ʇı pɐǝɹ ʎpɐǝɹןɐ uɐɔ sn ɟo ʎuɐɯ pu∀
which is yet another confounding factor.
Um, when is that supposed to apply?
Category / CIDU
Silly indeed?
Phred sends:
Is that a 9- or 13-digit silly?
Human tools
Okay, what does this collection of sort-of-household objects represent? What is their connection to the inset cartoon panel at the bottom, and what’s the joke?
I had a clearly incorrect idea to begin with, that these are the functions which have been supplanted by use of a phone, and thus an indication of how severely she is restricted until her phone is operational again. But no; there really can’t be a hammer-and-saw app that actually cuts wood or pounds nails.
And while we’re looking at it, how accurate is Bub’s memory-definition?
POSSIBLE SPOILER.
In the GoComics comments, there is a pretty plausible suggestion for one of our questions: The objects are things that go on working, without needing an update. IMO imperfect but pretty good — as explaining the selection, even if not the joke.
Act Plastic
These look like crumpled up plastic water bottles, but these always were plastic, and seldom carried purses.
I was reminded of Country Joe McDonald’s “Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda, a Geniune Plastic Man”, but any connection is doubtful.
60 Years Ago in The New Yorker
This one’s not a mystery. It’s just a reminder that being replaced by machines, especially computers, is not new at all. And not unrealistic at all.
What’s the hat got to do with it? The hat is the punch line; otherwise it’s just two thugs.
Mirages? I note in passing that styles in swimsuits haven’t changed all that much in 60 years. This song is just a handful of years earlier.
Celibate Good Times, Come On!
Usual John sends this one in.
Celibacy and chastity are often confused. Celibacy means not getting married, although it is often extended to not having sex. Chastity means not having sex, or not having sex outside of marriage.
Regardless of definitional issues, this doesn’t seem to make sense. IIRC, Maude and Jake are long term partners in B.C.’s world. And who’s getting redeemed?
Floating in Time
Mark H. sends this in. “An explanation of sorts for the timeline juggling that has been part of 9CL for the last few months. Lately, we seem to have skipped about 12 or 14 years, to where Polly and Lolly are now late teenagers.”
Help?
I don’t see, even in theory, what kind of help that thing is supposed to offer. Or what its design is meant to do.
I’m stumped!
Thanks to Tim Harrod for sending this in, and for his comments (below).
“Another baffler from the Hart estate. What has the Wizard done that’s transgressive, that he wouldn’t want to be connected to or blamed for? Does he think lumberjacks will be pissed that he’s slightly undoing their labor? I’m pretty sure they just want the wood.”
My Dinner with Hagar
Boise Ed sent this one in. If Hagar and Eddie joined the onstage table, they must have thought they were at a dinner theater. But if it were a dinner theater, the audience wouldn’t be in rows of theater seats. It looks like they went to a stage play, got there late, saw the scene involving a meal, then sat there. Even those two aren’t that dumb.
