Bob Kinney writes, “No clue what this all means”:
It does seem a bit…thin.
Triassic? Jurassic?? Cretaceous???
Category / CIDU
Hopping
travelgirl sends this in: “I have no clue what’s going on here, though my gut is telling me it’s easy and i should :) “
Excuse
Mitch4 sends this in: “”It’s an excuse.” *What* is? And *what* is it excusing someone from? Is this a cartoon about bad boyfriend/husband behavior? Or mysterious doctor/nurse/doula behavior?”
Lio Physics
Meet the Author
I can’t get me no…
This editor came across this one on his own, and has run it by a few folks to no avail. Anyone??
I’m assuming it’s an “Oddly Enough” but can’t prove that on the web.
Gertrude the Brahman
Mitch4 sends this in: “OY because it’s a pun, CIDU because the specifics are obscure. “Impeccable” works as an OY because someone wearing a suit of armor can’t be pecked. But who is “Gertrude the Brahman” and does she wear armor and why the expression “knight suit”?”
Completely opaque to me
BillR sends this without comment:
I sure hope someone has a clue, because I got nothin’.
As a bonus, he included this semi-synchronicity (“semi” because it’s apparently a repost), which I quite like. We’re not really doing synchronicity these days, but while I’m at it:
Tap Dancing
Actually true, making allowances for that graph in panel 3 being simplified to fit.
But not that hard to figure out, so it’s not really a CIDU for an audience as clever as ours. Eventually it will be one of those phrases where the original meaning of the term becomes ever more obscure, e.g. “not worth a plug nickel”.
Here’s how it was done in 1943:
One, two, five!
JMcAndrew ponders:
Does the military train soldiers with live grenades? How did they survive this? I’m starting to think that this comic isn’t very well thought out.
Which of course brings to mind the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch:
I’m betting I’m not the only one among us who has irritated their spouse by counting “One, two, five!” on occasion.
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