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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.

Yes, all you well-rounded CIDU fans, it’s March 14, 3/14 in the Month-Day way of rendering dates, also known as Pi Day by all those wonderful people who love math (and who doesn’t?)

Perhaps Jason should be wearing a shirt like this:


I felt sure CIDU had somewhere printed this Bizarro:

But apparently not. It must have felt familiar because I had seen it the previous week in several places already (email, CK, Wayno’s blog, Piraro’s blog, …). But apparently not right here on these pages.
Why was I looking for it? So that I might drop into a comment on whatever post or thread the Bizarro appeared in, this 1991 Far Side, featuring the same deadly weapon, appearing just recently on the current Far Side archive site.

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Tim H. sends:

…and asks, “Why is it more annoying?“
I’m with ya.