Caption:
Some of our more common rescue animals
Alt text:
CEREAL / FLOSS
Larson riffing on the “St Bernard dog with a barrel on its collar” myth that found its way into cartoons of its day: https://beerconnoisseur.com/articles/truth-about-saint-bernard-dogs-and-barrels
Commercials too!
I’m too dumb to understand this or it’s more esoteric than I’m thinking.
Can someone help me get the jokes please?
- St Bernard = alcohol because cold ✅
- Dolphin = missing swimmers because they washed off ✅
- Rhino = pizza because you’re so hungry you eat a rhino ✅
- Beetle = pencil because??
- Chicken = floss because it gets stuck in your teeth ✅
- Snake = keys because??
- Cow = cereal because they give milk ✅
Snakes are able to fit into tight places, so they’d be able to easily retrieve keys that are e.g. dropped into a sewer grate. Kind of the reverse of what rescue animals tend to do though. Beetles with pencils because the teacher won’t notice them delivering you a pencil? They could also just be a bit of absurdism, but it’s kind of weird that the other ones are themed.
All of which are more useful than a dog delivering alcohol.
I’ll take the dog and rhino together please.
And maybe the chicken later, but absolutely not the dolphin.
