What? Why? How?
He’s beside himself over this
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Poking at it
Is Sluggo making that other girl cry … by what he’s thinking? But no, he’s just making the girl-in-his-thoughts cry .. by what he’s thinking. So that’s all real clear then, huh?
Carpe cargo
So the pirates have taken one of the shipping containers. From the middle. And the stack didn’t fall down, even with a hole in the middle. Was that the goal? Did they win? Is the pile of containers on the big ship really just a single thickness?
What they’re resorting to
I only recently learned there is a newfangled fabric called “modal”, popular for linens[*] and underwear; which mostly explains the modal-logic joke for me. But some of the rest of these are still puzzling.
[*] No, linens are not presumptively made from linen. Though they can be. Oy!
Hot Franks
They have 30 cents, and they buy 30 cents of food. Why is that funny?
A hot dog had a lot less bread than a loaf, and a lot less meat than a pound – is that part of the joke?
Pardon my 3rd Law
Almost makes sense … but not altogether!
Sixty cents!
Does her complaint make sense? Regardless of whether the strawberries are large or small, she’s getting roughly the same volume. Is there some reason that large strawberries are more desirable, per unit volume? Personally, I would prefer the smaller ones, as they tend to be sweeter.
You’re … not out!
Sent by a very puzzled Harvey Heilbrun.
(We haven’t featured In The Bleachers very often, but there is another coming up, in the next LOLs set.)
Chekhov’s carving knife
Yes, we get the joking premise of “what if nursery rhymes were actively written by teams like modern or tin-pan-alley era songwriting partnerships”. But there is no third stanza in the actual nursery rhyme, nothing like stanzas really … so is that in there just to fit with the (secondary) joke about the Chekhov’s Gun principle?
Three blind mice. Three blind mice.
See how they run. See how they run.
They all ran after the farmer’s wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a sight in your life,
As three blind mice?
The Crumbling Newspaper
From Cristiano, who explains “It was published in an Italian magazine called ‘La Settimana Enigmistica’ (a famous crosswords magazine). It’s rather well known for the… ‘curious’ comics it contains. This one had no captions and no other context indications, it was “standalone” just as you see it…”
Comics I Don't Understand 