Davey's Prized Collection

A common subject here on AN.com is Nurses eating Their Young" or "Crusty Old Bats eating Snowflakes"or some such thing.

This cartoon is based on the old riddle of "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

This cartoon was done on the spot:

Davey Do said:

"You couldn't get a part in a movie if you had act as though you were sleeping", I told the acting out psychotic patient who was a 1:1.

He bet me he could.

I took the part as the director:

In a few moments, he actually did fall asleep.

This scenario became his bedtime routine.

I have different colors of scrubs I wear, and while driving to work, I'll drink coffee and maybe slosh a little on myself. Unlike my other scrubs of various colors, I noticed that my brown scrubs do not show coffee stains.

I thought, "Wow- if only I could find scrubs that would not show other types of stains!"

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Davey you are as funny as Schlitz. Gary Larson be laughing.

Making the animal part of the process in CAT scan humor has been done.

This cartoon puts the piece of hospital equipment in the place of the animal:

Davey you are as funny as Schlitz. Gary Larson be laughing.

Thanks, OldDude! Gary Larson is one of my mentors, as well as Charles Schultz, Mike Peters, Berkeley Breathed along with many of the MAD magazine cartoonists of the '70's like Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, and Paul Coker.

There are some recent fellows who are into dark humor, like Max Cannon and Stilton Jarlsberg and the guys from Cyanide & Happiness that also inspire me.

In fact, Max Cannon's cartoon, "Raw Meat" inspired one of my favorite cartoons and threads by the same name:

I truly enjoy dark humor and the way it gives a different perspective on serious matters.

I chose the Edgar Cayce quote about finding the funny side of every experience for my signature to remind me that alternative viewpoints can be therapeutic.

As in this favorite cartoon inspired by a TruvyNurse post:

When we had a patient die at the prison we'd say "he bagged and tagged!"

I go out to eat with my my wife, sister, and bro-in-law about once a month. It's pretty much the totality of my social life.

On one dinner date occasion, I had hung my coat on the back of my chair. I was animatedly telling a funny story, had everyone laughing when I stood up and knocked over the chair. I was a little embarrassed but continued on with my humorous story.

I thought about the situation afterwards and wondered how I could have improvised humor from the chair falling over.

I came up with this favorite cartoon:

I like all those guys; especially MAD and Spy vs Spy. But I think Gary Larson stands head and shoulders above all the rest in pulling subject matter, that can't be imagined by most people, and forming it into comedy that appeals to the far reaches of our minds...hilarious at a completely different level of consciousness. Hence, the Far Side, appropriately named.

Years ago, I saw a magazine called "Men in Nursing" and immediately bought a subscription thinking "Wow!This magazine is something with which I can really identify!"

There was a male nurse whose photograph was in the magazine who was an editor or wrote articles or something and this nurse was the epitome of professionalism.

I did a caricature of him and made some comics that would have been this "epitome of professionalism's" alter ego. I named the cartoon character "Mel".

I say "AMEN!" to your entire post, OldDude.

I copied this portion because it brought up a memory of a favorite maternal aunt, long time gone:

OldDude said:

I think Gary Larson stands head and shoulders above all the rest in pulling subject matter

For several years, I raised chickens for their eggs and my aunt mailed me a copy of this cartoon:

I mentioned before that I enjoy dark humor and I like nothing better than to put a dark humor story into a cartoon.

This is truly one of my favorite situations:

The only one that in all my years of working LTC still makes me feel guilty is the adorable, tiny little lady that adopted a quite heavy CPR practice baby. She insisted her baby was sick and needed a shot to get better. I came up with reason after reason to not give that darn baby it's shot and soon enough that old gal is stalking me up and down the hall and into rooms holding that heavy CPR baby by one foot, shaking it and yelling at me "see! He's dead! You KILLED HIM!! I told you you should've given him his shot!" By the time that shift was over I was feeling like a no good baby killer. To this day I wish I would have just given that darn baby a shot and saved that poor lady and me from her distress.

That story, kbrn is so sad, yet so hilariously funny!

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