Keyed
by Jeff
Image text: I was sure he was just getting revenge, but then he did the same thing to Carrie Underwood. Then he mailed me a scone. I think I'm giving up dating.
This comic is a take on one of the typical revenge tactics in dating and in life, which is one person "keying" the car of another. To "key" a car is to drag a key across the side of the car, sometimes multiple times, ruining the paint job. Instead, our friend Beret Guy painted a really detailed key on the side of the car in his version of "keying" a car.
The image text is a reference to the song "Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood, which is a revenge song which details (via wikipedia) Carrie Underwood imagining her boyfriend hanging out and flirting with a "bleach-blonde" girl, shooting pool, buying her a drink, dancing, and hoping to "get lucky" with her. In retaliation, she commits several law-breaking actions including vandalizing his customized four-wheel drive vehicle by scratching its side with a key, carving her name into its leather seats, smashing the headlights with a Louisville Slugger baseball bat and slashing all four tires. She hopes that this will make him "think before he cheats" again.
I'm not sure what is up with the scone mailing. It is probably just random. Oh Beret Guy, never change.
March 16th, 2012
The scone is a refference to xkcd #452, also mentioned in #677. Apparently, Berret guy loves them
March 16th, 2012
Of course, it’s reference and Beret
March 16th, 2012
I don’t see any reference to scones in #677.
March 16th, 2012
The Image text in 677 is the scone reference. Honestly too lazy to type it.
March 16th, 2012
It’s in the title text.
March 16th, 2012
At first I took the “scone” comment as Beret Guy misunderstanding the concept of “stoning”. Instead of stoning the house and breaking a window with a rock, he mailed a scone.
March 16th, 2012
“Don’t you know? The chances of a random object being a scone are one in six.”
March 16th, 2012
Whitmore Lyrics – Scones
About breaking up.
March 16th, 2012
What did you do that was so wrong?
The things you said but now you’re gone
Never tell you just how I feel
You never showed me, well if your love was for real
What did I say to make you walk away?
What can I say to make you stay?
March 16th, 2012
Thumbs up for the description.
I hope the boyfriend in that song called the cops on her. She was probably sloppy enough to leave fingerprints and other traceable DNA, putting the blame squarely on her.
March 16th, 2012
Not to mention signing her name on his seats
March 16th, 2012
And broadcasting a confession on the radio
March 16th, 2012
Yes, but he exclusively bangs chicks by that name, and scores (no pun intended) of them, so that bit of evidence doesn’t exactly narrow it down.
March 16th, 2012
Good on ya, Jeff. Nailed this one.
As your prize, I award you one Internet Carrie Underwood. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2633/4111280051_4169054cca.jpg
March 16th, 2012
“A cut above the common ‘pwned’, sconed is the intellectuals variant as it engenders both humiliation for the recipient combined with a small touch of amusement to alleviate any long lasting resentment against the provider of the ’sconing’.”
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sconed
March 16th, 2012
well, and aren’t there date-scones ???
March 17th, 2012
What? No 80+ comments today on how easy it is to key a car? I’m as surprised as you are.
March 17th, 2012
It’s comics like this one that make me love this blog. Srsly, sometimes I would be lost without you guys.
March 17th, 2012
You know as long as there is a postal service if you put a stamp on just about anything it will go through the mail. Mail a fish before it is too late!
March 18th, 2012
Not any longer – at least not in the U.S.. A couple of decades ago you could glue a business reply card from some junk mail on a brick and mail it (thus forcing the company junk mailing you to pay a lot for nothing) but then the USPS changed its regulations. Nowadays, you can even be fined for trying to mail a fish or brick or bucket of lard… and they’ll try to find you even if you use a postbox to do so.
March 19th, 2012
Thanks, Click & Clack
March 17th, 2012
“Cesi n’est pas une cle.”
March 19th, 2012
Nice comment (thumbs up!) for its originality. Unfortunately thumbs down for typography:
«Ceci n’est pas une clé.»
March 21st, 2012
Beret guy is my hero!!
March 24th, 2012
And more … The girl accuses Beret Guy of not remembering that they broke up. But, in the second-to-last frame, are they still sleeping in the same bed? That sleeping arrangement can sometimes lead to confusion on this particular point.
March 25th, 2012
hell hath no fury like a woman sconed guys!
March 28th, 2012
I guess that the very detailed painting of a key is an exact (scaled, of course) representation of the key that corresponds to the locks of this car. Suddenly, Beret guy started acting as cunningly as Black hat guy.