From Dan Sachs:
“Best said”?
Indeed. Surely “less said” was intended. Back in the day, there were these people called “editors”, who might have caught this and had it fixed (though perhaps not, since they would have to go back to the cartoonist, unlike local edits).
From Dirk the Daring:
Meow? It’s a New Yorker cartoon so, you know…Nonetheless, what?
From Mitch4:
He notes,
Huh? I can’t even identify the additional object next to the playing cards — nail clipper? cigarillo? — let alone what the dog is supposed to do with them to become more adoptable.
I think it’s a cigar–pretty sure that’s a cigar band in the middle of the object–but what do cards and cigars have to do with getting adopted?!
At the risk of being called mean, that strip bills itself as “REMIXED NEW YORKER CARTOON REJECTS”. I’d submit that if your cartoon is too obscure for TNY, you might have a problem!
Kedamono sends:
Something something apples…graduating, to be used elsewhere? WTF?!
This was posted on another list, and while the comic itself isn’t a CIDU, I find Lucy’s comment opaque:
Why is she saying “This time will be so differ[ent]”? It’s always the same for her, at least usually!
The mashup is apparently from the 2011 book The Romita Legacy, about the career of comic book artist John Romita Sr.: https://www.hoopladigital.com/comic/the-romita-legacy-tom-spurgeon/13304781
From Jack Applin, who asks, “Is this anything more than ‘Kids/parents these days!’?”
Ian C sends:
Comments include the inevitable jokes about “military intelligence” and the amount of money spent on this research, but offer no clue as to why it might actually be funny.
From billr:
It’s obviously Tax Season (in the US), but I don’t see any joke here. All I can think of is, “floating a balloon” as a financial thing, but aside from that, nothing.
All I get from my accountant is a piece of chocolate (and a bill)!
(With apologies to Bob Marley)
Y’all will have noticed that there was no post today. That’s because the well is dry at the moment! Keep ’em comin’, gang…this only works if we have material to share.
(Yes, that’s a tree joke)
billr asks,
| Is a tree fund some new kind of financial instrument? |
Anyone? Your editor has a theory but doesn’t much like it.
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