Tentatively marked CIDU, but more in the sense of “I don’t know if that’s funny”.
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So…he’s cheated twice, with alliterative women at opposite ends of the alphabet? Yeah, not sure it’s funny either–it’s a long way to go for a minor chuckle.
I got the impression that the list of his affairs was a long one, those are just the names at the beginning and the end.
Hmm, I don’t think it was just twice. He has a list and is prepared to go all the way thru it, but is previewing that it goes from A to Z. And on that reading, the “Say when” means “Say when you’re ready for me to begin,” which deserves, and gets, the no-response.
[Edited to add] … Just as waltmorris points out at #2. (Which was stuck in spam but now pulled out.)
Mitch4: In that case, we’re back to total CIDU for me. I thought the joke was that he said “The following is the list” and then the two WERE the list, hence the other person waiting with “I haven’t got all day”?!
Well, I see how it could be as in your reading. But then what do you make of the “Say when”? (I think from the drawing that “I haven’t got all day” has to be coming from the original, visible character.)
Oh. Maybe ALL the dialog is from the original, visible character, and the joke is that the victim doesn’t want to hear it, doesn’t say “go” (or “when”), and the cheater is being unreasonable by getting irritated?
There ya go! Phil’s summary (ALL the dialog is from the original, visible character) would make it all work. Though still more mean than funny…
Hmm.
Perhaps it is a variation if this one?
A priest is in the confessional and someone comes in the other side. ”Father, I just picked up twins at a bar, and had sex with them both. Afterward, they called another friend and said that they should come over because they had so much fun they wanted to do it again, and then I had sex with all three of them.”
The priest says, “Yes, that is a serious sin of lust; say three full rosaries and an act of contrition.”
The man says, “No, I’m not Catholic – I’m Jewish.”
Priest says, “Okay, then why did you come in here to tell me this?”
“Father, you kidding? I’m telling everybody.”
Maybe the alien is boasting?
I’ve known “say when” to mean to ask when to stop pouring a beverage.
This then was a setup for a gag in the movie “History Of The World Part I”. Someone was pouring a drink and uttered the phrase “Say when”. The response was “Eight Thirty”.
I read the comic to mean the character starts with a short list of his affairs, and asks her to let him know when to stop. Apparently his list is fairly long if he doesn’t have all day to go through it all.
In fairness to the author (and especially with all due regard for his hand-lettered dialog), I decided that I should give UFO a fair tryout. Unfortunately, reviewing about a month of strips confirmed that the “distinctive” CaMeLcApS script is simply too irritating for me to read on a constant basis.
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So…he’s cheated twice, with alliterative women at opposite ends of the alphabet? Yeah, not sure it’s funny either–it’s a long way to go for a minor chuckle.
I got the impression that the list of his affairs was a long one, those are just the names at the beginning and the end.
Hmm, I don’t think it was just twice. He has a list and is prepared to go all the way thru it, but is previewing that it goes from A to Z. And on that reading, the “Say when” means “Say when you’re ready for me to begin,” which deserves, and gets, the no-response.
[Edited to add] … Just as waltmorris points out at #2. (Which was stuck in spam but now pulled out.)
Mitch4: In that case, we’re back to total CIDU for me. I thought the joke was that he said “The following is the list” and then the two WERE the list, hence the other person waiting with “I haven’t got all day”?!
Well, I see how it could be as in your reading. But then what do you make of the “Say when”? (I think from the drawing that “I haven’t got all day” has to be coming from the original, visible character.)
Oh. Maybe ALL the dialog is from the original, visible character, and the joke is that the victim doesn’t want to hear it, doesn’t say “go” (or “when”), and the cheater is being unreasonable by getting irritated?
There ya go! Phil’s summary (ALL the dialog is from the original, visible character) would make it all work. Though still more mean than funny…
Hmm.
Perhaps it is a variation if this one?
Maybe the alien is boasting?
I’ve known “say when” to mean to ask when to stop pouring a beverage.
This then was a setup for a gag in the movie “History Of The World Part I”. Someone was pouring a drink and uttered the phrase “Say when”. The response was “Eight Thirty”.
I read the comic to mean the character starts with a short list of his affairs, and asks her to let him know when to stop. Apparently his list is fairly long if he doesn’t have all day to go through it all.
In fairness to the author (and especially with all due regard for his hand-lettered dialog), I decided that I should give UFO a fair tryout. Unfortunately, reviewing about a month of strips confirmed that the “distinctive” CaMeLcApS script is simply too irritating for me to read on a constant basis.
The title is true, I really did forward the cartoon to Arnold, and he discusses it at https://arnoldzwicky.org/2024/02/13/infidelity-day-on-the-planet-ufo/