Stan explains “I’m not sure what’s going on here. Is the dog unhappy because the bird he’s just caught has ‘wren breath’ and therefore tastes bad? Or is the dog upset because he’s got wren breath after eating the wren? If either of these were going to be an issue, why did he eat it in the first place? What did he think would happen after eating a wren?”
A nice Synchro-LOL from Andréa. (Or almost-synchro technically.)
Thanks to Ken for this LOL/CIDU!
ICYDK, Mona and Pierre are sister and brother.
The first panel has a joke that I had no trouble getting. But why does it go on? And does she slap him, or say “Ssslap!”, or both?
They never stop coming up with new punch lines for this!
A case of literalizing an idiom, but a nice instance of it.
After inserting this one here, I later found it discussed on Arnold Zwicky’s Blog, in his usual exemplary detail and scholarship.
Oh, he got us! It turned out not to be an oy about “Youth In Asia”!
Here’s an Ewww-Oy for sure:
Or maybe it’s NOT supposed to be about identifying particular single plays, and is just showing “ingredients” that come into play. That would ease the apparent problems of non-uniqueness. But mayhap we can make some mappings anyway.
Best guess: It’s the only way he can find undisturbed time to read his book.
Other guesses: He just hates being disrobed. He just hates taking baths or getting wet. He loves reading in the bath, but won’t risk getting the book soaked.
A bit too cyclic for me to figure out. “I Answer to General Ouroboros” is the cartoonist’s title for this episode.
Comics I Don't Understand 