Thanks to BillR for sending this one:
Is there a song we should be familiar with that *is* about fish and this performer might have in his repertoire? Or wait, that he might have been getting requests for and had to decline?
Call the Jazz Police
Category / CIDU
Family is everything
From Le Vieux Lapin, who says “I get the part where the mobsters aren’t giving him concrete overshoes after all – but why THREE footprints?”.
By the way, in case you were wondering if they are generic or unaffiliated mobsters, the helpful alt hover text says “The Mafia Brothers”.
Right next door, innit?
From Stan, saying “I have one or two ideas about this, but they don’t really hold much water. Wouldn’t mind a solid explanation if one exists. Also, why didn’t Dagwood just drive Herb all the way home? It couldn’t have been too far out of his way.”
Top bird
This was sent both by Emma who says “It may be simple, but I just don’t get it! Thanks!” and by padraig who claims “I actually did get this, but it was more like a picture puzzle than a cartoon”.
And padraig tries to clue us on what he meant by a picture puzzle by adding “The pigeon is standing on a…..” But if he’s being a stool-pigeon, why is it what the cardinal will say that is being made an issue? I’m still thinking mostly they are contesting who will be the top dog, erm, bird.
(And by the way, as long as it’s still signed as Wayno & Piraro we think it should be tagged as both Wayno and Piraro. And their blogs often discuss their collaboration, and make it clear that altho Wayno scripts and draws the Mon-Sat cartoons, Piraro consults and gives a lot of input as well.)
He found the batmobile?
Sent in by Le Vieux Lapin, who asks “He dug into the bat cave and found the batmobile? If so, have Batman and Robin had THEIR rabies shots? Is something else going on here?”
Deepen the mystery, you betcha
From Le Vieux Lapin, who says just “Yep”.
Or top hats, as used by magicians?
Sent in by Dan Sachs, who asks “Are these supposed to be KFC buckets?”; and by Targuman, who brings up that the brims and stripes raise issues for the buckets view.
When did you change it to Miller?
From Mike Brown, who says “Does it have to do with the spine of the book? Why can’t they talk about it again? I’m truly confused.”
Couldn’t be anything else!
But but but … if there is no human-sized hole, what is the pole doing there at all?
Special down at Sartre’s
I did find out from a search* that there is a (supposedly) common idiom “money for old rope” meaning something like “easy money”. That doesn’t explain what it’s doing here, really.
Also, is the setting at Sartre’s more meaningful or decorative?
(*And that professional etymologists don’t much like the folk etymology about shipboard use of rope to caulk gaps in wood planks.)
“Hell is other people” Department
(This one below not a CIDU; more of a LOL.)
When I was saving and then posting the Lard above, I thought the Sartre’s store was one of their fairly frequent locales; but I didn’t find one, on a quick backwards scroll thru the recent archive. Fine, so I treated it as unusual and made it part of this post’s title. And then a couple days later they give us this:
