Is the ‘oy’ on the name of the truck? I’ve heard of food trucks and taco trucks but I am struggling to come up with anything close to ‘portmanteau truck’.
5 portmanteau words out of 8 in the strip is ok, thanks to the hangry customer’s threepeat.
As kids, we all hated sporks(*), but it was worth suffering through the few years in which they were inflicted upon us by the school cafeteria, just to be able to appreciate the scene in “WALL-E”, in which he can’t decide where to put one.
P.S. (*) – They were too uncomfortable in the mouth for service as a spoon, and utterly useless as a fork.
P.P.S. The author(s) missed a golden opportunity: this one should have been signed “Wayaro” or “Pirayno“.
I wonder the same thing. If the truck name is part of the joke then I don’t get it. Maybe some USA cultural reference that I’m not familiar with.
The only thing I could come up with was a play on “tow truck”.
This one was funnier without the caption. I get it now with Powers’ help – not so much a pun as a weird attempt to make a portmanteau out of the words “portmanteau” and “tow truck” – but it’s not a proper portmanteau (a single word formed by combining two words, eg BReakfast + lUNCH = BRUNCH or CHuckLE + snORT = CHORTLE). It just falls a little flat to me.
I agree that the joke would have been a little better if snack bar had been a trailer, pulled by an authentic “Portmantow-Truck”, but seeing as the title of the business (“Brunch”) and at least three of the items on its menu are actual “portmanteaus”, I think the pun qualifies. Whether anyone likes it is a matter of personal taste.
P.S. On his blog, Wayno mentions the possibility of including “Frappuccino“, but he doesn’t reveal whether this was an accidental or intentional omission. If the latter, it might have been because he was worried that he might have to put a “™” or “®” after the name.
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(The “https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/” does work for the admin back end. That’s where I am posting this from, and working to undo that frustrating redirect, and other solutions.)
Partial solutions or work-arounds you can do, now or later.
Right now, if you have (or choose to obtain) a Word Press account, you can use Word Press Reader mode to read CIDU posts and comments and leave comments.
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1C. This is about Reader Mode of wordpreee.com . It is not about tyhe reader modes that some browsers provide.
Wait for fix to be found, and keep trying regular browser site for “https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/”
We have obtained the domain name “COMICSIDONTUNDERSTAND.NET” and will be working to make it work for the CIDU site. DNS stuff always takes a couple days to propagate, so just stay tuned.
Also you can keep checking “comicsidontunderstand.com”
RSS users, I don’t know if those are still working. Please let us know.
Comics I Don't Understand 
Is the ‘oy’ on the name of the truck? I’ve heard of food trucks and taco trucks but I am struggling to come up with anything close to ‘portmanteau truck’.
5 portmanteau words out of 8 in the strip is ok, thanks to the hangry customer’s threepeat.
As kids, we all hated sporks(*), but it was worth suffering through the few years in which they were inflicted upon us by the school cafeteria, just to be able to appreciate the scene in “WALL-E”, in which he can’t decide where to put one.
P.S. (*) – They were too uncomfortable in the mouth for service as a spoon, and utterly useless as a fork.
P.P.S. The author(s) missed a golden opportunity: this one should have been signed “Wayaro” or “Pirayno“.
I wonder the same thing. If the truck name is part of the joke then I don’t get it. Maybe some USA cultural reference that I’m not familiar with.
The only thing I could come up with was a play on “tow truck”.
This one was funnier without the caption. I get it now with Powers’ help – not so much a pun as a weird attempt to make a portmanteau out of the words “portmanteau” and “tow truck” – but it’s not a proper portmanteau (a single word formed by combining two words, eg BReakfast + lUNCH = BRUNCH or CHuckLE + snORT = CHORTLE). It just falls a little flat to me.
I agree that the joke would have been a little better if snack bar had been a trailer, pulled by an authentic “Portmantow-Truck”, but seeing as the title of the business (“Brunch”) and at least three of the items on its menu are actual “portmanteaus”, I think the pun qualifies. Whether anyone likes it is a matter of personal taste.
P.S. On his blog, Wayno mentions the possibility of including “Frappuccino“, but he doesn’t reveal whether this was an accidental or intentional omission. If the latter, it might have been because he was worried that he might have to put a “™” or “®” after the name.
DNS ISSUES FOR COMICSIDONTUNDERSTAND.COM
I don’t know yet exactly what the problem is, but the address “comicsidontunderstand.com” is no longer working; there seems to be a DNS forwarding issue.
Unfortunately the default free Word Press site name “https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/” also is not working, for purposes of using the plain web browser type web site — because it tries to redirect to “comicsidontunderstand.com”!
(The “https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/” does work for the admin back end. That’s where I am posting this from, and working to undo that frustrating redirect, and other solutions.)
Partial solutions or work-arounds you can do, now or later.
1A. Go to https://wordpress.com, sign in with your WP account, and click on Reader. OR go directly to https://wordpress.com/read .
1B. Look for “Followed Sites” and a red MANAGE button. Add godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com to sites you follow.
1C. This is about Reader Mode of wordpreee.com . It is not about tyhe reader modes that some browsers provide.
Wait for fix to be found, and keep trying regular browser site for “https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/”
We have obtained the domain name “COMICSIDONTUNDERSTAND.NET” and will be working to make it work for the CIDU site. DNS stuff always takes a couple days to propagate, so just stay tuned.
Also you can keep checking “comicsidontunderstand.com”
RSS users, I don’t know if those are still working. Please let us know.
Apologies for this problem!
yours,
==mitch
2022-02-06 Noon Central
Please use https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/
The original URL https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/ should be working again.
I’ll let you know when comicsidontunderstand.com and/or comicsidontunderstand.net seem to be working better.
Thanks for your patience.
Cheers,
==mitch
BTW there was a regular post overnight!
At https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/2022/02/06/sunday-funnies-lols-february-6th-2022/