Editor ZBicyclist is on vacation, and taking a cue from comics that repeat old episodes is dipping back into the past: June 2021. This was originally posted by Winter Wallaby.
From dollarbill.
“Scare Quotes”
Category / CIDU
You’re … not out!
Editor ZBicyclist is on vacation, and taking a cue from comics that repeat old episodes is dipping back into the past: June 2021. This was originally posted by EditorM.
Sent by a very puzzled Harvey Heilbrun.
(We haven’t featured In The Bleachers very often.)
What they’re resorting to
Editor ZBicyclist is on vacation, and taking a cue from comics that repeat old episodes is dipping back into the past: June 2021. This was originally posted by EditorM. Is modal fabric still around?
I only recently learned there is a newfangled fabric called “modal”, popular for linens[*] and underwear; which mostly explains the modal-logic joke for me. But some of the rest of these are still puzzling.
[*] No, linens are not presumptively made from linen. Though they can be. Oy!
The Man in Black
JMcAndrew sends this in: “I have no idea what the joke here is. It’s a snowman with a top hat and black cape and the crows like him because they are also black? Why is there fire?”
Days of Our Lives
Probably missing some weak pun here.
Non-Newtonian Physics?
Kedamono sends this in: “Nothing Horace the Horse did in the first two panels would have resulted in the third…”
Pregnant Paws
JMcAndrew sends this in: “Why can’t the cat go to the office? Did Ziggy somehow cause the cat to become pregnant and he’s worried about the legal consequences?”
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Mitch4 sends this in: “The two rowers were seated as though to propel the boat astern, left-to-right. The magically-appearing outboard then correctly sends the boat right-to-left.”
Jack Applin adds: “Margot, the millennial with the afro puffs, has near-supernatural abilities at times, so we can assume that she unconsciously created the outboard motor. However, why are the characters rowing backward? When you row, you pull on the oars, which sends the boat in the opposite direction that you’re facing. The bow (front) of this boat is on the left, as indicated by its shape (also, the motor appears at the right). The rowers should be facing right, not left. Perhaps this explains why they’re doing so poorly—they’re either pushing the oars, or trying to make the boat go backwards, flat end first.”
Actually, in panel 2 it’s not clear what’s going on, given the angle of the rower’s back and the oars. Is it possible the cartoonist just doesn’t understand how rowing a boat works?
Saturday Morning OYs June 13, 2026
Mitch4 sends this in.
For me, it was a momentary CIDU. Mitch4 notes “May be pronunciation dependent (“conch”).”
Fourplay
billr sends this in: “I don’t play golf. Is this supposed to be a pun on “fore”?”
Your editor isn’t a golfer either. How often do players actually yell “Fore”?
