Usual John sends this in: “It looks like Goomer has been used only once on CIDU, so it may be unfamiliar to some readers. Goomer is an earthling astronaut who got stranded on an alien planet. The planet seems to resemble mid-century New York City, except that exotic alien life forms fill many roles that on earth are filled by machines or inanimate objects. Goomer recently got married, but does not seem too devoted to his bride. I have not yet seen any indication that he has been unfaithful, though.”
Some earlier Goomer comics, to explain more about his domestic life:
Darren sends this in: “Just don’t get it. Are those giant alligators and it’s a Godzilla sort of reference (but the bricks look normal). Or are they regular alligators and the balloons have some sort of tiny people in them? I feel like it’s supposed to be a “reverse”, but I’m not aware of toy balloons with alligators being common.”
“The modern Macedonian alphabet consists of 31 letters, including 5 vowels (А, Е, И, О, У) and 26 consonants, with six letters unique to Macedonian: Ѓ (gj), Ѕ (dz), Ј (j), Љ (lj), Њ (nj), and Ќ (kj). It was officially codified in 1945 by a commission in Yugoslav Macedonia….Spoken as a first language by around 1.7 million people, it serves as the official language of North Macedonia.[” (Wikipedia)
Six unique letters in a written language that’s the primary language of only 1.7 million people. In the age of computers, that’s a fairly easily solvable problem by designing a font. One wonders, though, how this worked back in the typewriter era. I get the implication that perhaps they used a Cyrillic typewriter with combinations of letters, such as the Cyrillic version of kj for Ќ.
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Speaking of Great Blue Herons, there’s a rookery near me. You can see the nests high up in the trees — about as high up as they could put them, considering the males are about 5 lb and the females about 3 lb, plus the weight of the nest and the eggs / hatchlings. The rookery is persistent — it’s been in the same location at least 5 years now. The arrival of the young roughly coincides with the trees getting covered with leaves, so the nests can’t easily be seen.
This is a couple meeting with a financial advisor, and they’ve just described their expectations for their investments. But why the guy with the laptop on the right?
This is a divorcing couple meeting with a mediator, or the woman in pink is getting divorced, the guy in the suit is her lawyer, the woman in red is the opposing lawyer, and the man with the laptop is taking notes.
Commenters on GoComics seem to think this is an annual performance review. But the only performance reviews I ever gave or had that involved more than just supervisor and employee were when we needed HR in the room and security nearby because we were firing someone and they needed to leave immediately. And that wouldn’t involve expectations.
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