Some cartoon strips require some fairly specific background knowledge to get the joke, like this one.
(Bizarro)
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Some cartoon strips require some fairly specific background knowledge to get the joke, like this one.
(Bizarro)
I’m guessing that the person on the left is Frida Kahlo.
I don’t recognize the person on the right. Looking up Frida Kahlo on Wikipedia, I see she was married to Diego Rivera, and the pictures in his Wikipedia article sort of look like the person on the right. But he also looks a little like Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Is the pipe over the door a clue?
The pipe is not a clue. The Bizarro cartoons contain a few of a set of 13 symbols the cartoonist inserts into the drawings, one of which is a pipe. You can read about them here.
@1 Allision
You have most of it. The letters are a clue.
Thank God it’s Frida?
@2
You say it’s not a clue, but the choice of pipe over other symbols may be deliberate, as Magritte was one of that set.
For Europeans, quiite a lot of American literature and US tv requires soecific cultural background to understand quips and the like.
References to baseball and American football (a kind df Rugby,) for instance.
@6:
…for people who are too afraid to play actual rugby so have to do it in full body armour.
(Don’t blame them myself, it’s definitely a mugs game likely to result in serious injury no matter how gentlemanly the opposition.)
Can’t argue with that. It is a quick way to either lose teeth or get internal organs squashed. I remember at uni (UK), I heard people refer to fellow students who played rugby and bragged about it as wooden tops. And that in itself, was a dangerous game if they overheard.