
Ian C sends this in: “This is probably obvious with the correct cultural context but I have no idea what it is named.

Ian C sends this in: “This is probably obvious with the correct cultural context but I have no idea what it is named.


Ron sends this in:


Dirk the Daring wonders about this one: “This makes no sense. If he is paid by the hour he’d take his time and dawdle. Maybe I’m missing something, it seems back-assward to me.”

Kedamono sends this in as an “Ewww”: “I mean, YouTube videos on potty training? Yikes! Also, isn’t he a bit too young to have his own phone?”

This one may be a Momentary CIDU:


Mitch4 sends this in:

Mitch4 sends this in:


Andrew Miller sends this in: “This sounds like a reference to some phrase. ‘Friends with benefits’ is the only similar thing I can think of and would be a stretch at best. Also not sure why one dog has opposable thumbs and a smartphone. Is the joke just “fleas are contagious?” That would be less of a joke and more of a useful tip for a child that just discovered them.
Since I have space in the comment box and it’s come to mind, I’ll recite De Morgan’s Siphonaptera:
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.”

Uncle $crooge sends this in: “It’s probably some kind of weird McEldowney fetish so I probably will regret sending this in and learning something that I really don’t want to know. Still, maybe it’s just a harmless joke; I just have no idea what this strip is about.”
I don’t really understand it, either, but I’m giving it an Arlo tag just because it’s McEldowney. The ones before and after this one are also themed The Thorax Clinic, but have a different patient.

From CCM:

CCM writes:
Not sure why he stops at saying “I’m sad to report” and why there is a 20-second wait.
Boise Ed asks the musical question: “Is there some romantic attachment to a CM7 chord? And how does he make a chord with one string, anyhow?”

Happy Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer!





Most schools no longer start the day after Labor Day. Something that used to be true, but isn’t any longer:


Mitch4 sends this in: “Well, the caption “Goldilocks and the Three Musketeers” is explicitly given. But not printed out for us, left for us to figure out, is that their hair fits her established pattern of “Too much, too little, just right”.”





The Trolley Problem continues to give humor:

“Luckily, the A.I. trolley will decide who to kill all on its own.”

Boise Ed notes: “Okay, so the deer isn’t going to be doing the driving, but it still made me laugh.”