And that explains the smell of gas around here …
Chemgal sent this in, and classifies it as an Oy, but avers that she did LOL at it too.
And a final item from Andréa:
Whenever confronted with people who like to insist that JFK’s Ich bin ein Berliner meant that he was calling himself a pastry, I like to think of alternate stories where a President needs to reinforce our commitment to Denmark.
And if the answer is “leash”, how ironic that the comic strip is “Free Range”.
B&C have been going in for geezer / boomer / retro references a bit lately.
The sender of the Spy v Spy one remarks Prohias stopped drawing “Spy vs. Spy” in 1987, and died in 1998. § Wikipedia claims that the series is still “ongoing”, but I still wonder whether the character in the fourth panel would be recognized by anyone under the age of 50.
Meanwhile, back at the Zippy, more geezer callout action:
William Bendix was among the actors I came to know of from 1950s or early 60s television sitcoms or sometimes drama series ; and found out later had been minor or major movie stars in the 1940s or early 50s. Fred MacMurray, Donna Reed, Raymond Burr…
And from Brian in STL we have a synchronicity of Bill the Cat references:
Chak says “I know this is supposed to be a pun, but I’m hoping some of our Aussie readers will tell me what it is. ” I agree it has to be a pun — in fact the artist’s home blog gives the title “Ram home the pun” — and I’m no more able to say just what it is.
Thanks to our dog-fancier Andréa for this!
Besides the synchronicity, I’d say the Man Overboard is a bit of a CIDU in itself.
P.S. With all the tech and tech-adjacent people we have here, has anyone worked in an environment where Kerberos was the security/authentication system? Did it ever work right? Including wide-area single-sign-in?
Thanks to Andréa, who called it a “CIDU that I’m too lazy to look up.”
I gave in and looked it up! Alicia Keys had a song “Girl on Fire”. And the lookup also finds a few parodies, under titles like “This girl is on Pfizer,” that predate this cartoon. Indeed it seems to be a fast-moving meme, with hashtags on Twitter and TikTok.
The list of manufacturers sounds like the choices for Covid vaccine, though I guess they would be similar for Flu. The song parody with available lyrics certainly made it Covid, and it’s tempting to suppose that was Hilburn’s idea at first which then got softened, as it were. (The actual song dates from 2012)
A real puzzler from Dale Eltoft:
Good job holding off the reveal!
A DSOH puzzler from zbicyclist:
Thanks to Andréa for this subtle groaner:
Sources say that either the exclamation “Great Scott” is not attached to any particular person with that name; or else may be associated with Sir Walter Scott, or with U.S. General Winfield Scott. But here, with the talk of Antarctica and the South Pole, surely they intend some kind of glance at famous and unfortunate polar explorer Robert F Scott?
And another from Andréa, who calls this “Barely an oy”. Also fodder for you dialectologists out there.
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