Another from travelgirl:
Ok, it’s time for me to go back to sleep. It’s obvious I haven’t a clue when the third CIDU of the day shows up…
Something about a lanyard?!
Author / phsiii
Kneel indeed
Must be something there?!
Not to be confused with this classic:
That one especially made me laugh way back when it ran because 30+ years ago in a small, struggling software company, we hired a new business development guy named Neil. He was surely told a pack o’ lies about the opportunity, and came in full of attitude about his importance.
At the time, the latest processors were Pentiums, and laptops were relatively rare. I had inherited IT and our one IT worker-bee, who dutifully got him a 32MB Pentium laptop. After delivering it, my guy dropped by to comment that Neil had been dismissive of the machine “only” having 32MB. So I wandered down to his office and introduced myself. In the process, I noticed that there was still a tower PC under his desk–one of our workhorse 4MB 486 machines.
“Shall I get that out of here?” I asked. “Sure”, Neil replied scornfully, “It’s not it’s good for anything.”
“Around here, that’s a developer machine.” ” Yeah, right.”
“Neil–I’m not kidding.”
He never complained about his laptop again! He actually turned out to be an OK guy once he got over his original attitude, but the name “Neil” has made me snicker slightly ever since.
I just want to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.
From Darren:
who points out, “I don’t think I’ve ever referred to connect-the-dots type exercises (puzzles?) as “paint-by-numbers”. Is that what’s happening here? It doesn’t look like they’re creating a paint-by-numbers image for later fill in, and there’s certainly no painting being done.”
Indeed.
Quasi-fail
This was a complete CIDU for me until I read the comments on the web:
I’ll let the hive-mind see what y’all think. No cheating! (But it’s at https://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater/2025/07/27 to save you the trouble if, like me, you give up.)
Is he Sirius?
(Yes, that’s a cheesy pun about the Pandora music service, which is owned by SiriusXM)
BillR sends:
He notes:
Scott’s comics are often mildly surrealistic, but I got nothing with this one. “Opening” a banana releases “yellow” into the world?
We know Pandora had a box (no sniggering, you!) and that opening it released hope, but how does that relate to a banana?!
Too Obscure
From Boise Ed:
He adds,
The Fabio/goose one is a total CIDU for me; AFAIK, Fabio was an Olympic skier and ladies’ man, several decades ago. The Will Smith one, I assume, has to do with that Oscars incident a while back. The other three I can guess at.
Triassic? Jurassic?? Cretaceous???
Bob Kinney writes, “No clue what this all means”:
It does seem a bit…thin.
I can’t get me no…
This editor came across this one on his own, and has run it by a few folks to no avail. Anyone??
I’m assuming it’s an “Oddly Enough” but can’t prove that on the web.
Completely opaque to me
BillR sends this without comment:
I sure hope someone has a clue, because I got nothin’.
As a bonus, he included this semi-synchronicity (“semi” because it’s apparently a repost), which I quite like. We’re not really doing synchronicity these days, but while I’m at it:
One, two, five!
JMcAndrew ponders:
Does the military train soldiers with live grenades? How did they survive this? I’m starting to think that this comic isn’t very well thought out.
Which of course brings to mind the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch:
I’m betting I’m not the only one among us who has irritated their spouse by counting “One, two, five!” on occasion.
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