Is Carvel a real place? Like Dairy Queen or something?

Also, there sure are a lot of zombies in this strip...

Sure... they're all over the place in the Northeast. Dairy Queen is more of a Midwestern thing, I think, though a few of them still exist around here. (From what I remember and I could be wrong here, Dairy Queen also sells things other than one form or another of ice cream -- Carvel doesn't do that.)

And that's only one zombie... he just shows up in all three panels. See how that works?

In Response to TheMooseKing (#5185):

"This strip" applying, presumably, to the entirety of Goats, rather than just today's three panels. Makes more sense that way.

Whee! Pedantic!

Cheers,
Graham

In Response to albionsoft (#5188):

Yea, I know how it can be confused, since "comic strip" can be just one series of panels or an entire series of comic strips...

Gads, I need to get to sleep.

It sure is. [carvel.com]

Tom Carvel used to insist on doing all the voiceovers for his company's commercials back in the early 80's. It was great, because he had this incredibly slow, gravelly voice that was entirely unpleasant to listen to.

I like the idea that he would traverse the unimaginable boundaries between life and death so he could come back to hawk more cakes.

Tom Carvel had the distinction of being the inventor of soft serve, by the way.

In Response to jon (#5190):

Although, the carvel's are becoming a bit rare. There used to be one near my house growing up that sold soft serve cones too. Mostly they sell them at the grocery stores now.

There's still a drive-in DQ in Lake George (upstate NY) that sells food, across from the drive-in A&W. At least, it was still there last summer when I went home; I'm sure they tore it down to put up yet another mini golf course, go-cart track, or possibly a new parking lot for the amusement park. Man I love progress.

Boy, Cookie Puss. That brings back memeories...

Back in the day, when I was growing up on the mean streets, we used to keep it real with the help of The Beastie Boys [beastiemania.com]

In Response to FeldmanSkitzoid (#5189):

By the way, when I wrote my previous post, it was 6:30am (Central time), and I hadn't been to sleep yet. Good ol' insomnia. Or too many Mt. Dews.

I just felt the urge to share that.

In Response to jon (#5190):

Wow, not just creamy, but ALSO crunchy. What a wonderful world we live in. Well, what a wonderful world YOU live in, since we don't have them.

What we have out here (Minnesota and Wisconsin) that you probably don't have is Culver's. They specialize in frozen custard and butterburgers. Their web site [culvers.com] can probably explain it better. They just put one by my house a couple years ago, and they're great.

This Tom Carvel guy sort of reminds me of Dave Thomas, the guy who founded Wendy's. He was always in all the Wendy's commercials, delivering his classic jokes/groaners. I actually only found out yesterday that he died last year.

In Response to jon (#5190):

you should all get a chance to hear Jon's imitation of Tom Carvel...I'm trying to convince him to post a .wav, or to do a reading at the pub.

In Response to amy (#5204):

Mrs. Amy,
How many beers does it take to get Jon to do a reading at the pub?

In Response to zamphir (#5205):

Mr. Zamphir,

That would be THREE.

We would also have to have a Carvel cake at the pub...that would help convince him as well.

In Response to amy (#5216):

be aware, all, that "THREE" does not refer to glasses, but units.

In Response to phillip (#5217):

What is the cost for one unit of beer at the pub?

I'm sure a sufficient donation pool could be assembled to
a) pay for the units of beer
b) pay for the Carvel cake
c) pay for at least the rental of a recording unit of sufficient capacity to record the experience

In Response to zamphir (#5218):

The cost of one unit of beer is defined as one-third the total cost for all three units of beer.

In Response to jon (#5220):

Well, that's excellent. Sounds very cheap!

I figured beer in New York City was much more expensive than that.

In Response to TheMooseKing (#5185):

Weird. I always thought Carvel was a southern thing, because the only place I've ever seen their terrifying commercials or stores was when I lived in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

On the other hand, I've seen Dairy Queens in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and most places in between...

In Response to zamphir (#5218):

I believe the standard price for 1 unit of beer would be 1 unit of currency.

In Response to mea37 (#5346):

no.

definitely not.

it doesn't work that way...the mathematics are far more complex.

In Response to phillip (#5348):

Oh? Hmm... I must have some bad notes here, then...

What are you using as your definition for a unit of currency?

In Response to mea37 (#5357):

One unit of currency is defined as one-third of the total cost.

In Response to zamphir (#5222):

what you really have to do is get a few drinks into your friend, or whoever, and then just keep telling him it's his turn to buy on every round. thats cheap drinking

In Response to amy (#5204):

If he does, have him comment on why they use the Fudgie the Whale form for the Santa cake please. That's bothered me for years.

In Response to Rich (#5372):

Cookie O'Puss? Which was essentially just a Cookie Puss, done up in green and shamrocks for St.Patrick's Day. You'd think they could have used more than two molds...

-Incarnadine

In Response to Incarnadine (#5569):

they could have used more than two molds

It wouldn't be nearly as amusing a racial slur if they had.

Or at least, they wouldn't have thought it was 'funny' if "Cookie O'Puss" didn't look like a Cookie Puss, done up in green and shamrocks for St.Patrick's Day.