I’m going to cheat with my “best of” list this year.
Usually I run five runners-up before heading into my Top
Ten. This time around, however, I’m going to have six also rans, ‘cause there
were a couple that I just really liked. Thanks in advance for your indulgence.
Scouts and scouting are favorites of mine. As a Cub Scout
leader, one of my pet peeves is when people try to make Webelos singular.
According to the Handbook, the name comes from WE’ll BE LOyal Scouts. This
cartoon is an expression of that befuddlement.
Thanks to Calvin and Hobbes, and Linus in Peanuts
before that, snowmen can take on a different dimension in cartoons. The guy who
draws Tundra (Chad Carpenter) has
practically made a career out of it! This is one that I particularly like.
Grammar plays a role in this cartoon as well. I noticed
while watching BYU in the NCAA basketball tournament, that No. 32 could have
been an irregular French verb.
One of my (very) small claims to fame is that I may have
been the first to earn the Genealogy merit badge in Scouting (the council
office said I was — I don’t know if they keep a record). As a kid, our family
used to spend the summer in the Family History Library…where we discovered that
someone (my grandma) had fudged on a few dates to make parts of our history a
little cleaner, a little more respectable. Didn’t help.
Star Wars and Star
Trek references show up in a few of my
cartoons. To complete my geek trifecta, I had to include The Lord of
the Rings (I won’t even mention Dr.
Who). First, Gandalf’s other career:
…and the truth behind the ring!
Stay tuned tomorrow for numbers six through ten in the Top
Ten Countdown!
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