Category / (Not a Cidu)
What it is and what it ain’t (YMMV)
A couple of people sent me this for the Geezer file. I have to disagree because the reruns have never left us. Otherwise Lucretia wouldn’t be old enough to know what this was. Neither would I. Neither, I assume, would Barney, or the two people who sent this to me.
I also can’t go along with “violent,” because Ralph is all bluster and nobody takes any of it seriously.
I’m not sure I’d call it misogynist — but if it were, Alice’s comment about Ralph’s weight wouldn’t make it any less so.
Ōmisoka
I’d never heard of Ōmisoka until few days ago when I updated the site’s subject line. And today…
So I need to add a Baader-Meinhof tag.
And absolutely true story: I’d never heard of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon until last month, and then two days later…
Married
This has already been sent to me as a CIDU twice today.
My aunt and uncle were married for over 60 years. My aunt is really, really smart, but… a bit on the gullible side. He would always be saying things… well, like this… and she’d always fall for it.
Toward the end of his life, when I saw him doing it again, I said “Uncle Doug, doesn’t this ever get old?” and he said “Nope. Never.”
His logic is pushing it
Even if he could figure out how to do fractions of a push-up each day, he’s still be up to just under 17 1/2 per day.
Wouldn’t it have made more sense — and not harmed the jokes at all — to start with one push-up a day and add on each day?
Or alternately, to start with one and double it each day until he (theoretically) ends up with something like 500 million a day?
(You know, something like this site’s current statistics, or the price of a loaf of bread in 1923 Germany?)
Of course, if you multiply that by the 3.5 million people along the parade route and the 50 million people watching on television…
Don’t Panic
Okay, the way I see it, this only works if every reader knows who Zaphod Beeblebrox is but Marla does not.
Oh, right, as if I’m the ONLY one who checked…
Venison (and then scroll down for more items)
Bad Reviews
I’m getting flashbacks from this one…
Back in the early days of Yelp — it might not even have been called Yelp yet, or maybe it was just something Yelplike –nine of us were wandering around looking for someplace to eat. My brother checked his phone and said “There’s a Chinese restaurant couple of blocks form here.”
“Okay, that’s good.”
“Well, it has bad reviews.”
“Then let’s skip it.”
“Let’s give it a chance,” he says, using classic Sergio Bermudez logic.
We hit Satan’s Trifecta: unbelievably bad food, rude and terrible service, and the place wasn’t very clean.
(But my sister-in-law insisted we leave a big tip, because that’s who she is)
Comics I Don't Understand 