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Silly Jughaid! Music won't rouse your Uncle Snuffy! You need a jug of rotgut instead (Chron.com)
Yes, it's funny when a character is sooooooooooooo lazy that even a great din fails to rouse them form their slumber! And such is the case today in not one, but two -count them - of the oldest, hoariest, running-on-empty-more-often-than-not entries on the funnies page.
In "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith," so named even though Barney appears to have shuffled off this mortal coil many, many moons ago, lovable scamp Jughaid - yes, I use the hillbilly spelling embraced the denizens of the strip - makes quite a racket! But it's not nearly enough to wake moonshine-guzzling Unscle Snuffy from his alcohol-and-ennui-induced slumber. Ain't that a hoot?
Beetle's thinking is another solider's goof-offery. (Chron.com)
It's less humorous, of course, in today's "Beetle Bailey," where Beetle is kept awake by noise, but manages to find a place to snooze - inside an Army tank.
So you've got two different takes on the same seeming human truth: Lazy people won't rouse themselves for anything except events that are of direct benefit to them. You can certainly argue that entertaining a young child or pretending to train so one can serve this nation's defense (yes, I said "pretending." When's the last time someone from Camp Swampy ever got sent to the front lines?) would benefit other people, but they'll do very little to add any spice to the lives of Snuffy or Beetle.
Now if Jughaid were about to break a bottle of triple-X hooch or Sarge about to go medieval on Beetle, I suspect you'd see a different story.
And, hey, we got sidetracked from our main point. Is the world so bereft of humor that two different cartoonist camps have to use the same idea? The answer, at least today, seems to be "Yes."
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