Premiere: 9/11/2021 | 00:00:30 |
Honor the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with this special performance hosted by Misty Copeland and led by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin featuring soloists Ailyn Pérez, Michelle DeYoung, Matthew Polenzani and Eric Owens.
Boise Ed sent this in, and says “We have sometimes chatted about colorists, and this A&J blog is the best illustration of that that I have ever seen. (See the text at https://arloandjanis.com/colorful-explanation .)”
Go to that link for Jimmy Johnson’s full account. But we could stand some explication of his closing remark: “And, no, it was not intended to be dirty in the least.” Does anyone else have some surprise reconciling that claim with the Jack Spratt saying?
We were calling this a CIDU briefly while trying to understand why it was a Summer Concert but the bands were not notably summer foods. But then quashed the question on the basis that summer is just when there are lots of concerts and particularly the big outdoor festivals.
Jenny also sent this in, and considered it sort of a CIDU, asking “Why is meatloaf on the list, along with the veggies?”.
From Jenny:
This is not really a solid Oy, not really very funny, but somehow it’s just … just … just *something*.
The legacy of “Who’s on first?” is an apparently inexhaustible vein of humor!
Here’s a chuckle-OY from Philip:
Here’s one done by Jenny:
We are running short on just about all categories.
Time for you to send some in!
CIDU — most needed! But don’t be alarmed if these are subject to editorial scrutiny and may get some return questions – or an explanation if evident.
LOL & OY – We would like to get away from editors’ curations and more back to CIDU-Bill’s practice of forming these weekly lists from reader selections on an almost no-questions-asked basis. If something strikes you as really hilarious, or excellently punny, send it in on that basis, and it can appear in these lists subject only to questions of appropriateness (in the ‘good taste’ sense). [Don’t forget to sign or mention how you would like the credit to appear – our mental mappings from email address to commenting name are quite subliminal.)
Ewww — Not so hot on these, actually. Okay if there is a level of really-funny or something to make it clever (and thus a LOL-Eww or Oy-Eww), but we’re not looking for examples of “gosh, look how off-putting they manage to get these days!” .
Synchronicities — If really striking. And it helps if one or both is really funny in itself. But don’t be alarmed if we want to break up the pair and just use one on its own.
Thank you as always!
First up, Andréa was struck by the treatment of the old Goofy/Pluto problem, in Pearls Before Swine and Strange Brew:
Next up, Jerry found the focus on Feng Shui in Bizarro and Pickles:
Finally, BillR was seeing jigsaw puzzles all over the place, or at least in F-Minus and Rhymes With Orange:
Not exactly a CIDU, says Targuman when sending it in, but maybe an OY-I’d-like-to-improve? His issue is which geezer ref might fly better today: “Not a CIDU but this is 2021, wouldn’t U2’s Bono be a bit more famous (and alive)?”
And let’s throw in another Andertoons!
And this one, which took several seconds of pause to get:
This was a momentary CIDU, for want of a comma. Sent by Boise Ed. Ed did some research on our behalf and reports “If you look in the [GoComics] comments, you’ll see that it caught Mark Parisi by surprise.”
And a longer-puzzling CIDU-oy: I still can’t figure out the intended real-life musical pair being referred to. (Searching got me to an article mentioning opera director Robert Carsen and “superstar soprano Renée Fleming” — but the characters in the cartoon are not doing opera.)
Mike du Jour is trying — trying for a week to make a workable pun about operations at the symphony. Can you find one you like?
Idea! Maybe it was meant as a “Can you spot the differences?” puzzle. There aren’t many…
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