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by EditorM

… but nobody does anything about it

Reader Mike Pollock offers a “juxtaposition via T.A.R.D.I.S.” Perusing this Saturday Evening Post comics selection page, Mike thought the way the weather forecast lingo was handled in the two Stan Hunt panels here (from 1950 and 1955) was reflected in the very recent Zits below them.

“Small-craft warnings are being displayed from Cape Hatteras to Sandy Hook.”
Stan Hunt
September 30, 1950
“Try to think of it, dear, as simply a low-pressure system extending from The Great Lakes region into Ohio and eastward to the Atlantic States trapped between two areas to high pressure that…”
Stan Hunt
September 3, 1955

And with our editorial eyes opened to this idea, we were quick to note this Life on Earth:

by EditorM

How are the frogs doing lately?

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It can happen by accident; or by feline attack.

I thought the difficulty regarding the USB Type-A plugs was traditionally the alignment when making the connection. And that disconnecting is, if anything, a bit too easy — as the post title notes, it doesn’t take much.

Side questions: Is the Spanish text somewhat antique, as the English is? And, in the middle panel do we see more of the sword that doesn’t quite match the reveal of the last panel?

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by EditorM

Bonus CIDU: Did they know?

Hmmm, do they or do they not know there is a big Internet program/project called “Second Life” ? [Which I’m sure was around in 2009.]

P.S. Current SecondLife site.

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“Papa Knows” at Obscurity of the Day

The estimable Allan Holtz, comic strip historian and proprietor of The Stripper’s Guide, has invited CIDU readers to join in trying to make sense of these example panels from the vintage series Papa Knows. He provides an historical deep-dive and some interpretive overview in last Friday’s blog column, in the Obscurity of the Day series, but leaves these four as examples where it seems no genuine attempt at a gag can be found. — What we like to call Comics I Don’t Understand!

(As Allan explains, “Obscurity of the Day is just posts about rare and overlooked newspaper comics; generally speaking if they’re hard to understand it’s because of the gulf between our time and theirs. Papa Knows, on the other hand, seems to be downright weird no matter when you might have read it!”)