billr sends this in: “I’m not a dog owner so it took me a moment.”
billr also sends this in: “The coffeemaker question seems like a non sequitur. And what’s with her eye?”
Twofer
Category / Momentary CIDU
Going to the Doge
Doge? My first thought was DOGE, Elon Musk’s Department Of Government Efficiency, and this seemed like a CIDU.
But, in that second panel, the picture is similar to the logo for Dogecoin, a memecoin (think Bitcoin, but more obscure). The short phrases in the third panel are a variation of the phrases around that Dogecoin logo. Hence, I’m labelling this a momentary CIDU.
Still, pretty obscure. CoinCodex notes: “As of 2025, Dogecoin has over 5.6 million unique wallet addresses holding DOGE, according to blockchain data. This number represents the total count of wallets, not necessarily individual people—since one person can own multiple wallets, and some wallets belong to exchanges or institutions.
Top holders dominate: The top 10 wallets alone control over 44% of the total Dogecoin supply, with Robinhood’s largest wallet holding nearly 19.45%”
It’s the 9th largest cryptocurrency, behind some others I haven’t heard of.
No one is coming to CIDU for investment advice. Personally, when I hear “crypto” I hear “tulips“, although friends remind me I’ve been wrong about that for many years now. If I’ve been wrong, I plan to continue being wrong.
Typo
Mitch4 send this in: “Momentary CIDU / then OY after you get it.”
I’ll order the Bombe from Acme bakeries.
In other news, Olivia Jaimes has announced her retirement from the Nancy strip after 7 years. (This doesn’t surprise me; in the past months she seemed to have hit a stretch where she was running out of ideas.)
The strip will be taken over on January 1, 2026 by Caroline Cash, who did a few Nancy strips during Jaimes’s 2024 sabbatical (July 22 through August 11, 2024).
This one’s a clear nod to classic Bushmiller gags, one of which I posted a few days ago.
Dan Piraro had this curious take on Nancy a couple of days ago, although it’s not clear this was at all related to the authorship transition.
Bananas
With a bonus OY:
Moonwalk
Dirk the Daring sends this in for our consideration: “I dunno, at first it was just “huh?”. But I think I get it now. Maybe.”
Tap Dancing
Actually true, making allowances for that graph in panel 3 being simplified to fit.
But not that hard to figure out, so it’s not really a CIDU for an audience as clever as ours. Eventually it will be one of those phrases where the original meaning of the term becomes ever more obscure, e.g. “not worth a plug nickel”.
Here’s how it was done in 1943:
Can You?
Previous day is no help here; there’s nothing set up there about canoeing (or canoodling). Obviously there’s the repetition of “can”, but anything else?
But while the previous day was no help, the next day clarifies that, much to my surprise, this is about canoeing.
Some Frank and Ernest
JMcAndrew sends in some oldies from Frank and Ernest: “Why would this be a horror movie for a dog?”
Ben was evidently quite the ladies’ man in Paris.
Clearly an “OY”:
Time to get the garden planted…
… but with what? Carl Fink submitted this Dark Side of the Horse, commenting: “So … planting seeds and clams pop out of the ground. And this is funny? A pun? What?“
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P.S. To me they looked more like gigantic ravioli, but this strip also reminded me of those little joke packets of “Doughnut Seeds” (containing Cheerios or Froot Loops).
Meanwhile, on the African Plains
This one takes a few seconds.
In other zebra cartoon news, the New Yorker’s caption contest had a zebra theme recently.
The finalists for winning caption are these:
Comics I Don't Understand 