A CIDU (or Ooops!) from zbicyclist, who explains: The line from Folsom Prison Blues is “I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die”. So what’s the significance of Kansas City (where everything is up to date, according to Rodgers and Hammerstein)?
Can you advance a principled reason for changing the city? And, more to the CIDU point, how does her “ready for marriage” second sentence relate to anything?
Thanks to Darren for sending this. His thoughts:
So does the fact that the statue is of Lenin mean anything here, or is it just a too-large ugly statue that could be of anyone? (Like Alice wanting a stone fountain for the backyard)
Seems odd that he would want a statue of Lenin or that his wife is only mildly annoyed with the purchase.
Or is this a name thing? Len likes a statue of someone named Len(in)? I don’t get it.
When I got Darren’s email, I almost immediately recognized his allusion to “Alice wanting a stone fountain for the backyard” as referencing a multi-strip story in Cul de Sac, which I had recently seen. But I couldn’t find it in recent GoComics reprints of the CdS archive. Anyhow, the CIDU advisers crew responded to my inquiry in our Random Comments thread, and identified the early appearance of the story starting around https://www.gocomics.com/culdesac/2009/12/02 and including for example this one:
Further, commenter jajizi identified an earlier similar storyline, starting around https://www.gocomics.com/culdesac/2008/09/02 and including for example:
Thanks to Jack Applin for sending this in.
BTW, the cartoonist’s title for this is “Sole food”.
Thanks to Ken Berkun and to Dale Eltoft, who both sent it in, and may differ in theories of what the message ended up being.
Thanks to Rob for this CIDU + Geezer panel from The Daily Drawing:
My memory was that the farm dogs were excluded from the rebellion because they were considered too close to the humans. But I just looked up a plot summary and it talks about “Napoleon’s dogs” repeatedly as enforcers.
Anyway, what had the pig just told the dog that needed this interruption?
Andréa says “We’ve had a pool for five years now, and other than kids peeing in it (which is why only dogs and adults are allowed in ours), I don’t understand this. Chlorine is MORE necessary when it’s warm and sunny . . . and yes, I remember we had some kind of discussion about kids in pools quite a while ago.”
What I even more don’t get is what the four descending inset panels are doing here at all. When are they taking place? In what way do they relate to the dialogue?
Andréa says “Unless he’s just interested in identifying bugs, I don’t get the point . . .”
A CIDU from Ken Berkun, who saw this at The New Yorker. Can we identify the ways Harry Bliss cartoons for the magazine differently from how he cartoons for his newsletter and GoComics and associated outlets?
(The artist seems not to publicize their personal names, and work is just identified as by “Worry Lines”.)
Here’s another LOL that borders on CIDU.
