From Boise Ed, who notes “Total CIDU for me”:
I have a maybe-theory but let’s see what y’all think.
Oy. I momentarily forgot which strip this was from, so I asked Google Images. The AI summary says:
This is a comic strip from the series “Bizarro” by Dan Piraro.
I don’t think so! (Yes, I was able to figure it out.)
Ben Bass commented upon seeing this comic: “As the resident New York Times cryptogram writer, I consider this aspirational.”
Asher Perlman urges you to create your own joke:
One example:
Mitch4 sends this in:
The squirrel gets a good OY line.
How many ways can the original Latin “Carpe Diem” be mistranslated?
Seas the Day (take your boat out)
Eat Fish Today
Complain All Day …
Ellis Rosen has a long post devoted to comics of his that have references that may be obscure.
Obscure references are the bread-and-butter of CIDU; I’m only going to put one here because the comics and the essay are Ellis’s work, not mine. It’s worth reading.
BVCC sends this in: “Yes, I can tell you that it’s not textbook imposter syndrome, because it’s not. From Wikipedia: “Impostor syndrome, also known as impostor phenomenon or impostorism, is a psychological experience in which a person suffers from feelings of intellectual and/or professional fraudulence.” This is not at all what Schroeder is exhibiting.”
Not seeing a joke in this tragedy.
It’s free advice, and worth every penny you paid.
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Not really an OY, but timely since Halloween was yesterday.
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