Month / May 2024

by EditorM

Yeah, it’s real. But still, why the reactions?

Okay, Carlos is not quite making sense, but is it so bad that Tina is face-palming over it?

I wasn’t familiar with the idea of a special “Cornish Lobster” and thought maybe the joke was that Carlos was inventing it, on analogy to “Cornish game hen”. And if a customer ordered a roast chicken, say, and was served a Cornish hen, it would indeed be surprisingly small, and the cook or waitstaff might want to claim it is a prized variety. But it still wouldn’t fit the menu if sold by weight..

Here, however, is “An Introduction to Cornish Lobster” – claiming “Cornish lobster really are the king of the shellfish. During the season, they are delivered daily to us from a select lobster pot fleet, who catch these critters in pots dotted around the rocky Cornish coastline. A beautifully delicate, subtle-sweet flavour which is unlike anything you’ve ever tasted, our lobsters are a supreme choice to treat your taste buds.”

But still, what is Carlos thinking? That the delicacy should override the weight? And is that what Tina is cringing about? (Of course the customer is still steamed.)

Late-breaking P.S. — Just saw news flash that Red Lobster restaurants company is filing for bankruptcy. But I don’t think there is an intended allusion.

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, May 26th, 2024

Now *that* was a surprise!

How many of us have a pile of unread books? How long as the oldest unread one been in that pile? When was the last time you thinned out the pile, by saying “Nah, not going to ever read that?” Did you regift the book, and later found it sitting in THEIR unread books pile?

How to you label it? “Books I’ll read when I retire”? or “Books to read when I can’t sleep”?

Geezer alert?

Or that scene has been replayed / imitated / parodied so much that it could be well known even among those who have never seen any more of the movie it comes from.

by multipleciduers

Saturday Morning OYs – May 25th, 2024

There is a rather old joke involving a misunderstanding of that kind of signage (and based on a now-possibly-objectionable euphemistic term) — but wait!, it turns out this Crabgrass is not using that joke, but rather one based on a different misunderstanding of it.

Picked up from Counterpoint

Is that an electric plug in her hand, at the end of a wire? So she has unplugged a phonograph from playing one of the objectionable original versions?

It’s very simple, but (therefore?) almost perfect.

(it was established in the previous days that these are temporary tattoos)

by Kilby

CTYHSB: Back in the Day

I was not aware of Eric Scott’s strips, just his panel drawings, so I thought these might make a nice “meta” CIHS post. However, I quickly discovered that “Back in the Day” has already made several appearances at CIDU, so rather than squeeze these in as “comics that I have not seen before“, I decided to re-classify them as a “Comic That You Have Seen Before“. Enjoy.