Category / CIDU

by zbicyclist

What a Setup

I don’t understand the setup here. Some guesses:

  1. This is a couple meeting with a financial advisor, and they’ve just described their expectations for their investments. But why the guy with the laptop on the right?
  2. This is a divorcing couple meeting with a mediator, or the woman in pink is getting divorced, the guy in the suit is her lawyer, the woman in red is the opposing lawyer, and the man with the laptop is taking notes.
  3. Commenters on GoComics seem to think this is an annual performance review. But the only performance reviews I ever gave or had that involved more than just supervisor and employee were when we needed HR in the room and security nearby because we were firing someone and they needed to leave immediately. And that wouldn’t involve expectations.
by zbicyclist

Too Funny?

Mitch4 sends this in: “Two and a half hypotheses:
1) The intended cartoon was indeed pulled by the editors, for being in one or another aspect beyond the limits of acceptable — political or personally impolite etc.
[1.5 Exactly as reported, it was pulled for being “too humorous” — nah, very unlikely, but maybe this was literally what was stated to him though intended to convey #1.]
2) Nothing of the sort happened, and this is just a variation on “the cartoonist took a day off from drawing”.”

by zbicyclist

Analyze This!

Kedamo sends this in: “Fear of heights? Large furniture? Having Neil deGrasse Tyson as your psychologist? I don’t get it.”

Stan also sent this in: “…as in “Psych! The couch is too big for you!” or “psycHIatry… the couch is to high”? I’m reaching here. I haven’t a clue.”

This is Frank and Ernest, which is very often a pun, but I can’t find one here, either.

A related theme, but not a CIDU: