a pretty standard sentence structure and there’s no other way I can think of doing it without diminishing the joke. We do actually put a lot of time into getting the captions right.

5. Bif Says:
   November 30th, 2004 at 1:12 pm

   But we do appreciate the feedback anyway

6. Anonymous Says:
   November 14th, 2005 at 5:53 am

   I don’t think I’m familiar with that usage of ‘paid’. I think you mean something like: ‘A failure to move with the times outmoded the much vaunted plans of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.’

   Is that what you meant?

7. frankp Says:
   November 15th, 2005 at 2:53 pm

   Interesting, ‘put paid to’ must be used more around our parts than anywhere else. Dictionary.com says it’s ‘chiefly british’ - we’re Irish, so maybe it’s just this side of Europe… are you American?

   From Answers.com:
   Finish off, end, as in We’d best put paid to this issue. [Early 1900s]

8. Anonymous Says:
   May 25th, 2006 at 1:09 pm

   wrong order

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