Category / CIDU
Where’s my rubber ducky?
Best guess: It’s the only way he can find undisturbed time to read his book.
Other guesses: He just hates being disrobed. He just hates taking baths or getting wet. He loves reading in the bath, but won’t risk getting the book soaked.
“I Answer to General Ouroboros”
A bit too cyclic for me to figure out. “I Answer to General Ouroboros” is the cartoonist’s title for this episode.
Not the same joke?
What is the joke in this one? ¿Cuál es el chiste en este?
And what is the joke in this version? ¿Y cuál es el chiste en esta versión?
Are they the same joke? Why not ? :-) ¿Son el mismo chiste? Por qué no ? :-)
(Bonus) The lads might like Les Demoiselles d’Avignon better
This went right by my reading-the-comics-too-quickly eyes until I happened on it featured in Comic Strip of the Day column where he points out that the joke works only if the reader can supply the title.
Delivery dock?
FYI, John Hambrock does The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee.
The successful applicant will take the lead in negociating our getaway aircraft …
Okay, the basic joke seems to be that he is performing that “hiring” process for the position of principal hostage. Is there also something going on about his pantyhose mask? Is it that hard to find separate single-leg stockings?
Sorry, I spaced out for a minute
Sent by BillR, who says “I know Scott Hilburn likes puns. A lot, in fact. But I don’t get this one.”
I don’t get it either. The GoComics comments do give a possible explanation, though IMO a rather feeble one — and not much like a pun.
Advance … forward … ahead … later …
How could we have a DST day without a few comics about getting it wrong, or complaining about the aftereffects? However, it is especially nice to run across one where you think the cartoonists are the ones misunderstanding and getting it backwards.
Once more unto the Oopsies, Quickies, Semi-CIDUs, Mysteries, and flops? (8th Series)
Maybe it’s a genuine CIDU? But I think that punch line is all there is.
I think we all can sympathize with Duane’s motivations for his … little prank. And that’s the main joke, which is not in need of explication; so this isn’t quite a CIDU. But if we wanted to get into it a little, we could ask whether he’s getting revenge more on the kid or on the mom. And at the practical level, what does it mean that he still has the barber’s customer-apron as he’s leaving?
I guess this Working Daze fits an offshoot of the “CIDU-Quickie” category, where the joke is utterly incomprehensible until you are shown (or realize you already know) an instance of something-that’s-going-around, and then that entirely exhausts the mystery.
Linked here is a compilation of what lies behind the joke. (I can’t watch this all the way thru.)
Comics I Don't Understand 