Are those his dreams? Or what’s happening outside?
Either way, is there a punch line or message of some sort in the surprising outcome, that it leaves him well rested?
Because it was cathartic?
Category / CIDU
90 Years Ago in The New Yorker
August, 1933: More cultural references to decipher.
Did I miss some modern artifact (radio in 1933, or a refrigerator)?
There was a rather turbulent mayoral election in New York in 1933: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_New_York_City_mayoral_election
It took a while to find a candidate who would fly with the voters.
Euphemism?
Is Mooney someone we would have known?
Is B&C Just Trying to Get Their CIDU Count Up?
Chemgal sends this in, as does billr as well.
Some might say making a joke this obscure really isn’t cricket.
Two CIDUey Rabbits Against Magic
This first one may not strictly count as CIDU, since in the end I do understand it. But it took a lot of work!
For this other one, the song quoted and the musician mentioned are easily verified to match up, even if not in your personal playlist. But …
… but I genuinely don’t get the part about “If you’re gonna sound like a Karen…” — there doesn’t seem to be enough basis to take that in the contemporary quasi-political sense of a denigrating term for a woman being fussy in a certain way. And without that, what is there for “sound like a Karen” to mean?
The Devil’s
targuman sent:
noting, “I know the phrase ‘Idle hands make the Devil’s workshop’ (or similarly ‘Idle hands make for the Devil’s work’) but I don’t see the Devil working here…just hopping. I get that the idea is sort of like a kid leaving Legos on the floor, but it just doesn’t quite connect for me.”
We have a guess as to the intended story/joke here, but figured we’d let the assembled braintrust have at it.
David T. Abercrombie and his pal Ezra Fitch? Nah.
Was there a particular Abercrombie famous in 1966, that readers would have recognized? And thereby gotten a joke? Or just a fanciful name, whose associations we no longer get? And would the lecture have been about food spoilage and safety, or is her remark directed at the idea of putting up with something you regard as unpleasant?
Glasses
Mark H. notes: If you study the cartoon carefully, you’ll notice that it is impossible in a clinch like that for the glasses to be in that position on Edda’s nose. The bend of the temples would be up, not down.
Unless the clinch was significantly more complex than we were shown…
Is Reynolds Just a Foil Here?
There are many Reynolds movies I haven’t seen. Is this a reference to a scene in one of them?
Eek?
This week’s Beetle Bailey is confusing in a couple of ways:
I have to assume the first panel is a throwaway…but still don’t get the point?! Why is a lieutenant asking a sergeant if he needs to “spice up” his report? And in the rest, ok, there’s a mouse…and?
You can be found!
From Maggie the Cartoonist:
