And a less-vintage Bizarro
Thanks to Darren for sending this Andertoons:
We’re all still chuckling over the Sturm und Drang inboxes; but Darren also raises a question whether there is some sort of art trickery going on — like a different face showing up if you invert the picture. Well, it doesn’t seem to be exactly that; but maybe something similar?
This remains a semi-CIDU, as most of the allusions are obscure to an outsider; yet the jokes are clear enough once the basic point is caught that this depends on something about the ninja turtles.
Finally!
Yes, finally we get the correct form of this joke! (Compare the Eyebeam discussed at https://cidu.info/2023/09/10/sunday-funnies-lols-september-10th-2023 )
Some months ago CIDU was asked to remove all the Far Side comics from our site, and we did so.
It’s their intellectual property, and they are within their rights. Certainly there are many social media sites trying to attract attention with Far Side cartoons, and it must be like Whack-A-Mole to reign those in. Still, they are missed, and Dave Whamond’s comic here is a reminder to check out the legit site for old and new work from Larson: https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff
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Comics I Don't Understand 
I experienced a spate of three or four Facebook group “suggestions” in the space of that many days, for groups with names built around “The Far Side”. Some featured actual comics from that source, some tried to make it clear they genuinely wanted funny comic panels but just “in the spirit of” “The Far Side”, and others with a sprinkling of comics and a lot of spam. Ah well.
Is the Reply All lady going to chug the teapot from its neck? Who holds a teapot that way? Wouldn’t you burn yourself?
Yes, that’s what my brain does.
Regarding the Wondermark comic, I believe the origin of the word geek comes from the circus as a person in a sideshow act that, among other things, bit the head off animals, usually chickens.
Rob is correct. I think I learned that fact from Harry Anderson, perhaps on SNL?
I suppose “giddyup” means “get ye up” or something like that.
One day it suddenly occured to me that “mush”, applied to sled dogs, was just the French word “marche”, which can mean more than just “walk”, as in the phrase “ça ne marche pas.” Because as we know from TV cartoons, all sled dog mushers are French Canadian and named Pierre.
I learned about those old-time geeks from Nightmare Alley (the 2021 remake):
“Stan Carlisle hides a corpse under the floorboards of a run-down house before setting the house ablaze. That evening he walks into a traveling carnival and watches a geek show in which a deranged man eats a live chicken.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_Alley_(2021_film)#Plot
You hand in your ticket and you go watch the geek
Who immediately walks up to you when he hears you speak
And says, “How does it feel to be such a freak?”
And you say, “Impossible!” as he hands you a bone
And something is happening here but you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mr. Jones?
The manner in which Far Works chose to take action against about a dozen isolated images at CIDU is beneath contempt, especially seeing that they have done absolutely nothing against the hundreds (if not thousands) of equally questionable Far Side images at Pinterest. The obvious conclusion is that Larson doesn’t care about infringement, what he is really worried about is people discussing his work outside of the hallowed grounds of his own belatedly launched website. If that’s his position, then I have absolutely no interest in reviewing nor in advertising his work (new or old).
Here’s a “like” for Mark in Boston for the Pierre line.
@ MiB (5) – It would appear that while Hafeez credits horses with the ability to speak, they do not appear to have access to a halfway decent dictionary.
P.S. @ narmitaj (6) – I’m sure that the only reason I was able to decipher Bob Dylan’s lyrics @7 was that I had already encountered “geeks” in a book, probably either by Vonnegut or Bradbury.
P.P.S. This was of course at least a decade before “geeks” came to be associated with “computers”.
What do you suppose Kangaroo Inc.’s field of business might have been?
Pogo Sticks perhaps?
Yep, – that’s a geek! Then again, most of my friends in school were geeks of another kind (including me?)
And yes – sturm and drag upside down is a different face also with beard to me.
Thanks, Meryl. We were all quite unsure whether that was meant to be seen or sheer accident.