Yes, today is Jesus and Mo Day, featuring the strip that got these posts banned in Pakistan and still accounts for some of my tweets being labeled “sensitive material” by Twitter.
Today’s strip, called “quote”, came with the email note, “If a joke’s worth telling, it’s worth telling twice!” The point, of course, is that Jesus himself is using an out-of-context quote. 
Idea for a new poll:
Which J&M setup do WEIT readers prefer?
1. In bed together (shirtless)
2. The Cock & Bull (with barmaid dialogue)
3. Open-mic night
4. Park bench/sofa
Cock & Bull. The Barmaid is my favourite character.
Still the best pub in all of comic-land when a bloke fancies a pint.
Me too. But I am concerned to note that J&M are not practising social distancing. Maybe they count as a family bubble.
Well they’re all descended from the same amoeba. As are you and I.
Fun one.
Twice-Told Tales worked as a re-packaging of Mr. N. Hawthorne’s previously published greatest hits, so there’s no reason author shouldn’t get in on the action.
Some cartoonist – I forget who – once drew one of the characters (a student’s parent) literally grabbing the speech balloon on the page, as it comes out of the other character’s (teacher’s) mouth. They then tear out the bit of paper containing the words they wanted to hear, and carry it off.
That got it just perfectly. Sadly, my google-fu is not adequate to find it.
I think I remember something like this, too…
My Google skills are also inadequate: https://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-vector-a-vector-illustration-of-sad-cartoon-boy-holding-up-an-f-grade-on-his-report-card-127369364.jpg
The quote-mining reminds me of posters I used to see advertising plays on in London’s West end. They always included brief mined quotes, such as “Hilarious”, “A tour de force”, “You must see it”, etc. I used to imagine damning, contemptuous reviews that included these quotes.
Yup, Private Eye used to keep expose that kind of cherry picking of reviews for use in publicity posters and book jackets.
Like when the movie ‘Sex lives of the Potato Men’, generally panned for being awful instead of funny, was described on its DVD cover as a ‘controversial’ comedy.