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Jeremy Nguyen\u2019s cartoon is set in what appears to be a dorm room where the bed is set high off the ground on top of a climbing wall. Two young men are in the room looking at the bed, and the man wearing the sweatshirt is speaking. Jeremy\u2019s original caption was, \u201c<\/span>Most of my dates are turned off having to climb a lofted bed<\/span><\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Like Jeremy, a couple of you suggested that the bed poses an obstacle to dating.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n One of you, however, suggested that it can actually promote a healthy sex life:\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cWomen can\u2019t resist a challenge.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n Like that last caption, the following entries all take an ordinary statement and give it a new and fitting meaning within the context of the drawing:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n This entry suggests that the bed is part of a \u201creverse-psychology\u201d strategy to get women into bed: <\/span>\u201cThis is where I play hard-to-get.\u201d<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s a sex joke that doubles as one of this month\u2019s two best puns: <\/span>\u201cMy wife has difficulty summiting.\u201d<\/b> The other is, <\/span>\u201cI\u2019m between a rock and a soft place.\u201d<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A couple of you noted that climbing into this bed would not be worth the trouble:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n The following three entries cleverly combine references to sleeping and the fact that rock-climbing is a strenuous physical activity:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n There were a lot of jokes about men who have to get up in the middle of the night to pee, and while Bob and I are old enough to be offended by such jokes, we have to admit that these were not bad:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n At CartoonStock we appreciate a good sick joke, so we were delighted to see, <\/span>\u201cSince losing both hands in the climbing accident, it\u2019s hard to get to sleep.\u201d <\/b>We especially liked that caption\u2019s focus on a seemingly insignificant detail: the fact that we can\u2019t see the hands of the man who\u2019s speaking. Though we all assumed his hands were in the kangaroo pocket of his sweatshirt\u2014I\u2019m sure that was Jermey\u2019s intent\u2014the caption suggests a much darker and more twisted possibility, which (importantly) also manages to incorporate every important frame of reference.<\/span><\/p>\n These entries suggest that the room is not, as I had initially assumed, part of a dorm:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Here is the week\u2019s best \u201coblivious speaker\u201d entry, which, unlike all the other captions, suggests that the bed belongs to the man with dark hair: <\/span>\u201cWhat do you need help moving?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n These captions note that there are different routes up a climbing wall:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n
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