When you don’t immediately get it you have to wonder:
Is it a reference to something at the time that’s not within my lifetime/country’s zeitgeist?
Is it a play on an idiom or common cliche?
Is it literally nonsense and absurdity for the sake of it?
Am I just a big dummy?
I think it might be just 3, i.e. the absurdity of this happening at all, that he’s concerned about the coconuts without realising/or being concerned that his head is sprouting a palm tree, and that Margaret seems irritated that he’s woken her for what her expression suggests is either an incident of his own making, or one that’s trivial.
But his body looks weird so it could be 2, ‘no man is an island’ or something.
I’m in my late 30s and Australian so it could be 1.
I don’t get it.
That’s the fun part of far side.
When you don’t immediately get it you have to wonder:
Is it a reference to something at the time that’s not within my lifetime/country’s zeitgeist?
Is it a play on an idiom or common cliche?
Is it literally nonsense and absurdity for the sake of it?
Am I just a big dummy?
I think it might be just 3, i.e. the absurdity of this happening at all, that he’s concerned about the coconuts without realising/or being concerned that his head is sprouting a palm tree, and that Margaret seems irritated that he’s woken her for what her expression suggests is either an incident of his own making, or one that’s trivial.
But his body looks weird so it could be 2, ‘no man is an island’ or something.
I’m in my late 30s and Australian so it could be 1.
It’s never 4.