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by zbicyclist

Dino

Targuman sends this in: “I’ve got nothing. I can’t understand it as a pun, visually it doesn’t make sense, it’s a dinosaur, but it’s breathing fire like a dragon? Anyone? Or is this just a humorous drawing that he put a title on?”

CIDU eschews politics and religion, but I’m not sure this is really religion. If the explanation offends someone’s religious beliefs, your editor apologizes. If there’s a follow-up of Mohammed as a dinosaur, for sure we’re not posting that!

Even for Lug Nuts, which tends to the surreal, this one is odd. Any guesses?

Another Lug Nuts example: it depends more on unusual images, and isn’t a typical gag strip:

by zbicyclist

Flea at last, thank God almighty we are flea at last!

Andrew Miller sends this in: “This sounds like a reference to some phrase. ‘Friends with benefits’ is the only similar thing I can think of and would be a stretch at best. Also not sure why one dog has opposable thumbs and a smartphone. Is the joke just “fleas are contagious?” That would be less of a joke and more of a useful tip for a child that just discovered them.

Since I have space in the comment box and it’s come to mind, I’ll recite De Morgan’s Siphonaptera:

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.”