Yikes! Or is that LOL-Yikes?
See also discussion by Arnold Zwicky on thesaurusization
Category / (Not a Cidu)
Saturday Morning Oys – August 14th, 2021
Seems like Brevity tries out a pun every single day. Sometimes they may hit all right.
Ah well, this may raise the perpetual question, Can an auditory pun survive being put into writing when that breaks up a double meaning?
For your approval
Not a CIDU, but some suggestions to consider adopting.
For the first one, we had to wonder if they are aware of the (actual) overlay technique sometimes called “augmented reality”. That could actually perform the educational labelling contemplated in another method here.
Bonus: 4th-wall games
(Scroll to bottom for update with more complete version of the Mister Invincible.)
Cool escape from paradox:
Here it was being tweeted:
(Plus hat tip to Jerry Coyne, who included it at the end of his Saturday catch-all blog entry https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/08/07/saturday-hili-dialogue-346/ )
(And the tweet as an image capture in case the embedding doesn’t work.)
A reply invoking Nancy:
(Tech aside: I wanted to embed just @sipryor’s reply with the Nancy, but since he quote-replies @tramfrau’s tweet it seems to get repeated here, though we have it separately above and don’t need it again.)
The Nancy as an image, in case the Twitter embedding stops working:
As the Twitter thread goes on to observe, the comics have a long and rich history of playing with the borders and frames in interesting ways. But the Mister Invincible is especially clever about identifying a paradox akin to the time-travel puzzles, and then solving it.
UPDATE!
Tuesday 2021-Aug-10
CIDU regular elGeo has discovered, at the interesting Solrad site, a version of this Mister Invincible comic which is more complete — the one we got from Twitter and posted lacks the top and bottom wide panels. (Also corrected in the tags: the artist’s name is spelled Jousselin.) BTW, Solrad’s discussion of Jousselin’s frame-breaking is quite interesting.
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, August 8th, 2021
Have we had this one before? I recall some discussion of “To Serve Man”. But not this trope of “The old surprise ending is so familiar and boring, we have to put in a different twist.”
And no, it shouldn’t be the other way around!
Saturday Morning Oys – August 7th, 2021
This is from a book, Otto: A Palindrama by Jon Agee. It was brought to our attention by (and we picked up the image from) an online book review by Gene Ambaum, attached to his Library Comic newsletter.
Pastis is trying so hard in this one, how can we pass up enjoying another look?
Unless it’s disqualified because one of the characters is consciously making the pun joke?
Falco titled this “The Red Hoodie” in his enewsletter. But do we accept that these characters would use the plain form “hood” for either of the meanings required here? Mebbe.
From Andréa, a sort of OY-Awww!
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, August 1st, 2021
Sent by Boise Ed as “Just flat-out funny, to me at least.” He also shares some info about the strip: “Andy Marlette is an editorial cartoonist in Florida who just started Shrimp and Grits this past Memorial Day. His uncle Doug was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and also wrote the Kudzu comic strip.”
LOL and only slightly Eww!
And what th’ heck, let’s indulge with another Liz Climo using the same idea of two species treating something according to their differing natural perspectives:
A LOL-Eww from Bob Ball, who adds: “At least she’s fully clothed in the comic.”
Saturday Morning Oys – July 31st, 2021
Not a difficult pun, but amusing.
From Boise Ed, who adds “Nomophobia” is now a real word, derived from “NO MObile.”
Low-Class Bongos
This isn’t really a CIDU. Given this comic’s schtick, I assume the joke is that he’s attacking Loretta because she’s taken something classy (classical music), and made it dumb and low class by playing it on the bongos. But as I commented to SingaporeBill when he sent this in, it just seems like a really strange and difficult-to-understand attack, because playing on the bongos and making it sound like “Flight of the Bumblebee” would actually be pretty impressive. And then he sent this in:
Tough Act to Follow
(Not a CIDU) But is it a valid claim?
