Author’s note: This is Pace’s special bonus Tuesday post for the Cartoonival of Wisdom. We will return you to your regularly scheduled Freak Revolution tomorrow. (The revolution may not be televised, but it will be scheduled.)
Bob The Angry Flower has so many lessons to teach us all, which one shall I focus on today?
The importance of clear communication?
The danger of overpromising in your marketing copy?
That a victim mentality doesn’t solve anything?
The critical difference between $19.95 and $20 (it may save you from getting stabbed in the neck!)
That one excellent experience can make you forget the bad?
The importance of acquiring ninja insurance for your business?
Nay, I say. Despite the grand insight Bob expresses in those poignant anecdotes, I feel that his greatest wisdom is expressed by Bob smashing his own hand with a hammer, over and over and over again.
Do you mock the plight of our floral friend? Does his tenacious stubbornness amuse you?
Have you yourself never persisted in a course of errant foolishness, simply out of habit or inertia? Have you yourself never engaged in self-destructive behavior, even when you knew the most excellent course of action would be to stop? Were your own rationalizations any more compelling, in truth, than those of a certain angry flower of our mutual acquaintance?
Is there some area of your life where you are smashing yourself in the hand with a hammer over and over and over again?
Stop!
Want more cartoony wisdom? Here’s some from Doofenschmirtz, Bloo, Bugs Bunny, Pinky and the Brain, Jem, and my personal favorite, The Far Side.
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These all made me crack up, and I just printed out the hammer-smashing one to put on my fridge! Thank you for these! I kind of needed the “stop smashing your hand” wisdom in a new, reductio ad absurdum sort of shape today.
You rock, Pace.
This was my introduction to Bob the Angry Flower and I’m totally impressed by the wisdom that spills out from between those petals. This is definitely a keeper :)
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How have I lived this long on the planet and missed the genius that is Bob The Angry Flower? What other brilliance have I missed??
Pace, you’ve outdone yourself. The simplicity of the lesson, combined with the hilarity of the cartoon… I’m stunned. Sheer genius, I say.
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Great, I’m going to try to resist reading Bob the Angry Flower comics all day… and resist metaphorically hand smashing. Thanks Pace, this is awesome.
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OH NO. I’ve never seen that Bob The Angry Flower strip!
What an incredibly awesome lesson. I admit, when I read which comic you had chosen, I was skeptical… but you pulled it off and then some.
Now to join Kelly in attempting to resist Bob The Angry Flower ALL DAY…
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I need to get me one of those “Victim Wheels”
And for some reason, every time I look at the smashing hand comic I think of my day job. (or as I like to think of it now, the cover for my secret identity, employee dude)
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Hey, Pace!
Sooo kewl, that Bob The Angry Flower. I personally enjoy pointlessness, so not only am I in awe of the hand smashing toon dripping with pointlessness, but the Ninja one very nearly carries within it the entire path of the Buddha’s enlightenment within its very pointlessness. I do believe I’ll have to meditate on that one, if I can but control my breathing.
(And I was much less successful in not spending a good chunk of my day in the pursuit of more nuggets of pointlessness with Bob The Angry Flower. I may never recover.)
Annie
If ever there were a day I needed to see this, it’s today.
I love Bob the Angry Flower – brings back nice memories of an indie newspaper I used to work for before!
Anyway, nice post!
I feel like too many people these days are compulsively hurting themselves while being complicit participants. But unfortunately sometimes we can’t really stop doing whatever is destroying us because we become completely enslaved and mastered by it. It’s really hard to reclaim control over your life when you become dominated by destructive behavior.
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