513: Garfield (Rescued Chilean) Miners Garfield
| Garfield (Rescued Chilean) Miners Garfield |
 Made by: Craig Wittler |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
In this installment of the "constantly changing" edit (which, by this point, was already fast approaching oversaturation), the middle panel is replaced with a picture of the 33 Chilean workers who, exactly one day before this strip was published, were rescued from a cave-in that trapped them in a mine in early August. (The admins specifically moved it up in the buffer so that it would still be timely, though the author clearly didn't intend for it to be so.) Garfield's last line is also altered, making the strip a PSA of sorts for workplace safety.
The author's notes also make mention of a quote from The Wizard of Oz, delivered by the Coroner (a Munchkin, of course) who examines the corpse of the Wicked Witch of the East (who has been crushed by Dorothy's falling house). It is slightly misquoted - the original line used feminine pronouns (i.e. "she's really most sincerely dead"), but in this case it's understandable.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Okay, the "Garfield [sounds like minus] Garfield" meme is "not only merely dead, but really most sincerely dead" (to quote a Munchkin). But after the extended media event that was the rescue one-by-one of the Trapped Chilean Miners, this still had to be done (with a shout out to improving mine safety so this doesn't have to happen again). I know that, with the massive backlog of contributions, this will probably not appear until the Chilean Mine Not-Really-A-Disaster is mostly forgotten, but if something like this had been done when the mine first caved in over 2 months ago, it would be emerging at about the same time. :-)
Admin note: This submission was so timely and appropriate, I made a special exception and inserted it into the queue in place of another strip. (This is a very rare exception - it takes a lot of work to mess with the buffer queue.)
Original strip: 2001-11-28.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Jon: The world is constantly changing.
{Rescued Chilean miners}
Garfield: They haven't stopped trying to improve mine safety, have they?
