Boise Ed submitted this Argyle Sweater as a “total CIDU”. The gag must have something to do with the source of the material in the hypodermic needle, but the apparently obvious anatomical pun doesn’t seem to be present, and wouldn’t automatically qualify as an effective joke, either. There must be a better explanation.
This first one is more of an Ewww than an OY:
P.S. The weather this summer has been exceptional for snails and slugs; every few days I can go into the back yard and collect a dozen (or even a score) of the gross things.
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This is only the third time that the Keane’s “Family Circus” has appeared at CIDU (not counting a few mashups and tangential references).
A Comic I didn’t understand the first three times I saw it. I wasn’t puzzled, just mistaken.
I thought the point was just in the dog choosing to ignore the request (command) and pursue different interests.
This atrocious B.C. pun appeared just in time for the opening ceremonies:
Tolkien wrote that the Elves made three rings, the Dwarves were given seven rings, and Sauron made nine rings to entrap the Nazgul, but where do the five rings fit into the story?
I don’t understand the joke, and I have no idea what the forbidden word is supposed to be:
What’s the joke here?
Is there a pun in the name Arlo Hoyt?
This is common financial advice (e.g. in the book The Psychology of Money, by Morgan Housel, which I just finished), or, famously, in Dickens novel, David Copperfield.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.
Or, could the joke be that Arlo Hoyt has claimed that he coined this common maxim himself, and has erected a status of himself in his honor?
For less helpful advice, certainly not what Dickens’ Mr. Micawber would have advised, we have this from Randy Glasbergen:
The GoComics comments provide many more things those initials can mean; but none that make sense in the context.
Should that be Le Croissant de Death?
I guess this was before renting a bouncy castle was the thing for kids’ parties.
Thanks to BillR for sending!
Probably not helpful:
Boise Ed sends this in. “I’m unfamiliar with church practices, but it appears that the customer is envious of the priest’s abundant hair, and has asked the priest about using placebo and “alternative reality.” But then why would the priest have to remind him of his baldness? My question: what’s going on here?”
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