Noodling is a gross fishing technique.
Noodling, noodle can, canoeing, canoodling?
Reminds me of Lewis Caroll.
Canoodling is another term for “making out”. In this case, it’s a guy slurping noodles in a canoe.
Thanks, I’d never encountered that word before. Probably has an interesting origin.
Now, this is a lol, as well.
So, you CAN have your kayak, and eat out too?
Nice — we have the canoe, and the noodles, just not the canoodling itself!
Hey, the squirrel didn’t have anything to add?
Here are some suggestions for that f*&$#* squirrel:
It’s nice to get away from the ziti!
Maybe I’ll go fishing in an hour orzo!
Up a creek without a pasta-le!
Mac and trees!
Lake-sagna!
I forgot to acknowledge that my feeble “kayak” pun above was swiped/modified from the classical version created by the late Frank Muir on MY WORD. Belated credit (or, possibly, blame, depending on how one feels about puns) where it is due:
The French saying is about butter and the money for butter: ‘vouloir le beurre et l’argent du beurre’.
Also there is an expression “noodling around” or “just noodling”, I think most commonly in a musical context — but applied to writing as well, as a theme in the brilliant shaped-typing novel “Double or Nothing” by Raymond Federman, which I discussed at some length in CIDU comments recently.
Lexico.com [my now favorite online dictionary resource — partnership of Oxford and … Dictionary.com??] has the musical sense for ‘noodling’ —
Definition of noodling in English:
noodling
Pronunciation /ˈno͞od(ə)liNG/ /ˈnud(ə)lɪŋ/
NOUN
informal The action of improvising or playing casually on a musical instrument.
More example sentences
‘ambient synthesizer noodling’
Mitch,
Thanks for lexico.com. I just added it to my list of search engines.
According to various online sources, canoodle can have American, German, Scandinavian or English roots. It’s often listed as “obscure” in origin.
I recall hearing the term originating with a local park along the Charles River in the Boston area where one could rent a canoe and “canoodle” with your sweetheart. Later on I discovered that to be a folk etymology.
Kudos to Shrug, even if you did borrow it.
Chak, wait, how can you love the comic if you don’t get the title? If you don’t get the Oy, isn’t it just a boring drawing of a guy eating pasta in a canoe?
Oops, I left that comment on the wrong comic.
Sometimes I really miss my brain.
I remembered where I first heard the term ‘caniodling’: on a BBC show called ‘As Time Goes By’.
*canoodling* I can spell, I just can’t see what I typed.
Speaking of that book about noodling around (Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman), I ran across posts by a fan on twitter.
Comics I Don't Understand 
Love the comic, don’t get the title.
Noodling is a gross fishing technique.
Noodling, noodle can, canoeing, canoodling?
Reminds me of Lewis Caroll.
Canoodling is another term for “making out”. In this case, it’s a guy slurping noodles in a canoe.
Thanks, I’d never encountered that word before. Probably has an interesting origin.
Now, this is a lol, as well.
So, you CAN have your kayak, and eat out too?
Nice — we have the canoe, and the noodles, just not the canoodling itself!
Hey, the squirrel didn’t have anything to add?
Here are some suggestions for that f*&$#* squirrel:
It’s nice to get away from the ziti!
Maybe I’ll go fishing in an hour orzo!
Up a creek without a pasta-le!
Mac and trees!
Lake-sagna!
I forgot to acknowledge that my feeble “kayak” pun above was swiped/modified from the classical version created by the late Frank Muir on MY WORD. Belated credit (or, possibly, blame, depending on how one feels about puns) where it is due:
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/you-cant-have-your-cake-and-eat-it.html
The French saying is about butter and the money for butter: ‘vouloir le beurre et l’argent du beurre’.
Also there is an expression “noodling around” or “just noodling”, I think most commonly in a musical context — but applied to writing as well, as a theme in the brilliant shaped-typing novel “Double or Nothing” by Raymond Federman, which I discussed at some length in CIDU comments recently.
Lexico.com [my now favorite online dictionary resource — partnership of Oxford and … Dictionary.com??] has the musical sense for ‘noodling’ —
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/noodling
Definition of noodling in English:
noodling
Pronunciation /ˈno͞od(ə)liNG/ /ˈnud(ə)lɪŋ/
NOUN
informal
The action of improvising or playing casually on a musical instrument.
More example sentences
‘ambient synthesizer noodling’
Mitch,
Thanks for lexico.com. I just added it to my list of search engines.
According to various online sources, canoodle can have American, German, Scandinavian or English roots. It’s often listed as “obscure” in origin.
I recall hearing the term originating with a local park along the Charles River in the Boston area where one could rent a canoe and “canoodle” with your sweetheart. Later on I discovered that to be a folk etymology.
Kudos to Shrug, even if you did borrow it.
Chak, wait, how can you love the comic if you don’t get the title? If you don’t get the Oy, isn’t it just a boring drawing of a guy eating pasta in a canoe?
Oops, I left that comment on the wrong comic.
Sometimes I really miss my brain.
I remembered where I first heard the term ‘caniodling’: on a BBC show called ‘As Time Goes By’.
*canoodling* I can spell, I just can’t see what I typed.
Speaking of that book about noodling around (Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman), I ran across posts by a fan on twitter.