Hark! A Vagrant - The Peach Basket Man is Hard Done By

"But I need these child labourers back."

SO BEST. Ever. Well, the joke, not child labourers. Or maybe that makes us awful for laughing at child labour jokes...? Ah well, it can't be helped. I stand by my first reaction.

This got a major LOL out of me.

Hee! I was recently introduced to the Heritage Minutes as an impending Canadian transplant, and they are just. . .part of history.

Mah goodness.

I don't imagine you're taking requests these days but...could you like, do me a Tolstoy?

haha! i saw that heritage moment recently too!
the last panel is golden.

Lady, it is so time to do one on 'Burnt Toast'. Can you imagine the possibilities! Not to mention all the jokes about poking around someone's brain!

Waaay better than the one about the french dude running York/Toronto and the little kids who wanted to keep their english names in Quebec. :D

hee hee hee. this is infinitely excellent.

my grade six teacher was obsessed with Canadian history and politics, more or less to the complete neglect of every other subject, with the exception of fractions and computer programming (on 15-year-old early '80s Macs)

among the many vaguely ridiculous things we did was watch hours and hours of Heritage Minute tapes

~*~*A part of our heritage*~*~

Do "Burnt Toast" next!!!

is the title of this entry a subtle nod to the hip??

Haha, one of the best ever! Did you know that I am distantly related to this man?

As a proud Springfieldian, it is my solemn duty to say that James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, though! We have a peach festival every year and serve peach soda. Not as fun or tasty as either one sounds.

I continue to <3 this comic however, despite our invention being totally stolen by Ontario by reason of birth.

It always mildly upset me that the custodian's protest that he needs those baskets back was blithely overruled, without so much as being acknowledged. As he says he needs them back, we fade to a shot of the bottoms being cut out. No-one says "Well, I'm afraid you have no say in the matter." or "Oh please, please can we mutilate your baskets?" or "I'm sorry I didn't hear you la la la OOPS there we go now what were you saying before?"

Bloody gym class.

you DRIBBLE that SHIT

The peach basket did not have to lose its bottom! They actually drilled a hole in the bottom so they could poke the ball out with a stick.

I still lul'd!

As long as he doesn't cut the bottoms off the child laborers.

Definatly a Hip reference in the title, though I'm hard pressed to make the connection between a song about a strip joint and Mr. Naismith's invention on b-ball. Peaches maybe??

The comic is great as well. Never saw the sweatshop angle coming, but then again, that's why we keep coming back. We never know where your fertile imagination will take us. Keep dribblin' that shit, Ms. Kate.

I remember a spoof of that on the Comedy Network about ten years ago.

"But I need these gotchies back".

I also remember they spoofed the medical lecture one too.

Man, you're like a goddess of awesome. And history application.

i feel so bad for the peach basket man : (
he needed those baskets back!

Any comic that ends with a slam dunk panel automatically gets an A+

and

I am jealous of these History Minutes you Canadians are so fond of. Here we have to figure out who did what by what street is named after them.

Gah! I'd buy this. Can I buy this?

Reading this was a trip. It's frightening how ingrained those images are on my adult mind. Is it depressing that I always think of those commercials when people debate the Canadian national identity? That and the awesomest money.

Oh, Beaton. My life is better because you make comics like these.

DOCTOR I SMELL BURNT TOAST