Sluggo's figure drawing

Mitch O'Connell said it had taken "a full minute to realize that Sluggo had drawn a 'three.'" Same here!

Update: Boyo5's sense of humor is as infantile as mine!

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blame it on the MSM.
- Mark_Frauenfelder
  
  “blame it on the MSM.”
  
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  - benher
    
    I’m with Mitch on this one… and I still don’t see a three!
http://twitter.com/zillustration pauliez

sluggo knows what he likes…
James LaFreniere

I saw it immediately so I guess this goes to show how people’s brains can be wired in totally different ways.
nixiebunny

You guys have dirty minds.
nixiebunny

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http://twitter.com/rook751 Rook751

Silly Sluggo. Nancy told him to draw “one” not “three.” :)
chaopoiesis

Nice reference to the number of buttons on Nancy’s shirt.
irksome

Three rocks.
- James LaFreniere
  
  It’s the magic number. Yeah it is.
  - irksome
    
    Not two rocks, not four rocks. Three rocks.
    
    http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Personal/Hobbies/Comics/Nancy/Nancy.html
    
    http://www.deniskitchen.com/docs/TMCM.Bushmiller.html
    
    “What does it all mean?”
Petzl

80085!
- theophrastvs
  
  1.8772673809050118202373468270236731727499483029275… × 10^357923
  (furthermore: 5318008 …upside-down, of couse)
  - Shinkuhadoken
    
    1337 > U
    - http://twitter.com/scottmarshall Scott Marshall
      
      That’s Numberwang.
      - folkclarinet
        
        Or Wangernumb? ;)
http://twitter.com/_Sluggo Andres Rosales

Mike Sterling beat you to the punch(line):
http://www.progressiveruin.com/2011/12/10/sluggo-saturday-110/
ian_b

i’m one of those weirdos that scans comics and magazines from back to front. then i scan the pictures forwards, then i resort to words.
Gunn

Do not discount the possibility that the ambiguity was deliberate. Comics artists have always been sly: it would been an amusing prank to get a risque joke printed in hundreds of family newspapers.
http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

Before I got to the third panel I thought the joke was going to be that he would turn the canvas vertically and draw something (anything) in portrait orientation.
Peter Huestis

Wow, never seen this one before! I checked it in the newspaper archives, and it is unaltered. This one is a little unusual in that he usually did two short panels followed by a long panel at this point, so this is kind of backwards for him. Great stuff!
sockdoll

I read the title “Sluggo’s figure drawing,” skipped directly to the last panel, and saw the number three.

Ha-ha.

I mourn the death of my inner seven-year-old.
pjcamp

Oh God!

I managed through force of will to break the habit of reading Nancy over 20 years ago and now you’ve forced it back. That’s the stupidest goddamn comic ever. How it can survive while Calvin and Hobbes goes away I’ll never figure out. I guess it’s just easier to do stupid.
buddy66

yep. Little Lulu it ain’t.