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Same as it Ever Was
Month / June 2024
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, June 09th, 2024
A couple of exercise-themes LOLs.
Saturday Morning OYs – June 08th, 2024
Phew, a lot of work to get there!
Indeed, they are said to have a high turnover.
But Day by Dave wasn’t done with punning for the week yet.
Mary Ellen sent this one in. Why backpacking alpacas? Why does everyone look so miserable? And why are the men in what looks like monks’ robes while the alpacas are using folding maps and modern looking backpacks?
It’s somewhere between an OY (wordplay on alpacah and backpackah) and a CIDU.
Cornish Game Clams
A lengthy CIDU in six laborious parts.
Last Friday’s discussion about “Cornish Lobster” prompted a comment from beckoningchasm about Kliban’s “Cornish Game Clams“. I never read the book “Two Guys Fooling Around with the Moon” and had never heard of this sequence, but I soon discovered that it was hiding in plain sight at GoComics (starting on 11-Feb-2013).
Whether or not this was worth the effort is a question that CIDU readers will have to decide: I don’t understand what is going on in these comics at all (and it may just be random surrealism). Discussion is welcome (YMMV).
There’s nobody named Ted in the room!
I cannot decipher this “Rhymes with Orange” strip at all:
I was clever enough to look up what a “Ted Talk” is supposed to be, but that doesn’t really help much. Did she don the headset before going to bed, or did she manage to put it on while sleeping? Or, perhaps her partner put it on her head, so that she wouldn’t lose the resulting somniloquy?
Scope?
The last panel doesn’t make much sense following her declaration in the third panel, under the straightforward reading I would normally give it: “Nineteen weeks ago was the last time I felt directionless and at a loss. Since then it’s been pretty good.”
But to try to save it, is there a reasonable way to construe “since” and “had no” to give an overall meaning of “Nineteen weeks ago I had the wake-up call about my directionless life. And since then, no real progress. I am still at a loss.” That might gather applause for courage / honesty / forthright confession, but still aupport her thought that the applause is paradoxical. But is it really a passable reading of the words?
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Saddle Up?
Tim Harrod sends this one in. “So… now he’s sitting on a giraffe. And kings rarely do that, and that’s the joke? The whole joke? No dialogue to nudge us in the right direction?”
The previous day doesn’t seem helpful here.
Giraffes aren’t ridable due to both structure (sloped back) and attitude. They are kissable, though.
Pardon my Credit Card
Thanks to both Boise Ed and Usual John for suggesting this one.
“First, why these questions? Is the guy on trial for credit-card fraud? Second, why is the judge wearing a ‘smoking jacket’ instead of judicial robes?”
Also of course “What’s the joke?”
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, June 02nd, 2024
chemgal sends in this prime LOL:
Alt text: Sorry to make you memorize this random set of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives’ birthdays, if they happen to have been born on February 5, 2018.
In case anyone was in doubt, there really is a very popular periodical called Wine Spectator.
Saturday Morning OYs – June 01st, 2024
My friends on road trips used to enjoy “What’s that up in the road? A head?”. (Oops, accidental repeat from 25 May.)
Also fun on road trips: Look out, there’s a fork in the road!
TBH, I’m not entirely sure if “branch” in the last panel is actually intended as a pun.
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