Hinches sends this in: “I think it has to do with the doughnuts being the crime scene, The white circles were drawn by the cop with the white marker in his hand around the alleged dropped donuts. The look on his face seems to suggest after drawing the circles, either he or both of the cops explaining what happened ate the evidence. However, why is the ground under the white circles so dark? Does that have some meaning?”
Straightforward, if not funny:
But what about those papers that might print 4-panel Nancy as a 2×2?
or some other orientation?
In earlier days, Bushmiller would sometimes do a 3 panel, but in the examples I looked at the third panel was double-width, so it would still fit within a 2×2 orientation. But perhaps the number of papers who might be affected is approaching 0.
…they don’t have roads?
Jack Applin writes:
I was puzzled by the “off-road trim”, because cavemen don’t have roads. Then I recalled “Dip in Road”. OK, fine. Why would the triangular wheel cause political arguments? It’s not pink. Is it simply “That other political party is so stupid that they promote triangular wheels! Haw haw!”?
Jack Applin has a quibble: “Yes, a squibble. Olaf is unquestionably a squibble. Certainly, he’s not a squiggle—he’s a squibble. WTF is a squibble!?”
billr sends this in: “A mystery”.
If the name Juan Valdez doesn’t ring a bell:
1985 100% Colombian Coffee “Juan Valdez – This is how you pick the richest coffee” TV Commercial
Mitch4 has some questions:
“1) Are the shoes in the last panel meant to be actually larger, or just drawn that way to call our attention to them? Are these her own shoes with left and right exchanged, or maybe even somebody else’s shoes?
“2) What does her seating behind that tall, bald man have to do with getting her shoes “mixed up” [regardless of which kind of mixing up it was]? Does it mean she stood up on her seat to see past him, but was courteous enough to take off her shoes so as to not dirty up the seat as much?”
BVCC sends this in, suggesting: “How about a new category: Joke or Typo? Is “chipmonk” some pun that I don’t understand, or was the editor asleep at the switch?”
Thanks for the suggestion, BVCC. Category added.
There are a variety of chip monk jokes, such as this one:
A monastery in the English countryside has fallen on hard times, and the monks decide to open a fish-and-chips restaurant. The establishment soon became very popular, attracting people from all over.
One city fellow, thinking himself clever, asked one of the brothers standing nearby, “I suppose you’re the ‘fish friar?’”
“No,” answered the brother, straight-faced. “I’m the ‘chip monk.'”
Perhaps this comic is an allusion to a joke I’ve not heard. A cultural reference that comes to mind is to Helen Reddy’s “I am Woman, hear me roar”, but that would make this clearly a typo.
Darren sends this in, to continue of the day’s theme of typos:
Consul, the Almost Human wonders “What is that falling into (or being flung from) the pool?”
