With the bonus panel:
Author / Winter Wallaby
Holiday Relay Race
Holidays do occur in a certain order, of course. But why is that supposed to be funny?
From Boise Ed, who says “The shoes, gifts, new clothes, and coffee appear to have nothing to do with anything.”
BarkaLounger
From Arthur: “For me, the first panel would work as a stand-alone one-panel gag. But I can’t see any joke in the second panel. If Peters thinks people don’t know how to spell Barcalounger, he should have reversed it: Ms. Goose telling him to get off the Barcalounger and Grimm saying, he’ll stay on the Barkalounger. That puts the joke at the end, where it belongs.”
Happy New Year!
Yep, I think we all feel this way. Here’s hoping!
Trivia Pursuit: Geezer?
From Andréa, who asks whether this is a Geezer. Does anyone play this anymore, or this a Geezer / 1980 called?
What did it say?
And what did he think it said?
BTW, we always have plenty of LOLs and Oys, but are running low on genuine CIDUs. I guess everyone understands all their comics? If you get any CIDUs, please send them in.
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, December 27th, 2020
From Andréa.
It seems to be aiming for “What has this modern world come to?” but in execution just seems kind of sweet.
Saturday Morning Oys – December 26th, 2020
Both from Andréa.
(The pun isn’t always on a word that appears in the caption or dialog.)
[OT] T-Shirts I Don’t Understand
I don’t understand this shirt. At first, I was completely confused, but after some searching, I realized that it was likely a reference to this shirt:
The second shirt is, in turn, a reference to Doppler shifting of light (which, among other things, says that colors shift towards blue if you move towards them quickly enough).
However, this just brings up more stuff I don’t understand:
(1) It doesn’t seem like the blue shirt makes any sense except as a reference to the red shirt. (Or does it?) But is the red shirt so well-known that it makes any sense to wear a shirt that assumes the viewer has seen the red one?
(2) The first shirt says “You don’t need run fast enough.” Is this slang? Or something English speakers might actually say? It doesn’t seem like it is, but I’m baffled by the idea that someone made and sold a T-shirt without proofreading the one sentence on the T-shirt. Yes, I see typos on signs and in newspaper articles all the time, this product only has one sentence, and that one sentence is the focus of the product that they’re trying to sell.
This seems very strange to me. Does this seem perfectly normal to you? Have you seen worse?
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, December 20th, 2020
In this age of “Use your inside voice” it’s good to know where the range of voice options reaches.
A bit of a LOL-Eww:
When we first saw this, it was in the black-and-white version sent in the Bliss daily email, and our first thought was to look forward to the color version and see how the notorious Twitter “bluecheck” verified-user symbol would be rendered. Not blue, in the event.
And a bit of LOL-Cynical:
In case you didn’t know, the “Nick and Zuzu” comic panels run as accompaniment to an advice column by Carolyn Hax. Sometimes they really depend on the writing and are totally CIDU without it. Other times, the comic is quite independent of the column which sparked it; and that is the case here. And the cartoons appear elsewhere, where the column is not available or even mentioned, such as GoComics.
But in case you are interested: the Hax column which had this as its illustration was at this link, which has a paywall but should allow some free visits.
Comics I Don't Understand 