Cook v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

W. KEITH WATKINS, Chief Judge.

The setting of one of Gary Larson’s The Far Side comics is a vast expanse of ice, presumably in Antarctica, where a prone penguin looks upon the cause of its proneness: a very, very unfortunately placed banana peel. Unlike most banana peel comics and cartoons, the hilarity of Mr. Larson’s sketch is not in the slapstick acrobatics of the slip or the often-accompanying high-pitched sound effect. Rather, Mr. Larson’s humor is directed at the ab surdity of the situation. How did-a banana peel find its way to Antarctica? How on earth…