In my archive of cartoons, here's one that features a man browsing in a shop with a sign above the counter reading “Home Brew Supplies.”
Just beneath it, however, there’s an additional sign advertising an “Inflatable Barmaid.”
The humour comes from the unexpected pairing of two ideas – the serious hobby of brewing your own beer at home, alongside the tongue-in-cheek suggestion that a lonely brewer might also need some extra company in the form of a rather unusual product.
It’s the clash of everyday reality with absurd possibility that makes the joke work, and it gently pokes fun at both the enthusiasm of home brewers and the way shops sometimes try to upsell items that nobody was really looking for.
As with many cartoons, the amusement lies not just in the drawing but in the reader’s own imagination filling in the story behind it.
It’s a light piece, meant simply to raise a chuckle, and it shows how humour can emerge from the quirks of everyday life – even something as ordinary as a trip to the shop.
(As an aside, note how my signature has my full Christian name, rather than NIGE, as it became.)
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