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Now We Know Why They Smell Funny The bassoon is known for its loving, soothing fart sounds.
Hautbois Oboe: Duuuuuude...
Oboe Joke #1.87 Cliché Oboe Jokes #2 / Q. How do you get two oboists to play in tune? / A. Shoot the strings.
John Mack Ren: *spasm* *groan* / Student: What-- / Ren: Shh. I'm listening to John Mack.
Making New Friends Jim: Your metronome is your friend. Your tuner is your friend. Spend time with your friends. / [[Person walking by a building with a metro-gnome and a can of tuna]] / Person: This is useless. / {{Oboe comics: Now in colour!}}
 
Pierced Ears LITTLE DOES SHE KNOW / (11-year-old oboist dangles from a kite) / Little girl: Can I have my ears pierced?
Shavings Brendan's Shaving Art / Brendan: I just like the way it looks. / Brendan: What?
*Snap* (Heather's thread snaps.) / Heather: I hate it when that happens, I always fist my boob.
The French Stole It From Us OBOHEMIA / Person: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, et les hautes bois! / Person 2: You stole that from the French.
Useless Four Favourite Uses of the Oboe / 1. The oboe, due to the frequencies it produces, is an effective snake charmer. Its effectiveness doubles when playing in a harmonic minor key. / 2. Its piercing tone makes the oboe ideal for summoning the undead. / Zombie: Braaaains! / 3. A little known use of the oboe is as an excellent short sword for cutting down the enemy, namely sharp, screechy trumpet players. / 4. The oboe is often thought best used as an "adult toy," but the English Horn is better suited to this, as demonstrated in the movie "American Pie: Band Camp."
 
Oboe Joke #1 Cliché Oboe Jokes...revamped (#1) / Q. What is an oboe good for? / A. Setting a bassoon on fire. / Bassoonist: That was so hot...my bassoon!
Free Willy Jesse: Willy! / Kid: Why is that whale playing the oboe? / Kid's mom: That's no whale, that's Dick Dorsey of the TSO.
Onegin Opera singer: What humiliation! What anguish! What a pitiful fate! / {Onegin must have been an oboist.}
Pansy! Breathing is for pansies. / Pansy: I breathe! / Ren: That is because you are a pansy.
Robertson Davies Person: No! It's the musicians! / Trombonist: I must say, we ARE an accomplished bunch. / Hat guy: But odd. / Girl: As musicians tend to be. / Guy: Is it the vibrations from their instruments, do you suppose? / Guy's Girlfriend: Working on their brains? / Tubist: All that fraught buzzing!
 
Shrubbery Pisces (February 19-March 20) / A haunting melody will float through the air this evening, with no apparent source. It will turn out a renegade oboe player is hiding in the shrubbery.
Pascal "Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed." / -Blaise Pascal / Reed: Where are my LEGS? / {{What would YOU be thinking?}}
Tombeau de Couperin (One person pours gas on the opening oboe excerpt of 'Tombeau de Couperin' by Ravel. Another lights it on fire. The flames, they spread.)
QGJ IV Ren: Aw, shoot, I left my reeds in my lesson. / Ren: Do you have my-- / Qui-Gon Jim: No. / Ren: But they're right there. / Qui-Gon Jim: These aren't the reeds you're looking for. / {{These are not the droids I am looking for.}}
QGJ III Qui-Gon Jim #3 / Jim: You don't want to sell me death sticks. You want to play bars 8-31 again, and this time with correct accidentals.
 
QGJ II Qui-Gon Jim #2 / Jim: I have a student you should accept to your school. / Dean: She will be accepted. / Jim: You should give her a full scholarship. / Dean: Done.
QGJ I Qui-Gon Jim #1 / Jim: You should buy this Yamaha. / Student: I will buy the Yamaha...
It Is Impossible To Deny Dick: HUH! / Row of oboists: flrrr flrrr flrrr, peep, enh enh ennnnnh / Graham: Hey guys, look, oboe boobies! / Jane: Can I borrow your armpits for a second? / Student: Why is Graham wearing Jane's socks? / OBOISTS ARE WEIRD.
That Dude Is a Killer Oboist A SCUD missile could kill you. / A bad oboist could also kill you. / A good oboist... / WILL kill you.
Pandamonium Pandas are the oboists of the animal world: rare, temperamental, and very fond of good cane.
 
It's a Chicken With a Stick Up Its Ass The European Sound (TM)
Reed Destruction Ways to Destroy a Reed / The tried: / Burning--"And what does one DO with witches?" / Microwaving--"Zzzt" / Slamming in a Door--"Oh God, my hand!" / Sweeping the floor--"Don't you think..." "Shut up." / The untried: / Dropping from a tall building--"See how *you* like playing high." / Feeding to a raptor--*CHOMP* / Drowning / Shooting--"You're sure you're not getting carried away?"
Shawms Double reeds: making people flee in terror since the 13th century. / (Army of Saracens with shawms triumph over crusaders.)
Smoking Reed (Two oboists play, side by side.) / Ren: Hey Lora! / Lora: What? / Ren: Don't smoke reed! / Lora: ... / Bad Pun Ninja: *swoop*
The Fire Department Must Never Know Razor Blades / Flammable Things / You *may* trip and die. / Fridge: WARNING: TOXIC / The splitter: it looks deadly because it *is* deadly. / Skanky water / [[Graham sleeping on the floor]] / Ren: This poses a dilemma / HAZARDS OF THE STUDIO / {{That water has loose morals.]]
 

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