Terry, I hate to say it again, but I just don't see what the humour is...
However, your stuff is well-written, as always
Every picture should hopefully tell a story. Page 2
Quote: bigfella @ July 16 2011, 5:36 PM BSTTeddy, this your best sketch by a country mile.
Easily see this on a TV show.
Could you explain it to me??
Got to say I take each sketch put up on critique on its own merits whoever its by, humour is very individual, as we're seeing here for example...thats my twopennyworth anyway.
Badge I have changed my approach to extremely nasty comments I really have.
But I still can not see how you can muster such venom over a tiny post?
The choice to avoid my posts is yours to make, I just wish you did it without ending on such a sour note.
Perhaps it would be wise to do so, but given the level of acid in the last post you issued I have to assume you're dying to add something else but can't because of your previous vow never to view my work again.
the only up shot is I can relax and return to my calm responses to critique based on content and avoid trouble.
Sorry Teddy but I just don't see what the joke, is here? Can someone who did, let me in on it?
Thanks.
First of all I though Teddy was being sarcastic and getting back at the comments from his other sketches, but when I read it again I thought the sketch was about was a mild silly exchange at the shop..the stuff being for his mother being the joke. Actually the price check at the end probably was sarcasm...I pray for guidance... 
Quote: Shandonbelle @ July 16 2011, 6:33 PM BSTActually the price check at the end probably was sarcasm...I pray for guidance...
yeah, I assumed that also. I am starting to think teddy may be a post-modernist of some sort, putting up unfunny sketches and framing the thread responses as the comedy.
Feel free to search out my stuff on here, Teddy. There's plenty of stuff in Critique's past - some good, some bad.
I apologise for the 701 jibe. I was being deliberately silly there. I don't think I've been particularly petty elsewhere. You've posted a lot today and I always try to give critique where I can, so don't think I'm picking on you.
I don't I just think some of the response you issue come across as snipes to me, its a matter of perception .
If I'm wrong I'm wrong but not to worry everyone makes mistakes that's why the put rubbers on the end of pencils.
In relation to the actual post:
Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother, famous under its colloquial name Whistler's Mother, is an 1871 oil-on-canvas painting by American-born painter James McNeill Whistler. The painting is 56.81 by 63.94 inches (144.3 × 162.4 cm), displayed in a frame of Whistler's own design, and is now owned by the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. It occasionally tours worldwide. Although an icon of American art, it rarely appears in the United States.
Are the gin, flake and magazine in her pocket?
Ooh, my fav Mr Bean film.
For me the genius of that painting is the painting of the paintings.
Steady on Big Fella, you already look a bit like Morrissey I think you need to rein it in and stay away from the dark side, or you'll end up in Bistro's eating 26 quid salads,whilst calling Pollock gauche to a woman with cat ears on her head and a Pimms in her hand.
In fairness I admire the pure technique of the paintings within, but see them as a superb example of depth of social commentary he has managed to evoke in the overall concept, whilst still encasing the privacy of the subject and its underlying issues.
Don't see anything funny in the sketch even with the added information. Don't they say if you have to explain your jokes they're not worth making? Sorry.
No need to apologise in the least, I don't expect everyone to get everything, that would be boring.