Category / CIDU

by zbicyclist

Rubes Cubed

BVCC sends this in: “Has Leigh Rubin lost his marbles? Three CIDUs in a row. I almost get see something in Friday’s, with “load” having a scatological connotation. But it doesn’t seem like a joke to me. And I don’t get “horse property” or “Lilliputian Marines” at all.”

Here’s the earlier ones BVCC refers to:

A search for “horse property” pulls up this one: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3113-Camino-Del-Rancho-Encinitas-CA-92024/52510076_zpid/ Put in your bids now!

Your editor, a statistician, finds it interesting that the question of “where are there a lot of horses?” depends somewhat on how you map the data. All 3 maps are from Brilliant Maps, with the data originating with the USDA. For example, Fayette County, KY is #1 in horses per square mile, but not even in the top 10 in horses per capita.

by zbicyclist

Old Men

JMcAndrew sends in these two, with an old man theme: “Trying to figure this one out. I’ve seen the movie “Grumpy Old Men” and don’t think that Walter Matthau looks anything like Saddam Hussein.”

JMcAndrew: I get the joke and I have seen “Blow Out” which is actually an excellent film. Submitted as an obvious eww but also considered that Travolta is now over 70 it wouldn’t be that surprising to find out he does have need for incontinence products.

by zbicyclist

Still a CIDU

Pete writes: “This is a copy of a joke Johnny Hart used decades ago. I didn’t get it then either.”

Now your editor has to rant a bit. I didn’t sign onto GoComics on April 1, because I was busy that day. When I tried to sign in to the “new and improved site” on April 2, about 8:15 pm CDT, I couldn’t. I asked for a password reset, which requires sending a verification email (pretty standard). After 30 minutes and 3 resend tries, a verification email never arrived. The help screen is less than helpful:

Beta testing before releasing software is not a crime!

by zbicyclist

Ziggy Goes to the Movies

JMcAndrew sends this one in: “There’s a new Disney Snow White movie in the theater today and although I haven’t seen it yet I don’t think it’s going to be X-Rated. Also I want to point out that if you look really closely under the banner that says “X-rated” you can see the feet of the dwarves who are apparently participating in an orgy. … I think Ziggy himself is a “little person” so maybe he is just going to see it out of a sense of solidarity.”

by phsiii

Intense? In tents?? No idea

Random web find, at
https://www.victorianlondon.org/words/aesthetic.htm:

Text on the page:

REFINEMENTS OF MODERN SPEECH.

SCENE – A Drawing-room in “Passionate Brompton.”

Fair Aesthetic (suddenly, and in deepest tones, to Smith, who has just been introduced to take her in to Dinner). “ARE YOU INTENSE?”

Punch, June 14, 1879

100% CIDU for me. The rest of the site is interesting, including
https://www.victorianlondon.org/index.html and especially
https://www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm

by phsiii

Earl who??

From JMcAndrew:

Are we supposed to know who this person is that has a giant memorial outhouse topped with a giant statue? It appears to be more like a mausoleum made out of stone.

Indeed…and no, Tha Goog doesn’t know who Earl J. Suggins was, either.

This editor’s guess is that this falls into the “This is vaguely silly and therefore funny because I have to turn in a cartoon for tomorrow and I got nuttin’ else” category.