Category / CIDU

by EditorM

“Topkapi”, right?

All the commenters at GoComics suggest this would be a scene from a heist story, but among those who suggest particular titles there was a mix of Mission Impossible, Leverage, and Topkapi.

But what’s the joke? I hope it isn’t that this is a bird so it could be flying instead of using the harness. Since this doesn’t seem like the kind of bird that can do precise flying, let alone hovering.

by EditorM

Wait, is this meant to be encouraging or completely defeatist?

Defeatist, that is, in that the only solution is to give up and do something else. *Not* “do some lateral thinking and that could help” . Or simply “why don ‘t you take a break, and get refreshed”?

But then again, it could be trying to get a little meta, with “the box” also meaning the borders of the cartoon strip panels. But projected back to the realism layer, that means … what? The cartoonist will yank you from your toils?

by EditorM

Redacted

If this were CSI instead of CIDU, and the villain had covered something up with marker pen, we could just shine some ultraviolet or powerful visual-band light of the best narrow frequency, and see right off what’s under there.

But at this remove the best we can do is go by shapes. And by guessing whether Teresa would more likely josh one of her friends in the cartooning world, or genuinely insult someone whose tolerance she is willing to test.

Oh, wait, wait! Or are these layabouts in the coffee shop the real targets, and the comic they’re putting down is Frog Applause itself … in a different spelling?

by multipleciduers

Wearing (out) of the green

A general note of remembrance for the holiday of green beer and green Chicago River.

The first two are holdovers from last week, when we had other things a-posting and didn’t remark Saint Padraic’s Day on CIDU main feed. A few helpful readers posted St Patrick’s Day jokes to the thread for that day, thank you for renewing the principle of thread drift!

This one was sent in by BillR, looking for what the gag is. It provoked a good discussion behind the scenes of CIDU, where we soon enough agreed on the intended gag but remained divided on whether some terminology was being misapplied!

(For the tag-watchers [or actually, category], yes this post is marked both CIDU and not-a-CIDU. Those just apply to different cartoons, that’s all.)