Author / zbicyclist

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Destroying the Mood

Usual John sends this in. “Curtis is supposed to be eleven, and Michelle presumably is about the same age. Catwoman. Wonder Woman, and Tinker Bell all seem like plausible costume choices for a eleven-year-old girl, even if we might think of them as having more adult physiques. Since Curtis usually is wild to get Michelle to go out with him, I don’t see why he would be turning down this opportunity.”

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Octo

Jack Applin sends this in. “Bob states that all the sides and angles are equal, which is true for a (regular) octagon. Yes, and … ? Is it a gag about the word “side”, that there’s no need to get to the other side, because all sides are equal?“

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Unless someone can think of a reason why it might be meaningful, let’s assume that “⦣BDC” is simply a typo for “⦣BCD“.

Here are a couple of octagons that are not regular. After someone explains what the joke is, we can consider whether the joke would apply to these octagons.

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Bonus: Caulfield’s Costume Contest

Janice wonders, “Are we keeping up the tradition of guessing Caulfield’s costume?”

Why not? Put your guesses in the comments. I’ll try to remember to update this post with the next clue each day; if not, feel free to add that in the comments.

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday. And the answer is:

The day after Halloween, the explanation. But we don’t find out what Caulfield’s actual costume was, at least not yet.

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Bonus: And the Arlo Award Winner Is …

I had originally set Mark H.’s suggestion to appear on Valentine’s Day, but then Kilby used this comic in his post earlier today. All of this exposure proves that the text below is still relevant, so I’m posting it as a bonus for today.

Bill Bickel set up the Arlo Award tag to indicate comics that seem to have snuck in sexual references past a newspaper comic censor. Of course, the state of the newspaper business is such that comic censors, or copy editors in general, seem to be in short supply. Web comics are, of course, inedible (I mean ineligible) for an Arlo Award.

The award is a nod to Jimmy Johnson’s Arlo & Janis comic, which still has innuendos with some subtlety. But a special Arlo Lifetime Achievement Award has to go to Brooke McEldowney’s 9 Chickweed Lane.

Here’s one sent in by Mark H., who notes “Given that they’ve never been intimate, it’s not clear how she knows how big his macadamias are – except that, being a few years older, she probably baby-sat him in younger days.”

The aging of the twins in this strip has been mysterious; is she older?

But, yes, McEldowney established 3 days earlier that they haven’t had, well, you know what.

So, with the tiny power invested in me as one of the editors of Comics I Don’t Understand, I hereby give 9 Chickweed Lane a Lifetime Arlo Achievement Award.

Any acceptance speech may be NSFW.