Category / CIDU

by phsiii

“I’ll be at The Library”

JMcAndrew asks, “I’d think at age 5 Dennis would already know what a zoo is. Did Henry take Dennis to some kind of strip club and tell him it was the zoo?”

From the expression on Henry’s face, I think that might be the case, though this seems odd and inappropriate for a DtM strip!

I’m reminded of the alleged bar or strip club named The Library, a great place to spend an afternoon “studying”…

by phsiii

I get it, I get it not

Nancy is often a head-scratcher for me, and this one is no exception:

There’s some fourth-wall thing going on there, but not sure why/what: the flower isn’t changing; “three” and “four” are missing…and is there a joke in here somewhere? Wikipedia describes the strip as “surreal humor”, but there’s gotta be SOME humor for that to work…

by zbicyclist

Canoodling?

Boise Ed sends this in: “I’m guessing that this — FBI collared shirt, straitjacket, ramen noodles. –pertains to some slasher movie.

“GoComics has apparently removed commenting from this strip. I also note that since their remodeling, one cannot get a dated URL by going to yesterday’s and then back to today’s; one has to go to yesterday’s, copy that URL, and then manually change the date. Humpf.”

by zbicyclist

Floating Gravestones

Lopes has an idea here, a link to either Native American burial grounds or elephant graveyards. But somehow I’m bothered by the elements. Stone tombstones floating? Who puts up the tombstones? Why would a ship pass through this unsafe area? Are whales Christian?

Elephant graveyards are said to be a myth, although when I visited Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania the guide showed us one. It was suspiciously close to a road, so I suspect this may have been where they would haul dead elephants, or maybe the result of poaching for ivory. Guides are, of course, always looking for a good story to tell the tourists.

Dead whales usually sink to the bottom, where they can become whale falls, an ecosystem supported by the dead whales. Since they are whale falls, does this mean whales tend to die in autumn?

But while we’re on the topic of graveyards, this non-CIDU was farther down in my comics feed:

by zbicyclist

Something Fishy

JMcAndrew sends this in: “I don’t ever eat them myself but is this an actual problem that people who do eat sardines encounter? Sardines have tiny bones so I don’t think people are using them for sandwiches either.”

Your editor remembers his father-in-law, of Norwegian ancestry, eating sardines on toast regularly. He lived to be 95 years old, so perhaps the calcium from all those sardine bones kept his bones strong. But I don’t recall problems with the sardines sliding out.

This also leads to a consideration of what can go well in a peanut butter sandwich. Jellies and jams for sure. Marmalade and honey are close relatives. Raisins are also a sweet touch. Peanut butter and dill pickle chips, or peanut butter and sauerkraut are good for a savory change of pace. I’ve never tried a peanut butter and sardine sandwich. Any other nominees?