JMcAndrew sends in several that qualify for our Ewww category. Some also may qualify as CIDUs:
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The Elvis one is a CIDU for me.
Same for me on the Elvis one.
Mr. Potato head has a case for his “equipment”.
Something not added to the Mr. Potato Head play system I ever had. (We used real potatoes not that plastic shell.). Off my lawn you go….!
The dog one reminds me of the Far Side with the one dog leaning out the car window and saying to the other dog, “Ha ha ha, Biff. Guess what? After we go to the drugstore and the post office, I’m going to the vet’s to get tutored.”
(Presumably I can quote TFS without the Wrath of Larson coming down on me?)
So, now that I understand the settings . . . after we submit our guess as to the meaning of the cartoon, do we just wait for the cartoon creator to submit the answer?
[Elvis voice] “I am your dentist, and I enjoy the career that I picked. I am your dentist, and I get off on the pain I inflict! Thank you verr much.”
MiB (6), yours reminds me of Little Shop of Horrors.
The Viagra pop-up isn’t really a CIDU, just crude. … Ditto for the fortune-teller. … The bean burrito one, however, is CIDU to me. … I do like the Narnia Business one.
Crystal balls.
There are many books and articles called “The [famous dead person] Nobody Knew” revealing an unexpected side to that person’s character and life, totally different to their public image.
The Elvis nobody knew was a dentist. Dentists drill holes in your teeth. Dentists cause pain. Nobody likes dentists. Nobody wanted to know dentist Elvis.
Ah, @Wry, if only we had an oracle for valid interpretations! 🙄🤷🏻♀️
Too impulsive to wait for Godot, I reached out to find the answer, Mitch4
Hi Wry, thanks for writing, I took a look at the comments and it seems that Pete’s comment # 9 comment nailed it. That’s what I was going for when I did the cartoon. Elvis is an iconic larger than Life figure, that articles were written about long after he had died, because the public appetite was there. The cartoon looks at a ridiculous more mundane aspect of his life that nobody wanted to know about. Obviously Elvis was not a dentist, but then again 90% of the things that were written. about him weren’t true either.
As with most humor, that ends up on the cartoons I don’t understand page, it is humorous in a way that’s difficult to explain, it either resonates or does not.
Hope that makes sense.
Cheers, Mike Baldwin
I’m with Boise Ed at 7. The bean burrito one is beyond me as well. Anyone care to explain?
I think a real person nobody would want to know would be Sir Isaac Newton. He was fairly young when he studied optics and also revolutionized physics by writing “Principia”. Later on he abandoned the study of physical science entirely and wrote some very arcane, very weird stuff about the Bible and theology. The Newton of Bible study is the Newton nobody knows now, and if my guess is correct that whenever you went to visit him he would go on and on about angels and prophets and secret messages in the Epistles, you wouldn’t want to know him.
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The Elvis one is a CIDU for me.
Same for me on the Elvis one.
Mr. Potato head has a case for his “equipment”.
Something not added to the Mr. Potato Head play system I ever had. (We used real potatoes not that plastic shell.). Off my lawn you go….!
The dog one reminds me of the Far Side with the one dog leaning out the car window and saying to the other dog, “Ha ha ha, Biff. Guess what? After we go to the drugstore and the post office, I’m going to the vet’s to get tutored.”
(Presumably I can quote TFS without the Wrath of Larson coming down on me?)
So, now that I understand the settings . . . after we submit our guess as to the meaning of the cartoon, do we just wait for the cartoon creator to submit the answer?
[Elvis voice] “I am your dentist, and I enjoy the career that I picked. I am your dentist, and I get off on the pain I inflict! Thank you verr much.”
MiB (6), yours reminds me of Little Shop of Horrors.
The Viagra pop-up isn’t really a CIDU, just crude. … Ditto for the fortune-teller. … The bean burrito one, however, is CIDU to me. … I do like the Narnia Business one.
Crystal balls.
There are many books and articles called “The [famous dead person] Nobody Knew” revealing an unexpected side to that person’s character and life, totally different to their public image.
https://i.prcdn.co/img?regionKey=kkVb6wWGJ3Z0L0J3yc4k7A%3D%3D
The Elvis nobody knew was a dentist. Dentists drill holes in your teeth. Dentists cause pain. Nobody likes dentists. Nobody wanted to know dentist Elvis.
Ah, @Wry, if only we had an oracle for valid interpretations! 🙄🤷🏻♀️
Too impulsive to wait for Godot, I reached out to find the answer, Mitch4
Hi Wry, thanks for writing, I took a look at the comments and it seems that Pete’s comment # 9 comment nailed it. That’s what I was going for when I did the cartoon. Elvis is an iconic larger than Life figure, that articles were written about long after he had died, because the public appetite was there. The cartoon looks at a ridiculous more mundane aspect of his life that nobody wanted to know about. Obviously Elvis was not a dentist, but then again 90% of the things that were written. about him weren’t true either.
As with most humor, that ends up on the cartoons I don’t understand page, it is humorous in a way that’s difficult to explain, it either resonates or does not.
Hope that makes sense.
Cheers, Mike Baldwin
I’m with Boise Ed at 7. The bean burrito one is beyond me as well. Anyone care to explain?
I think a real person nobody would want to know would be Sir Isaac Newton. He was fairly young when he studied optics and also revolutionized physics by writing “Principia”. Later on he abandoned the study of physical science entirely and wrote some very arcane, very weird stuff about the Bible and theology. The Newton of Bible study is the Newton nobody knows now, and if my guess is correct that whenever you went to visit him he would go on and on about angels and prophets and secret messages in the Epistles, you wouldn’t want to know him.