Just Fore Laughs
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Publisher Description
America's Favorite Cartoonists Take a Swing at America's Favorite Game
A Stroke of Comic Genius -- From America's Funniest Cartoonists.
From the first tee to the nineteenth hole, here's a collection of above-par cartoons and comic strips featuring your favorite cartoon characters on the links, in the rough -- and out of luck when it comes to the game of golf.
Includes eagle-shot entries from Calvin and Hobbs, Peanuts, Garfield, Beetle Bailey, Jeff MacNelly's Shoe, In the Bleachers, Drabble, The Wizard of Id and many more.
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This collection of quotations and comic strips explores the many moods of the frustrating, inexplicably addictive pastime known as golf. Anyone who has read a newspaper in the past 50 years will recognize the characters: Hi and Lois, Drabble, Beetle Bailey, Garfield, the Peanuts gang, Hagar the Horrible and the like. The humor is decidedly more gentle than cutting: Hagar conceals the fact that his invasion of Scotland is an excuse to golf there; Hi returns home to Lois stewing over a lousy afternoon on the links. The quotations have little to do with the game, however (for example, the "Aliens" category includes the familiar but highly non-golf related introduction to the Star Trek television series, which reads, "Space-the final frontier... These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise"). Why this quotation is included is a mystery, as is the reason why a section called "Aliens" is even in a book about golf. These puzzlers reinforce the impression that Dennison found a pile of comics that referenced the game and then found quotations that could accompany them, however loose the connection. Overall, this seems to be a book created more out of love of the game than love of comics, making it a collection that only golf fanatics will love.
