Thanks to Brian in STL for this puzzling case of “either you know it or you don’t” from Heart of the City. Brian and your editors all were in the don’t-know bucket, but the bit was illuminated by comments in the GoComics site.
Please refrain from posting spoiler answers before, shall we say noon? Though you can get your licks in by just saying you got it.
What does Renoir have to do with it? Is the hiker a city guy seeing a city scene (deli with hanging salamis) in a painting that isn’t really that? Or that actually <i>is</i> the painting, rather than the pastoral landscape we expect?
Hasn’t the psychiatric booth always been five cents? Is this new? Updated for post-COVID inflation? Or did I miss something else?
https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/Lucy%27s_psychiatry_booth talks about it being seven cents for legal help, but this isn’t that.
With the snowman involved, I’d’ve guessed prices would be frozen! <boom-tish>
It’s a sad day when you can’t tell whether something is a clue or just an oddity of a cartoonist’s drawing style.
Thanks to waltmorris for the contribution!
Thanks to Ooten Aboot:
… who explains: “I understand the point of bread pudding is to use perishable ingredients (e.g. bread, milk and eggs) before they perish. I don’t understand why A & J would keep perishables as their ‘snow provisions’. Suspension of disbelief will only stretch so far.”
Thanks to David Curwin.
Is there even a nephew in the Capt. America canon and this kid is claiming to be him? Or is it altogether his invention?
Is there a *particular* “traditional Christmas sweet, cherished for generations” that he fears will be mishandled by American adaptation? And he doesn’t name it? Are we supposed to be able to figure it out; or is it just generalized and hypothetical?
Originally picked up from GoComics, but phsiiicidu was able to locate it at SMBC’s own site. So we can report on the rollover text, as there are those who think an SMBC is incomplete without it. But here it seems to offer nothing to solve those doubts. “One day, molecular printers will allow starbucks to serve every conceivable food as a whipped topping.”
Andréa sent in this one.
Sure, Dilbert has no mouth, but the others do. And there are five balloons for 3 people.
