November 11th, 2009
Remembrance Day
Of interest: I actually read the phrase ‘GANK A BIG HOOLER’ on a washroom stall many years ago. For me, these profound words epitomize the brink of madness upon which modern man ever teeters. I’m glad that I was able to share them with you.
Today, Cameron, Ramón and I are signing at Alastor Milano Fumetto in Milan. Thanks for setting this up, Michele!
November 11th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Thanks for sharing, Karl
November 11th, 2009 at 8:36 am
oh my.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Had to look that one up,ha-ha!
November 11th, 2009 at 9:25 am
It’s little pieces of art like this that elevate the merely random into sublime excellences of perfect hilarity. I have no idea what ‘GANK A BIG HOOLER’ even means, but I’ll never be able to think of it without laughing.
November 11th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Another wonderful strip – and I’m saving that phrase for use is special emergencies, for sure!
November 11th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Love it! The wisdom we find on bathroom walls…
November 11th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Our poor wives. But yes, they could do a lot worse.
November 11th, 2009 at 10:52 am
“Gank a big hooler” No idea what it means, but it would make an interesting inside joke type t-shirt. Lol
November 11th, 2009 at 11:38 am
I love this! I’m still laughing! The way you drew that, and wrote the words, are just perfect, not to mention the words themselves. I have no idea what that means but it fits. Thanks, Karl!
November 11th, 2009 at 11:42 am
That’s some strong water there.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
This made me laugh until I farted. The fart was entirely unintentional. Needless to say-for me…however for you I am saying-everyone in the Barns and Noble were looking at me.
November 11th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
I’ve only been able to gank very minute hoolers in my day, but this strip has encouraged me on to bigger things. Thanks Karl!
November 11th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
man, that’s a much prominent example of vogon poetry, you betcha! but then again, maybe i’m mistaken
anyhow: don’t panic!
I really got no clue what that means – but it’s sooo funny!
thanks, karl!
Frank
November 11th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
[...] brilliant thing about Gank A Big Hooler is, it can mean anything. And that means the second Wednesday of November is officially Gank A Big [...]
November 11th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Bad sap cakes will do that to you every time.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
More delightful images Karl – will these be included when Charles finally goes to print – or will they be in an addenda to the main story line . Either works for me – but they all have to be in the book when it is released .
November 11th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I vow to shout “‘GANK A BIG HOOLER” as we begin our team-building staff meeting in about 15 minutes.
I’ll do that just as soon as I quit crying with laughter from these comments.
Thank you once again, Karl, for art that works on so many levels. We are so blessed to know your work.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
When I was in Australia on R&R, I heard that phrase. It was used when several drunken Aussies descended upon a streetwalker and all had a turn with her, then, if possible, would leave without paying the full fee. Also called “stealing a piece”, “cheating the chippie”, or “pillage the punter”.
A strange custom for a strange land.
November 11th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
gank a big hooler!
November 11th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Yeah, what he said above, it means to steal from a big hooker.
November 11th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I know what ‘gank’ means–to steal (as in “Ganked this from…”) but I had no idea what a ‘big hooler’ was. Now I do. Although I could have lived contentedly without knowing what it was, I must admit this was absolutely hysterical.
November 11th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Huh. Well, I knew what “gank” meant, but I’d'a thought they’d leave out the L and E in “hooler” if that’s the proper usage. Then again, what do I know about Aussie lads out to do ultraviolence?
BTW, it went over in the meeting like you’d think: “WHAT?” “YAAAY!” “Uh?”
November 11th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
the eyes in this comic are great, really emotive!
November 11th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Being an Aussie, although beyond lad-dom, unfortunately, I can safely say the expression is not common here. According to a number of online sources, the words are considered rap lingo.
Having said this, I still laughed and coughed chocolate muffin crumbs all over my monitor when I read this. Sheer brilliance, Karl.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
As an Australian I can’t say I’ve ever heard the phrase – but then I don’t tend to frequent men’s bathrooms or engage streetwalkers…
November 11th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
E=MC_horse: “A strange custom for a strange land” – what, you mean we’re stanger than the United States of Strange? Wow, who’d a thought it?
November 11th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
LMAO @ using it a staff meeting… nice. i might have to try that at our next meeting.
November 12th, 2009 at 5:46 am
Iocaine comes from Australia, as everyone knows. And Australia is entirely peopled with criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me. So I can clearly not choose the sap cake in front of you.
November 12th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I could’ve sworn I once heard a Christmas carol that starts that way.
November 12th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
@McGehee
I think I know that one.
“God rest ye merry gentle-folk let nothing you dismay,
Yell ‘Gank a bi-ig hooler’ when there’s nothing else to say,
And if you tell them Gary sent you, all will be okay,
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.”
November 12th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
This seems to be becoming an Internet meme, and just a day after it was published; well done, Karl!
November 12th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Great as always Karl…
@Argent Stonecutter …
Hilarious.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Much love, mate.
November 12th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
I think the thing that impresses me the most is that you remembered something like that from years ago. Kudos to you Big Hooler!
November 13th, 2009 at 7:17 am
laughed hard at this one, even though i had no idea what Gary was talking about until i googled it… i love randomness… and i laughed equally as hard at Philo’s comment.
November 13th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Suddenly “GANK A BIG HOOLER” becomes the top google search…
November 13th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Oh I’m DEFINITELY going to look for a way to fit “Gank a big hooler” into Monday’s comic, most likely as graffiti. If not Monday, then Thursday. Linking back when I do.
November 14th, 2009 at 2:30 am
haha! It sounds like someone was saying Drank a big cooler, but was too drunk and the person in the next stall wrote what they heard. lol
November 14th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I’ve read this comics from beginning to the end and than got back to the beginning and started again… Must. go. sleep. now.
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But it’s really awsome, in a fragile, beautiful, sometimes slightly creepy, funny, awsome way
November 16th, 2009 at 7:16 am
[...] nonsense that Karl Kerschl read on a bathroom stall and used in a much more glamorous way in this Abominable Charles Christopher comic. The “meep!” is in defiance to the word being banned at a school in Massachusetts. [...]
November 17th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Loving the bluebird psychiatrist. These two are so great.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Ref Dynamaso and other Aussies. I am probably a bit older than you. I was on R&R from Viet Nam at the time(s) in 1969 and again in 1971. I was a wild lad then, but it was; “Eat, drink and lay Mary; for tomorrow Charlie may off you.” I went about with a pack of SAS types I had met in ‘Nam. I never tried to gank a hooler, either big or small. I was then a US Marine (after ‘Nam spent a year as a civvie, then joined the Army and retired therefrom). Believe it or not, I stayed out of any chargeable trouble while in Oz on R&R.
As Thin Lizzy said:
“Friday night they’ll be dressed to kill
Down at Dino’s bar and grill
The drink will flow and blood will spill
And if the boys want to fight, you’d better let them”
November 17th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Hahaha !
Funny stuff to find out what that whole ganking thing was about. It seems like Charles Christopher just got a whole lot dirtier !
;P
November 18th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
@E=MC_horse – you might be a bit older (I was born in the 60′s) but your reference to Thin Lizzy reminded me of seeing them live and free in a concert on the Sydney Opera House steps in ’78 or ’79. The boys were definitely back in town then. Mr Lynott is sorely missed…
November 19th, 2009 at 4:41 am
So, the strip was hilarious, and I laughed. The christmas carol theme in the comments was fantastic, and I laughed a lot. I hope I didn’t wake up my husband with my laughing . . . Thanks, and thanks.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:24 pm
This made me LAUGH.
June 10th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
[...] Sure, you could read the strips online, but there’s been some judicious re-arrangement, leading to stronger story arcs interleaved with one another. My favorite arc, curiously, isn’t about the big guy, or even Vivol and Moon Bear … it’s the story of this bird, trying to be a good husband and father, and not finding it as easy as he’d hoped. Of course, she could do worse. [...]
July 17th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
short article? Is simply doing this beneath creative commons?
September 12th, 2010 at 1:09 am
It is rather early in the morning when I am reading this. I’m laughing so hard but trying not to wake my roommate up, and now I can’t breathe.