Month / September 2023

by EditorM

Here’s a chance

Tom the Dancing Bug 1654 sfpc163 literary history

CIDU: Here’s a chance for some early-riser readers to explain for others the allusions to a certain (probably false!) famous Hemingway anecdote.

LOL: But also, all can just enjoy these (somewhat sour!) joke mini-strips.

by EditorM

The ghost of club books unread

This Crankshaft is from Usual John:

And he asks “Who is the creepy-looking old lady to the right? She just continues to stand wordlessly in the background over the next few days, as the book club fails to read Ulysses.”

As an incidental artistic problem, I wonder what the artist had in mind (or had as a model) in drawing the book and its cover. I can’t match it to any edition of Ulysses I can find discussed online. And that man pictured can’t plausibly be identified as Joyce, nor as either of the leading male characters, Bloom and Stephen.

by zbicyclist

Point Me In the Right Direction

Guero sends this one in. “Brad Guigar publishes the (possibly NSFW) web comic Evil-Inc and occasionally pauses the story, posting one panel comics as filler.  This is the current comic, and although I am pretty sure it has to do with some icon on some social media, I have no idea what any of it means.  I’m sure one of the CIDUers can help. “

For someone, this will be an easy one to explain. Enlighten us!

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, September 24th, 2023

A sad-LOL.

This might be a Semi-CIDU, as there is the question of whether this is how the cowboy bathes (and gets the horse to manage the timing and coins), or it’s at the horse’s volition as it wants its gear and rider to be clean.

The “when I look” and “someone will sneak” look like ordinary indicatives, with something like habitual aspect. But surely this doesn’t happen a lot! If we take into account the strip title, that makes this binocular-knocking one of those fears — we just have to understand a “One of my fears is that when ..” at the start and it all comes together.

And here’s our Macabre-LOL for the week:

Background: https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-question-mark-galaxy-photo

by multipleciduers

Saturday Morning OYs – September 23rd, 2023

Diacritical impatience?

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Yes, just as you suppose, this did appear on Talk Like A Pirate Day.

And more off the mark…

And a date-topical OY:

by EditorM

Delicious, really?

Thanks to Darren, who says ‘Okay, I get the apple/forbidden fruit appearing in a grocery store. But is the spelling on the sign significant or a typo? Something to do with “eden” somehow?’.

Yes, trying for a full anagram is tempting!

(Note however that artist Eric Scott has a comment on GoComics suggesting it is just typo. But could he be still joking at another level?)