This next one is not terribly retro
Some Retro Wrong Hands, just for fun
I went wee, wee, wee when I saw this
I see Three Little Pigs and a Big Bad Wolf, and perhaps Mother Goose playing third, and Jack Sprat is up to bat (hey, a rhyme!)–but what does that have to do with baseball? Why are the cat, fiddle, dish, spoon, and cow in the dugout?? Who’s that at shortstop???
Mutht Be A Thimble Exthplanathion
(This editor feels entitled to use that hed, having dealt with a slight lisp for six or so decades)
From Chipster:
He notes that the discussion at GoComics suggests it’s the thimble from Monopoly in jail, and that while that sorta works, it’s not clear what the joke is or if that’s necessarily what Anderson had in mind.
Film school of fish
Of course not a CIDU as a whole. But are any of the specific references or rationales in need of explanation?
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, July 2nd, 2023
Saturday Morning OYs – July 1st, 2023
An Argyle Sweater from maggiethecartoonist
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Excuse ME. I don’t get it.
targuman sends (and provides the title above):
On the gocomics site, various folks suggest there’s a fart joke in there, but my inner five-year-old can’t make that work either.
Meanwhile, https://inflatableblast.com/inflatable-men-car-dealerships/ suggests that those waving inflatable things have a host of names:
- air dancers
- tube guys
- inflatable guys
- tall boys
- fly guys
- sky dancer
- tube men
- air rangers
Creepy by any name. Though I did see a desktop-sized one once that was kinda cute.
This Lyft is Uber-confusing
Dirk the Daring sent this:
Note the quotes around ‘Mom’.
All we’ve come up with is some sort of Uber/Lyft reference, but?? Of course it IS The New Yorker [Magazine] (there’s a whole thing about whether it gets that last word or not).
Invsible Point
From Maggiethecartoonist:
Vampires don’t photograph, we get it. But then why would anyone create a yearbook full of…what?
At least this is better than
Thanks to Usual John for this!
Comics I Don't Understand 