Let’s get this one out there for your speculations before Wayno’s blog appears on the weekend!
Honk if you like comics (Bonus CIDU)
Category / CIDU
Something’s Bugging Me About This Analogy
As Kilby writes, Adam “doesn’t seem to get ANY of these analogies right”.
Can we help him?
Is there a connection between a premium and an orc (beyond the fact that the Uruk-Hai were a new, premium type of orc developed by Sauron)?
Is there a connection between a deductible and a ranger? (etc.)
Can you think of another literary work that might be a better fit to insurance? (Maybe Kafka’s The Trial for health insurance claims, for example?)
By the way, have you checked lately to make sure your car’s extended warranty isn’t about to expire?
Easily happens
Thanks to Boise Ed, who says “This is a total CIDU for me. The conductor faints and mad violence break out?”
Cloudbusting?
Bonking the wrong pig
Thanks to CloonBounty for sending this in and engaging the co-editors in discussion, starting by remarking “Can you help me out with this? I get the punny gag. But why did the one who merely listened to the ‘bad pun’ get the punishment?”
Second take?
This comic is from 1965, but showed up today at GoComics recycling of old B.C. comics. There are a lot of possibilities related to Janus being two faced, but do any of them come together as a gag?
I’ll have some roast beast (bonus CIDU)
This one from Matthew McKeever, who concisely expresses his puzzlement in this email subject line: “???”
Something’s Unfin
Kenneth Berkun sends this one in. Seems to be missing something, but missing things is what CIDU is all about.
Have a nice trip
We all know to watch out for some tricky switcheroo from Horace. But this one whizzes right past me.
Summer at Home
Thanks to Rob S. for this one by Tom Falco. That “Summer at Home” title is the cartoonist’s title for it, and goes with his inflation-leads-to-staycation topical message.
But the real interest the panel holds for us is the way the picture is based on an ad campaign from a ways back. Can you remember the brand that used that picture, and a slogan (in the form of a question) associated with that brand and this ad campaign … or a competitor’s?
Rob shares that he indeed thought of the competitor first, as did the cartoonist according to his blog entry. See the Tomversation blog for Falco’s discussion of this, including the original windswept photo from the ads.
