To me this is an undecidable, but it’s not of the “What in the world?” type, but just which of a few basic alternatives. It could be the speaker is right, and the particular paintings in this gallery are setting the kid off. Or the kid is just tired and cranky, and being still walking around anywhere in the museum would set off the tantrum. In which case the speaker is probably just dense and mistaken (and we’re amused at him); or he is attempting a joke of his own.
An unpleasant image and I don’t understand the joke exactly.
And if the answer is “leash”, how ironic that the comic strip is “Free Range”.
Chak says “I know this is supposed to be a pun, but I’m hoping some of our Aussie readers will tell me what it is. ” I agree it has to be a pun — in fact the artist’s home blog gives the title “Ram home the pun” — and I’m no more able to say just what it is.
Thanks to our dog-fancier Andréa for this!
Besides the synchronicity, I’d say the Man Overboard is a bit of a CIDU in itself.
P.S. With all the tech and tech-adjacent people we have here, has anyone worked in an environment where Kerberos was the security/authentication system? Did it ever work right? Including wide-area single-sign-in?
Thanks to Andréa, who called it a “CIDU that I’m too lazy to look up.”
I gave in and looked it up! Alicia Keys had a song “Girl on Fire”. And the lookup also finds a few parodies, under titles like “This girl is on Pfizer,” that predate this cartoon. Indeed it seems to be a fast-moving meme, with hashtags on Twitter and TikTok.
The list of manufacturers sounds like the choices for Covid vaccine, though I guess they would be similar for Flu. The song parody with available lyrics certainly made it Covid, and it’s tempting to suppose that was Hilburn’s idea at first which then got softened, as it were. (The actual song dates from 2012)
A real puzzler from Dale Eltoft:
A DSOH puzzler from zbicyclist:
Thanks to Andréa for this subtle groaner:
Sources say that either the exclamation “Great Scott” is not attached to any particular person with that name; or else may be associated with Sir Walter Scott, or with U.S. General Winfield Scott. But here, with the talk of Antarctica and the South Pole, surely they intend some kind of glance at famous and unfortunate polar explorer Robert F Scott?
And another from Andréa, who calls this “Barely an oy”. Also fodder for you dialectologists out there.
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