Category / CIDU

by EditorM

Girl on Pfizer (bonus post)

Thanks to Andréa, who called it a “CIDU that I’m too lazy to look up.”

I gave in and looked it up!  Alicia Keys had a song “Girl on Fire”. And the lookup also finds a few parodies, under titles like “This girl is on Pfizer,” that predate this cartoon.  Indeed it seems to be a fast-moving meme, with hashtags on Twitter and TikTok. 

The list of manufacturers sounds like the choices for Covid vaccine, though I guess they would be similar for Flu. The song parody with available lyrics certainly made it Covid, and it’s tempting to suppose that was Hilburn’s idea at first which then got softened, as it were. (The actual song dates from 2012)

by EditorM

Saturday Morning Oys – April 23rd, 2022

Thanks to Andréa for this subtle groaner:

And another from Andréa:

Sources say that either the exclamation “Great Scott” is not attached to any particular person with that name; or else may be associated with Sir Walter Scott, or with U.S. General Winfield Scott. But here, with the talk of Antarctica and the South Pole, surely they intend some kind of glance at famous and unfortunate polar explorer Robert F Scott?

And another from Andréa, who calls this “Barely an oy”. Also fodder for you dialectologists out there.

by EditorM

Just pound

From Darren, who is amused by FTP being thought of as the old-fashioned way (and we can notice that FTP would rely on the Internet service working anyway).

Darren adds: “Cobb [this dog] is always the ‘straight man’ for setups and is sane and predictable.  But in this final panel he’s pounding on the keyboard. ⁋ Also, assuming Tucker [the boy] is mentioning this because it is nearly the deadline for the homework, what is the old fashioned way that Cobb is thinking of?  Presumably turning it in before leaving the class is not an option.”