
Why, after all? Because they just go in to cool off? Then is there a logical plot to the original choices and substitutions?

Why, after all? Because they just go in to cool off? Then is there a logical plot to the original choices and substitutions?
Famous Bible story of The Handwriting on the Asphalt?

It says this strip has been running since 2008, so it can’t be that it’s just settling in. How long should I continue to read it before giving up on what’s going on?


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And Nancy benefits from this double-bluff strategy by … what?





From timharrod, who asks : It looks on the surface like everyone’s missing an item, and the reason turns out to be that Wallace built a raft out of them, but it’s still opaque: why would a kid building a sand castle be looking for a rope? Why the lifeguard? Is Wallace actually on a raft or is that Mom’s hypothesis?

Are those his dreams? Or what’s happening outside?
Either way, is there a punch line or message of some sort in the surprising outcome, that it leaves him well rested?
This first one may not strictly count as CIDU, since in the end I do understand it. But it took a lot of work!

For this other one, the song quoted and the musician mentioned are easily verified to match up, even if not in your personal playlist. But …

… but I genuinely don’t get the part about “If you’re gonna sound like a Karen…” — there doesn’t seem to be enough basis to take that in the contemporary quasi-political sense of a denigrating term for a woman being fussy in a certain way. And without that, what is there for “sound like a Karen” to mean?