Comments on: Nocturnal Ideas

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 17:21:28 +0000

You may like this, which is like your experience:

A certain lady dreamed one night that she had written a poem so beautiful, so wise, so close to the ultimate truth of life that she was immediately acclaimed by all the peoples on the earth as the greatest poet and philosopher of all the ages. All the world’s problems would be solved.

Still half asleep as the dream ended, she stumbled out of bed and scribbled the poem down, realizing that she must take no risk of forgetting such deathless lines. She awoke in the morning with the feeling that something wonderful was about to happen—oh, yes! Her poem.

She clutched the precious paper and, tense with excitement, read the words she had written. Here they are:

Hogamus Higamus
Men are Polygamous
Higamus Hogamus
Women Monogamous

This goes back to at least 1939 (!) and received national U.S. recognition when reprinted in the Reader’s Digest in 1940.

I love your work, and am so happy you take the trouble to translate some into
English. Your English is MUCH better than my French. I find the occasional little English translation mistakes you make to be charming; they add something back of the feel of the original French. Never feel bad if someone corrects your English–we would only do it because we LOVE YOU!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:13:19 +0000

Amazing! this is exactly what happens to me on a regular bases. I laughed and woke up my son, thanks? great work.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:59:22 +0000

This is what happend to me when someone suggested I’d keep pen and paper on my nightstand. These great ideas I wrote down turned out to be far less great in de morning, not to mention moronic.

By: Valerian

Valerian — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 13:44:58 +0000

@Michel: I’m not a musician, but it already happened to me a few times, usually when I spent the day working while listening to classical music. Those are the times when I wish I had a brain recording device

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:16:32 +0000

He’s still posting on his twitter account, so he’s fine people.

Btw, love your comic Boulet, been going through all of them (currently at 2008).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:23:43 +0000

Are you ok?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 19:48:37 +0000

Please tell us that you are safe and nothing happened to you!

By: Reg

Reg — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 01:06:43 +0000

I had much the same experience at the dentist, under nitrous oxide. An entire parade of stunningly deep, brilliant, philosophical thoughts, that had me rapturously thinking “I MUST REMEMBER THIS!!”

I definitely remember thinking “I MUST REMEMBER THIS!!” Remember what? Not a clue, terribly sorry….

I love your strip, and share your exasperation with the caprice of brains.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:29:17 +0000

Reminds me of the joke with “The faboulous freak brothers” when Phineas tries to draw a comic, and is interrupted by Fat Freddy – thereby forgetting the sketch of the century!!

By: John M

John M — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 15:36:03 +0000

So funny! I wonder if you meant “Relative to the size of its brain …” which is how I read it. This was always a laugh to me when I was a kid, because I was told that Tyrannosaurus Rex had a brain the size of a pea, so other dinosaurs always outsmarted him.

Regardless, as always, thank you for posting, your comics make me so happy.