Dirk the Daring notes “Even though I follow this strip, I can’t figure this one out. She’s preggers, he hold her up while he flies, but all those pillows? Some kind of protection? I don’t get it.”
Flying for Two?
Category / CIDU
Our traditional target — olives!
Thanks to Phred for sending this in.
Ooooh, some dark Bliss!
But published on Friday the Thirteenth, which may explain it.
Yes, it’s something of a CIDU, raising unanswered questions, even if they aren’t deep questions. Is the boy from his public family, or his secret family? And either way, what is the point of this conversation? (Besides getting to enact a takeoff on this erstwhile very standard capitalist melodrama scene.)
If you were thinking that the color version might brighten our outlook, let’s give it a try:
Something Fishy Here
Shouldn’t there be some water somewhere? That seems like the really dangerous part…
Well, was it true?
Was it true, the warning in the bottom left?
Tell me this isn’t just the Liar Paradox dressed up.
Help wanted, researcher in history of science
Your task, should you accept it, will be to decide whether these are just randomly selected dates, or are days (nights) when something of scientific significance could have been observed, at other locations or weather conditions.
Bang against?
Meaning protest by making noise banging pots? Or just bumping into?
He’s in the doghouse over that!
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?
You call that working?
Is that a child? Is that an elf?? What is he doing, at all? What is that teal-blue highlight on the truck-tractor?
RUTHL
Okay, there’s a joke that the younger generation are hip to Internet stuff like memes and chat abbreviations.
But subsidiary puzzlements:
- Is that a standard or geezerly riddle, about the waiter saying that?
- Is Sisyphus supposed to be amusing himself texting jokes, distracting from his labors?
Bonus RUTH
