Boise Ed sends this in: “Total CIDU here. The only word here that makes any sense to me is “three.” What does “Sagittarius” have to do with anything? Or “jackass”? I see nothing astrological, astronomical, or rude.”
Sagittarius
Category / CIDU
Plagiarism
But he’ll be issued a citation. And if there’s a citation, it wouldn’t be plagiarism. Right?
Profit
What’s confusing to me is that (1) I see ads for stuff like this all the time, and (2) there actually were people who made a lot of profit in the global financial troubles in 2008 (as written up by Michael Lewis in The Big Short). So I don’t see a joke here. Is there one?
Bird Flu?
Quasi-fail
This was a complete CIDU for me until I read the comments on the web:
I’ll let the hive-mind see what y’all think. No cheating! (But it’s at https://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater/2025/07/27 to save you the trouble if, like me, you give up.)
Right Now?
Thirty Years Ago in The New Yorker
Puzzle over these from July, 1995: some LOL, some CIDU, some …?
July is when the new interns typically start in hospitals.
Rhino
JMcAndrew sends this in: “So this is some kind of skin care product for rhinoceros? The frog “Jimmy Cool” is a celebrity who has a line of skin care products for animals? Is that the joke?”
Your editor isn’t a regular Heathcliff reader. Is Jimmy Cool a regular character? Do rhinos in nature have some method of oiling their skin? Googling “Rhino Tough” shows several products that play off the toughness of rhinos, but not their baby soft skin.
Is he Sirius?
(Yes, that’s a cheesy pun about the Pandora music service, which is owned by SiriusXM)
BillR sends:
He notes:
Scott’s comics are often mildly surrealistic, but I got nothing with this one. “Opening” a banana releases “yellow” into the world?
We know Pandora had a box (no sniggering, you!) and that opening it released hope, but how does that relate to a banana?!
Too Obscure
From Boise Ed:
He adds,
The Fabio/goose one is a total CIDU for me; AFAIK, Fabio was an Olympic skier and ladies’ man, several decades ago. The Will Smith one, I assume, has to do with that Oscars incident a while back. The other three I can guess at.
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