Editing Talk:1614: Kites

"If you didn't get it right away, and had to read this explanation, I would recommend finding a small dog and trying to fly it like a kite." This explanation made me laugh, kudos to whoever wrote it. [[User:NotLock|NotLock]] ([[User talk:NotLock|talk]]) 06:42, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

(When editing the main article, guys, remember not to overwrite tags.  When Transcript text was put in someone squashed both the Incomplete tag and the one for this Discussion... anyway...) Note that it appears the dog isn't 'floating', as described in at least one place, but flying by flapping his (not particularly large) ears.  If it were a wagging tail, I wouldn't be so sure (remember the robot dog from Battle Of The Planets?), but ears don't tend to noticably flap like that (when the rest of the body isn't in motion/sitting in a car, poking its head out the window).  Of course full Dumbo Ears are far more overscale than these, so maybe the dog has ''some'' floating skills, the ears are merely attitude controls. - (And I can't believe I'm now discussing the precise nature of the airworthiness of a dog.  Thank you Randall!) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.152.227|162.158.152.227]] 09:52, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
: That's definitely a wagging tail. Note that in the fourth panel the dog is facing downwards, and in the last panel it is facing to the left. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.35|173.245.54.35]] 16:47, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
:: My mistake.  At first glance (and, to be honest, second, third and fourth glances, at least) the 'crossed' rear legs looked like a cartoony dog-face, the tail 'flapping ears', the string was tied around the dog's 'waist' and I didn't really look much further (or realise that the dog's head in the next frame was different and more 'realistic', and looked surprisingly like the first dog's (apparent) rear end...) Not helped by there being two 'Arf's at the top-left, making that look like the noisy end of the dog.  NVM... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.152.227|162.158.152.227]] 23:12, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

there is "it's" abuse here. para 3: "it's mouth." and para 4: "it's title." --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.233|141.101.106.233]] 12:56, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

At first I read "kitties" instead of "kites", maybe because I'm not a native speaker and the first word is more familiar to me. So... I was not really surprised to see a dog, here. [[User:Seipas|Seipas]] ([[User talk:Seipas|talk]]) 13:42, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

My original interpretation of the title text was that the "string" in the dog's mouth was the line connecting the dialog to the characters, e.g. the two lines connecting Megan and Beret Guy's dialog to their characters in the second panel.  So the voice drifting down from the sky was literally the words "Kites are fun!" being pulled (perhaps uttered?) by the dog. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.8|108.162.216.8]] 14:37, 9 December 2015 (UTC)Pat

Is there any direct implication that these objects ("kite" and the dog) are really in the sky? Maybe it was draw like this to trick the readers but instead it is a forced 2D perspective and the dog is just fighting with the Beret Guy? I guess we can also assume that while Beret Guy says "I'll go get mine, once I finish walking my dog!" he actually means it (walking - not flying/floating).
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.102.220|162.158.102.220]] 01:15, 10 December 2015 (UTC)Tom3k007

''"That is until the dog comes back with Beret Guy as a kite..."''
But it's not clear that the dog did come back with Beret Guy. The dog might have been chasing him. The title text does not say the dog has the ''bottom'' end of a string (ie, the kite string) in its mouth. Anyway, I don't understand the comic. I don't know what the dog is doing. [[Special:Contributions/198.41.238.32|198.41.238.32]] 06:24, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

The title text can implies that the dog come back on the floor with the lowest bit of the string in the mouth and Beret Guy is floating in the air as a Kite (or hooking on the kite) with the other end of the string (reverse position). --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.152.119|162.158.152.119]] 09:15, 10 December 2015 (UTC)Rayen

The title text appears to contain a somewhat cryptic reference to a very odd song from 1967, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kites_Are_Fun: Kites Are Fun], by the one-hit-wonder group Free Design. [[User:Acelightning|Acelightning]] ([[User talk:Acelightning|talk]]) 09:47, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

I was surprised to see Randall's idea actually used in the ''Peanuts'' [http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1965/06/06: comic of June 6, 1965].  The little dog resembles Snoopy, also. {{unsigned ip|173.245.54.10}}
:GoComics link broke, here's a link to the ''Peanuts'' wiki.[https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/June_1965_comic_strips?file=19650606.jpg] [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 04:30, 19 January 2022 (UTC)