Mitch4 sends this in: “I think I get it that each phrase in the third panel is supposed to be a disguising rewriting of a phrase which would trigger automated censorship. But the particular translations completely escape me! (Except maybe Crime==>Un-A-Law, on the model of “unalive”.) And tell me, how is “the body, melted Crayola-style” not just as much triggering as whatever it is meant to substitute for?”
billr mused the title above re this:
I guess something about lemons at a lemon funeral, but who would serve long pig at a human funeral? For that matter, who serves refreshments at the funeral??
chemgal sends this in: “This is more of a “child I don’t understand.” If you’re not familiar with the authors, a quick search will turn up the books being referenced, but even if Caulfield is supposed to be exceptional, he’s what, grade 4? This stretches my suspension of disbelief.”
Boise Ed also sent this one in: “The first two panels are good. It’s the third one that puzzles me. My friend Mr. Google tells me Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author who studies how people find motivation and meaning, and Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist best-known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics. I can only guess that the book-report assignment was on a title of the student’s choosing, and Caulfield may have chosen a book by one of those psychologists. Maybe he wrote something frivolous and is counting on Mrs. Olsen liking the origami too much to unfold it.”
Kedamono sends this in: “For the life of me I don’t get the joke made by the alien, Odom. And I can see the word balloons.”
The construction is curious. Is the yellow character (the editor isn’t fully familiar with this strip) supposed to be seeing/hearing some of the word balloons but not others? Is the joke just going over their head?
Ian Christian sends this in: “I’ve heard of Larry David but I haven’t got the foggiest notion what it all means‽”
BVCC sends this in: “I got nothin’. Maybe I’m too old for meme jokes.”
Kedamono sends this in: “It’s not the joke, but the flag. What do those symbols mean? I can’t make heads or tails of them.”
…but it definitely will be for some! Thanks, billr:
Bill didn’t know who the guy in the bed is. I guess the key is to guess what operation he needs!
*Not a typo
Jack Applin sends this in: “The rabbit, Eightball, seems to have it backward—he states that the British caricature calls this an elevator, but the British generally call that vertically-mobile conveyance a lift. He also states that “we” call it a lift, but I’m not sure where “we” are. I always figured that Rabbits Against Magic took place in the USA (the January 12 states that “we invaded Venezuela”).
Also, where is Mr. Wriggly, the worm who is generally in all the strips?”
Dirk the Daring shares this, wondering “Is this just cluelessness or am I missing something? Is there an innuendo related to ‘get out’? And if there isn’t, there should be.”
The only comments so far on Comics Kingdom show equal bafflement, wondering where the “gynecologist” comment comes from. One commenter notes, “There’s oblivious, and then there’s Curtis Wilkins”, which I tend to agree with.
Folks, we’re thin on the ground with upcoming posts–please do share your CIDUs!
Comics I Don't Understand 