… and always thought it was “da doo run run run” . This comes from Philip, who says “Why this song? And why men’s apparel? Is there something obvious I’m not seeing?”
If you have a fave performance of this song, please feel free to share! Here’s a good one, h/t to a commenter rugeirn on the GoComics site:
Sad, sad end!
P.S. Who would be customers here, you ask?
Okay, he’s shown reading Joan Didion as a commemoration. But is that a separate matter from the rest of the drawing and dialogue? Or some reflection of something she wrote?
And on an almost-literal level, what is the cat reporting actually? Do mice get more dangerous as their teeth grow longer, or go soft as they age into long-in-the-tooth status? Is this about a scary encounter, or just old companions sharing whatever passes by in their minds?
It’s been a long time since I saw The Bride Wore Black (La mariée était en noir).
Is there any truth to the “Hint”? And if it were so, would that give the first sentence a logical reading, in some meaning other than the straightforward one (as used in the film), of the bridegroom dying (being killed) following the marriage ceremony?
A CIDU from Snickers, who says the storyline here doesn’t line up at all well with the original tale. Also sent by zbicyclist, who expands on the issue of fit with the story thus: “Why is there another laptop appearing in panel 6? Dorian Gray doesn’t age; only his portrait does. So if the laptop named Dorian Gray disintegrates, isn’t that the opposite?”
OK, pay attention because there might be a quiz on this!
First off, Phil Smith III sent in this Brewster Rockit as a CIDU. “I was OK until the last panel,” he writes, “and have NO idea what it’s supposed to mean?!”
And I couldn’t make sense of the last panel as a punch line, either.
Meanwhile, DanV sent in both the above Brewster Rockit and the Betty below as a synchronicity pair.
“Two different ways of experiencing the same situation,” writes DanV, “I confess I’ve had both of these things happen to me. :) Not a laugh out loud, more of a rueful chuckle.”
What could he mean, I wondered; how are these the same joke? Oh wait, aha! The Brewster joke is not in the final panel, but the penultimate. Oldbot and, uh, Bub have done the parallel sort of oblivious overlooking.
That leaves the final panel of Brewster unexplained. Well, which Monday does he mean? Is he making it sooner or later? I don’t know, and I’m even more tired of writing this than you are of reading it…
Why is the tips jar incongruous? Is it just that it’s so blatant, but a discreet one would be okay, in a lounge setting? Or is this a formal recital? Or is it odd that it seems to be for the accompanist and not the singer? No, I don’t really understand it.
These two comics don’t have much in common. But both have semi-unknown provenance.
This CIDU is from BillR, who says: “Don’t know where it’s from originally, I got it from a blogger that collects stuff like this. He doesn’t get it either.”
And this one I just happened across on Facebook, not in a comics group and not from somebody I am in touch with; just a charming little obvious pun.
BillR sent this in, asking if there is candidate Arlo-award material here. Which I don’t see a basis for. But we can all wonder together what the Peanuts kids are doing there; what the closed-captions are transcribing; and above all, what’s the joke!
Or “demo” for the Brits among us. Or maybe “manifestation” for the Continentals?
But whatever you call what they are doing … what are they doing there? Protesting laundromats in general for the bad practices of customers? Giving our blond regular character (“Norris”?) some advice, in a forceful way? And is the guy in the green turtleneck objecting to himself? What’s up?
