“Last Night I played a blank tape at full blast; the mime next door went nuts.” — George Carlin
A joke that depends on a very time-situated cultural reference. And the dictionary supplies with the additional information that the tape could have been erased: magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
I pair it here with something a little timeless both in its appeal to the animal world and its evocation of fleeting time.
If I recall correctly this appeared in black and white. In any event this scan is from a b&w photocopy. Here’s a link to Non Sequitur is Wiley Miller’s wry look at the absurdities of everyday life.
https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/
The site is not yet searchable by text (that would involve transcribing each individual bubble which sounds like a crowd source project). But the archive is organized by date. But even with a magnifying glass I cannot make out a date on the comic strip. Timeless.
Worthy rabbit-hole to search out for more of Danae and the color blind (colour blind) horse, Lucy.
And so for day 2741
15.06.2014