FYI, John Hambrock does The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee.
Delivery dock?
Category / CIDU
The successful applicant will take the lead in negociating our getaway aircraft …
Okay, the basic joke seems to be that he is performing that “hiring” process for the position of principal hostage. Is there also something going on about his pantyhose mask? Is it that hard to find separate single-leg stockings?
Sorry, I spaced out for a minute
Sent by BillR, who says “I know Scott Hilburn likes puns. A lot, in fact. But I don’t get this one.”
I don’t get it either. The GoComics comments do give a possible explanation, though IMO a rather feeble one — and not much like a pun.
Advance … forward … ahead … later …
How could we have a DST day without a few comics about getting it wrong, or complaining about the aftereffects? However, it is especially nice to run across one where you think the cartoonists are the ones misunderstanding and getting it backwards.
Once more unto the Oopsies, Quickies, Semi-CIDUs, Mysteries, and flops? (8th Series)
Maybe it’s a genuine CIDU? But I think that punch line is all there is.
I think we all can sympathize with Duane’s motivations for his … little prank. And that’s the main joke, which is not in need of explication; so this isn’t quite a CIDU. But if we wanted to get into it a little, we could ask whether he’s getting revenge more on the kid or on the mom. And at the practical level, what does it mean that he still has the barber’s customer-apron as he’s leaving?
I guess this Working Daze fits an offshoot of the “CIDU-Quickie” category, where the joke is utterly incomprehensible until you are shown (or realize you already know) an instance of something-that’s-going-around, and then that entirely exhausts the mystery.
Linked here is a compilation of what lies behind the joke. (I can’t watch this all the way thru.)
(Bonus) I’m just one for three on this
Okay, I remember Hodor from Game of Thrones (his backstory was a touching moment), but not the others.
What’s old is new
After a gap of not quite a year, the GoComics feed for Randolph Itch restarted. This one for 2022 March 7 seems to be the first cartoon in the cycle.
Which doesn’t make its meaning clear!
Just for interest, here are the next two cartoons in the cycle. Not as puzzling, maybe.
Looks like somebody’s been hitting that Welsh rarebit too close to bedtime!
VSADD
Okay, is it purely nonsense? Or is Pointy Haired Boss thinking of something marginally real? Like, the whole bit about spelling words in a calculator LED panel. …
Seriously?
Smells like Teen Senior Spirit
Is it just the contradiction between using shampoo and being bald-adjacent?
But that would mean accepting Ed’s [maroon pullover] explanation at face value, which Green Cardigan clearly does not.
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P.S. If your phone or tablet is not showing the title with a strikeout, it is supposed to have “Teen” in strikethru. By using HTML5 tag “del” .
Smells like Teen Senior Spirit
