Okay, it is funny that even in this stilts-in-the-water circumstance there is a separate little doghouse in the back yard, complete with feeding bowls. But is that the joke? Does it explain the things hanging from the outer walls of the houses? Boat bumpers?? What are the things stacked on either side of the big house? Lobster traps?? Are they out for a row instead of a walk?
Is that a child? Is that an elf?? What is he doing, at all? What is that teal-blue highlight on the truck-tractor?
Okay, there’s a joke that the younger generation are hip to Internet stuff like memes and chat abbreviations.
But subsidiary puzzlements:
The Cat’s first line raised some red flags, but turned out to be mostly litteral and not the takeoff point for a racial-politics discussion.
Then the CIDU to be explained is the reaction to triangles. Is he warning the Girl, because of the triangles in her collar? and the sort-of triangles her upswept hair strands make. Or his own ears? What’s the point?
For those interested in the actual question “Can cats see color?” [or “colour”], here is a search response, from a longer answer at a U.K Purina site :
Yes, cats can see colours! Although they can’t appreciate the full spectrum and the vast variety of shades that we humans can, their world isn’t solely black and white like many previously believed.
The Spanish version also has “chuic”, so could it be just an omission of translating? See if this helps:
But even if we put in “Cool!”, does that clarify the story/joke?
A clever LOL-OY-CIDU from Keith Knight.
The CIDU aspect is not anything deeply puzzling, but let’s just ask how long it took you to see how the bananas got into the discourse.
So in this world, all and everything has wavy lines for edges and surfaces? But this hero inventor has another idea ….
Is such a world even possible?
Could there be a world in which, whenever you put two things down, then another two, there always naturally turned out to be five of them there?
Is there any place around there that actually looks like this? Are the houses crawling up or down the dune?
No, really, who is the Santa, and who are the critters? And what are they taking turns at?
(And is this one of those “It would be perfectly clear to you if you just had the first clue about popular culture” cases?)
Yes, this appeared on Christmas Sunday. Yes, I know there is a performer named Mariah Carey. Is this what she looks like?
Dirk the Daring sends in this one. The basic joke is just that Hagar messes up. But the details? Did he try to eat it? Did he impale himself on it? Did it get stuck in his beard? (but an internet search on “images violinists with beards” returns a lot of violinists with far longer beards). What’s the situation in that last panel?
And, if you dare, how would you stage that last panel?
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