Category / CIDU

by EditorM

Whatting their whats?

(If you think the Carolyn Hax column where this appeared might explain it, you can try this freebie link and read it for yourself. But I thought the connection was barely discernible.)

Afterthought. — This had already been in the queue for about a week, with the title “Whatting their whats?” as still shown, when I happened on this Frog Applause and wanted to postscript it for the wording.

by EditorM

Like a brick doghouse (bonus cidu)

Stan sent this in and provided a summation of the storyline that led up to it.

Stan’s summary: “Got a head-scratcher here… Peanuts had a running storyline of Snoopy getting obsessed with the idea of a big bad wolf coming to blow his doghouse down. To calm him, Lucy draws some lines on the doghouse to make it look like it’s made of bricks to thwart potential lupine attacks. Then this strip comes along. I haven’t got a clue what Snoopy is going on about.”

Mitch’s response: “Thanks for explaining the backstory!  That explains what has happened that annoys him so much: the rain has erased the brick design.  I guess his verbal expression of annoyance is meant to resemble the sort of cute-colorful countryisms at one time associated with Dan Rather, or some TV old lady who said something about grits.  Only, he’s not a country-and-western  dog , so he comes up with some other annoying thing to compare it with.  But he is just giving it as a comic comparison, not saying anything actually about heating pads. Nor any connection to the brick doghouse story, either.”

But is that funny? Does it require some substantial point of connection?

For your context & amusement, here are some of the strips establishing that story:

by EditorM

Good old-fashioned pineapple hate

BillR sent this in and said “I know pineapple on pizza is a contentious issue (I’m in favor, myself) but what’s the joke here?” And hdh sent it and had a related thought: “Okay does this have something to do with the domino effect or pineapple on pizza controversy?”

I agree it’s probably just a gesture of pineapple-hate.  But I can’t quell the urge to take “gruesome”  as “grew some”  despite not having any available grammatical quirk that would make that sensible.  

Hey, not avoiding brand names!

by EditorM

Clips (bonus cidu/amuse)

Citizen Kane took me a moment! The Old Yeller I don’t get, but I don’t recall much about the movie. Maybe my favorite here is Vertigo.

I’m recalling (but not its name) a comics-page feature which used photos of everyday household objects manipulated and posed, to fit a comic caption. I can imaging them trying to do this same thing with real paper clips. But probably the drawings are a better way to go.

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WP tech check. L:et’s see if a WEBP image works in a WP post. It’s a bit tiresome converting them.

by EditorM

Ecce Homo

Thanks to Targuman, who says “Rather than Charles, wouldn’t he be any Tom, Dick, or Herodotus? He clearly got the human half of each so he is just…human.”

Meanwhile this has sent your editor to the dictionaries to figure out why Minotaur and Centaur weren’t both bullish.

But the CIDU factor mostly remains “Why Charles?” Or whatever leaves you scratching your head here…

(I was also going to ask why WuMo doesn’t appear on WaPo; but it turns out, it does. 🤷‍♂️ )