Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ optimism

October 30, 2024 • 10:30 am

The latest Jesus and Mo strip, called “uncool,” came with this sentence:

I don’t think anybody’s going to like this one.

I like it, because it reminds me of the old Jewish joke, one I’m sure I told before:

Jewish pessimist: “Oy! Things can’t get any worse!”
Jewish optimist:   “Sure they can!”

Jesus and Mo wind up being Jewish optimists.

8 thoughts on “Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ optimism”

  1. MOCA! Make Optimism Cool Again! The fourth frame appears to have a passenger airliner off in the distance. Hopefully the crew on board can be optimistic enough for the duration of the flight.

    1. I assume it’s there as irony, because people said flight is impossible or not ordained by God so we should remain in the Stone Age…. or something.

  2. Cultural appropriation. 🙂 I think the Jewish joke is better. It’s succinct and has the necessary surprise.

  4. The plane mentioned in the last frame was built on optimistism unlike J & Mo’s… static pessimism.

  5. I forget where I read this but I believe it fits here. Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. We pessimists are worried that the optimists are right.

  6. per Mitzi Gaynor

    When the sky is bright canary yellow
    I forget ev’ry cloud I’ve ever seen
    So they called me a cockeyed optimist
    Immature and incurably green

    I have heard people rant and rave and bellow
    That we’re done and we might as well be dead
    But I’m only a cockeyed optimist
    And I can’t get it into my head

    I hear the human race
    Is fallin’ on its face
    And hasn’t very far to go
    But ev’ry whip-poor-will
    Is sellin’ me a bill
    And tellin’ me it just ain’t so

    I could say life is just a bowl of Jello
    And appear more intelligent and smart
    But I’m stuck like a dope
    With a thing called hope
    And I can’t get it out of my heart
    Not this heart.

    Also, I resolve the glass half-full/ half-empty conumdrum by keeping my eye upon the bottle.

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