Monday, January 18, 2010

Doodle Penance: "satisfactory and similar words"

This week's "Doodle Penance" comes from a Google-searcher who was looking for "satisfactory and similar words." That's a bit of a puzzler, isn't it? I mean, there are so many ways that words can be similar to each other: semantically, cryptographically, metrically, etymologically, or in terms of Scrabble scores...

Using my unerring intuition, however, I'm guessing that this week's Googler was looking for anagrams.

Here you go: satisfactory and a few anagrammatically similar two-word phrases:



Of course you recognize the mascots of Satisfactory Comics.





When we decide to imitate sartorially Mr. Frederick Herman Jones, our book becomes Ratify Ascots Comics.





When we try the 24-hour comic a few too many times in a row, our book becomes Ratty Fiascos Comics.





And when we have been immortalized in tofu by a dairy-free future civilization, our book will be known as Soy Artifacts Comics.



That's probably enough like Mike's sense of humor that he doesn't even need to draw something this week.

5 comments:

  1. Sir, you are a captain of cartooning industry. That's not one, not two, not three, but FOUR delightful (to me) cartoons!

    Ratty fiascos...and of course, my work in progress is the slowest-yet variation on the 24-hour comic, and perhaps thereby the one kindest to our appearance. (I gotta cop to the likeness, though...)

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  2. Fine work, fellas! (Or rather, fine work, Isaac, on behalf of the two-headed monster that is Satisfactory Comics!) The "ratify ascots" drawing in particular made me chuckle.

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  3. I'm not sure what to think about the fact that this obviously solo effort still elicits credit for multiple "fellas." I guess Mike was in on this one in spirit.

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  4. Yeah, I don't get that either: I had zero input on this post. Maybe MiriyaB is under the impression that our cartoon alter egos are real beings--"fellas," apparently--who have done the "fine work" of modeling the various anagrams?

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  5. It was very hard work for them to convert their substance into tofu. They deserve a raise.

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