For lack of a banked CIDU for use as daily standalone, let’s have a really excellent OY!
From Philip:
Standard spelling dispute: Oh wait, can I use the regular word without it being a spoiler? Yeah, sure …. So, why do dictionaries insist on rigmarole as the standard spelling (with pronunciation IPA / ˈrɪg məˌroʊl / respelling [ rig-muh-rohl ] ), and relegate to “variant” the spelling rigamarole (with pronunciation / (ˈrɪɡəməˌrəʊl) / )? That’s how I say it, and evidently Blazek as well.
Huh?
If this were CSI instead of CIDU, and the villain had covered something up with marker pen, we could just shine some ultraviolet or powerful visual-band light of the best narrow frequency, and see right off what’s under there.
But at this remove the best we can do is go by shapes. And by guessing whether Teresa would more likely josh one of her friends in the cartooning world, or genuinely insult someone whose tolerance she is willing to test.
Oh, wait, wait! Or are these layabouts in the coffee shop the real targets, and the comic they’re putting down is Frog Applause itself … in a different spelling?
A general note of remembrance for the holiday of green beer and green Chicago River.
The first two are holdovers from last week, when we had other things a-posting and didn’t remark Saint Padraic’s Day on CIDU main feed. A few helpful readers posted St Patrick’s Day jokes to the thread for that day, thank you for renewing the principle of thread drift!
This one was sent in by BillR, looking for what the gag is. It provoked a good discussion behind the scenes of CIDU, where we soon enough agreed on the intended gag but remained divided on whether some terminology was being misapplied!
(For the tag-watchers [or actually, category], yes this post is marked both CIDU and not-a-CIDU. Those just apply to different cartoons, that’s all.)
Getting triple duty from one little affix!
Since this is announced as dealing with puns, how could we pass it up?
Interesting – the cartoonist doesn’t actually show us the missing word, which must combine raccoon and centaur.
Kilby writes:
I understand (and agree with) the first three panels, but the punchline in the fourth panel is a mystery to me.
From a certain jp who says he must be missing something obvious. Me too; or maybe I’m stuck on non-obvious use of some terms here. How would a bathtub have “tech support” service, huh?
Beware the Ides of March! We all know that phrase, but it seems odd that it has crept into the language, since we know few other facts about Roman history. The meaning of “Ides” is a bit confusing to us in the modern world, as these comics show.
Interestingly, the Ides of March were notable in Rome as a deadline for settling debts.
Comics I Don't Understand 