Umm, what part are we looking at in the 2nd and 3rd panels? If exposed bone, then how can the patient be so wide-awake?
Also, if the parity of turns is correct, the current site is playing O, and has only losing moves. Can’t they concede, and not ship the guy off to let County, playing X, claim their victory?
And you may find yourself … wondering about this comic.
A lengthy CIDU in six laborious parts.
Last Friday’s discussion about “Cornish Lobster” prompted a comment from beckoningchasm about Kliban’s “Cornish Game Clams“. I never read the book “Two Guys Fooling Around with the Moon” and had never heard of this sequence, but I soon discovered that it was hiding in plain sight at GoComics (starting on 11-Feb-2013).
Whether or not this was worth the effort is a question that CIDU readers will have to decide: I don’t understand what is going on in these comics at all (and it may just be random surrealism). Discussion is welcome (YMMV).
I cannot decipher this “Rhymes with Orange” strip at all:
I was clever enough to look up what a “Ted Talk” is supposed to be, but that doesn’t really help much. Did she don the headset before going to bed, or did she manage to put it on while sleeping? Or, perhaps her partner put it on her head, so that she wouldn’t lose the resulting somniloquy?
The last panel doesn’t make much sense following her declaration in the third panel, under the straightforward reading I would normally give it: “Nineteen weeks ago was the last time I felt directionless and at a loss. Since then it’s been pretty good.”
But to try to save it, is there a reasonable way to construe “since” and “had no” to give an overall meaning of “Nineteen weeks ago I had the wake-up call about my directionless life. And since then, no real progress. I am still at a loss.” That might gather applause for courage / honesty / forthright confession, but still aupport her thought that the applause is paradoxical. But is it really a passable reading of the words?
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Tim Harrod sends this one in. “So… now he’s sitting on a giraffe. And kings rarely do that, and that’s the joke? The whole joke? No dialogue to nudge us in the right direction?”
The previous day doesn’t seem helpful here.
Giraffes aren’t ridable due to both structure (sloped back) and attitude. They are kissable, though.
Thanks to both Boise Ed and Usual John for suggesting this one.
“First, why these questions? Is the guy on trial for credit-card fraud? Second, why is the judge wearing a ‘smoking jacket’ instead of judicial robes?”
Also of course “What’s the joke?”
Okay, Carlos is not quite making sense, but is it so bad that Tina is face-palming over it?
I wasn’t familiar with the idea of a special “Cornish Lobster” and thought maybe the joke was that Carlos was inventing it, on analogy to “Cornish game hen”. And if a customer ordered a roast chicken, say, and was served a Cornish hen, it would indeed be surprisingly small, and the cook or waitstaff might want to claim it is a prized variety. But it still wouldn’t fit the menu if sold by weight..
Here, however, is “An Introduction to Cornish Lobster” – claiming “Cornish lobster really are the king of the shellfish. During the season, they are delivered daily to us from a select lobster pot fleet, who catch these critters in pots dotted around the rocky Cornish coastline. A beautifully delicate, subtle-sweet flavour which is unlike anything you’ve ever tasted, our lobsters are a supreme choice to treat your taste buds.”
But still, what is Carlos thinking? That the delicacy should override the weight? And is that what Tina is cringing about? (Of course the customer is still steamed.)
Late-breaking P.S. — Just saw news flash that Red Lobster restaurants company is filing for bankruptcy. But I don’t think there is an intended allusion.
Thanks to Phred for sharing:
He adds, “I truly have no idea what this is getting at without Google.”
Joshua Kreitzer sends this one in, noting that the punchline suggests that Curtis thought Barry made a comment about smoking, but “Comment allez-vous? Como estás?” doesn’t sound like “smoking”.
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