September 1, 2021August 25, 2021 by EditorM

Con and Pro

Not exactly a CIDU, says Targuman when sending it in, but maybe an OY-I’d-like-to-improve? His issue is which geezer ref might fly better today: “Not a CIDU but this is 2021, wouldn’t U2’s Bono be a bit more famous (and alive)?”

August 31, 2021August 25, 2021 by EditorM

Stop digging!

A real puzzler from J-L:

August 30, 2021August 19, 2021 by EditorM

Makes no diff?

By the bye, we didn’t recall Blondie’s catering service having a walk-ins-welcome retail deli outlet.

But anyhow, this little story has the structure of a Turnabout or maybe Topper trope. (Thorne Smith allusions entirely accidental!) Blondie looks shocked in the last panel, as though the mom’s substitution of the iPad as the plaything is even more of a shocking violation than the phone was. But is that so? Or is the mom’s “reasoning” sort of correct, and there is a greater likelihood of the child being able to make some use of a tablet than of a smartphone?

August 29, 2021August 27, 2021 by EditorM

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, August 29th, 2021

And let’s throw in another Andertoons!

And this one, which took several seconds of pause to get:

August 28, 2021August 27, 2021 by EditorM

Saturday Morning Oys – August 28th, 2021

This was a momentary CIDU, for want of a comma. Sent by Boise Ed. Ed did some research on our behalf and reports “If you look in the [GoComics] comments, you’ll see that it caught Mark Parisi by surprise.”

And a longer-puzzling CIDU-oy: I still can’t figure out the intended real-life musical pair being referred to. (Searching got me to an article mentioning opera director Robert Carsen and “superstar soprano Renée Fleming” — but the characters in the cartoon are not doing opera.)

August 27, 2021August 18, 2021 by EditorM

Quoth

Can the “not funny anymore” assertion work to make it funny anyway?

Is the anymore substituting for Poe’s nevermore funny, or just pleasingly clever?

(Presenting both versions, in case color makes any difference to those.)

August 26, 2021 by EditorM

Extra: Mike du Jour is trying

Mike du Jour is trying — trying for a week to make a workable pun about operations at the symphony. Can you find one you like?

Idea! Maybe it was meant as a “Can you spot the differences?” puzzle. There aren’t many…

August 26, 2021August 15, 2021 by EditorM

In brackets

Did the chaplain walk into a pole, and is cursing? Those look more like pain symbols. Or is he known for complaining, and the moment of uplift (hah!) was an interruption of a usually dismal demeanor? But that’s not my impression of him. Still, is there any other good interpretation of the ‘parentheses’ remark?

August 22, 2021August 21, 2021 by EditorM

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, August 22nd, 2021

(This was actually part of a linked series, but seeing the preceding strips wouldn’t make much difference, apart from explaining what might otherwise be a mysterious detail — she was hit in the head by a flying baseball, and is holding an ice bag to it for pain relief.)

And a second shot for Pardon My Planet. This one is a LOL-CIDU. It did take a couple minutes before we got it – but not hard enough to justify making it a separate CIDU post. Also (I confess) it shows the perils of holding on to a negative attitude about some comic strip — one reason I didn’t get it at first was dismissing some meaningful details as merely haphazard artwork.