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Yep, I think we all feel this way. Here’s hoping!
From Andréa, who asks whether this is a Geezer. Does anyone play this anymore, or this a Geezer / 1980 called?
From Andréa.
It seems to be aiming for “What has this modern world come to?” but in execution just seems kind of sweet.
Both from Andréa.
(The pun isn’t always on a word that appears in the caption or dialog.)
I don’t understand this shirt. At first, I was completely confused, but after some searching, I realized that it was likely a reference to this shirt:
The second shirt is, in turn, a reference to Doppler shifting of light (which, among other things, says that colors shift towards blue if you move towards them quickly enough).
However, this just brings up more stuff I don’t understand:
(1) It doesn’t seem like the blue shirt makes any sense except as a reference to the red shirt. (Or does it?) But is the red shirt so well-known that it makes any sense to wear a shirt that assumes the viewer has seen the red one?
(2) The first shirt says “You don’t need run fast enough.” Is this slang? Or something English speakers might actually say? It doesn’t seem like it is, but I’m baffled by the idea that someone made and sold a T-shirt without proofreading the one sentence on the T-shirt. Yes, I see typos on signs and in newspaper articles all the time, this product only has one sentence, and that one sentence is the focus of the product that they’re trying to sell.
This seems very strange to me. Does this seem perfectly normal to you? Have you seen worse?
See Wayno’s blog for notes on how these two versions came to be.
(Making this a post rather than adding a comment to Random Comments thread only because that provides access to the Image-Compare gizmo.)
In this age of “Use your inside voice” it’s good to know where the range of voice options reaches.
A bit of a LOL-Eww:
When we first saw this, it was in the black-and-white version sent in the Bliss daily email, and our first thought was to look forward to the color version and see how the notorious Twitter “bluecheck” verified-user symbol would be rendered. Not blue, in the event.
And a bit of LOL-Cynical:
In case you didn’t know, the “Nick and Zuzu” comic panels run as accompaniment to an advice column by Carolyn Hax. Sometimes they really depend on the writing and are totally CIDU without it. Other times, the comic is quite independent of the column which sparked it; and that is the case here. And the cartoons appear elsewhere, where the column is not available or even mentioned, such as GoComics.
But in case you are interested: the Hax column which had this as its illustration was at this link, which has a paywall but should allow some free visits.
Hannukah is over. This has nothing to do with Hannukah. Just some comics about polo, from Kilby.
Comics I Don't Understand 